Baltimore City Paper | Jess Harvell

'The B List' Celebrates The So-Called Lower Rung of Auteursnew

If you're looking for a guide through film's funkier tributaries, this is intellectual criticism written with the urgency of a fan juiced to share some odd object of infatuation with a world that likely missed it the first time around.

Baltimore City Paper | Jess Harvell | 11-04-2008 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: history, nonfiction, auteurs, B-movies, David Sterritt and John Anderson, eds., movie news, The B List, David Sterritt, John Anderson

Dress Me Up in Your Fuzznew

Stephin Merritt's newest love songs are all for The Jesus and Mary Chain.

Baltimore City Paper | Jess Harvell | 01-29-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Distortion, Magnetic Fields

The Music According to Lafayette Gilchristnew

The Bolton Hill resident did things to those funk and hip-hop beats that had never been heard on MTV.

Baltimore City Paper | Jess Harvell | 07-31-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Lafayette Gilchrist

Ultra Nate is Queen of the Housenew

Her dance music fills clubs the world over -- everywhere except where she calls home.

Baltimore City Paper | Jess Harvell | 07-03-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Ultra Nate

Public Guilt Scratches the Surfacenew

Looks great, sounds even better -- the Baltimore record label helps midwife a noise document of right now.

Baltimore City Paper | Jess Harvell | 06-05-2007 | Music

A Defense of Supposedly 'Simplistic' Southern Hip-hopnew

Roni Sarig's excellent new history of Southern rap is one of the few of its kind and nonetheless overdue.

Baltimore City Paper | Jess Harvell | 06-05-2007 | Nonfiction

Tags: Roni Sarig, Third Coast: Outkast, Timbaland, and How Hip-Hop Became a Southern Thing, Nonfiction Reviews

Wham City Doesn't Want To Take Over The Worldnew

But the Baltimore-by-way-of-New York collective is a big part of the city's underground resurgence.

Baltimore City Paper | Jess Harvell | 05-22-2007 | Culture

Max Bemis, the Auteurnew

Say Anything's frontman wants you to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain who's begging for attention.

Baltimore City Paper | Jess Harvell | 05-08-2007 | Music

Tags: Say Anything

A Faded Kodak Fantasy of 1960s Popnew

Animal Collective member Noah Lennox has made a record best listened to while falling asleep, just waking up, or any other time you're groggy enough to mistake a passing garbage truck for a Bach cantata.

Baltimore City Paper | Jess Harvell | 04-24-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Panda Bear, Person Pitch