2007: What’s Up, Baltimore?
Making Music in Charm City, ca. 2007
[December 2007]
You have to climb countless graffiti-covered flights of stairs—or risk taking an ancient, fragile freight elevator—to get to Baltimore’s Floristree Space. No need to remember what floor it’s on, just follow the sounds of screaming guitars and frenetic drumming all the way to the top of the warehouse.
Inside, you’ll see merch tables blocking off the residential portion of the space. Someone who likely lives behind those tables will ask you to pay the suggested donation for admission to tonight’s show. The air will be thick with cigarette smoke as people stand around in groups or crowd the stage, drinking beer they brought themselves or taking sips out of flasks. Whether the music is discordant or melodic, electronic or acoustic, improvised or thoroughly rehearsed, a rapt audience will be assembled, dancing or nodding along approvingly.
Tiny Mix Tapes: What’s Up Baltimore?
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