Author Archives: Hometown Sounds

Aug 05 2012
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Podcasts

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

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Aug 03 2012
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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.

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Aug 02 2012
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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.

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Aug 01 2012
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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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Jul 31 2012
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Bluebrain – Ten By Ten video

The brothers Ryan and Hays Holladay, known around town as Bluebrain, are pushing music forward into the 21st century. Some of their recent projects involve location-aware smartphone music apps and creating the soundtrack to a mass yoga practice on the downtown Mall. But once upon a time, back in 2010, Bluebrain made a regular full length album called Soft Power, put out a single from that album, and commissioned a video for it from director Gabe Askew. Here’s the beautiful video for Ten By Ten.

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Jul 30 2012
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Kokayi – Know Us Mayne video

DMV rapper Kokayi headlines a show tonight at Jammin Java in Vienna with hot Brooklyn remixers Spirit Animal. For today’s music video of the day we go back in time to Kokayi’s 2008 album Mass Instructions, and the lead off video Know Us Mayne, directed by Trent Watts.

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Jul 27 2012
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Drop Electric – Bankrolled Hominid video

Leading atomspheric shoegaze purveyors Drop Electric headline the Capitol Groove Fest tomorrow at the Fairgrounds at Navy Yard Metro, along with a huge lineup of great DC bands including The Silver Liners, The Weathervanes, and Redline Graffiti. This is sure to be the party of the weekend, so don’t miss it! And it’s a great excuse for me to play Bankrolled Hominid, another beautiful video from Drop Electric’s free debut album Finding Color In The Ashes.

Click on the Drop Electric tag below to watch more great videos by this band.

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Jul 26 2012
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Empresarios – Rompan Fila video

Tropicaliente! Latin super-group Empresarios team up with rudeboys of ska The Chariots for an awesome night of grooving at the posh club The Hamilton. The Chariots have released a free track called Judge Not to get you in the mood for fun.

Meanwhile Empresarios have cooked up another snazzy music video, this time for Rompan Fila, from their recently released Volume EP on Fort Knox Recordings.

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Jul 25 2012
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E.U. – Da Butt video

Happy Hump Day! Here’s the Spike Lee directed video for the most famous go-go song ever, Da Butt by Experience Unlimited, a.k.a. E.U.
Did you miss Sarah Godfrey’s excellent history lesson about Da Butt in the Washington CityPaper? Read it now!

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Jul 24 2012
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Redhead – Beat That P***y Up video

Rising DMV rapper Redhead is a frequent live collaborator with folk rocker Justin Trawick and often freestyles at We Are The 9 Hip-Hop, an extension of Trawick’s brainchild to bring together singer-songwriters for live performances to bigger crowds. Here he is laying his own rhymes over the track Up by Loverance.

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