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ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE UNDERGROUND, HERE AND ELSEWHERE [Anything for a Weird Life] Nov 19, 2024 Columns Tim checks out A MIND BLOWN IS A MIND SHOWN by Plastic Crimewave IMPRESSIONS OF SHINY FEST 3 [Anything for a Weird Life] Sep 10, 2024 Columns It is the day after the third Shiny Fest, and I can’t stop thinking about balloons. Shiny Fest’s intent was not only to tout its own roster and Letter of Recommendation: Suzanne Doogan [Anything for a Weird Life] Nov 15, 2022 Columns Tim Kabara sends up Baltimore poet, musician, artist, and quality human Suzanne Doogan CALAMARI by Remington Lamons Jan 13, 2025 Fiction I watched the pale squid thrash in the snow. It would thrash, then rest with this awful breathing motion. Then it would thrash again, though a bit How to Use Spotify [Anything for a Weird Life] Feb 14, 2023 Columns We know you've heard vinyl is making a comeback, but what about streaming music? How does that work? Impressions of Disturbin' The Peace 2024: Day One [Anything for a Weird Life] Jan 30, 2024 Columns It is 10 AM the day after Day One of the Fest, and my body and my mind are reeling. What I did, essentially, was stand alone in the back area of Tape World: Death Grips, Exmilitary CS [Anything for a Weird Life] Jan 16, 2024 Columns Tim remembers the early shock of Death Grips' debut mixtape Leaves Turn Inside You: Seeing Unwound Live 1993-2023 [Anything for a Weird Life] Mar 21, 2023 Columns The flyer came in the mail. Universal Order of Armageddon was playing with some band called Unwound in the basement of the 169 house on Friday, July Time to Say Goodbye for the Summer [Anything For a Weird Life] May 23, 2023 Columns I was eating Indian buffet with some old friends when the topic of this column came up. I broke the news. The last column in “series one” will be Truth Cult (Last Show) [Anything for a Weird Life] May 28, 2024 Columns Tim's elegy for a standout Baltimore band Steve Albini 1962-2024 [Anything for a Weird Life] May 14, 2024 Columns “Rules be: No past, only present. No cheating; if it doesn’t happen that day, I won’t write about it. No explanations; if it doesn’t make sense to How Many Times Should a Baltimore Band Play Baltimore? [Anything for a Weird Life] Apr 11, 2023 Columns The answer used to be easy. Tape World: Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation [Anything for a Weird Life] Oct 31, 2023 Columns Tim remembers a 1989 cassette purchase In Praise of Novelty [Anything for a Weird Life] Dec 19, 2023 Columns On Wednesday, December 13th, the show’s flyers started to appear, altered, on my timeline. The venue had been crossed out and a dreaded phrase had SCENE REPORT: GUNS N' ROSES WITH SKID ROW, 1991 [Anything for a Weird Life] Mar 25, 2025 Columns One more turn in the road toward the Weird Life IT'S NOT TOO LATE [Anything for a Weird Life] Apr 8, 2025 Columns Haunted by a Friendly Ghost: The Return of The Hated [Anything for a Weird Life] Jan 24, 2023 Columns “On April 18, 1918, a meeting was held at the home of Joseph Urban of Earleigh Heights for the purpose of establishing a Volunteer Fire Department.” "The Journal of Mary Gurney" by Nathan Perrin Jul 7, 2023 Fiction Michelle smiled as she was shown into the library archives. “What are you studyin’?” asked the librarian. “Mary Gurney,” Michelle sat at a table by Men's Recovery Project, or The Pain of Being Pioneers [Anything for a Weird Life] Sep 12, 2023 Columns On Sunday, July 17th, 1994, I made my way to Richmond, Virginia to see my friends’ band open up for Bikini Kill. In 1994, pre-Internet, info was Fiction: "I became a different person" by Tony Rauch Oct 31, 2022 Fiction I know people who go through changes (some brought on by external forces, some by accident, some by design, some gradual, some that stick, others HEMLOCK, HEIGHT AND THE RETURN OF UNDERGROUND HIP HOP TO STATION NORTH [Anything for a Weird Life] Nov 26, 2024 Columns TOP TEN [Anything for a Weird Life] Jan 3, 2023 Columns Tim Kabara's Top Ten retrospective CRATE DIGGING [Anything for a Weird Life] Nov 12, 2024 Columns Tim's modest proposal for new vinyl variants Found Sound Reviews [Anything for a Weird Life] May 2, 2023 Columns If you would like your release to be reviewed by Tim Kabara, donate it to your local thrift store. Going Underground at the Undercroft [Anything for a Weird Life] May 9, 2023 Columns Tim visits Baltimore's only all ages venue Whartscape: A Look Back [Anything for a Weird Life] Sep 26, 2023 Columns As Baltimore City wades through the remnants of a tropical storm no one could have predicted as statistically likely and begins to process a "Rows of Jaw Bones and Worn Down Teeth" by C. Morgenrede Mar 21, 2024 Fiction years ago today, in the past, seven orange cones set on top of a wet tarp for a burial ceremony, a fog rolls in, rocks tumble, things become blurry, SCENE REPORT: Twig Harper @ Current Space [Anything for a Weird Life] Sep 24, 2024 Columns No matter which calendar you follow, as of this weekend, it is officially fall in Baltimore. This can only mean one thing: more events, festivals, Artscape: A Look Back [Anything for a Weird Life] Sep 19, 2023 Columns This week Tim looks back at Artscape, a legendarily mismanaged Baltimore institution. Found Sound Reviews [Anything for a Weird Life] Mar 7, 2023 Columns If you would like your release to be reviewed by Tim Kabara, donate it to your local thrift store. Underground Show FAQ [Anything for a Weird Life] Mar 14, 2023 Columns So you’re decided to go to a show at a non-traditional venue in the Baltimore underground. Great! Here are some of the questions you may have. APRIL IS THE COOLEST MONTH [Anything for a Weird Life] Apr 1, 2025 Columns Tim gives us the rundown on Baltimore shows to catch this month TO ZINE OR NOT TO ZINE? [Anything for a Weird Life] Jan 28, 2025 Columns This weekend, following a certain trail guided and guarded by the punks I asked, I attended a zinefest. I made my time brief and my presence light. SUMMER 2024 RECAP [Anything for a Weird Life] Sep 3, 2024 Columns Tim's back from his summer sabbatical with a look back at a busy summer in Baltimore music. You Are Not What You Own [Anything for a Weird Life] Apr 4, 2023 Columns You can't Fugazi the Internet. Tape World: Evil Spirits S/T Cassette [Anything for a Weird Life] Nov 28, 2023 Columns Tim's Proustian remembrance of Baltimore Past, spurred by a 2009 noise-sludge cassette I Sing the BODY Electric [Anything for a Weird Life] Jan 2, 2024 Columns Let Tim have this one thing, please. IN PRAISE OF BALTIMORE SHOWPLACE [Anything for a Weird Life] Sep 17, 2024 Columns On the heels of the DIY show listing's fifth anniversary, Tim sends up a vital Baltimore institution Interview: Matthew Byars of Attorneys General and Essential Tremors Oct 24, 2022 Interviews Toward the end of September an interesting message turned up in the BRUISER submissions: an invitation to check out a couple of upcoming Fiction: "some more reasons why denby trashed your place" by Tony Rauch Oct 26, 2022 Fiction The blue sky. The wind swirling in the leaves A platypus in the yard. A mysterious looking platypus A girl who moves away A girl he sees from #SQUATTHEPHARMACY IN 2025 [Anything for a Weird Life] Jan 9, 2025 Columns Tape World: O.K. Let's Rock with... Nirvana Apr 9, 2024 Columns Tim returns to Tape World to examine a mysterious Nirvana bootleg FURTHER READING: "Chung King Can Suck It" by Judge [Anything for a Weird Life] Jan 14, 2025 Columns Tim considers the reissue of a rare record that probably never should have existed in the first place. WHAT DO WE DO NOW? [Anything for a Weird Life] Mar 4, 2025 Columns Tim's notes on some recent Baltimore Happenings "Warpig" by Anthony Neil Smith Nov 27, 2023 Fiction Warpig don’t care what you think of his mullet. People here in Minnesota call it “hockey hair” but Warpig never gave one shit about hockey except Saturday Night and Sunday Morning [Anything for a Weird Life] Dec 13, 2022 Columns Tim Kabara's lament for a great show that didn't happen. YOUR FIRST SCENE REPORT [Anything for a Weird Life] Oct 1, 2024 Columns You are in a basement in Pasadena, Maryland in a house off Goose Neck Road. The basement is large but spare and well kept. It is Friday, March 19th, When should a band record in the studio? [Anything for a Weird Life] Oct 17, 2023 Columns Tim's sage advice for young bands On the Importance of Infrastructure [Anything for a Weird Life] Apr 2, 2024 Columns Tim illuminates the importance of our unseen support structures In Praise of Phantomime [Anything for a Weird Life] Mar 12, 2024 Columns Saturday night remains a potential portal to other realms.