The Dance Party Friction! Friction! Friction! The Dance Party are rife with '80s references and indie-rock style metaphor, but they just wanna party. Hailing from College Park, they play Bloc Party songs better than Bloc Party does on their latest album, and pile on The Strokes, acid-wash jeans and headbands for good measure.
...continue reading. By Barrett King Friday, December 7, 2007
Throwback Review: Thursday - War All The Time Take a step back to 2003 and recall the major label debut by Thursday. Love them or hate them, these guys wrote the book on screamo.
...continue reading. By Barrett King Monday, December 3, 2007
Even So - Homecomings & Departures Baltimore trio Even So just released
Homecomings & Departures, their sophomore EP. Featuring smart lyrics and busy percussion, this is a can't miss effort by one of the area's best unsigned bands.
...continue reading. By Barrett King Thursday, November 29, 2007
Necessary Evil Tour: Deborah Harry w/ Kristoffer Ragnstam at 9:30 Club, November 13, 2007 While Baltimore has plenty of respectable venues of its own and more and more booking agents are recognizing that fact, it's great to be a short drive from DC to catch shows at the venerated
9:30 Club. Just before Thanksgiving, AGT took the drive to check out
Kristoffer Ragnstam with
Deborah Harry.
...continue reading. By Barrett King Monday, November 26, 2007
The Alphabetical Order - I Am Magically Happening! Can you remember the legendary DC hardcore scene that thrived and ruled in DC in the '80s?
The Alphabetical Order might be a bit young to have been there, but they remember the post-hardcore days that brought us bands like Jawbox, and at least one person in the band must have taken some influence from those scenes.
...continue reading. By Barrett King Wednesday, November 14, 2007
The Vandelles - EP Picture shoegaze with bleached-blonde highlights, cowboy boots and a duffel bag full of peyote hitchhiking somewhere on the western highways and you've got a pretty good image of
The Vandelles.
...continue reading. By Barrett King Thursday, November 8, 2007
Steve Hefter and Friends of Friends - Twist And Hold Til Morning On the full-length follow-up to the
A Six Song Demonstration EP, Baltimore's
Steve Hefter and Friends of Friends really come through.
Twist and Hold Til Morning is definitely not gym music (not that I have seen the inside of a gym in a couple years. I can only imagine the technological breakthroughs that have taken place!), but more of an album to listen to when you need a pick me up when something's got you down.
Twist isn't a somber album, though it has its somber moments; rather, it is a low-key, somewhat soothing album with surprisingly festive and bonding tunes like "Apocalypse". If only all bad news could be delivered this way.
...continue reading. Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Avec - Lines: Album Review & Free MP3 - "Dysplasia" It is with great pleasure that I announce Any Given Tuesday's full-time residency here at SENBaltimore.com! After over a year of non-descript cookie-cutter code living on Google's Blogger, I get to pack the digital van and set up shop here at the newer, sexier, sleeker SENBaltimore.com. All of AGT's old posts will still be available at http://blawk359.blogspot.com, and the anygiventuesday.info URL will point to this new blog located here at http://www.senbaltimore.com/blogs/agt/index.shtml. With that announcement out of the way, let's get down to the good stuff:
Avec (www.avecmusic.net) are a Baltimore quartet with two full-length LPs and one EP under their belt. With assistance from producer/engineer J. Robbins (Jawbox, Burning Airlines), Avec released Lines (Civil Defense League/Doghouse Records) in September. Lines is a progressive effort which still packs an accessible punch, interchangeably using blasting riffs ("Hamartia") and guitar harmonies ("House") with experimental noise/drone ("Yavengia").
...continue reading. By Barrett King Friday, November 2, 2007
Bruce Springsteen - Magic On October 2, 2007,
Bruce Springsteen marked his return to recording with the E Street Band with the release of
Magic. Aptly named, because this album is fantastic evidence of the magic that Bruce and the Band can make together (oh how we've missed you, Clarence Clemons).
Magic pulls no punches and is no holds barred in its metaphorical criticisms of the current political climate, the Iraq war, rock radio, and humanity in general.
...continue reading. By Barrett King Monday, October 29, 2007
