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!
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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.
Special STPPFest Podcast for Sept. 30, 2012
This week we welcome guest host Dave Mann to play music from the Sweet Tea Pumpkin Pie Music Festival coming Oct. 5-7.
Tracklisting:
Conveyor – Mom Talk
Young Rapids – Goods
Deerpeople – Jesus Christ
Believers – Finder
Bird Call – Phantom Limbs
Clair Morgan – Breathe Out
The Black Sparks – Inwards
The Foreign Resort – Delayed
The Hill and Wood – The Call
The Mean Ideas – No 1 Is Any 1
Luray – Kalorama
Ugly Purple Sweater – Stars
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Miyazaki – Altar video
Listen up DC, you’ve got two chances this weekend to catch some of the best local music we’ve got currently. Saturday night I highly recommend you head over to the Red Palace on H St. NE for three very different but captivating bands: Fire & The Wheel, Ugly Purple Sweater and Dance For the Dying, who are celebrating the release of their brand new EP Puzzles for the Traveller, out October 2nd.
Tonight three great dance music bands take the stage at the Black Cat. Headliners Ra Ra Rasputin celebrate the 5 year anniversary of their late 80s synthpop vibe. Misun, the new band from Nouveau Riche‘s DJ Nacey, gives you house, nu disco and their own invention Aquawave. And openers Miyazaki describe themselves as “gloommy-spirit house, dance-synth pop”. They are putting the finishing touches on their debut album, out very soon, and this week they posted the first single, Torrents, to their Bandcamp page.
For our music video of the day, check out this video they made for the song Altar. Have a great weekend DC and enjoy the local music shows!
Deleted Scenes – A Bunch Of People Who Love You Like Crazy video
Yesterday the popular local rock band Deleted Scenes released a brand new music video through IFC. The video for the song A Bunch of People Who Love You Like Crazy, from their album Young People’s Church of the Air, was directed by Ben Usie, the drummer for DC bands Frau Eva and Pree.
Dre-Kay – Longing For Tomorrow video
Dre Kay is a a collaboration between between producer Dre King, known for collaborations with Raheem DeVaughn, and vocalist Kenny Allen, collaborator with Meshell NdegeOcello. Earlier this summer they dropped a free debut EP called FromTheVault, mixing jazz, funk and hip-hop, and totally worth the download. The song Longing For Tomorrow dropped last December on Dre’s Bandcamp page, and just last week the video surfaced, shot around the U Street area by fellow DC producer W. Ellington Felton. The camerawork is more than a bit dizzying, but it’s still a pretty entertaining video. Keep your eyes peeled for Dre Kay’s full length release coming soon!
Newer Music Now Plays More Often
This past weekend I reconfigured the playlist priorities for the Hometown Sounds internet music stream. Now music released in the last couple of years will play more often than older material. This should make the station a bit more relevant to what’s going on around DC right now.
As always, you can listen to our music stream anytime 24/7 at HometownSoundsDC.com, in iTunes Radio under Eclectic, or in the free TuneIn app for iOS and Android.
Send all your feedback and new music suggestions to DJ@HometownSoundsDC.com.
Michael S Terpak – Lift Me Up video
Michael S Terpak, the lead singer of local modern rock band Radioviolet, is branching out musically with his upcoming solo project. Today we’ve got his brand new music video debut for the song Lift Me Up, featuring lots of great DC street footage.
Uptown XO – Petey Greene video
DMV rapper Uptown XO is on a roll releasing videos hyping his new mixtape The Color Grey which drops on October 1st from Mello Music Group. His fourth video in the past month pays tribute to legendary DC radio and TV personality Petey Greene, portrayed by Don Cheadle in the 2007 film Talk To Me, and channels his passion and anger at black history into fiery anti-government rhymes that flow seamlessly. Grab this mixtape when it comes out next Monday.
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