For this week's Answers Issue, we took on some our readers' most pressing questions about life in the District.
When we put out the call for queries last October, we were immediately impressed (seriously!) by the intelligence of many of the submissions. At the same time—well, let's just say we got trolled pretty hard. In the end, [...]
The artist studios inside the warehouse at 443 I St. NW have been called a lot of things over the years. One was the Hosiery. Another is Red Door. Collectively, they're most often referred to as Gold Leaf Studios.
Since 1998, artists and musicians have used the beat-up Mount Vernon Square building as a place to [...]
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 [...]
There are just way too many reasons you should pick up this week's Washington City Paper. Chiefly! Fall Arts Guide! Yesterday we highlighted our critics' picks from the 72-page guide; tomorrow we'll have our bad-ass fall listings online. Pick up a copy! Keep it in your laptop case!
On the cover! Will Sommer profiles the incomparable [...]
Friday
Educated Consumers. Strathmore. $10 in advance, $12 at door.
Big Bang TV, Bridges and Powerlines, The Jet Age. The Red & The Black. $8. 21+.
Taylor Carson, Peter Mulvey. IOTA Club & Cafe. $12.
Rogue Wave, Avi Buffalo. 9:30 Club. $15.
Sondre Lerche, JBM. Rock and Roll Hotel. $20.
Stacy Brooks. Bangbok Blues. Call for price.
Jon Carroll. Wolf Trap. $22.
Bellman [...]
Next month's Done&Done Festival has a lineup, the organizers announced. The two-weekend event, which will "celebrate the continuing ascent of NY and DC’s underground music scenes," includes six D.C. bands (Exactly, Last Tide, Laughing Man, Loose Lips, Ra Ra Rasputin, and Rosy Likes Red) and six from New York, including one D.C. ex-pat, Byrds of [...]
Sampling the thought-streams of DC musicians past and present.
Tittsworth:
-'Losing my' ...lust for porn. Is that what that R.E.M. song was all about!?
-According to the guard, low pants was started cuz they didnt give belts in prison + u would get shit too big. Baggy bottom prison bait
-The word 'hipster' has similarities to the n word.. [...]
Tennis System's Matthew Taylor and Ra Ra Rasputin's Patrick Kigongo have been working together over the past couple of months to organize Done & Done, a music festival designed to cultivate an exchange of ideas between music scenes in D.C. and New York. But sometimes they jam, too. Intrigued by the concept of playing outdoors [...]
On Jan. 26, the local music blog All Our Noise posted an interview with Sean Gray and Chris Berry, the owners of College Park–based Fan Death Records. Chatting with reporter Denman C. Anderson, the pair discussed their favorite bands, the history of their label, and their plans to release a comedy LP.
The D.C. blogosphere went [...]
It's hard to deny that Sean Gray and Christopher Berry have some bragging rights. In the last year their label, Fan Death, has put out a number of noisy 7-inches, 12-inches, and cassettes, including music by Drunkdriver, FNU Ronnies, and Ringo Deathstarr. In terms of productivity, they've outpaced just about every other D.C.-based label. More [...]
