Attention District RSS Feeds: Make way for another D.C. music site. Last Thursday saw the launch of All Our Noise, part blog, part 'zine, part D.C., part ... not.
"We wanted to help highlight the indie electro DJ scene here in DC," says founder Miguel Lacsamana, who conceived the site with his partner-in-electronic-folk, Stamen & Pistils [...]

Last night, seven local bands gathered at La Casa to play a benefit show for victims of the Mt. Pleasant Fire. Proceeds (I'm still waiting on a figure) will go to Neighbor's Consejo. A round-up of the line-up:
1. The Coats. I love the Coats. This three-piece does the ol' switcharoo, taking turns on guitar, bass, [...]

In case you have yet to see this choice XXL interview with DMX, here's the highlight:
XXL: Are you following the presidential race?
DMX: Not at all.
You’re not? You know there’s a Black guy running, Barack Obama and then there’s Hillary Clinton.
His name is Barack?!

Barack Obama, yeah.
Barack?!
Barack.
What the fuck is a Barack?! Barack Obama. Where he from, [...]

Annandale's Strangeland Records won't close its doors until March, but the metal-industrial shop will toast to its end with its last blowout show tomorrow, January 19. The ten-hour affair (2 p.m. to midnight) will feature thrash act Battlemaster (pictured), death metal guys Three Faces of Eve, plain metal dudes High Five for Suicide, and eight [...]

I missed Wu-Tang pillar Ghostface Killah (a.k.a. Tony Starks, Ghostface, Pretty Toney, Ironman, and Captain America) last night at the 9:30 Club. But a reader, Jeffrey, caught the show—and took care to document a Killah rumination on women and sandwich cookies. Jeffrey paraphrases Ghostface's rant:
You know, when I'm on the bus, I like to have [...]