![]() ![]() There was this museum that I used to go to with my mom all the time, the American Visionary Art Museum. I dated a girl who made me go to the MICA showcases. And there's a lot of really cool art museums and stuff-fucking David Byrne went to MICA. It's a place where people, historically, have had permission to be weird. I've been to a lot of experimental noise-type shows, punk shows, awesome indie rock-it's all over the place. There's so many great weirdos from the past, and I like that there isn't a specific sound. I feel like it's an indefinable unique spot where people come together to be weird. There was so much to look into, all the musicians that came out of Baltimore. I feel like everything about Baltimore is just sicker. There are a lot of creative spots in Baltimore we could have set up at, but Ottobar is the zone. I've been going there since I was a teenager, so it seemed like the only solution. We've played the Ottobar so many times-it's always been the spot. We haven't played Baltimore in a long time, so it feels cool to do something big here and put our friends' bands on, and also have some legends come out. It was a lot of trial and error, asking everyone who I wanted to be part of it, but it all came together pretty nicely without a lot of pulling teeth. ![]() The initial concept was for there to be three bands every night, some more famous than Snail Mail and some that we wanted to introduce to people. It was supposed to happen closer to when the record came out, but then I got surgery on my vocal cords and I had to take an insane amount of time off of speaking and singing. Valentine Fest has been in the works for over a year. Featuring a tight arrangement of Baltimore’s finest up-and-coming acts and yet-to-be-announced heavy hitters, Valentine Fest promises to be a musical love letter to Charm City-much like these musings straight from Jordan herself. Now fully recovered from a surgery that put the Valentine tour on hold, Jordan is returning to the city that gave Snail Mail its start with an epic five-night Valentine's Day weekend showdown at fan-favorite venue, Ottobar, from February 10-14. ![]() In late 2021, Jordan’s second effort, Valentine, hit the charts, pushing the now-23-year-old indie rock darling squarely out of the teenage anomaly category and launching her into the limelight as one of the Baltimore area’s most popular recording artists. The Ellicott City, Maryland native began her career in 2015 the ripe old age of 15, going onto drop her first studio album, Lush, to great acclaim in 2018. We would be far from the first publication to call Lindsey Jordan, aka Snail Mail, a wunderkind. ![]()
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