Keywords: Edbrook.jpg en Ed Schrader full name Edward Henry Schrader is a musician comedian journalist for The Baltimore City Paper actor and talk show host of Baltimore �s only Late Night Talk Show The Ed Schrader Show and founding Wham City member Born in Utica New York 1979 to Nancy Evans a school teacher and Edward Lewis Schrader a former English professor and writer Though Ed wears many hats he has attained the most prominence performing as a musician His latest guise a rather minimal yet poignant one none the less consists of Schrader playing only a floor tom in a fashion that calls upon the muse of The Swans or Death In June and crooning powerful vocals that have been compared to everyone from Sinatra to The Buttholse Surfers with a little reverb for good measure a concoction that turned many heads as he traversed the country between 2005-2009 touring with the likes of Beach House Deer Hunter No Age and Dan Deacon Future Islands The Death Set Double Dagger and Teeth Mountain He has moved and inspired many in the American underground to reconsider the idea of deconstruction aiming at a perhaps more robust analysis of pop music Village Voice writer and avid Schrader fan Chris Weingarten puts it like so One-man Butthole Surfers or human ringtone Ed Schrader may be the most feral pop star inexistence With a knack for finding perfect earworms he screeches and chokes out melodies accompanied only by the pounding of whatever drum he has handy He's a master songsmith who has reduced pop and punk to their most basic building blocks Fri --May 29 8 00pm BY CHRISTOPHER WEINGARTEN �Village Voice Currently Ed is playing with a band consisting of Jonathan Ehrens and Jason of the highly praised Art Department A tour is rumored for this coming spring own Banditcorp http //edschraderworld mypodcast com/ http //www myspace com/edwardhenryschraderiii Musicians from unidentified countries Journalists Comedians People on stage |