I’m doing a live photobooth at this Taylor Swift Revenge night at the beloved OTTOBAR tonight. It’s my first photobooth since lockdown, etc. Should be fun.
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Ottobar Over The Years
Pure Junk @ Ottobar (plus a cool GIF)
Digging through the stacks on this Thanksgiving eve and finding lots of old gems I haven’t posted. Here are some photos of my pals PURE JUNK from last year, playing a show at the Ottobar. Perhaps opening for Fred & Toody of Dead Moon? This was a fun night. Look for more posts soon (I always say that, but for real this time).
the Snails & Frogman @ the Ottobar.
THE SNAILS
FROGMAN
The other day I was at this packed show at the Ottobar. The Snails is a Baltimore supergroup, and Frogman has to be seen to be believed/understood. I was just there for fun, but I snapped a few pics anyway… CLICK HERE TO SEE THE WHOLE PHOTOSET
Government Issue @ the Ottobar
Government Issue, the legendary DC hardcore band fronted by John Stabb, played a surprise show at the Ottobar recently. Pretty cool getting to see them play just blocks from my house, on a icy Sunday evening.
See all the GI @ the Ottobar photos here | Buy prints here, including several from this show
UNfest 2 with Gories, Pissed Jeans, Peach Kelli Pop & more!
The Gories
Pissed Jeans
Peach Kelli Pop
Obnox
Ed Schrader’s Music Beat
Hunters
Roomrunner
Old Lines
Cult Control
Big Christ
UNfest 3 is this weekend, so enjoy the above photos from 2013’s fest! You can buy tickets for this year’s fest here.
Click here for all the photos from UNfest 2.
Click here for day one and here for day two photos from UNfest 1!
(These photos originally ran on Noisey.)
Windhand, The Pilgrim, All Of Them Witches @ the Ottobar
Windhand
The Pilgrim
All Of Them Witches
Good show at Ottobar the other day (week? slowly getting my site up to date). Really dug the chance to see Windhand, as this was the first time I had seen them in a non-festival setting. The Pilgrim is always great, one of my favorite heavy Baltimore bands.
See all the WINDHAND, THE PILGRIM, ALL OF THEM WITCHES photos here!
Liquor Bike & Helikoptor reunions @ the Ottobar.
Pig Destroyer “Book Burner” Record Release Show @ Ottobar.
Nobunny, Bad Sports, Murder, Highway Cross @ Ottobar.
Fun show at the Ottobar this past weekend… Nobunny is always fun live, and Bad Sports were a welcome surprise! Continue reading
Insubordinaton Fest 2012 @ the Ottobar.
This was a lot of fun – an annual pop-punk/punk fest from local punk label Insubordination records, I was sent out by the Baltimore Sun to cover this, but was excited to see the Mean Jeans, who I have covered before, as well as Night Birds & the Dopamines (who were playing with Mikey from the Ergs), both of whom I have always managed to miss. House Boat, who I’d never heard of before, was a good discovery – they played until they literally fell down from exhaustion. What a fun show and crowd… crazy crowd-surfing and dancing, lots of fun bands. And the organizers, including the legendary Larry Livermore, were very easy to talk to and chill. Read on for more photos or click here for the whole Flickr set from Insub fest… Continue reading
Dan Deacon Ensemble, Celebration, Matmos @ Ottobar.
Awesome show, from beginning to end. 3 very different, yet complimentary Baltimore music groups, all on one bill! A great weekend for the Ottobar, who also hosted a sold out Wye Oak show the following night… anyway…
I have seen Matmos several times, and they are always different. This night, they chose to create a droning/grooving sort of atmosphere with a Caribbean (to my uninformed ears) feeling type of beat, very noddable and swayable. One of their songs got pretty minimal industrial, again to my uniformed ears, and I would SWEAR that on one song they used the same sample as Ministry does on one of their “Land of Rape And Honey” era records… but maybe I am just a goth.
Celebration remains one of my absolute favorite bands to see live in Baltimore… I love their old material and their newer stuff is growing on me more and more now that I have seen it played live a few times. Their set has morphed into only having one or two songs from the “The Modern Tribe” era, and they are still a treat to watch.
Dan Deacon used this show to introduce his new five piece ensemble (who I have posted about here recently) , and I really enjoyed the additional instrumentation. I think it worked best on the newer songs, ones that I assume were written for this group, but even on the classic Deacon songs, I think they added alot, especially the dual percussion. Live drums really can create a feeling like nothing else. The crowd seemed to agree, they went CRAZY, which is too be expected, and it was a really really fun set. Somehow I managed to stick it out the whole time at the front… a bit of a while since I managed that, but I was having a blast!
Double Dagger’s Last Show.
Great show, best night. I stage dove, in fact all the photographers stage dove… wait, EVERYONE stage dove. Denny’s dad held it down at the front for the whole show! So much fun, what a good send off for one of the best bands the city has ever seen. Thanks for the memories, guys.
- See all the photos from Double Dagger’s last show, including a couple of openers Dan Deacon & Future Islands.
- BUY PRINTS of photos from the last Double Dagger shows (CCAS, DC, NYC, Baltimore)
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Natural Child @ Ottobar.
Natural Child are a pretty awesome band from Tennessee, I have seen them twice now (both times brought to Baltimore via Unregistered Nurse Booking), and both times they impressed me. Slowed down, very melodic garage-y punk rock, with funny lyrics and song concepts… good stuff. Check them out when they play your town.
White Wires, Deep Sleep, Hollywood @ Ottobar.
This show was REALLY fun. Brought to you by Unregistered Nurse, this was a good time sunday rock and roll show upstairs at the Ottobar, a great venue for punk/rock shows… great bar staff, lots of room, good prices… I love the Ottobar. I imagine it must be a bitch to move all those amps and whatnot up the stairs though…
Anyway, good times, good tunes, friends. Deep Sleep and Hollywood are local Baltimore bands, Hollywood is more on the garage side of things, while Deep Sleep is a fast hardcore band, fronted by Tony from Celebrated Summer records. The White Wires are from Canada, which they kept referencing, and were also REALLY DRUNK. They kept talking about how many centiliters of whiskey they had drink, which was funny since no one in the crowd probably had any idea how many centiliters are in a normal shot… or maybe even what a centiliter is. They were great live though, and tore through a quick set of poppy rock songs.
public image limited.
two nights ago i saw PiL in baltimore, it was a pretty fun show. i was really hesitant to go because i sort of assumed it would be terrible… but they were good! really it was many John Lydon’s show, but the sound was great and the band was tight and they played a lot of classics. Check out all my shots from Public Image Limited.
Continuing the 70s post/punk train, last night i saw the Buzzcocks at the Ottobar in baltimore. I was more confident going into this one, I’ve seen them recently-ish and they were good, and they did not disappoint. Great show and it was all old material, go see them if they come to your town! (I didn’t shoot at this, just watched and saw lots of old friends).
NO BUNNY, Jay Reatard, Hunx & His Punx @ Ottobar, Baltimore.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE PHOTOS. This show was fun – I loved No Bunny and thought Hunx & His Punx were pretty fun/ny. No Bunny were a total blast and you should check them out if they play around you, for sure. Just good showmanship and alot of energy and simple, catchy songs. And underwear and bunny masks.
night marchers @ the ottobar.
Last night I saw the Night Marchers (ex-Rocket From The Crypt and, I believe, Hot Snakes) play at the Ottobar. They put on a real good show and even passed out beers for people in the crowd to shotgun with them…
Fool’s Gold Tour @ Ottobar, Baltimore
The other week I worked the Fool’s Gold/Scion/Taxlo show at the Ottobar (with Jokers of the Scene, Trackademics, Nick Catchdubs, Sammy Banannas)… met several of the people at Fool’s Gold, who were all really nice and awesome, and checked out the various artists. It was a good time. I felt like the crowd was sort of confused when Trackademics started, as if they didn’t expect some live hip hop at this show, but what can you do? Click here for the full Fool’s Gold set
DMBQ & Monotonix @ the Ottobar.
Two of the most wildly audience interacting live bands around played at the Ottobar monday… it was a great, great time. DMBQ are still one of the best bands I have EVER seen… Monotonix was fun and a spectacle (even taking the show outside before Ottobar staff chased everyone back in), but musically I don’t think they quite compare. Still, it was one of the funniest shows I have been to in a long while… View the full set here.