Success Hasn’t Spoiled Them Yet
We mentioned the inevitable “Baltimore scene” backlash a couple of months back in this space, and now it is not only starting to gather glib steam–see this one-paragraph summation of Double Dagger–but...
View Article“In Snacks there’s no barrier between sweet and savory”
We here at Noise love to listen to music and love to cook, and sometimes we combine the two. City Paper contributor/local musician Shelly Blake-Plock goes one better over at his foodie blog Let the Sky...
View Article“…and keep the language off the street”
How do I know that today’s my birthday? Because a friend just hipped me to the fact that more than a month ago Matador posted an MP3 of a new Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks single from their new album,...
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Baltimore in Song
Lambs Eat Ivy A March 4 Sun piece titled “Baltimore: A Muse for Many” offered what felt like a keyword search-generated list of songs with “Baltimore” in the title. What, if anything, these songs have...
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The Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Street Bands: Monotonix, Dark Meat, Hollywood at the...
| Image by THE CITY PAPER DIGI-CAM%u2122 | Image by THE CITY PAPER DIGI-CAM%u2122 | Image by THE CITY PAPER DIGI-CAM%u2122 In personal experience, anything that ends with people enthusiastically...
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Not Another Teen Band: Be Your Own Pet, Rams Head Live, May 27
Jemina Pearl and John Eatherly in action. | Image by CP Noise cam Knowing the four members of Be Your Own Pet all hover around 21 years old is one thing. Seeing these noisemaking naifs–vocalist Jemina...
View ArticleA Little More Bass: No Age, High Places, Abe Vigoda, July 16, Floristree
Note to Floristree: please start a subwoofer donation bucket now. You know, a place where people can drop the odd spare change or $5 bill in the hopes that, someday, shows at the much beloved warehouse...
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DNA Test Fest: Free music festival July 25 and 26 in College Park
OK, perhaps you’re all music festival-ed out after last weekend’s Whartscape, but maybe you’d still like to check out some ear-ringing noise–and preferably for free. It’s a bit of a hike for those...
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Ultra Naté’s “Twisted” Video
Over the long weekend, local house diva Ultra Naté e-mailed out a link to the Karl Giant-directed new video of her current single, “Twisted,” and it’s a scorcher. (See video, below.) It’s a single...
View ArticleBlaqstarr reinterprets The Wire theme with M.I.A.
A recent, pre-Nov. 4 holiday in London confirmed a few suspicions I had from daily online reading of The Guardian: 1) That UK citizens were as agitated about the outcome of our presidential election...
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Tonight: M.C. Schmidt and J Lesser at True Vine
M.C. Schmidt | Image by www.highzero.org True Vine majordomo Jason Willett sent out an e-mail last night clueing Noise into this wonderful fact: Matmos’ M.C. Schmidt and longtime friend of Matmos J...
View ArticleChristmaseastermass at Normals, Dec. 21
Leave it to Normals Books and Records to assemble one of those days that remind you how great it is to live in Baltimore. On the Sunday prior to the “official” pagan-Christian-commercialism December...
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Listening Party: Antony and the Johnsons, The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian)
Roughly two minutes and 45 seconds into “Aeon,” Antony Hegarty repeats a verse ending line with such an emphatic purpose that the breath halts just thinking about it. The first time Hegarty, the lead...
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Dischord Records Vinyl Re-up
Marginal Man’s Identity | Image by dischord.com Fellow vinyl junkies: last week Dischord Records posted a little bulletin about its ongoing vinyl re-mastering of its back catalog and links to its...
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The Bellevederes, tonight at the 13th Floor
| Image by myspace.com/thebellevederes Noise caught local combo the Bellevederes’ first show back on March 7 at the Windup Space, the words “soul revue” getting us out of the house on one of those...
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“The New Urban Beatnik presents Future Shock: Babylon Series” at the Nest,...
| Image by from myspace.com/msmalachi Early deadlines for this week’s Sizzlin’ Summer issue meant that info e-mailed to us early this week didn’t make the print edition—such as this bill of spoken...
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Above and Beyoncé: 1st Mariner Arena, June 23, 2009
| Image by Frank Hamilton “I AM…YOURS”: these were the last words to leave the mouth of Beyoncé Knowles Tuesday night at the 1st Mariner Arena, and the final message projected onto the gigantic video...
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Know Your Product: Abby Mott, Go West! Get East! (self-released)
Four songs. That’s the problem with beguiling songstress Abby Mott’s new EP Go West! Get East!: it’s only four songs. Yes, a mere four tracks that don’t even crack the 20-minute mark in total running...
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Robe Trotters: Sunn0))) at Sonar, Sept. 23
| Image by Josh Sisk Guitars are rock’s phallic object, but volume remains its big dick. Ever since the Who hit 126 dB in the late 1970s, the loudness = greatness paradigm is both a joke and operating...
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Jemina Pearl at the G-Spot Nov. 2
For four years and two albums Nashville’s Be Your Own Pet tore through garage punk with the sort of brashness that only teenagers can deliver. The quartet delivered everything at the frenetic clip of...
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