Aaron Leitko – Flip Flops (This Can’t Happen)
Yoko K. – take off
Fellow Creatures – Seance (Shuka)
Drop Electric – What Now, of Paradise?
Detox Retox – Dispatches from the Chernaya Rechka
Waltz Brigade – Strange Names
nick tha 1da – circular drizzle
Jonathan Parker – East Lorain
Abu Jibran – Not Good Enough
Sunwolf – Velvet
Extra Golden – Ilando Gima Onge
Once Okay Twice – I Have An Illness
Restoring Poetry in Music – Luba
Little Hunts – Nocturne (Part 2)
The Wine-Dark Sea – Breaking Through the Cracks of Our City
Night Kitchen – Salt Water Taffy
The Shifters – She’s So Fine
igloo two – the big ego scene
Aquarium – Slow Space
Tone P – Chandelier (Instrumental)

Brian Wilbur Grundstrom – An Orchestral Journey
Jon Miller – Swimming
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Come On Come On
So Spirited – Lifted
Arlin Godwin – Bangkok Matinee
Vanessa Renee Williams – We’re Together
Cynthia Marie – Harbor
Ben Williams – Strength And Beauty
Olivia Neutron-John – 16 BEAT
Nitemoves – Port au Prism
Fellowcraft – Glass Houses
Foozle – Sofa Couch
The Jennifers – Christmas In Reverse – Instrumental
Mirror Factory – Sold
Fort Knox Five – Reach (Instrumental)
Fulton Lights – If You Can Make It Through the Dark
Fellow Creatures – Expectations
Sam Cooper & The Sleepwalkers – Worship
Lungfish – Necrophones
Big Moth – Dim

The Grit Pushers – Eleventeen
Anchor 3 – Sleepwalker
The Moderate – Conversation
Logikbomb – One For yU
Fellow Creatures – Breathe Easy
Redline Graffiti – End of the World
The Orchid – A Fading Memory Of A Better Time And Place
Foozle – Letterman
Sriram Gopal – Como Pod’a Groriosa
ShowPony – Sometimes Dogs Perceive Other Dogs Differently When They’re Wearing Hats
Screen Vinyl Image – Great Beyond
Sherwood Gainer – The Company
Disco Muerte – Descending
2nd Story Band – Cesar Rules W. African Dance Groove
Raheem DeVaughn – Guess Who Loves You More
Eva Cassidy – Fields of Gold
Trifilio Tango Trio – La Sabionda
Möbius Strip – Silver Lining
Scythian – Pluckett’s
The Hartford Pussies – Orange Polo Shirt

Drop Electric – We Will Be Humans, Finally
Cigarbox Planetarium – Gothic Meth Lab Party
Anchor 3 – Left Fielder
John Battema – I Can’t See Home Anymore
Echo Broke Alone – Something Beautiful
The Moderate – Drugs/Young Men
Snail Mail – Thinning
Fellow Creatures – Seance (Shuka)
The Rail Runners – Crash Burn Learn
Mellow Diamond – Namesake
More Humans – Disaster
Logikbomb – Greenline to Ana
Sound of the City – Waiting (Sumthin 2 Ride 2)
Eva Cassidy – Ain’t No Sunshine
Jeff Cosgrove, Frank Kimbrough, and Martin Wind – The Owls
Lungfish – Necrophones
Grogan Social Scene – Mercury Is In Retrograde
Terracotta Blue – DreamVintage (part 1)
Luke Reddick – Can’t Be Bought
Screen Vinyl Image – I’m Not

Redline Graffiti – Beauty Mark 1
Elijah Jamal Balbed – What Matters Most
Griefloss – Void
Lands – Down By the Riverside
Drop Electric – Waking Up to the Fire
Fulton Lights – Breathe In, Breathe Out
Astronaut Jones – Turkey Grease
Justin Jones – Christmas Night
Bossalingo – Django
Anchor 3 – False Start
The Greatest Hoax – Opus no. 18
Dr Neanderthal – Introduction
Sunwolf – Big Feelings (Instrumental)
The Dwindlers – Pickering’s Hyla
Atoms Apart – Turnaround
Fellow Creatures – Expectations
Sri Rama – Beastles
The Grey A – In Remembrance
June Gloom – Get Free
Cheick Hamala Diabate – Fatou (Sol Power Remix)

At least that’s how it appears in the video for “Wouldn’t You Like To Know,” a new song by his pop-kissed indie-rock band, Fellow Creatures. The visual portrays the singer/keyboardist wandering around a party that’s morphed into a nightmare. Guests appear in carnival outfits and animal masks. They shout, wrestle or just stare blankly. McCormally tries to stick to the sidelines, but everywhere he goes, he’s confronted with video screens of himself.

The whole thing looks like a surrealist art film. But McCormally insists it’s based on a true experience the D.C. band had at a tour stop in Cincinnati.

“After a show, we headed to the house belonging to the booker,” McCormally says. “His housemates were hanging out, drinking a lot and listening to The Toadies really loud. And as the evening progressed, it became clear that no one had any intention of going to sleep.”

The residents grew wilder as the night went on, while the exhausted band members pleaded for a chance to rest. (Baltimore band Ed Schrader’s Music Beat dubbed this common tour experience “party jail.”) McCormally remembers trying to sleep on the porch, to no avail.

“They followed us out and proceeded to bust up an old TV set in the yard with a baseball bat,” the vocalist says.

Like its video, “Wouldn’t You Like To Know” also addresses the unpleasant events, albeit in a more introspective way.

“The experience made me think a lot about anger,” says McCormally, the song’s primary writer. “Is it the kind of thing that you need to release via a catharsis? Or is it the kind of thing that the more you go there, the quicker your trigger is?”

McCormally brought his ideas to his bandmates, singer/guitarist Will McKindley-Ward, bassist/guitarist Rishi Chakrabarty and drummer David Greer. The four worked out the final arrangement with producer Louis Weeks and engineer Chris Freeland as part of the sessions for the group’s new self-titled album, released last week.

The band filmed the video with cinematographer Ellie Walton at McCormally’s home in Mt. Rainier, Maryland. To top off the outrageous atmosphere, they asked friends to don any costumes they could find.

Unlike the original night, though, the whole thing was over in an hour — and nobody’s rest was disturbed.

“My 4-month old daughter slept through the entire thing,” McCormally says.

Fellow Creatures play an album-release show April 15 at Tropicalia and May 21 at DC9 in D.C.