Brian Settles – Understanding
Baby Bry Bry – Slumzzz
Sri Rama – The Dragon From Naples
Mathrat – Gravity Waves
Jan Knutson – Amsterdam
Infinite Adolescence – 80’s
The Acorns – X-Country Skier
Jason A Mullinax – Goodbye, Earth!
The Orchid – The Astronaut (Escape Velocity)
Sunwolf – Velvet
East Ghost – Architect
Decahedron – Movement A
The Rail Runners – Get Off the Tracks
Country Gentlemen – Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
Sonic Thee – Speaker
The Evens – Shelter Two
Suzanne Brindamour – Barnstormers Approach
Scythian – Last Days of Summer
Lungfish – Black Helicopters
Two Dragons and a Cheetah – Poetry and Light

Bossalingo – Les Feuilles Mortes
Drop Electric – Higgs Boson
Hailu Mergia and the Walias – Eti Gual Blenai
East Ghost – Tobacco Teeth
Golden Looks – Chisenbop
Anchor 3 – Hunter
Cigarbox Planetarium – Tiny Dream Car
Suzanne Brindamour – In the Sky
The Kings of Crownsville – Lies
Fall Seattle – Boyhood
Andrew Grossman – Where Did It Go Wrong?
G-Flux – Champagne Instrumental
Rootbug – Close Call
Baby Bry Bry – What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Nasar Abadey and Supernova – Eternal Surrender
Dawit Eklund – Litchi Juice
Cigarette – Crown
Iritis – Caravan
Echo Broke Alone – All That’s Left Is Broken
Animal Collective – The Softest Voice

Buildings – Water In Water
Drop Electric – Church of Glass
ZOMES – Equinox
Girls Love Distortion – Psychic Raygun
Jonathan Parker – East Lorain
Fort Knox Five – Reach (Instrumental)
Marian McLaughlin – Will-o-the-wisp
The Petticoat Tearoom – Love Isn’t Gone
Iritis – Gates of Dawn
GroundScore – My Perfect Spot
Cartoon Weapons – WTLFO
Feedel Band – Girl From Ethiopia (Live At WAMU)
Bad Brains – Cowboy
Paperhaus – Cairo
Matt Chaconas – baby bear obliquity
Baby Bry Bry – Is It Anything Or Is It Everything
Protect-U – Dit Floss
Troy and Paula Haag – Lies & Cries
Speedwell – Two Conquests
Lower Dens – Stem

Patuxent Partners – Washington County
ZOMES – Ruminants
Supper Club – Chambray
Fort Knox Five – Swinging On a Rhyme (Instrumental)
Tomás Pagán Motta – Love In Her Lies
Justin Jones – Miracles
Kev Brown – Always (Instrumental)
Be Still, Cody – Wrong Right
Buildings – Everything Is Possible
Lifted – Silver
Sun Machines – Mono Mind
Derek Evry – Wake Me Up
Iritis – Pedal
A Tale Of – Oh, We Owe This to Ourselves
Nitemoves – Ashe
The Petticoat Tearoom – Kundalini
Jonathan Parker – CO86
Girls Love Distortion – Sleepwalking
Dawit Eklund – Lies Are Chic
Masego – I Do Everything (More For Cruisin’)
Otis Infrastructure – Furniture
Oooh Child Ensemble – Diko’s Groove
Extra Golden – It’s Not Easy
Kev Brown – Party People Dedication (Instrumental)
Marian McLaughlin – Your Bower
The Greatest Hoax – Opus no. 28
Marvin Gaye – What’s Happening Brother
Aerialist – Naiad
Wanted Man – Interlude
Baby Bry Bry – Slumzzz
April + Vista – Theme In Adagio
Stranger In the Alps – Love/Afraid
Swings – New Year

Anway says “Mary” springs from a minor revelation. “The song is sort of a resolution for me,” says the musician, 26. “I may not have things figured out, but it’s a problem that ain’t going away.”

Better known for his guitar playing in several D.C. bands — including lounge punks Baby Bry Bry and the Apologists — Anway conceived Brushes as an outlet for material that didn’t fit his main projects.

He collaborated with Maryland producers Tommy Sherrod and Mike Okusami to refine Brushes’ forthcoming debut EP, Whatever, Again. The three began work last spring and continued through the winter.

“I wanted the record to take on its own direction, so we experimented a lot during the recording and mixing process,” says Anway, who lives in Friendship Heights. “We really allowed the thing time to grow into itself over the better part of a year.”

That patience translates to a dynamic seven-song EP that explores fuzzy rockers and slow burns alike. The conclusive “Mary” is the final track.

While the tune’s lyrics seem to address an inscrutable partner, Anway offers another interpretation: it’s “a letter to your mother,” he says.

Whatever, Again arrives in April on local cassette label Odessa Madre.

Brushes plays March 12 at the Giant Peach in D.C.

D.C. acts Baby Bry Bry & The Apologists, BRNDA and The Sea Life have more or less cornered the city’s market for noisy, oddball pop that delves into all varieties of other stuff, from The Sea Life’s hazy lo-fi to Baby Bry Bry’s throwback garage punk. They’ll be playing with kindred spirits What Moon Things, the “dreamo” ensemble based in New York.

For Sunday’s show, the bands and their cohorts at The Sea Life’s label Chimes Records will release an eight-song cassette (plus a download card) with two new songs from each of the bands. The label produced 200 tapes for the show, which will be given out free to the first 200 folks who turn up. All these bands plus a tape for $15? Not bad.

“All of the bands on the bill this Sunday are buds, so our excitement about finally getting to play together made us want to make the show feel as special to the audience as it is to us,” says Baby Bry Bry frontman Bry (Bryan Gerhart). A tape giveaway is also a pretty good way to fill up a club on a Sunday night.

Today Bandwidth premieres four songs from the limited-run tape — one from each of the bands. But don’t let that excuse you from hitting up the show this Sunday and nabbing your own copy.

Warning: Some explicit language.

Baby Bry Bry & The Apologists, “Reluctantly Inspired”

BRNDA, “Serious Band”

The Sea Life, “Let Me Out” (Live Demo)

What Moon Things, “Insturment”

Baby Bry Bry and the Apologists at Jam Jar:

The Public at St. Stephen’s Church:

Loud Boyz at St. Stephen’s Church:

Hold Tight! at St. Stephen’s Church:

State Lines at St. Stephen’s Church:

Meridian at Paperhaus:

BRNDA at Paperhaus:

What Moon Things at Paperhaus:

“When I first started [shooting], I had the cheapest camera,” he says—a Canon 60D that he used with a “bootleg flash” and a battery pack. Shooting five shows a week with his heavy equipment, the 26-year-old photographer began to feel pain in his right arm. It got scary a few months ago when Andrade was traveling back home from a show at Tenleytown’s Casa Fiesta. “My whole body started shaking,” he says. “I thought I was going to die.”

Andrade sought medical help and physical therapy. “I had to take a lot of medicine,” he says. Eventually, the pain receded. He soon invested in a lighter, more expensive camera.

Now, Andrade gets to show off the work that almost put him out of commission: Tonight the photographer opens “IN MY EYES,” an exhibit of his concert photography, at The Coupe in Columbia Heights. It’s his first solo show.

The exhibit features a few dozen images of 11 D.C.-area bands, including Chain & the Gang, Dudes (shown above), Olivia Neutron-John, Warchild, Give and Baby Bry Bry and the Apologists.

“I fell in love with hardcore music when I was 17 years old,” says the Alexandria native. “Bad Brains’ Pay To Cum changed my life.” Later on, the photography coming out of D.C.’s hardcore scene didn’t impress him. He felt more drawn to the work of photographers like Pulitzer winner Lucian Perkins—particularly his visceral images of a young D.C. punk scene, like the ones published in the 2013 book Hard Art DC 1979. “I decided to take it upon myself” to start shooting hardcore shows, Andrade says, aiming for a similar look and feel as Perkins achieved in his work.

Andrade has been shooting punk shows for two years—still a newbie by most standards, but his work stands out as some of the best in the scene. He’s now a familiar face at shows. Though, it helps that he doesn’t have a lot of competition at the tiny events he chooses to capture.

“When I go to these house shows, it’s like, two photographers,” Andrade says. When he recently shot a show at Rock & Roll Hotel, there were too many photographers there for his taste. He prefers the little gigs—where he can get right in the pit and shoot the kids. That’s where he says he finds the best shots.

“Lucian did a great job of documenting not just the band but the crowd,” Andrade says. In Perkins’ photos, you don’t just see the band—you see people in the audience, like Alec MacKaye, who would go on to become influential in their own right. “The crowd for me is half of the battle because they’re just as important as the band.”

Even after a couple of years—and who knows how many shows—the photographer says he still gets antsy before a shoot. “I always get super nervous,” he says. Why? 

“I don’t know—I’ve done this a million times,” Andrade says. “I guess it means I’m still enjoying it.”

“IN MY EYES” opens at 6 p.m. tonight at The Coupe. The show is on view to Sept. 1.

What’s on tap for the next seven days? Our debut playlist includes tunes from Brazilian songwriter Rodrigo Amarante, alt-rock stalwarts Throwing Muses, D.C. garage punks Thee Lolitas, Kenyan vocalist Suzanna Owiyo, Bandwidth session vet White Hinterland, and others—and they all play in the D.C. area this week. Like what you hear? See show information at the bottom of this post.

If you’re just here for the music, well, press play and chill.

Show information:

Rodrigo Amarante plays Saturday, June 28 at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue; Throwing Muses play Friday, June 27 at 9:30 Club; Young Magic plays Thursday, June 26 at DC9; White Hinterland plays Wednesday, June 25 at DC9; Baby Bry Bry and The Apologists play Saturday, June 28 at Paper Haus; Dope Body plays Saturday, June 28 at The Pinch; Thee Lolitas play Friday, June 27 at CD Cellar Arlington; Bio Ritmo plays a record-release show at IOTA Thursday, June 26; Wayna plays Howard Theatre Monday, June 23; Suzanna Owiyo plays the Smithsonian Folklife Festival Thursday, June 26.