Cover art Well, the economy is still in the shitter, Congress appears to be out of fucks to give, and there’s all of the police-state insanity surrounding the Occupy movement, but, hey, we’ve all got something to be thankful for. Here in Baltimore, we can give thanks for good local music, and we can...
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Nels Cline, by Karen Cline It was quite a weekend for jazz in Baltimore. Friday night began with a concert by Baltimore pianist Lafayette Gilchrist, New York bassist William Parker, and Baltimore reed player John Dierker at the University of Baltimore. Later that same night, New York’s Matthew Shipp Trio held forth at An...
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Dog Leather First up, the first new song in years from erstwhile Baltimore spazz-punk band the Death Set. And it’s probably the heaviest, most breaking-things track the band’s ever done—Johnny Siera stops shrieking just long enough for a weird mechanical sampled chorus to cut in, backed by a guitar that seems almost metal. Punishing...
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| Image by City Paper Digi-Cam Big In Japan began more than a decade ago as a kind of low-key offshoot of Lake Trout, a chance for three of the band’s five members to do small club gigs of groove-based improvisation. Over the last year or two, though, it’s become a more consistently active...
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Earlier this month, Beach House and Celebration played a outdoor double-bill show next to the Metro Gallery that included a one-off collaborative set. If you were, say, enjoying the summer out at some panhandle swimming hole, here’s your (chance to see what was missed. The video comes courtesy of Guy Werner, who adds on...
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About a year and a half ago, Celebration slipped, mostly, from the public’s radar, going into a sort of creative hibernation. Last month, the band re-emerged with a plan to release its new songs via an interactive, multi-media web site, the Celebration Electric Tarot. In advance of the site’s unveiling, we sat down with...
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