AltWeeklies Wire
Right to Lifenew
Twenty years on, Maryland death-metal veteran Dying Fetus is still in it to win it.
Baltimore City Paper |
Lee Gardner |
02-16-2011 |
Music
Tags: Death Metal, Dying Fetus
Bop and Swing Give Way to New Percussive Influences in Jazznew
Almost no one disputes the achievements of bebop and swing percussion. The big argument today is whether that's the way jazz drumming has to sound or whether it's just one of the ways jazz drumming can sound.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
11-03-2009 |
Music
Two Dance Lables -- Warp and Hyperdub -- Look Back at Their Own Historiesnew
When a record label hits a divisible-by-five anniversary, it celebrates -- especially in dance music, which takes all the parties it can get. And as you'd expect, most of the compilations that ensue tend to be fairly self-indulgent.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michaelangelo Matos |
10-06-2009 |
Music
After DJ Nights and Day-Glo, the Band-Band Makes a Comeback in Baltimorenew
This "new" breed is influenced by groups as disparate as uncompromising postpunk band Shellac, psych-pop favorite Animal Collective, and Baltimore's own art-aggro trio Double Dagger, but they don't sound like them, or, for that matter, each other. And they're churning out a sound as exciting and unbound as early Dan Deacon-in-a-warehouse -- as un-retro as the Wham City scene, but working with the DNA of far more deeply rooted music.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Byrne |
09-08-2009 |
Music
Year After Year, Maryland Deathfest Only Gets Strongernew
The extremes of metal music have filled every room of Baltimore nightclub Sonar with bands and fans over a long weekend in May for the past several years as part of Maryland Deathfest.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Byrne |
05-19-2009 |
Music
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
The Finer Points of Outstaying Your Welcome, Starring Scott Weiland and The Gamenew
Rock 'n' roll wraith Scott Weiland and embattled gangsta rapper The Game have one thing in common: Each has overstayed his welcome but continues to enjoy mainstream success by luck, or by the grace of God. In terms of both studio alchemy and tabloid foibles, neither brings anything especially crucial to the cultural table.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
01-27-2009 |
Music
Country Music Rediscovers Its Whiskied Small-Town Rootsnew
Taylor Swift's recent album, Fearless, is such a triumph, both artistically and commercially, that you'd think it would be the answer to all of country music's problems. But it's not -- because it's not really a country record.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
01-06-2009 |
Music
Maryland Blues Label Severn Records Celebrates 10 Yearsnew
If it can't match the budgets and stars of the biggest blues labels--Alligator, Blind Pig, Rounder, Delmark, Telarc--it has emerged as a major presence on the second tier.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
09-30-2008 |
Music
Michael Dante Wilson, Jan. 23, 1973-June 5, 2008new
To fans and peers in Baltimore music, he was Mr. Wilson, a charismatic rapper with the long-running group JI-900 and the organizer of countless concerts and events. But to perhaps an even greater number of people, Michael Dante Wilson was simply a warm and genuine human being.
Baltimore City Paper |
Al Shipley |
07-01-2008 |
Music
Hip-Hop is My Crazy Girlfriendnew
Like many young passionate relationships, as we got older, hip-hop and I drifted apart. My sensibilities remained progressive, my humor became more biting, and my patience for ignorance became shorter than ever. And hip-hop? Well, we all know what happened to hip-hop.
Baltimore City Paper |
Vincent Williams |
06-10-2008 |
Music
Bands on the Sidenew
From Dan Deacon to club producer King Tutt, here's what Baltimore's favorite musicians are doing when not making the music you already know.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Byrne |
04-08-2008 |
Music
Dru Hill Announces New Membernew
A few weeks after the we-re-back-now-we're-not radio debacle, the group held a live audition at local nightclub Suite to pick a fourth member to fill Woody's spot and move on with the comeback as planned.
Baltimore City Paper |
Al Shipley |
04-01-2008 |
Music
Tags: Dru Hill
Licensing to Killnew
Are performance rights organizations like ASCAP threatening the venues that foster young musicians (and future ASCAP members)?
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Byrne |
04-01-2008 |
Music
The Turntable Club Turns Its Camera Onnew
A few years ago, the big novelty in the touring industry was instant live albums, CD recordings of a concert that were available almost immediately after the show was over. And it would make sense that instant concert DVDs would follow.
Baltimore City Paper |
Al Shipley |
03-11-2008 |
Music
