On Oct. 24, 2000, Dischord Records released No Kill No Beep Beep, the debut album by Q and Not U. Ten years later, the album stands out as an apex of Washington, D.C.’s post-punk narrative. The cover is an arresting, whimsical snapshot of the punk-rock community that spawned the record—the band asked its friends and [...]
In a post on "Ten Bands From The '90s That Haven't Reunited," the Village Voice's Zach Baron and Rob Harvilla have this to say about D.C.'s Ian Svenonius and his Nation of Ulysses:
NoU ... were the most exciting of any of Svenonius's endeavors–the most outlandish, the most creative, the most aggressive, the most well dressed. [...]
I'm No. 12. Dischord's been steadily remastering its catalog and reissuing it on vinyl and mp3, but it hasn't yet gotten to Baltimore's gnostic rock weirdos Lungfish. Former WCP contributer and Austin American-Statesman reporter Joe Gross has put out the call on Facebook. Meanwhile, frontman Daniel Higgs' recent solo record on Thrill Jockey, Say God, [...]
D.C.'s Dischord Records turns 30 this year, and to casual observers, it may seem to have eased into semiactivity in recent years: a few singles in 2009, one album—OK, one very good album—in 2010. But the punk label's actually been quite busy: It's been steadily rereleasing its catalog; its co-owner, Ian MacKaye, told me recently [...]
"The Orange Line Revolution," Aaron Leitko's December 2009 story about punk houses in Arlington, has been selected for inclusion in Best Music Writing 2010. The piece takes a look at Kansas House, as well as some group homes associated with local indie labels and movements, such as Dischord, Simple Machines, and Positive Force. As Leitko [...]
Sean Peoples posted a huge update to the Sockets Records blog last night. Here's what the label has coming up:
A new HUME EP this summer, with a tour to follow.
A Laughing Man EP.
An Aaron Thompson LP, with lotsa guests.
An EP from N'Digo Rose, who plays keys in the Cornel West Theory.
A Cornel West Theory mixtape.
A Sean [...]
On first listen, Mi Ami's sophomore album, Steal Your Face (Thrill Jockey), seems to begin where last year's Watersports left off—quite literally. "Harmonics (Genius Of Love)" practically kicks off midstream, with guitarist and vocalist Daniel Martin-McCormick's frantic yelps hitting a histrionic high pitch at the song's start. If Watersports had been a double album, the C-side [...]
In the coming weeks and months, Devin Ocampo is counting on people repeating a sentence I've been hearing fairly regularly for some months now: "You've got to listen to the new Medications record."
Completely Removed, the Dischord group's second album and first in five years, drops Monday in Europe and stateside on April 20. Highlighting the [...]
Not much, at least from the ones I've contacted. The annual event, in which geeks like me flood independent record stores across the country to pick up exclusive releases, takes place on April 17 this year. And some of the more notable indie labels, like Sub Pop and 4AD, have begun announcing what limited-press releases [...]
There's no question that J. Robbins can still rock-out–Jawbox's recent sorta-reunion proved that much (although NBC Universal seems to have stricken the video footage from the internet). But nailing the coffee house vibe? That's another mater entirely.
Friday night Robbins–accompanied by cellist Gordon Withers and the smallest drum machine I've ever seen–performed an all acoustic [...]
