Pash Remix feat. Snoop Dogg: "Kill The Rich Boys II"

A few weeks back, I reviewed Pash's newest album, The Best Gun (Exotic Fever, 2007), and raved about the track "Kill The Rich Boys II". Well, DJ Frequency, an old college buddy of Pash, did too and he remixed the track. Quite a double whammy: you get to hear a Pash remix, and you get to learn about Frequency, who has a track on the latest from Snoop Dogg, and is working with Ghostface and Raekwon from the Wu-Tang Clan.



Maybe I've missed it in the three times I listened, but where was Snoop?

Catch Pash at these upcoming dates:

10/18 Brooklyn, NY Matchless Bar CMJ
10/26 Baltimore, MD The Lo-Fi Social Club
10/27 Fredericksburg, VA Wet Paint Fundraiser, 3rd floor studio
10/28 Washington DC The Red and Black
10/31 Fredericksburg, VA The Loft
11/04 Trois Rivieres, Quebec The Pub Cafe
11/05 Montreal, Quebec Bar St. Laurent
11/17 Washington DC The Lab

New Thrushes Tour Dates, Including Lo-Fi Social Club Grand Re-Opening

Lovers of Baltimore shoegaze titans Thrushes rejoice, as the band has announced some upcoming tour dates for August, including a kickin' grand opening show for the Lo-Fi Social Club in its new digs (which I got to see the groundwork for this week, and it looks very promising):


8/9/07 @ The Manhattan Room w/ Music For Headphones, Stellarscope, The Clamor
15 W Girard Ave, Philadelphia PA

8/10/07 @ All Asia w/ Sanguine Drone
334 Massachusets Ave, Cambridge MA

8/11/07 Loveless Music Group show
location TBA w/ Brief Candles, Dead Leaf Echo
Brooklyn NY

8/22/07 @ The Ottobar w/Stereo Total (Berlin) & The Octopus Project
2549 N. Howard St, Baltimore MD

9/7/07 Lo-Fi Social Club w/ Squaaks, Heroin UK, more tba
Grand Opening!
1827 N. Charles St, Baltimore MD

9/22/07 @ Walls of Soundfest, Central Station
Fredericksburg VA

10/13/07 @ Automatic Dance Party , Ottobar
2549 N. Howard St, Baltimore MD

Gary B & The Notions Release Party Relocated

As previously reported, Gary B & The Notions are celebrating their CD release on June 8 (read Any Given Tuesday's review of Get Those Crazy Notions!). However, due to the recent developments with Lo-Fi Social Club, the event has been moved to Mobtown Theatre in Hampden (that's still in Baltimore, for those not in town).

$3 bucks, drinks for sale, and the album is available for $5. Get in on it, Baltimore!

Album Review: Brian Adam Ant - Separation Celebration; Free MP3s from the album

Brian Adam Ant is Baltimore's answer to Jeff Mangum, AKA Neutral Milk Hotel. Obtuse lyrics bordering on psychedelic, warbling vocals, and hypnotic instrument experimentation blending folk, blues, indie, and alternative sounds, Brian Adam Ant is either going to strike you as utterly deranged or fanatically dedicated to musical revolution.

"Rainy Winter Weather" is a guitar-strumming blues track, dismissing love as a "rat race baby, and there ain't no f****** prize." The track forces humor with hieroglyphic lyrics sung over jaunty guitar with a quavering voice. The hallucinatory lyrics of "Our Artillery" can be sung along to, while "Crushed Up Pills" is an apparent reinterpretation of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb", with a monotone, underwater vocal effect and a chorus that screams David Gilmour.

On "The Other Side of the Street", over a reverberating guitar, Brian Adam Ant appears to be singing about unrequited love. Love gone bad is a recurring theme in the album, muddled in tales of a chemically dependent hero who could be quite picaresque after a bout with detox (which it appears our hero is undergoing, according to his MySpace blog).

Separation Celebration is the first solo album from Brian, who also plays bass in Baltimore alt-rock outfit Evolve, as well as the Dirty Marmaduke Flute Squad, another uniquely "Baltimore" project.

Catch Brian Adam Ant with Private Eleanor (read Any Given Tuesday's review of Sweethearting, their latest) and Wailing Wall at Lo-Fi Social Club in Baltimore May 31.

Buy the album from CD Baby, or at Sound Garden in Fells Point or Atomic Books in Hampden.

Free MP3 Downloads from Separation Celebration:

Brian Adam Ant - "Rainy Winter Weather"
Brian Adam Ant - "Our Artillery"