WEDNESDAY: Kites fly into Tarantula Hill with
Three Legged Race and the
West Baltimore Gas Chamber Orchestra Duo. Breakbeat scientist
Dara mixes up Sonar Lounge with
J ME and
Hue E. British hard-rocking lunatics the
Wildhearts play riff after motherfucking riff at the Ottobar with the garage-rocking
Dragons,
Fishnet Stalkers, and
Secret Crush Society.
Farquhar unfolds a trilogy for the nubile at the Sidebar Tavern with the
Rock Bottom Stylings of Honky Slim. The indie-rock
Lovers hook up with the Charm City Space with
Wax and Wane, the
Gushy, and
Sentai.
Saves the Day are through being cool at Towson's Recher Theatre with
Grandaddy. Give Ireland's folk quintet
Téada a let them be gone at Sykesville's Baldwin's Station. Singer/songwriter
Jonatha Brooke is better after all on her own Bad Dog Records at Annapolis' Rams Head Tavern.
THURSDAY: The Sick, Lipstick, Double Dagger, Aids Wolf, and Sprit Stallion hit the WHYU (www.dead-city.org/whyu). A longtime underground rap fixture, Los Angeles' Murs--freaking these tales at the Ottobar with the Preceptionist, RJD2, C Rayz Walz, SA Smash, and Hangar 18--only recently landed with his own albums, and the backpacking MCs getting all the critical play are white boys from the Midwest or Maine. Fortunately, Murs' rhyme-saying skills better the young guns. Singing/songwriting roots rocker Edwin McCain lets it slide into the Funk Box with Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise. Philly noise trio Stinking Lizaveta slaughters the Sidebar with Mal Humor and King Valley. The Resolution Jazz Trio plays Sascha's 527. The Stand Ins hit the Mojo Room with Datafrogs. Rocksteady/reggae veterans Toots and the Maytals head into the Recher with their V2 debut hot on their heels, a pretty smoking all-star affair including guests spots from Willie Nelson, Shaggy, Rahzel, Keith Richards, Bootsy Collins, and gadfly Ryan Adams. Listen hard to alternagal rocker Melissa Ferrick at the Rams Head. Melissa Etheridge starts her four-night run at Washington's 9:30 Club tonight. Canada's hip postrocking outfit Broken Social Scene feels good lost at Washington's Black Cat with Stars.
FRIDAY: Local bedroom indiepop singer/songwriters Private Eleanor and Pupa's Window play Port City Java with Mike Roy. The Peabody Computer Music Consort presents the complete piano music of French composer Tristan Murail
, a student of Olivier Messiaen, at the Conservatory's Griswold Hall. The Peabody Chamber Opera performs Kurt Weil's The Threepenny Opera at Theatre Project. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Frazier's on the Avenue hosts the Fuzzy Time Hoedown with Lawnchair. Preston School of Industry (see Music, page 28)blows into the Ottobar with the Slow Jets, playing a CD-release show for their fab third CD, Remain in Ether, and Eqqus. MC Height hits the Talking Head with Birdland and Human Host. Love Seed Mama Jump lands at the Funk Box with Fools and Horses. The Springfields rock the Sidebar with No Class Heroes, More Than a Monument, and Jackknife Powerbombs. Jump Street heads into the New Haven Lounge. The Red Eye Revolution flashes the Vault. Groovelily--the alt-poppy folk trio featuring the irrepressible vocalist/violinist Valeria Vigoda--inhabits your heart at the Cellar Stage at St. John's United Methodist Church of Hamilton with the lovely Ellicott City country-folk trio We're About 9. Cassandra Wilson glamoures Morgan State's Murphy Fine Arts Center. The rocking folk 'n' blues of the Tarbox Ramblers returns to town, this time the Mojo Room. The Phil Woods Quintet plays Towson High School.
SATURDAY: The Peabody Chamber Opera performs Kurt Weil's The Threepenny Opera at Theatre Project. The BSO performs Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 at the Meyerhoff. Moody but catchy pop-punk outfit Stellastarr* provides a million reasons to see it at Fletcher's with Ambulance and the Killers. Mountains ease into the Golden West Café with Burd Early and Madagascar. Roots Café presents the kinky cabaret of Boister at St. John's Church with Piñataland. Washington's staunchly political punk outfit 1905 hits the Charm City Space with Hiretsukan, Tradition Dies Here, and Shitdogs of War. Chris Fortier and Sean Cusick spin at Sonar's Heaven and Hell with Dom and Roland and Adam T. Rush. John Vanderslice (see Music, page 30) plays the Ottobar with Will Johnson and the Oranges Band. Oscar Brown Jr. and the Aaron Graves Trio perform at the Unity United Methodist Church with guest Tamm E. Hunt. The Karma Payment Plan rocks the Sidebar with Strong Intention, Clancy 6, Dyssistema, and Magrudergrind. Power Lunch--Matt Frazao (guitar/electronics), Devin Gray (drums/percussion), and Evan Lipson (electric bass)--feeds the Red Room at Normals Books and Records. Electronic act Marumari (aka Josh Presseisen) and the golden honey electro-pop of Greg Davis baste the Talking Head in gooey goodness with the Moonstealingproject. Jah Works heads into the Funk Box with the Nicki Gonzalez Band. The Murphy Fine Arts Center welcomes the Smooth Jazz Jam featuring Kim Waters, Chuck Loeb, Alex Bugon, and Noel Webb. Jump Street plays a second night at the New Haven. Another Blue Door closes on the Mojo Room with Fast Eddie and So I Had To. Da unbreakable Three 6 Mafia hits a muthafucka at Towson University. Gogol Bordello sidles into the Black Cat with the Uniform and VCR.
SUNDAY: The Dave Liebman Group--saxophonist Liebman, guitarist Vic Juris, bassist Tony Marino, and drummer Marko Marcinko--plays the New Haven at 4 p.m. The BSO performs Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 at the Meyerhoff at 3 p.m. The Peabody Chamber Opera performs Kurt Weil's The Threepenny Opera at Theatre Project at 3 p.m. White Magic hits the Supreme Imperial with the Animal Collective and Kayo Dot. The Methadones treat the Talking Head with Alphabet Bombers, the Gamma Rays, and Unlovables. Dirty Tricks play the Charm City Space with Two Gallants, Holy Ghost Revival, and Silent Reminder. Jonatha Brooke brings her own bad self to the Funk Box. Au courant post-hardcore hammer Thursday wages war all the time at the Recher with Andrew W.K. Melissa Etheridge concludes her stay at the 9:30 Club tonight.
MONDAY: Yawn: The Sleepy Jackson lets your love be love at the Ottobar with On the Speakers and Robbers on High Street. Pennsylvania punk outfit Digger powerbaits the Sidebar with Feable Weiner, Cruiserweight, and All Time Low.
TUESDAY: Arty junk-punk combo Skeleton Key spikes the Ottobar with Bison and Suckpig. The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club--one of the most tedious live bands ever to catch the ear of feckless critics and lemming listeners in recent years--aches at the Recher with the way hip Rapture. Scotland's solid Delgados hate the Black Cat with Arab Strap's fabulously tweaky Malcolm Middleton.
WEDNESDAY: Boston hardcore quintet the Unseen explodes the Ottobar with the Virus, Age of Ruin, and Never Enough. The Peabody Chamber Opera performs Kurt Weil's The Threepenny Opera at Theatre Project. DJ Lee spins at Sonar with Ransom and DJ C. True confession: I actually find myself watching that goddamned zombie moviemaking video for "Big Brat" by Phantom Planet, which jabberjaws the Recher tonight, every single time it comes on. Canadian folky Garnet Rogers plays Baldwin's Station. Superbad Texas motherfucker Clarence Gatemouth Brown is one dangerous critter at the Rams Head.
IN THE WINGS: The smoking, soulful Mary J. Blige stops by the Lyric Opera House April 12 with Musiq (Soulchild). (For more information, call [410] 481-7328 or visit www.ticketmaster.com.) Superslick, genre-hopping Dutch DJ Sander Kleinenberg funks up Sonar April 10 with Michael Owen. (For more information, call [410] 327-8333 or visit www.sonarlounge.com.) Method Man tears one off the Recher April 13. (For more information, call [410] 481-7328 or visit www.ticketmaster.com.) Norwegian death-metal staple Satyricon hammers the Thunder Dome April 15. (For more information, call [410] 354-4700 or visit www.thunderdomeonline.com.) Blonde Redhead returns to the Ottobar April 24 with the ab-fab Secret Machines. (For more information, call [410] 662-0069 or visit www.theottobar.com.)
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