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As I write this opening sentence, our beloved veggie oil bus is threatening to stall out on the Verrazano bridge. It feels as though she’s wheezing her last breath, exhaling the ghosts of whatever…
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Live: Dan Deacon, 25-Or-So Bands From Baltimore at (le) poisson rouge Levi Stubbs: Mourning the Voice of Little Shop of Horrors Best Moderately Snooty Concert Series: Wordless Music Series Possibly…
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Future Islands feat. Vic from Beach House (below), Mortal Kombat monologues, Adventure(s) with Mark Brown’s lid-popping animation, Double Dagger feat. Blue Leader/Ed Schrader, Nuclear Power Pants in…
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Tonight in Baltimore The Talking Head has Starfucker, Steve Hefter and Friends of Friends, Jason Dove/Vacation Face, and Magical, Beautiful. Also in Baltimore are Caleb Stine and the Brakemen, Amy…
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Rah-rah: Ratatat. By Laura Mojonnier A snapshot of the Pop Montreal festival, Oct. 3, 4, and 5. Day 3 Ratatat and Panther at Club Soda, 10:30 p.m. I began Friday night, Oct. 3, with the second…
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Thanks to the City Paper’s Noise blog for pointing out some great reviews of Wham City’s Baltimore Round Robin stop in Detroit. Seems multiple attendees were quite overwhelmed with the experience….
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Dan Deacon @ Bumbershoot 2008 (more by Chris Graham) Both nights of the Baltimore Round Robin tour at (le) poisson rouge in NYC are sold out, so they added two more shows. Those who have tickets…
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The visual artist I was talking about in this post goes by the name of Blackmoth. The video was playing behind a performance by Smart Growth. It’s only the middle 30 seconds or so of the video,…
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Tonight Dan Deacon brings his Round Robin tour to Philly’s Starlight Ballroom. This sounds pretty awesome. Basically numerous bands set up their gear in one large circle with the crowd being in…
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