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NYC Trio Naam Puts a Fine Finish on Sludge

Baltimore City Paper | August 25, 2009

It's refreshing to hear a prog-rock element in a band that isn't a sit-down proposition, such as Tortoise. "I wanted to make [prog-influenced music] in a much more loud, droning, drug-induced sense," Naam bassist John Bundy says.

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Tags: Kingdom EP, Naam

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Jazz Writer Ted Gioia Bites Off More Than He Can Chew in 'The Birth (and Death) of the Cool'new

Gioia presents convincing evidence that people trust brand names less than they did for many years. But he spends endless energy hard-selling the idea that brand-name obeisance has, or has ever had, anything to do with "cool."

Baltimore City Paper | Michaelangelo Matos | 11-24-2009 | Nonfiction

Tags: The Birth (and Death) of the Cool, Ted Gioia

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

Tags: 5: 5 Years of Hyperdub, Hyperdub, Warp, Warp20

Which Otis Jackson Jr. Do You Like?new

Jackson has renamed himself as much as anyone in the Wu-Tang Clan, though Madlib is the moniker that subsumes all others--his umbrella pseudonym, if you will.

Baltimore City Paper | Michaelangelo Matos | 10-07-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

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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

Tags: Jason Urick, Postrock, We Used to Be Family, Instrumental

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

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