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Dan Deacon's iPhone App: The new future of concert-going?
Dan Deacon, a Baltimore electronic musician and composer, is known for his participatory shows, where he involves the audience in his performances. Now, the artist has an iPhone app to hook his fans in even more. The Dan Deacon iPhone app is a free...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Music, Music Industry
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'Rock and Roll' takes Height to new peaks
In the past few years, Height, aka Dan Keech, has become the biggest white rapper in Baltimore — both musically and physically (he's a pretty large guy, hence the name). He has a plodding, deliberate cadence that begs a closer listen. You might call...Tags: Busta Rhymes, Music, Music Industry
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Future Islands, Matmos deliver at Thrill Jockey 20th anniversary show
Baltimore's music scene is undeniably one of the country's best, and a good deal of credit for that goes to Thrill Jockey, a Chicago-based indie record label. In the past several years, Thrill Jockey has signed a dozen current or former Baltimore bands,...
Tags: Jeff Foxworthy, Tortoise (music group), Rush Limbaugh, Ceremonies, David Grohl
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Older and wiser, Animal Collective returns home
The four lifelong friends of Animal Collective had spent years living apart. Scattered across the globe, from Los Angeles to Portugal, they'd collaborate through emails and phone calls, coming together only for tours. So when it came time to write...
Tags: Jams and Jellies, Animal Collective (music group), Psychedelic (genre), Music
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Aug. 22: Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon is obsessed with the apocalypse. From a dilapidated couch in his Station North practice space, the city's most well known electronic musician and composer quickly rattles off grim crises: the United States' "growing military stronghold," drone...Tags: Baltimore Orioles, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland), Yeast Infection, Egyptian Revolution (2011-12), Arab Spring
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About Wesley Case
Wesley Case is a features reporter for the Baltimore Sun and b. Since October 2008, he's covered Baltimore's burgeoning music and arts scene, including b cover stories on Dan Deacon, Beach House and Rome Cee. Between March and August 2011, he launched and...Tags: Music, Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), Social Media
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Pitchfork Music Festival lineup includes Lower Dens, Beach House
The Baltimore SunBaltimore bands Lower Dens and Beach House are both on the lineup for this year's Pitchfork Music Festival, organizers announced today. The three-day festival, run by the popular website, is a high watermark for the indie music world. It takes place July...Tags: Festive Events, Entertainment Events, Feist, Pitchfork Music Festival, Music
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The end of the Bridge
They didn't want it to end this way, but it will.
After 10 years, five albums and roughly 1,500 shows, the Bridge — one of Baltimore's most successful bands — will take the stage one last time on Thanksgiving Eve. Without any opening acts,...Tags: Animal Collective (music group), Wye Oak (music group), Los Lobos (music group), Entertainment Events, Bonnaroo
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Indie band Cloud Nothings opts for a cleaner, clearer sound
Rock 'n' roll has never had a rulebook. Dylan Baldi, the 20-year-old Clevelander responsible for indie-rock buzz band Cloud Nothings, is the latest songwriter to take preconceived notions of his music and flip it on its head. Cloud Nothings began as a...
Tags: Punk (genre), Music
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Concert news: Dierks Bentley, Kelly Clarkson, Wye Oak, Zac Brown Band, High Zero concert
The Baltimore SunFor some people, the concert news of the day has already run, and no one's gonna top it. They'll read these names below and say, Are any of these guys VAN HALEN??? Do they wear shiny leather pants and vaguely Middle Eastern scarves and a pinstripe vest...Tags: Steez (music group), Rusko (music group), Egypt, Cook County, Cheng Yu-tung
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Web show creators are ready to unleash the 'Beast'
In one video, a chubby guy in a Tony the Tiger costume holds a couple of puppets hostage. In another, sock puppets drive a human to madness. And in yet another video, a puppet's snoring is so powerful that people, puppets, anything in its vicinity, are...Tags: IFC (tv network), LSD, Jim Henson, Adult Swim (tv network), Hulu
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Update: Spike TV's 'Bar Rescue' to film at Baltimore's J.A. Murphy's
The Baltimore SunFriday Update: Filming is going to be delayed until further notice, Spike TV spokesman Salil Gulati said. Another nightlife cable show is coming to Baltimore. After IFC's "Young, Broke & Beautiful" and HDNet's "Drinking Made Easy," the Spike TV show...Tags: IFC (tv network), Fells Point, Bar Rescue (tv program), HDNet (tv network), Dining and Drinking
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