More Humans – 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 Haint Blue, Joy Buttons http://bandwidth.wamu.org/haint-blue-joy-buttons/ http://bandwidth.wamu.org/haint-blue-joy-buttons/#respond Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:20:08 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=68143 Songs featured Aug. 29, 2016, as part of Capital Soundtrack from WAMU 88.5. Read more about the project and submit your own local song.

The Dwindlers – Pickering’s Hyla
Joy Buttons – Other
Cigarbox Planetarium – Oh! Tinnitus
Title Tracks – Piles of Paper
Emily Henry – Hands
Lenny Kurlou – Treat You Like a Lady (Instrumental)
Haint Blue – Undefined
Flash Frequency – Supreme Dream
Astronaut Jones – Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas
Redline Graffiti – Beauty Mark 2
Aaron Tinjum and the Tangents – The Wild and Beyond
Elijah Jamal Balbed – Lament For Booker
Luxas – Arbo-domo en la Nuboj (Tree-house In the Clouds)
We Were Pirates – Sunday Paper
Little Hunts – Derealize
Suzanne Brindamour – In the Sky
Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie – All the Best
More Humans – Barbaro
Bossalingo – Round Midnight
Sri Rama – Refreshing

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Birdlips – Home
Medications – Brasil ’07
Wytold – Titania
Nick Hakim – Heaven
Drop Electric – Brooklyn’s Nightmare
Mud Rey – Never Satisfied
Sweetnova – Soldier
Will Eastman & Caleb L’Etoile – We Gon Make It All Happen
Lands & Peoples – Colleen’s Wedding
Middle Distance Runner – Brother John
Near Northeast – North Star
Mathugh – THe! Fearsome Twosome.
Warren Wolf – Natural Beauties
Pete Frassrand – Special K
Fugazi – Break
Shark Week – Desire
Damu the Fudgemunk – Overtime Intro – Instrumental
Raw Feels – Waiting / Wasting
Ben Dransfield – Nostalgia
More Humans – You’re a Liar

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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

]]> http://bandwidth.wamu.org/screen-vinyl-image-eva-cassidy/feed/ 0 Emily Henry, Julius Jetson http://bandwidth.wamu.org/emily-henry-julius-jetson/ http://bandwidth.wamu.org/emily-henry-julius-jetson/#respond Fri, 08 Jul 2016 08:20:01 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=66694 Songs featured July 8 2016, as part of Capital Soundtrack from WAMU 88.5. Read more about the project and submit your own local song.

Pete Frassrand

“Special K”

from Sonic Story

More Humans

“Slide Around”

from Hot Cloud

Julius Jetson

“Eclipse”

from District Summer

Emily Henry

“Hands”

from Matchsticks

Sam Phillips

“L'Enfant”

from Drifters

Lands & Peoples

“I Tried”

from Pop Guilt

Anthony G. J. M.

“Universe Collide”

The Red Fetish

“The Rain That Feeds the Meadows”

from The Wind, As Now, Is Silent

Typefighter

“You When You're Older”

from The End of Everything

Yeveto

“Cowboy Song”

from Remote Unelectrified Villages

Tereu Tereu

“Teeth Like Mountaintops”

from Quadrants

The Caribbean

“Artists In Exile”

from Discontinued Perfume

The Evens

“Sara Lee”

from The Evens

Makeup Girl

“Disappointed ”

Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez

“Isosceles”

]]> http://bandwidth.wamu.org/emily-henry-julius-jetson/feed/ 0 Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band, Sara Curtin http://bandwidth.wamu.org/chopteeth-afrofunk-big-band-sara-curtin/ http://bandwidth.wamu.org/chopteeth-afrofunk-big-band-sara-curtin/#respond Thu, 16 Jun 2016 08:20:38 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=65825 Songs featured June 16, 2016, as part of Capital Soundtrack from WAMU 88.5. Read more about the project and submit your own local song.

Wale

“LoveHate Thing (Tone P Instrumental)”

Diamond District

“Streets Won't Let Me Chill (Instrumental)”

from In the Ruff

Five State Drive

“Dry Clean Express”

from Clean and Pressed

AXB

“Quantum Chill”

from Seven

The Caribbean

“Echopraxia”

from Moon Sickness

Hailu Mergia and The Walias

“Musicawi Silt”

from Tche Belew

Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band

“Weigh Your Blessings”

from Chopteeth

Warren Wolf

“427 Mass Ave”

from Warren Wolf

Sara Curtin

“A Little Again”

Teen Mom

“Kitchen”

from Gilly

Fugazi

“Recap Modotti”

from End Hits

More Humans

“You're A Liar”

from Demon Station

The Sweater Set

“Lost At Sea”

from Lost At Sea

Koshari

“Into Shreds”

from Into Shreds/Just In Time

Brian Whitmer

“Kelly's Lament”

Young Rapids

“Ugly”

from Pretty Ugly

The Sea Life

“Pray For Snow”

from In Basements

M.H. & His Orchestra

“Cobblestone”

from The Throes

Elikeh

“The Conversation”

from Kondona

Sligo Creek Stompers

“Cuckoo's Nest”

from Vital Mental Medicine

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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

Le Loup

“to the stars! to the night!”

from The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly

]]> http://bandwidth.wamu.org/flasher-dunc-zomes/feed/ 0 Protect-U, Terracotta Blue, Kokayi http://bandwidth.wamu.org/protect-u-terracotta-blue-kokayi/ http://bandwidth.wamu.org/protect-u-terracotta-blue-kokayi/#respond Thu, 02 Jun 2016 15:32:55 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=65216 Songs featured June 2, 2016, as part of Capital Soundtrack from WAMU 88.5. Read more about the project.

Art Sorority For Girls

“We Are Seven”

from Slow Dance

Wytold

“Summersaults”

from Rainbow Arcade

Speedwell

“Two Conquests”

from My Life is a Series of Vacations

Teen Mom

“Say My Name”

from Love Songs (Demos & B-sides)

Kokayi

“OrnchKowknee”

from Pacific Coast Highway

Imperial China

“John Starks”

from Rainbow Arcade

Domingues & Kane

“No. 5”

from Gut + Voltage

Lo-Fang

“Permutations”

from Blue Film

Terracotta Blue

“Dirge”

from Stronger/Dirge

More Humans

“You're a Liar”

from Demon Station

Warren Wolf

“Sweet Bread”

from Warren Wolf

The Greatest Hoax

“Opus No. 20”

from Piano Solos Volume 2

Bobby Thompson

“Be Your Love”

from By the Hand

Protect-U

“Dit Floss”

from Free USA

Lands & Peoples

“Colleen's Wedding”

from Pop Guilt

Oddisee

“Fievre”

from The Beauty In All

The Sea Life

“Pray For Snow”

from In Basements

Ploy

“X I X”

from X I X

]]> http://bandwidth.wamu.org/protect-u-terracotta-blue-kokayi/feed/ 0 More Humans Live At WAMU 88.5 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/more-humans-live-at-wamu-88-5/ http://bandwidth.wamu.org/more-humans-live-at-wamu-88-5/#respond Wed, 01 Jun 2016 09:00:37 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=65134 More Humans isn’t the most visible or prolific band in D.C.’s indie-rock community, but when they pop up on the scene, they make it count.

The group’s tuneful and brainy 2015 album Hot Cloud followed four years of relative quiet, and they played only a couple of local gigs to promote it. One of them took place in November at Arlington cubby hole Galaxy Hut — indoor capacity 66 — to an audience of IPA-sippers who may not have known they were witnessing a rare show from one of D.C.’s best rock bands.

The members of More Humans have busy professional and family lives, which explains their Cicadian show sked. That’s not likely to change soon. But here at Bandwidth, we’ve got the next best thing: two More Humans songs recorded live in our studio.

In these videos shot in May at WAMU, More Humans tear through a pair of Hot Cloud standouts: “Big Day” (above) and “Said Bird” (below). They’re both magic in a bottle.

More Humans at WAMU 88.5

More Humans at WAMU 88.5

More Humans at WAMU 88.5

More Humans at WAMU 88.5

More Humans at WAMU 88.5

More Humans at WAMU 88.5

Photos by Rhiannon Newman

]]> http://bandwidth.wamu.org/more-humans-live-at-wamu-88-5/feed/ 0 The Harry Bells, Caz And The Day Laborers http://bandwidth.wamu.org/the-harry-bells-caz-and-the-day-laborers/ http://bandwidth.wamu.org/the-harry-bells-caz-and-the-day-laborers/#respond Tue, 31 May 2016 04:01:38 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=64949 Songs heard on WAMU 88.5 on May 31, 2016, as part of our new Capital Soundtrack project.

The Harry Bells

“Rum and Coca Cola”

from Roosevelt Island EP

Feedel Band

“Girl From Ethiopia (Live at WAMU)”

Andrew Grossman

“Awakening to the Warm Glow of a Computer Screen”

from The Man + The Machine

Nick Hakim

“Sleep”

from Where Will We Go, Pt. 2

The Greatest Hoax

“Opus No. 11”

from Vol. 1

More Humans

“Mt. Oblivion”

from Hot Cloud

Caz and the Day Laborers

“I Give Dub”

from Caz and the Day Laborers

The Sea Life

“Sex Appeal, Pt. 1”

from In Basements

Thievery Corporation

“Transcendence”

from Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi

Bearshark

“Island in the Sky”

from Canyonlands

The Evens

“Cache is Empty”

from Get Evens

Oddisee

“The Blooming”

from Odd Spring

The Bumper Jacksons

“Jubilee”

from Too Big World

Tone

“Bright Angel Falls”

from Bright Angel Falls

Le Loup

“Go East”

from Family

ACME

“Be Thankful”

from Why Not ?

Lo-Fang

“Every Night”

from Every Night EP

Typefighter

“Sides”

from The End of Everything

Memphis Gold

“Do You Still Want Me”

from Gator Gon' Bitechu!

Dan Deacon

“Of the Mountains”

from Bromst

]]> http://bandwidth.wamu.org/the-harry-bells-caz-and-the-day-laborers/feed/ 0 Premiere: A Stark Video From The Jarvik 6, Spawn Of More Humans And The Caribbean http://bandwidth.wamu.org/premiere-a-stark-video-from-the-jarvik-6-spawn-of-more-humans-and-the-caribbean/ http://bandwidth.wamu.org/premiere-a-stark-video-from-the-jarvik-6-spawn-of-more-humans-and-the-caribbean/#respond Tue, 09 Feb 2016 10:00:37 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=61216 Matt Byars can’t stand making videos.

“I hate editing video,” says the musician, who plays drums in D.C. band The Caribbean. “It takes forever.”

But late last year, Byars found himself in need of a promotional device. He had a new EP on the way — the debut of his long-brewing side project, The Jarvik 6 — and he needed to get the word out somehow.

“I thought, ‘Oh yeah, we’ve been told by publicists how important it is to have a video,'” Byars says. So he caved. He hopped online and found a free video editor.

“I found this site — I don’t remember what it’s called anymore, but…it’s got all these templates and stuff, like all the cheap shortcuts you would never advise someone to do,” Byars says. “I started just taking one step at a time.”

Then something unexpected happened: He began to enjoy himself. “It just kept working to my liking,” Byars says.

jarvik-6-EPSoon, he had a simple but stirring video for “Come, Holy Ghost” (watch it above), a highlight from The Jarvik 6, the moody and cerebral EP he made with More Humans frontman Clinton Doggett and musician/engineer Beau Sorenson. The video shows a succession of stark edifices and abandoned buildings that dissolve, one after another, with near-maddening inevitability.

That’s precisely the bleak tone Byars had in mind. “There’s a little desolation [in this song]. I think there’s a hollowness,” the musician says. “[But] I think if you look at it lyrically, there’s a warmth, too, and there’s a longing and a sense of even nostalgia, because Clinton is singing about a kid he knew when his family lived in Africa, who he lost touch with.”

Byars sees The Jarvik 6 as an outlet for his undulatory tendencies.

“I’m very interested in beats. I’m very interested in grooves,” says the drummer, who handles guitar, piano and some vocals on the EP.

But Byars says it may be a while before The Jarvik 6 performs live. The project has existed solely in the lab for nine years.

“We’ve never played live. I wouldn’t know where to start,” Byars says. “I don’t know what we would do to invent or evoke some of those same emotional components… it’ll be interesting to see.”

The Jarvik 6’s debut EP is out now on West Main Development.

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