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I wrote about Spirit Plots for WAMU 88.5's Bandwidth
http://bandwidth.wamu.org/track-work-spirit-plots-set-out/
October 6, 2014 Share: Track Work: Spirit Plots, ‘Set Out’ By Justyn Withay When Bandwidth swapped emails with D.C. indie rockers Spirit Plots in advance of the band’s show at Galaxy Hut tonight, the trio didn’t exactly get right to the point: its members went on tangents about lost cats and Michae…
We review ceskl by cope ascetic. An anagram of "cope ascetic" is "taco pieces." Did that just BLOW YOUR MIND?
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/81715117555/ceskl-by-cope-ascetic
ceskl by cope ascetic Drew Bandos strikes me as a guy with a, shall we say, enhanced understanding of reality. His music is trippy enough to earn the “hard” psychedelia merit badge, but the more I...
Abi Reimold's "Forget" EP is so good it pulled me out of hibernation
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/80268483070/forget-by-abi-reimold
FORGET by Abi Reimold Philadelphia’s Abi Reimold appeared on my radar last year with the excellent “Wish It Stopped” EP (split with MD’s Infinity Crush). What I heard on that release stunned me. It...
"save your speeches, flowers are for funerals"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLbqpGK0KuA
prefab sprout
god I love it so much when a band has a song with the same name as their band name, especially when it's also on their self-titled album. post inspired by:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF_zBTKYOx0
"Blue Murder" by Blue Murder from the self-titled album released in 1989 under Geffen Records. HELL of an album! John Sykes, Carmine Appice, Tony Franklin
I've been collecting records for years and I gotta say it really doesn't make a difference to me whether or not I've got something on vinyl
Golden Looks do DC music right
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/52395156920/demos-by-golden-looks
The “DC sound” is one old chestnut nobody will ever stop discussing. I am referring to the rhythmically busy guitar music of the post-hardcore era. The melodies are jagged and angular, vocals are...
Friday paradox: nobody's worse at writing about music than pop writers, but nobody enjoys music less than indie rock writers
We worked in a Celine Dion reference in our review of “We All Walk Fast and Nod in Unison” by Chet Williams
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/51664830696/we-all-walk-fast-and-nod-in-unison-by-chet-williams
I get more submissions from Philadelphia than anywhere else. It’s cool, I guess. Philly’s a great city and, in many ways, better than DC. But, damn it, DC is the place where I live and the one I want...
DMV hip hop supergroup FAR EXP explores new frontiers on "Vol. 2: the Un-Xperiment"
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/51171013371/vol-2-the-un-xperiment-by-far-exp
What’s FAR EXP? “Vol. 2: the Un-Xperiment” opens with that very question. Fans and nonfans give testimony about the group and their cryptic name. Then they let the music do the talking. FAR EXP are...
Florida folk-punk Contron gets miserable on "Some New Songs by the Freewheelin Contron"
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/50930062809/some-new-songs-by-the-freewheelin-contron-by-contron
make us so pretentious (the a couple clever words i wish my friends had never heard song) by contron Contron is a folk-punk boy from Florida. He releases deliberately sloppy recordings of half-written...
In which I explain my recent lack of posts and not-so-subtly plug my new band
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/50596812555/where-ive-been
I haven’t really been updating lately. I’m not sure if I should apologize or what, but I do feel guilty about it and feel I should give an explanation. This site started off as a hobby, and when it...
First Utterance is the undisputed Comus classic, but my fav is their bizarro pop 2nd alb because of stuff like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxdiVmrI4Pg
playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6497E8F4CBCAF541 -- from Comus' second album, "To Keep from Crying" 1974; taken from "song to comus - the co...
ohh, sweet nothin'
where were you while we were getting high?
steve miller sounds like a cheesy stand up comic doing an impression of a classic rock guy
Philly's Roof Doctor gets melodramatic on "I Am Going to Die"
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/48292090239/i-am-going-to-die-by-roof-doctor
“I am going to die,” says Roof Doctor. Well, yes, we’re all going to die someday, but I think Roof Doctor is implying their time has come. Color me insensitive, but I don’t believe them. A sense of...
oh. my. fu***ng. god. can't. stop. laughing.
http://soundcloud.com/hennessyyoungman/cvsbangers
CVS BANGERS IS THE AUDIOSCAPE FOR WHEN YOU'RE BUYING TAMPONS OR A 12 PACK OF CONDOMS, A SAMPLING OF THOSE MAGIC TUNES THAT PLAY WHEN YOU'RE CONTEMP...
Whatever your opinion is on this song, you can't deny that it's the most 90s song of all time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1fzJ_AYajA
(PS: I love it, duh)
Music video by Len performing Steal My Sunshine. (C) 1999 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
We review DC songwriter James Michael Haitchwai's most recent swan song, "Dad-Roc Demos"
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/47707685197/dad-roc-demos-by-james-michael-haitchwai
About 7 years ago, I worked for a music licensing company (which will remain nameless) that was aggressively pushing a breathless singer-songwriter inspired mainly by 90s tv theme songs (and who will...
I should start a tumblr of bands tweeting at All Songs Considered with variations on, "you consider all songs, right? consider US!"
We reviewed the self-titled tape by eerie art/folk/punk duo Hand Gr***de Job
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/46944197282/hand-grenade-job-by-hand-grenade-job
Local duo Hand Gr***de Job are a genreless enigma. Equal parts music and performance art, their approach is cryptic and minimal. Lyrics are often vaguely related images and repeated in unison melodies...
We are seriously giddy over Raleigh, NC brutal prog band Savage Knights
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/46631126591/halo-of-wire-by-savage-knights
Imperious by Savage Knights Just when I wonder if anyone cares about real prog anymore, along come Raleigh, NC’s Savage Knights. I am seriously giddy over finding these guys because they happen to...
Local loud, delayed guitar afficionados dangerosa have a new album called "Massif"
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/46445160428/massif-by-dangerosa
Oh, shoegaze. It promises so much and yet so many bands fail to deliver. There’s a handful of Slowdives and Kevin Shieldses in the world sincerely interested in the compositional properties of volume...
Lovesick bedroom pop band Princess Reason has a new cassette on College Park's TRICOT RECORDS
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/45998794262/always-pretty-ep-by-princess-reason
Princess Reason are a perpetually heartbroken indie pop band from College Park. They record hushed love songs that rarely break the minute and a half mark. They’re sung with warbly vocals and cut off...
We review "Chill Sade," sorry I mean , by Baltimore-based outsider folkie, MacGregor Burns
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/45775086998/chill-sade-by-macgregor-burns
For those of you unfamiliar with MacGregor Burns, I’ll summarize the experience. Mac is based in Baltimore, but he travels the country with a dog named Sadie and a guitar he got from a thrift store....
Holy skamoly, we've found it. Our pearl. Our standard bearer. Our first ever perfect score, the Brothers Kardell
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/45431756021/brothers-kardells-sounds-on-soundcloud-by-brothers
"Brothers Kardell's sounds on SoundCloud" by Brothers Kardell I’m going to confess something right now. It might discredit me completely, but it’s been gnawing at my soul for some time and I need to...
DC quartet The Escape Artist explores space on their new "Beautiful, Peaceful, Ghosts" EP, out now on Foreign Substances
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/45216823870/beautiful-peaceful-ghosts-ep-by-the-escape-artist
"Beautiful, Peaceful, Ghosts" EP by the Escape Artist DC cranial rock quartet The Escape Artist went through a watershed moment a couple of years ago. After spending the better part of a decade...
We gave some teeth to local Lucero fan Davey Brown and his "Live" EP
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/43588824129/live-ep-by-davey-brown
"Live" EP by Davey Brown Davey Brown is DC’s closest spiritual relative to Blaze Foley, the hard living Austin icon whose attempts to put out his recordings met one legendary catastrophe after...
Hi Ghost Hotel! We're a music review site from DC and we liked "Do You Feel It"
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/43666248864/do-you-feel-it-by-ghost-hotel
"Do You Feel It" by Ghost Hotel Twee is a lot like the blues (stay with me, I’m going somewhere with this). It doesn’t celebrate certain feelings so much as it chases them away. It’s no coincidence...
We reviewed pop music scholar/DC expatriate Leonard Friend and his new "LXLF" EP
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/44076803136/lxlf-by-leonard-friend
"LXLF" by Leonard Friend Leonard Friend (a.k.a. Alex Feder, a.k.a. 1st chair Enrique Iglesias stunt guitarist) wants you to know that he loves pop. I mean, REALLY. loves. pop. I mean, he nearly lost...
We care about ska and the "We Don't Care" EP by Thirteen Towers.
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/44223029124/we-dont-care-ep-by-thirteen-towers
"We Don't Care" EP by Thirteen Towers Thirteen Towers are a ska band from NoVA. Their debut release, though, is all punk. But live, they’re a ska band… except when the horn section can’t make it, in...
In honor of our 21st review (and because everybody thinks our Twitter account is a spambot), we've made an official page. Welcome one and all!
"'Sun Club' by SUN CLUB" by 27teethdc. Catch them tonight at Bloombars in Mt. Pleasant
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/44798307589/sun-club-by-sun-club
"Sun Club" by Sun Club Lunar Bears by SUN CLUB Sun Club are a self described indie pop band from Annapolis. Jury’s out on whether that’s a deliberate misnomer or a vague guiding ideal. They’re indie...
We spent a long afternoon staring out at the rain and listening to Wish It Stopped by Infinity Crush and Abi Reimold
http://27teethdc.tumblr.com/post/44715111570/wish-it-stopped-split-by-infinity-crush-and-abi
"Wish It Stopped" split by Infinity Crush and Abi Reimold <a href=”http://maggothouserecords.bandcamp.com/track/swift”...
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