Barring a few cops/lightning bolts, you can chalk up another successful four-day Bmore banger for the Wham City crew.
Key: JP, Abouretum, Ear Pwr, Andy Abelow, freaks, Future Islands, Ninjasonik, freaks, Dan Deacon, Trey Told 'Em, Teengirl Fantasy, tiger.
Photos by BT, Frank Hamilton, Mercurian, The Pirate Hat, and Josh Sisk
When Girl Talk fans who downloaded Feed the Animals for free make unauthorized mashup videos of Girl Talk mashups, what happens? Is that like when Diet Sundrop tried to sue Sundrop for taste infringement?
Girl Talk - Don't Stop (Mashing)
Is the Trey Told 'Em team playing on Sunday like a hip hop version of Garfield minus Garfield, where Girl Talk = Garfield? Because that just sounds like a ripoff of The Nietzsche Family Circus.
Did the term "mashups" come from that Beatsie Boys sample where the guy said he was going to stick his Gillis in the starch?
Mantan Moreland - Mashed Potatoes Comedy Routine (maybe FF to around 2:10)
Either way, this weekend is that kind of party with an implosion of 70+ artists creating anything but familiar laptop derivates. Not even counting the inaugural incarnation of indie Voltron glob Who is the Tunafish Man? (Dan Deacon + Spank Rock + Girl Talk), expect to see some unexpected collabs and spontaneous freaking in the aisles. Word is there will even be a couple Bmore elementary school janitors on site Sunday night for when things get sick, they got that special sawdust.
Here's the schedule, choose your own:
Adventure - Battle Cat
Air Waves - Circle of Gnomes
Arbouretum - Buffalo Ballet (John Cale cover)
Beach House - Gila
Celebration - Evergreen
Cex - Baltimore
DD/MM/YY - Imagine!
Dan Deacon - Wham City
Jones - Too Dope
The Death Set - Impossible (Dan Deacon Remix)
Double Dagger - The Psychic
Ear Pwr - Diamondz, Liquor, Leather
Food for Animals - Swampy Summer Jam
Future Islands - Nu Autobahn
Height - Bad Weather
Human Host - Bathtub Blast
Jana Hunter - Paint A Babe
Jones - Too Dope
Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez - Mostly A Friend
The Mae Shi - Run To Your Grave
Ninjasonik - Tight Pants (Mr. Andersonic Rmx)
Parts and Labor - Fractured Skies
Ponytail - Celebrate the Body Electric
Spank Rock - Rick Rubin (President Eutl Rmx)
Teengirl Fantasy - Portofino
Thank You - Empty Legs
Thrust Lab - Magnum Opus
Tokyo Police Club - Cheer it On (Trey Told 'Em Rmx)
Video Hippos - Kool Shades
Wheatie Mattiasich - Sugar Cane
Additional Whartscape 2K8 & 2K7 coverage
Previous Weekend Beats
Hipster Runoff on Girl Talk
Mic to Mic on mashers
+ bonus mashers:
M83 vs. Donnie Darko
Grizzly Bear vs. The Incredible Hulk
Ferris Bueller vs. Requiem for a Dream
M.O.P. vs. Sesame Street
Cut Copy vs. Rad
Danzig vs. Shakira
"So long afternoons I sit in my easy canvas chair facing Void Hozomeen, the silence hushes in my little shack, my stove is still, my dishes glitter, my firewood lies piled and snaky in the corner, my canned goods wait to be opened, my old cracked shoes weep, my pans lean, my dish rags hang, the wind wallows and belts at the window and there's nothing for me to do but wait - and breathe - wait, breathe, eat, sleep, cool, wash, pace, watch."
Jack Kerouac's Desolation Angels, 1956
Wheatie Mattiasich - Sugar Cane
It begins tonight. Wheatie holds it down tomorrow with Jana Hunter, Lesser Gonzalez, Beach House and more.
Just try to keep it together here.
THURSDAY: CHARLES THEATER, 1711 N Charles Street
6:00 Missoula Oblongata (Baltimore + CT)
7:00 Rick Royer (Baltimore)
7:30 Ben Heresey (New York)
8:00 Blue Leader (Baltimore)
8:20 Teeth Mountain (Baltimore)
8:40 INTERMISSION
9:00 Leprechaun Catering (Baltimore)
9:20 Mark Hosler (of negativland) (Asheville, NC)
10:20 Ultimate Reality (Baltimore)
10:55 Nautical Almanac (Baltimore)
11:20 Matmos (Baltimore)
FRIDAY: 2640 SPACE, 2640 Saint Paul Street
6:00 A Murmered Tale (Baltimore)
6:45 Eagle Ager (Brooklyn)
7:05 Andy Abelow (Baltimore)
7:25 Matteah Baim (New York)
7:55 Santa Dads (Baltimore)
8:15 Wheatie Mattiasich (Baltimore)
8:35 Lesser Gonzalez (Baltimore)
8:55 Arbouretum (Baltimore)
9:25 Golden Age (x-more dogs)(Baltimore)
9:55 Jana Hunter (Baltimore)
10:25 Beach House (Baltimore)
SATURDAY: NORTH AVE LOT, 131 W North Ave
12:00 DOORS
12:40 King Cloud (Baltimore)
1:00 Smarts (Baltimore)
1:20 Benny Stoofy (Scrummage University)(Detroit)
1:40 Air Waves (Brooklyn)
2:00 Ed Schrader (Baltimore)
2:20 Facts (Baltimore)
2:40 Perm Hurdeler (Glasgow)
3:10 Food For Animals (Baltimore+DC)
3:30 Wzt Hearts (Baltimore)
4:00 The Creepers (Baltimore)
4:30 Lexie Mountain Boys (Baltimore)
5:00 Ecstatic Sunshine (Baltimore)
5:30 Bird Names (Baltimore)
6:00 Eyeball Skeleton (Baltimore)
6:30 DD/MM/YYYY (Toronto)
7:00 Mae Shi (Los Angeles)
7:30 The Deathset (Baltimore)
8:00 Killer Whales (Chicago)
8:30 Thank You (Baltimore)
9:00 Oxes (Baltimore)
SONAR, 407 E Saratoga St
11:00 Human Host (Baltimore)
11:25 Blood Baby (Baltimore)
11:55 Nuclear Power Pants (Baltimore)
12:15 Videohippos (Baltimore)
12:45 Celebration (Baltimore)
SUNDAY NORTH AVE LOT, 131 W North Ave
12:00 DOORS
12:30 Moss of Aura (Baltimore)
1:00 Jones (Baltimore)
1:20 Witch Hat (Baltimore)
1:40 Hearts of Darknesses (New York)
2:00 Teenage Souls (Baltimore)
2:20 Thrust Lab (Baltimore)
2:40 Ear Pwr (Asheville)
3:00 Kyle Mabson+Mincemeat or 10 Speed+Narwals (LA, Philly, Richmond)
3:40 White Williams (New York)
4:00 Adventure (Baltimore)
4:30 Club Lifestyles (Baltimore)
4:55 Future Islands (Baltimore)
5:25 Height (Baltimore)
5:55 Dan Deacon (Baltimore)
6:40 Trey Told 'Em (Gregg Gillis + HOD) (Pittsburgh + New York)
7:00 Grand Buffet (Pittsburgh)
7:30 Double Dagger (Baltimore)
8:00 Parts & Labor (Brooklyn)
8:30 Ponytail (Baltimore)
9:00 Black Dice (Brooklyn)
ANNEX THEATER>
11:00 Shams (Richmond)
11:20 Smart Growth (Baltimore)
11:40 Ninjasonik (Brooklyn)
12:00 Mark Brown (Baltimore)
12:20 Teengirl Fantasy (Oakland)
12:40 Egyptrixx + Alias (Toronto)
1:00 Wet Hair (Iowa City)
1:20 Sewn Leather (1980's)
1:40 DJ Dog Dick (Baltimore)
2:00 Who Is The Tunafish Man? (Dan Deacon + Girl Talk + Spank Rock)
Dawn: Cex (Baltimore)
Who's your top 10? Mine are Tuna Spank, Double Dagger, Thrust Lab, MF Death Set, Height/Jones, Jana Hunter, Videohippos, The Mae Shi, Oxes, Dan Deacon, Celebration, Ninjasonik, Beach Heezy, Future Islands, Lesser Gonzalez, Trey Told 'Em, White Williams, Grand Buffet, and of course the bands that will form spontaneously mid-event.
Housekeeping:
For reference, here are the housekeeping rules from last year which include direction on where you should not pee.
As we get closer to Whartscape's cash money lightning jumpoff, Chief Wham City whig Dan Deacon stirs the pot further by revealing a special annoucement via a serious of non-crytpic Interweb messages - Spank Rock MC Naeem Juwan will be performing in a collaborative superproject also including DD and Girl Talk's Greg Gillis this weekend at Whartscape (presumably Sunday afternoon).
Not sure when this will happen, but you can leave your cell phone number and a BT technician may or may not call you 30 minutes before it goes down.
Spank Rock - Rick Rubin (President Eutl Rmx)
Quoth Dan:
"In addition to my set and gregg's trey told em set on sunday july 20, at whartscape, gregg gillis (girltalk), naeem juwan (spankrock) and i (dan deacon) will be doing a joint set of all new material jams eternal.
gregg and i have been talking about doing a band together for some time and i'm really excited naeem is going to be a part of it for this rad first birth. hopefully our sick jams turn out sick. tickets are still available but close to selling out. getting tickets would be safer than just showing up. ok baltimore, see you soooooon"
Well that is just huge, as the Spank/Deacon combo Floristree set at last year's Whartscape was the highlight of the weekend (check that here).
Reader contest - What should this supergroup be named???
Special Whartscape prize for best entry (just leave them in the comments).
The rest of the afternoon lineup includes White Williams, Ponytail, Future Islands, Height, Double Dagger (!), Black Dice and more, so, your Sunday is fully fitted. You can tape Ninja Warrior.
Texas native and current Bmore rez Jana Hunter will be lulling Friday night Whartscapers with the type of detached calm also accessible by taking a nap in your car whilst it's being towed.
Recorded on a borrowed four-track, her Carrion EP (as in the carcass of a dead animal, nice touch) is a simple and haunting assessment of bleak realities, like when you accidentally drop your keys into a river of molten lava and just let 'em go, because man, they're gone.
It would be a shame to immediately dive into Beach House/Mazzy Star comparisons, but yes, that was a first thought. We invite you to watch both JH and BH at Whartscape next Friday, 7/18 at 2640 Space and share a more informed perspective with us afterwards (tickets here).
Jana Hunter - Paint A Babe
Bonus Jack Handey deep thought: "The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just say "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?"
Will there be a nautical/pirate theme throughout? Full schedule below, tickets for the whole weekend are just $40, more details next week when we're back from vacation.
You may also enjoy our extensive coverage from last year's Hurtscape here.
JULY 17-20 HOLLA!
BUY TICKETS AT WHAMCITY.COM
THURSDAY CHARLES THEATER 1711 N CHARLES ST (6PM TO 12AM)
MATMOS
NAUTICAL ALMANAC
ULTIMATE REALITY
MARK HOSLER (NEGATIVLAND) ON ILLEGAL ART
LEPRECHAUN CATERING
TEETH MOUNTAIN
BLUE LEADER
BEN HERESEY
RIC ROYER
MISSOULA OBLONGATA
FRIDAY 2640 SPACE, 2640 ST PAUL ST (6PM TO 11PM)
BEACH HOUSE
JANA HUNTER
GOLDEN AGE (FORMELY MORE DOGS)
ARBOURETUM
LESSER GONZALEZ ALVAREZ
WHEATIE MATTIASICH
SANTA DADS
MATTEAH BAIM
ANDY ABELOW
EAGLE AGER
A MURMERED TALE
SATURDAY OUTSIDE 331 NORTH AVE(NOON to 10PM)
OXES
THANK YOU
CELEBRATION
KILLER WHALES
DEATHSET
THE MAE SHI
DDMMYYYY
EYEBALL SKELETON
BIRD NAMES
ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
LEXIE MOUNTAIN BOYS
THE CREEPERS
DUFUS
WZT HEARTS
FACTS
ED SCHRADER
AIR WAVES
BENNY STOOFY
SMARTS
KING CLOUD
SATURNIGHT SONAR 407 E SARATOGA(11PM to 2AM)
SECRET SURPRISE GUEST
VIDEO HIPPOS
NUCLEAR POWER PANTS
BLOOD BABY
HUMAN HOST
FOOD FOR ANIMALS
WHY IS EVERYONE SHOUTING
SUNDAY OUTSIDE 331 NORTH AVE (NOON to 10PM)
BLACK DICE
PONYTAIL
PARTS AND LABOR
DOUBLE DAGGER
GRAND BUFFET
TREY TOLD 'EM
DAN DEACON
HEIGHT
FUTURE ISLANDS
CLUB LYFESTILES
ADVENTURE
WHITE WILLIAMS
KYLE H MABSON
MINCEMEAT OR TENSPEED
NARWALS
EAR PWR
THRUST LAB
SUN NIGHT ANNEX THEATER (11PM to 2AM)
CEX
EGYPTRIXX
DJ DOG DICK
SWEAN LEATHER
MARK BROWN
TEENGIRL FANTASY
SMART GROWTH
WET HAIR
POSTER BY LESSER GONZALEZ
What bands are you super excited to see? I can't wait for Nuclear Power Pants.
Activate...interlock. Dynatherms...connected. Megathrusters...are go son! With the help of a few select outsiders, Baltimore bands will form a powerfully (scented) Voltron-like indie cluster from July 17-20 for Wham City's Whartscape 2K8.
Initial lineup includes: Black Dice, Matmos Celebration, Beach House, Dan Deacon, Parts and Labor, Bird Names, Jana Hunter, The Death Set, The Mae Shi, Skate Dog (Gregg Gillis), Killer Whales, Double Dagger, Thank You, Ponytail, Cex, Teeth Mountain, WZT Hearts, Lexi Mountain Boys, Ecstatic Sunshine, Video Hippos, Leprechaun Catering, The Creepers and like 50 more TBA.
Side note, I'm renting my flat out that weeked for the very reasonable/attractive price of $2800, so if anyone from Rolling Stone, Dateline or 20/20 wants to come down, bring it. In addition to my company, amenities will include walking distance to most shenanigans and a chilled supply of purple stuff/Sunny D.
More updates soon - meantime see our massive six-part series of coverage from last year's Whartscape here.
Dan Deacon - Wham City (live at Whartscape 2K7)
