Nick Garcia – Sun Jam
Master David – Today And Tomorrow
Kevin Yost – Overture 1
The_Acorns – Comcast with Prego 35
Shortstack – G.B.D.
Imad Royal – Devil Pt. II
Fugazi – Cashout
KTW – By Any Right
Synthador – Some Nights Away 20150412
The Grit Pushers – Song 5
Calm The Waters – Peace On Earth
The Harry Bells – Matilda
Judah – Lesser of 2 Evils Prod by. Judah
Thievery Corporation – Transcendence
Michael Preston – Arcanum
NUNS – Blood Red Snow
Young Master Sunshine Photogenic 1982 – West Georgia
Memphis Gold – Back Po’che, Tennessee
Matt Chaconas – Mech FM
Andrew Grossman – Awakening to the Warm Glow of a Computer Screen

Jon Laine – DC Loves Detroit
Rod Hamilton – Agnes
Domingues & Kane – Black Shuck
Exit Vehicles – Circular
Sri Rama – Dendeliens
Golden Looks – Chisenbop
2nd Story Band – As the Years Go Passing By
Luke Brindley – A Little Gift
Otis Infrastructure – Tearerdowner
The Band Called Future – Back To The Sun
The Red Lines – Emergents
Caz and the Day Laborers – You Know You’re Dub
Mark Haag – Spanish Chant
Big Sky Conspiracy – Etherbugs
David King – Jewels
Detox Retox – Too Late
junhee – Days Past
Eric Maring – A Fine Balance
Thievery Corporation – Indra
Tomato Dodgers – Revenge Of The Space Ghost

David Marc Alterman – Tango for Violin and Piano Opus75
Pan American Symphony Orchestra – A Tiempo
Motion Lines – The Yearbook
junhee – Home
South Rail – Wandering Soul
Shannon Gunn and the Bullettes – Stormy Monday
Warren Wolf – Grand Central
Famous For A Century – War
Young Rapids – Goods
Night Kitchen – Chief
Drive TFC – Summertime Unkind
Thievery Corporation – Samba Tranquille
Benoit & Sergio – Your Darkness
Terri Bocklund & Curr Kowalski – Aurora
Knuckleberry Finn – Disney World
Foozle –
Lands & Peoples – Lullabye
Smoke Bellow – Middling 1
Ronny Smith – 95 Drive
Q and Not U – Wonderful People

So Spirited – Fevers
The Red Fetish – As Green As Grows the Pasture
Dove Lady – The Implication
Seba Yuri – Ethereality
maxine – another plane
Ben Williams – Things Don’t Exist
Caz and the Day Laborers – I Give Dub
Wicked Olde – Jenny Picking Cockles
Wildhoney – FSA II
Borracho – King’s Disease
Little Hunts – Nocturne (Part 2)
Dupont Brass – The Way
The Sea Life – Pray For Snow
Diggs Duke – The Pinnacle Of Class & Taste
Damu the Fudgemunk & Raw Poetic – Hole Up (Instrumental)
Kokayi – The MFN Yay
Will Copps – Rush
Future Islands – Long Flight
Buildings – Upward Through Ever-Expanding Light
Thievery Corporation – Transcendence

Jonathan Parker – Colin’s Song
Troy and Paula Haag – Maybe It Was Me
Lands – Polyonymous
We Were Pirates – Transmorgified
Birds and Buildings – East Is Fort Orthodox
Elijah Jamal Balbed – Lament For Booker
Justin Jones – So Much You’ll Never Know (make me the moon pt. 2)
Le Loup – To the Stars! To the Night!
Wytold – Folk Song of the Steel People
Three Man Soul Machine – Golden Thread
Akua Allrich – I Can’t Stand the Rain
Thievery Corporation – Indra
Marvin Gaye – Right On
Ephemeral Sun – Prism
Greenland – East of Eden Center
Bobby Thompson – Be Your Love
Miss Shevaughn & Yuma Wray – Election Year Blues
Beautiful Swimmers – Swimmers Groove
Hailu Mergia – Shilela
Annette Wasilik and the Wonder Band – You Are Free

It’s been more than two years since the death of Chuck Brown, the originator of D.C.’s go-go music. But Brown’s family, friends and fans—along with the D.C. government—have spent those two years solidifying the bandleader’s legacy.

On Aug. 19, the posthumous Chuck Brown album, Beautiful Life, saw its release. On Aug. 22—Brown’s birthday and “Chuck Brown Day” in D.C.—the District unveiled the new Chuck Brown Memorial in Langdon Park. Meanwhile, the Chuck Brown Band plays on, performing locally and this Sunday, Sept. 14, during Adams Morgan Day. And as of this week, there’s a new Chuck Brown music video for the heartwarming title track from his final record.

Joseph Pattisall directed the music video that debuted Sept. 9. He’s also one of the makers of The Legend of Cool “Disco” Dan, the 2013 documentary about D.C.’s best-known graffiti tagger. He got involved through Dave Braun, whose company Braun Film & Video Inc. produced a DC Lottery commercial with Brown. The finished product was cobbled together using existing video from Braun, Brown’s longtime mananger Tom Goldfogle and Pattisall’s own stash from the Cool “Disco” Dan film.

Like another music video Brown starred in—Thievery Corporation’s 2008 visual for the song “The Numbers Game“—“Beautiful Life” shows Brown in a setting that must be familiar to his fans: on the streets, in people’s neighborhoods, waving and giving out hugs.

“In the editing I decided to use no shots of the Capitol building or Washington Monument,” Pattisall writes in an email. “This was meant to capture D.C. without having to go that route.”

Over the decades in which he made music and lived in the D.C. area, Brown must have earned the regional title of Most Photographed Musician; he posed for so many pictures with fans, Washington City Paper (where I used to work) filled a cover with them soon after he died at the age of 75. Inside people’s homes, in shoeboxes and on refrigerators, there must be hundreds—maybe thousands—more.

Throughout the video, recognizable faces (singer Carolyn Malachi, Trouble Funk‘s Big Tony, community figure Tony Lewis Jr.) and regular people hold up signs with excerpts from Brown’s lyrics: “It wasn’t always easy,” “Don’t worry about the things we can’t control,” “We just pray and hope for the best.”

Brown’s daughter KK makes an appearance later in the video, delivering a few touching verses about her dad. On the grounds of Chuck Brown Memorial Park, she raps, “You wasn’t just a father to me, but a father to all.”

Here is Kamps’ review of Thievery Corporation’s “Saudade,” in full:

Sushi (すし, 寿司, 鮨, 鮓, 寿斗, 寿し, 壽司) is a Japanese food consisting of cooked vinegared rice (鮨飯 sushi-meshi) combined with other ingredients (ネタ neta), seafood, vegetables and sometimes tropical fruits. Ingredients and forms of sushi presentation vary widely, but the ingredient which all sushi have in common is rice (also referred to as shari (しゃり) or sumeshi (酢飯)).

Sushi can be prepared with either brown or white rice. Sushi is often prepared with raw seafood, but some common varieties of sushi use cooked ingredients. Raw fish (or occasionally meat) sliced and served without rice is called sashimi.

Sushi is often served with shredded ginger, wasabi, and soy sauce. Popular garnishes are often made using daikon.

Click here to read more about sushi.

The critic’s rating? Two out of 10.

A fan of conceptual reviews—and having some experience negatively reviewing Thievery Corporation—I had to find out what this thing meant. But Kamps isn’t offering many answers.

If a picture says 1k words, what's a Wiki entry for sushi say? My review of new @ThieveryCorpDC in @SPINmagazine http://t.co/qQx0T16LIq

— garrett kamps (@gkamps) April 2, 2014

I attempted to persuade Kamps to shed some light on his review, but that didn’t help much. Meanwhile, a couple of other tweeters seem as confounded as me.

So some imagination may be required here. My best guess—setting aside the too-obvious possibility that it’s an April Fools’ prank—is that Kamps is taking aim at Thievery Corporation’s fairly rote approach to bossa nova on “Saudade.” To explain: The record borrows heavily, and without much fun or experimentation, from the Brazilian music. It’s got references all over the place—and it throws in a few different languages—but it’s an otherwise completely straightforward lounge record, sanitized and simplified.

You could say that “Saudade” is like a Wikipedia article that way. (Eh? Eh?)

Kamps’ copied-and-pasted non-review could add another layer: a comment on appropriation—something Thievery has been accused of in the past.

So is that what Kamps is getting at? Or is there a better (and simpler) interpretation I’m missing here?