U.S. Royalty: Fan Death hates the group, and I sort of made fun of a Gant promo to which the local band licensed a song. No negative vibes today, though: The group is performing with rapper Phil Adé on Feb. 26 at the Rock & Roll Hotel, and both parties collaborated on the above promo, [...]
Never one to let a meme pass it by, One Vs. Many now has Snowmaggedon shirts for sale in its store—they cost $24, with a portion going to the nonprofit So Others Might Eat. Appropriately, the local apparel company has an accompanying mixtape, the second it's dropped this month. The title, Snowmaggedon: The Cabin Fever [...]
If you were hoping to catch some live music tonight, you're probably out of luck. Yet while today's hazardous conditions may make getting to venues difficult, they won't stop local artists from making music—including, lest I forget, the guy who lives across the street from me and plays sax for what must be 13 or [...]
Wale always seems to find himself embroiled in the lamest controversies. It would seem that the cost of claiming to put an entire city on your back means you're gonna have the entire city on your back.
His latest video, "Pretty Girls," debuted on BET earlier this week and recieved a lot of flack in blog [...]
An occasional feature in which esteemed D.C. rapper Head-Roc shares what’s on his mind.
I have a question I want to ask all my friends, supporters, and patrons in the D.C. indie music and arts scene.
You attend music, theater, poetry, dance, visual art, and other forms of art events. You have your favorite local artist(s). You're on [...]
An occasional feature in which esteemed D.C. rapper Head-Roc shares what’s on his mind.
A question for all my Chocolate City indie artists:
When "so and so," "this place and that place," and "whodie who" asked you to come out to perform your craft or display your wares for sale at their benefits for Haiti, were you compensated [...]
I'm a bit late to the party here—although, in this case, it's probably more of a weird-ass, retro-futuristic, haute-cautureish, all-night fête. D.C. producer Judah's latest mixtape, The Amber Rose Instrumentals, is dedicated to the eponymous model with the shaved head, who is best-known as the girlfriend of Kanye West. The mixtape, a quick and cool [...]
Just in time for what may be the Blizzard of 2010 comes hip-hop producer Oddisee's aptly named "Blizzard of 09." In this week's One Track Mind, Oddisee talks about how the track, off of his latest seasonally themed album, Odd Winter, sums up his year: “It embodies both the weather we got and the onslaught [...]
One Vs. Many makes T-shirts. The self-described creative agency throws parties on the first Thursday of every month at Aslylum. And more than a few times a year, it releases samplers of music mostly featuring D.C. artists. The music is free. The shirts are not.*
Regardless of your shopping habits, there's no reason not grab the [...]
On Friday night, Sockets Records will celebrate its fifth anniversary on the mainstage at Black Cat with a five-band bill featuring Hume, Imperial China, Big Gold Belt, Buildings, and the Cornel West Theory. It will be quite the local-music blowout.
But getting to this point took a lot of work. No, really, it took a lot [...]
