via the Lyric Provocative, profane, and occult is how critics described a version of Faust so daring that only one copy remains, safely hidden away in the Royal Denmark library. Lyric Opera Baltimore stays true to form with their new take on Gounod’s Faust (in partnership with Arizona Opera) at the Lyric on April...
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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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On Sunday night the latest experimental music endeavor with firm Baltimore roots makes it local debut. Co-organized and -founded by local composer and musician David Smooke, the League of the Unsound Sound is a loose ensemble dedicated not only to exploring new composed music and improvisation, but to advocating for both of those camps...
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Indie-rock fans of a certain generation might recognize the name Amy Domingues. Yes, the longtime Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia cellist was one half of the dreamy chamber pop duo Garland of Hours and the bombastic trio Telegraph Melts with Bob Massey, an erstwhile City Paper contributor, but she’s also been the go-to cellist for regional...
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Sleigh Bells It’s pretty impressive, and FreeFest free tickets have been gone for a long time. We got late notice about this show so it’s not in today’s print edition, but Sleigh Bells performs Sunday, Sept. 26, at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. The show starts at 8 p.m. and tickets are $12....
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Hey a poster Baltimore’s growing indie-rap army once again performs in the round, with Mickey Free, Jones, Height with Friends, Food For Animals, PT Burnem, Rapdragons, Plural MC, and King Rhythm taking turns at the mic Saturday, Aug. 7 at Floristree. 9 p.m., $7.
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For good and bad, Courtney Love the public figure can’t take a backseat to her band Hole’s comeback third–or fourth–act. Since a not embarrassing appearance at SXSW and the uniformly unimpressed response to the new album, the media’s love affair with Love the walking entertainment blog fodder has kept her almost continuously in the...
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In an e-mail this afternoon, the Wham City collective announced the lineup for this summer’s fourth edition of Whartscape, Baltimore’s celebration of everything underground. This year’s events happen July 22-25 at a list of venues yet to be determined; tickets go on sale June 15 at whamcity.com. Organizers emphasize that, again, this festival will...
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Dave Nada The Baltimore party institution got its stuff together a little late for this week’s print edition, but tonight, May 14, Tax Lo celebrates its eighth birthday at Sonar. Music comes from long-time Tax Lo banger Dave Nada, heavy bass DJ Mumdance, Chris O, and the party’s proprietors Cullen Stalin and Simon Phoenix....
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So Percussion and Matmos The amorphous electronic music free-thinkers of Matmos have an upcoming collaboration with New York’s So Percussion set for release this July. Expect a bit of the deft, hybrized musique concrete that Matmos excels in, distilled even further into marvelous, uncompromisingly appealing instrumental compositions. “Treasure” is a sneak peak. Matmos/So Percussion:...
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Well, this one slipped through the cracks, as even the best fool-to-miss shows do on occasion, so all apologies. And lord knows there’s enough going on this weekend already, but tomorrow somehow thread a stop at Floristree into your night’s plans. Northampton Wools, the duo of Bill Nace and Thurston Moore making skuzzed-out alien...
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Here at Baltimore’s Most Continuing-2009′s-Furlough-Days-in-the-Twenty-Ten Alternative Weekly, production weeks abridged due to holidays or furlough days or furloughed holidays, such as Martin Luther King Jr. day Jan. 18, means sometimes shows/events announced late in the production cycle sadly get overlooked by the print edition—such as this Friday, Jan. 22 show at the Hexagon. The...
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