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Join us in Remington to celebrate Al Shipley's new book Tough Breaks: The History of Baltimore Club Music! Al will be joined in conversation with Catalina Byrd and DJ Shawn Caesar.
ABOUT TOUGH BREAKS:
Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music is the definitive history of how a city danced its pain away.
In Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music, music journalist Al Shipley draws from 18 years’ worth of interviews with dozens of DJs, producers, vocalists, party hosts, promoters, and the founders of the clubs, labels and record stores that shaped the genre. With the untold stories behind labels like Unruly Records and clubs like The Paradox, Shipley digs deep into big personalities, obscure samples, profanely catchy chants, and friendship and feuds that drove a competitive scene to keep the 130BPM beats going for decades. Baltimore icons who died tragically young like Miss Tony and DJ K-Swift are remembered through the eyes of friends and collaborators, and producers like DJ Booman, DJ Class, and Diamond K reveal the inspirations behind some of their classic tracks.
Tough Breaks is available for purchase at greedyreads.com!
Al Shipley based Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music (Repeater Books, 2025) on interviews with over 50 producers, DJs, vocalists, and musicians from his two decades of covering Baltimore's homegrown house scene for Baltimore City Paper, the Baltimore Sun, the Baltimore Banner, and his influential music blog Government Names. He's also written about arts and culture for Spin, Rolling Stone, Complex, GQ, Pitchfork, and Vulture, and has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Greedy Reads Remington, 320 West 29th Street, Baltimore, United States
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