Archive for the ‘Countdown to Whartscape’ Category
Friday, July 18th, 2008
So Whartscape is here. If you were smart, you saw Matmos last night. If you are smart, you'll be seeing Arbouretum and Beach house headline tonight's lush 2640 bill.
For those of you who might have missed it, we did a series of small interviews (min-terviews) with notable ne'er-do-wells ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
1. Describe your feelings on Wham City and what it means to you?
When I first was making a decision about whether or not to take job
offers in Toronto and Baltimore I told my grad students in a class at
the Art Institute about the tossup and one of my ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
This is it. It's here. Whartscape 2008 kicks off tonight at the Charles Theater with a spectacular, Matmos- headlined line-up and we hope everyone makes it out.
For the last day of our Countdown min-terviews, we've got some heavy-hitters including Mr Green-skull himself, one of Wham City's patriarchs, Dan ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
We're winding down here and it's time for the deluge of min-terviews and more. Today we've got Jana Hunter, DD/MM/YYYY and the Creepers featured.
Jana Hunter
First up is Jana Hunter, fairly recent Texan transplant to Baltimore, serving up some delicious, jangling, startlingly transparent and moving music. She was also ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Thank You are currently well-poised. SIgned to Thrill Jockey like Arbouretum, Pontiak and so many others, they recently released their J. Robbins-produced latest effort Terrible Two to warm reviews from all the typically curmudgeonly outlets (I'm looking at you Pitchfork).
Their special sauce? A particularly dis-equilibrated, frenzied mix of ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
It approaches. Only 3x24 hrs left and you'll be at the Charles, waiting breathlessly for Matmos while freaking out with Teeth Mountain. Or maybe you'll be seeing a certain caped crusader at midnight.
Whatever.
Today's mini-terview: Dustin Wong of Ponytail. If you haven't already, pick up Ice Cream Spiritual and read our ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
The common thread linking the majority of Whartscape's massive line-up is undoubtedly explosiveness.
You would be hard-pressed to pick an artist more emblematic of this than Brooklyn's Parts & Labor. Bearing the marks of hardcore, punk and experimental tendencies, their sound has grown from mostly instrumental to encompass more harmony, ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
WZT Hearts produce some of the most glorious noise you can find around Baltimore. They create soaring, blistering and expansive soundscapes awash in electronics, feedback and drone. Their set on Saturday's outside stage for Whartscape shouldn't be missed.
Read on as laptop extraordinaire and Floristree-resident Jason Urick takes time ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Continuing in our series of Whartscape mini-terviews, next up is Arbouretum. We snuck in our set of Whartscape questions when we met Arbouretum's somewhat reclusive front-man Dave Heumann at, get this, Cylburn Arboretum.
Get it?
Full interview from that meeting, consisting of things not related to Wham and Whart, coming in ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
To celebrate all things Wham and Whartscape, we asked some of the artists performing to answer five questions. Andy was our first test subject. Stay tuned for tons more in the week to come.
Andy Abelow is all the fuck over the Baltimore scene, loosely dubbed "the Greatest Scene ...
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The Bug: London Zoo
13th Floor Elevators: Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (Vinyl Mono LP only)
Arbouretum/Pontiak: Kale (Vinyl LP only)
Small Sur: We Live in Houses Made of Wood
Abe Vigoda: Skeleton
Imperial China: Methods: EP