In the News
ICYMI somehow, RIP DCist. :(
Mary Timony’s new solo album Untame the Tiger came out last Friday (hot pink vinyl!), and Rob Brunner from Washingtonian caught up with the unassuming legend. Tickets for her hometown show at the Black Cat on March 14th are not sold out yet.
For WaPo, Mark Jenkins interviewed prolific producer and Jawbox album J. Robbins about his new solo album Basilisk.
Stereogum named Rationale, the new indie rock album by Ned Russin’s band Glitterer, their album of the week.
Travel-focused website Afar explored three music-focused DC walking tours, including Veronneau’s Ken Avis on jazz and go-go musician JusPaul.
The Arlington Library’s Center for Local History wrote a piece on the importance of Don Zientara’s Inner Ear Studio to the legendary DC punk scene.
Tiny Desks
‘Tis the season for NPR Tiny Desk Contest submissions! We wish we could embed them all here, but Substack gets mad at the email length, so links it is.
Don’t Stay Home This Week
Monday February 26th
In 2017 alto saxophonist, bandleader and rapper Herb Scott formed the nonprofit Capitol Hill Jazz Foundation to further the development of jazz. Probably not coincidentally, his new release is called “The Foundation” and Scott celebrates its release with two sets Monday night at Georgetown’s Blues Alley.
Tuesday February 27th
DJ 2-Tone Jones’s monthly music & movies series Can I Kick It? returns to Songbyrd Tuesday night, mixing hip-hop turntablism with the 2014 Indonesian action flick The Raid 2.
Wednesday February 28th
The first of our three Pie Shop show picks this week, Wednesday night has 3 great DC rock bands: folky Deccan Traps, funky/jazzy Friday Night Flicks, and melodic rock from Joe Rathbone’s The Mercy Alliance.
Honorable mentions:
Thursday February 29th
NAYAN’s record release is finally here! We can’t wait to hear Rock N Roll Ruined My Life live Thursday night at the Pie Shop, with a monster bill that includes Baltimore’s Garbage Masher and DC rock bands Outerloop and Unring the Bell.
Honorable mentions:
Friday March 1st
Grungy punk takes over the Pie Shop Friday night with Witch Coast, Chill Parents, Pickaxe, and Front Royal’s Thee Deluxe. Bring backup earplugs.
Saturday March 2nd
Rhizome will host a night of beautiful ambience, lush soundscapes and expansive post-rock Saturday night with Natalie Chami’s project TALsounds, Doug Kallmeyer, Monica Stroik and Tristan Welch’s group Requiem, Argentinian artist Alma Laprida and Asheville NC’s Dark Sines.
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One More Thing
The hottest new trend in technology design is retro. This past week the Tangara music player launched its crowdfunding campaign and quickly blew past the goal. This beauty looks just like the iPod you loaded full of pirated, mislabeled MP3s in the early 00s before streaming on smartphones wiped it all away. But Tangara takes dirt-cheap SD cards and is fully open source and hackable. For $250 I really don’t need this device, but I haven’t closed the browser tab yet either. See you next week.
-PV