The Scene

MusicDetour.com’s commentary on music, performances, and the DC metro area music scene

On the first Friday of every month a group of deejays who call themselves the Charm City Summit host a soul dance party in the basement bar at Baltimore’s Lithuanian Hall.  Cinematic sleazemaster John Waters is a frequent attendee, including the last two events.  This week Charm City Summit will be throwing a special event to support the charity Bike Free.  Founded by “The Preacher” Paul Lebelle, one of the host deejays, Bike Free will purchase bicycles and helmets for the children of soldiers deployed in our nation’s Middle East campaigns, with a goal of providing 1000 helmets and bikes as Christmas presents this year.  In addition to the regular line-up of deejays spinning soul platters, there will be three bands:  Lazlo Lee & the Motherless Children, Soul Scrolls, and Solar Temple Suicides.  Make the scene and support our troops and their families!

98 Rock hosts a local music showcase every Monday at Bourbon Street.  Unfortunately, they advertise the branded affordability of the night — $4.98 cover, $.98 open bar for the first 98 minutes, and $.98 drink specials after that — better than they advertise the schedule of bands.  I cannot find a listing of this week’s bands anywhere.  Maybe that’s the point.  You’re supposed to come for the cheap drinks and hope to be pleasantly surpised.  However, my sources tell me that this Monday, 2/22, the best line-up of Baltimore garage bands in months will take the stage:  The Expotentials, Fishnet Stalkers, and Lazlo Lee & The Motherless Children.  It’s a good thing the brick walls of The Quarter are bare, since these bands would peel the paint right off of them.