Reptilian Records opened in Fells Point almost exactly 20 years ago. It grew in a few years into Baltimore's cornerstone underground heavy music outlet and record label, putting out sounds from loud luminaries ranging from Oxes to Pig Destroyer, from the Dwarves to Pg. 99. This weekend, the Windup Space hosts a label/store retrospective/party featuring old performance videos from the shop and a roomful of "paraphernalia and propaganda," according to Reptilian founder and owner Christopher Xavier Donovan, known to most simply as Chris X. (Michael Byrne)
> READ MORE