Gideon Grove – Collision (instrumental)
Beyond Modern – Lost In The Lights (Paradise)
Language of Sleep – Act II
Klauss – Mixer
Damu the Fudgemunk – This Is An Introduction
Mark Sylvester – Pulse (In 7)
00Genesis – Inside the Brown Paper Bag
Incredible Change – Ecce Mono
Moss Of Aura – Brink
The Northern Divide – Enviromatic
The Jennifers – Christmas In Reverse – Instrumental
Nerftoss – Low/Highway
Extra Golden – Ilando Gima Onge
Mulberry Coach – Weapon of Choice
#KNO-1 – I Who Have Nothing
Soleaux – Cyanide
Jackie and The Treehorns – So Many Ways (To Turn You On)
The Funk Ark – Doom Buggy
Smart Went Crazy – Black Kites
Jake Starr and the Delicious Fullness – By The Grace Of Mod

Howard University Jazz Ensemble – Is There Anything Still There
Lungfish – Cut to Fit the Mouth
HOTHEAD – Hothead
Rumpole – Jelly Bean 1
Kenny Mac – Feeling You (feat. 210)
Smart Went Crazy – A Brief Conversation Ending In Divorce
Logikbomb – The Heights (aka: Her Lips)
Wild Coast – Stare Scared
Anthony Pirog – Steven in the Light
Empresarios – Sabor Tropical (Nappy Riddem Instrumental Remix)
Jason Masi – In the Afternoon
Timothy Soller – Persuading
Lance Neptune – Pyxis
Daniel Barbiero & Massimo Discepoli – Autopoiesis
Pearie Sol – take me back
Rod Hamilton – Zoey
Higher Hands – Due Dilla-gence
The Funk Ark – Funky Southern
Wylder – Living Room
Sherwood Gainer – 404

Aquarium – Maxxo Sesh
Terri Bocklund & Curr Kowalski – Bagizo (Go Swimming)
The Scotch Bonnets – Charm City
Nunchucks – Solid Gold Eagle
Jonathan Matis – Stone Rocket Bronze Dog
Smart Went Crazy – Black Kites
Three Man Soul Machine – Rastaman Chant
The Rust Brothers – To Live
Cigarbox Planetarium – Memory Loop
Brittany Jean and Will Copps – Neighborhoods
Elijah Jamal Balbed – Butch Warren
PREE – The Dog
Birds and Buildings – Horse-Shaped Cloud
Tristan Welch – C.
David Scott Weaver – The River
Corm – Then I Built My Own Violin (Instrumental)
Lo-Fang – Permutations
Anchor 3 – Sleepwalker
ACME – Save the World
Cynthia Marie – Song for the End

“I’ve always called these types of songs ‘barn burners,'” says the D.C.-based guitarist, songwriter, engineer and drummer. That’s why his new band, The Effects, made its recorded debut with its own barn-burner last week. The song is called “Blister,” and it aligns precisely with Ocampo’s definition of the term: brief and intense—but with one foot planted in melodic songcraft.

“I don’t think there was ever a question that it was going be the first thing we wanted to drop on people,” says Ocampo, 40. He wanted to make a strong impression right away for a band that’s only been playing together—in various forms—since late 2013.

But Ocampo may already be a familiar name in D.C. rock circles: He’s played in Faraquet, Smart Went Crazy, Beauty Pill, Medications, Deathfix and alongside Mary Timony. When he plays guitar, he imparts a bracing and distinct brand of noodlery. It’s a sound that’s inseparable from D.C. indie rock of the ’90s and aughts, and Ocampo has never completely stopped playing it.

“I would say that [The Effects] is a continuation of the same sort of work for me. The songs that I wrote for a rock-trio format I think all have a certain consistency to them,” Ocampo says. “One could make an argument that I could have called it the same thing the whole time.”

The Effects—which includes drummer David Rich (ex-Buildings) and bassist Matt Dowling (Deleted Scenes)—isn’t even Ocampo’s only band right now. He also sings and plays guitar in a fourpiece called Warm Sun with his spouse, Renata, and D.C. music vets Basla Andolsun and Jason Hutto. That band just played its first show last Sunday. But Ocampo seems committed to making The Effects a serious gig.

He plans to do that by recording, then releasing, only a dribble of Effects music each month for a year. The band dropped a digital version of “Blister” (without its B-side, “Old Soul”) on Sept. 1. Next month, “Blister” will be retired from Bandcamp, and the band will upload a new track. Each digital song will also get a cassette release. In the end, the band will probably put it all on an LP—but that doesn’t seem to be the first thing on Ocampo’s mind.

“We just sort of want to keep things interesting and moving forward,” the musician says. “I’ve put out a lot of records doing the whole normal album cycle, where you build up songs and you take six months to write them, and then you try to get financing to get into a studio… then you drop this big weighty thing that you’ve spent all this time on.” He says that people don’t all consume music in album form now, so why follow that old formula? “We’re trying to do all singles, no filler. That’s been our motto.”

Not that listeners should expect a relentless campaign of barn burners from here on out.

“The band has a lot more to say,” Ocampo says. “We do have a lot more nuance in our music. But I thought [‘Blister’] was something to kind of hit people over the head with.”

The Effects play Rock & Roll Hotel with The Life & Times and Tone on Sept. 14. They play a “Blister/Old Soul” release show at Comet Ping Pong Oct. 18.