We Used To Be Family Recently, when news began making the rounds that Baltimore instrumental band We Used to Be Family had a new song called “Jerkface Shipley,” multiple people jumped to the conclusion that it was about me. If I’d earned their ire with...
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The Out of Your Head Collective puts together a new combination of musicians for an improv set every Tuesday, and perhaps what keeps that format fresh week after week is the curators’ refusal to stick to a formula when assembling the one-off ensembles. That...
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Ayoko Kataoka Yup, High Zero, the continent’s finest four days of all-in improv and otherwise musical exploration, is announcing this year’s lineup piece-by-piece at its Twitter handle, @highzero. So far, the fest, which takes place Sept. 10-13, has announced Dan Deacon and Ayako Kataoka....
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This track’s from Labtekwon’s forthcoming record, NEXT: Baltimore Basquiat and the Future Shock, which is out Aug. 3, according to the video’s YouTube page. I think Lab invented a new genre, again. Awesome.
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English pianist Stan Tracey is a giant in European jazz circles, but if he’s known at all to most American listeners, it’s because of his collaboration with Sonny Rollins in 1965-’66, two live albums and the Alfie soundtrack. So it makes sense that...
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This week’s Detroit Metro Times, a CP sister publication, features a fairly exhaustive feature on Negative Approach/Laughing Hyenas frontman and aggro rock legend John Brannon. (His current outfit, Easy Action, recorded a couple of albums for Baltimore’s own Reptilian Records.) If you...
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Kadman, by Al Shipley The band Kadman has been kicking around Baltimore for the last couple years in a few different incarnations, usually as a trio with a rhythm section accompanying singer/guitarist David Manchester. But perhaps the most exciting lineup of Kadman to date is...
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Probably way better than this. From BinaryApe. Whoa, talk about a record collector’s wet dream. Woodward’s in Hampden is having what sounds like a massive record auction this Sunday, unloading everything from country 78s to Zeppelin and Sunn O))) LPs. Find a full rundown here.
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GayBomb By day, Andrew Barranca works as a special educator, assisting children with autism. In his spare time, the Fredrick native (who now resides in Rockville) moonlights as GayBomb, whipping up sonic-slurry shakes–created in part using a card reader Barranca discovered “in the supply closet...
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