This week’s Detroit Metro Times, a CP sister publication, features a fairly exhaustive feature on Negative Approach/Laughing Hyenas frontman and aggro rock legend John Brannon. (His current outfit, Easy Action, recorded a couple of albums for Baltimore’s own Reptilian Records.) If you paid any attention to ’80s hardcore or post-hardcore underground rock (i.e. the...
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Specifically, City Paper contributor Marc Masters sits down with an always-humble Jason Urick, one of Baltimore’s finer laptop sound/vibe artists, to discuss hunting pop melody with ambient music, being a music fan, appropriating reggae music, and Baltimore. Pitchfork doesn’t seem to allow embedding so, here’s the link.
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Well, no, we’re not likely to get confirmation that this is actually a prank but, come the fuck on, just watch it. In which Kate Levitt, of Teeth Mountain fame, and Jonathan Coward, aka Shams, parody art-hipster culture via a case about a dead cat for a daytime television audience that could probably give...
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| Image by Josh Sisk Fan Death is a punk label run by Sean Gray and the Baltimore-based Chris Berry that’s put out swell music from the likes of Drunkdriver, Rosemary Krust, Clockcleaner, and Ringo Deathstar, among others. Fan Death is also largely responsible for the now-mammoth DNA Test Fest, which moves to Baltimore...
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| Image by Carly Ptak Context: Twig Harper is Baltimore’s resident out-of-body traveler, mystic, and noise celebrity. He’s also at or near the nexus of a swirl of rumors and accusations surrounding Andrew WK—pop musician and cult figure formerly of Michigan’s noise scene—some of which have Harper as being the “mastermind” behind the mythical...
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