Local singer songwriter Tiffany Thompson is helping kick off this weekend’s Sweet Tea Pumpkin Pie Music Festival, bringing an immense number of bands to the U Street, Adams Morgan and Shaw neighborhoods. Tiffany’s sweet voice and friendly stage presence, backed by her trio, open the night for fellow locals Wytold and the Adrian Krygowski Trio. Columbia Station in Adams Morgan is all ages until 11 PM, so expect a sonic shift from young punks Ladle Fight and The Black Sparks to the much more thoughtful and mellow Tiffany Thompson Trio. STPPFest is all about turning you on to surprising new sounds. See you this weekend at the festival!
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STPP Fest Show Recommendations
This Friday, Saturday and Sunday the Sweet Tea Pumpkin Pie Music Festival takes over a huge number of venues around town with mostly free shows by local and out of town bands. I’ve been helping out on the organizational committee for this festival and I couldn’t be more excited that it’s all coming together. Here are my picks for local bands worth checking out.
- Indie rockers Paperhaus cap off the night at 1 AM at The Black Squirrel
- Young punks The Black Sparks play at Columbia Station
- Heaven boasts a tight & focused lineup of twangy rock with SweetBread Jim’s, The Torches & Typefighter
- The WeatherVanes and The Highballers play back to back at Secret Lounge
- We Were Pirates and Norman Rockwell play at Mood Lounge
- Former locals Zulu Pearls haven’t returned to DC in 3 years. Welcome them back at Secret Lounge
- Presto Bando are definitely worth checking out at Mood Lounge
- Young Rapids, fresh from recording a prestigous Daytrotter session in Chicago, play the Paw Tracks / Car Park Showcase at Comet Ping Pong
- Lost Civilizations is interesting experimental music at Mellow Mushroom
- Do not miss Ugly Purple Sweater at Heaven. These guys (and gal) are great musicians and performers, and their show at Red Palace last weekend was PACKED!
- Shoegazers Mittenfields play LOUD at Ghion
- I’m happy to see some hip-hop represented at Old Dominion Brewery by Redhead and Ardamus
Here’s a masive Spotify playlist of lots of the bands playing at the festival.
Keep checking the schedule this weekend, there’s still a few TBDs to fill in and some reshuffling is expected. There’s a LOT going on around town this weekend, but only the STPP Fest has no advance tickets and almost no cover charges. Come check out some fantastic new music!
Nappy Riddem live videos
Hometown Sounds faves and Fort Knox Recordings artists Nappy Riddem play a show Friday night at the new venue Tropicalia on U Street NW, with support from longtime local jungle & dub DJ Slant. The duo of Rex Riddem and Mustafa Akbar made a music video for the soulful track One World Sovreignty from last year’s self-titled album that we ran as our second music video of the day, and perhaps you missed it back then. Check out the Occupy DC influenced video featuring DC rapper Asheru.
Last month they recorded a few songs at their live show at Jammin’ Java in Vienna. Here’s the brand new & unreleased I Wish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAEO-MQB92g
And Devil Needs A Bodyguard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp69XFQxQSw
Check out this free show Friday and give a wet sloppy birthday kiss to manager extrodinaire 2Tuff Andy!
The Lost Rivers – All Dead (Screen Vinyl Image Remix) video
We’ve told you before on Hometown Sounds about the awesomeness of Screen Vinyl Image. In DC we’re lucky that the duo has performed very frequently around town the last few months. This Friday night you have another chance to catch them live at Sova on H Street NE with locals Fell Types and Dallas’s Nervous Curtains. Earlier this month the band released a video for their remix of All Dead by label mates The Lost Rivers. Great stuff!
Tabi Bonney – Feelin’ More video
DC rapper Tabi Bonney has quite a collection of smooth & glitzy music videos. Feelin’ More, from last year’s album The Summer Years, features Nicole Wray on vocals, and has that feel-good summer vibe I’m missing on this dreary, rainy day.
Vandaveer – The Nature Of Our Kind video
Today we’ve got a video from DC’s sweetest crooners Mark Charles Heidinger and Rose Guerin, together known as Vandaveer. The Nature Our Kind comes from Vandaveer’s 2011 album Dig Down Deep. Vandaveer’s been quiet around town the last few months, so keep checking their website for upcoming shows.
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