Live performance videos are the hot trend in DC music videos this week. After Honest Haloway and Priests, today we’ve got a mellow and beautiful cover song by experimental cellist Wytold. Using a looping pedal and both electric and acoustic cellos, Wytold creates his own rendition of “All I Need”, from Radiohead’s 2007 free album In Rainbows.
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Priests – New
If you haven’t yet seen Priests live, you’re missing out on one of the most exciting live shows in DC. Singer Katie Alice Greer matches the goofy coolness of Ian Svenonious in Chain & The Gang, but with Priests she unleashes sneering energy all over the stage. The internet-averse band recently made a lot of new fans at the CMJ Music Festival, and the ever-hip music source Pitchfork filmed their performance of unreleased but memorable song “New” for their video streaming site. You can stream their tape-only EPs at their Bandcamp page, or buy the actual tapes from their next live show.
Honest Haloway – Laughable (Live at Paperhaus)
While synth-rockers Honest Haloway prep a new EP called Perigee, they recently recorded a live take of a new song Laughable at DC’s strongest house venue Paperhaus. This slick video features HH as a duo of vocalist Tim Kratzer and drummer Charlie Karim, but they’ve recently added bassist Fico Lazzaro-Colon, a vet from DC bands Ms. Director and Cedars. Over this past weekend HH closed out an amazing season of live shows at The Lot at Union Kitchen, so if you missed out, enjoy this video with plenty of shots of Charlie’s well-defined arms.
Lyriciss – Big Gold Chain video
Today’s video comes from PG Country rapper Lyriciss, a short and tragic narrative of thug life directed by Dante Bailey. Big Gold Chain is the lead-off single from The Balance, a new full length album from Inner Loop Records on iTunes consolidated & expanded from last year’s free EP series of the same name.
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds – Haunted Head video
Kid Congo Powers, legendary musician with The Gun Club, The Cramps and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, has a brand new music video timed for the spookiest day of the year. Haunted Head, the title track from Congo’s most recent full length album, delivers his classic garage style of fuzzed out guitars and droll vocal delivery. Be on the lookout for cameos of local burlesque stars, including Tilted Torch’s Short Staxx and Lucrezia Blozia of Hope Operas. Happy Halloween!
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.
Podcast for October 29th, 2013
Tracklisting:
Humble Fire – Gone
Cane & The Sticks – Jump Off The Boat
Junker Grain – Domes
The Caribbean – Imitation Air
Tereu Tereu – The Body Unmade
Greenland – Silver Spring
Wes Felton – Walked Away
Black Cobain feat. Fat Trel – Turn Up
The Cowards Choir – A Better Lie
Army of Me – White Flag Flies
Laura Tsaggaris – Everyman
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Typefighter – Much video
Moving on from their earlier, folkier material, Typefighter is anxious to release their new powerful, loud rock sound into the wild. The new album The End of Everything comes out next year, but the debut single from it Much gets the music video treatment today. It’s a gorgeous and fun music video, perfectly timed for Halloween week, and reminds us that childhood isn’t all innocence and sweetness. Also, Typefighter have one of the best band names in DC. Nice job.
Fresh Tracks! “Gone” by Humble Fire
It’s time for another round of Fresh Tracks!, where Hometown Sounds brings you the very latest in noteworthy music emerging from the District. “Gone”, the first single from dream rock quartet Humble Fire just went live on the group’s Bandcamp page this afternoon, so I’d be hard pressed to find anything much fresher to close out the work week.
Following a 10 second straight ahead sprint of distorted guitar chords and snare drum rolls, the rhythm section busts down the door with an adrenaline-prodding stomp before ducking back down to make way for vocalist Nefra Faltas’ syncopated warbles. Guitarist Dave Epley’s clean, heavily delayed guitar coils throughout the song’s verses before returning to the hurried dash of the intro riff.
“Gone” embodies a noteworthy release for a couple of reasons. First, the track showcases the band’s ability to establish a strong groove you might even characterize as danceable (an uncommon feat for a rock band). Second, this represents the first publicly available studio recording of Humble Fire, which is interesting given that the band has been performing live for some time. However, their previous lack of recordings actually contributed to their sense of mystery and emphasized the importance of catching the band’s blissed out live show, which I’ve had the pleasure of taking in on several occasions.
Humble Fire performs tomorrow (10/26) at Knoxville, Tennessee’s Preservation Pub, but are currently in between performance dates in the DC area. So enjoy this while they’re…”gone”.
Kingpen Slim – Hold You Down video
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and rapper Kingpen Slim dedicates his latest video to this important issue affecting 1 in 4 women (and a significant number of men too). Hold You Down featuring Marcus Canty serves as a PSA and implores anyone affected by this trauma “Don’t Be Afraid To Leave” with help from www.thehotline.org. Hold You Down comes from Slim’s newest mixtape The Deep End coming later this fall.
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