Holy shit. If Baltimore doesn’t implode from all the awesome this weekend, I am convinced it could weather almost any kind of Ragnarok/Armageddon-like event that could befall it. There’s just too much.
For those of you not Whart or Art-scape inclined, here are a few alternate options.
Wednesday July 16th
Van Hunt @ Sonar
Soulful musings.
Fred Falke @ Talking Head Club
Free is good. As well as talented and smooth mixing.
Vans Warped Tour @ Merriweather
Enjoy a bunch of mall-vetted bands and be cranky about the music popular with “kids today”.
Thursday July 17th
Jukebox the Ghost, Laura Burhenn @ the Ottobar
Likely to be a mile-wide, ear-to-ear, cheek-burning smile in the form of a show.
OR
Hub City Stompers, Thee Lexington Arrows @ Fletchers
Ska ska ska, reggae plus some surf and garage rock. For good measure.
Friday July 18th
WHARTSCAPE
ARTSCAPE
Full schedule here: http://artscape.org/index.cfm?page=schedules&mode=current
Big names are Joan Jett & the Heartbreakers and Roberta Flack on Friday night, Rusted Root, Mike Doughty (of Soul Coughing) and Diplo on Saturday and the Wailers on Sunday. Local greats playing the Metro Gallery include Caleb Stine & the Brakemen on Sunday and Thrushes on Saturday, Dave Nada, Daniel Higgs (of Lungfish) and Blaqstarr on Friday. Free BSO concert at the Meyerhoff, also on Saturday.
MY CREW BE UNRULY w/ Diplo, KSwift, Scottie B, Dave Nada, Blaqstarr, Tittsworth, & FREE BEER & FOOD & more DJs….is on Friday night after artscape and goes until 5am. The dudes on Wham City planning committee actually ended things early on Friday so that they could come through…. so you should too! I’m pretty sure BYT is also still running their contest to win a free pair of tickets!
Tickets/info at http://www.going.com/mycrewbeunruly
July 15, 2008 at 12:48 pm