Oh yeah, no doubt. Truth be told, if I can eek out a quick jaunt up there for Saturday, then I might. Its only like 5 hrs away (haha, only), so its doable.

Baltimore to NYC? I don't know which way you go but it only takes me three hours (or less) to get to NYC once I make it through Baltimore.

Kevin Drumm performing with Prurient added to Sunday's lineup. So now the show will end with them->Skullflower->Merzbow. That's just brutal.

I still need to find a place to stay.

Danny, I don't live in Baltimore. That's where I'm from and where I frequent. http://tinyurl.com/dftyhq

Well, horribly late on this but all-in-all this was a fantastic weekend. There were some serious misses and Merzbow cancelling was hugely disappointing. Also, only having the one stage didn't work too well, though it gave time for grabbing some very nice tapes during acts I didn't care for.

Highlights:
Corsano-In only 15 minutes of playing the dude pulled noise after unholy noise after his cymbals. I had no idea percussion could sound like that. What he does on his own as opposed to when he works with Chasny or Flaherty is like night and day. Amazing, albeit extremely short set.

Drumm and Prurient-I wasn't wure how this set would work with Drumm's tendency to drone on and on and then just explode and Prurient's just pure sonic violence, but they came together well. Drumm seemed to be in charge and Dominic just followed him. Very cool to see these two on the same stage.

Emeralds-Set of the festival hands down. These guys are so far ahead of what everyone else is doing. They have translated all the great pieces that came before them and merged them perfectly. The silent space of Tom Carter, the mix of drums and drones that Yellow Swans perfected, this was a band at it's peak. The guitar loops washed in and out of synth drones and reemerged someplace else. Absolutely focused, none of the over the top theatrics usually associated with great noise sets, just a great band playing what they play.

Sonic Youth-AMAZING!!! I have seen them before play the more expected stuff. This was however SY doing pure noise. Legs flailing, guitar string after guitar string popping, Lee Renaldo and Thurston Moore stealing the show. Feedback was at the forefront of course, but there was so much movement within everything they were doing. Nothing stagnated, but it was never random, it progressed and the set had a definitive beginning, middle and end, and the whole time you knew they were going somewhere with each new layer they introduced (or shuffled away). Very cool to see them do this kind of set.

Other highlights were the surprise showing of Keith Fullerton Whitman, Thrones, Bastard Noise, and Skullflower, nothing too unexpected from them though.

Disappointments: Xeno and Oaklander (just wasn't feeling it), Raglani (love the albums, but have never been more bored by a set), Blank Dogs (does not translate well live), and C. Spencer Yeh w/Rafael Toral and Trevor Tremaine (I want to see Yeh do killer noise, not mediocre free-jazz).