Logikbomb – One For yU
Young Rapids – King of the Hill
Dubpixel – Through My Window
SlimKat78 – GhoolyLude
Benoit & Sergio – Your Darkness
Young Summer – Taken
John W. Warren – La Noche Triste (The Moon’s Lullaby)
Cynthia Marie – Sometimes Broken
Bunny Man Bridge – Parker Brothers
Beauty Pill – I’m Just Gonna Close My Eyes For A Second
The Orchid – Don’t Be Afraid; We’ll Be Together
Kenny Mac – Feeling You (feat. 210)
Outputmessage – Minuscule
Foozle – TV Wrestling
Super!Silver!Haze! – Train to Berlin
True Womanhood – A Diviner
Frau Eva – Morrissey Smiling
Tomás Pagán Motta – It’s Tough Letting Go
Matt Rippetoe – BOINK (reprise)
Moonlight Mask – The Nightingale

Jason A Mullinax – Next Time We Fly
Suzanne Brindamour – Pop’s Theme
Astronaut Jones – Keep It Down
Lungfish – Cut to Fit the Mouth
Young Rapids – Melt
RDGLDGRN – Hangout
Moonlight Mask – The Nightingale
TRU Band – Thelonius Funk
Aaron Abernathy – Faded Pictures
Jonny Grave – L’Enfant Promenade
Oddisee – When Everything Changed
Bunny Man Bridge – Shush Mutt
Nitemoves – Music Song
Miter – Young
Matt Chaconas – Goodnight
Technicians – Low Tide
Koshari – Into Shreds
We Were Pirates – A Boy & His Tiger
AndrewN – Night Falls
The Acorns – Oak Follies

That’s what I asked Bandwidth’s contributors to help me do last month. Our writers sent me their picks for their favorite D.C. music of 2015 thus far, and the result was this extremely awesome playlist (stream it below).

One limitation, though: I had to pick songs that have been uploaded to Soundcloud. As it turns out, not everybody puts their music on the service. A lot of rock and punk bands, in particular, use Bandcamp, and some artists — for reasons my under-30 brain is still struggling to understand — don’t even put their songs on the Internet for free.

So this playlist still isn’t as exhaustive as I wanted it to be, but it’s still pretty freaking great. Give it a listen on your computer or chosen mobile device, and be sure to chide us in the comments, on Twitter or via email for missing your favorite D.C. music of the year. (Seriously! Send me your nominations — we want to hear it all.)

For more coverage of D.C. music, follow Bandwidth’s Track Work series.

Warning: Explicit lyrics.

Image, clockwise from top left: April + VISTA, Kali Uchis, Young Rapids (partial image), Ras Nebyu, Prinze George (partial image), Visto.

I first spoke to Carlson in late 2013 when I wrote about one of his early Moonlight Mask songs, “Palm Bay,” for Washington City Paper. He’d cobbled together the chunky tune using a Ryan Hemsworth drum sample for a Levi’s-sponsored online contest. He didn’t win, but no matter — that song will live on via Moonlight Mask’s self-titled debut album, out May 1.

Mildly kooky and thoroughly distorted, Moonlight Mask’s debut has as many highlights as it has hooks — I’m particularly big on “Bao Bao’s Birthday,” a tribute to one of D.C.’s pandas-in-residence. In an email, Carlson says that track’s about “longing for a phone call from his girlfriend abroad” on the giant panda’s special day.

About the record, Carlson writes, “There are radio hits, but there is a lot of darkness and weirdness going on here. It’s all accessible and easy to swallow, but there’s a lot of buried treasure to uncover if you wanna put on some good headphones, close your eyes and zone out on your mattress for 45 minutes.”

Carlson has never performed his recent material live, but tonight he plays his first gig as Moonlight Mask at Joe’s Record Paradise in Silver Spring. (He says to expect just one or two songs from the record “because I really feel like those songs need a full band.”) He says he’s also been filling in on bass with promising Maryland R&B duo April + VISTA, whose debut EP arrives tomorrow — March 31.

Stream Moonlight Mask’s debut via Bandcamp, below, and look out for it on May 1.

Moonlight Mask plays Monday, March 30 at Joe’s Record Paradise in Silver Spring.