Track Work: Furniteur, ‘Modern Love’
D.C. native Brittany Sims has spent years studying and practicing fine arts, specifically painting. Now, she’s flexing another creative muscle…
Category: Music
GoldLink: ‘People Are Dancing To My Pain, And They Don’t Even Know It’
Virginia rapper GoldLink doesn’t consider himself a straightforward rapper—he calls his music “future bounce,” a term he credits to producer Lakim—and…
Select DC Books Electronic Music For Punks
On a recent Friday night, a familiar tradition was unfolding in Petworth: A cluster of 20-somethings stood around the living…
Track Work: Protect-U, ‘Time 2 Technique’
“Slicin’ the brain in tha mornin’.” “POTS + PANS THROWN AROUND THE KITCHEN TECHNO.” These are the phrases D.C. electronic…
First Listen: Todd Terje, ‘It’s Album Time’
The Norwegian DJ and songwriter, known for his singles, crafts a cohesive album that builds to near-perfection. Even the pessimists can find escape in his nostalgic, hopeful music.
First Listen: Ratking, ‘So It Goes’
The trio’s debut album may be the most “New York” hip-hop project released in years.
First Listen: Teebs, ‘E S T A R A’
The electronic artist seems to yearn for New Age music, or at least remnants of it, on his new album. In the process, he steers toward luxurious sadness and wistful contemplation.
First Listen: EMA, ‘The Future’s Void’
The singer’s new album navigates an imagined future world of sad clones and shattered identities. It creates a sonic alternate universe through which many elements float.
First Listen: Protomartyr, ‘Under Color Of Official Right’
You won’t find silver linings on the Detroit post-punk band’s new album — only overcast ennui. Poignancy and shame rule the day, and it’s a brilliant thing to behold.
Track Work: Priests, ‘Right Wing’
When D.C. band Priests came along a few years ago, it seemed pretty traditional—a back-to-basics, question-everything punk band not too…
Track Work: RAtheMC, ‘Put In Work’
Let there be no lingering doubt that D.C. rapper RAtheMC is dedicated. A former “X-Factor” contestant and the first signee to…
A Brief Introduction To D.C.’s Garage-Rock Scene
For years, a kind of garage-rock revival has taken place in D.C.’s rock scene, but it’s gone on somewhat under…
Ex-Gwar Member Jim Thomson Remembers Dave Brockie
Gwar frontman Dave Brockie was found dead in his home on Sunday, as first reported by Richmond’s Style Weekly. He…
First Listen: Mac DeMarco, ‘Salad Days’
The 23-year-old has made a thematically tight, formally slender album full of sun-dappled songs about frittering youth away and being mostly okay with it.
First Listen: Cloud Nothings, ‘Here And Nowhere Else’
The Cleveland punk band’s third album tightens and brightens its sound in ways that never numb its blistering, careening forcefulness.
First Listen: Thievery Corporation, ‘Saudade’
In contrast to what often grabs attention in electronic dance music, the duo’s seventh album is calm, serene, uncluttered and defiantly warm.
Track Work: Outputmessage, ‘Minuscule’
Electronic-music producer Bernard Farley, a 30-year-old Dupont Circle resident, is something of a math whiz: A test developer at the…
Can Small Record Shops Keep Up With Record Store Day?
Record Store Day announced its complete slate of 2014 releases Thursday—all 438 of them. That’s a big increase from 2013,…
Watch: Sunwolf Live At WAMU
D.C. band Sunwolf is responsible for one of the best songs released in D.C. last year: The scrappy earworm “Push…
At Last! Ex Hex Releases Its Debut Music Video
D.C. power-rock trio Ex Hex has two special deliveries for us today: the official release of its debut 7-inch and…