http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?ColumnTitle=Noise en-us Copyright 2009 Baltimore City Paper http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19244 This coming weekend Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra tries to make the case for George Gershwin's place in the classical canon. This past weekend they made the case—without really meaning to—for Wolfgang Mozart's status as a pop artist. It was impossible to listen to the ... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19242 Apologies for not getting this in the print edition of City Paper, but there's an especially notable show Saturday night, Nov. 7. Ecstatic Sunshine, now a rotating cast revolving around co-founder Matt Papich, releases its first full-length record, Yesterday's Work (Hoss)—a set of sunny, pasto ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19241 The Talking Head is kinda sorta going away. Booker-in-chief Adam Savage assures us, however, that "Talking Head will never die." The Live Entertainment Bill passes a City Council vote; formerly hysterical DIY folks sleep in. The ever-prolific MC Wordsmith is circulating a new single, "Braggin' Rig ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19212 For four years and two albums Nashville's Be Your Own Pet tore through garage punk with the sort of brashness that only teenagers can deliver. The quartet delivered everything at the frenetic clip of young people trying to live before they got old or the Jolt cola ran out—whichever came first. ... Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19209 When we chewed the fat with sonic collagist James "Twig" Harper about his latest compositions recently, the Nautical Almanac co-captain and HereSee co-operator had a great deal to tell us-more than we could cram into the print version of our recent story. In the full-length interview below, Harper c ... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19208 Josh Ginsburg was just a skinny, fledgling musician when he started playing bass as a teenager around his Baltimore hometown in the early '90s. On Friday he returned home for a concert at An Die Musik as the 32-year-old leader of the Josh Ginsburg Quartet. He brought along three top colleagues from ... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19157 The Dirty Marmaduke Flute Squad put on what has to be, by some distance, one of the oddest rock shows in Baltimore. Its members don outfits, such as a Mexican wrestling mask and a paper-mâché horse head, and perform under names such as Captain Mediocrity and Prof. Doktor Von Science, which ... Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19131 Avant-garde jazz can sometimes be a dour, cerebral exercise but not when Han Bennink plays it. The Dutch drummer may be 67, his hair gone silver beneath his bright red headband, his Amsterdam home full of Europe's top jazz prizes, but at the Windup Space on Wednesday, he played with sheer abandon an ... Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19129 Ace Baltimore MC E Major is hyping a new scratch-happy track off his forthcoming mixtape. Listen to "You Send Me" here. Under Sound Music, E Major's label/collective, also has a new weekly event Tuesdays at Red Maple. Aural States is hosting/releasing a remix album from MC Height with new takes of ... Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19125 Booked at the Depot, but moved at the last minute to after-hours spot 1722 a couple of doors down, and then ended early by 1722, this past Saturday's installment of Senari's Big Bang was all about keeping everybody, from those in attendance to the talent to promoter Puja Patel herself, off-balance. ... Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19091 DJ Patrick is perhaps one of the most unsung heroes of Baltimore club music's early days. Just about any DJ that was active in the the late '80s and early '90s is likely to name-check him, but he's rarely received much press coverage himself. So when I finally got to track down the local legend at h ... Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19059 So an odd thing happened to me Sept. 16: I had my first real-time Twitter-based interface with a performing artist. Maybe that's not that weird for some critics, but it was new to me. I was at Sonar for the Baltimore leg of Mos Def's Ecstatic Tour, and I had been there since about 7:45 p.m., becaus ... Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST