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Noise In Brief, Sept. 3: DJ Rice Benefit Show, Dustin Wong Video, J-Roddy Is Blowing Up

September 3, 2010
By Michael Byrne
Noise In Brief, Sept. 3: DJ Rice Benefit Show, Dustin Wong Video, J-Roddy Is Blowing Up

Dustin Wong Sometime in the very early morning of Saturday, Aug. 21, DJ Rice–of one-man band Teenage Souls and one of the nicest humans around–was attacked after leaving the Copycat building. He was found sometime later off Loch Raven Boulevard with multiple but nonfatal skull fractures and spent eight days in the ICU. The...
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Postcards from History: Blondie and Cheap Trick at Pier Six Pavilion, Aug. 29

August 31, 2010
By Geoffrey Himes
Postcards from History: Blondie and Cheap Trick at Pier Six Pavilion, Aug. 29

“Oh, yeah, I remember this place,” Debbie Harry told the Pier Six audience Sunday night. “Right over there on the waterfront is where we had the wrap party for that film I made with John Waters and Divine. I got the worst mosquito bites...
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Trading Eights: The Tim Green Quintet at An Die Musik, Aug. 27

August 30, 2010
By Geoffrey Himes
Trading Eights: The Tim Green Quintet at An Die Musik, Aug. 27

After his quintet had finished an exhilarating version of Chick Corea’s “Humpty Dumpty” at An Die Musik Friday night, saxophonist Tim Green explained how each of his bandmates had come to join him on stage. He and vibraphonist Warren Wolf, he noted, had been...
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Noise In Brief, Aug. 27: the Copycat Portal To Hell, New Celebration LP, BiMA Fun

August 27, 2010
By Michael Byrne
Noise In Brief, Aug. 27: the Copycat Portal To Hell, New Celebration LP, BiMA Fun

Rapdragons Back in April, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s The Retriever published this handy guide to “the portal to hell,” or the Copycat Annex. In it you will find the most bizarre bit of conservative/boring youth student writing this side of a Young Republican...
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Songs from the Big ‘80s: Tears for Fears at Rams Head Live, Aug. 24

August 26, 2010
By Al Shipley

It’s been 25 years now since British pop group Tears for Fears released its second album, the transatlantic blockbuster Songs From the Big Chair. And though the band’s core duo of Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith have faced diminishing commercial returns with subsequent albums,...
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Time the Conqueror: Jackson Browne at Pier Six Pavilion, Aug. 24

August 25, 2010
By Geoffrey Himes
Time the Conqueror: Jackson Browne at Pier Six Pavilion, Aug. 24

Courtesy jacksonbrown.com Jackson Browne reached the peak of his artistic powers on Aug. 27, 1977, in Columbia, Maryland. The previous fall he had released his last great studio album, The Pretender, and now he was bringing the songs from his first four albums and most...
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Natural Forces: Lyle Lovett and his Large Band at Hot August Blues, Aug. 21

August 23, 2010
By Geoffrey Himes
Natural Forces: Lyle Lovett and his Large Band at Hot August Blues, Aug. 21

Lyle Lovett While it is true that almost all American music has roots in the blues, it doesn’t follow that every American musician is a blues act. So it was more than a little strange that the headliner for this year’s Hot August Blues festival...
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Left Foot In: Brave Combo at Blob’s Park, Aug. 14

August 17, 2010
By Geoffrey Himes
Left Foot In: Brave Combo at Blob’s Park, Aug. 14

Brave Combo Carl Finch led Brave Combo through the classic, swinging beginning of the jazz standard “Body and Soul” at Blob’s Park on Saturday night. The Texas band’s grizzled eminence in a pork pie hat then stopped abruptly and said, “That’s a cool tune,...
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No Pretending: Shelby Lynne at Annapolis’ Rams Head Tavern, Aug. 13

August 16, 2010
By Geoffrey Himes
No Pretending: Shelby Lynne at Annapolis’ Rams Head Tavern, Aug. 13

Shelby Lynne (by Randee St Nicholas) Shelby Lynne has such a big, tough soprano on record that it’s always a surprise to see her on stage and remember she’s just a small slip of a thing. At the Rams Head Tavern Friday night, she wore...
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Q&A: Warpaint’s Jenny Lee on Billie Holiday, Exquisite Corpses, and Los Angeles

August 16, 2010
By Raymond Cummings
Q&A: Warpaint’s Jenny Lee on Billie Holiday, Exquisite Corpses, and Los Angeles

Warpaint The guitars of Emily Kokal and Theresa Wayman interlocking in sequin-sparkle shimmer or sinuous smolder; Jenny Lee Lindburg’s bass notes pacing thoughtfully at melody’s edge; Stella Mozgawa’s keyboards adding depth and texture to the whole even as her drumming propels it. This is the...
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