Tonight in Baltimore Plants and Animals, Born Ruffians, and sBach play the Talking Head while, Jared Mees & The Grown Children and The Owls Go play the Hexagon. Down in DC Mirah and No Kids play the Black Cat while Z-Trip mixes it up at the Rock and Roll Hotel. Up north in Philly there’s a ton of solid shows. The Magnetic Fields, Shugo Tokumaru, and jon Natchez play the Merriam Theater while The Defog, Crooked Looks, Gonna Get Got, Naeemah, and Bosco & Peck play The Fire. Deerhoof, Experimental Dental School, and Flying perform at the Starlight Ballroom while finally at Pure Nightclub Late Off The Pier, 2 Many DJ’s, and Soulwax Nite Versions take it down into the early morning hours.
mp3: The Magnetic Fields – California Girls
mp3: Shugo Tokumaru – Button
mp3: Crooked Looks – VIP
mp3: Born Ruffians – Hummingbird
mp3: Plants and Animals – Mercy
mp3: Deerhoof – Milk Man
mp3: Mirah – Cold Cold Water
mp3: Dj Shadow – Six Days (Soulwax Remix)
mp3: Jared Mees & The Grown Children – 10:26
photo by david garland
PROPS for the soulwax remix of shadow. been looking for that one for a minute now. i’mma keep tabs.
Damn…I missed 2 Many DJ’s, and DJ Z-Trip–two acts doing the mash-up thing on decks, well before that young whipersnapper Gillis came along with a laptop.
Z-Trip’s “Uneasy Listening, Vol. 1″ is the gold standard for cross-genre juxtaposing mash-ups, IMO. It doesn’t get better than Pat Benatar’s “Love is a Battlegroud” mash-up with The Pharcyde’s “Passing Me By.” The two tracks were made for each other like peanut butter and jelly.