Bandwidth’s Friday roundup of local and not-so-local music news.
Update, 1:24 p.m.: RIP, Kim Fowley. [NPR]
Ian MacKaye sounds off on the rash of D.C. hardcore documentaries, documentary film in general and D.C. punk’s underrecognized sense of humor. [Billboard]
New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones leaves the magazine to annotate lyrics for web startup Genius. [New York Times]
Lauryn Hill announces two acoustic shows at D.C.’s Howard Theatre in February. [Pitchfork]
BBC World News America covers the D.C. Punk Archive. [Vimeo]
Thievery Corporation soundtracks NPR’s All Things Considered today. [NPR]
The Humanities Council of Washington, D.C. plans to host a conversation about D.C. punk. [Eventbrite]
Wale publishes the first video diary from his current tour. [2dopeboyz]
Pastor Virgil Roberts shares stories from a sliver of D.C.’s music scene in the 1970s. [DCist]
A fresh song and interview from Low Budget crew member Kenn Starr, whose new album comes out Jan. 27. [Washington City Paper]
Bid farewell to the D.C. area’s biggest piano showroom. [Washington Post]
Listen to the new tune from D.C. indie-rock outfit Paperhaus. [Alt Citizen]
These are the best places to stand at D.C. venues. [Washington Post]
Oddisee produces and rhymes on a new Phonte track about discrimination and “a better way.” [Stashed]
A punk-show photographer pleads, “Don’t hate me!” [The Runout]
A music festival in Taiwan spiked a nearby river with ketamine, ecstasy and caffeine, a study finds. [Washington Post]
Don’t believe the rumors: Apple’s iPod Shuffle hasn’t been killed (yet). [Billboard]
Sleater-Kinney enlists a clutch of hip celebrities for its new music video. [Noisey]
Whoa: Check out this lost Beastie Boys video with Nas. [Pitchfork]
Spotify now has 60 million users, 15 million of them paid subscribers. [Billboard]
That was fast: Not long after he made last year’s most critically acclaimed electronic album, Aphex Twin plans to drop a new EP this month. [Rolling Stone]
Björk has a new album coming out. [A.V. Club]
Nancy Grace vs. 2 Chainz: the battle of the century. [New York]
On Bandwidth: D.C. band Swings says its new song is influenced by Chicago footwork; Kali Uchis drops another soulful single; filmmaker Jeff Krulik tells us why he believes Led Zeppelin played a tiny Wheaton show in 1969; Ace Cosgrove joins D.C.’s recent Mike Brown protests in his newest video, and Sir E.U. shoots his in front of his local ice cream parlor.
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