The Bounce: This Week In Music News
Bandwidth’s Friday roundup of local and not-so-local music news. What happened to the remains of the late Gwar frontman David…
Joe Warminsky
Bandwidth and WAMU News editor Joe Warminsky has been writing about music since the early '90s. He lives in the heart of D.C.
Articles by Joe Warminsky
Jon Spencer Returns To The ‘Brutal And Strange’ World Of The Blues Explosion
Freedom Tower – No Wave Dance Party 2015 might be the funkiest Jon Spencer Blues Explosion album yet, and it’s…
Maxmillion Dunbar Gets Utilitarian On His New Dolo Percussion EP
When unquestionably creative musicians draw a tight square around their talents and produce something minimal, it’s easy to call it…
SmCity’s Confident Gambit Into Hip-Hop’s ‘Critical Years’
“I apologize for my lateness/Finalizin’ my greatness” raps Simeon “SmCity” Booker during “Cinematic Moment,” one of the centerpiece tracks on Empire…
Working It Out With Torn Hawk, Ex-D.C. Musician And Weirdo
The Luke Wyatt story stretches from a Virginia college town to Berlin, but some of the 36-year-old musician and video…
For D.C. Hip-Hop Crew’s Videos, A Director Steeped In Jonze And Gondry
At first glance, the videos for Diamond District’s “First Step” and The 1978ers’ “OneNine7-T-8” look pretty familiar, with their guerilla-style…
More From Katinka Kleijn, Brainwave Duet Cellist
Perhaps you heard WAMU’s piece about the “duet for cello and brainwaves” via a link on social media. It’s fascinating….
Hear Herbie Hancock Do A Buddhist Chant, Discuss His New Book
American musical legend Herbie Hancock appeared on WAMU 88.5’s The Diane Rehm Show today to discuss his new book, Possibilities,…
Track Work: Anthony Pirog, ‘The New Electric’
Bbbbbbrrrruuuuummmmmmm! About halfway through “The New Electric,” one of the centerpiece songs on Palo Colorado Dream, Anthony Pirog’s debut album…
Meet Menlik Zergabachew, The Silver Spring Resident On NBC’s ‘The Voice’
NBC’s singing competition The Voice enters its “battle round” tonight. The four judges—Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton, Adam Levine and Pharrell Williams—have…
Track Work: The Funk Ark, ‘Man Is A Monster’
What happens when you join a band that you love, but you’ve kept your own band together? In Will Rast’s…
Soulside’s Bobby Sullivan: ‘I Wanted To Change The World’
For a couple of years in the late ’80s, Soulside (or Soul Side) was as prominent and as influential as…
Track Work: Thaylobleu, ‘Locked’
New Year’s Day 2010 was one of the worst days of Terence Nicholson’s life, but he got his band’s best…