Story/Stereo—a concert/reading series that pairs local musicians with local writers/poets—just announced two new events.

First, Asa Osborne—formerly of Baltimore gnostic/punk quartet Lungfish—will perform with his guitar/organ project, Zomes. Lisa Selin Davis will read. That’s kind of a tough gig, though, considering the last person to put words in or around Osborne’s music was Dan Higgs.

Then, in February, J. Robbins—fresh from reissuing the late ’90s masterpiece For Your Own Special Sweetheart and performing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon with the reunited Jawbox—will perform his first ever solo show. Marianne Villanueva and Steve Fellner will read.

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Combining literary pretensions with rock music can be tricky. Sometimes you get Leonard Cohen and everybody’s happy—or at least content in their woe-tinged introspection. Other times, you get the Lizard King. But Chad Clark, leader of local rock band Beauty Pill and former proprietor of Silver Sonya recording studios, seems to know what he’s doing. At least, he’s aware of the aesthetic dangers at hand.

Tonight Clark—alongside musician Matt Byars and the staff of The Writer’s Center—will kick off Story/Stereo, a concert and reading series that pairs local rock bands with local writers and poets and, ultimately, forces the two to combine their efforts. “Hopefully not in a goofy way,” says Clark. “We’re aware of the perils.”
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