The Latest Vintage Craze In Music Isn’t Vinyl — It’s These Old-Fashioned Recording Booths
Before smartphones, before voicemail, before the advent of answering machines, the easiest way to record your voice for a loved…
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Sianna Plavin Live At The Wilderness Bureau
Warning: The above video contains explicit language. Hailing from Providence, Rhode Island, Sianna Plavin recently stopped by Bandwidth’s Wilderness Bureau…
Ian Svenonius On Today’s Dubious Rock ‘N’ Roll Icons
Regular readers of Bandwidth.fm should not be unfamiliar with Ian Svenonius, the D.C. punk singer (The Make-Up, Nation Of Ulysses,…
Coexist And Devin Jano Are Flying High On ‘Cloud 9’
Cloud-nine (n): “a state of perfect happiness” or “a feeling of well-being or elation.” The first collaboration between Maryland’s Coexist…
Counterculture Photographer Glen E. Friedman: ‘I’m Trying To Wake People Up’
Glen E. Friedman doesn’t have a smartphone. He doesn’t like to give out his number. And he’s relentlessly protective of…
How D.C.’s Rock Scene Helped Save This Record Store From Oblivion
Navigating shifts in the music industry is tough enough on record-shop owners. It seems unfair they’d have to contend with…
The Life And Death Of Tower Records, Revisited
A new documentary from Colin Hanks looks back on a business empire that helped shape the tastes of many music fanatics.
Sade Is Reesa Renee’s Spirit Guide On ‘Lovers Rock’
“If Jill Scott and Pharrell had a baby and Chuck Brown was the godfather,” says vocalist Reesa Renee, she would…
The D.C. Music Salon Peels Back Layers Of D.C. Music History
Go-go clanging around the walls of D.C.’s historic Howard Theatre. Soul music and jazz, rising from this town’s hardest-knock neighborhoods….
The Cornel West Theory And Mumia Abu-Jamal Forecast A Future Of Drone Warfare
“We have a saying,” says Rashad Dobbins, vocalist in D.C. hip-hop sextet The Cornel West Theory. “IYFF — In Your…
‘No Suits. No Corporate Control.’ Remembering The Freeform Heyday Of WHFS 102.3
“WHFS in Bethesda, Maryland, coming to you from high atop the Triangle Towers. Ease on back, take your clothes off…
Nina Diaz Of Girl In A Coma: ‘The Person I’m Becoming Now, I Actually Like’
As guitarist, singer and songwriter for San Antonio rock band Girl in a Coma, Nina Diaz has toured tirelessly and…
Goooal: The Grand Return Of Indie-Rock Kickers Soccer Team
The thick new single from D.C. indie-rock group Soccer Team is called “Friends Who Know” — and bandleaders Ryan Nelson…
Watch Sneaks — The Band — Commit First-Degree Bicycle Murder
Eva Moolchan is a 20-year-old artist who’s committed a cold-blooded act of murder. She’s killed a bike. Taking place somewhere…
Six Pics: Oberhofer At U Street Music Hall
Scenes from Oberhofer’s show at U Street Music Hall Oct. 6. All photos by Rhiannon Newman.
Premiere: Br’er’s Disturbing Video For ‘Masking’
Warning: This video contains adult, violent and overall creepy imagery. The title track from Masking, the forthcoming album from D.C….
Six Pics: Screaming Females, Priests, Pure Disgust And More At U+NFest 4
Scenes from the U+Nfest Oct. 2 to 3 at Ottobar in Baltimore. All images by Cassandra Mullinix.
J. Robbins On The Revival Of ‘Jawbox,’ His Band’s Final — And Some Say Best — Album
Nearly two decades after the band released its last album, there’s still a mythology around Jawbox. As one of the…
Is It Rap? Is It Jazz? No, It’s TrapHouseJazz, Masego Style
“Blessed.” That is what “Masego” means in Tswana, the official language of Botswana — and 22-year-old multi-instrumentalist Masego picked the…
D.C. Punk Band Hemlines: ‘When You Get On A Stage, That’s A Feminist Act Alone’
The origin story of D.C. punk band Hemlines is straightforward: Two musicians aspired to start a feminist band. So they…