Electro Shake Therapy

For the first time in what seems like forever, there is no reunion tour wheezing its way through Baltimore this weekend. It’s too early for Artscape, and Honfest, Charles Village Festival, and Sowebo Fest are in the past.

So what is there to do during the first official weekend of summer, other than hit the pool during the day, the bars at night and the pool again on the way home?

Check out a concert at Wind Up Space featuring Old Songs, Lurch and Holler, Tinklers and other local bands. Proceeds for the Friday concert, which starts at 8 p.m., go toward Shakemore Au Go Go, a Westminister music festival.

And if you need plans for Satuday, the SDIY Baltimore Electronic Music Fest at The Depot is a good bet.

The festival begins at 9 p.m. with some lofi electro with Jake Carlo followed by MElaine Douglas at 9:45 p.m. and her sax, clarinet, keyboards and an RC50 loop. Specializing in electro chaos micFreak Mike Cobaria will perform at midnight, and will demonstrate how anyone influenced by New Order, OMD and Depeche Mode can’t be bad.

Don’t just go out on the weekends! There’s too much good stuff during the week to sit home:

• Thursday, June 30 at Golden West; Lady Piss, TV Ghost, and Call of the Wild, 10 p.m., $7. Don’t miss this kids, you will be sorry.
• Wednesday, June 29 at CCAS; Firecrackers, Flamingo Nosebleed, Trashkanistan, Quarantine. Trashkanistan is becoming the hardest working band in Baltimore.