Ryan Little and Brendan Polmer make some excellent 90s lo-fi influenced indie rock as Tereu Tereu. They put out one of 2013’s best DC indie rock records Quadrants on Ryan’s label Bad Friend Records, alongside releases from Drunken Sufis, Fredricksburg’s Raw Feels and an archival single from Travis Morrison Hellfighters. Yesterday DCist premiered TT’s newest music video, the catchy earworm Gratitude with accompanying visuals by director Rahmin Atarod. Learn the lyrics and sing along next Thursday as Tereu Tereu opens our all-DC showcase with Showlist DC at Tropicalia, with Heavy Breathing and The Jet Age! I am even more pumped about next week’s show after this music video. Get your tickets now through ShowClix!
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The Thiefs – Desperate Man video
Rockville’s The Thiefs like to rock hard with sweet guitar solos and fast drum fills, but not take it all too seriously. Their newest DIY video, “Desperate Man”, features a pretty epic neighborhood chase from a scary dude in a gas mask. Grab the debut EP It’s Not You, It’s Us from their ReverbNation store, and see them next at the venerable Grog & Tankard in Fredricksburg this Saturday.
The Cowards Choir – Where The Hand Don’t Hold Me Down (Live on The Cirus Life)
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Our week featuring videos from Justin Trawick’s The Circus Life podcast comes to an end today. Circling around to where we began, today we’ve got another video from Andy Zipf’s new band The Cowards Choir featuring Ryan Walker, Ben Tufts and Adam Neubauer. “Where The Hand Don’t Hold Me Down” comes from their debut EP Reunion, a generous pay-what-you-want download courtesy of NoiseTrade.
The Cowards Choir is one of 5 bands playing at The Circus Life’s live event Saturday night at the Rock & Roll Hotel, including The Sweater Set, Black Masala, M.H. & His Orchestra and Justin Trawick’s own group. This is your last chance to enter to win a pair of tickets! Just leave us a comment below with your favorite DC band or musician. The contest ends at 4 PM this afternoon, so get on it. See you at the show!
Jasmine Gillison – I Get It (Live on The Circus Life)
Justin Trawick’s podcast The Circus Life is blowing up! In advance of the big show this Saturday night at the Rock & Roll Hotel, Justin and all-things-technical man Sean Russell are featured in a story in this morning’s Washington Post Express. The photo alone is worth the click! All this week we’re featuring live performance videos from the show, and today it’s singer-songwriter Jasmine Gillison’s turn, performing her signature tune I Get It.
And don’t forget that Hometown Sounds is giving away a pair of tickets to the live show on Saturday featuring M.H. & His Orchestra, Black Masala, The Cowards Choir, The Sweater Set and Justin Trawick’s own group. To enter the giveaway, just leave us a comment below telling us your favorite band or musician in the DC area. There’s only one more day left to enter, so don’t delay!
GoRemy – Metro Song (Live on The Circus Life)
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We heart Justin Trawick’s The Circus Life podcast and all this week we’re featuring videos of the live performances from the show. If you lived anywhere close to DC back in 2009, you surely remember The Arlington Rap, Remy Munasifi‘s breakout hit skewering the bit of the diamond over the river. Remy continues to pump out satirical rhymes on his YouTube channel, including this acoustic ditty about the joys of riding the Metro.
The Circus Life takes their show to the stage of the Rock & Roll Hotel this Saturday night with a stacked lineup including The Cowards Choir, Black Masala, M.H. & His Orchestra, The Sweater Set and Justin Trawick’s own group. Hometown Sounds has a hot pair of tickets to this show to give away, so tell us your favorite band in the comments below and you’re entered to win!
M.H. & His Orchestra – The Train (Live on The Circus Life)
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The Circus Life Podcast week on Hometown Sounds continues with a live video of M.H. & His Orchestra performing “The Train”, from last year’s debut album The Throes. This band certainly sounds like no other in DC, and I speak from personal experience that they put on an epic live show! Check them out live this Saturday night at the Rock & Roll Hotel when The Circus Life records a live podcast episode, along with The Cowards Choir, The Sweater Set, Black Masala and the Justin Trawick Group.
And don’t forget to enter our ticket giveaway below! Just leave us a comment telling us your favorite band in DC and you’re entered to win a pair of tickets. The contest ends this Friday, and stay tuned all week for more great videos from The Circus Life!
The Cowards Choir – Maybe I (Live on The Circus Life)
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Justin Trawick is a singer-songwriter with a lot of great ideas and energy. His “We Are The 9” songwriter showcase tours all up and down the east coast, and his new weekly podcast The Circus Life has quickly made its mark in the DC music scene. The next step is to take the podcast to a live audience with a taping this Saturday evening at the Rock & Roll Hotel, featuring no less than 5 top-notch DC bands: The Sweater Set, The Cowards Choir, Black Masala, MH & His Orchestra, and Justin’s own group. And you can win a pair of tickets to this musical blowout! Just leave a comment below naming your favorite DC area band and you are entered to win. The contest ends this Friday afternoon at 3 PM.
All this week we’ll be highlighting some of the videos of live performances in the show’s short history. First up is Andy Zipf’s new band The Cowards Choir, featuring Ryan Walker, Ben Tufts and Adam Neubauer, with their song Maybe I from the debut EP Reunion. Get a true glimpse of what a professional recording studio really looks like.
The Joads – Good Deal Gone Bad video
Hey, remember that podcast we put out a few days ago? Remember that awesome song by The Joads, “Good Deal Gone Bad”, and how we mentioned there’s a music video for it? GUESS WHAT! Here is that music video. It’s a surprisingly dark tale of addiction, guns, money and public transportation mishaps, lightened by its uptempo singalong soundtrack. The Joads’ “ramshackle surf blues” hits the stage tonight at Takoma Park DIY hotspot Electric Maid in a crazy variety show including young, not-at-all-racist punk band Dagos and The Georgetown University Improv Association. There’s absolutely no better way to get this weekend started off right!
The Morrison Brothers Band – Gimme All The Love video
Yesterday The Morrison Brothers Band unleashed another music video from their pop country debut album State of the Union. Looks like these boys put on a great live show! See for yourself this Friday night at the State Theater in Falls Church as they open for local headliners Melodime.
Aaron Tinjum – American Road video
Recently Singer-songwriter Aaron Tinjum actually relocated to DC from Austin Texas, swimming against the tide of those talented musicians who make their mark on DC and move away. You’ll hear the Texas influence in his newest music video for American Road, a song about dysfunction in America that’s right at home in this town. Tonight Aaron joins Justin Trawick’s We Are The 9 singer-songwriter showcase at Iota alongside Dan Fisk, Louisa Hall and 5 other fine musicians. And while we’re talking about the hardworking Mr. Trawick, grab the latest episode of his podcast The Circus Life released today, featuring The Future of Music Coalition and our buds at Listen Local First!
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