So as most of you probably already know Age Sixteen broke up a few weeks prior to the release of this split.  It’s a shame because their half of this split absolutely kills.  Don’t worry though because 4/5ths of those guys are forming a new band which I’m sure will be just as good as Age Sixteen.

Wren Lloyd‘s half of this split sounds sick though I think they are a band that must be witnessed live to gain the full experience.  Musically they remind me of Canada Songs era Daughters – thick distortion, nauseating feedback and a lot of blast beats.

Download: Wren Lloyd|Age Sixteen Split.

Octaves

The Kindness of Strangers

Pianos Become the Teeth

Renae

Wren Lloyd

The Defect

The Talking Head (Sonar)|407 East Saratoga Street, Baltimore.

6 pm|$8 Bucks|All Ages

If you have the chance to go see them live don’t hesitate – they blew me away.  Oh, and they’re coming back through Baltimore with Trash Talk and Alexisonfire at the Ottobar on April 24th.

They turn on lights about 2 minutes into the video – I wish my camera was able to capture better in low-light.

La Dispute – Such Small Hands & Said the King to the River

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La Dispute – Bury Your Flames

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Here’s an awesome 20 minute video of Fucked Up playing a couple of songs for the French (French-Canadian?) website Bandeapart.fm.

After dismissing this band for so long, watching this video really pumps me up to check out their old releases.

+ Gaia in Baltimore

Anyone know where in the city this is located?  More of Gaia’s art HERE.

(via Wooster Collective)

+ Alexa Meade – Living Still Lifes

D.C. based Artist Alexa Meade uses acrylic paints on her subjects to create some crazy live installations.  I feel bad that her subjects have to sit for so long caked in paint, but they do look very impressive.

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Janine Conway filmed,edited and produced this short documentary on the beloved Charm City Art Space – a well known punk/hardcore/indie/whatever music and arts venue in Baltimore, MD.

It’s neat to hear from the venue organizers and attendees on why this venue has been/is still a really important space in Baltimore for musicians and artists.  It’s cool that she was able to conduct the interviews before the venue moved into the new Charm City Art Space building – which is actually right next door to the old space.

The case is basically a guy, while in a drunken stupor, inadvertently kills a woman’s cat by throwing a television at a wall and crushing the little beast.

Be sure to watch the last minute because it rules:

“No, We’re tough, we hate those people”/”They’re straight, we hate them”/”You just use people and you move on”/”We only smash stuff outsiddde.”

Tough. As. Nails.

Baby New Year wishes you well.

+ David Galbraith top Ten

David Galbraith posted an article on the Top Ten things that Defined the ‘Noughties’

I really like his explanation of Damien Hirst’s For the Love of God crystal encrusted skull:

“Nothing defines the decade in more compact form than this diabolically expensive piece of shit. It’s almost impossible to think of anything more disgusting than a diamond encrusted skull, it combines the graveyard exploitation of a human skin lampshade with the ostentatious vulgarity of a gold plated toilet. It didn’t sell, so unfortunately there isn’t a single Russian gangster or Connecticut hedge fund manager to crucify for purchasing it. Instead, it belongs to them all, the people who took tainted money and unimaginatively tried to launder it, by buying taste, via a largely obsolete but prestigious medium – gallery art. Who knows, perhaps Hirst was indeed joking, in which case this was genius rather than an ironic, decade defining, atrocity.”

+ Top Ten Baltimore Art of the Decade

So many Top Ten lists as of late.  I really need to work on my top 10 albums post.

HERE.

When he’s not cracking skulls as a bouncer, Baltimore based photographer Al Heishman is shooting sweet sweet nudes in my living room.  Be sure to stop by his brand new website and check out some of his work.