Track Work: The Tender Thrill, ‘Serena’
With its new EP, New Blues, D.C. garage-rock band The Tender Thrill isn’t proclaiming to hit the reset button on…
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What Defines Scandinavian Jazz? An Interview With Denmark’s Spacelab
The Nordic Jazz Festival, brought to D.C. each summer by the five Scandinavian embassies (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden),…
Song Premiere: Sylvan Esso Mixes It Up With Grouplove
Sylvan Esso remixes Grouplove by stripping a song down to its essence. It’s addition by subtraction — and you hear it here first.
Playlist: All The Music You Need To Hear In D.C. June 23 To 29
Today Bandwidth introduces Sound Advice, our new Monday playlist that pulls together all the music we think you need to…
First Listen: OOIOO, ‘Gamel’
On its new album, the experimental pop band explores elements of gamelan, a chromatically tuned metallophone music that’s been played in Asia’s Pacific Rim since roughly the 8th century.
Track Work: Mike C., ‘New Shoes’
More rappers these days seem to be performing under their government names, and it seems like their attempt to appear…
Track Work: Art Sorority For Girls, ‘Man With A Van’
After cutting his teeth in New York’s anti-folk scene, Daoud Tyler-Ameen moved to D.C. for a job and brought his…
Deer Tick And Vanessa Carlton Live At WAMU
Heavy drug use, followed by a period of self-reflection, fueled the most recent album from Providence band Deer Tick: After…
First Listen: Circulatory System, ‘Mosaics Within Mosaics’
Elephant 6 veteran Will Cullen Hart returns again as Circulatory System with a masterfully orchestrated, 31-song cycle that touches upon dreamlife and waking fears.
First Listen: Brownout, ‘Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath’
A Latin funk, Black Sabbath tribute reminds listeners of the timeless sound the iconic heavy metal band made, with horns, congas and attitude.
First Listen: Strand Of Oaks, ‘Heal’
The ten songs that comprise Heal had their genesis in personal crisis, with frontman Timothy Showalter’s marriage crumbling apart while he was thousands of miles from home on an endless tour.
First Listen: Phox, ‘Phox’
Soft and dreamy, with a pace that rarely rises above a moody midtempo swoon, Phox’s self-titled debut has a way of seeping under the skin and dazzling with maximum gentility.
Track Work: The Ar-Kaics, “No No No”
The Ar-Kaics aren’t a D.C. band, but they might be the closest thing Richmond has to one: The garage-rock quartet has…
How Two Art Spaces Have Survived In Gentrifying D.C.
On May 21, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library hosted “District Of Change: Making D.C. Better For the Arts,”…
ASCAP To St. Stephen’s Church: Pay Up
7:08 p.m.: This post has been revised to reflect new information from ASCAP. ASCAP, one of a few organizations that…
In Prince George’s County, The Battle Over Go-Go Heats Up
A go-go version of the movie “Footloose” is playing out in Prince George’s County. A $10 million class action filed…
Listen: The Space-Cumbia Of G-Flux And Afrodita
D.C. producer G-Flux stumbled upon Mexican duo Afrodita in the most typical way: over Facebook. But the dance music they’d…
ACME Drops A New Video For ‘Girlfriend Tonight’
Yes, ACME has a generic name. But it’s intentional. The D.C. electronic-soul-pop duo really does identify with “A Company That…
Los Master Plus Live At WAMU
Upon arriving at WAMU’s studio, the first thing Los Master Plus had to do was steam some shirts. The Mexico-based…
First Listen: Meridian Brothers, ‘Salvadora Robot’
The Colombian band thoroughly understands musical traditions. How better to eviscerate them? Meridian Brothers’ off-kilter melodies veer from the inviting to the dissonant in a matter of seconds.