Monthly Archives: July 2017

Podcast for July 31st, 2017

Tony causes mayhem at a roller rink, while Paul acquires a drum kit.

Tracklisting:
Bells & Hunters – I Do [Modern Witch’s Songbook Vol. III]
Dunc – All Night [A Way Home]
Will Eastman & Haile Supreme – Evolution Supreme [single]
Uptown Boys Choir – Disclaimer [unreleased]
Bless – You’re Always On TV [7″]
Dove Lady – Ferbalicious [One]

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Incredible Change – Soothing S.W.I.M.

Veteran synthpop band Incredible Change hit the 9:30 Club stage tonight with Honest Haloway and two great bands from Baltimore, Joseph & the Beats and Sweepstakes. IC slowly trickles out new songs featuring singer AIVA via their SoundCloud feed, and the newest “Soothing S.W.I.M.” dropped earlier this week. The New Order-influenced song also got this meditative music video accompaniment of timelapse footage shot in South Beach, Miami and the Outer Banks. Here’s what the band says about the new song:

Soothing
Someone
Who
Isn’t
Me
shall wash your body and soul over and under. Let the waves caress you, and the sand touch your feet. Let your weight float in the sea, and breath in the salty air. Rinse and repeat. Is it being unable to be soothed, or maybe it’s about seeking out a Soothing SWIM. Or perhaps its a desire to feel what you’ve felt before or have never felt before.

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Kaimbr feat. Grap Luva – Roc On

The Younger Soul Brother, a.k.a. Grap Luva, joins rapper Kaimbr on “Roc On”, the newest single from Kaimbr’s album Share the Shelter. The laid-back positive vibes on the track are jazzed up by recurring on-screen text messages reminiscent of VH1’s Pop-Up Video, courtesy of director Roddy Rod.

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Honest Haloway – Escaper

Tim Kratzer’s reborn synthrock band Honest Haloway are taking their impressive live act to the big stage at the 9:30 Club this Friday night July 28th, along with fellow DC group Incredible Change and two bands from Baltimore, Joseph and the Beats and Sweepstakes. They saved the third in their Sperryville Live Sessions videos for this big event, and now they’ve unveiled the cinematic and sweeping “Escaper”, filmed at 3 AM just before a deluge of rain.

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Paperhaus – Go Cozy

Paperhaus‘s Alex Tebeleff is a superconnector in our city’s music scene. While not fronting his psychedelic four piece rock band or crafting experimental synth sounds under his solo moniker Black Lodge, Tebeleff is a prolific curator of shows through his DCDIT label at The Dew Drop Inn, Smith Public Trust and of course his own house. Many fondly remember spots like The Dunes, The Lot at Atlantic Plumbing, and the first Paperhaus because of the parties Tebeleff threw and all the familiar faces you’d see there. Now Tebeleff’s new crib has retaken the Paperhaus name for more house shows starting in August, and the band is back too with a new album Are These The Questions That We Need To Ask? dropping October 6th on Misra Records. The lead-off single’s music video, full of cameos by DC musicians and proponents, even gets its name from Homero Salazar Andrujovich’s shoegaze project Go Cozy. Superconnected.

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Big Hush – Cough

Indie fuzz band Big Hush, featuring members of well-loved DC bands Pygmy Lush and Flasher, get the deluxe vinyl repress treatment when Richmond hardcore label Robotic Empire combines their first two cassette EPs, 2014’s Wholes and Who’s Smoking Your Spirit? from 2015, into a beautiful 12″ package called Spirit/Wholes. The August 11 release follows their summer tour that kicks off tomorrow in Richmond and lands in DC at Hole in the Sky on August 5th. The quartet tapped Isabelle Platt and Hana Wuerker to visually interpret the complex song, and this music video of choreography, symbolism and papier-mâché is just gorgeous.

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Dunc – All Night

While hanging out in LA recently, MD hip-hop beatmaker Dunc captured fun scenes of the easy west-coast life for this breezy music video for “All Night”. The track comes from Dunc’s sophomore solo instrumental album A Way Home, currently in a vinyl pre-order campaign through QRates with less than two weeks left. Reserve your copy now and help ensure these top notch tracks get the 12″ pressing they deserve.

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Podcast for July 13th, 2017

The Hometown Sounds boys (of summer) compare music lifestyles in college. Also Tony shares some of his handcrafted parody lyrics, while Paul lets go of an old grudge.

Tracklisting:
Faunaphor (Louis Weeks & Noah Berman) – in a library, in the summer (when I read I fall asleep) [single]
Ciscero feat. Sugg Savage – Poppin’ Wheelies [single]
The Deadmen – Everything [The Deadmen]
Teen Mortgage – Is It [Strange Times]
Incredible Change – Halo Curse [single]
The Lantern Slides – Juniper Cathedral [single]

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Carolyn Malachi – Andrew

Grammy-nominated R&B angel Carolyn Malachi trains her soulful wrath on a deceitful ex-lover in her newest single “Andrew”. The song’s accompanying music video is an edited version of Vow of Silence, the short film debut of musician and filmmaker Be Steadwell. The juxtaposition of Malachi’s acerbic lyrics with Steadwell’s visuals telling a sad tale of heartbreak and loss of power and voice give us a lot to ponder.

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Ras Nebyu – Anything

DC rapper Ras Nebyu is back with another music video under the banner of his Washington Slizzards crew. The Arckitech produced banger “Anything” is the first video from Nebyu’s 2016 mixtape Slizzatrism, filled with footage of Ras performing and chilling at the crib shot by Slizzica. This keeps fans charged up while Nebyu finishes up his next project Uptown Lion Walkin.

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