Zenon Slawinski – The Beginning Of Time
Sonic Thee – Speaker
Pilesar – Every Blade of Grass
The Moderate – Conversation
Teen Mom – Boyfriends
Mark Sylvester – Pulse (In 7)
Fields Burning – Joy’s Desire
Miyazaki – Opportunist
Eddie From Ohio – Mimosas In Missouri
Projekt Eins – Virtuoso
Hayley Fahey – Tuesday Morning
Azure Vox – The Best Part
Bellfount – You Still Love Me (Instrumental)
Jon Camp – Interrupted Transmission
Bells and Hunters – Sense of Time
Astronaut Jones – Farther
Rumpole – Just BDF
Ricky Eat Acid – Can You See Its Bloom
Young Rapids – Melt
Terrill Mast – Venetian Corridors

Title Tracks – All Tricks (Instrumental)
Beauty Pill – Idiot Heart
Masego – Disconnected (Shorty From VA)
Diggs Duke – Crazy Like A Fox
Yeveto – Remote Unelectrified Villages
Letzkus Lanou – Ted n Lindsay
Dupont Brass – Can We Talk
Opus Akoben – Ronin
Fort Knox Five – Swinging On a Rhyme (Instrumental)
Spirit Plots – Pssst
Stephen Allen Kochersperger – Headhunter Serenade
Deathfix – Hospital
00Genesis – Inside the Brown Paper Bag
Tereu Tereu – Savage Love
Stephen Robey – Charlotte’s Song
The Petticoat Tearoom – Kundalini
ZOMES – Black Magic Band
Teen Mom – Kitchen
Patuxent Partners – Victoria Waltz
GroundScore – Here We Are

Lance Neptune – Circle Rose
The Jet Age – It Always Starts With a Bang
Jon Camp – I Exhale Sawdust
Save the Arcadian – Dance Floor
John W. Warren – Nisene (Dream In a Forest)
J. Reid – Smoking a j at the end of the Anthropocene
Max D – Slick
NUNS – Blood Red Snow
Calm the Waters – Sinking Like a Stone
Aaron Agre – Stormglass
Jau Ocean – Lightly
Les Rhinocéros – Johnway
Matt Chaconas – Intro
Shannon Gunn and the Bullettes Septet – Warm Woman Blues
The Mean Season – Whisper (Acoustic)
the Sobel 4Tet – Acapulco
Nitemoves – Mikuni
Zenon Slawinski – Cookie 5
Teen Mom – Say My Name
John Lanou – Hannukah

Chopteeth – Weigh Your Blessings
Koshari – Into Shreds
Sligo Creek Stompers – Cuckoo’s Nest
Brian Whitmer – Kelly’s Lament
Peals – Belle Air
Young Rapids – Ugly
Five State Drive – Dry Clean Express
Teen Mom – Kitchen
Diamond District – Streets Won’t Let Me Chill
M.H. & His Orchestra – Cobblestone
Hailu Mergia and the Walias – Muziqawi Silt
The Caribbean – Echopraxia
Sara Curtin – A Little Again
Louis Weeks – Calder
GroundScore – Here We Are
Drop Electric – What Now, of Paradise?
Jonathan Parker – Sundown
Domingues & Kane – No. 5
Lo Fang – Invention No. 11
AXB – Quantum Chill
Wale – Love Hate Thing (Tone P Instrumental)
Elikeh – The Conversation
The Sweater Set – Lost At Sea
Warren Wolf – 427 Mass Ave

The band is filling up its calendar before Kelly splits town. The trio played its penultimate gig on Oct. 23 in College Park, and Oct. 29 marks its goodbye show, at Songbyrd Record Cafe in Adams Morgan. Oh, and there’s the album Teen Mom just released — its first, and most likely its last.

“It was a long time comin’,” Kelly says of the record, a 10-song collection called Groovy (stream it below).

Groovy, written between 2013 and 2014 and recorded at Persona Non Grata in Arlington, Virginia, is an independent release. The band considered working with a label, then opted against it in the interest of time. Yet time is the key ingredient on Groovy: It’s what makes Teen Mom sound recognizably like itself — fuzzy, jangly, heartbroken — but a touch more experienced.

“[The album is] more rockin’ in many ways,” says drummer Sean Dalby. “I think it’s a little more polished — and a little more versatile [than our first two EPs], too.”

While the band has sharpened, though, one thing that’s remained constant is the slight controversy over its name.

“We’ve received some criticism [for the moniker], and I respect people with that opinion,” Dalby says. He says some listeners may have misidentified the name’s target. It takes aim at a popular MTV reality show, not young mothers themselves.

“We thought it was funny to name it after [MTV’s Teen Mom series],” Dalby says. “We were going after MTV.”

Criticism aside, the local scene has treated Teen Mom well, says bassist Tom MacWright.

“D.C.’s music scene is great. It’s super, super supportive, and you hear in other cities that it’s really competitive between bands and really hard to book shows, but here it’s extremely easy to book shows,” MacWright says. “All the bands just kind of get along. They all root for each other.”

As for Kelly, his decision to move sounds personal; not necessarily to find greener pastures in another music scene. “I just want to change my life and move to a new city,” he says.

So, yeah — Thursday’s show may involve tears.

“I’m gonna be crying the whole time,” Dalby says, jokingly. “I think it will be a little intense but I think it will mostly be fun. We hope we have a lot of friends and family and support out there.”

Will this be a clean break for Teen Mom? It’s uncertain.

“I don’t know [if it’s the end]. I always think that who knows where we’ll all end up at some point?” says Kelly. “I’d like to play with these guys again, and hopefully our paths will cross at some point.”

MacWright says no matter what, none of them is dropping music for good. “I think all of us will continue to do music in one way or another.”

Plus, there’s a fringe benefit to Kelly moving westward, the bassist says. “Everyone’s very much looking forward to Chris’ mountain home recording.”

Teen Mom plays a farewell show Oct. 29 at Songbyrd Record Cafe.

With a title like “Naked In the Eyes of My Love,” it’s clear from the outset that this song—which arrived last month via the Rough Trade-curated cassette compilation 80N7—finds the D.C. indie-rock band treading delicate emotional territory. Kelly says it deals with a wrenching separation from an old flame and the ambiguity that followed. “I was trying to process the change from seeing someone every day to not, and then not knowing if that person was going to come back,” he says.

The songwriter prefers not to harp on the song’s specific inspiration, but his lovesick frustration comes through with every stanza, particularly when he arrives at the chorus. “How ’bout you just tell me what you do/Now that you’re not coming back?” he coos with a wounded, melancholy inflection. “So dumb—I can’t believe the [things] that I have done.”

Teen Mom—rounded out by drummer Sean Dalby and bassist Tom MacWright—started playing the song around last fall, then tracked it in February at Arlington studio Persona Non Grata. Kelly wrote the lyrics back in the early, scorching-hot summer months of 2013. That season brought a spurt of inspiration for the musician: He was going through personal changes and killing time, bored in his parents’ basement, and the ideas came tumbling out. “I look back on that period and feel like a lot of songs came out of nowhere,” he says.

Now the songwriter says he’s a little stumped. “I’m kind of going through a writer’s block thing right now where I can’t write songs,” he says. But he knows he wants to keep his future work more straightforward, like “Naked In the Eyes of My Love,” while still building a certain emotional intensity.

“Something I’ve been thinking about a lot is trying to play very simple songs,” Kelly says. “I think a lot of times, people try to be too impressive and they try to pack a song full of a lot of musical ideas. I think after you write a bunch of songs, you realize you don’t have to keep doing that.”

Teen Mom plays Howard Theatre Oct. 11 and Lamont Street Collective Oct. 12.