Whispers for Wolves, J. Graf, Weyes Bluhd, Owen Gardner, Salamander Wool at...
Here at Baltimore’s Most Continuing-2009′s-Furlough-Days-in-the-Twenty-Ten Alternative Weekly, production weeks abridged due to holidays or furlough days or furloughed holidays, such as Martin Luther...
View ArticleCirque de la Symphonie and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at the Meyerhoff...
One totally hairless gold man is supporting another hairless gold man entirely with his neck. No joke: Atop a platform placed front and center on the Meyerhoff stage, two male acrobats clad in goldish...
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Preview: Hole at the 9:30 Club, June 27
For good and bad, Courtney Love the public figure can’t take a backseat to her band Hole’s comeback third–or fourth–act. Since a not embarrassing appearance at SXSW and the uniformly unimpressed...
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Ehse on Ice, Part Deux
Needle Gun at Ehse on Ice, Part Un Back in February local out-sounds label Ehse Records organized one of the best things to put on ice since whiskey. The inaugural Ehse on Ice party hit the Dominic...
View ArticleThe Red Room’s “130% Surround Sound” Series Debuts Tonight, 8:30 p.m.
The Red Room Collective kicks off a new series tonight dedicated to four-channel sound works. Titled “130% Surround Sound” and curated by musical chameleon Tom Boram, the series capitalizes on the Red...
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Out of Your Head Launches Guest-Artist Kickstarter Campaign
Out of Your Head Local improvisation organization Out of Your Head Collective just launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funding for a guest-artist series in anticipation of its two-year...
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Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra Recording Live Album at An die Musik Jan. 7
Image from toddmarcusjazz.com One great reason to catch the Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra when it performs Jan. 7 at An die Musik: The bass clarinetist’s original tunes and the top-notch, lively musicians...
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Amy Domingues Goes Baroque March 2 at Grace and St. Peter’s Church
Amy Domingues Indie-rock fans of a certain generation might recognize the name Amy Domingues. Yes, the longtime Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia cellist was one half of the dreamy chamber pop duo...
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Q&A: Local Composer David Smooke on the League of the Unsound Sound, March 20...
From davidsmooke.com On Sunday night the latest experimental music endeavor with firm Baltimore roots makes it local debut. Co-organized and -founded by local composer and musician David Smooke, the...
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Roomrunner and Dope Body Move To Own Baltimore Rock in 2012 with New Releases
Natural History Barely a minute and a half into “Road Dog,” the second track on Dope Body’s Drag City debut Natural History, and guitarist Zachary Utz has already unleashed a handful of different...
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Sight Unseen, Open Space considering future plans
Sight Unseen—the year-old roaming experimental film/video and expanded cinema series founded and programmed by artists/curators Lorenzo Gattorna, Margaret Rorison, and Kate Ewald—reports that it is...
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Ten-piece Lubbock hits stage for first time in over a year
Adam Hopkins returns to Baltimore this week for a rare appearance of Lubbock, the ten-piece ensemble he co-founded with trumpeter Dave Ballou in 2010. Lubbock plays at the Windup Space July 10 with a...
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Tim Berne’s Snakeoil presents new album at Windup tonight
The prickly friction of fingers moving over a taut drumhead and the rhythmic purr of what sounds like a stick being dragged over something metallic creates a charged spaciousness in the opening minutes...
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Max Eilbacher plays release show for his new Red Anxiety Tracers
It can be easy to overlook the fact that local artist, filmmaker, and musician Max Eilbacher has as deft touch with amorphous ooze. Since 2006 he’s been a member of Needle Gun (video below), a...
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Peter Walker plays the Windup Space Feb. 8
About a minute and a half into the song “Me and My Lady,” the solitary acoustic guitar powering it starts producing notes that sound like they’re tripping over each other in a torrid rush. This...
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What does it mean to be American? One photographer, in town this weekend,...
From Sheila Pree Bright’s Young Americans. Before I had the chance to ask Shelia Pree Bright a question, she had one for me: “What does it mean to be an American in the 21st century?” That’s what the...
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