Beau Finley – Base Camp Departure
Jon Miller – Spinning
Georgie James – Places (Instrumental)
The Iris Bell – Shade
Aaron Agre – Cloud Empty (Selenelion) II
Tristan Welch – C.
Beauty Pill – The Western Prayer
Handsome Hound – Our Problems
Atoka Chase – Burn the Light (or Of Matriarchs and Alcohol)
Terracotta Blue – Hallow’s Eve
The Radiographers – Little Black Glove
Bossalingo – Manha de Carnaval
John W. Warren – The Frog Prince
Honey Pot Canoe – Reginald Fessenden
John Hogge – Shanai
Mathugh – I.X.X.I.
Dot Dash – Summer Lights
Buildings – For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Calm and Crisis – Moving Parts
Aphids – Two

Ben Dransfield – Slow Motion
Columbia Nights – Cerulean
Akira Otsuka – Bash
B Side Shuffle – Tiny Magnets
Smoke Bellow – Middling 1
Little Hunts – Refractory
Terrill Mast – See You Around the Moon
Paul Swartzel – My Father Knew Colonel Sanders
Big Moth – Vulnerable
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Deep Deep Down Heart
The Evens – Cache Is Empty
Ken & Brad Kolodner – The Orchard
Black Dog Prowl – Shame
Roger Aldridge – Salt Marsh Rag
makeup girl – Disappointed
Jason A Mullinax – Octopus Tree
Aaron Agre – Lion of Fallujah
The Red Fetish – South Virginia
Harry Jay Smith and the Bling – Homegrown
Buildings – You Are Gone

So Spirited – Fevers
The Red Fetish – As Green As Grows the Pasture
Dove Lady – The Implication
Seba Yuri – Ethereality
maxine – another plane
Ben Williams – Things Don’t Exist
Caz and the Day Laborers – I Give Dub
Wicked Olde – Jenny Picking Cockles
Wildhoney – FSA II
Borracho – King’s Disease
Little Hunts – Nocturne (Part 2)
Dupont Brass – The Way
The Sea Life – Pray For Snow
Diggs Duke – The Pinnacle Of Class & Taste
Damu the Fudgemunk & Raw Poetic – Hole Up (Instrumental)
Kokayi – The MFN Yay
Will Copps – Rush
Future Islands – Long Flight
Buildings – Upward Through Ever-Expanding Light
Thievery Corporation – Transcendence

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

Ocobaya – Messix
Matt Chaconas – AEIOU
Smoke Bellow – Conscious Heads
Sun Machines – Mare Island
Drop Electric – Santo Domingo
A Tale Of – 1976
Nitemoves – Grinder
Lo-Fang – Animal Urges
Maxine – Since I Lost You
Damu the Fudgemunk – 1993 Pete, 45 Mix
Mathugh – The Hitcher
Catscan! – Marine Biologist
Patuxent Partners – Victoria Waltz
Art Sorority For Girls – All Year Again (Yoko O.K.)
Buildings – For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Opus Akoben – Ronin
SCANNERS – Petty Tragedy
Andrew Grossman – Death to Rockville Pike
Reginald Cyntje – Wind

“I’ve always called these types of songs ‘barn burners,'” says the D.C.-based guitarist, songwriter, engineer and drummer. That’s why his new band, The Effects, made its recorded debut with its own barn-burner last week. The song is called “Blister,” and it aligns precisely with Ocampo’s definition of the term: brief and intense—but with one foot planted in melodic songcraft.

“I don’t think there was ever a question that it was going be the first thing we wanted to drop on people,” says Ocampo, 40. He wanted to make a strong impression right away for a band that’s only been playing together—in various forms—since late 2013.

But Ocampo may already be a familiar name in D.C. rock circles: He’s played in Faraquet, Smart Went Crazy, Beauty Pill, Medications, Deathfix and alongside Mary Timony. When he plays guitar, he imparts a bracing and distinct brand of noodlery. It’s a sound that’s inseparable from D.C. indie rock of the ’90s and aughts, and Ocampo has never completely stopped playing it.

“I would say that [The Effects] is a continuation of the same sort of work for me. The songs that I wrote for a rock-trio format I think all have a certain consistency to them,” Ocampo says. “One could make an argument that I could have called it the same thing the whole time.”

The Effects—which includes drummer David Rich (ex-Buildings) and bassist Matt Dowling (Deleted Scenes)—isn’t even Ocampo’s only band right now. He also sings and plays guitar in a fourpiece called Warm Sun with his spouse, Renata, and D.C. music vets Basla Andolsun and Jason Hutto. That band just played its first show last Sunday. But Ocampo seems committed to making The Effects a serious gig.

He plans to do that by recording, then releasing, only a dribble of Effects music each month for a year. The band dropped a digital version of “Blister” (without its B-side, “Old Soul”) on Sept. 1. Next month, “Blister” will be retired from Bandcamp, and the band will upload a new track. Each digital song will also get a cassette release. In the end, the band will probably put it all on an LP—but that doesn’t seem to be the first thing on Ocampo’s mind.

“We just sort of want to keep things interesting and moving forward,” the musician says. “I’ve put out a lot of records doing the whole normal album cycle, where you build up songs and you take six months to write them, and then you try to get financing to get into a studio… then you drop this big weighty thing that you’ve spent all this time on.” He says that people don’t all consume music in album form now, so why follow that old formula? “We’re trying to do all singles, no filler. That’s been our motto.”

Not that listeners should expect a relentless campaign of barn burners from here on out.

“The band has a lot more to say,” Ocampo says. “We do have a lot more nuance in our music. But I thought [‘Blister’] was something to kind of hit people over the head with.”

The Effects play Rock & Roll Hotel with The Life & Times and Tone on Sept. 14. They play a “Blister/Old Soul” release show at Comet Ping Pong Oct. 18.