AltWeeklies Wire
Meet John Duchacnew
X frontman and solo artist John Doe revisits his Baltimore roots.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
03-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Human Bell Tolls For Theenew
Soundtrack music is a big place, and Human Bell doesn't fit quite well with the drifts of Colleen, the drones of Eluvium, or much else in the wandering world of sit and stare music-or, in this case, chat and smoke cigarettes music.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Byrne |
02-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Human Bell
Evolving From Freedomnew
Jazz pianist Myra Melford distills composition from chaos.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
02-05-2008 |
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
Disco Italian Stylenew
As made and envisioned by a group of young Americans from the Rose City.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Byrne |
01-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Glass Candy
(Re)Making the Bandnew
Marin Alsop conducts the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra into the 21st century.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
11-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Michael Hurley Returns After Never Really Leavingnew
The drawling, iconoclastic singer/songwriter has released sporadic slow-burning, charming folk albums on little labels for 40-plus years -- now we're on the brink of a full-fledged Hurley revival.
Baltimore City Paper |
Mike McGonigal |
11-20-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ancestral Swamp, Michael Hurley
Janelia Sanya Hides in Plain Sightnew
Nigerian star Janelia Sanya is relatively unknown in her Baltimore home and that's just fine.
Baltimore City Paper |
Robbie Whelan |
11-13-2007 |
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
Devin the Dude Abidesnew
A Devin album is an experience, the aural approximation of "puff, puff, pass," and Waiting to Inhale is his finest harvest.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brandon Soderberg |
10-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Devin the Dude, Waiting to Inhale
The Black Lips Grows Up By Staying Youngnew
With Good Bad Not Evil, the band's Vice Records studio full-length debut and fifth album overall, the Georgia quartet is building more buzz than fuzz with the group's least rust-bucket, adolescence-addled collection of blues-rawk.
Baltimore City Paper |
Tony Ware |
09-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Black Lips, Good Bad Not Evil
Merle Haggard has Served His Time Making Musicnew
Haggard turned 70 in April, but he hasn't slowed down a whit: Over the past year and a half he has released five albums of new music in addition to a flood of reissues.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
09-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Merle Haggard
The New Flesh: Evolutionary Warnew
The band celebrates a half decade of half-decayed, weird punk rock.
Baltimore City Paper |
Al Shipley |
08-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The New Flesh
Red Sammy Debuts Its Forlorn Folksy Gothicnew
Every one of its 11 languid and dolorous "gothic Americana" songs hangs with the same tawdry antebellum decay familiar to anyone who's whiled away a sticky August night in Baltimore drinking too much beer and nursing heartache.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
08-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Red Sammy
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
