To keep things fresh, new venue 9th & Beats tonight pairs a movie with a great lineup of bands. Come at 7:30 to see the new Grindhouse flick Alpha Girls and stay to rock out with The Nighttime Adventure Society, Southwork and Humble Fire, all for only $5! Fronted by Laura Zax, The Nighttime Adventure Society is one of our fave new bands. Here’s the video for Doctor, Doctor from Laura’s earlier solo work.
Bonus: here’s the trailer for Alpha Girls!
Oh, DC. A dusting of snow and everyone freaks out. I grew up here so I know just as well as anyone our love/hate/terror relationship with the white stuff. Local rock band Vegas With Randolph wrote a catchy song for the occasion called Snow Day that we featured in our special holiday mixtape episode of the Hometown Sounds Podcast. And just today they released the video for the song! Well timed, gentlemen.
Let’s keep it short and sweet today DC. Parsely (watch that spelling) is the solo project of Vanessa Degrassi, a member of two local indie-folk bands Pree and Frau Eva. After an extended trip to Asia, Vanessa is moving to New Orleans soon. This is a total bummer for DC after Frau Eva’s very well received album Underneath Eyelids, but hey, at least it’s not New York! Here’s a brief video for Salted, from Parsely’s FREE 2011 EP Purple Sea.
Rapper Uptown XO has released a barrage of music videos over the last few months for his free mixtape The Color Grey. His commercial album Colour de Grey drops January 29th on the Mello Music Group, and the first video from it premiered last week. Flowers deals with the hardships of growing up rough in DC. To support this hard working and authentic performer, pre-order the album now!
DC, I’ve got a killer music video for you today. But it’s crazy (psycho even!), very NSFW and you’re probably at work now, so be cool about it. Keep a spreadsheet open and your fingers above Alt+Tab and check out this new video from Honest Haloway. Singer Tim Kratzer was once in local indie rock band The Vita Ruins, but now he makes spaced out dance music with the help of drummer Charlie Karim. Psycho Bitch comes from their FREE 2011 EP The Towns. This video debuted yesterday on YouTube, but didn’t last long there due to lame content restrictions. LAME! Let’s hope Vimeo is cooler. After a bit of a hiatus, the bands is back recording new material, and your next chance to see them live is Saturday March 9th at Velvet Lounge.
Downtempo kings Thievery Corporation begin their three night sold out takeover of the 9:30 Club tonight. Sounds like a great reason to play another gorgeous video by the ESL bosses. Today’s video for Take My Soul, from 2011’s Culture of Fear album, features the soothing vocals of Thievery’s most frequent vocal collaborator LouLou Ghelichkhani.
Singer songwriter Tom Goss brings the gay and music communities together in DC like no one else. Today we feature the video for Lover, from Goss’s 2009 album Back To Love, about a gay soldier killed in Afghanistan and the partner he leaves behind.
DC, here’s a classic for you. New Rock Church of Fire made a lot of fans with their powerful live shows and their 2009 album Of The Wild. They were even immortalized in hamburger form at DC9. But NRCOF have been relatively quiet lately, with only occasional shows and a split 7″ with VA Beach punk band Mas Y Mas in 2011, and now their website appears defunct. I suspect we haven’t heard the last of these guys! Here’s their debut music video The Sword.
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Just yesterday singer songwriter Drew Gibson released a brand new music video for Elmira. Directed by Tobin Herringshaw, the video is simple, direct and beautifully shot. Elmira comes from Drew’s second album The Southern Draw.
Bad Domes is the moniker of laptop performer Rich Strayer. Using software called Audiomulch, Strayer triggers a huge collection of recognizable samples to create a live mash-up performance. In case the idea in your head of a laptop performer wears taped-up glasses or checks Facebook all night long, watch this 80 second long video distillation of the last Bad Domes show at DC9 in December. This guy brings the party more than anyone I’ve ever seen. This Saturday Bad Domes is scheduled to destroy the main room at the Rock & Roll Hotel, and you can join in for the low price of free! More money for drinks!
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