"I try my best to balance out my acknowledgement and appreciation for the electronic scene and the progressive sound that’s going on now and my acknowledgment and appreciation for traditional soul music."...
It's Memorial Day weekend and once again I'm faced with the annual prospect of stumbling around my deck in a small Budweiser swimsuit and flipping burnt burgers to a dino rock soundtrack...
“Explore rap, and tell me Nas ain’t all that”: Unwittingly prescient words from a precocious, young rapper releasing a piece of art, Illmatic, that would not o...
For all you lames who complain the MARC won't run on weekends til December, you can cop a $16 Amtrak back to DC at 12:40 AM each night. IT'S THAT EASY....
We'll have to accept Big Boi pushing the envelope musically in as many different directions as he can and forget about the nostalgia for now - unless Marcus Mumford comes calling....
Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White make up THEESatisfaction, a creative coupling that doesn't fall neatly into any genre. Their Subpop debut, Awe Naturale,...
Authenticity is a double-edged sword in the rap game. It's the only genre where the art of storytelling is examined as closely as the storyteller, where a fick...
CAVEMAN have a new record out today and a DC show tonight + a NYC show tomorrow night. We chat to them about the record, the road, and Horace and Dickie's....
And so it goes for Beach House. Their songs tend to walk the line of sadness without crossing over to depression and conversely will rarely stray from hopeful into cheerfulness. ...
Words by Phelps
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DC troubadour Alex Vans is back from SXSW with his band, The Hideaway, and hitting Columbia Heights' Dunes tonight with P...
Today is the 15th anniversary of arguably the greatest rapper ever, Christopher Wallace aka Notorious BIG aka Biggie Smalls. So we made a SPOTIFY playlist....