AltWeeklies Wire
What's So Crazy About Gnarls Barkley's Second Album?new
Most of The Odd Couple feels like a reheat of St. Elsewhere. But "Crazy" sounded a little thin at first, too; it wasn't till the greater public got its hands on it that the song sounded as major as it was. Maybe that will happen to The Odd Couple and maybe it won't.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michaelangelo Matos |
04-08-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Gnarls Barkley, the odd couple
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
Dusting off Dusty Springfieldnew
From Lesley Gore to Amy Winehouse, female singers wanting to open the throttle on romantic need and desire have inevitably borrowed more than a little from Springfield -- especially if they were white women who loved black R&B.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
04-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dusty Springfield
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
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
Regrets? They've Had a Fewnew
They've survived booze, breakdowns, and bedlam but the Pogues are still standing.
Baltimore City Paper |
Neil Ferguson |
03-18-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Pogues
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
The Oscillatornew
In the absence of new material, Craig's remixes have probably done more to enhance his legendary status than if he'd gone ahead and released a classic album. Getting a Carl Craig remix guarantees a receptive techno audience the same way a Lil Wayne guest verse does with hip-hop fans.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michaelangelo Matos |
03-11-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Sessions, Carl Craig
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
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
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
