Baltimore Music Fans: Friday Show Double-Whammy Wildness
Friday night’s going to be a wild one. It’ll kick off at the Current Space Lot and end at some ungodly hour in the Floristree. Current is holding a double-album release party for Chester Endersby...
View ArticleBaltimore’s Future Islands Hit the Big Time: Celebrity Fluff
Jack Black and his supposed “musical doppelganger” Samuel T. Herring. Jack Black and his supposed “musical doppelganger” Samuel T. Herring. You know you’ve really made it in music when you’re...
View ArticleGuitarist Marc Miller on Oxes’ Unlikely Collaboration with Will Oldham
I have no trouble believing Will Oldham (AKA Bonnie “Prince” Billy) would cover Sheryl Crow’s “Strong Enough” — I could even imagine what it would sound like, to the point where I could probably get...
View ArticleHere’s Baltimore’s Future Islands on Letterman Last Night!
Baltimore’s favorite synth-pop trio (quartet now that they’ve added Roomrunner’s Denny Bowen Michael Lowry on drums) absolutely killed it on their late night television debut last night, performing...
View ArticleDavid Letterman Really Loves Future Islands. Like, A Lot
It was exciting enough that one of our favorite hometown bands, Future Islands, perform on David Letterman the other night. What’s even cooler has been watching Mr. Letterman himself suddenly morph...
View ArticleNPR Slows Down Future Islands’ SXSW Set, Streams New Album
You may have noticed we’ve been gabbing about Future Islands quite a bit at the Baltimore Fishbowl as of late. But it’s not just because we’re fans of the Baltimore band’s dramatic take on synth-pop....
View ArticleDan Deacon, Future Islands to Headline Pier Six
Future Islands The only bad part about Baltimore bands blowing up is that they don’t actually play Baltimore very often anymore. For a trio of Baltimore-based indie acts, however, visiting home has...
View ArticleStream the New Album from Future Islands’ Side Project The Snails
The Snails’ Songs from the Shoebox Baltimore’s Future Islands shot to stardom (after a long grind) after their viral Letterman performance in 2014, but their new level of fame hasn’t slowed down the...
View ArticleFuture Islands Will Perform Their New Album at the Ottobar on April 7
The members of Baltimore-based synthpop trio Future Islands are making sure fans in their home city are the first to hear them play their new album live. The group will play “The Far Field,” their...
View ArticleFuture Islands Adds Two More Nights of Ottobar Shows for ‘The Far Field’...
Future Islands performing in Germany in 2015. Photo via Wikimedia Commons. Baltimore trio Future Islands has thrown a bone to hometown fans by adding two more shows at the Ottobar after the first one...
View ArticleFuture Islands Dishes on Baltimore Music Scene to The New York Times
Future Islands plays in Hamburg, Germany, in 2012. Photo via Wikimedia Commons. Future Islands is buzzing again, thanks to the pending release of the synth-pop band’s fifth album, “The Far Field.” In...
View ArticleTuesday Morning Headlines: Hogan Happy with General Assembly Session; A Look...
Parole hearing scheduled next month for former Episcopal Bishop Heather Cook – Baltimore Brew BPD arrest juvenile, promise to increase patrols with school police near Digital Harbor HS – Fox45 Who...
View ArticleEd Schrader’s Music Beat!
Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, a two-piece band of bass, a single drum, and equal parts tuneful singing and Aflac-Duck-style screaming, are fresh off a six-week tour as the support act for local rising...
View ArticleHow William Cashion of Baltimore’s Future Islands fame Pranked me into...
Baltimore's Future Islands, William is farthest back. In the summer of 2006 my friend Rob and I were staying over at the apartment of William Cashion, the bass player for Future Islands. William lived...
View ArticleChester Endersby Gwazda: Baltimore’s Underground Producer Embraces...
I first met Chester Gwazda when we were placed into the same on-campus suite (or, more accurately, when he was placed into the suite I was squatting) at a state school in Westchester County, New York,...
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