Hello all! It’s the first day of March – the greatest month ever! Why? Because it’s my Bday month of course! And there are a ton of good shows to help celebrate this wonderful month. Here in Baltimore tap into some classic hip hop at the Ottobar with Black Sheep, For The People, Jade Fox, Fresh Competition, and DJ Mills. Down in DC Deer Tick rolls into the 9:30 Club with Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit while Michael Zapruder is performing at The Red and the Black with Tim Williams. Also in DC are Plants and Animals and Olivia and the Housemates who play DC9. Up north in Philly the fantastic Blitzen Trapper play the First Unitarian Church. Enjoy!
mp3: Blitzen Trapper – Murder Babe
mp3: Plants and Animals – Keep It Real
mp3: Michael Zapruder – Experimental Film
mp3: Deer Tick – Long Time
mp3: Tim Williams – Tape Your Head
Hopefully 2009 will bring you all much peace, love, and happiness. Cheers!
mp3: The Walkmen – In The New Year
mp3: Thrushes – New Years Kiss
mp3: Michael Zapruder – Happy New Year
mp3: Kadman – New Years Day
mp3: Death Cab For Cutie – The New Year
mp3: Audrye Sessions – New Years Day
This past October Michael Zapruder released a new album entitled Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope on Sidecho Records. Every year there’s an artist or two that wows me with some serious out of this world song writing chops and dazzling arrangements. Zapruder is one of them this year. His compositions have the flavoring of Andrew Bird, but his hushed raspy voice gives Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope a much darker twist. Recorded with Scott Solter (Mountain Goats, Two Gallants, Pattern Is Movement, John Vanderslice) over an intense two week span at San Francisco’s Tiny Telephone Studios, Zapruder has created a minimal yet complex venture that echoes his mission statement of the idea of negative capability, the ability to be “in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason” and a line from poet Joshua Beckman : “This party is fucked without the karate chop of love.” Yeah! Check it:
mp3: Michael Zapruder – Ads For Feelings
mp3: Michael Zapruder – Happy New Year
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