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H Street Guide

BYT at largeMarch 8, 2019

D.C. is constantly changing…...

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Queer Best Weekend Bets

BYGaysMarch 7, 2019

Have a Marvelous weekend...

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Put This In Your Ear: 5 Podcasts You Should Listen to This Week

BYT at largeMarch 1, 2019

There are 660,000 podcasts and 28 million podcast episodes. Here are 5 worth your time. ...

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CBD Coffee in the DMV

Kaylee DuganFebruary 26, 2019

Nothing is real and everything is marketing...

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Put This In Your Ear: 5 Podcasts You Should Listen to This Week

BYT at largeFebruary 22, 2019

There are 660,000 podcasts and 28 million podcast episodes. Here are 5 worth your time. ...

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Margarita Mix Taste Test

Clarissa Villondo, Brandon Wetherbee and Nicholas KarlinFebruary 22, 2019

We tasted 11 margarita mixes to make your summer sweeter ...

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Indian Food Guide 2019

priyakoningsFebruary 18, 2019

We went to all the local Indian restaurants and made a list a of our favorite dishes. ...

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36 (More) Questions That Lead To Love

BYT at largeFebruary 14, 2019

The NY Times made 36 questions go viral. (BYT made a reboot with the help of our friends.)...

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Why We Love DC Right Now – 2019

BYT at largeFebruary 13, 2019

Whether or not you're in love with a person, you can still love your city ...

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BYT Coffee Guide

BYT at largeFebruary 6, 2019

A good cup of coffee is hard to make...

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The Young and the Caffeineless: The Best Tea at Coffee Shops

Kaylee DuganFebruary 6, 2019

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Dating Tips from Cold Case Investigator Paul Holes

Jenn TisdaleFebruary 5, 2019

"It's very very hard to separate the psychopath at the very beginning of the relationship from someone who is genuinely interested in you."...

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Your Best February

BYT at largeFebruary 1, 2019

A Robin Bell exhibit and a new Rob Lowe show called "Mental Samurai." February is going to be great! ...

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Best Bars Without TV In D.C.

Kaylee Dugan and Brandon WetherbeeJanuary 31, 2019

If you're a fan of cocktails and are NOT ready for some football......

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Music Doc Guide

BYT at largeJanuary 30, 2019

The film guide with the best soundtrack ...

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ver a two-decade career, Snow Patrol has carved out a unique place for themselves. Since their 1998 debut, Songs for Polarbears, which Pitchfork hailed as “an impressive piece of work,” their melancholy anthems of heartbreak and separation have mended hearts, and the band has racked up an impressive number of critical and commercial accolades, including 15 million global album sales, 1 billion global track streams, 5 UK Platinum Albums, and are Grammy and Mercury Music Prize nominated. They emerged as heartsore musical prophets in the shadow of grunge and shallow pop, striking a chord in the minds, memories and hearts of listeners over six groundbreaking, confessional albums.

Eyes Open, released in 2006, was the biggest-selling album in the UK that year; they went on to headline such festivals as the prestigious T in the Park. But after their Fallen Empires tour ended in 2012, band members — guitarist, vocalist Gary Lightbody, guitarists Johnny McDaid and Nathan Connolly, bassist Paul Wilson, and drummer Jonny Quinn — decided to stop for a while.

“We were exhausted at the end of the tour,” says Lightbody. “We went from album to tour, album to tour for 10 years.

We needed to take a break. And it just kind of kept extending. It wasn’t that we planned to take six years off by any means.

“We all started living our own lives and realizing that we actually had lives outside of the band, a band that we still had an awful lot of fondness for and that we did want to come back to, I just perhaps needed more time than I first thought,” explains Lightbody.

“I do think the rest of the band would have been ready to record at any point over the last five years. But they never showed frustration or anger. Never did they say, ‘Hurry up and write the songs, mate.’”

In the interim, Quinn started a family and began putting in more

Sebastian in 2014). Connolly formed and fronted Little Matador, the band he started with a number of other prominent Irish and American musicians, including Dave Magee from Lafaro and Gavin Fox from Idlewild. Wilson signed on as the touring guitarist in Foo Fighters bassist Nate Mendel’s band Lieutenant, and produced a number of bands, including L.A. newcomers Broken Arrow. McDaid wrote songs and produced such diverse artists as Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, Robbie Williams, Ed Sheeran and Pink, and executive-produced Kodaline’s third album, due out this year.

Lightbody put the finishing touches on The Ghost of the Mountain, the second album by his Tired Pony side project with members of Belle and Sebastian, R.E.M, Reindeer Section and Fresh Young Fellows. He then moved to Los Angeles and began writing songs for movies (including “This Is How You Walk On” for 2017’s Gifted), and doing a number of high-profile co-writes with Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and One Direction. Songs that weren’t pulled from his own psyche were less painful to craft, and went a long way into healing what he considered to be writer’s block.

And at his website (www.garylightbody.com) he posted 15 cover versions of favorite songs by the likes of Ryan Adams, Bon Iver, Tom Waits and Glen Campbell.

But something else unexpectedly stimulated his writing even more. Two years ago he quit drinking. “Drinking was the only place I could hide from myself and if I was drunk I wasn’t depressed, just the next day but that could be remedied with more drink.” But he didn’t want that anymore.

“I’d been writing songs for years about love, been down that road so many times before: love, the end of love, the beginning of love. Mostly the end of love, to be honest. And I just knew that this album had to be something different. I hadn’t been in a relationship for some time and had no material to draw on. I had to look both deeper inside myself and out into the wider world around me and both seemed to be in chaos.”

Which is what he did for Snow Patrol’s seventh album. Titled Wildness, it taps into something raw and primitive.