Bandwidth’s new Friday roundup of local and not-so-local music news.
Andy Beta explores the microcosmos of D.C. labels Future Times, 1432 R and Peoples Potential Unlimited. [Pitchfork]
SoundCloud inks a licensing deal with Warner, its first partnership with a major label. [New York Times]
If you get a not-so-positive review in a newspaper, is it your right to ask for it to be removed? (No. Nice try.) [Washington Post]
Detroit house titan Theo Parrish (who was born in D.C.) has a new album on the way—his first in seven years. [Juno Plus]
Our pals at NPR are making an effort to cover more hip-hop. That T-Pain Tiny Desk concert is just one nugget of proof. [Washington Post]
How does riot grrrl creep into music in 2014? [Noisey]
James Beard-award-winning pastry chef Brooks Headley has deep D.C. punk roots. [Washington Post]
The Dismemberment Plan‘s newly reissued Change, track by track with frontman Travis Morrison. [Spin]
Foo Fighters schedule a big D.C. show for July 4, 2015, and everyone is freaking out in November 2014. [Washington Post]
Oh and: Reviews of Foo Fighters’ Sonic Highways LP—which includes one song inspired by D.C.—are starting to trickle in. [Consequence Of Sound, NME, Guardian]
Bandwidth session stars Typefighter let loose a new song this week. [Consequence Of Sound]
Marylander Ricky Eat Acid delivers a skittering remix of New Zealanders Yumi Zouma. [Fader]
Pharrell Williams endorsed D.C. mayoral candidate Muriel Bowser. Then she won. Mere coincidence? [Washington Post]
On Bandwidth: A new Wilderness Bureau session with She Keeps Bees, Ace Cosgrove‘s suburban hip-hop, Sara Curtin‘s D’Angelo-inspired music video and the most surprising GEMS thing I’ve ever seen.