Double Dagger So it is that today, Oct. 21, 2011, marks the last-ever show for Baltimore’s own Double Dagger. City Paper has done an appreciative feature and a do-it-yourself six-panel poster, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t offer some more words from the band. In researching the former, I sat down with lead...
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Future Islands’ Sam Herring | Image by Josh Sisk Word through the crowd on Thursday was that that night’s Golden Filter show was one of it’s first few live. The new disco outfit, a minor blog storm, has been primarily a studio project. And, even as a studio project, the band’s relatively untested—it’s first...
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Nicky Smith (the son of City Paper co-founder Russ Smith) has a short black-and-white documentary, Shut Down and Shut Up, circulating online right now that is worth a look. Basically, it’s him sitting down with the proprietors of the since-defunct Scarey Studios, Floristree, the Hexagon, Hamilton Arts Collective, the since-defunct Wham City, the Bank,...
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It’s a little odd going to Floristree for just another night of Baltimore indie weirdness mere weeks after the ostensibly “secret” venue was the focal point of “scene” profiles in both Rolling Stone and Blender magzines. We remember going to the place when it was just “the H&H Building,” and nothing much about the...
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