Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Swing Low

Baltimore is rarely mentioned among the country’s elite underground music towns. And perhaps the Austins and Williamsburghs of the world will always overshadow the Charm City. But in recent years, the City That Reads has quietly become the City That Rocks, producing a slew of exciting indie bands — think Beach House, Future Islands, et al. Fronted by Jana Hunter, aka the first solo artist to release a record for freak-folk impresario Devendra Banhart’s Gnomonsong label, Lower Dens appears to be the latest such export. Touring behind their recently released full-length debut, Twin Hand Movement, also on Gnomonsong, the band drops by the Monkey House this Sunday with Brooklyn-based psych-pop outfit Inoculist and BTV’s DJ Disco Phantom.