For densely made noise-pop—at least the local kind—you can't do better than tonight's bill at the Black Cat, featuring local duo Screen Vinyl Image, Fredericksburg compatriots Ceremony, and local upstarts Silo Halo. Down the street, DJ Name Names (that'd be Ian Svenonius) is spinning at Cafe St. Ex. It's moombahton night at U Street Music [...]
A couple weeks ago, we plugged a stocking stuffer from Fan Death Records that you can buy. Now, the Maryland label that loves to hate on your band—and which specializes in all things art-damaged, punk-touched, and button-pushing—has a Christmas gift that's free for the taking. Fan Death's 13-track holiday compilation includes selections from everything the label [...]
On the cover of this week's issue is our collaboration with the Catalogue for Philanthropy: Greater Washington, wherein we recommend some important (and mostly tiny) nonprofits worthy of your charitable giving. This includes some art picks, like the African Continuum Theatre Co., the Atlas Performing Arts Center, Step Afrika!, and WSC Avant Bard.
Chris Klimek leads [...]
Screen Vinyl Image, the Arlington goth-pop duo, is really, really good at synthy, disaffected cool. The group just released two songs from its upcoming full-length, and they kind of do to Screen Vinyl Image's most immediate touchstone—The Jesus and Mary Chain—what Curve did to My Bloody Valentine once upon a time: that is, add even more density [...]
For the pleasingly named “ReFresh,” a show that falls smack dab in the center of the August doldrums, Long View’s big, cool space is arranged to feel like a glass of ice-cold water. The show, touted as “new work by some of the gallery’s best,” features appealing pieces that don’t fall under any particular theme, [...]
Local noisemakers Screen Vinyl Image are still at work completing the follow-up to their 2009 full-length Interceptors, but they have a new video "Stay Asleep," a track from the new album that plumbs the duo's dancier side.
The as-yet-untitled new record also features tracks like "New Visions" (Arts Desk-approved!) and "Tomorrow is Too Far" (which we [...]
For the last year or so, Fan Death Records co-proprietor Sean Gray and DJ and man-about-town Denman C. Anderson have been repping hard for something called cold wave, or minimal synth—an obscure subset of post-punk that's been enjoying a slightly less obscure revival in recent years thanks to the work of labels like Wierd Records [...]
An irregular roundup of local releases on vinyl.
The Cassettes, "I've Been Gone Far Too Long" 7-inch: The first release from the Northern Virginia steampunkers in two years, this three-song 7-inch is unusually self-aware for the group: "In the last world/we said our words/and now we're here again," sings frontman Shelby Cinca in "I've Been Gone," [...]
It'd be too easy to copy and paste our coverage from last year of what local record labels said they'd be doing in celebration of the yearly Record Store Day, which falls this year on this coming Saturday, April 16.
In that post, we reported that while some D.C. record labels appreciate Record Store Day, they didn't [...]
Maybe it's goth night or maybe you're just resuscitating some Victorian fashion ideas. Perhaps you want to make a macabre first impression or you just watched The Crow. Whatever the reason, you've decided to wear heavy, dark make-up around your eyes tonight. Eyeliner is going to be your visual statement, and it's not going to be subtle. [...]
