For something so quiet, D'Angelo's Voodoo has so much life in its 13 grooves. Over and over again, a warm truth resonates, fresh as ever: The Richmond-reared R&B maestro was born to do this, with drums and bass leading the way and everything else held firmly in check. In that sense, the record is primarily [...]

The Fader (mostly) took Andrew Noz from us, but that's OK, because the music mag is obviously trying to make up for it by showing love to X.O., one of our favorite D.C. rappers. He and several other locals did a show in May that was sponsored by the magazine and a soft drink brand; [...]

Raise your hand if you saw Red Weasel during the grunge years. Yeah, not too many of you did, but the not-quite-punk/not-quite-metal Eastern Shore band (Salisbury, Md., to be exact) apparently did play 'round D.C. back then. Like so many regional acts that formed on the long-haired, Butthole-y cusp of alt-rock's '90s breakout, Red Weasel [...]

The firehose of DMV hip-hop videos at D.C. Mumbo Sauce sometimes spurts out a hidden gem, like Ike Da Kid's "Fast Life," which, beyond its big-ass beat and general good-natured-ness, left us with more questions than answers. So we posed five of them directly to Ike himself, a recent University of Maryland graduate and Hyattsville [...]

So here's this nice new video from DMV rapper Killa Cal, the dude known for freestyling in The WHAT? Band, and it's labeled as an "electronic press kit," which is basically a fancy way of saying "infomercial." So what's he selling? There's an album, right? Nah, not really. Maybe next year. Just lots of mixtapes [...]

Connoisseurs of The Sleigher know D.C. Ty the Monster and Lady Moet Beast as progenitors of the awesomest DMV Christmas song ever, but a more accurate title might be "the DMV's most unpredictable rap squad." The Southeast-based husband-wife duo, which runs the Draztick Measurez label, is now pushing what it calls "crudd rock." For Ty, [...]

Empresarios officially started to get slick with February's Sabor Tropical and a subsequent double dose of remixes, and the Latin-oriented, multi-ethnic D.C. band sounds even more polished on its new EP, Bestia, which goes on sale Sept. 27 via Fort Knox. (The title track was leaked today, and two other songs are also online.) The [...]

Apparently these thirst DC events are "like TED but with music and booze." That's another way of saying that they're happy hours where people get up and talk. And everybody has to pay $15 to get in! That's a tough sell, whether you're a TED person or not. In situations like this, an organization's About [...]

Oh, it's God, that's what it is. You might be tempted to argue that in the video for "A Letter From the Chief Musician," Ryan Lucas is too sly about revealing his religiousness, but that would be unfair. The D.C. rapper is merely easygoing about workin' it in; your favorite MC probably does the same [...]

At first glance, the agenda for EZ Street's "South African Safari" looks like it's all tourism, all the time: visits to the winelands, treks to see Africa's "Big Five" game in the wild, and so on. But the WKYS-FM mainstay says the early December sojourn—which will include DMV soulster Raheem DeVaughn and John Monds of [...]