Dec 12, 2006
DCist Interview: We Are Scientists Heart D.C.
When last we spoke with We Are Scientists, it was October of last year. Their debut album, which already had a few singles in the UK charts, wouldn’t be released in the US until the following January. Since then the band have taken the UK by storm, touring with the likes of Art Brut, Maximo Park and the Arctic Monkeys. Overall, it’s been quite a year for the New York based trio, or so we…
Nov 01, 2006
Three Stars: The Third Programme
In 1946, the Third Programme launched in Great Britain blasting classical music to the masses. Sixty years later, it has re-emerged, not as a station on the BBC, but as one of D.C.’s newest purveyors of trippy Brit pop. It is very appropriate that this band, who only recently formed at the beginning of the year, chose a name with such experienced undertones. With but several months under their belts working together, Simon, Fidel,…
Oct 25, 2005
DCist Interview: We Are Scientists
New York City. Home to more bands (and more bloggers) per capita than probably any other city in the US. With so many bands and so many words being devoted to them, it’s hard to believe a band as good as We Are Scientists has flown under the radar for so long. But we’re not here to examine why this is the case, we’re here to see what we can do about it. We Are…