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<div class="kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-accent"><div class="kg-callout-emoji">💡</div><div class="kg-callout-text">Yesterday I migrated everyone who subscribed to the Substack who hadn't signed up to the new newsletter. If you have since changed your mind or if you don't want to receive these, please feel free to unsubscribe -- no hard feelings, etc.</div></div><p>Geniuses, in the month of January the mask of fascism was removed even to American society's most privileged class. The murder of white bystanders Renee Good and Alex Pretti is an outgrowth from the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline">deadliest year for ICE detention facilities since 2004</a>: 32 detainees died in ICE custody in the year 2025 and 9 people have been murdered by ICE in 2026 so far.</p><p>This is a local issue, a statewide issue, a national issue, and an international issue. US foreign policy insists on winning a zero sum game of its own design. Americans loot the global south and Southeast Asia, then repatriate its wealth. People living abroad correctly see that their best chance for survival is to enter the walls of capital – they try to find a way in so that they might live a more comfortable life, or their children might. <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/28/border_todd_miller">The violence of the border asserts itself</a>.</p><p>And now we have finally reached the stage of <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/enshittification-of-american-power/">American capital enshittification</a> where white people face the consequences of US actions across the globe. There are no good jobs (they've been outsourced to countries with weaker labor laws). Our infrastructure is collapsing (the expense would befall taxpayers who balk at the idea). There is no "future" to "secure" for their white children. Our laws punish the poor, so it's easy to further victimize our most vulnerable neighbors. </p><p>Who is to blame? Who's fault is this? Best to continue to look outward instead of examining the rotten ideology that wrought this world.</p><p>The American century of humiliation is upon us. Let's listen to some tunes together.</p><hr /><h2 id="capitalismsoldering">Capitalism - Soldering</h2><figure class="kg-card kg-embed-card"><iframe width="200" height="150" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IpkkfK937mU?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen title="How to Solder Electronics"></iframe></figure><p>I have gone down such a deep fucking rabbit hole in January, I've nearly lost my mind in trying to figure out how to engage with art. A teenage interest in writing songs became an interest in practicing technique; then in my 20s a push towards sound design, in my 30s that has drilled deeper into instrument design. I've been studying circuit topography since 2020, but only lately has it manifested into buying equipment to take a shot at the endeavor.</p><p>In January, I bought a soldering iron &amp; some components. I don't have a background in soldering, so I'm starting with just some practice runs. I did an enormous amount of research and chose a beginner-friendly USB-C powered soldering iron: the <a href="https://www.fnirsi.com/products/hs-02-toolbox?variant=46414067138778">Fnirsi HS02 toolbox with all the tips &amp; the 100W adapter</a>. I also went over to Digikey and picked up some 63/37 solder (I don't know enough to explain, I've just heard that this is a good mix of tin &amp; lead for a beginner), a solder wick for desoldering/fixing mistakes, some isopropyl alcohol for cleaning, a brass coil for cleaning the iron, a soldering mat, and a little pen of flux for helping the solder stick. And some breadboards and components.</p><p>I'm going back to Digikey in February for a solder sucker and more specific components. First I will repair some broken things (my strat's volume pot either needs to be re-soldered or replaced, my Smallsound/Bigsound Fuck overdrive needs a new DPDT switch, I have concerns that I fucked up my Count To Five when I tried to fix it a few years ago, so I might pop it open again). </p><p>Next, I'm going to make a PCB simple distortion (maybe <a href="https://www.pedalpcb.com/product/pcb385/">Acapulco Gold</a> or a <a href="https://www.taydaelectronics.com/distortion-plus-diy-pcb-guitar-effect.html">Distortion+</a>?), then onto some of the <a href="https://ciat-lonbarde.net/ciat-lonbarde/paper/index.html" rel="noreferrer">Ciat Lonbarde paper circuits</a>, then try out some vero board ideas. I'll check in sometime with the monsters I create.</p><hr /><h2 id="album-recommendations">Album Recommendations</h2><h3 id="throwing-shapesthrowing-shapes-wrwtfww-2025">Throwing Shapes - Throwing Shapes (WRWTFWW, 2025)</h3><h6 id="irish-wire-harp-ambient-with-drums-keys"><em>Irish wire-harp ambient with drums &amp; keys</em></h6><figure class="kg-card kg-bookmark-card"><a class="kg-bookmark-container" href="https://garethquinnredmond.bandcamp.com/album/throwing-shapes"><div class="kg-bookmark-content"><div class="kg-bookmark-title">Throwing Shapes, by Throwing Shapes</div><div class="kg-bookmark-description">9 track album</div><div class="kg-bookmark-metadata"><img class="kg-bookmark-icon" src="https://www.geniusdotcom.com/content/images/icon/a2366046640_3.jpg" alt="" /><span class="kg-bookmark-author">Gareth Quinn Redmond</span><span class="kg-bookmark-publisher">Ghuughra</span></div></div><div class="kg-bookmark-thumbnail"><img src="https://www.geniusdotcom.com/content/images/thumbnail/a2366046640_5.jpg" alt="" /></div></a></figure><p>Trio of drums/percussion, piano/synths, and Irish harp. Sunny ambient with a satisfying and open sound, lots of room on the drums while the piano and harp are cl0se-mic'd for max percussion. There are some tape experiments (or modular resampling). The star of the show is the wire-strung harp: a huge open sound that sometimes rings out detuned against the piano, there's a delightfully ragged quality to the strings and some interesting extended technique when the harp is resampled. Every time I threw it on, I intended to listen to the compositions to get a better sense of the songwriting so I could write about it, but I kept getting lost in thought while listening &amp; every time I got to the final track <em>"Lo and Behold"</em> the colossal saxophone solo would come in and I remembered that I was supposed to be paying closer attention.</p><h3 id="orcutt-shelley-millerorcutt-shelley-miller-silver-current-2025">Orcutt Shelley Miller - <em>Orcutt Shelley Miller</em> (Silver Current, 2025)</h3><h6 id="guitar-solos-guitar-solos-guitar-solos"><em>guitar solos &amp; guitar solos &amp; guitar solos</em></h6><figure class="kg-card kg-bookmark-card"><a class="kg-bookmark-container" href="https://orcuttshelleymiller.bandcamp.com/album/orcutt-shelley-miller"><div class="kg-bookmark-content"><div class="kg-bookmark-title">Orcutt Shelley Miller, by Orcutt Shelley Miller</div><div class="kg-bookmark-description">5 track album</div><div class="kg-bookmark-metadata"><img class="kg-bookmark-icon" src="https://www.geniusdotcom.com/content/images/icon/a1678863700_3.jpg" alt="" /><span class="kg-bookmark-author">Orcutt Shelley Miller</span><span class="kg-bookmark-publisher">Alphonso Acosta</span></div></div><div class="kg-bookmark-thumbnail"><img src="https://www.geniusdotcom.com/content/images/thumbnail/a1678863700_5.jpg" alt="" /></div></a></figure><p>Imagine taking the worlds longest bong hit and then hitting play on this thing. Igneous guitar rock recorded without a net in front of a live audience. Sits somewhere between the players main expression modes: harsh noisy guitar free improv (Orcutt), spiraling alternative rock with loft scene jazz sensibilities (Shelley) and West Coast psych freakouts (Miller). Shelly and Miller form a solid rhythm section, with the bass taking on the role of performing both the main melodies &amp; harmonies on these pieces. Both musicians step out occasionally, but each track there is a riff and they stick to it for the most part. Shelley's drumming is economical, but expressive – a perfect backbone for the trio. Meanwhile, Bill Orcutt just fucking WAILS on the guitar, somewhere between guitar solos &amp; full on noise generation. So soulful, so much power in there. If you're into the guitar work of <strong>Sonny Sharrock</strong>, you would dig this – a tight 30min rager.</p><h3 id="violeta-garcia-hora-lungaill-wait-for-you-in-the-carpark-ous-2025">Violeta Garcia &amp; Hora Lunga -<em> I'll Wait For You In The Carpark </em>(OUS, 2025)</h3><h6 id="crackly-ambient-for-cello-synths-voices"><em>crackly ambient for cello, synths, voices</em></h6><figure class="kg-card kg-bookmark-card"><a class="kg-bookmark-container" href="https://vghl.bandcamp.com/album/ill-wait-for-you-in-the-car-park"><div class="kg-bookmark-content"><div class="kg-bookmark-title">I’ll Wait For You In The Car Park, by Violeta García &amp; Hora Lunga</div><div class="kg-bookmark-description">16 track album</div><div class="kg-bookmark-metadata"><img class="kg-bookmark-icon" src="https://www.geniusdotcom.com/content/images/icon/a3892412093_3.jpg" alt="" /><span class="kg-bookmark-author">Violeta García &amp; Hora Lunga</span><span class="kg-bookmark-publisher">mcb</span></div></div><div class="kg-bookmark-thumbnail"><img src="https://www.geniusdotcom.com/content/images/thumbnail/a3892412093_5.jpg" alt="" /></div></a></figure><p>Moody intercontinental ambient piece from Argentinian cellist Garcia and Swiss musician Lunga. Nice mix of soft ambience/harsher noises, melody/vibe. The album's songs are punctuated into groups by "buzz" tracks that are each numbered &amp; last for about 30 seconds each. I think the textures that these musicians get are so lovely, it's a playful record that doesn't sound disconnected, despite the long distance recording sessions. The song titles offer a glimpse into what the 2 composers and improvisers are thinking about, with tracks like <em>"Going Back Home On Street View"</em> and <em>"Twerk Class."</em> It can be hard to pinpoint where tracking ends and post-processing begins, but when you hear the unmistakable sounds of a cello or disembodied voice, it throws the synthwork into relief and brings clarity to the pieces. This one caught me off guard, I've been quite taken with it.</p><h4 id="bizimungu-dieudonneinzovu-yimirindi-mississippi-records-2025">Bizimungu Dieudonne - <em>Inzovu Y'Imirindi</em> (Mississippi Records, 2025)</h4><h6 id="rwandan-folk-rock-songs"><em>Rwandan folk &amp; rock songs</em></h6><figure class="kg-card kg-bookmark-card"><a class="kg-bookmark-container" href="https://mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/inzovu-yimirindi"><div class="kg-bookmark-content"><div class="kg-bookmark-title">Inzovu Y’Imirindi, by Bizimungu Dieudonne</div><div class="kg-bookmark-description">6 track album</div><div class="kg-bookmark-metadata"><img class="kg-bookmark-icon" src="https://www.geniusdotcom.com/content/images/icon/a2149387376_3.jpg" alt="" /><span class="kg-bookmark-author">Mississippi Records</span><span class="kg-bookmark-publisher">yesitsananias</span></div></div><div class="kg-bookmark-thumbnail"><img src="https://www.geniusdotcom.com/content/images/thumbnail/a2149387376_5.jpg" alt="" /></div></a></figure><p>An incredible document from the early 90s. Bizimungu Dieudonne and Agnes Uwimbabazi are a husband and wife duo whose record goes back and forth between call-and-response rock songs and dusty fingerpicked acoustic ballads. Dieudonne's fingerpicked guitars are full of little pull-off trills and stutter step rhythms, the recording is crisp and their voices are so full of feeling – the extended jams with interplay between guitar and percussion are hypnotic. The translated lyrics contain pastoralia, mythology, and desperate calls for unity amid the darkening climate of a looming genocide. It's painful to consider and I don't want to be a downer, but this band and record were lost to time when the entire band was executed by Hutu militants in 1994. The daughter of Dieudonne &amp; Uwimbabazi was only 9 at the time, but she was approached by a music scholar – the master tapes were located and released last year. A stunning document AND a great listen. </p><h3 id="dorian-conceptminiatures-play-instinct-2025">Dorian Concept - <em>Miniatures </em>(Play Instinct, 2025)</h3><h6 id="tiny-synth-sketches"><em>tiny synth sketches</em></h6><figure class="kg-card kg-bookmark-card"><a class="kg-bookmark-container" href="https://dorianconcept.bandcamp.com/album/miniatures"><div class="kg-bookmark-content"><div class="kg-bookmark-title">Miniatures, by Dorian Concept</div><div class="kg-bookmark-description">24 track album</div><div class="kg-bookmark-metadata"><img class="kg-bookmark-icon" src="https://www.geniusdotcom.com/content/images/icon/a4237405234_3.jpg" alt="" /><span class="kg-bookmark-author">Dorian Concept</span><span class="kg-bookmark-publisher">Ghuughra</span></div></div><div class="kg-bookmark-thumbnail"><img src="https://www.geniusdotcom.com/content/images/thumbnail/a4237405234_5.jpg" alt="" /></div></a></figure><p>Twenty four tiny little synth sketches from the Viennese composer, only a handful of which last for longer than a minute. Most of these were debuted in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaYqYarroa5WkG3R2N8WsdX5o-CwT7nFg" rel="noreferrer">YouTube sketches</a>, mostly featuring a trusty Roland SH-101, reverb, and a couple looper pedals. From this simple setup, whirlwinds of birdsongs, plucky strings, cascading delays, ever-so-slightly detuned sounds. DC's approach to sound design often mimics woodwinds and brass, so there's a lot of really nice flutes and trumpets in here. These pieces have no outros: each one opens with a playful melody looped, then more and more gets added until each piece abruptly ends. Hold each one for a minute and let it sing its little song, then let it move along.</p><h3 id="upcoming-february-albums">Upcoming February albums:</h3><figure class="kg-card kg-embed-card"><iframe width="200" height="113" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aGMOFLgB1CU?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen title="Hen Ogledd - Scales will fall (Official Video)"></iframe></figure><p>Feb 2026, new albums are FINALLY back on the menu. Feels like it's been forever. Here is a huge list of new records coming out in Feb:</p><ul><li>2/6:<ul><li><strong>Mandy, IN</strong> - <a href="https://mandyindiana.bandcamp.com/album/urgh"><em>Urgh</em></a> (Sacred Bones): noisy dance-punk, scratches a Model/Actriz itch</li></ul></li><li>2/13: <ul><li><strong>Colin Stetson, Trevor Dunn, Greg Fox</strong> - <a href="https://colinstetson.bandcamp.com/album/nethering"><em>Nethering</em></a> (Envision): this is gonna be the most fucked up sax trio since Albert Ayler. The lead single is intense.</li><li><strong>Converge </strong>- <a href="https://convergecult.bandcamp.com/album/love-is-not-enough"><em>Love Is Not Enough</em></a><em> </em>(Epitaph): metalcore kings back at it</li></ul></li><li>2/20:<ul><li><strong>Altin Gun</strong> - <a href="https://altingun.bandcamp.com/"><em>Garip</em></a> (Glitterbeat): Turkish sunny psych rock, I've been into every album they've done, no reason to expect anything different this time!</li><li><strong>Hen Ogledd</strong> - <a href="https://henogledd.bandcamp.com/album/discombobulated"><em>Discombobulated</em></a> (Domino): Richard Dawson's band with a genrelress experimental sound. The single has a kind of medieval fife + rapping?? See the vid above. Come on you know you're intrigued.</li></ul></li><li>2/27: <ul><li><strong>Maria BC </strong>- <a href="https://mariabc.bandcamp.com/album/marathon"><em>Marathon</em></a> (Sacred Bones): the lead single has kind of a hi-fi Grouper vibe, love big fuzzy guitars and ambient piano + buried vocals. Spike Field was a BANGER, I bet this one is just as good.</li><li><strong>Landowner </strong>- <a href="https://landowner.bandcamp.com/album/assumption"><em>Assumption</em></a> (Exploding In Sound): what if Minutemen was modern day, mike watt get ipad d boon get google pixel</li><li><strong>Shane Parrish -</strong> <em>Autechre Guitar</em> (Palilalia): Aleuchatistas + Bill Orcutt 4 guitarist taking a stab at transcribing some of the most intricate &amp; stochastic electronic music out there, but for acoustic guitar? Sign me up.</li></ul></li></ul><hr /><h2 id="garbage-cornercranqui-uxo-pt-1">Garbage Corner - Cranqui UXO pt 1</h2><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.geniusdotcom.com/content/images/2026/01/image-3.png" class="kg-image" alt="Back cover of GY!BE's Yanqui UXO features a flowchart of connections between major music labels &amp; the military industrial complex" loading="lazy" width="1445" height="1084" srcset="https://www.geniusdotcom.com/content/images/size/w600/2026/01/image-3.png 600w, https://www.geniusdotcom.com/content/images/size/w1000/2026/01/image-3.png 1000w, https://www.geniusdotcom.com/content/images/2026/01/image-3.png 1445w" /><figcaption><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Back cover of GY!BE's Yanqui UXO</span></figcaption></figure><p>I've been thinking a lot about the back cover of the album Yanqui UXO by instrumental orchestral rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The back cover features a map of all of the major labels and their connections to the US military industrial complex. I thought it would be a fun experiment to see how this updates in 2026 with streaming services. This is a crank's take. Thus this is Cranqui UXO.</p><p>I'll do this on a rolling basis, whenever I feel like doing a deep dive into the slime of big tech. I'm planning to read the book about Spotify, I'll get to it eventually.</p><h3 id="spotify">Spotify</h3><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.geniusdotcom.com/content/images/2026/01/image-4.png" class="kg-image" alt="" loading="lazy" width="1337" height="915" srcset="https://www.geniusdotcom.com/content/images/size/w600/2026/01/image-4.png 600w, https://www.geniusdotcom.com/content/images/size/w1000/2026/01/image-4.png 1000w, https://www.geniusdotcom.com/content/images/2026/01/image-4.png 1337w" /><figcaption><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Spotify's Daniel Ek is a major investor in Helsing, a German weapons company</span></figcaption></figure><p>Spotify is by far the most popular of the streaming services. Spotify has over 700 million users and generates nearly €16B yearly.</p><p>Let's just start with the founding of Spotify – here's a quote from CEO and Founder Daniel Ek: <em>"The only way to solve the problem [of music piracy] was to create a service that was better than piracy and at the same time compensates the music industry." </em>In response to criticism that his company's rates are not advantageous to certain artists, he told <em>Music Ally</em> that successful artists of the 21st century <em>"can't record music once every three to four years and think that's going to be enough"</em>, but should instead create <em>"a continuous engagement with their fans."</em> Staying true to the mission statement, the music industry is compensated, the artist is not.</p><p>The average artist gets paid about $0.0004 per stream, so in order to earn a $20k/yr check for recording music and uploading it to a platform, an artist needs an average of 50M streams per year. If a small artist has 10,000 fans and their new record has 13 songs on it, then the average fan would need to listen to the album once a day, every day for the whole year. This would net the band $18,980 to be split among the members, cover the cost of recording &amp; the instruments, breakables like strings or drumsticks, etc.</p><p>Ek's personal politics poison the entire platform – he uses his outsized influence and platform on right-wing causes, like <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/spotify-founders-blast-swedens-business-environment-in-open-letter-1460479684?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqdRKXHdvGV3kS_mZyxAknrgkzluPJeLqFab8TNVMUxbNlZ2DLN-IW_YoKdkezg%3D&amp;gaa_ts=697d07b7&amp;gaa_sig=a_3Qy-39MPrZKudLelW5HosFQ5lQQhs8kZ1Ppq4LQ3YkNxewCwgtkJ1YnDwjG0N9D0RyUSHbVmu3mx-Sm7wlmw%3D%3D">bullying the Swedish government into cutting the social safety net</a>. In 2020, Spotify bought the rights to right wing nut Joe Rogan's podcast for $100M. In 2024, they renewed the deal to continue producing his slop for $250M. In 2025, Spotify began running recruitment ads for ICE – though 2 weeks ago the campaign ended.</p><p>Ek is the chairman for (and a major investor in) German AI weaponry company <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsing_(company)">Helsing</a>, who develops autonomous aircraft, drone strike software for <em>"scaled target acquisition"</em> and <em>"coordinated precision effects,"</em> and undersea surveillance submarines. Helsing is valued at $4.5B and seems to be similar to US defense company Palantir, though little information is available about their contracts and what the stage of development their weaponry is in.</p><hr /><h2 id="upcoming-shows">Upcoming Shows</h2><p>Playing a gig w Catherine Savage on the 28th @ The Hargrove in Charles Village. Come hang!!</p><h4 id="baltimore">Baltimore</h4> <ul> <li>2/1 (Sun) Wild Pink, Dead Gowns, Jupie @ Ottobar</li> <li>2/1 (Sun) Mike Stern &amp; Dennis Chambers &amp; Gary Grainger @ Keystone Korner</li> <li>2/3 (Tue) Sleepy Sword, JF Rites, Chasing Mice, Thee Windows @ Ottobar</li> <li>2/3 (Tue) Ami Dang DJ night @ Peabody Heights</li> <li>2/5 (Thu) - 2/8 (Sun) Crankie Fest @ Creative Alliance</li> <li>2/6 (Fri) Rachel Beetz, Melissa Foss @ Normals Books</li> <li>2/7 (Sat) Cross My Heart @ Ottobar</li> <li><strong>2/8 (Sun) Agriculture, Knoll @ Metro</strong></li> <li>2/12 (Thu) Kayo Dot, Carl Gene, Joy Amaranthian @ Metro</li> <li>2/21 (Sat) Genocide Pact, Suppression, Shitstorm, Sinister Feeling, Deliriant Nerve @ Ottobar</li> <li>2/25 (Wed) Ryosuke Kiyasu, Bao Nguyen, Brandon Gouin @ Undercroft</li> <li>2/27 (Fri) * 2/28 (Sat) Mind On Fire: Lancelot Chimera @ The Voxel</li> <li>2/28 (Sat) Transmission: A Celebration For Ann Everton w/ Glorian, Consumer Culture, Curse, Cora Sone, +Many More @ Ottobar</li> <li><em><strong>2/28 (Sat) Catherine Savage @ The Hargrove</strong></em></li> </ul> <h4 id="dc">DC</h4> <ul> <li>2/3 (Tue) Dry Cleaning, Yhwh Nailgun @ Black Cat</li> <li>2/12 (Thu) Mdou Moctar (solo) @ The Atlantis</li> <li>2/14 (Sat) Marissa Nadler, Maria Bc @ Songbyrd</li> <li>2/20 (Fri) Nabeel, Dorinda, Dogwood Tales @ Pie Shop</li> </ul> <h4 id="nyc">NYC</h4> <ul> <li>2/4 (Wed) Ted Gordon's 'The Composer's Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic America' (w/ Marcia Bassett, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Luke Stewart) @ Roulette</li> <li>2/5 (Thu) Vietnamese Experimentalism: 'We Exist in the Ambivalence of Those Motherfuckers': Anh Vo, Lumi Tan, maura nguyễn donohue @ Performance Space</li> <li>2/5 (Thu) &amp; 2/6 (Fri) Mdou Moctar (solo) @ Union Pool</li> <li>2/7 (Sat) Elucid &amp; DJ Haram @ Night Club 101</li> <li>2/10 (Tue) FACS, Autobahn (free show) @ Union Pool</li> <li>2/12 (Thu) Tomas Fujiwara &amp; Craig Taborn duo @ The Stone</li> <li>2/14 (Sat) The Out Louds (Ben Goldberg, Mary Halvorson, Tomas Fujiwara) @ The Stone</li> <li>2/19 (Thu) - 2/21 (Sat) Ahmed jazz quartet @ ShapeShifter Lab</li> <li>2/25 (Wed) Nels Cline 70th bday show I think?? @ Pioneer Works</li> </ul> <h4 id="future-shows">Future Shows</h4> <ul> <li>3/2 (Mon) Machine Girl, Show Me the Body, Lustsickpuppy @ Union Craft Brewing (Baltimore)</li> <li>3/3 (Tue) Michael Shannon &amp; Jason Narducy and Friends play R.E.M.'s Lifes Rich Pageant, Bobcat Goldthwait @ 9:30 Club (DC)</li> <li>3/4 (Wed) Prison Affair &amp; Snõõper @ Ottobar (Baltimore)</li> <li>3/12 (Thu) Little Lungs Album Release with Planette Automatic, Morgan Gorgon @ Ottobar (Baltimore)</li> <li>3/13 (Fri) Butcher Brown @ The Atlantis (DC)</li> <li>3/14 (Sat) Eyelet, Ousted, Gloop, a paramount, a love supreme and Starveling, @ Metro (Baltimore)</li> <li>3/19 (Thu) ZETA @ Metro (Baltimore)</li> <li>3/20 (Fri) Joyce Manor, Militarie Gun, Teen Mortgage, &amp; Combat @ Nevermore Hall (Baltimore)</li> <li>3/20 (Fri) Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet + Orcutt solo @ Roulette (NYC)</li> <li>3/20 (Fri) Orcutt, Mendoza, Corsano trio @ Roulette (NYC)</li> <li>3/20 () Skaiwater, Baby Osamaa @ Union Stage (DC)</li> <li>3/21 (Sat) Outline: Geordie Greep, Julianna Barwick &amp; Mary Lattimore, Delroy Edwards, Still House Plants @ Knockdown Center (NYC)</li> <li>3/21 (Sat) Tosser / Bloodsports / Guttered @ Rhizome (DC)</li> <li>3/24 (Tue) Orcutt Shelley Miller @ Metro (Baltimore)</li> <li>3/24 (Tue) Evicshen @ Ottobar (Baltimore)</li> <li>3/24 (Tue) Julianna Barwick &amp; Mary Lattimore @ Miracle Theatre (DC)</li> <li>3/26 (Thu) Anna Von Hausswolff @ Songbyrd (DC)</li> <li>3/30 (Mon) Dirty Three @ 9:30 Club (DC)</li> <li>3/31 (Tue) Dirty Three @ Recher Theatre (Baltimore)</li> <li>3/31 (Tue) Perfume Genius (duo) @ Lincoln Theatre (DC)</li> <li>4/10 (Fri) Art Brut reunion show @ Comet Ping Pong (DC)</li> <li>4/10 (Fri) Sunn O))) @ Lincoln Theatre (DC)</li> <li>4/11 (Sat) Mclusky, PILE @ Black Cat (DC)</li> <li>4/14 (Tue) femtanyl, Govlink, takihasdied @ The Atlantis (DC)</li> <li>4/16 (Thu) JFDR @ DC9 (DC)</li> <li>4/17 (Fri) Waxahatchee &amp; Mj Lenderman @ The Anthem (DC)</li> <li>4/18 (Sat) Snail Mail, Swirlies &amp; Sharp Pins @ Union Craft (Outside) (Baltimore)</li> <li>5/4 (Mon) Gelli Haha @ Songbyrd (DC)</li> <li>5/8 (Fri) C2C: YHWH Nailgun, Arca, Aya, Los Thutanaka, Nourished By Time, etc. @ Knockdown Center (NYC)</li> <li>5/9 (Sat) The Messthetics &amp; James Brandon Lewis @ Black Cat (DC)</li> <li>5/10 (Sun) Silkworm reunion(??!!) @ Pearl St Warehouse (DC)</li> <li>5/21 (Thu) The New Pornographers, Will Sheff @ 9:30 Club (DC)</li> <li>5/21 (Thu) caroline @ Knockdown Center (NYC)</li> </ul>

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