Friday and Saturday night: Baltimore Round Robin
Dan Deacon
The Baltimore Round Robin tour rules state that the acts “set up at the same time along the perimeter of the room with the audience at the center…[and] each band does one song per round, no breaks." More than 20 acts are participating, and Friday night includes the likes of Beach House, which plays woozy, ambient music that drifts into would-be shoegaze swirl. On Saturday, curator Dan Deacon creates a whimsically warped electro racket by using a jumble of patched-up gadgetry. Live, Deacon dons taped-up glasses and Tweety Bird shirts as he sinuously conducts, dances to, and croons along with his music-spitting contraptions. The fact that all of this is taking place in a church should only make more absurdly enjoyable.
The Round Robin is split up into two separate, well-defined nights. The first being "Eyes Night" with the likes of Beach House, intended to emphasize "a mixture of folk, noise, noise, theatrics, improvisation—music that is spiritual, dream etc." The second night with Dan Deacon is "Feet Night," what touts "music that you dance, thrash, or otherwise move around to." In case that isn't conceptual enough for you, there's also the "Weird Round," which defies both nights by infiltrating acts unwilling to label themselves as "Feet" or "Eyes." They should be easy to identify, though, as a rare bit of weirdness in the tour, right? On a completely unrelated note, here's an insane video for Dan Deacon's "Crystal Cat":
The Round Robin is split up into two separate, well-defined nights. The first being "Eyes Night" with the likes of Beach House, intended to emphasize "a mixture of folk, noise, noise, theatrics, improvisation—music that is spiritual, dream etc." The second night with Dan Deacon is "Feet Night," what touts "music that you dance, thrash, or otherwise move around to." In case that isn't conceptual enough for you, there's also the "Weird Round," which defies both nights by infiltrating acts unwilling to label themselves as "Feet" or "Eyes." They should be easy to identify, though, as a rare bit of weirdness in the tour, right? On a completely unrelated note, here's an insane video for Dan Deacon's "Crystal Cat":
