Music

Hide and Seek It’s hard not to give in wholeheartedly to a Slow Magic tune. In an age when pop songs are calculated for maximum hooks-per-minute and too many of the top EDM anthems are uninspired filler surrounding a one-second “drop,” one comes to appreciate a DJ who takes his…

They’ve been called an emo band, which is weird. When I think of emo I think of a mopey teenager, clad in black, slouched in front of a 7-Eleven, writing dark poetry in a notebook while sucking on a clove cigarette and waiting for a homeless man to buy him…

Other Voices If there’s one thing that’s been very apparent throughout Alela Diane’s career, it’s that her music comes from a place of meditation. Nature, existence, spirituality, love and loss are observed, dissected and ruminated upon in striking detail. Diane’s last album, About Farewell, turned that approach on its ear…

There and Back Again In the new video for the song “Test Yourself” off Sea of Bees’ latest musical effort, Build a Boat to the Sun—a 10-song voyage through the band’s singer-songwriter Julie Ann Baenziger reconnection with music after a brief hiatus—Baenziger and her musical cohort Amber Padgett channel their…

Self-taught local mixed media painter Mark Fox makes “urban outsider folk art” that we’ve been big fans of since first discovering his stuff back in ‘08. In fact, after featuring him in the mag way back then, we even collaborated with him on a Submerge T-shirt design (hit us up…

“It’s all about feel-good vibes and having a good time.” That’s how local DJ My Cousin Vinny describes his brand new dance night “Family Jewels” at Chaise Lounge (1330 H Street, the old Bulls location). The third installment of Family Jewels just passed last weekend, but Vinny and his fellow…

The fine folks at Noise Pop and Another Planet Entertainment have delivered yet another fine amalgam of national and regional talent that is sure to please the masses. For the uninitiated, the festival started in 2007 and has become quite a destination for fans of hip-hop, electronic, indie and nearly…

Local band Heat of Damage are known for their blend of melodic hard rock and metal that’s sure to tickle the fancy of many heavy music fans. They’ve been steadily building a buzz regionally since their inception in 2013, having self-released two EPs and performed at many of the area’s…

Soul Sister Sharon Jones is not just a soul sister. She is the soul sister of this generation. That’s it. Period. End of story. In fact I dare you to filter through the last 20 years of genuine soul music and find any woman who even comes close to matching…

When National Public Radio put out a call to musicians around the country to submit videos for their Tiny Desk Concert Contest (which was just what it sounds like: artists film a music video behind a small desk in a setting of their choosing), the station’s music team was inundated…