Things are pretty quiet on the DC music video front, so here’s a classic video by psychedelic dance-rock band Screen Vinyl Image that might be new to you. Fever comes from their 2009 album Interceptors.
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Phil Ade – Break Me Off video
Going back in time a bit, here’s the video for Break Me Off, a freestyle single by DC rapper Phil Adé produced by Brandun DeShay. This comes from a free mixtape you may have missed out on back in 2011, Ashley Outrageous Presents: The Playlist v.2. Adé promises a brand new music video next week, so stay tuned!
Tiffany Thompson – In The Distance video
Singer-songwriter Tiffany Thompson, a regular performer at Iota and with Justin Trawick’s The 9 Songwriter Showcase, just released a brand new music video for In The Distance, the anchor song of her latest EP One Voice. Tiffany takes her powerful and earnest voice on the road for a series of tour dates from New York to Chicago, and your next chance to see her in our area comes on April 11th at a benefit show at the Torpedo Factory in Old Town Alexandria.
2 New Videos from Wale
Why just release one music video at a time? Last night rap superstar Wale unveiled two new videos on BET. The first one is The Show, featuring Rick Ross and Aaron Wess, from the Folarin mixtape that came out last Christmas.
The second is our first taste from Wale’s upcoming full length album The Gifted, dropping in late June. Bad features Tiara Thomas, and it’s out now on iTunes.
With two music videos posted today, the DC Music Video of the Day takes the day off tomorrow. Have a great weekend DC!
Mission South – Patagonia (Blue Light Sessions)
Bluesy rockers Mission South just posted a stream of their new song Peaches, the first track from their upcoming EP Migration Vol. 2 that drops April 9th.
The band is currently touring the east coast, and this Saturday night they play a hometown show at Velvet Lounge with fantastic local openers The North Country and Linsay Deming from the band Sweetbread Jim’s. Our music video of the day comes from the Blue Light Sessions series from Pick-Up Productions, a live take of Mission South performing Patagonia from their FREE debut EP Migration Vol. 1.
Is And Of The – Assassins Hid in Our Loops video
Mush Records experimental musician Droo Bandos, under the stage name Is And Of The, has a new video from his latest FREE full length album Know Not. The evocatively named Assassins Hid in Our Loops has the trippy visuals you’d expect from this music, but also includes a bit of narrative from director James DuBourdieu. Keep a browser tab open on Is And Of The’s Facebook page for solo show announcements for the coming week.
Deathfix – Better Than Bad video
Deathfix rocked the Black Cat Backstage last night, and I hope you all went and had a blast while I drove home from Virginia Beach for 6 hours. In case you don’t yet know Deathfix, they’re the newest rock band on the Dischord label, a supergroup of Brendan Canty (Fugazi), Rich Morel (Blowoff with Bob Mould), Devin Ocampo (Faraquet) and Mark Cisneros (Medications). Here’s a fun video for their debut single Better Than Bad, from their self-titled debut album, featuring lots of great biking footage shot by Mat Hoffman, whose film “Birth of Big Air” was scored by Canty.
Wheelie – I Been Lovin video
Saturday night the Rock & Roll Hotel hosts the hometown stop of troubador Justin Jones‘s month long tour. Kicking off the show is Rachel Kate and new synthrock (is that a genre?) band Wheelie. These guys are creating an original sound with soulful vocals, snazzy keys, handclaps and an offbeat sense of style. Definitely worth showing up early to catch their live set!
Borracho – All In Play video
DC’s musicians and live music fans owe an enthusiastic high five to Catherine Lewis, freelance music journalist and proprietor of the excellent concert listing aggregator Showlist DC. I recently met Catherine and her boyfriend Chris, DCHeavyMetal.com blogger, at a show at The Pinch, and Catherine politely and validly pointed out the lack of metal at Hometown Sounds. I admit, I am not yet a devoted metalhead like many at the packed house to see Warchild that night, but Hometown Sounds is devoted to all genres of DC music, and to that end: MOAR METAL! First stop is hugely popular stoner metal band Borracho. Today they release a brand new 7″ Mob Gathering through Spain’s Ghost Highway Recordings and Germany’s No Balls Records, packaging up some unused demos from their 2009 album Splitting Sky. It’s limited to 200 black copies and 100 marbled orange pressings (mmmmmm), so grab yours before they vanish. Today’s music video for All In Play, from Splitting Sky, is so huge in its scope that it really brings out the lameness of my laptop speakers. Listen with big chunky headphones, or better yet see them live at the Velvet Lounge on Thursday March 28th with Been Obscene from Austria and their buddies SuperVoid from Pittsburgh. And look, Showlist DC is giving away two pairs of tickets to the show! It all comes together.
Kid Congo Powers – Conjure Man video
Brand new video debut! Garage rocker Kid Congo Powers just released a music video for his latest 7″ single Conjure Man. The trance-like and trippy video makes heavy use of William S. Burroughs’s Dreammachine, specifically dreammachines owned by Throbbing Gristle’s Genesis P. Orridge and London arts curator James Elphick.
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