...but it's in Baltimore. Nevertheless, Cuneiform's two-day festival is worth the drive north, assuming you're into experimental rock or forward-thinking jazz.
Nov. 19 is the festival's rock day, and the lineup includes Alec K. Redfearn & the Sore Eyes, Upsilon Acrux, Afuche, Zevious, Hamster Theatre, and Thinking Plague. This show is at Orion Studios, and starts [...]
The Muffins in Rockville in 1979
It’s a somewhat ludicrous thing to say about an event that spotlights so many alienating artists, but in its 10th year, the Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music feels, well, kind of big.
This year there are veteran prog and avant-rock draws, like Magma and Univers Zero, and the noise and [...]
It's probably a pretty rare occurrence that New York City residents turn to D.C. for help, advice, or anything else when it comes to cutting-edge culture. But lo and behold, I just got word that Silver Spring's Cuneiform Records has been asked by John Zorn to curate two weeks of concerts at that nonprofit haven [...]
A new batch of good shit from Cuneiform Records only comes three times a year, so each time is worth noting. May will see Cuneiform put out:
Led Bib – Sensible Shoes
Miriodor – Avant!
The Ed Palermo Big Band – Eddy Loves Frank
Positive Catastrophe – Garabatos Volume One
Upsilon Acrux – Radian Futura
Let's see. This is all potentially [...]
Cosmologic are a four-piece jazz combo and a recent signing to Silver Spring's Cuneiform Records. They fit in well with the rest of Cuneiform's jazz output: stuff that is very recognizably coming from within the jazz tradition, but pushes boundaries in any number of subtle ways. Not really free jazz and certainly not unrestrained collective [...]
