My birthday is on January 6th, and I rarely have a big birthday party, I think largely because everyone, including myself, tends to be kind of partied out after the holidays and New Year's Eve. But I'm turning 30 this time around, so the weekend of my birthday, on Saturday, January 7th, 2012, I will be having a big old birthday bash at one of my favorite clubs in Baltimore, The Windup Space . There will be music from two great Baltimore acts, the hip hop band Soul Cannon and the instrumental duo The Water , [...]
Thursday, June 30, 2011 9PM. The Windup Space. "Station North", Baltimore. 12 W. North St. HEADS UP its a cassette party! Free to come, bring friends, bring tapes to share, gloat about, play on the decks! Open jam on a freedom format. Join Lexie Mountain and friends for fried times spinning the cartridges, sharing collections, trading, buying, feeling, cueing, jamming, remixing, warping, tippling! Bring your shit! Spread the word! Facebook RSVP.
Baltimore-based Small Sur are preparing for the release of their new EP Bare Black , which comes to us via the fledgling Aural States label here in Bmore. Just a little more than 3 weeks away, the Aural States blog has tossed up a single of sorts from this sleepy folk collective. "Weeds" which you can listen to on the AS blog ( here ) is a must listen for fans of Fleet Foxes, Horse Feathers, Phosphorescent, Townes Van Zandt, Deer Tick, etc. It's a drifting folk tune, with some gorgeous [...]
Photo credit: Tedd Henn MP3: The Dirge MP3: Origami MP3: Church & State MP3: Interpretation of Dreams Download the entire set in FLAC . Expanding Man Vibes - Shure SM81 (x/y) Guitar - Shure SM57 Drum Machine - DI stage - mxl 990 (angled at 45 [...]
Photo credit: Tedd Henn MP3: Untitled Download the entire set in FLAC . JDay DJ Set Recorded by Matthew Leffler-Schulman & Alex Champagne @ Windup Space Mixed by Alex Champagne & Matthew Leffler-Schulman @ Mobtown Studios Related posts: NoVo / Nouveau : Live Audio, Day 2 - Field Athletics (2010.03.03) [...]
You've probably seen or heard something about this week's inaugural NoVo ( No Vo cals) instrumental music festival somewhere around town ( City Paper , Fox45, WYPR's Maryland Morning and the Signal , the Baltimore Sun ), and with such an impressive lineup, you'd be a fool to miss it. Since opening the Windup Space , owner Russell de Ocampo (also a member of instrumental band Yeveto ) has yearned to hold a festival that [...]
Photo: David Carter The Multiphonic Choir played Thursday night at The Windup Space . They were there to resolve a critical shortage of music "based on the cryptic and taboo-breaking geo-political philosophy of AFRO-GERMANICISM". This is an experimentally-minded outfit with five saxes, an electric bass, and a drumkit, all of whom were on the stage in last month's Baltimore Afrobeat Society shows . It's adventurous music with some great moments and a baffling blend of free jazz, neoclassical, afrobeat and krautrock influences. We also learned a little about [...]
Photo credit: Frank Hamilton (The Bellevederes) MP3: Tommy Tucker - Keep Good Time from Green Is Gold (2009) Can we talk about how wonderful the Wind Up Space is for a moment? An awkwardly placed bar area lies on the right side of ten feet's worth of concrete; everyone seems to be gravitating between the bar and three black support pillars acting as a not-so-arbitrary boundary linking the bar discussion with the art gallery/venue [...]
MP3: Lizz King - Mr. Fella MP3: Lizz King - Till They Do Lizz King is a joy to behold; her opening performance for Daniel Johnston back in 2008 was an astounding moment that still sticks with me today. So, it is with equal joy that I announce local label Ehse Records is finally releasing her debut full-length All Songs Go To Heaven . [...]
There's an old, bittersweet saying that goes something along the lines of this: "You can never go home again." I'd like to submit an exception to that statement: "...unless you call Baltimore home." This past Friday, the Windup Space's recently constructed stage was adorned not unlike someone's living room, with antiqueish/kitschy decor such as Buddha lamps. The warm yellow glow of incandescent bulbs cast a much warmer light than the typically harsh stage lights. The room was nicely filled before Ami Dang took the stage, and things felt [...]
Photo Credit: Greg Szeto MP3: Thank You - Empty Legs from Terrible Two (2008) MP3: Leprechaun Catering - Adult Carrot 2009 started off right with 2 great art openings in Station North, anchored by 2 shows from some great Baltimore musicians. The Windup Space opened an exhibit of Jordan Kasey's interesting landscape art that has a bit of Magritte surrealist touch to it. Friends [...]
Photo credit: Greg Szeto Baltimore delivers another strong evening of music and live performance to my senses. This time, the occasion is a trifecta of new releases on Peter Quinn's ( Lo Moda ) record label Creative Capitalism : Lo Moda's sophomore LP Replica Watches , Miracles' Colony Collapse and a new release from Thrust Lab . I swear the boys in [...]
At 16 I hit a crisis—I walked away from the classical training I began 10 years earlier. I didn't give it up entirely, but I decided I wasn't going to pursue becoming a classical cellist as a career. Very quickly the musical void left by the absences of practicing multiple hours a day was soon filled by electronic music. I was introduced to avant-garde electronic music at an early age; so making sounds on the computer didn't seem odd while all my friends were out starting punk bands. I eventually fell into [...]
All Girl Talk Photos: Josh Sisk At 16 I hit a crisis—I walked away from the classical training I began 10 years earlier. I didn't give it up entirely, but I decided I wasn't going to pursue becoming a classical cellist as a career. Very quickly the musical void left by the absencesof practicing multiple hours a day was soon filled by electronic music. I was introduced to avant-garde electronic music at an early age; so making sounds on the computer didn't seem odd while [...]
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