D.C.-based folky Vandaveer–who just released his new album, Divide & Conquer–will be performing a free show tonight over at Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage.
All Our Noise recently shot this footage of him performing a couple of songs at Comet Ping Pong:

Bite Sized Sets At Comet: Vandaveer from All Our Noise on Vimeo.
Vandaveer
Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
2700 F [...]

Granted, things weren't looking especially rosy for Gypsy Eyes Records a few months ago when Washington City Paper ran this story, but co-founder Kalani Tifford was resolute that despite the music industry's sagging fortunes, his label would be in it until the bitter end.
But last Thursday local blog DCist acquired and published an e-mail [...]

Because Brandon Butler is kind of a big guy, because he wears overalls, because he played in a hardcore band and has as tattoo that says "Born to rock", I'm always surprised at how tuneful and expressive his voice is. From the looks of him, you'd think that the DC-based singer-songwriter would sound like sandpaper [...]