Friday, November 20 LAURA CORTESE FOREST FIRES 10PM. The Golden West Cafe . 1105 W. 36th St. Hampden. TIM HECKER AIDAN BAKER ECSTACTIC SUNSHINE POLYGONS The Hexagon . 1700 N. Charles St. "Station North". THE DEGENERETTES THE SHONDES BABY ASPIRIN 9PM. The Windup Space . 12 W. [...]

After listening to Raditude , I am convinced Rivers Cuomo is the cop (the FBI agent, the NSA spy, etc.) so deep undercover he can no longer tell the difference between the person he is and the person he is pretending to be. The line between perception and reality is distorted, and the point at which it was crossed is a distant memory. Even though Make Believe was an exercise in banality and The Red Album was a weird-for-the-sake-of-being-we ird album with horrible results, we still got occasional lyrical assurances [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Alejandro Escovedo : 2009-09-12, Chicago [mp3,ogg,flac] "Real as an Animal" [mp3] other Alejandro Escovedo posts at Largehearted Boy Backyard Tire Fire : 2009-08-15, Joliet [mp3,ogg,flac] other Backyard Tire Fire posts at Largehearted Boy Blitzen Trapper : 2009-10-16, Urbana [mp3,ogg,flac] "Harvest (Neil Young cover)" [...]

Editor's Note: This CD comes packaged with some great custom 3-D poster art! MP3: The Degenerettes - Truck Drivin' Girlfriend Lou Reed sang in 1969 that "no kinds of love are better than others" and I'm not inclined to agree-as Dante demonstrated in Purgatorio , there are plenty of variations on love gone awry-although I think what Lou really meant to say, more precisely, was that no acts of consensual fucking are better than others. The Degenerettes don't sing about fucking. Not in the kitschy [...]

Saturday, Sept. 12 Free. 10AM - 7PM. The Ave. Hampden . Rain or shine! for more info, visit the HampdenFest site . THE ROLAND STAGE (36th St. between Roland & Elm) Stage Hosts: Bar Bacon Comedy! 11AM - (marching through the festival) Barrage Band Orchestra 12PM - Baltimore School of Rock 1PM - Rosemary Stretch 2PM - Hollywood [...]

Thanks to Benn from Atomic for the heads-up exclusive scoop on Hampdenfest performances this year! Looks super-solid. The festival starts at 11. The Barrage Band Orchestra is a marching band that will march through the festival from 11 - 11:45. The bands playing on stage will start shortly after that. And they run up til 7PM. Then usually there are post-festival shows at Golden West Cafe, El Rancho Grande and Fraziers. Each stage is going to be hosted by performers from the Bar Bacon Comedy Night - so comedians. There is also a film festival [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Cracker : 2009-07-10, San Francisco [mp3,ogg,flac] "Shake Some Action" [mp3] other Cracker posts at Largehearted Boy The Degenerettes : 2009-07-12, Baltimore [mp3,ogg,flac] "Truck Driving Girlfriend" [mp3] other Degenerettes posts at Largehearted Boy Drive-By Truckers : 2009-07-04, Chicago [mp3,ogg,flac] "Sittin' on the [...]

WHARTSCAPE Sunday July 12 12PM - 11PM Outside MICA Parking Lot. "Station North", Baltimore. 131 West North Ave. DOPE BODY THE DEGENERETTES BIG BEAR LEPRECHAUN CATERING DANG WITCH HAT MICROKINGDOM AK SLAUGHTER LESSER GONZALEZ ALVAREZ JARED PAOLINI DESPOT ZOMES CHILD BITE CRAZY DREAMS BAND BLOOD BABY SANTA DADS MAGNET CITY KIDS GARY WAR FUTURE ISLANDS TEETH MOUNTAIN DOUBLE DAGGER WOLF EYES DAN DEACON ENEMBLE ------------------------------ 11PM - 4AM The Load Of Fun [...]

Here are the first 130 or so bands that will be playing at Whartscape in Baltimore this year. Some of The End of Irony's favs will be playing, including Future Islands , Adventure , and Ear Pwr . Tickets are going on sale at noon on Monday, June 29. Though tickets will be sold to individual shows and days, the Mega Pass will be available for all days for $45 (a fantastic deal and to quote Whartscape, "The strength of the mega-pass is truly mega"). Check out whamcity.com for more info or below for the [...]
Chances are, you have never been to a music festival quite like Whartscape. For the past four years, the festival's organizers, Dan Deacon 's Wham City collective, brought together a wildly diverse group of massively talented Baltimore artists - and likeminded souls from across the nation and around the world - together for a long weekend of drunken, sweat-soaked revelry. As someone who nearly passed out (from heat or too much BYO Mad Dog or whatever) in a cavernous warehouse at the 2007 festival, I heartily recommend it. Anyway, part of the deal with Whartscape is that [...]

Quarterlife Party and Aural States were the first to bring to my attention that the Whartscape 2009 line up has been announced for the dates of July 10th-12th. Drum roll please.... Adventure, Air Waves, AK Slaughter, Alexis Gideon, Allen Cordell, Ami Dang, Andy Abelow, Annex Theater, Art Department, At the End of Infinite Rope, Bad Brilliance, Barky, BDRM PPL, Beast Master, Bedlam Theatre, Big Bear, Bird Names, Black Vatican, Blood Baby, Blue Leader, Booge Border, Butt Stomach, C Spencer Yeh, Cars Will Burn, Celebration, Chandeliers, [...]

I saw this first over at the city paper's Noise Blog , so thnx to them. The lineup for the july 10th-12th whartscape festival is: Adventure, Air Waves, AK Slaughter, Alexis Gideon, Allen Cordell, Ami Dang, Andy Abelow, Annex Theater, Art Department, At the End of Infinite Rope, Bad Brilliance, Barky, BDRM PPL, Beast Master, Bedlam Theatre, Big Bear, Bird Names, Black Vatican, Blood Baby, Blue Leader, Booge Border, Butt Stomach, C Spencer Yeh, Cars Will Burn, Celebration, Chandeliers, Charlotte and Joe, Child Bite, Child Bride, Clarissa Gregory, Connor Kizer and Adam [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Cowboy Junkies : 1994-02-04, WNNX [mp3,ogg,flac] "Anniversary Song" [mp3] other Cowboy Junkies posts at Largehearted Boy Degenerettes : 2009-06-13, Baltimore [mp3,ogg,flac] "Queer for You" [mp3] other Degenerettes posts at Largehearted Boy Drive-By Truckers (with Booker T.) : 2009-06-13, Bonnaroo [mp3,ogg,flac] "Green [...]
Tonight in Baltimore don't miss a night of sonic bliss with Stellarscope , Solar Temple Suicides , and Empty Shapes at the Sidebar while The Degenerettes , Pariah Piranha , and Baby Aspirin tear down the Wind Up Space. Of course the show of shows is at Sonar with a blowout Dan Deacon solo performance. Also playing are Black Dice , Dat Politics , Awesome Color , DJ Scottie B , Martyn , Thieves Like Us , and Get [...]

Saturday, June 13 9pm. The Wind-Up Space , "Station North", Baltimore. 12 W. North Ave. Featuring: THE DEGENERETTES , BABY ASPIRIN, PARIAH PIRANHA CD release party for The Degenerettes new record, Bad Girls Go To Hell (Creative Capitalism). The first 100 people get a CD w/ admission! Featuring poster by Emily C-D! Plus the premiere the music video for Female Trouble, with puppets! Also, be sure to check out their [...]

Saturday, April 25 8PM. The Metro Gallery . Station North, Baltimore. 1700 N. Charles St. Featuring: SECRET CRUSH SOCIETY, THE DEGENERETTES, SOUTH CAREY ROCK FOR THE FEAST! A benefit for Ride for the Feast, a 2-day, 140 mile bike ride to benefit Moveable Feast of Maryland . There will be ROCK! We will rock as will our friends South Carey and the Degenerettes! There will be a [...]
Friday, April 17 ------------------------------ ----------------- BENJAMIN PRANGER, SOUTHEAST ENGINE, YOUNG SIR JIM 10PM The Golden West Cafe . Hampden, Baltimore. 1105 W 36th St JOHN BERNDT RETROSPECTIVE OPENING RECEPTION Ecstatic Thought Experiments, 1989 – 2009 - A Retrospective of Auditory, Visual, Tactile and Language Works by John Berndt 7-10 PM. $6. Emily Harvey Foundation (Gallery) . New York. 537 Broadway at Spring Street - 2nd floor Performance Nights: Friday April 24th and Saturday [...]

This past Tuesday night, Sarah Williams and the Metro Gallery opened up the Dead Air Video Exhibit (curated by Kristen Anchor of the Degenerettes ). The exhibit is essentially an audiovisual eulogy to what was supposed to be the end-date for analog TV broadcasts. The impending switch to digital has largely been delayed due to inefficiency on the part of institutions, corporations and individuals. Nonetheless, everyone still celebrated with some great music and interesting exhibits including old clips from AtomicTV and various [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Chatham County Line : 2008-08-02, Pickathon [mp3,ogg,flac] "Let It Rock" [mp3] Chatham County Line : 2008-08-01, Pickathon [mp3,ogg,flac] "Chip of a Star" [mp3] Chatham County Line : 2007-04-06 Charlotte [mp3,ogg,flac] "Tennessee Valley" [mp3] other Degenerettes posts at Largehearted Boy Degenerettes : [...]