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22 February 2006

East Coast Music I'm making up a mix cd for one of my NZ friends. I want it to include artists from Baltimore/DC and New York (and one Boston band that I like)→[More:]She likes all kinds of music. So... ideas please! I would prefer more recent music that she may not have heard of, but I'm putting on some old faves as well. I have Oxes, Ink, Candy Machine, Clap your hands say yeah, !!!, Pitty Sing, Girls Against Boys, Q and not U, TV on the radio, Pitty Sing. So far. Hope me, fair Metachatters!

post by: gaspode at: 00:04 | 23 comments

Hmm. Fugazi? Can't go wrong with them.

What Boston band are you including?

posted by killdevil 22 February | 00:11

Magnetic Fields for here and maybe Fiona Apple or Suzanne Vega or Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam or Salt n Pepa too, and some Go-Go from DC, definitely (and Bob Mould lives there now, so maybe him?).

posted by amberglow 22 February | 00:15

Also, Jonathan Fire*Eater, my old DC high school sorta-friends. Google em if you haven't heard em, they were good.

posted by killdevil 22 February | 00:17

Dresden Dolls are my favorite Boston band... and the bf loooooves Freezepop.

posted by ArsncHeart 22 February | 02:05

X's John Doe is from Baltimore.

posted by brujita 22 February | 02:07

Check out the Wammies and Washington Post's MP3 site.

(The Baltek) -> Rest Area -> Big Village -> Rachael Cross / Tinsmith gives good DC/Balmer world music. Rest Area/Big Village discography (scroll).

It's "back in the day punk" but Reptile House kicked so much Baltimore ass I still can't think straight. (The Crippled Pilgrims and 9353 tunes on the linked Bouncing Babies comp are great too, but maybe not obscure enough).

posted by danostuporstar 22 February | 04:47

Jawbox/Burning Airlines often makes my heart sing, in line with Fugazi (. The Dismemberment Plan is great, too, and they've got a song called "The Ice of Boston." I think I once did a namethattune post with all DC acts.

posted by Eideteker 22 February | 07:15

From Boston: Martha and the Muffins and Jonathan Richman
From Washington DC: The Razz, Tex Rubinowitz and the Bad Boys, and (of course) Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band.

"Put a quarter in the Juke......"

posted by mmahaffie 22 February | 08:26

Good suggestions so far. You're awesome, people. I'm hesitant to include bands like Fugazi that are very popular -- trying to introduce her to some less well known stuff. The Boston band I'm including is Big Bear.

killdevil, I think we must know the same people IRL, because one of my best friends was friends with the Jonathan Fire*Eater people. Yes they were very good. (did you go to school in DC?)

Everyone else: yes, yes and yes. Those bands will mostly all go on. amberglow: of course! go-go! Chuck Brown, I have lots of his stuff. Yay!!

posted by gaspode 22 February | 09:21

AllMighty Senators!

posted by mygothlaundry 22 February | 09:55

Another Boston band I recently learned about is mittens. A friend of mine has a few mp3s in this post. HTH

posted by terrapin 22 February | 09:56

Ted Leo? Love him, and he's local.

anamonon? From Baltimore.

Weird War (ex-NOU, ex-Make-UP, pretty kick ass, although better live)

The Mountain Goats' John D. now lives in North Carolina, which makes him kind of local.

Do you like Oranges Band? They've got a couple of good songs, they're from Charm City.

Reptile House members went on to Lungfish. Daniel Higgs has a cd out of just him playing Jaw-Harp, I don't know how it sounds. Asa had a side band called the Tear Jerkers that put out at least an album (maybe just on cassette?) that was pretty good.

Old school Annapolis bands were fucking awesome, Moss Icon, The Hated (still can't get over them), The Hated side band Three Shades of Dirty, Universal Order of Armaggadon. I'm not sure what's recent, I think Vermiform Records pretty much shit the bed.

posted by omiewise 22 February | 09:56

The Senators, of course mgl. Fantastic. They are one of those bands that are infinitely better live, though.

Good suggestions omiewise. I'll take you up on a couple. Not so fond of the oranges band though (strokes-lite and the one of them dumped a friend of mine :) )

posted by gaspode 22 February | 10:04

Small world situation, my wife went to school with Dan Black of Oranges Band. Hope he wasn't the same guy who dumped your friend.

posted by terrapin 22 February | 10:42

Not so fond of the oranges band though

Yeah, me either, but I thought I'd suggest them anyway.

posted by omiewise 22 February | 12:41

Gaspode, I went to school with the Jonathan Fire*Eater guys in DC, yeah. I did a couple of sports-type things with two of the guys who went on to form the band, and Stu Lupton (the front-man) was a fairly infamous character even when he was 15. They were a year or two older than I was.

posted by killdevil 22 February | 12:57

Also, they're sorta mainstream, but what compilation of latter-day Boston music would be complete without Guster? I still think Parachute was a great record.

posted by killdevil 22 February | 12:59

And if you want Chesapeake Bay, I endorse Carbon Leaf.

Is Athens, GA, east-coast?

posted by Eideteker 22 February | 13:26

Thirding the go-go.

MD bands tend to wank out, jacking power chords offa their Paul Reed Smiths, tryin' for the sortalike-Sublime-but-with-the-albatross-of-Fugazi-hanging-from-their-necks sound. That's so close to true it sounds good. Touch cloth.

I can't believe nobody mentioned Kix or Crack the Sky.

posted by Hugh Janus 22 February | 15:49

Are Medications well known yet? I can't track that so much. Same with Oxford Collapse.

I successfully resisted a self-link here, too.

posted by safetyfork 22 February | 15:51

I can't believe nobody mentioned Kix

And she THREW UP all over the floor

It was disgusting
It smelled really, really bad
It smelled like....it smelled like puke
Only puke smells like puke
You can have farts that don't smell like puke
Nothing smells like puke but real puke

posted by drjimmy11 22 February | 15:54

A great DC band that is no more is Black Eyes. They were on Discord,toured with Q and not U, and have kind of an post punk/angular funk kind of thing going on. Not a great description but their first album is so good I listen to it a least once a week.

posted by miles 22 February | 17:02

A couple of Baltimore bands that nobody has mentioned are Spank Rock (a kickass rap thing...they opened for M.I.A. in DC), Lake Trout and my new favorite is The Ambitions, but they don't have a CD out yet. From D.C., I like The Cassettes, Army of Me, Nethers and the Dismemberment Plan.

posted by YouCanCallMeAl 22 February | 21:50

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