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Lock Screen: At These Music Shows, Phones Go In A Pouch And Don’t Come Out
The Lumineers are among many artists frustrated by people on their mobile devices during performances. Their singer explains why they’re asking fans to lock up their phones with a new technology.
Review: The Julie Ruin, ‘Hit Reset’
After stints in Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, Kathleen Hanna still finds new ways to rage and inspire. On her new album at the helm of The Julie Ruin, she transforms anger into a source of power and fun.
Remembering Billy Stewart And Van McCoy, Two Lesser-Known D.C. Music Legends
Duke Ellington, Marvin Gaye and Chuck Brown may be the best-known musical legends out of D.C. But they’re not the…
Premiere: June Gloom Calls Out Internet Fakery On ‘URL’
These days, it’s normal for people to carefully craft flattering online personae that share no characteristics with their in-person selves….
Space Isn’t The Place: Místochord Scores A Fraught Migration To Mars
Recent developments in space exploration have made Mars more accessible than ever. Organizations such as NASA and SpaceX are even considering manned missions to the…
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‘There At A Special Time’ — A D.C. Punk On Her Teen Years Touring With The Smiths
It was 1985. Nalinee Darmrong was 17, and she had just graduated high school. Friends took her to see the legendary English rock band The Smiths at D.C.’s Warner Theatre — and the show literally changed her life.
First Listen: Oh Pep!, ‘Stadium Cake’
On its first full-length album, the Melbourne duo’s mostly upbeat music is filled with questions about desire and life’s priorities.
Review: Deerhoof, ‘The Magic’
The band’s tense, visceral, unpredictable sound doesn’t let listeners get comfortable for very long. These 15 songs were inspired by the music each Deerhoof member grew up loving.
Review: A-WA, ‘Habib Galbi’
Three Israeli sisters celebrate — and utterly transform — a trove of Arab-language folk songs that they inherited as Yemenite Jews, by tweaking them with electronic touches.
Review: Marisa Anderson, ‘Into The Light’
Anderson’s guitar is inextricably tied to the raw and seeking tradition of American music. The guitarist calls her fourth album an imaginary soundtrack to a science-fiction western.
Review: Agustín Lira, ‘Songs Of Hope And Struggle’
The California musician, along with his musical partner Patricia Wells, adapt their message of social justice for modern times, while maintaining the same inspirational lyrics and conviction.
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Take It From Teenage Band Nox: ‘Anyone Can Do This’
After a club gig, most bands would expect to get paid with money. But if you’re in a band of…
This Time, It Was Quiet: Fight Over Union Arts Dissipates As Artists Negotiate Exit
After four contentious hearings and more than three months, artists have agreed to vacate the D.C. building known as Union…
Premiere: Vivid Lyricism And Bristling Guitars Define Thaylobleu’s Debut Album, ‘Oscars & Jellyfish’
When Terence Nicholson writes a song, he files it under one of two categories: oscar or jellyfish. Oscars — a species of fish…
Ras Nebyu Has Multiple Personalities In New Video For ‘No Love’
This post has been updated with a release date for Ras Nebyu’s next single. Ras Nebyu is consistent on a few…
First Listen: case/lang/veirs, ‘case/lang/veirs’
A worthy extension of three tremendous catalogs, in which three great singer-songwriters sound enhanced and invigorated by the challenge of living up to each other’s legacies.
First Listen: The Low Anthem, ‘Eyeland’
This is an album in which you can lose yourself and, along the way, glimpse something you’ve lost. Throughout Eyeland, The Low Anthem crafts a rich Technicolor psych-folk world.
Review: Mitski, ‘Puberty 2’
These 11 tracks creep up on you, as Mitski Miyawaki’s coiled melodies suddenly explode into cavernous freak-outs or build to a crescendo of unbearable catharsis.
Review: Mogwai, ‘Atomic’
More than 20 years into its career, the mostly instrumental Scottish rock band returns with an album that can be poignant, blood-curdling and beautiful.
Review: Bruce Hornsby And The Noisemakers, ‘Rehab Reunion’
Thirty years after his breakthrough hit “The Way It Is,” the singer-keyboardist once again hits the sweet spot between joyful improv and immaculate songcraft.