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Review: Oddisee, ‘The Odd Tape’
The Brooklyn rapper-producer’s latest instrumental album is evenly weighted from front to back. There’s never an off moment — or even a precarious one.
Go Cozy Chills Hard In The Face Of Adversity
Circumstances haven’t always been comfortable for D.C. band Go Cozy. Take, for example, the two years it spent just trying…
Laney Jones And The Spirits Live At The Wilderness Bureau
For years, Americana performer Laney Jones toiled away in rural Florida clubs before she made the leap to a larger…
Photos: 2016 Broccoli City Fest
Scenes from the 2016 Broccoli City Fest, April 30 at St. Elizabeths East: Anderson .Paak BJ the Chicago Kid Nag…
Maracuyeah Fêtes 5 Years Of ‘Queer-Fly, Immigrant-Posi’ Dance Parties
At a Maracuyeah party, the dance floor transforms from a room of individuals to a full communal experience. The Latin-alternative,…
Review: Gregory Porter, ‘Take Me To The Alley’
The popular jazz singer follows a familiar pattern on his new album: It’s acoustic, unconcerned with fashion or complexity, and both overpowering and soothing. That’s a good thing.
Review: Seratones, ‘Get Gone’
On the Louisiana band’s first album, blues, classic rock and gospel come together with concision, force and a punk-rock heart.
Review: Kacy & Clayton, ‘Strange Country’
Singer Kacy Anderson and fingerstyle guitarist Clayton Linthicum carve out plenty of room for play in their take on British and Appalachian folk and pre-electric blues.
Review: Mary Chapin Carpenter, ‘The Things That We Are Made Of’
On her 14th album, a collaboration with top producer Dave Cobb, the country veteran traces her memories while still looking toward the unknown.
Review: Julianna Barwick, ‘Will’
Barwick’s songs are musical inkblot tests: The voices trickle in and out, but never quite materialize into lyrical coherency. So it’s up to the listener to interpret them and ascribe personal meaning.
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Baltimore Performer Abdu Ali: ‘We’re All Dealing With Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome’
When the drums pound in Abdu Ali’s music, they travel straight to the head. “I blatantly confront racism and white…
Six Pics: Puddles Pity Party At 9:30 Club
You may recall the cover of Lorde’s “Royals” a while back, performed by a 6-foot-8-inch clown who crooned like Sinatra….
Six Pics: Murder By Death And Kevin Devine At 9:30 Club
When Indiana’s Murder by Death kicked off its set Friday at D.C.’s 9:30 Club with a cello-enhanced cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,”…
Ivy Leaguers In Love: The Giddy Folk-Pop Of Handsome Hound
You understand more about Claire Daviss and Cuchulain Kelly’s playful relationship just by listening to their music. The couple’s band,…
Julia Holter: Tiny Desk Concert
The most minute details suddenly become a grandiose spectacle in Julia Holter’s cosmic cabaret. Her new arrangements at the NPR Music offices unravel amid moments of both quiet and bombast.
‘This Was My Night’: A Document Of Latter-Day D.C. Punk, Strictly For The Fans
D.C. hardcore hit peak nostalgia years ago and just kept going. The endless supply of documentary films, books, curated art…
‘His Music Does The Talking’: Manager Owen Husney On Prince’s Legacy
“I saw who he was, and there was a mystery about him even then,” says Husney, who managed Prince at the very beginning of his career. The iconic musician died Thursday at 57.
Prince, Musician And Iconoclast, Has Died At Age 57
One reporter outside Prince’s Paisley Park compound near Minneapolis said “even the journalists are hugging each other” after learning that Prince had died.
How Punk Legend Kid Congo Powers Found Some Chicano Magic In D.C.
Kid Congo Powers came to D.C. a decade ago as a fully formed underground rock ‘n’ roll hero, so it’s…
Review: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, ‘Nonagon Infinity’
The Melbourne psych-rock septet unleashes a thoroughly realized journey, embedded in a frenzied barrage of riff-heavy head-bangers.