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Josh Bayer, mastermind behind Suspect Device, and Mark Rudolph, illustrator of the latest installment of Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever, came to Atomic Books this week and we stopped by to check it out. Suspect Device is an anthology in which  Bayer, who teaches comics/drawing classes at the 3rd Ward in Brooklyn, encourages...
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Throughout an intimate acoustic performance with his band The Maytals Wednesday night at DC’s The Hamilton, 70-year-old reggae icon Toots Hibbert spoke of last week’s incident (see it at about the 2:25 mark in the video below) in Richmond, where a fan hurled a glass bottle at the singer’s head. Though still jovial and...
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“I want to take you into my practice room,” Chick Corea told the audience at the Hopkins Club on the Johns Hopkins University campus Monday night. He wanted to take us away from the big stages where he performs on a battery of electric and acoustic keyboards with Return to Forever or his other...
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This week was all about Saturday Night. I think someone must have laced my Pabst with a hit of LSD at Transmodern fest ‘cuz after a KILLER night of performances by Dan Deacon, Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, Snails, and OCDJ, I ended up talking to animals like a wasted shaman and dancing with the...
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Appearing Wednesday night at Federal Hill’s 8×10 armed with an excess of technical talent, Texas based jazz/dance/fusion/world collective Snarky Puppy served clear notice in just how criminally unrecognized they are within the spectrum of popular music. Of course, meandering instrumental songs will never be as accessible as simplistic tracks with vocals, but in an...
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On a balmy Baltimore night in May, the cream of local salon society crowded around Paul Cassedy’s table for another great night of what he calls “dinner and music.” It’s no mean feat for a Baltimore rowhouse. Cassedy introduced Alexis Tantau, the night’s singer, and her piano accompanist, Elizabeth Brown. He toasted them with...
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In a flurry of tweets and Facebook status updates on Monday, Lower Dens announced that Will Adams would be leaving the band due to exhaustion. It was the second major lineup change since the start of the year, the first being the departure of drummer Abe Sanders in early January. As part of a...
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Synchronicity enjoyed a sold-out, standing room only debut last week. The new partnership marks a new musical cooperation between the young Mobtown Modern and the solid symphonic sound that is the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Orchestras across the nation scramble to cater to listeners under 30, wherever they can be found. Mobtown Modern curator Brian...
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Last weekend, Scenic Route Recordings hosted the third edition of the Songwriter Sessions, a monthly event in which local musicians showcase their work in a quiet, intimate setting, often but not necessarily solo. There’s apparently been enough confusion about that fairly straightforward format, however, that there have been running jokes on- and offstage about...
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For the last decade and change, Devin Ocampo has been widely regarded as one of the Washington, D.C., area’s most technically proficient musicians in the Dischord Records orbit, playing drums in Smart Went Crazy and Beauty Pill and singing and playing guitar in the short-lived Faraquet and now Medications, which released its second album...
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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 intoxicating sound of Warpaint , an Los Angeles-based foursome whose...
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“Tonight we’re going to be doing the music of Billy Strayhorn,” Terell Stafford told the audience at An Die Musik Sunday night. “Last year, when it was his 100th birthday, we were commissioned by the city of Dayton, Ohio, where he was born, to prepare an album of his music. Bruce Barth did new...
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On Thursday night, local singer-songwriter Ellen Cherry crammed her tall 5’10″ frame into a small room with just over a dozen audience members for a few hours, the occasion for the unusual performance being a “micro-show” at Mobtown Studios. The Charles Village recording facility opened earlier this year (full disclosure: the owners are old...
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Chrissie Hynde | Image by City Paper Digi-Cam™ I was pretty pumped when it was announced that the 2008 Noise in the Basement Creative Conference would be bringing the Pretenders to Baltimore. You couldn’t, however, help but raise an eyebrow that the Hold Steady would not only be sharing Friday’s bill at Sonar, but...
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Microkingdom | Image by Raven Baker While the likes of Rolling Stone and New York magazine have christened the Golden West Café as Baltimore’s premiere post-show hangout–a rather perplexing claim as it closes by midnight–the restaurant’s own events have been overlooked. This past Saturday, during the slothful frenzy of Memorial Day weekend, Golden West...
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| Image by THE CITY PAPER DIGI-CAM%u2122 | Image by THE CITY PAPER DIGI-CAM%u2122 | Image by THE CITY PAPER DIGI-CAM%u2122 In personal experience, anything that ends with people enthusiastically following the shirtless white man into the street as another climbs atop a car typically leads to rioting and looting and/or mob violence. So...
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| Image by Frank Hamilton So this past Friday night, Noise braved the cold and our own fears about aging to head to Sonar’s Taxlo party for the second or third or 15th installment of local sugar-shocked art/music/weird kids collective Wham City turning the club stage into its own satellite loft party. With candles...
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