Yesterday DMV rapper Kingpen Slim released another music video from his free mixtape Triple Beam Dreams, this time spotlighting his track Dead featuring Styles P, produced by Mark Henry. Happy weekend DC!
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Maxmillion Dunbar – Loving the Drift video
Upstart U Street dance hall Tropicalia is giving the established champ U Street Music Hall a run for its money with booking exciting talent. Tonight they partner with local electronic label Future Times to host Sal P, legendary member of NYC post-punk act Liquid Liquid. Unnamed Future Times DJs warm up the room, and it’s a good bed one of them will be Maxmillion Dunbar aka Andrew Field-Pickering, one half of the duo Beautiful Swimmers, head of Future Times and a well-established electronic musician with two full length albums and a handful of strong singles. Max D drops a brand new album House of Woo on the RVNG Intl. label on February 19th, and just today released the first music video from it, for Loving the Drift. This is a great first taste of what’s sure to be a fine night of out-there beats at Tropicalia.
Teleoptyk – Take Me Down video
DC’s history with punk, indie rock and lounge music is well known, but somewhat forgotten these days is our legacy with industrial music. 90s hotspots Nation/Capital Ballroom, Edge and Fifth Column hosted goth and industrial nights, and bands like Chemlab rode a wave of popularity on their aggressive and stylish sound. The dark electronic label Octofoil Records keeps that vibe alive with the output of flagship artist Maduro, and his new release City of Dis under the alias Teleoptyk. The debut music video from that release, Take Me Down, isn’t explicitly NSFW, but your co-workers might wonder what you get up to on the weekends.
Deathfix Electronic Press Kit
You all know about Deathfix by now, right? The DC supergroup of Mark Cisneros (Medications), Devin Ocampo (Faraquet), Brendan Canty (Fugazi) and Richard Morel (Bob Mould‘s solo band) have polished their sound over the last year, now poised to release their self-titled debut album on Dischord. This thing isn’t really a music video but an electronic press kit (EPK), giving you a sample of songs from the album with some cool visuals shot by Canty and edited by Morel. Check out the next big DC thing live at DC9 on Thursday February 14th. Take your sweetie! (Hat tip to DC Music Download)
Bellflur – Country video
Talking to some folks at the Mansion at Strathmore last Friday night, a common theme was surprise that DC still has a band like Bellflur to ourselves. Over the course of four albums and one EP, this band’s sound has evolved into majesty. The effort they put into their new album release, involving creating a super-premium vinyl box set with hand-created metal-chiseled nametags, is just as intense as the album release party they organized involving 7 bands, curated art, dance and more. So a brand new Bellflur music video is something worth taking time to savor. Directed by Rich Bernett, from the new album Twelve Vagrant Monologues from the Last Living Star, here’s Country.
New Rock Church of Fire – The Maine video
If you name your band New Rock Church of Fire, you’d better rock pretty hard. Luckily these guys never disappoint, recently coming off a quiet period with new material and shows. Be prepared Friday night for a sweaty fun show as NRCoF opens for Dream Girl Garage band SISU featuring Sandra of Dum Dum Girls at the always interesting Sasha Lord curated back room of Comet Ping Pong. Today’s video for The Maine does not come from their 2009 debut album Of The Wild, but you can snag it for free download at their SoundCloud page, for now!
The Cornel West Theory – The Art Of Hunger Pt. 1 video
Thought provoking rap group the Cornel West Theory are prepping for the release of their new album Coming From The Bottom next month, but they’re not done with the past yet. They just released a new music video from their 2011 album The Shape Of Hip Hop To Come for The Art Of Hunger, shot by Sam Lavine at the nonprofit space BloomBars in Columbia Heights. Really looking forward to an album release show by these amazing performers.
Justin Jones – Little Fox video
Singer songwriter Justin Jones invites a bunch of his talented friends to perform with him at Iota in Clarendon tonight, including Chaim Rubenstein, Laura Tsaggaris, Shannon Carey of Luray, his fellow Deadman Josh Read, and Mark Charles Heidinger of Vandaveer. With a stellar lineup like that, how can you refuse? Here’s the video for the title track to Justin’s 2010 EP Little Fox, on 9:30 Records.
Caustic Casanova – I Hate Everyone I Want To Like video
Arlington’s Galaxy Hut, the best place in the DC area to see an intimate show and choose from an amazing beer list, hosts two hard rocking bands tonight. We featured openers North of Canada in a Hometown Sounds Podcast last year, and headliners Caustic Casanova‘s music video for Short Commute, Live Forever placed in our top 5 music videos of 2012. Here’s an older video of theirs, for I Hate Everyone I Want To Like from their 2008 album Imminent Eminence.
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