One senator says that Hoover’s name shouldn’t follow the headquarters to the ‘burbs.

Our occasional series, “Secret History,” features profiles of classic D.C. albums as a way of looking back at the District’s contributions to music over time. This time around, we revisit Hoover’s powerful debut LP, The Lurid Traversal of Route 7 (Dischord, 1994). Bridging the gap between Slint’s visionary, skeletal dynamism and Fugazi’s full-throated post-hardcore virtuosity, Hoover were a crucial part of D.C.’s early ‘90s indie rock landscape. With Joe McRedmond and Alexander Dunham on…