DC music video of the day! Drop Electric are scheduled to play a set at Artomatic in Crystal City tonight at 10 PM. And that sounds like a great excuse to me to run another fantastic video by these soundscape shoegazers. Today’s video for the awesomely named song Robot Funeral was released last summer, and the track should find its way onto Drop Electric’s forthcoming album. Happy Memorial Day everyone!
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America Hearts – A Whole Lotta Love video
DC music video of the day! Indie poppers America Hearts are back at the Black Cat tonight with the second installment in their Singles Club series, with local friends The Cheniers and Dot Dash. We featured the video for Lose You from the first single last month, and today we’ve got the video for A Whole Lotta Love, from the second EP Messy.
And there’s a bonus video too! Check out this cute little introduction to the Singles Club series. The brief footage from last year’s Fort Reno show gets me pumped for the summer!
All Good Funk Alliance – Slingshot Boogie video
DC music video of the day! To many, Memorial Day is a time for BBQs and tubing trips on the Potomac, but in the city the annual tradition I love most is the Fort Knox Recordings takeover parties at U Street Music Hall. This year’s Funk 4 Peace throwdown Sunday night involves the Godfather of Hip-Hop Afrika Bambaataa, reggae rockers Nappy Riddem, an always awesome Fort Knox Five DJ set, and the debut live performance for long time dance party veterans All Good Funk Alliance. FKR just released the AGFA album Jacks of All Trades, and they are so excited about this record that they are giving it away at the club! Today we’ve got the video for the title track from AGFA’s 2009 EP Slingshot Boogie, on their own Funk Weapons label, featuring rhymes from Think Tank.
Lenorable – Ligeia video
DC music video of the day! Did you know that today, May 22nd, is World Goth Day? Yippee! It’s finally time to bust out the eyeliner and sad music. Let’s celebrate with a music video from DC’s favorite goth rockers Lenorable. The video for Ligeia comes from their 2011 EP The Prince.
Tabi Bonney – Castle on a Cloud video
DC music video of the day! Tabi Bonney is the latest in a line of well regarded DMV rappers releasing hot new mixtapes. Bonney’s release Endless Summer expands on last year’s The Summer Years, both produced by Ski Beatz. Check out the debut video from the project, Castle On a Cloud featuring Terri Walker.
Vandaveer & SOJA videos
DC music videos of the day! Two great local shows tonight deserve a double video feature on Hometown Sounds. First up is folk troubadors Vandaveer, part of a truly fantastic lineup tonight at the Black Cat with fellow locals The Beanstalk Library and Astra Via (Olivia Mancini from Washington Social Club and Jarrett Nicolay of Virginia Coalition). Their song The Great Gray comes from Vandaveer’s 2011 album Dig Down Deep.
The second video comes from the extremely popular reggae band Soldiers of Jah Army a.k.a. SOJA. They’ve worked hard over a long 15 year career to build a die-hard fan base that’s clearly shown in two sold-out shows at the 9:30 Club this weekend. Today’s video is the title track from their current album Strength To Survive.
Chuck Brown videos
DC music videos of the day! We’re all still reeling from yesterday’s loss of DC go-go godfather Chuck Brown. Like a few other local radio stations, yesterday Hometown Sounds played only Chuck Brown music to honor the legend. It seems fitting to repost a couple of videos we’ve run before. The first one, Chuck Baby, comes from his 2007 album We’re About The Business.
The second, Thievery Corporation‘s song The Numbers Game, from their 2008 album Radio Retaliation, really shows how much DC loved Chuck Brown.
Fat Trel – Devil We Like video
DC music video of the day! Today we’ve got the first video from DMV rapper Fat Trel‘s red-hot new mixtape Nightmare On E Street. Devil We Like was produced by BossMajor and the video comes from LA-based director MISTERDOCTOR.
Lucky Dub – Easy video
DC music video of the day! WAMMIE award winning Lucky Dub is the perfect summertime music, easygoing singalong reggae rock. The video for Easy, from their 2011 debut album Mindset (on sale for only $1!) takes us to Ocean City and gets me excited for the good times of summer. Check them out live this Thursday the 17th at Monserrat House!
Maimouna Youssef – I Got A Man video
DC music video of the day! Maimouna Youssef‘s smooth & sweet vocals first gained wide acclaim as a guest vocalist on The Roots’s song Don’t Feel Right from their 2006 album Game Theory, receiving a Grammy nomination in 2007. Now she’s a well known performer in the area, and last year released her debut album The Blooming. Check out the first video from that album, I Got A Man.
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