Next Friday, May 24th, The Ottobar is holding a release party for Flying Dog Music's Baltimore Vol. 1 compilation, with live performances from several acts that appear on the comp, including Among Wolves, Us And Us Only, and MacGregor Burns. And, I am excited to say, my band Western Blot was just added to the bill -- haven't seen our name added to the Facebook event or the venue page yet, but we should be playing 2nd, around 9pm that night.

The compilation happened because a while back Flying Dog Brewery, who are based in Frederick, Maryland, asked Mobtown Studios to help put together a collection of music from the Baltimore scene, to tie in with the many concert promotions and things they've been doing around the city to promote their beer. Mat Leffler-Schulman from Mobtown asked me to help out, and we brainstormed a bunch of bands we liked, asked them for new songs or picked out favorites from their records, and then I basically sequenced it all together like a mixtape I'd want to give to a friend to listen to.

Baltimore Vol. 1 features the debut of a new Western Blot song, "The Power Let Me Down," which features vocals by Andy Shankman (who also fronts Jumpcuts and plays guitar in Western Blot's live lineup), and occasional Western Blot vocalist Scott Siskind's other band Vinny Vegas has a song as well. We got previously unreleased tracks by Mr. Moccasin and Repelican, plus songs from Small Sur, Microkingdom, Holy MTN, Three Red Crowns, Brooks Long, The Manly Deeds, Me & This Army, Holy Ghost Party, Cameron Blake, everybody playing the Ottobar show... just a lot of great people from a really wide cross section of the city's music scene. The CD will be available at the show, and at other Flying Dog events, not sure about an online release. I'm feeling really great about how we've been sounding live lately, gonna be a great night.

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