Doesn’t matter the genre—dance to something this week.
Running the gamut of D.C. music: including Art Sorority for Girls, Priests, Rare Essence, Justin Trawick, and a cameo by Don Zientara.
We asked several local musicians to go back through their Instagram feeds and share their favorite snapshots from the past year.
Morrison also explains why they didn’t re-learn “Sentimental Man.”
As a general rule music festivals give a pretty poor representation of a particular city’s music climate and as such, no real sense as to how that city might receive a band or group of bands. Yet, Raleigh’s Hopscotch Music Fesitval is unlike most music festivals. Whether due to the big names that play the city plaza or the heavy focus on experimental music (Thurston Moore was this year’s improviser in residence), Hopscotch draws people from anywhere in a seven hour radius. Still, there’s a strong local focus and a large percentage of the crowd drove thirty minutes at most to catch these shows. What’s more, the festival is still small enough so that unlike, say, CMJ or SXSW, there are no more than five bands playing opposite each other at any given time. As such, this year’s Hopscotch Festival provided perhaps a more accurate picture of D.C. bands’ reception outside of the D.C./Baltimore the comfort zone.
Check out a new track from Priests forthcoming record.
Check out the first track from Priests forthcoming LP, “Body and Control and Money and Power.”
Our music staffs lays out their favorite local releases of the year.
D.C.’s Priests play Comet Ping Pong Saturday. Check out their track “Personal Planes.”
Who says there are no more good bands in D.C.? Here are the acts you should be following in 2013.