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Lights Down Low, Demoralizing Banter, Bmore Club Can’t Be Stopped Remix
By Michael Byrne
6/6/2012
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Public radio personality Al Letson tunes into Mobtown
By Baynard Woods
5/9/2012
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There are dance floors and then there are dance floors: new EPs from Say Wut and Techno Bro
By Michael Byrne
4/11/2012
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A producer takes the mic
By Al Shipley
2/29/2012
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An MC gets emotional
By Al Shipley
2/29/2012
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Former mainstream crossover self-releases a new record
By Al Shipley
2/29/2012
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Cha Cha, Halcyon, and Throwing Chairs
By Michael Byrne
2/29/2012
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In which Labtekwon delivers the history of money in 10 minutes by way of a sermon on America’s current gold-standard-stripped currency, the bank-run economy, the Illuminati, Satan, the Illuminati again. . . .
By Michael Byrne
2/8/2012
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Denny Bowen starts a post-Double Dagger career early
By Michael Byrne
12/21/2011
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The Schwarz drops an EP late
By Michael Byrne
12/21/2011
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Special debut 7-inch edition
By Michael Byrne
12/7/2011
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Baltimore hip-hop gets it done
By Michael Byrne
12/7/2011
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Thunderbird Juicebox takes club back to its roots and Wordsmith expands his reach
By Michael Byrne
10/19/2011
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Timothy Dalton is listed on his label’s web site as just from “deep in the mountains.”
By Michael Byrne
10/5/2011
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Whodathunk that some of the best crust/sludgecore/heavy and nasty whatever in the mid-Atlantic would be coming out of Ocean City?
By Michael Byrne
10/5/2011
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If this was something other than music, you’d use it to keep vermin out of your garden.
By Michael Byrne
8/24/2011
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Heavy, earnestly lo-fi garage-punk cut with enough pop and good times that it stands out from the pack.
By Michael Byrne
8/24/2011
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Perfectly brutal, artfully grubby noise-rock from a cadre of Maryland punk/metal vets.
By Michael Byrne
8/24/2011
Singles mixer
By Michael Byrne
8/10/2011
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Beachy offbeat pop and melodic hardcore - at least in Know Your Product
By Michael Byrne
7/20/2011
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Genre-bending hardcore from Pulling Teeth, inside-outness from John Berndt
By Michael Byrne
6/8/2011
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Ex-Replicas
Ex-Replicas
Anchor Records
With a jerking percussion pattern crashing into a series of guitar chord punches and both backing a snaking guitar arpeggio, Ex-Replicas’ “Camera” kicks up a melodic angularity that used to percolate through a
By Bret McCabe
6/1/2011
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Daytime
Serendipity
Friends
Co La
Dial Tone Earth
Friends
Two tracks, 14-ish minutes apiece. The music is minimal—or even thin—ambience in one of its most pure states of softly waving, if not so much swelling, cool-sheet-pleasant sound, more
By Bret McCabe
6/1/2011
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This hair-farming Baltimore quintet added a sticker to its 2009 debut EP to give it that extra special patina.
By Bret McCabe
5/11/2011
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Note that chillwave isn’t the first subgenre of music to come into existence at least in some part as a punchline.
By Michael Byrne
3/16/2011
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Left turns, folk bliss, and an online do-it-yourself song kit
By Michael Byrne
3/16/2011
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This is one of those amazing records that kind of just makes you sit back and go, What?
By Michael Byrne
3/16/2011
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Fuck you IED-IUD. Yeah, looking directly at you Danny Propert, David Litz, and Ken Mars. These vets from such ear-bleed skeeze as the New Flesh (Propert), Sri Aurobindo (Litz), and various MT6 Records hoo-haws (Mars) wrappe
By Bret McCabe
3/9/2011
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Celebration pulls infinite possibilities from its electric tarot deck
By Michael Byrne
3/2/2011
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The Bridge, Adventure, Raindeer
By Michael Byrne
2/9/2011
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All bands have two faces—one live, one in the studio.
By Bret McCabe
2/9/2011
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Imagine if at the very bottom of the Hoover Dam, there was a spigot—like a bathroom faucet. You can open it just a little bit, and you’ll get a slow, easy trickle. But you can feel what’s behind it, the wei
By Michael Byrne
1/26/2011
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Femi “the DriFish” Lawal
The Clown With No Circus
Stinkiface Music
For the better part of the last decade, local spoken-word duo the 5th L has combined theatrical, heady wordplay with a hip-hop vibe and playfulness. The duo, Femi “the DriFish” Lawal
By Bret McCabe
1/26/2011
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The Woolly Moon “And I’m Afraid”, Lower Dens “Batman”
1/12/2011
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Even in our 2011 world of post-genre extreme metal Oak occupies alien territory.
By Michael Byrne
1/12/2011
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Three albums into a solid solo career, Jsoul knows not to fix what ain’t broke.
By Bret McCabe
1/12/2011
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Singles mixer with 100 Grand Man and DJ Johnny Blaze
By Michael Byrne
1/5/2011
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Dirt Platoon scores with solid Baltimore hip-hop and
Skipper Tracks lights music for bedrooms
By Michael Byrne
12/29/2010
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Microkingdom uncorks jazz-plus while Winks makes almost-human bedroom pop
By Michael Byrne
12/22/2010
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Singles mixer with Bossman, Wombatt55, Archer Twins, and E Major
By Michael Byrne
12/15/2010
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Dope Body shoves punk forward, Lowell drops a time capsule from the past
By Michael Byrne
12/1/2010
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A new Jade Fox record and a Dirty Marmaduke Flute Squad coda
11/24/2010
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Labtekwon makes another album--and reaches for the world
By Bret McCabe
11/10/2010
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A country veteran and indie-rock traditionalist celebrate album releases this week
By Michael Byrne
11/3/2010
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Special head-trip edition, plus a bonus Singles Mixer
By Michael Byrne
10/20/2010
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New edge-riding Baltimore club, and introducing cat folk
By Michael Byrne
10/13/2010
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Celebration, “Shelter” A lovely organ fog, a guitar cut out of Psychocandy, and Katrina Ford belting/cooing effortlessly from the soul, “Shelter” is another latter-day Celebration song thick on atmosphere and mood—that mood being the sort that can make you fall back into your headspace for three minutes of comfort, if not bliss.
By Michael Byrne
10/6/2010
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Dustin Wong explores inner space while Rakkasan marries hooks to heaviness
9/29/2010
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Dru Hill can’t recreate its glory days
By Al Shipley
8/25/2010
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Rapdragons make fun hip-hop out of indie Baltimore
By Michael Byrne
8/25/2010
