Chad Clark, the core of Beauty Pill and a general all-around D.C. music dude, posted this today on his Soundcloud page:
My friend Morgan Klein is a brilliant kook. Check it out.
In the deluxe CD reissue of Michael Jackson's "Thriller," there are some extra tracks appended. These are making-of interviews with Quincy [...]
Good morning! In what's totally a break from our usual coverage, there is a lot of local indie-rock news to discuss today! Such as: that new video right there. It's for "Siberian Eclipse," a song on Screen Vinyl Image's recent cassette on Fan Death records, which I think you should be excited about. It's out [...]
The Writer's Center's Story/Stereo series, our favorite free live-music program not set in the summer months, will begin its second season Sept. 3 with a performance from John Davis, the former Q and Not U and Georgie James member and current Title Tracks leader. And he'll be playing songs from all three groups. It's the [...]
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 [...]
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Tuli Kupferberg, poet, co-founder of the Fugs, is dead. Harvey Pekar, grouch, legend of American indie comic books, is dead. If you belonged to a certain Greenwich Village milieu in the '60s and were an utter sad sack in the '70s, you can't be doing too well right now. I doubt the city of [...]
Ancient Egypt, 1800s Illinois, and modern-day chat rooms are all taking up residence in D.C. theaters. Synetic Theater Company's wordless version of Antony and Cleopatra brings sparks-flying fight sequences and body contortions to the classic tale, at Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre through February 28.
If talkier plays are more your style, check out Ford's Theatre's [...]
In late 2007, Chad Clark found himself in the emergency room, convulsing from a fever that had lasted six days. "I was shaking like the characters in Jacob’s Ladder," he says. Clark, leader of the group Beauty Pill, felt like he was dying, he says, and his doctors had no clue how to diagnose him, [...]
Sampling the thought streams of D.C. musicians past and present.
Kingpen Slim:
-This dude at ihop got so many waves, even his baby hair shape up re growth on his neck got waves lol this is a brushing mofo
-2 things I never leave the house without, a watch & some cologne, tonites selection Michael kors [...]
Sampling the thought streams of D.C. musicians past and present.
Sean McArdle:
-Really nice show last night. On my way to Leutkirch. New levels of exhaustion today, but feeling good.
-2 planes 6 trains one bus and almost 30 hours later, I am in Berlin. Best Borsht I have ever had. Being well looked after. What time [...]
Tabi Bonney:
-My fathers advice to me before I head out to Cali in the morn = "talk alot" Thanks dad, where would I be without you. LOL
-Got alot done so far & now I'm about to take a nap and dream about my pop life in 2010.
KingPen Slim
-DMV popping so hard these next two weeks, [...]
