Teedra Moses’ 2004 album, Complex Simplicity, was an R&B triumph. On it, the New Orleans-born singer applied her sweet, light vocals to catchy hooks supported by a seamless blend of hip-hop-accented beats and lush neo-soul rhythms. Then her label, TVT Records, collapsed, and Moses started releasing mixtapes. She's put out four of them and continues to play [...]
This just in from Studio: The company is extending the run of In the Red and Brown Water by two weeks, to February 28. In his review, Trey Graham explains how "playwright [Tarell Alvin McCraney] famously weaves together elements of West African mysticism and gritty American realism, and here he tells the story of a [...]
On Sunday, the New York Times ran an article about Jim O'Rourke, an underground overachiever who, in addition to recording his own solo music, has played in Sonic Youth and Gastr Del Sol, and worked in various other capacities with Wilco, Joanna Newsom, and Superchunk.
His latest project is the new solo album The Visitor, a [...]
Wale: "Pretty Girls"
Wale reps DC, his hometown, hard in this song, which is rumored to be drawn from his upcoming debut full-length Attention:Deficit. "Come to DC and I can make you a believer," he raps over a slow and funky hook. But Wale's forgetting that DC, well NW at least, has long been characterized as [...]
Clipse (ft. Pharrell): "I'm Good"
Clipse has finally leaked a track from it's long-in-the-works follow up to Hell Hath No Fury and, surprisingly, it's a love song. But before you get down on the dour coke-rap duo for going gushy, keep in mind that that the object of Clipse's adoration on "I'm Good" is Clipse. Pusha [...]
10:30 PM – MARSHALL KEYS QUINTET
Marshall Keys is one of the most skillful alto saxophonists in the DC area, and as one of the opening acts for the Festival he brought with him an equally skillful quintet: trombonist Greg Boyer (who also works with Prince and George Clinton), pianist Benjy Parecki, bassist James King, and [...]
Skate rock (Think Sublime's genetic material crossed with that of Minor Threat) is a lot like milt. Some people get a mouthful of the creamy white stuff and think, "So this is fish sperm. Not bad!" Other people take a bite, move it around with their tongues, and then say to themselves, "Oh god, I [...]
A few months ago I was attempting to track down a local funk musician who played around town during the early '80s. I wound up reaching out to Kevin Jones, since word had gotten around to me that he might have a few photos. As it turns out, my quarry was not among those pictured, [...]
Tracing the global proliferation of dubstep's subsonic frequencies over the past few years, it makes some sense that Dutch DJ Martijn Deykers (aka Martyn) was lumped in with the genre as it spilled from South London's FWD>> dancefloor. The chest-caving bass and shuffling riddims exhibited on Martyn's string of 12"s and remixes in 2007 and [...]
I recently flew across the country to watch a New York musician play a series of concerts in San Francisco. If that doesn't seem to make much sense, consider that downtown legend John Zorn, a recent recipient of the half-a-million-bucks Macarthur "Genius" grant, almost never plays live except in New York City and Europe. [...]
