Many people wonder what the “song of the summer” will be, the pop hit that captures our hearts as we drive to the beach or play hackeysack or whatever. From my vantage point, the only thing that comes close to ubiquity (inescapability?) this summer is Carly Rae Jepsen’s hit Call Me Maybe. Let’s continue that trend by watching folk duo The Sweater Set cover the song on ukelele and keys. If you dig this, don’t miss them play tonight at the Velvet Lounge with fellow locals Luray and Ms. Fridrich.
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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Thievery Corporation – Culture of Fear video
Keeping it short & sweet today. Take a bus ride with Mr. Lif and the Thievery boys in their video for Culture of Fear, the title track from their 2011 album, on ESL Music.
Kindness & Trouble Funk – That’s Alright video
British disco/R&B producer Adam Bainbridge, aka Kindness, showed his appreciation for the DC Go-Go sound on his recent release World, You Need A Change Of Mind by remixing Trouble Funk‘s song Still Smokin’ into his track That’s Alright. Taking the tribute even further, last month Kindness joined Trouble Funk on the stage of U Street Music Hall to shoot a video of the collaboration. It looks like a crowd-pleasing performance from the kings of Go-Go.
Podcast for August 5th, 2012
Back from summer vacation with a brand new podcast!
Tracklisting:
- Heavy Breathing – Higher Bodies
- Ra Ra Rasputin – Forward
- Volta Bureau – Alley Cat
- House of Soul – Push It
- Empresarios – Volume
- Sleepy Wonder – Geometric Echoes
- Poor But Sexy – Fool Runnin’
- Chain & The Gang – Certain Kinds of Trash
- America Hearts – Lose You
- The Caribbean – The Go From Tactical
- Justin Trawick – Back Of My Mind feat. Flex Mathews
- Diamond District – Streets Won’t Let Me Chill
- Mary Alouette – Runnin’
- Yoko K. – To My Helsinki
Or listen on SoundCloud!
House of Soul – Push It video
House of Soul is doing what I love, taking a classic sound in a new direction. They make soulful house music but perform it with live instrumentation and no laptops. The result is a sweaty, feel good show that’s been a fixture on the schedule at Bossa in Adams Morgan for quite a while now. The group released their debut album Let’s Move last year, and recently put out a remix package for the single Push It. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, they made a music video for the song that gives you a sense of what the live experience is all about. You can celebrate with them tonight at The Dunes in Columbia Heights at the release party for the music video.
Chain & The Gang – Certain Kinds of Trash video
Tonight the 2012 season for the long running summer concert series at Fort Reno draws to a close with Triage, Manta Ray and Ian Svenonious’s latest project Chain & the Gang. “The Other Ian” is a veteran of so many DC bands, including The Nation of Ulysses, Weird War, Cupid Car Club and the reuniting Make-Up. Today’s video for Certain Kinds of Trash comes from their recently released album In Cool Blood.
Head-Roc – Chocolate City Rocks video
This weekend marks the 10th anniversary of Mustock, Mustafa Akbar‘s music festival of friends held at his farm in Lignum VA. The amazing lineup of performers includes Asheru, All Good Funk Alliance, Nappy Riddem, Lucky Dub and the mayor of DC hip hop, Head-Roc. Head’s got a brand new video out too, rapping about how awesome DC is. I can get behind that.
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