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Baltimore's Vinny Vegas Makes Normal the New Weirdnew
The band makes a slightly off-kilter normal that doesn't quite gel with the anarchic, nu-punk, and defiantly experimental sounds with which the City That Bleeds is often associated.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
04-11-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Vinny Vegas
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
The Oranges Band Remembers Its First Decadenew
The band from Baltimore discusses the best moments of its 10-year run.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joe Tropea |
04-27-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Oranges Band
NOVO Festival Gathers Up Baltimore's Most Speechless Artistsnew
When's the last time you described a band as "instrumental"--as in, the first thing that comes to mind about whatever you're listening to?
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Byrne |
03-02-2010 |
Concerts
The Honest Mistakes: 'Break Up'new
These are break-up songs, not particularly sad or mopey by any genre's standards, but the Honest Mistakes are soaking you in a whole lot of this: "Find a picture of your favorite friend, tonight/ take a look at it, as long as you can/ it might be the only thing you have left of them."
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Byrne |
01-26-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Break Up, The Honest Mistakes
Maryland's Doom-Metal Godfather Had a Pretty Good Year (For Once)new
Now nearly 50 years old, Scott Weinrich has fronted two seminal metal bands, The Obsessed and Saint Vitus. He has piloted vital Maryland outfits the Hidden Hand and Spirit Caravan, made music with Dave Grohl under the Probot handle, and, finally, in 2009 issued his first-ever solo album, Punctuated Equilibrium.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Byrne |
01-12-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Gary Barrett and the Notions Plug Ahead With Their Idiosyncratic Guitar Popnew
As the frontman of Gary B and the Notions, Gary Barrett has been refining the expression of his personal quirks and neuroses with the accompaniment of jangly guitar riffs for the past five years. He knows exactly how to project his own personality and unique way of looking at the world.
Baltimore City Paper |
Al Shipley |
01-05-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Evol Intent Ruptures the Walls of Drum 'n' Bassnew
These three guys originally from Atlanta produce and play galvanic, kinetically de-tuning, glitch-hop-tinged drum 'n' bass, influenced by everyone from N.W.A. to Squarepusher. And they are popular in a genre that doesn't get much press but that is loyal and long-running.
Baltimore City Paper |
Tony Ware |
12-01-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Baltimore's Rapdragons Smoke Up and Breathe Firenew
"This band could never have started on some Craigslist thing like 'Hey, do you wanna play music?'" says Nick Often about Rapdragons, the hip-hop duo he co-founded with Greg Ward earlier this year. "It's really out of the fact that we're friends, that's what feeds it."
Baltimore City Paper |
Al Shipley |
11-24-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Rapdragons, Ten Stories High
Renaissance MEN: Le Tigre's JD Samson and Friends Fuse Music and Visual Art, Dance-Pop and Politicsnew
What would a man do? That's the question that powered first a DJ duo, then a band, and now a full-blown art collective.
Baltimore City Paper |
Judy Berman |
11-17-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
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
Oneida's 'Rated O' Feels Like a Watershednew
There aren't many (any?) indie-ish rock bands of whom it can be said that their 11th full-length is their best, especially given that said full-length comes out to much more than "full length" -- nearly two solid hours of music spread across three CDs or LPs.
Baltimore City Paper |
Lee Gardner |
09-01-2009 |
Reviews
The Flaming Lips Keep Their Fearless Freak Flag Flyingnew
Put simply, you'd have to be the most loathsome, granite-hearted reptilian cynic this side of Bill O'Reilly -- or quite possibly clinically dead -- not to be moved or uplifted by the Lips in action. Which is all well and good, but Wayne Coyne insists that the evolution of their live shows has been down to a series of happy accidents and a certain degree of "dumb luck."
Baltimore City Paper |
Neil Ferguson |
09-01-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: wayne coyne, The Flaming Lips
