Bandwidth’s Friday roundup of local and not-so-local music news.
Neil Young: Boycott Starbucks! [Consequence of Sound]
Tuscadero to play two reunion shows for (disclosure: my friend) Nancy Marion, a former Teen Beat intern recently diagnosed with leukemia. [Washington Post]
Local artist Ricky Eat Acid gets a Fader profile. (I’m trying to forgive the author’s pluralization of “Silver Spring.”) [Fader]
Listen to the first single from new D.C. band Polyon. [DCist]
Sleater-Kinney previews its new album in an interview with Bob Boilen. [NPR]
A new WETA documentary tracks D.C. in the 1980s, with help from folks like Ian MacKaye. [DCist]
Oh, and here’s a 2005 interview with MacKaye, recently unburied. [TTABEFAOU]
Yes, Wale and Jerry Seinfeld are really friends, and it’s NBD. [Washington Post]
D.C. conductor and composer Julian Wachner is finally coming into his own, writes Anne Midgette. [Washington Post]
Marian McLaughlin is crowdfunding for her new record. [D.C. Music Download]
Iggy Azalea is bored with the misogyny of Eminem and other male artists. [The Guardian]
Courtney Love and Dave Grohl reconciled over their mutual love of an actress’ breasts, says Love. [Spin]
Ex-D.C. guitarist/experimentalist (and—disclosure—another friend of mine) Torn Hawk was taught guitar by The Wrens’ Charles Bissell. [Stereogum]
Timbaland does not approve of Lifetime’s Aaliyah biopic. [Billboard]
Tereu Tereu has a new music video. [Washington City Paper]
Streaming can boost album sales, according to a study by the Country Music Association. [Billboard]
On Bandwidth: A skateboarder from Maine is behind numerous D.C. hip-hop videos; The 1978ers and Big Hush get our Track Work treatment.
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