Height

Height Keech is the stage name of Baltimore rapper and podcaster Dan Keech (born September 22, 1981).

He is best known as the founder and frontman for the group Height With Friends.

After releasing two cassette-only EP's, Wounds released one self-titled full length album in December 1999.

Before forming Height With Friends, he released three solo albums and six EPs between 2000 and 2009.

They did a two-week tour in June 2000.

The first Height album was recorded in September 2000.

Production was handled by all members of the Wounds crew, with vocal assistance by Grand Buffet, The Plural MC and MC Dogg.

The album was supported by a six-week tour with Grand Buffet in November and December 2000.

Due to internal strife at the label, the album ended up not coming out in time for the tour.

Wounds continued occasionally playing shows around the east coast until 2001, when they disbanded as a live act.

In August 2001, Height joined the indie hip-hop group Dogg and Pony, for their tour with San Francisco punk band The Deepthroats.

Height wrote part of his first solo album during the tour, and the members of Dogg and Pony offered to put out the album on Dogg Pony Records.

Shortly after the tour, Height did his first solo show, opening for Animal Collective at The Cooler in Brooklyn.

Height did another midwestern tour with Jones in August 2001.

After that tour, Height went on a hiatus from solo shows.

He occasionally performed as a hype man for Cex, but he didn't play his own material again for over a year.

In October 2002, Height was featured on three tracks from Cex's Tall, Dark and Handcuffed, on Tigerbeat6 Records.

This was the first nationally distributed record of which Height was a part.

In July 2003, Height released his second album, I Have A Gun.

The production was handled almost entirely by Shields, with recording and mixing by Zach Poff.

Height did one solo tour to promote the album.

Shortly after, Height joined Mickey Free (a.k.a. Bow n' Arrow) to form Bow and Height.

They became a duo, performing each other's solo songs, as well as some new collaborations.

They did five tours throughout 2004, touring the US and Canada with Dan Deacon, Lost It, Grand Buffet and Oxes.

In December 2004, Bow and Height disbanded.

Height returned to performing as a solo act, starting with a northeastern tour with Dan Deacon.

In February 2005, Height set out on a 50-day tour with Dan Deacon.

Halfway through the trip, Height's car was totaled in Fresno, California.

He flew back to Baltimore, while Dan Deacon completed part of the tour by Greyhound bus.

They met up again in Pittsburgh, where they completed the last ten days of the tour together, along with Mickey Free.

In the fall of that year, Jones became an occasional part of Height's live set, DJing and adding effects to Height's vocals.

Jones would join on for two out of the five Height tours that occurred throughout 2005-2006.

In October 2006, Height toured as part of the Wham City Round Robin Tour, once again with Jones as DJ.

In 2008, toured again as part of The Baltimore Round Robin tour, this time with Jones and King Rhythm as his band mates.

Height founded Cold Rhymes Records in 2012.

The label supports a variety of North American artists.

A natural-born storyteller, Height has toured extensively over his musical career.

In 2023 Height produced Hemlock Ernst's newest album, The Fall Collection.

Height began rapping in the Baltimore-based Wounds, a five man group with Jones, Mickey Free, Shields and Chris Freeland.

Keech interviews artists and musicians on his weekly podcast Height Zone World, which debuted in July 2014.