Outside of his music, Hoffman co-owns two bars that fit the theme: They’re called Galaxy Hut and Spacebar. (Disclosure: My husband works part-time at the latter.)

But for his latest release, Hoffman looked no further than his record collection. The song he recently posted on Bandcamp is called “Its Name Is Jonas.” Don’t get it? The serene and twinkling composition is a cover of Weezer’s “My Name Is Jonas,” renamed for the blizzard that buried much of the Eastern seaboard last weekend.

Consider making Aerialist’s “Its Name Is Jonas” the first track on your sidewalk-shoveling playlist.

Top photo by Flickr user Geoff Alexander used under a Creative Commons license.

Yes, D.C.’s own Priests, the punk-rock fourpiece fronted by (recent Kojo Nnamdi Show guest) Katie Alice Greer. This is what the ever-bespectacled power-pop celebrity had to say about the band’s “Doctor”:

There’s a lot of guitar riffage without a real chord progression – but there’s also super-interesting and unique counterpoint between the instruments. And the lyric “You put your fingers in other people’s mouths” is super-provocative. With the sound of her very raw, unpolished vocal performance, the net result is very charming and attractive to me. It seems like they’re not super-interested in melodies, and I was wondering if they came up with the lyrics on paper first, before she sang them. That would be my guess. I also wonder how Morrissey wrote with the Smiths – it’s almost like there were pages of writing and he almost talked them over the music.

“Charming” and “attractive” strike me as misplaced descriptors for a sociopolitical punk band, but hey—Rivers Cuomo just compared Priests to The Smiths. Super-sweet.

Hear Priests play Cuomo’s new favorite song in the band’s recent Bandwidth session: