Sunday, April 17, 2016

























My first article for Pigeons & Planes is an extensive piece about Tate Kobang, and his recent show at Soundstage, where I helped get Tim Trees onstage with Tate for the first time, a moment that I'd been wanting to see for the last year. Tate's new mixtape Since We're Here is out now.

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Wednesday, February 17, 2016




















I wrote the obituary of Reggie Reg, a Baltimore DJ and radio legend who passed away recently, for this week's Baltimore City Paper. Rest in peace.

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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

I had a really good conversation with David Turner about Baltimore club music and internet memes, and he quoted me a little in his excellent Pitchfork piece on the topic of club music and Vines.

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Monday, August 24, 2015

Government Names in the New York Times! Thanks to Jon Caramanica, and shout out to Dylan for his brief, memorable early tenure at this site providing it with the lion's share of its notoriety.

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Tuesday, August 18, 2015






















Baltimore rapper Tate Kobang recently signed to 300 Entertainment off the strength of "Bank Rolls," his hit that features the beat from a circa 2000 Baltimore classic by Tim Trees. I spoke to both Tate and Tim Trees for The Fader.

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015



























In this week's Baltimore City Paper, I wrote The Short List, and the final Rap Sheet column, with news about Dirt Platoon, Wordsmith, and more.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2014





















This week the Baltimore City Paper published its annual Top 10 issue, with lots and lots of year-end lists, and I contributed some things in the music section. I did year-end editions of my BPM column, with the best Baltimore club releases of 2014, and my Rap Sheet column, with the best local rap of the year. I voted in several other music lists, including Local Albums (where I wrote blurbs about Future Islands and Wye Oak), Local Singles (where I blurbed Lor Scoota), and Non-Local Albums (where I blurbed YG).

Also wrote The Short List this week as usual.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014






















In this week's Baltimore City Paper, I wrote The Short List and a Rap Sheet column with news about new releases by Al Great and Street Scott, DDm, Black Zheep DZ and more.

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Thursday, November 13, 2014
























In this week's Baltimore City Paper, I wrote The Short List and a review of Lor Scoota's new mixtape Still N The Trenches 2.5.

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Tuesday, November 04, 2014








My latest BPM dance music column in this week's City Paper covers lots of Baltimore club news and new music.

Also wrote The Short List as usual.

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Thursday, October 16, 2014






















In this week's City Paper, I wrote The Short List, and a feature about Baltimore rapper Damond Blue, a guy with a lot of talent and an interesting story who's releasing the album Blessonz on November 4th.

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Wednesday, October 01, 2014





















In this week's Baltimore City Paper, I wrote The Short List, and a review of a very weird Baltimore rap album, Warehouse's The Destruction.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2014
























In this week's Baltimore City Paper, I wrote a Rap Sheet column, which has news about UllNevaNo and other artists, and The Short List.

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Thursday, September 18, 2014

























The City Paper's annual Best of Baltimore issue is out this week, and I wrote a few blurbs for it, congrats to all the winners. Also wrote The Short List as usual.

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Wednesday, September 03, 2014

























In this week's Baltimore City Paper, I profiled DJ Pierre for the latest BPM column, and also wrote The Short List.

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Wednesday, July 02, 2014


















In this week's Baltimore City Paper, I wrote a feature about Femi The DriFish & The Out of Water eXperience, who just released a live album.

Also, as usual, I wrote The Short List in this week's issue.

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Tuesday, April 08, 2014






















In this week's Baltimore City Paper, I wrote a Rap Sheet column (about D. King, J Who? Worldwise, E-Dubble, Bink Baghdad and more) and The Short List.

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Wednesday, February 19, 2014


















In this week's Baltimore City Paper, I wrote a Rap Sheet column, with news about Rome Cee and others, and The Short List.

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Tuesday, February 04, 2014

I wrote The Short List and my dance music column BPM in this week's Baltimore City Paper.

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Tuesday, January 14, 2014
























I wrote a feature in the Baltimore City Paper about Greenspan and the album he released this week.

Also wrote The Short List this week as usual.

(photo by J.M. Giordano)

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