The news is out today that Beauty Pill, the longstanding D.C. indie rock band, will finish its new album next month—in public. As reported by Click Track this morning, from July 16 to August 2 the band is taking over the Black Box Theatre in Rosslyn's Artisphere, where each day from noon to 10 p.m. the band will [...]
Staying true to their name, local theater troupe Taffety Punk is debuting some exclusive tunes from Dischord vet Ryan Nelson. Nelson, who previously played with Most Secret Method and Beauty Pill, works for Dischord and—according to Taffety Punk's website—provided the ambitious company with unreleased tunes from his bands Soccer Team and Routineers to use in [...]
I've kept going back to this track for a few weeks now—and I feel bad I didn't write about it before Franz Nicolay's recent show at the Black Cat. The former Hold Steady member recently released this EP of remixes and re-imaginings of his songs by other artists as a companion to his album Luck [...]
Good morning. It's been six days, and Lil' Wayne is still a free man. So, that new mixtape should be only a few hours away right?
City Paper's Louis Jacobson had a double shot of FotoWeekDC yesterday, taking a gander Noelle K. Tan's "The America Project: utopia" and Studio Gallery's "The Breadth and Beauty of Photography," [...]
We've got spies, vices and vagina—you know, all the stuff that Official Washington totally loves. But do not accuse Far Out vs. Hot Dang of catering to anyone. This weekly assemblage will confound you at times. But its mysteries are thrilling. Are you strong enough to handle them?
New agers actually have bodies and make noise
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Since its debut last September, Story/Stereo has hosted unlikely combinations of poets, authors, and musicians—from jazz poet Brian Gilmore to post-punk legend J. Robbins (Jawbox, Office of Future Plans)—and it's all been entirely free. It all takes place just outside the District at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, which curates the literature portion of the [...]
D.C.'s particular brand of racial and socio-economic stratification doesn't often make its way onto the silver screen: While plenty of big-budget political thrillers use the Washington Monument as a scenic backdrop, not too many touch on the divide between Southeast and Northwest. That's what makes Emily Abt's new teen drama Toe to Toe so [...]
That's what our sister paper, the Chicago Reader, reported earlier today:
DC indie-funk favorites of yore Dismemberment Plan rose to prominence before the MP3 glut spawned the vinyl renaissance, so 12-inches were never part of their discography. Barsuk Records will remedy this with a deluxe re-ish of Emergency & I, complete with an oral history of the [...]
It was not for nothing that Bluebrain ended up in our Best of D.C. issue: Inspired by the New York avant-garde composter composer Phil Kline, the participatory boombox performance the duo staged in Dupont Circle last year—a 40-minute work for several dozen cassettes—was arresting and perfectly chaotic; the debut album Bluebrain dropped in February, meanwhile, [...]
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 [...]
