Baltimore rapper Dan Keech (otherwise known as Height, Height Keech, or Height With Friends) has been a big part of his city’s DIY music scene for as long as I can remember, and he’s also the first guy I ever heard rapping over a Stooges sample. We posted his album Talk Singer at the beginning of the year, and on the first day of 2016, Keech will release a new EP called Unending Blaze Vol. 1, the first in a planned trilogy. Keech produced the whole thing himself, and it’s got a shattered postpunk feel to it. He’ll spend January touring the DIY rooms of the U.S. And below, you can hear the new EP and check out his tour dates.

TOUR DATES:
1/01 – Baltimore, MD @ The Crown
1/02 – Richmond, VA @ The B&B
1/03 – Greenville, NC @ Art Avenue
1/04 – Chapel Hill, NC @ Zog’s
1/05 – Winston-Salem, NC @ Reanimator
1/06 – Charlotte, NC @ Milestone
1/07 – Orlando, FL @ Space Bar
1/08 – Charleston, SC @ Local 616
1/09 – Asheville, NC @ Odditorium
1/10 – Knoxville, TN @ Pilot Light
1/11 – Nashville, TN @ Foobar
1/12 – Little Rock, AR @ Dawg House
1/13 – Houston, TX @ Alley Kat
1/15 – Los Angeles, CA @ Pehrspace
1/16 – Big Sur, CA @ Henry Miller Memorial Library
1/17 – Berkeley, CA @ Kava Lounge
1/18 – Portland, OR @ Fight Church At Ash Street Saloon
1/19 – Olympia, WA @ Le Voyeur
1/20 – Seattle, WA @ The Lo-FI
1/21 – Missoula, MT @ Stage 112
1/22 – Billings, MT @ The Railyard
1/23 – Fargo, ND @ New Direction
1/24 – Minneapolis, MN @ Hexagon
1/25 – Detroit, MI @ UFO Factory
1/26 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Howler’s
1/27 – Youngstown, OH @ Suzie’s
1/29 – Tacoma Park, MD @ Electric Maid
1/30 – Philadelphia, PA @ 1026 Space

Unending Blaze Vol. 1 is out 1/1 on Cold Rhymes.