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Saturday, Aug. 7: Fourth Annual Rap Round Robin
Hey a poster Baltimore’s growing indie-rap army once again performs in the round, with Mickey Free, Jones, Height with Friends, Food For Animals, PT Burnem, Rapdragons, Plural MC, and King Rhythm...
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Noise In Brief, Aug. 9: Oxes Show(!), New Height Video, Dope Body Awesomeness
Dope Body noise shred If you missed the quickie bursts of Oxes on Howard Street during Whartscape, never fear: the rock trio is giving a full show late this Saturday night at the Windup Space. Doors...
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Noise In Brief, Aug. 27: the Copycat Portal To Hell, New Celebration LP, BiMA...
Rapdragons Back in April, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s The Retriever published this handy guide to “the portal to hell,” or the Copycat Annex. In it you will find the most bizarre...
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Noise In Brief, Sept. 3: DJ Rice Benefit Show, Dustin Wong Video, J-Roddy Is...
Dustin Wong Sometime in the very early morning of Saturday, Aug. 21, DJ Rice–of one-man band Teenage Souls and one of the nicest humans around–was attacked after leaving the Copycat building. He was...
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Noise In Brief, Sept. 16: Scottie B’s Baltimore, Barn Aid, Record Store Love
True Vine Here’s a new mix from soon-to-be ex-Baltimorean Dave Nada on Dissonance radio in Washington D.C.–Diplo-style world-dance stuff, judging by the tracklist. Barn Aid, a benefit festival of...
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Who Needs FreeFest? Just Look at this Baltimore Weekend
Sleigh Bells It’s pretty impressive, and FreeFest free tickets have been gone for a long time. We got late notice about this show so it’s not in today’s print edition, but Sleigh Bells performs...
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Write About Music on the Internet for Actual Money
No, seriously. The writing world isn’t all shit like this and this. You have thoughts and ideas and can express them well in language–you should get some actual money. We’re looking for a couple more...
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Baltimore’s Dirt and Bank Up for AVN Award
Dirt and Bank . . . for music. Specifically, their song “Yeah I” is up for “Best Original Song” in the adult industry’s annual celebration of its best and brightest. Dirt and Bank’s competition can be...
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Mobtown Modern Receives Well-Deserved Programming Award
Ken Ueno While it’s not getting porn industry kudos, the excellent Mobtown Modern contemporary-music series is set to receive the Award for Adventurous Programming next month from Chamber Music...
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Whoa: Six Minutes of Epic Wale Meltdown
Wale Dunno really how it started, but local MC Bossman has had some beef with Washington, D.C. MC-done-good Wale, emblemized, naturally, in a diss track. The latter got shit-talked on 92Q to the tune...
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Listen: Bossman, “Illuminati”
urbanmusicdirect.com Rap beef? Bossman doesn’t even have time for that now. He’s on to the Ultimate Question. The answer? “Live life, religion’s all a mind game.” The beat is as heavy as lead, and his...
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Dan Deacon Scoring New Francis Ford Coppola Film
By Jonathan Purvis Well, here is a thing that makes total and complete sense but, at the same time, none whatsoever. Dan Deacon is set to score a new Francis Ford Coppola film called Twixt Now and...
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Video: Arbouretum’s Dave Heumann Performing “When Delivery Comes” Solo
Dave Heumann Dunno the context for this aside from it being Dave Heumann sitting alone on a hill during the fall sometime. The song is “When Delivery Comes,” off Arbouretum‘s forthcoming The...
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Dan Deacon on Scoring Francis Ford Coppola’s New Film
By Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez It wasn’t long ago that Dan Deacon was touring via Greyhound bus and living the unglamorous, underground art-collective lifestyle. Well, he still does. Mostly. But last...
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On the Download: Improv With Dan Deacon and Matmos
Dan Deacon + Matmos This happened at last fall’s MoogFest in North Carolina: two improv jams between Dan Deacon and Matmos’ Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt, released yesterday via the indie...
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Video Roundup: New Sounds/Pictures From the Death Set, Celebration, and Dog...
Dog Leather First up, the first new song in years from erstwhile Baltimore spazz-punk band the Death Set. And it’s probably the heaviest, most breaking-things track the band’s ever done—Johnny Siera...
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Zomes Signs to Thrill Jockey, Announces New Record
By Ports Bishop Zomes, the current project of erstwhile Lungfisher Asa Osborne, will be releasing its second album and first since 2008′s self-titled debut this spring on Thrill Jockey, e.g. one of...
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Listen: Rye Rye’s New Mixtape, RYEot PowRR
Still better cover art than /\/\/\Y/\ Weirdly enough, RYEot PowRR doesn’t come with much information–like a tracklisting or DJ/producer/guest MC info–but a few minutes in, the mix has already dashed...
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Ponytail Teases New Album With Super-fun New Video
Kitties The band Ponytail isn’t dead. The beachy, squealy art-punk force-of-nature even has another album coming out, a long-awaited follow-up to 2008’s Ice Cream Spiritual, this April, Do Whatever...
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Video: Meet the “Whore of Baltimore”
"Whore of Baltimore" Enjoy this new song/video from Baltimore’s Bethany Dinsick, making lovely out-folk ambience equal parts song and ritual: slow, falling-off guitar strums; honeyed, burrowing...
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