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Kil, a beatmaker and a former host of Strictly Hip Hop, has put together a surprisingly non-shticky concept album based around The Wire. On his Bandcamp page—where Through the Wire can be downloaded for free—Kil calls the tape “a perfect marriage between two of my loves, making beats and the HBO television series The...
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“I got to know this city over the past seven or eight years,” Steve Earle told his Rams Head audience Tuesday night. “I know all about lake trout now. I learned about Baltimore from some guys who grew up here and loved the city enough to turn it into some of the greatest art...
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It’s been exciting to watch HBO’s The Wire use more and more music from the city it depicts, culminating in the January release of the album Beyond Hamsterdam: Baltimore Tracks From The Wire, in conjunction with the beginning of the show’s fifth and last season. At the same time, however, it’s been frustrating to...
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We get a number of boastful e-mails from local hip-hop labels, and trust us when we say they’re not all newsworthy. But pretty much anytime Juan Donovan, who along with Jamal Roberts makes up Darkroom Productions, sends out an e-mail blast, he’s got something genuinely exciting to tell us. Every few weeks there’s another...
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With the fifth and final season of HBO’s The Wire in full swing, a number of official events have been happening lately in and out of Baltimore to comemorate the city’s most famous current cultural export. And this week, that included a silent auction of Wire-releated merchandise at the Baltimore Museum of Industry. In...
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