AltWeeklies Wire
Leave the Ego Behind and the Music Will Follow With the Yahowa 13new
For the past 30 years the music of the Yahowa 13 has entranced that segment of music heads who dig spaced-out excursions into psychedelic tapestries and krautrock tumults of infinite jams.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
03-31-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Baltimore Hip-Hop Vets Offer a Way Forward For The Scene--Looking Backnew
If you follow hip-hop journalism, you've heard this story before: Once there was a grassroots movement that established criteria for what made hip-hop matter. Now it's just people repeating the same old nonsense about big-screen TVs, money, and bitches.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
02-24-2009 |
Music
Teeth Mountain Doesn't Re-invent the Drum Circlenew
But its members do it with a sincere appreciation for the woollier end of late-'60s radicalism.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
09-16-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Teeth Mountain
Baltimore in Songnew
Music -- a song, a beat, a refrain, a certain riff, a band -- can recall a place without having to spell it out in the title.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
03-18-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Susan Alcorn Charms Stories Out of Her Pedal Steel Guitarnew
She moved to Baltimore at the end of last summer looking for a more inviting and active experimental-music community, leaving Houston after 26 years of working as a touring pedal-steel guitarist in country and western and western swing bands.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
01-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Ian Nagoski Brings Us Obscure World-Music 78snew
That elusive journey to another time and place purely via ephemeral music is what Nagoski aims for with The Black Mirror. It's a 24-track tour through obscure Syrian, Thai, Balinese, Indian, and various Eastern European folk music, with liner notes providing the best information Nagoski could uncover about the recordings, the music, and the artists.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
10-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
She's All Thatnew
Or, how I learned to stop worrying about liking young R&B strumpets and love my passive sexism and racism.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
04-24-2007 |
Music
Tsunami of Heartsnew
Rhino's new girl groups box set presents 120 chapters from the Book of Love
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Learning Vervenew
West isn't just the most peculiar hip-hopper rocking the radio dial right now, he’s cutting his own idiosyncratically rudderless path to pop.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
08-31-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Kanye West, Late Registration
Sealed With a Kiss-Offnew
Teairra Mari’s not just another summertime R&B girl crush.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
08-10-2005 |
Reviews
