Friends With Benefits @ Windup Space This Saturday

When people think of Baltimore Music these days there are a few big names that jump immediately to mind. Dan Deacon, Beach House, Animal Collective, and increasingly Future Islands and Lower Dens. But when the Chop talks to outsiders in conversation about music we usually say that we like to see a lot of shows, […]

Hop Along @ MICA Tonight

When we were in Nashville this Summer, poking around in all the shrines to country music we noticed a funny little phrase that kept popping up on plaques and descriptions over and over again: “old time family band.” Which is what it sounds like- you have a bunch of kids and teach each one a […]

Modern Girls Record Release @ Windup Space Tonight

Back in May we did a post about new music in Baltimore featuring some of the more interesting bands putting out recordings in town right now. One of the bands we featured in it was Modern Girls, a down-tempo indie/electronic act who impressed us quite a bit when we found their Bandcamp site. Today Modern […]

New Music in Baltimore: Spring 2013

You don’t have to listen to any Classic Rock radio station for very long before you realize that every single one of them is drawing from the same 200 song playlist every single day, and has been for the last 30 years. That’s because the Baby Boomer generation is all shitty people. Part of their […]