Noise: Author Archive

Following the cancellation of the EDM-laden Moonrise Festival only weeks before the festival was scheduled to take place, several of the festival’s DJs have managed to land gigs elsewhere around town. Baltimore Soundstage today announced a June 8 show featuring Israeli trance group Infected Mushroom. On Thursday, Soundstage announced a June 9 show with...
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This Saturday is the Preakness, and the InfieldFest this year features noted Bud Light spokesman Pitbull and those “Thrift Shop” dudes Macklemore and Ryan Lewis as the headliners, which we’re not too psyched about. Especially since there are plenty of artists with Baltimore ties who have written songs that kinda, sorta relate to the...
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You may have missed it in our handy-dandy, super comprehensive list of concerts in this week’s Sizzlin’ Summer issue, but two of the best local music festivals bearing the “scape” suffix have dates and venues. Ratscape, which leans more toward the punk and metal side of things, is scheduled for July 19-21 and will...
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As many of you loyal City Paper readers may have realized, there was no Your Week in today’s issue, our Sizzlin’ Summer guide. But hey, we still have plenty of suggestions for great ways you can spend your leisure time. May 15 Thirty: 30 Creative Minds Under 30 6 P.M., Maryland Art Place, 8...
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Neutral Milk Hotel, the indie folk band responsible for one of the best albums of the late ’90s/2000s, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, is bringing their reunion tour to 2640 Space on Oct. 11, according to a post on Facebook by the Ottobar. It was in 2011 when Jeff Mangum, the lead singer...
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Music blog behemoth Pitchfork is giving plenty of shine to Baltimore today, with advance streams for the forthcoming Dungeonesse (the pop project from Jenn Wasner and Jon Ehrens, pictured) and Peals albums and a nice write-up of the latest from Co La, which the notoriously stingy site gave a 7.5 and said “represents a...
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  On Friday night Beach House, perhaps the biggest active band to emerge from Baltimore’s music scene, performed to a packed crowd at the Lyric Opera House, their first time performing in their hometown in three years. Now let’s stop right there. It is at this point in the review I must reveal something...
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On your way to Opening Day? Take the time to get pumped up with producer James Nasty’s fresh take on the classic team anthem “Orioles Magic.” Nasty recasts the song as a pounding, bass-heavy stomp that includes the signature “O-R-I-O-L-E-S” chorus  as a chant that would blow the lid off Oriole Park at Camden...
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On Monday, local producer Schwarz debuted the music video for his latest club track “U R Beautiful,” wherein he earnestly tells listeners “I want y’all to stop for a minute/ and just think about how fucking beautiful you are” and that “anybody telling you anything different right now is full of fucking shit/ Y’all...
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Save Your Soul is already one of Baltimore’s best dance parties, but getting the legendary, Ian Svenonius-fronted soul-funk-gospel group The Make-Up to perform live takes things up a notch. On Apr. 5, the popular soul night will move from its usual location in the basement of Lithuanian Hall to the grand ballroom upstairs, which...
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In this Ben O’Brien-directed clip, the manic beats of the America track “Crash Jam” are synced up to bits and pieces of a P90X workout video, speeding the fitness models up to look like spazzed-out windup toys on a sugar rush during strenuous activity or slowing them down during periods of rest or stretching...
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Bud Light pitch man, Walmart master of ceremonies, and sometimes rapper Pitbull will headline the Maryland Jockey Club’s effort to get young people into horse racing without actually seeing a race horse, a.k.a. the 2013 Preakness InfieldFest. We’re not the biggest fans of Pitbull’s music, but we are very much looking forward to lots...
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The makers of the documentary on the final days of Baltimore post-punk heroes Double Dagger revealed the film will be released on April 20, Record Store Day. It appears the title has changed from Double Dagger Is Dead to If We Shout Loud Enough, a phrase borrowed from the lyrics of More track “Vivre...
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Listening Party FLOCK OF DIMES “(This is Why) I Can’t Wear White” 7-inch (Frenchkiss records) With the recent unveiling of the sugary sweet pop group Dungeonesse, Jenn Wasner, whom most of you know as the guitar-shredding singer of Wye Oak, has doubled up on side projects. It’s exciting to see where Wasner and Jon...
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Last night Dan Deacon, recipient of City Paper’s Best local album of 2012, took the stage of Jimmy Kimmel Live! to perform “True Thrush” with his touring ensemble. The camera crew got some pretty sweet shots of Deacon’s interactive iPhone app, flashing lights and all, which Deacon invited viewers at home to use. Watch...
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Abingdon is a speck of a town, nestled between Route 40 and Interstate 95 just beyond the banks of the Bush River in Harford County. It is close enough to these major thoroughfares and to the towns of Aberdeen and Bel Air to feel like the byproduct of suburban sprawl but desolate enough to...
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We have our first taste of Dungeonesse, the hook-heavy pop group featuring Jenn Wasner, of Wye Oak and Flock of Dimes fame, and Jon Ehrens of White Life. Watch the video for the incredibly dancy “Drive You Crazy” below. A 12-inch with “Drive You Crazy” and “Private Party” is due out Dec. 4 on...
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Nearly a year ago, before a headlining gig at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Dave Portner and Brian Weitz of Animal Collective, the hugely successful indie band that first cut its teeth in Baltimore County, described their new material sounding like an alien band sampling material from Earth, such as radio signals beamed into space. On...
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Flock of Dimes, the solo project of Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner, will be getting a proper physical release courtesy of Friends Records. Side A of the 7-inch features a newly mastered version of the previously released track “Prison Bride.” Side B is a “screwed mix” of “I Can’t Tell You Why,” the 1979 hit...
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Late Tuesday night, when most good bloggers had gone to bed, local dream pop duo Beach House decided to casually drop a new song, titled “Myth,” with a tweet and Facebook post to their respective profiles that read simply, “Hello again.” It ranks as one of the tightest pop songs in the band’s repertoire,...
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