Bmore Round Robin Recap

Future Islands feat. Vic from Beach House (below), Mortal Kombat monologues, Adventure(s) with Mark Brown's lid-popping animation, Double Dagger feat. Blue Leader/Ed Schrader, Nuclear Power Pants in green shark skulls, Wham City theatrics and plenty of raw, unfiltered BO - it was like Whartscape with AC, bouncers and $7 Stellas.



Probably the best act I hadn't seen before was Denny from Smart Growth, who has transformed his sets lately from drumming over Phil Collins needle drops to rocking the crowd Girl Talk style; no mike, just a Mac and dirty South choruses extruded through Capcom rainbows.


Smart Growth - Extreme Ballin'

Props to Dan Deacon and everyone supporting this tour - while there must be many challenges to coordinating 16+ dates with 20+ artists and sleeping on different floors for almost three weeks, you'd never know. This weekend (which sold out and spawned additional late shows each night) ran flawlessly, with a new artist and their A/V accompaniment kicking in seconds after the previous song finished on another stage.



Hopefully this becomes an annual tour and Baltimore is actually be on the schedule next time (failing that, maybe a local remake of Footloose?), and hopefully other artists can take a lesson on ego-free citywide collaboration.


Adventure - Wild Wild Ride

Read a much better review of the weekend from The Village Voice, or below you can experience an approximation of every performance condensed into four minutes courtesy of Showbeast:



Pics: Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez via Elisa Brown, Future Islands feat. Vic from Beach House via Zach Wiegand, Nuclear Power Pants via pixelateit

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The Baltimore Round Robin Is Nigh

You heard about it a few months back, and this weekend the Bmore Round Robin is all up in our NYC kitchen. Here's the rub:

Friday's Eyes Night includes Beach House, Jana Hunter, Wzt Hearts, Nautical Almanac, Lexie Mountain Boys, and more, and puts the focus on "a mixture of folk, noise, theatrics, improvisation-- music that is spiritual, dreamy etc."

Saturday's Feet Night brings music that you dance, thrash, or otherwise move around to and includes the Death Set, Double Dagger, Videohippos, Future Islands, Adventure and Deacon himself.

10/​17 New York,​ NY Le Poiss​on Rouge​ - EYES NIGHT
10/​18 New York,​ NY Le Poiss​on Rouge​ - FEET NIGHT

BUY NYC TICKETS NOW (only 15 bucks for both nights, top that)

Download a rad Round Robin Comp CD for free here.

Fresh samples:
Adventure - Wild Wild Ride
Smart Growth - Extreme Ballin'
The Death Set -Moving Forward
Double Dagger - We Are The Ones
Future Islands - Old Friend
Height - Mother Earth (Theme from Showbeast)
Jana Hunter - Paint A Babe
Beach House - Gila
Dan Deacon - Wham City
Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez - Mostly A Friend

And a message from Transportation Dept Mgr/folkstress Jana Hunter:

"For those of you interested in attending the Round Robin performances, there is this definite opportunity to get in sans paid ticket. We need oil to power our school bus. Bring us oil, get in free. Here are the details.

Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) is the stuff that restaurants have used in their fryers. Most restaurants discard this stuff in barrels or incredibly disgusting dumpsters somewhere near their trash dumpsters. If you ask them about it, most of them are more than happy to give this to you, given that they normally have to pay a company to haul it away for them.

We ask that you bring at least 10 gallons (this is not hard to find; decent-sized restaurants throw out avg 50 gallons/week) in order to secure a guest spot, but write me regardless if you are interested in this super deal. Write me, I will write you back, we will get it figured out."

posters via Post Typography

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Dope House Show This Saturday

Picking up where 2001's House Party 4 left off (if you can even consider it part of the series without Kid 'n Play), Small Sur's Bob Kielsun is stepping it up large with another all-acoustic Bmore brown bag crib jam. But instead of tossing donations in a bike helmet, this time you'll be able to support the artists - Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez, Small Sur, Andy Abelow and Anup Kishore Pradhan - with a $5 entry fee. Wear ninja shoes, bring your own beard, and read the egg for clues on how to get there (or email us).


Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez - Mostly A Friend


Small Sur - The Kelp (live at Current Canyon Fest)


Andy Abelow - While You Were Sleeping


Anup Kishore Pradhan - Hidden Nature Is Secret God

Be sure to check the last show with audio from Wye Oak, Ben and Bruno and more.

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Lesser Gonzalez, Super Copters

A few weeks ago Bmore resident Lesser Gonzalez quietly released a collection of instant-appeal acoustic folk jamz called "Why Is Bear Bellowing?" and then, judging by the fruit shadow, sat down around 3:30pm to eat what looks like an apple and maybe several oranges/papayas. Since we take all press photos seriously, what does this mean? What is the significance of these fruits, in these exact quanities, at this exact time of day? Was someone else going to sit in the empty chair to help eat the fruit, but they bailed, leaving Lesser with more?

And what does any of this have to do with the hit 1984-86 action series Airwolf? How did all of the evil dictators and wicked scientists on this show also have their own advanced battle helicopters?

Lesser Gonzalez - Narwhal Horn

No word on where you can buy the album yet, but we'll let you know if any local show plans surface. Thanks to Wham City/Important Comics collaborator Dina Kelberman for the tip. Check her out here for some animated holiday animation.

Also in what is possibly one of the most clutch moves of all time, we're offering the full, three-minutes-of-glory version of the Airwolf theme (Percee P and Diamond D, you're welcome) plus the hot intro sequence. Recommended activities whilst listening to this song include: aggressive teeth brushing, aggressive sandwich making, jumping across rooftops, or maybe combine two of those at once.

Airwolf Theme Son!

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