With so many recent releases from Baltimore artists on Thrill Jockey -Double Dagger, Daniel Higgs, Future Islands, & Human Bell, to name a few-it seems only a matter of time before the label relocates to Charm City. One of their most recent releases comes from one of the more prominent fixtures on Baltimore's music scene, Jason Urick. Following up last year's excellent Husbands LP, Urick gives us the more rhythmic and reggae tinged Fussing & Fighting . He's featured today in Pitchfork's new monthly column, " The Out Door ;" a tagteam effort [...]
Photo credit: Nate Dorr Vows (Shaun Flynn of WZT Hearts ) The Hexagon Baltimore, MD October 16, 2009 Source: Peluso CEMC6/ck4(card)>PS-2>AD-20>NJB 3 Transfer: NJB3>PC>SF-7>Wav>FLAC Taper: Jeff Mewbourn ( jm292@yahoo.com ) Download the entire set as: FLAC or MP3 Stream or download individual MP3s below: 1. Endless Concentric Void of Diamond Shapes Notes: Lineup:Vows>Dustin Wong>Vows>Jason Urick Album [...]
Unless you've spent a lot of time in Baltimore, you may not know Jason Urick by name. But experimental music fans should get to know him. Urick, who used to record as themoonstealingproject , is best know for his involvement in Wzt Hearts . He's also a fixture of the Charm City scene, where he once ran the avant-garde Once.Twice festival and owned a record store called Once.Twice:Sound. Now, he helps to run the DIY venue Floristree. And, most importantly, he's releasing an album under his own name. Husbands is now [...]
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For those of you that don't already know, WZT is pronounced "Wet." Got that? Ok then ... now listen: Forget what you think you know about everything, and start at the beginning of the world. Waves are crashing, winds are blowing, storms are raging ... As this is all happening it is being recorded and synthesized into sound. The result? Threads Rope Spell Making Your Bones . Then a drummer plays along ... sort of. He's hitting his cymbals when [...]
Best Bets: Day Shows Fader Fort NYC @ 169 Bowery, 3pm - 9pm As if one awesome day show weren't enough to fill you up there's a plethora of them going on and none are more popular during CMJ week then the always awesome Fader Fort! This year the location will be 169 Bowery (@ Delancey) and it features some of the buzziest of the buzz bands around. The best parts about Fader? Well, free booze, free
MP3: WZT Hearts - Title Unknown from The End, Part Two: The Beginning , the Wham City compilation (2007). Oh no! WZT Hearts is done. So says City Paper's Noise blog today . Bummer. But I was wondering how long the long-distance thing would last with Jeff aka NoTendo up in NYC and others scattered about. Good luck to everyone, and we can't wait to hear the Jasonx2 project!
Who: Baltimore Round Robin Tour When: October 17th + 18th Where: Le Poisson Rouge More Dates Listen: Dan Deacon - "Pink Batman" The Death Set - "Heard It All Before" Beach House - "Wedding Bells" Wzt Hearts - "The Den" Thoughts: Possibly one of the most ingenious and unique concert ideas ever! Instead of just going to see a couple of bands perform on a raised platform in front of you the bands
WZT Hearts produce some of the most glorious noise you can find around Baltimore. They create soaring, blistering and expansive soundscapes awash in electronics, feedback and drone. Their set on Saturday's outside stage for Whartscape shouldn't be missed. Read on as laptop extraordinaire and Floristree-resident Jason Urick takes time to reflect on our Wham and Whart questionnaire. And enjoy these tracks off their 2007 Carpark release, Threads Rope Spell Making Your Bones . MP3: WZT Hearts - Hearth Carver [...]
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