…but it’s in Baltimore. Nevertheless, Cuneiform‘s two-day festival is worth the drive north, assuming you’re into experimental rock or forward-thinking jazz.

Nov. 19 is the festival’s rock day, and the lineup includes Alec K. Redfearn & the Sore Eyes, Upsilon Acrux, Afuche, Zevious, Hamster Theatre, and Thinking Plague. This show is at Orion Studios, and starts at 11:30 a.m.

Nov. 20 is jazz day, and the New York-heavy lineup includes Jason Adasiewicz’s Rolldown, Ideal Bread, Carlo De Rosa’s Cross-Fade, The Claudia Quintet +1 (recently reviewed in WCP), and Positive Catastrophe. This is at An Die Musik; doors opens at 12:30 p.m.

Full details here (a two-day pass is $100).

The festival made a pair of samplers. Listen: