I’ll be one of the panelists in Artomatic‘s Music Development panel series tonight, focusing on Radio and the Indie Release. Other panelists include Mary Sue Twohy from Sirius XM, Grant Random from DC 101, Bryan Calhoun from Sound Exchange and Rhome Anderson from WPFW, and it’s all moderated by Jem Bahaijoub from Imagine PR. If you are in an up & coming band, the information available at this panel could be crucial to getting airplay for your music and growing your fanbase. Registration is free, and so is Artomatic. See you there!
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Hometown Sounds
Showing The World How DC Rocks
Presto Bando – Walking in the Air video
Tonight’s show at the underground house venue Paperhaus has a fantastic mostly-local lineup: Presto Bando, Les Rhinoceros, Imperial China, and Tampa Florida’s Alexander and the Grapes. Today we feature a video from DC Setlist‘s Holiday Video 2011, Presto Bando covering the song “Walking In The Air” by Howard Blake from the 1982 animated short film The Snowman. Cute stuff. Head over to their Bandcamp page to download two free EPs before coming to the show tonight!
Is and Of The – How We Used To Drift video
Today’s DC music video comes from 20 year old college student Drew Bandos, a.k.a. Is and Of The. The experimental electronic musician recently released an EP called Handpainted Glow on the prestigious Mush Records which is really fantastic. The video for the lead off track, How We Used To Drift, by Kevin Sawicki & Alex Igidbashian, is as kaleidoscopic, ambient and interesting as the song.
Lyriciss – The Agenda video
DC music video of the day! DMV rapper on the rise Lyriciss just released another video from his free EP The Balance on local hip-hop label Inner Loop Records. If you look closely, you can read the lyrics for the song scrolling in the background of the video, which seems totally appropriate for a rapper named Lyriciss.
These United States – Get Yourself Home video
DC music video of the day! They’ve moved on from our fair town, but HTS remembers These United States with much love. If you missed out on seeing this band mix rock with a healthy dose of twang, be sure to catch them live next time they’re passing through town. Today’s video for Get Yourself Home (In Search of the Mistress Whose Kisses are Famous) comes from their 2008 album Crimes.
Koshari – Wake Me video
DC music video of the day! Tonight the Black Cat hosts the first of three benefit shows for the Sweet Tea Pumpkin Pie Music Festival, taking over a big chunk of DC Columbus Day Weekend in October with a multitude of bands. Tonight’s lineup features bands booked at this year’s festival, headlined by noisy indie punk band Surgery Dot Com, featuring former members of True Womanhood. Opening the show is local shoegazing band Koshari. They are true veterans of the DC indie rock scene, having put out their debut EP Disenchanted way back in 2001. Today’s video for the song Wake Me comes from their 2005 album Unless.
Typefighter – You When You’re Older video
DC music video of the day! Tonight you won’t want to miss a fantastic folk-rock show at the Black Cat with out-of-towners Plume Giant and locals Ugly Purple Sweater and Typefighter. Today’s video comes courtesy of the late & lamented SocialStudies DC blog, for the soon-to-be-released Typefighter song You When You’re Older. The video comes from last winter in the secluded Montrose Park in Georgetown.
To promote tonight’s show, Ugly Purple Sweater and Typefighter both covered a song written by the other band, and released the results as a free download on Bandcamp.
See you there tonight!
Black Cobain – Cheers video
DC music video of the day! Black Cobain, signed to Wale’s Board Administration label, is a DMV rapper on the rise. Today’s video is the title track from his recently released free mixtape Cheers. The visuals may come from London, where Cobain is working with Mark Ronson, but the sound is definitely DC.
Justin Jones – Miracles video
DC music video of the day! Justin Jones has been plying his radio-friendly Americana rock in this town for a number of years now, previously fronting his band The Driving Rain and now going solo under the wing of the 9:30 Club’s record label. The slickly produced video for Miracles, from his brand new album Fading Light, could finally bring much-deserved wider attention to this local talent.
Drop Electric – Robot Funeral video
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!
