Earlier this year, the 11-year-old uncurated arts event Artomatic cloned itself in Frederick, Maryland. Pretty much everything was the same: The name, the logo, the unused building, the treasured "values" of openness and temporary use of space.
It went well enough that the original Artomatic is planning to franchise further. According to founder George Koch, mini-matics [...]
Didn't Detect That One Coming: Baltimore club Sonar, a hangout for lovers of alternative dance music and death metal, abruptly shut down yesterday following a dispute between its owners. Sonar staff made the announcement on Facebook: "We here at Sonar regret to inform you that we are no longer able to operate as a venue. [...]
Nupping | nupp – ing | noun
DEFINITION
A 10-track record from Baltimore's sludgy noise act Dope Body. Known for its intense, mucked-up punk rock, Dope Body cranks out some brutal jams on Nupping. It sounds like a call to arms, a reminder that ferocity works in every era, and that there are many, many ways to make [...]
The bio says Kane Mayfield "penned his first lyrics to a Wu Tang Clan instrumental set on loop." He's New York-reared and Baltimore-seasoned. Those facts pretty much explain "Wreck," his new single, which is nice:
ADDENDUM: Mayfield confirms that the guy with the black eye in the picture is Mitch "Blood" Green.
The Maryland Institute College of Art—Baltimore's venerable ahhhrt schoool and my wife's alma mater—is now offering a master's degree in "Professional Studies in the Business of Art and Design." Sounds like it could apply to a lot of things, right? No. It's essentially for supremely arty/crafty people who want to build [...]
Baltimore's Ponytail made it onto a lot of critics' year-end lists before calling it quits last August. The spazzy quartet played the biggest summer festivals and won the hearts of brightly colored art-school kids at home and abroad over the course of its too-short existence. Naturally, upon the band's demise, ultra-inventive guitarist Dustin Wong set [...]
Dustin Wong is set to release a very long, very intricate solo album, Infinite Love, on Oct. 5. The Ponytail guitarist—a band that has either broken up or is on some kind of Fugazi-style hiatus—is not one to mess around. Infinite Love contains two tracks each roughly 40 minutes long, each containing a dizzying flow [...]
Twenty five years ago this Saturday, rock legend Frank Zappa publicly accused a prominent fan’s wife of being the leader of dangerous cult. Who was that fan? Then senator Al Gore, and the “cult” his wife Tipper was accused of being responsible for was the Parents Music Resource Center.
As we told you on Saturday, longtime CP reporter Jason Cherkis profiled Baltimore vinyl purveyor Ian Nagoski in this week's Washington Post Magazine. I'll admit that I stopped reading the story for a few minutes to check out "Smyrneiko Minore," the song by Greek singer Marika Papagika that changed Nagoski's life. My initial reaction? It's [...]
The Baltimore Comic-Con starts next weekend on Saturday, and has a convention hall full of guests again. I've gone to this show for the past three or four years, and enjoyed myself immensely each time. It's still small enough that you can meet the cartoonists you want and talk to them, [...]
