ACME – Bandwidth http://bandwidth.wamu.org WAMU 88.5's New Music Site Tue, 02 Oct 2018 15:23:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 Rod Hamilton, Cynthia Marie http://bandwidth.wamu.org/rod-hamilton-cynthia-marie/ http://bandwidth.wamu.org/rod-hamilton-cynthia-marie/#respond Tue, 27 Sep 2016 08:20:09 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=68781 Songs featured Sept. 27, 2016, as part of Capital Soundtrack from WAMU 88.5. Read more about the project and submit your own local song.

Aquarium – Maxxo Sesh
Terri Bocklund & Curr Kowalski – Bagizo (Go Swimming)
The Scotch Bonnets – Charm City
Nunchucks – Solid Gold Eagle
Jonathan Matis – Stone Rocket Bronze Dog
Smart Went Crazy – Black Kites
Three Man Soul Machine – Rastaman Chant
The Rust Brothers – To Live
Cigarbox Planetarium – Memory Loop
Brittany Jean and Will Copps – Neighborhoods
Elijah Jamal Balbed – Butch Warren
PREE – The Dog
Birds and Buildings – Horse-Shaped Cloud
Tristan Welch – C.
David Scott Weaver – The River
Corm – Then I Built My Own Violin (Instrumental)
Lo-Fang – Permutations
Anchor 3 – Sleepwalker
ACME – Save the World
Cynthia Marie – Song for the End

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The Harry Bells, Caz And The Day Laborers http://bandwidth.wamu.org/the-harry-bells-caz-and-the-day-laborers/ http://bandwidth.wamu.org/the-harry-bells-caz-and-the-day-laborers/#respond Tue, 31 May 2016 04:01:38 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=64949 Songs heard on WAMU 88.5 on May 31, 2016, as part of our new Capital Soundtrack project.

The Harry Bells

“Rum and Coca Cola”

from Roosevelt Island EP

Feedel Band

“Girl From Ethiopia (Live at WAMU)”

Andrew Grossman

“Awakening to the Warm Glow of a Computer Screen”

from The Man + The Machine

The Greatest Hoax

“Opus No. 11”

from Vol. 1

More Humans

“Mt. Oblivion”

from Hot Cloud

The Sea Life

“Sex Appeal, Pt. 1”

from In Basements

Bearshark

“Island in the Sky”

from Canyonlands

The Evens

“Cache is Empty”

from Get Evens

Oddisee

“The Blooming”

from Odd Spring

The Bumper Jacksons

“Jubilee”

from Too Big World

Tone

“Bright Angel Falls”

from Bright Angel Falls

Le Loup

“Go East”

from Family

ACME

“Be Thankful”

from Why Not ?

Lo-Fang

“Every Night”

from Every Night EP

Memphis Gold

“Do You Still Want Me”

from Gator Gon' Bitechu!

Dan Deacon

“Of the Mountains”

from Bromst

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ACME Drops A New Video For ‘Girlfriend Tonight’ http://bandwidth.wamu.org/acme-drops-a-new-video-for-girlfriend-tonight/ http://bandwidth.wamu.org/acme-drops-a-new-video-for-girlfriend-tonight/#respond Mon, 09 Jun 2014 15:53:32 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=33782 Yes, ACME has a generic name. But it’s intentional. The D.C. electronic-soul-pop duo really does identify with “A Company That Makes Everything.”

Why? “We can’t really be defined to one genre or one sound,” says member Joshua Davis. “It’s a statement of not limiting oneself.”

Yet ACME’s new single, “Girlfriend Tonight,” limits itself to a reliable, seductive template: a lothario’s pitch. “The song is about, pretty much, a guy approaching a girl,” says singer Cheakaity “Che” Brown. “It’s kind of a long shot, but she actually goes along with it.”

It turns out that’s how the song’s new video came together, too. “This all kind of fell together in a week,” Brown says. He and Davis had a friend with a small Petworth basement decorated with tiger print. Check. Through Laughing Man’s Brandon Moses—who fills in during live shows—they found a director and a lighting technician. Check, check. And they happened to meet a woman who was willing to star as Brown’s pretend girlfriend in the video. Major check. (His line, as he puts it: “I know we just met, but I want you to be my girlfriend tonight in this video.”)

“If it all comes together,” Brown and Davis thought, “it was meant to be.”

The band unveiled the video today, along with its new website, and it’s just as much of an earworm as its earlier single, “All Around the World.” But unlike that track, it doesn’t appear on an EP—yet. ACME’s new strategy is to focus on singles, some of which the duo plans to release this summer with more videos. They may release an EP closer to the fall. It’s all part of wanting “to keep people on their toes,” Brown says.

Another part of ACME’s strategy: awesome clothing. “That’s just how I dress,” Brown says. Davis, meanwhile, “trusts me to put clothes on him.” Did Davis not look cool enough before?, I ask. No, no, no. “His eye just took it to the next level,” Davis says.

Picking one’s own wardrobe: It comes with being a company that makes everything.

“We’re our own manager, our own PR guy, our own stylists,” Brown says, and their songs are just as DIY. “We get, like, 99 percent of the credits.”

ACME performs with Pleasure Curses and Ras Nebyu June 21 at The Lot.

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