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Oh, Baltimore. You are so ready for an upswing it's not even funny. Each conversation about the city, by law, must be peppered with mentions of the crime stats or Wire references (a show about crime, natch) though the city's musical history does loom large; natives include Billie Holiday to DMX and Phillip Glass. More recently the Wham City scene has inspired a double-take at the city, and less dance-oriented (and trendy) groups like Wye Oak and the Lexie Mountain Boys are also breaking out.

If you've been broken up about the seeming demise of local anti-melody noise rockers Horse + Donkey, you'll be thrilled to know that Followed by Static is still standing.

Sometimes you hear bands that are just meant, like, by the sheer nature of their music, for the soundtrack of a badass film--a preferably artsy film, and quite possible violent. Surely, when that movie is indomitably un-Hollywood, it's makes for all the better listening, as the somewhat problematically named Horse + Donkey headline a nice little set tonight at Lamberts Downtown Barbeque, a fine dining establishment and music house in the heart of the 2nd Street district. Sounding not terribly unlike a European-influenced and pop-suppressant version of recent indie hypesters Tapes N Tapes, Horse + Donkey mushes a churningly forward-moving bass rhythm, jangling surfer guitars, steady percussion, and confident vocals into music it'd be no shock hearing as the credits roll.