[ March 9, 2010; 7:00 pm; ]

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A huge thanks to everyone who came out to our first fundraiser @ the Girard Street House. If you missed it, guess what, you’re in luck. We’re having another fundraiser party at Velvet Lounge to help contribute to the rental fee for the April 10th event in Washington DC.

On Tuesday March 9th, [...]

If you’ve read any local blogs within the past few weeks you’ve probably seen the debate over the state of the DC music scene. Local bands, record labels, and shows have all be placed under the limelight.

In lieu of putting in my opinion, I asked Shauna Alexander to document her experience of [...]

[ March 17, 2010; 10:00 pm; ] U Street Music Hall
1115 U St NW
Washington, DC
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
10:00pm

[ March 4, 2010; 9:00 pm; ]

[ March 10, 2010; 9:00 pm; ] “Mayer Hawthorne grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, just outside of Detroit, and vividly remembers, as a child, driving with his father and tuning the car radio in to the rich soul and jazz history the region provided. “Most of the best music ever made came out of Detroit,” claims the singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, [...]

[ March 18, 2010 8:30 pm to March 19, 2010 2:30 am. ] DC native and former Low Life member, Evan Bliss, describes his latest year-long writing and recording efforts as follows: “…like Bruce Lee, before the Chinese tried to take him out for showing everyone how to beat some ass. That’s us with music now.”
Full write-up and 4 tracks after the jump…

Local band Pash has played hundreds of shows, traveled thousands of miles, and worked with some of the District’s greatest local artists. After eight years of touring Pash will be playing it’s final show at Black Cat tonight. I had the pleasure of catching up with guitarist Erik Bruner-Yang to hear some stories of the [...]

[ February 26, 2010; 8:30 pm; ]

I dropped by Gold Leaf Studios on Tuesday night to chat with the dapper gentlemen of U.S. Royalty (John, Paul, Luke, Jacob) and with DC’s budding hip-hop star, Phil Adé, about their recent collaboration and upcoming show at the Rock and Roll Hotel. They were kind enough to answer a few questions before jumping [...]

2.21.10 @ 9:30 Club. Editors w/ Antlers and The Dig.
All (beautiful) photography by Paul Fredriksen.

[ February 24, 2010; 9:00 pm; ]

Over 1,400 beat miners, DJ’s and vinyl connoisseurs gathered at the Black Cat this weekend for the 4th DC Record Fair. DJ’s spun records (of course) while folks fingers danced across crates looking for that rare find. The DC Record Fair was brought to you by Som Records, DC Soul Recordings, and of course the The Vinyl District.

James Dewitt Yancey aka J. Dilla was and still is a seminal force in music, not just hip-hop. Attending college at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in the mid-1990’s (I know I’m aging myself here) it was hard not to know who J. Dilla was, especially for the real hip-hop heads and the campus only 30 minutes from Dilla’s hometown of Detroit. Hip-hop today is a shell of it’s former self lacking the real talent, production and most importantly soul of the music that I loved in the mid-90’s.

[ February 26, 2010; 9:00 pm; ]