Tagged: aoncontent

w/ Screen Vinyl Image, Phonic Riot, Death Domain

Have you ever had a belonging so precious, that you called it your baby? Sometimes I hear people doing so, especially with their personal projects, like plays or albums. They've put so much creativity and care into something that they've nurtured it into being. Even though those creations carry personality and life, they are still only recognized as objects or things. Guitarist Dustin Wong goes beyond calling his recent works his babies, and almost feels that the songs from his latest album, Infinite Love , take on the form of [...]

Frau Eva's music is humbling, whether it's in the delivery or in the songs themselves. They got their start performing in D.C. at house shows and quickly moved to larger venues, then hit the road for a tour once they released their EP, Rip Out the Threads , last summer. There's been some documentation of their development as a band along the way, giving them the ability to share their modest music through a series of videos. One video, shot for the City Paper, shows the band performing in front of a pile of snow, wrapped up in [...]

w/ Purling Hiss

w/ Lemonade, Light Pollution

w/ Lost in the Trees

“Bill Arthur at the Galaxy Hut dubbed us the best DC bad you cannot hear. Bummed me right out.” I didn’t need to be in the physical presence of Lions and Tigers and Whales front man, Bill Sirl, to hear this roll off the tongue in his typically dry-witted, monotone cadence. I myself have only seen the group perform once. However, between that and the rough demo tracks I was sent beforehand, I was instantly relegated to the die-hard section of the fan club. Embracing all of the grittier aspects of mid 90’s post-hardcore (LT&W have clearly taken up [...]

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w/ VANDAVEER , THE DEADMEN, JOHN BUSTINE, BRANDON BUTLER

w/ Stardeath & White Dwarfs, Kuroma

w/ Twin Shadow

We recently hung out backstage with George Lewis Jr., the man behind Twin Shadow, while on tour with the fantastic Jamie Lidell. Lewis' well received debut, Forget , originally came out a couple of months back through Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear fame's imprint, Terrible Records. And as of tomorrow, the album enjoys wider circulation with an official release on 4AD. The record is a collection of melodic pop that at times seems to shout out Bowie and Depeche Mode, with a tempo and fidelity more new wave than chillwave. We chatted briefly with George to talk [...]

w/ Twin Sister , Oberhofer

w/ Blair

Reclusive, magnetic, downtrodden synth-project Puerto Rico Flowers made friends for the last time several weeks ago in the habiliments of Baltimore’s Talking Head, with full support from Screen Vinyl Image, Pfisters, and maybe a bit of Major League Baseball. Toward the end of the fitful existence that was the abrasive, cult-followed Clockcleaner, the sounds began to be a bit more poppy, sullen, and maybe splashed with just a zest of eyeliner-after-dark. So it was no coincidence that front man, John Sharkey III, coupled his bass with a synthesizer and foraged a sound born in these fires (as I [...]

w/ The Fresh & Onlys

w/ Benjy Ferree, The Happen-ins

"Could we call you back in a minute?" Andy of The Armchairs asked. "We're buying tickets right now at the door for Deer Tick." The boys from the Philly band The Armchairs weren't just buying tickets, but they were about to step into the show. Inbetween getting tickets and getting stoked for the show, recommended by their friend from another Philly band, The Extraordinaires, Andy took a moment to talk about the latest Armchairs production, Science and Advice . Their album art is quite captivating; it's a mix-up of black and [...]

w/ LONNIE WALKER, ROMANTIC STATES

Opening night at Whartscape , and Future Islands was about to play a rare acoustic set. They had only performed their songs acoustic once before, at an art gallery earlier that month. "We practiced late that night and early this morning," singer Sam Herring confessed. Yet the acoustic approach to their music left people talking, and months later, the band released Undressed, an acoustic EP of a few of their songs from In Evening Air. The songs, featuring guitar, cello, and other instrumentation by guest friends, are highly poignant, adding more of a sense of [...]

w/ Vetiver , Peter Wolf Crier