Community Center is normally a pretty wild show. They perform energetic, soul-filled romp-jams with impressive instrumental chops We asked them to put down their instruments, and strip one of their favorite songs down to its bare bones. They did us one better: they wrote us an entirely new one. Enjoy “Baby Grand” by Community Center.…

For this month’s Living Room Session, we put Baltimore Cabaret rockers, Gunwife Gone to the task of playing one of their songs with nothing but homemade and found instruments. They had about a week to rehearse. By the end of it, drummer Ryan had managed to find 15 sounds you can make with a water…

We got Josh Friedman from That One Eyed Kid in the living room for a little experiment. Josh is a very physical, percussive player who uses strong rhythms to anchor his live arrangements. We paired him with a General Electric Youth Electronics chord organ from the early 70’s. This instrument uses an electric fan to…