Tag Archives: D.C.

Girls Against Kids’ dual-bass assault and Scott McCloud’s wheezy sing-speak vocals (similar to the Fall’s Tag E. Smith) produce a lively, if sometimes loud, sound that could most likely annoy listeners if it weren’t for the D.C. band’s great Fugazi-influenced tracks. Girls Against Kids’ 1989 debut recording, Tropic of Scorpio, …

Upon leaving Saint Vitus — whose unabashed worship of Black Sabbath helped lay down the groundwork for the sludge, stoner, and doom metallic mini-movements from the ’90s — vocalist/guitarist Scott “Wino” Weinrich re-formed the Obsessed, a band he’d founded in Washington, D.C., in the first ’80s ahead of becoming a …

Merging contemporary urban sensibilities with the original gospel quartet appear, 7 Sons of Soul provide a relaxing twist towards the gospel genre. The group was shaped in Washington, D.C., after performers Cliff Jones and Deonte Grey had completed saving a music, “OPERATE ON,” within the studio room and, happy with …

A hard-driving D.C.-centered bar band with solid Chicago blues roots. Shaped in 1972 by harpist and vocalist Tag Wenner and guitarist Jimmy Thackery, the music group earned a status as a good outfit through greater than a 10 years of touring and documenting tasks with John Hammond and previous people …

A punishing American grindcore/power-violence trio with root base in Brooklyn, NY and the country’s capital, Magrudergrind was formed in 2002 throughout the abilities of Avi Kulawy, Casey Moore, and R.J. Ober. The music group issued some divide 7″s before launching an effective full-length debut via Six Weeks Information in 2007 …

Charles “Miss” Pitts was never children name, but he created probably one of the most recognizable guitars riffs in the annals of pop music; Pitts performed the sharply rhythmic wah-wah acoustic guitar pattern that opened up Isaac Hayes’ “Theme from Shaft,” even though it had been a landmark second in …

Washington, D.C.-centered indie rock-band the Recoys played out stripped-down, deliberately primitive garage-influenced rock & roll fortified with a lot of reverb along with a side order of cheeky swagger. The Recoys had been created in 1996 by vocalist and guitarist Hamilton Leithauser and guitarist Peter Bauer, who experienced known each …

A superb alto saxophonist, Otto Hardwick was among the initial players to provide that device some identification and demonstrate its improvising potential. He previously a regularly swinging, enjoyable design, and supplied both sentimental, lyrical refrains on ballads and joyous focus on stomps. He was versatile, beginning being a bassist, shifting …

Washington, D.C.’s the Caribbean created from the ashes of two of the city’s most prominent indie rock and roll rings, the Townies and Wise Went Crazy. Their self-released debut EP attained the finish of 1999, as well as the group authorized to Winnipeg’s Endearing Information for its 1st full-length record, …

Although most widely known towards the listening public most importantly for his lone headlining hit, the disco blockbuster “The Hustle,” Vehicle McCoy actually enjoyed an extended and remarkably prolific career behind the scenes like a songwriter and producer, turning up some soul hits ahead of his early death at age …