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http://www.senbaltimore.com/blogs/agt/angels-rock-bar-at-baltimores-power-plant-live.shtmlAngels Rock Bar at Baltimore's Power Plant Live
Angels Rock Bar: Dance the night away to rock music and lascivious behavior.
If you live here, Power Plant Live! is one of the places you tend not to go to unless you have friends in town who want to see all the tourist trappings or unless you've got tickets to Ram's Head Live! (don't forget the exclamation points!!!) for one of your favorite touring acts. But things change in the Power Plant every once in a while, a bar closes (BAR Baltimore, Have A Nice Day Cafe) and a new one drops in. In this case, that new spot is Angels Rock Bar.
Angels capitalizes on scantily clad bartenders in barely-there attire and featuring a more-or-less domestic bar: Bud Light, Coors Light, and Miller Lite are the norm, though there were some Amstel Lights on hand. Ladies never fear, there are some finely coiffed mohawk men in the DJ booth and behind the bar, too, for your viewing and over-tipping pleasure.
Less a live music joint than a club that employs DJs spinning rock music, Angels is promoting a live music series with bands both local and touring coming through to the club's modest stage. The plus side to the focus on the DJ format is a stellar sound system. Hearing some throwback Sevendust blasting through Angels' booming system was both earsplitting and breathtaking.
Angels Rock Bar casts an image as an upscale rock club. This means velvet ropes, VIP areas, and a dress code (the venue's MySpace page says "rock chic, trendy, no athletic apparel, hats must be turned forward at all times"). So even with the sleazy-chic appeal, Angels cannot completely escape the corporate underpinnings of a big-budget Power Plant powerhouse club. This is a rock bar, and bartenders and the crowd will be bumping and grinding to Limp Bizkit ("Full Nelson") and Nonpoint ("Bullet With A Name") instead of rap cuts or house music.
This is a club for the well-to-do and wannabe well-to-do with a penchant for radio rock and a wad of cash or plastic burning a hole in the pocket on a Friday night. Reserve a table by calling (410) 440-8107. Angels is open Wednesday-Sunday from 9 PM - 2 AM on normal nights. March 7 is a special "Monthly Mayhem" night. See for yourself at www.angelsrockbarbaltimore.com.
Photo by Max Glanville: www.maxglanville.com. See more photos on Angels Rock Bar's MySpace page: www.myspace.com/angelsrockbarbaltimore