This Friday February 8th RabbitFoot & The Ottobar present WHITE WILLIAMS, ECSTATIC SUNSHINE, & SMARTS.

WHITE WILLIAMS


(Photo By: Nicholas Lorden)

(from NYLON MAG.COM)

White Williams came of age in the same Cleveland scene as Girl Talk’s Greg Gillis, so it’s no wonder that, like Gillis, he prefers doings things himself. While he uses a live backup band at his shows, White (whose real name is Joe) mixed and recorded his debut album, Smoke, all by his lonesome, and in various sublets in Ohio, New York, and San Francisco. The result of all this cross-pollination is Smoke. It’s an album at once fresh and fatigued, with laid-back, folksy guitar refrains dropped over an insistent synth backbeat that jerks along like a marionette on tangled strings. Ironically, in an age of obsessively overproduced electronic music, such disarming disjointedness seems almost Zen-like. Smoke’s wündertrack is “In the Club,” which sounds more like a bass-slapped, beer-breathèd ballad than anything you’d hear behind a velvet rope. True to form, Williams’s recording style is also refreshingly laid-back.

ECSTATIC SUNSHINE

(Photo By: Jared Boger)

Baltimore's Ecstatic Sunshine are a frantic, instrumental guitar-dueling duo. Members Matt Papich and Dustin Wong met at art school in 2004 and focused on the idea that "there are things to be done with sound besides just experiencing feelings all the time." The sound, which has been influenced by such things as Baltimore's party scene and deep sea fishing, earned them accompanying slots with Dirty Projectors, Aloha, Knife Skills, and Lightning Bolt.

SMARTS

(Photos of SMARTS by Jeffery Dundas)

SMARTS is the new incarnation of Baltimore's Coconuts and is my personal pick for best new band in Baltimore. Keep an eyes on these devils they are going to pop very soon.

Doors open at 9pm/ Show at 10pm- ALL AGES