Tabi Bonney – Bandwidth

Cecily, Bardoe

Ally Schweitzer — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 08:20:30 +0000

Songs featured Sept. 16, 2016, as part of Capital Soundtrack from WAMU 88.5.Read more about the project and submit your own local song.

Soleaux – Graffiti
Jackie and The Treehorns – Window
Bardoe – Flip It
Kid Claws – Link
Lenorable – Ligeia
Diggs Duke – Love Breeds Love
Wes Felton – Never
Gorazde – Nomad Codes
Gordon Withers – 2.9
Lands – Sometimes
Shannon Gunn and the Bullettes Septet – Thaddish
U.S. Royalty – Valley of the Sun
The Harry Bells – Love, Love Alone (Honest Lee Naive Tongues remix)
Caroline Ferrante – What a Day
Jon Miller – Know
Trouble Funk – Trouble Funk Express (Instrumental)
Tom McBride – Spinnaker
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Livingston
Cecily featuring Tabi Bonney – Heaven In Your Eyes (Instrumental)
Fat Kneel – Role Reversal

The Soul Searchers, Diggs Duke

Ally Schweitzer — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 08:20:59 +0000

Songs featured Aug. 12, 2016, as part of Capital Soundtrack from WAMU 88.5. Read more about the project and submit your own local song.

The Soul Searchers – Ain’t It Heavy
Cecily featuring Tabi Bonney – Heaven In Your Eyes (Instrumental)
MILK$ – Wonder Woman
Nacey – Tripping In Half Moon Bay
Diggs Duke – Love Breeds Love
Brûlée – Raincloud
Little Hunts – Jumping Jacks
Ben Williams – Toy Soldiers
Dane Paris – Dialogue
Akira Otsuka – White OrchidZenon Slawinski – No Support
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Oh Rosetta
David King – Jewels
igloo two – the big ego scene
Aaron Agre – Cloud Empty (Selenelion) I
Incredible Change – Every Every Day
Power Pirate – Infecting Us
Alex Byrd – Webignarly
Deleted Scenes – Seasons of the Wire
Julius Jetson – Eclipse

Six Pics: Young Rapids, RDGLDGRN And More D.C. Artists At SXSW

Cassandra Mullinix — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 17:48:46 +0000

Music acts from the D.C. region perform at the 2016 edition of Austin superfest SXSW.

BOOMscat at the WeDC showcase:

Go Cozy at the WeDC showcase:

RDGLDGRN at Monster Energy Outbreak House:

Tabi Bonney at the WeDC showcase:

Two Inch Astronaut at Stereogum/Exploding In Sound showcase at Hole In The Wall:

Young Rapids at the WeDC showcase:

All photos by Cassandra Mullinix

Track Work: Tabi Bonney, ‘Poom Poom’

Marcus J. Moore — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 13:12:52 +0000

In 2006, D.C. rapper Tabi Bonney scored a breakout hit with “The Pocket,” an off-kilter jam that celebrated regional slang terms like “yung,” “cise,” “bama” and “jo.” In the ensuing years, the Langdon Park native carved out a lane of his own, choosing a breezier, more easygoing sound than the hard-edged trap-rap of D.C. up-and-comers like Fat Trel and Shy Glizzy.

Yet in 2012, Bonney says, he hit a wall and needed a change. He moved to Los Angeles for the beaches, warm weather and presence of a robust music industry. “I’ve always felt at home whenever I’ve had a show in Cali,” Bonney says. “I stepped back and lived life a little more, and reassessed the direction I was headed. I was looking for a new sound. I needed to make a bigger leap. I wasn’t pressing the envelope.”

Now we’re hearing the latest example of that new sound: “Poom Poom,” which Bonney posted on Soundcloud last week, is an upbeat electro-pop track that the artist is pushing as an official single. Lyrically, the song describes a man pulled in by a woman’s gravitational force: “Got me opening the door with a top hat, I don’t even know how we got here,” goes one line. Musically, the track (produced by D.C.’s own Best Kept Secret) sounds made for the club—much more so than his previous work. That was done on purpose.

“I’m on some stuff that’ll get people dancing,” Bonney says. “When the song comes on, it makes you wanna have fun. I almost feel like I’m a new artist again.”