Bands

Faraquet

DC band, by turns jazzy, punk, angular, melodic, loud, soft, often in the same section of the song. Brilliant! Features former members of Smart Went Crazy.

Burning Airlines

A little bit of their antecedents (Jawbox, Wool) and a whole lot of melodic songs laced with dissonant guitar and non-obvious rhythmic twists. As satisfying as a cold drink after that long walk in the (rock) dessert.

At The Drive-in

Explosive punk from El Paso, Texas with songs so strong that they hold up even when stripped of the raw focused energy of the band's live performance. Buy in/Casino/OUT today.

The Wrens

An American garage rock XTC. Still haven't caught them live, but all reports are that they live up to the promise of the Secaucus album.

Telegraph Melts

An instrumental trio, guitar/cello/percussion (& odds and ends). The textures are a bit unusual, but you'll find yourself humming the tunes a week later. Isn't that what it's all about?

Dismemberment Plan

DCs purveyor's of all that is spastic, funky and wacky. Music that has humor doesn't have to be a joke.

Spirit Caravan (formerly Shine)

Stoner rock from right here in Maryland...if you haven't heard Spirit Caravan live you don't even know what heavy is! Their CD is out and is everything those of us who have been waiting with bated breath had hoped it would be.

Shiner

Kansas City's finest--if you remember who you are at the end of the show, you can't be reached. All beautiful, all the time no matter how loud or edgy it gets.

Stella

A band we shared a bill with and liked a lot. Epic stuff, think Neil with Crazy Horse, early Afghan Whigs, a garage Radiohead. They're from Nashville, TN, and tour a lot. Their CD Accension is on Beggars Banquet.

Roger Miller

A member of Mission of Burma, for years now Roger's been doing all manner of interesting things from rock bands to solo piano and guitar records to his new piano/drums duo the Binary System. Now he's on the web, so check it out.

Shudder To Think

A favorite band of ours and essentially indescribable.

Fugazi

Everybody knows these guys--but this page does the best job of keeping you (and us) up to date on where their next show is.

Spackle

From San Francisco--they are probably no more, but their legacy lives on. Go to the web site and get yourself a CD and see what happens when you lock Jawbox and King Crimson in a room for a while.

Labels

DeSoto

Home of Shiner, Dismemberment Plan, Candy Machine, Burning Airlines, Jawbox...if I were a label, I'd be DeSoto.

Laundry Room

The label face of our erstwhile producer Barrett Jones. Home of the Harlingtox A.D. CD that was mixed right here in our studio as well as Barrett's own group, Churn.

Deepreverb

Home of our friends 45 Spiders and a compilation that we're on.

Resin Records

Home of the cool Fort Reno compilation--buy it!

Southern Home Page

The web home of every label and it's brother, not to mention Dischord.

timmi-kat ReCoRDS

Tube Alloy Catalog

They put out and sell respectively the Spackle CD. Buy!

Stuff for Musicians

Atomic Music

Our music store of choice.

Tringas Music

...except they don't carry my preferred guitar strings, which is where these guys come in.

Rickenbacker

My favorite guitars.

The VOX Showroom

My favorite amps.

In Your Eye!

A site that tries to give the independent musician a break.

Detterrent DIY Tour Guide

A DIY tour guide

How to play Guitar

DC stuff

Local music sites

DC Collective

A group that helps organize non-club shows in DC.

DC Music WWWeb

DC MusicNet

Washington City Paper

More than just local music here, actually.

Clubs

Black Cat

Galaxy Hut

Radio

WMUC

The only radio in Washington that's even worth checking out and you probably can't get it (I only live a few miles away and I can just barely pick it up). They broadcast over the Internet, though...

Misc

Wilmington Exchange Festival

The music festival that keeps on giving. Next time be there.

Rock & The Pop Narcotic - Excerpts, p. 1

Flawed?...perhaps. Still the best thing ever written about rock music.

SMUG

Some of my favorite writing on the Web.

Maps On Us

How we find our way to new gigs.

Pillowfight

My favorite collection of record reviews on the web.

The Ultimate Band List

What more can you say?

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