by Jefferson Jackson Steele Flock of Dimes, the solo project of Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner, will be getting a proper physical release courtesy of Friends Records. Side A of the 7-inch features a newly mastered version of the previously released track “Prison Bride.” Side B is a “screwed mix” of “I Can’t Tell You...
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Riding the rides A roller coaster ride would be a temptingly lazy metaphor to describe either the soft-loud dynamics of Wye Oak’s songs or the runaway success the Baltimore duo’s third full-length Civilian has enjoyed since its release in March. But the new video for “Holy Holy,” directed by Jeremy Johnstone, features the members...
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Not a real tattoo “I’m not cool; I’m not badass. It’s an intimidating thing to try and do,” says Jenn Wasner, prefacing Wye Oak’s cover of Danzig’s “Mother,” done recently for the Onion A/V Club’s Undercover cover song series (making them the only band invited back a second time). It winds up fitting the...
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Civilian News you can use: Civilian, the third album from Baltimore duo Wye Oak, is streaming in its entirety over at npr.org until its release date on March 8. You’re welcome.
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. . .because The Knot is streaming for free at Merge Records. Hint: not only is it devastatingly pretty, it bests just about everything about If Children, which is, yes, possible. The actual physical record comes out July 21 with a release show at the Ottobar the same day. (HT: Idolator.)
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Web zine Splice Today posted a free compilation today you’d be wise to check out. Titled That Old Lonesome Sound after a Jim White quote describing Southern folk music, the compilation, in large part drawn from Baltimore talent, is a collection of current folk songwriters covering folk traditionals to lovely, and powerful, effect. Locals...
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Arbouretum | Image by Josh Sisk When the Baltimore music blog Aural States announced it was putting on a show to celebrate its first year of existence, it was hard to predict just what the bill would look like, other than that it would reflect the site’s wide reaching tastes. When the Aural States...
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We weren’t able to get this into yesterday’s paper, but if you’re looking for some late Barack Obama boosterism or if you’re a McCainiac with a sweet spot for tender, upswelling indie-rock sound fields or urban-folk rusticism, this Sunday Wye Oak and Caleb Stine and the Brakemen have put together an Obama fundraiser at...
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It’s somehow easy to imagine indie-rock folk in, say, Seattle watching this and responding, “Whoa, how’d they manage to clear all the drug dealers off the streets?” And, indeed, it’s nice to watch something that will reach a relative mass that captures so well how lovely and dignified Baltimore can be, however chilly and...
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Granted, this is a rather late entry into the Magazines With a Hard-On for Baltimore category, but we still thought you should know. (Given there’s probably plenty more of these to come, maybe it’s actually not that late.) Paper, a mag we last recall seeing in Whole Foods, gave a fairly similar Baltimore shout-out...
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Though we first saw the local band then known as Monarch only a year ago, we can’t help but feel some pride about how much the little local duo has accomplished since then. It self-released its debut album, If Children, toured nationally, and garnered some well-deserved buzz and end-of-year accolades from, among others, this...
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Based on the official South by Southwest lineup, released yesterday by festival organizers, it seems that Baltimore does in fact exist, repping nine bands, DJs, and others at the five-day Austin, Texas, festival. That’s not including off-campus performers, which could, like, double the number. Which would still be probably less than Portland, Ore.’s contribution...
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The Austinist just released a list of about 500 artists performing at the 2008 South by Southwest music festival, based on hearsay, rumor, and some actual fact. Granted it’s incomplete–the final lineup will include more than 1,500 acts–but, right now, we’ve got Wye Oak and the sorta local Half Japanese in Texas for the...
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