Presented here is our top 212 DC music releases, in chronological order.
Strangers That Clique – The Heavy After Hours (Jan 3)
Joy Viver – Joy Viver (Jan 3)
Griot X – Easy 2 Digest (Jan 16)
Reginald Cyntje – Gentle Touch (Jan 17)
Pinkhouse – Vanity Project (Jan 19)
Flowerbomb – Gloom Scroll Vol. 1 (Jan 19)
Mystery Friends – Utopia (Jan 23)
¡FIASCO! – Anger Artist (Jan 25)
Dear Daria – Solastalgia (Jan 26)
Broke Royals – Big Dream (Jan 26)
For Love of Records – Yesterday & Today: DC Does Dischord (Jan 31)
clothes – Earshot (Feb 1)
Sensor Ghost – 3 Songs (Feb 2)
Rosslyn Station – 19 Proclamations of Love and Adoration (Feb 11)
Nate Scheible – or valleys and (Feb 16)
dreamcastmoe – Molly’s Son (Feb 16)
Freddy Mac – The Devil is a Well Dressed Man (Feb 16)
Night Hawk – Everything Good Ends (Feb 16)
oddbodi – ordinary / people (Feb 17)
I Wish I Had Stayed – The Horsemansplit (Feb 20)
Shades of Violette – s/t (Feb 22)
Glitterer – Rationale (Feb 23)
Mary Timony – Untame the Tiger (Feb 23)
Eric Hilton – Sound Vagabond (Feb 23)
Darkest Hour – Perpetual | Terminal (Feb 23)
Junto Trio – Silver Apples of Jupiter (Feb 24)
NAYAN – Rock N Roll Ruined My Life (Feb 29)
Czonka – Kunstausstellung der Sezession MMXXIV (Feb 29)
Old Soul Dallas – Ain’t Nothing Fancy (Mar 1)
Blood Family Reunion – lucky mutation (Mar 7)
Honest Lee – Cosmic Justice (Mar 8)
The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Mar 15)
Tosser – Sheer Humanity (Mar 15)
Lud Roes – Dear IV. (Mar 17)
Ivan Liptak & Horda Basin – Naked Choir (Mar 20)
Glenn Echo – Demos, Dubplates, & Sureshots (Mar 21)
East Coast Offense – Everything is Nothing (Mar 22)
Aaron Abernathy – From the Throne Room (Mar 25)
TonalTheory – Keep Me Blushin’ (Mar 29)
Cumbia Heights – Amaneciendo (Mar 29)
Brian K & The Parkway – Killing The Bear (Mar 29)
NØ MAN – Glitter and Spit (Mar 29)
Dupont Brass – Professional Development (Apr 3)
Continuals – s/t (Apr 5)
Deccan Traps – Watching the World (Apr 5)
Dolo Percussion – DOLO 6 (Apr 12)
Kingpen Slim – If God Could Rap (Apr 7)
Dale and the ZDubs – Off the Rip (Apr 12)
Sami.Moe – Crash and Build (Apr 15)
Nappy Nappa – NZA 99.0 (Apr 15)
Milo in the Doldrums – s/t (Apr 15)
Ekko Astral – pink balloons (Apr 17)
Griefcat – Late Stage Capitalism (Apr 19)
The North Country – The Future’s All We Need (Apr 26)
Rebel Rae – Last Train to DC (Apr 26)
The Midnight Groove Collective – Love Devine EP (Apr 26)
Stripmall Ballads – Left Behind (May 7)
Martyn – Through Lines (May 10)
The Loving Paupers – The Ghost Of Ladders (May 10)
Dundrum – Dundrum (May 17)
Watermelon Milk – Bazillionjillion (May 24)
Josee Molavi – Break Your Heart til it Opens (May 24)
Mannequin Fight – Handwoven (May 28)
Birthday Girl DC – Dirtier (May 20)
Miri Tyler – MEMO (May 21)
Bed Maker – S/t (May 31)
Horda Basin – Polar Record; Sprung Alterations (both Jun 6)
Naked Choir (Horda Basin & Ivan Liptak) – Crossing (Jun 6)
SHAED – Spinning Out (Jun 7)
Prude – Prude (Jun 7)
Flowerbomb – Gloom Scroll Vol. 2 (Jun 13)
James Bangura & Om Unit – Rushing 1621 (Jun 13)
renai – Beware of Your Surroundings (Jul 14)
Clear Channel – Public Access (Jun 21)
Outerloop – EP 2 (Jun 21)
Black Techno Matters – Liber8 v2: N3W P4RAD1GM (Jun 21)
Jau Ocean – The Deer (Jun 23)
Glenn Echo & Daniel Meinecke – What Happened To Yesterday Vol. 2 (Jun 26)
Pinky Lemon – Pinky Hell (Jun 27)
Ensemble Volcanic Ash – To March Is To Love (Jun 28)
Janel & Anthony – New Moon in the Evil Age (Jun 28)
Eric Hilton – Out of the Blur (Jun 28)
Zen Warship – The Renewal (Jun 30)
Aidan Leclaire – The Spaceman (Jul 1)
Fat Vaughn – Road to Riches (Jul 4)
Bacchae – Next Time (Jul 5)
Raw Poetic – Wayward Skies (Jul 5)
Nicole Lepre – Good Times Wrong Trees (Jul 5)
Dream Feeder – Everything At Once (Jul 9)
Abe Mamet – Spa Day (Jul 19)
King Face – King Face (Jul 21)
Origami Angel – Dirty Mirror Selfie (Jul 23)
Cecily – Awakening Pt. 2 (Jul 26)
Glock Jones – Live from the Trenches (Jul 26)
Luke Stewart Silt Trio – Unknown Rivers (Jul 26)
Emma G – Fight the Fear (Jul 26)
Pretty Bitter & Flowerbomb – Take Me Out (Aug 1)
Burden’s Landing – Could This Be a Portal? (Aug 2)
Flowers for Palestine – Chokehold (Aug 7)
Airospace & Eahwee – SUM≠PARTS (Aug 9)
Seconds Before Awakening – Eighteen (Aug 12)
B_X_R_N_X_R_D – Be Here (Aug 15)
Velocity Girl – UltraCopacetic (Aug 16)
The Jet Age – Don’t Let Me Leave (Aug 16)
THAT CLOUD – L’HOMME APPROXIMATIF (Aug 16)
Dylan Rockwell – False Dawn (Aug 16)
Tripping Corpse – Thank You for the Mess (Aug 16)
The Duskwhales – Strawflower Lane (Aug 16)
Out of Our Cells: Music by Incarcerated Composers in Washington DC (Aug 16)
Yaddiya & Griot X – Wario Bros Microdose (Aug 20)
Ryan Hanseler – Four (Aug 23)
Oh He Dead – Ugly (Aug 23)
Spring Silver – Don’t You Think It’s Strange? (Aug 23)
You Fool! – What is the Meaning of This? (Aug 23)
Nicole Lepre – Saugherties (Aug 23)
Black Rave Culture – Quick Game EP (Aug 23)
Carly Harvey – Kamama (Aug 25)
Sutras – Awakening of the Spirit (Aug 30)
Fat Trel – Boosa’s Keeper (Aug 30)
Silver Scrolls – Mind Lines (Sep 6)
James Bangura – The Heights (Sep 6)
Carrier Wave – Sounds Like the Devil in Here (Sep 6)
Baltimore Avenue – static (Sep 6)
Curse Words – Big Wave Dreaming (Sep 12)
Martyn – Vancouver (Verraco & Rhyw Remixes) (Sep 13)
Bad Moves – Wearing Out The Refrain (Sep 13)
Two Ton Twig – Grandpa’s Cough Medicine (Sep 13)
David Barker – Vancouver (Sep 13)
Wes Felton – Nothing Beautiful Is Safe (Sep 14)
Sansyou – Spaces In Between (Sep 17)
Posición Unida – Demo (Sep 18)
Wings Denied – Just the Basics (Sep 20)
Night Train 357 – Affirmations (Sep 20)
cuni – Prescribed Burn (Sep 20)
Kill Lincoln – No Normal (Sep 27)
Grimm Winter – Grimm Winter Vol I (Sep 28)
Goetia – Tomb Essence (Sep 30)
Halpine – Awake in a Dream (Oct 1)
Jackson Ryland (JR2k) – The Hot Zone EP (Oct 1)
Yasmin Williams – Acadia (Oct 4)
Requiem – Monuments (Oct 4)
Yes Vacancy – Calm and All (Oct 4)
Roscoe Tripp – We All (Oct 4)
Witch’s Mirror – Witch’s Mirror (Oct 4)
NAPPYNAPPA – FANTASYSCAPE pt.1 (Oct 4)
DJ Stylus – The Vibe Conductor – Vibe Conductor Vignettes Vol. 4 (Oct 4)
Bushmeat Sound System – Funky Pox (Oct 4)
Undertone – VA 01 (Oct 11)
Hailu Mergia – Tche Belew (Oct 14)
¡FIASCO! – Remember Your Flowers (Oct 17)
New Impressionz – Welcome to Crankland (Oct 18)
Hays Dowdy – The Ghost Before You (Oct 18)
Stukes – Asura EP (Oct 23)
Alma Laprida – Pitch Dark and Trembling (Oct 25)
Flowers for Palestine – From the River (Oct 25)
Kinda Evil – Hard to Believe (Oct 25)
Prinze George – Better Girl (Oct 25)
Nico Zaca – Higher Louder TurboPower (Oct 25)
Vaelastrasz – The Death of the Midwest – Live MMXXIV (Oct 26)
Bob Boilen – I’m Molting (Oct 28)
Mannywellz – Lala (Oct 29)
Pickaxe – PROVOCATEUR (Oct 30)
Meerwolff (fka The Meer) – Let It Break Through (Oct 31)
Bash Rodriguez – American Hauntology (Oct 31)
Anno – Anno (Nov 1)
Dumb Lucky – Here (Now) (Nov 1)
Vienna Teng – We’ve Got You (Nov 1)
Tomb Warden – Split with GATE (Nov 5)
Bomani Armah – The Black Colin Powell Mixtape (Nov 5)
Raw Poetic & Damu the Fudgemunk – Pictures & Scriptures (Nov 5)
P Cain – P Cain 9 (Nov 7)
Terracotta Blue – Chipmunk Soul (2001-2003) (Nov 8)
Raheim Supreme – Pretty prada papi Screwed & Chopped (Nov 8)
Lizard Hands – *Dronevember* (Nov 10)
Perro Sombra – El Fuego Eterno (Nov 11)
Two Inch Astronaut – Check Please / Humorist (Nov 12)
Glosser – Angel Dust (Nov 15)
The Crystal Casino Band – Cardboard Cutouts (Nov 15)
Pig Destroyer – Terrifyer (20th Anniversary Remaster) (Nov 15)
Autumn LaBella – Sweater Weather (Nov 15)
Greenhouse Ghost – Open Repeater (Nov 22)
Damu the Fudgemunk – Peace of Action (Nov 22)
Lifted – Trellis (Nov 22)
Fleabath – Midnight At The Roach Motel (Nov 22)
Looping – Note to Self (Nov 22); Live from the District of Columbia, November 2024 (Nov 24)
Dirty Destroyers Orchestra – The Quarantined Sessions (Nov 25)
prrs grvr & nick tha 1da – Give Thknx: Book One (Nov 28)
Flowers for the Dead – Magnolia (Nov 29)
Personal Injury – Sauna (Nov 29)
Faraway Ghost & Sunken Cages – Ashk Haye Moghavemat (Nov 29)
Des Demonas – Apocalyptic Boom! Boom! (Nov 29)
David Barker – The Tiger EP (Nov 29)
Jon Laine – Compass 1.5 Instrumentals (Nov 29)
Drew Kid – Don’t Be Scurred (Mixtape!) (Dec 1)
Ryan Lucas – The Spices (Dec 1)
Wes Felton & KeepAnEyeonTheProduct – Kings In The Wilderness Pt.2 (Dec 1)
Eggs – The Government Administrator (Dec 5)
Frodus – Teenage Punk Suburban Weirdos (Dec 6)
Ardamus – Limbrosia (Dec 6)
Prowess the Testament – Lunar Prelude: Sailor Overture (Dec 6)
Celebration Summer – A Little Less Numb (Dec 6)
Attract Mode – The Art of Psychic Self-Defense (Dec 6)
Vänstermaskinist (Horda Basin & Regnskur) – AD Pulverform (Dec 7)
Emma G – Remixed – Fight the Fear EP (Dec 8)
Ari Voxx – distance (Dec 10)
B_X_R_N_X_R_D – THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF BEARPUS & OCTOBEAR (Dec 13)
Joshua Palace – Disfigured Perception (Original Motion Picture Score) (Dec 13)
Caleb L’Etoile – You Gathered Friction (Dec 13)
Argo & The Violet Queens – Kings of Industry (Dec 20)
The House You Grew Up In – Unlikely Shades Of (Dec 20)
Toro – Heads / It’s Only Us (Dec 20)
Wes Felton – Mos Wes Live in Croatia (Dec 22)
Keith Butler Jr. – Recital 1 (Dec 23)
P Cain – P Cain 10 (Dec 27)
Model Home – Mongrel (Dec 27)
XK Scenario – A Monument to All Our Tomorrows (Dec 28)