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For a moment, on the first night he worked the door at the Velvet Lounge, Andrew Bucket thought he was staring death in the face. Her name was Allison Wolfe.
"I was excited to meet her, let alone work the show at all," he says of the Partyline singer, who helped found the riot-grrrl movement [...]
When it comes to polling—a practice by which music venues ask concertgoers which band they've come to see perform, and sometimes pay artists according to how many people they've drawn—D.C. rapper Head-Roc doesn't mince words: "Flat out, this is some bullshit," he wrote yesterday in a post on Arts Desk, where he is an occasional [...]
Thanks to the hard work of both hip-hop pioneers and young upstarts throughout D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, the DMV is now officially on the map. It’s also in the dictionary. The Urban Dictionary—but still.
Most regions with thriving hip-hop scenes have catchy nicknames, but before the whole DMV acronym caught on in the mid-aughts, the greater [...]
An occasional feature in which esteemed D.C. rapper Head-Roc shares what’s on his mind.
Some months ago at my man Peace Justice Universal’s crib, I had bit of an Alpha male moment with a brother named Mental Stamina of the D.C. hip-hop group Rosetta Stoned. Rather than tell you the details of how it got started, or [...]
An occasional feature in which esteemed D.C. rapper Head-Roc shares what’s on his mind.
On Saturday, August 22, Mustafa Akbar (Riddems Crew ,Thievery Corporation, Fort Knox Five, Nappy), hosts the 7th annual MuStock, a D.C. indie music festival held on his ancestral farmland down in Lignum, Va.
I headed to Chesapeake Beach last weekend equipped with the essentials: sunscreen, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and Chopteeth's self-titled debut. Sunscreen was unnecessary (the day, though steamy, was overcast), the pillars a bit heavy (WWI Turkish politics ≠ beach reading). But man, the Chopteeth was right on the money. Whether funky-murky ("Dog Days"), feel-good-shimmery [...]
A regular feature in which esteemed D.C. rapper Head-Roc shares what's on his mind.
Have you ever been Robert Foore? I know what you're saying: "Who the hairy peach is Robert Foore?"
Well, "Robert Foore" is the hypothetical construct that my band GODISHEUS has assigned to the experience of actually having been 'robbed before' as professional indie musicians struggling [...]
Political rallies rarely feature really top-notch music. Even if a political event attracts big names, the performances can be kinda boring.
Not true of tonight's statehood event on the Capitol steps.
