Flasher – 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 Sriram Gopal, K-Loe Black http://bandwidth.wamu.org/sriram-gopal-k-loe-black/ http://bandwidth.wamu.org/sriram-gopal-k-loe-black/#respond Mon, 08 Aug 2016 08:20:45 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=67512 Songs featured Aug. 8, 2016, as part of Capital Soundtrack from WAMU 88.5. Read more about the project and submit your own local song.

Screen Vinyl Image – The Midnight Sun
The Orchid – Decompressor/The Last Dive
Jon Camp – All Is Fine Past the County Line
Aaron Agre – Time Window
Dissonance – Chlorophyll Daffodil
Elijah Cole – Green Dolphin Street
The Jet Age – The Only Difference
NUNS – False Architect
The Funk Ark – Bouzouki Song
2nd Story Band – Junior
Beautiful Swimmers – Running Over
Sriram Gopal – Bengali Dhun
Exit Vehicles – Paint
K-Loe Black – 144 Thousand
Wicked Olde – Old Joe Clark
MUDGE – Adora Jar
Flasher – Tense
Romantic States – Hourglass
Q and Not U – Wonderful People
Pilesar – Stickbag 1ne

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Flasher, Dunc, Zomes http://bandwidth.wamu.org/flasher-dunc-zomes/ http://bandwidth.wamu.org/flasher-dunc-zomes/#respond Fri, 03 Jun 2016 18:33:38 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=65300 Songs featured June 3, 2016, as part of Capital Soundtrack from WAMU 88.5. Read more about the project and submit your own local song.

Paperhaus

“Cairo”

from Paperhaus

Dura

“Lawns”

from Silver/Lawns

Ploy

“Future Voyager”

from Young For a Moment

Beach House

“Myth”

from Bloom

More Humans

“Slide Around”

from Hot Cloud

Borracho

“Redemption”

from Splitting Sky

Wytold

“Do You Know?”

from My Regards

Dunc

“Tree Rings”

from Cycles

Body Thief

“The Wishing Tree”

from Speak In Hibernation

Thievery Corporation

“Samba Tranquille”

from The Mirror Conspiracy

Nitemoves

“Ashe”

from Themes

Flasher

“Make Out”

from Flasher

Marvin Gaye

“Right On”

from What's Going On

Damu the Fudgemunk

“Overtime Intro — Instrumental”

from Full Time

Fugazi

“Afterthought”

from Instrument Soundtrack

Zomes

“Ruminants”

from Near Unison

Lands & Peoples

“Lullabye”

from Pop Guilt

Peals

“Believers”

from Walking Field

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To Be Clear: Flasher Is Not An English Band From 1979 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/to-be-clear-flasher-is-not-an-english-band-from-1979/ http://bandwidth.wamu.org/to-be-clear-flasher-is-not-an-english-band-from-1979/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2016 09:00:49 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=63343 At the rate that D.C. DIY bands form and split, one could be forgiven for not keeping up. So if you’re not hip to Flasher, here’s the gist: It’s a trio formed by members of Priests, Big Hush, Bless, Trouble and Young Trynas. And while the band is brand new, its sound dates back nearly 40 years — to late ’70s Manchester, the birthplace of Factory Records.

But Flasher isn’t trying to sound retro. In fact, the group hasn’t settled on a particular vibe yet, says bassist and co-vocalist Danny Saperstein.

Released April 8, Flasher’s debut EP “is exciting because it does feel a little all over the place, a little scattered,” says Saperstein (of Bless and Trouble). “That’s probably a product of us still figuring out our sound.”

This chaos is only sonic. Turns out, Flasher is a kind of fated trio.

“We’ve been best friends for a really long time,” says guitarist Taylor Mulitz (of Priests and Young Trynas). “We all work together, [drummer] Emma [Baker] and I live together.” Plus, “Danny’s at the house a lot,” Baker says.

That closeness translated well to Flasher. “Luckily, all of us have a really easy time doing music with each other, which I think is really kind of rare,” says Mulitz. “There’s just something about doing it naturally and never feeling stressful trying to write a song.”

Why another band, though?

“The two bands that I play in do such different stuff that it fulfills completely different things for me — even though I’m playing the same instrument… it feels completely different,” says Baker, who also plays in Big Hush. “It’s really helped me progress. If I was missing one of them, I wouldn’t be the same drummer that I am.”

While the three have basically been Flasher since the first time Saperstein joined Mulitz and Baker onstage — in August 2015 — the band is an infant at best. That’s made clear by something that, in 2016, seems uncommon.

“Up until a week ago,” Mulitz says, “we had no Internet presence whatsoever.”

Flasher plays April 16 at Bathtub Republic and June 3 at Black Cat. The band’s debut EP is out now on Sister Polygon Records.

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