Paperhaus, Frau Eva
Songs featured Nov. 3, 2016, as part of Capital Soundtrack from WAMU 88.5. Read more about the project and submit…
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Sir E.U., Low End String Quartet
Songs featured Sept. 28, 2016, as part of Capital Soundtrack from WAMU 88.5. Read more about the project and submit your…
Some Funky Late-Summer ‘Love’ From GoldLink
Warning: Explicit lyrics. Since a 2014 mixtape and a 2015 album — not to mention a membership in that year’s XXL Freshman…
Asheru, Mud Rey
Songs featured Aug. 18, 2016, as part of Capital Soundtrack from WAMU 88.5. Read more about the project and submit your…
Ben Williams, Buildings
Songs featured Aug. 14, 2016, as part of Capital Soundtrack from WAMU 88.5. Read more about the project and submit your…
Swings, Seba Yuri
Songs featured July 9, 2016, as part of Capital Soundtrack from WAMU 88.5. Read more about the project and submit your…
Timmy Sells His Soul, Bumper Jacksons
Songs featured July 3, 2016, as part of Capital Soundtrack from WAMU 88.5. Read more about the project and submit…
The Fuss, Medications
Songs featured June 5, 2016, as part of Capital Soundtrack from WAMU 88.5. Read more about the project and submit…
Protect-U, Terracotta Blue, Kokayi
Songs featured June 2, 2016, as part of Capital Soundtrack from WAMU 88.5. Read more about the project.
What Does D.C. Sound Like? Listen To Kokayi’s Washington Soundscape
Take a walk through NoMa, the Southwest Waterfront or parts of Shaw, and you’ll hear a city in transition: the…
NPR Is Holding Another Tiny Desk Contest. Submit, Won’t You?
Remember when NPR invited musicians across the country to fight each other for the privilege of playing a cubicle in D.C.? It turned…
This Week On Metro Connection: A Close Listen To D.C. Music
Update, May 22: The show is now streaming on metroconnection.org. Friday and Saturday, Bandwidth is pairing up with WAMU’s weekly…
Rare Essence Will Be The First Go-Go Band To Play SXSW. Could It Mean Another Shot At Fame?
This month, thousands of bands, industry execs and people with the word “guru” in their Twitter bios are descending upon…
This New Kokayi Video Might Make You Cry A Little
At the top of 2014, multitalented hip-hop artist Kokayi turned in what I considered the best local submission to NPR’s…
These Are The Best D.C. Submissions To NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest
I’m using both the terms “D.C.” and “bands” loosely when I say that 130 D.C. bands submitted videos to NPR’s…
Track Work: Ardamus, ‘If Only I Gave Ah’
D.C. rapper Ardamus tends to write from his life experiences, but don’t call his music “conscious” hip-hop. “In all honesty, I…