Spank Rock, Eric Copeland, Get Em Mamis, Dan Friel and more added to Whartscape 2010

In an email Dan Deacon just sent us about Whartscape 2010, hometown favorite Spank Rock and a handful of other acts have been added to the fest. Here's what's new...

SPANKROCK
MINK STOLE (lecture)
SCOTTI B
ERIC COPELAND
GET EM MAMIS
NADASTROM
DAN FRIEL
ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
LANDLORDS
CHANDELIERS
DJ YO YO DIETING

Dan promises to add more acts next week. Whartscape is July 22-25 at locations that are yet to be announced in Baltimore. Get your megapasses from Wham City here.

TRAVELING ACTS:
ARAB ON RADAR
BIG DIGITS
BURNING STAR CORE
CHILD BITE
CORAL LEGS
DEAKIN
DINOSAUR FEATHERS
DUCKTAILS
EAR PWR
FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE
FARMS
GAY BOMB
HEALTH
HUME
INNOCULIST
JACK TOFT WITH THE VEGETABLES
JAVELIN
KOEN HOLTKAMP
LAZY MAGNET
LIGHTNING BOLT
LIL B
LIVING THINGS
LONNIE WALKER
LORD SCRUMMAGE
NO AGE
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER
PC WORSHIP
PRINCE RAMA
SEWN LEATHER
SOCIAL JUNK
SUPER VACCATIONS
TALK NORMAL
XIU XIU
YIP YIP
ZACH HILL
+more TBA

BALTIMORE ACTS:
ADVENTURE
ALTERED STATES
AMI DANG
ART DEPARTMENT
BETHANY DINSICK
CARLY
CHILD BRIDE
CUP CACHE
DAN DEACON ENSEMBLE
DJ DOG DICK
DOOR
DOPE BODY
DOUBLE DAGGER
DUSTIN WONG
ED SCHRADER
FUTURE ISLANDS
GRAVEBANGERS
HEIGHT
HOLLYWOOD
IN EVERY ROOM
JARED PAULINI
JASON URICK
JIMMY JOE ROCHE
LESSER GONZALEZ ALVAREZ
LITTLE HOWLIN' WOLF
LOWER DENS
MICKEY FREE
MOSS OF AURA
NARWHALZ (OF SOUND)
NEDDLE GUN
PARDALINCE BIRD
PEARLY
PLURAL MC
PONYTAIL
RAP DRAGONS
SICK WEAPONS
TEENSOULS
TEETH MOUNTAIN
THANK YOU
THE CONVOCATION
THE CREEPERS
THE NEW FLESH
TWIG
VIDEO HIPPOS
WYE OAK
ZOMES
+SECRET GUESTS
+more TBA

Tonight: Kría Brekkan / Jason Urick / Eric Copeland / Dj Dogdick @ Floristree

Floristree is jam-packed with some stellar talent tonight. Madeline Maulding, a local musician and recently introduced Bmore Musically Informed contributor, is particularly excited about an avant folk artist on the bill. Iceland's Kría Brekkan will grace the H&H's presence, and here's Madeline Maulding's take on her:

Tonight at the Floristree space, Kría Brekkan brings her avant-electro-folk music to Baltimore, along with Blak Dice's Eric Copeland, DJ Dogdick, and resident ambient drone master Jason Urick.

Born Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir and once a driving force behind Iceland's Múm, Brekkan began her solo career in 2006, collaborating notably with her husband David Portner--otherwise known as Avey Tare of Animal Collective.

Last year's brief but magical Apotropaíosong Armor has some qualities about it which are reminiscent of some of the artists on the Fonal lable, particularly Islaja and Lau Nau. (Is it a Nordic faux pas to compare Icelandic folks with Finish folks? Hopefully not.)

I say this not only because Kría Brekkan's album is less concerned with discernable songs and more concerned with displaying multi-instrumental capabilities and tonal prowess, but because all of these ladies suffuse their music with a deceptively-childlike female energy which is simultaneously unsettling and alluring.

Apotropaíosong Armor contains a menagerie of animal-like sounds, haunting woodland sprites calling through vaulted sylvan archways of delay and tremolo. On "Armor," recorders whistle, a stringed instrument bellows warm pizzicato notes. A Piano--the instrument upon which Brekkan considers herself the most skillful--drops in here and there, most beautifully on "Biboni." Periodically, soft voices loop in and out of the mix in hushed, innocent tones . . . the whole album a wonderful lullaby to nascent sirens.

This music is new to me and I am excited to see how it translates in a live performance. The Floristree is the perfect space, and she will be in good company this evening.