Baltimore Music
More bands found it easy to skip Baltimore on their FRIGGIN 30 SHOW EAST coast tour again!
This city - I swear - if it isn't the
The Oranges Band ( a really good band - but I mean - when you open for Ted Leo and Spoon - it's a tough road ahead.) then nobody cares about booking them. You know I don't expect the White Stripes to land at the Ottobar or Spoon to start playing Fletcher's any time soon or for the NIN/QOTSA tour to come through the Baltimore arena - but damnit - damnit damnit - - Fringe Indie bands should be stopping in one of our 5 venues (sonar, fletchers, ottobar, talking head, rams head live) for at least one night on their way to the fucking Knitting factory, Bowry, or First Unitarian Church - - anyway - it fires me up.
This is who you who to drive to Philly or DC to see - - -
Devendra Banhart, The Detrtoit Cobras, Sufjan Stevens, Get Him Eat Him, Kimya Dawson - - the entire Important Records label, New Pornographers, and the most heart breaking of all - to me - the Black Keys.
Anyway the 9:30 club has a good summer to fall lineup coming - -
Hilites include - - -
The Bravery w/ The Dead 60s & Nic Armstrong and the Thieves - FRI. JUL. 15
Teenage Fanclub w/ The Rosebuds - WED. JUL. 20
Kaiser Chiefs w/ The Cribs - FRI. JUL. 22
David Gray w/ Micah P. Hinson - SAT. AUG. 6
Kings of Leon & Secret Machines - THU. AUG. 11
We do get the Decemberists at Sonar October 1st - * side note - I have to hand to IMP productions (and oh yes that acronym is "
It's
My
Party). They are really trying with Sonar - but I don't understand why they aren't pushing harder with Ram's Head Live - Sonar's rep as a club with menacing bouncers and guys with neon tongue rings is going to be hard to admonish. I think if they keep trying we'll be on the circuit with the Electric Factory, Beacon, and 9:30 in a year or two with the rising of Ram's Head Live and Sonar.
Hey - it could be worse. We could be living Delaware.
