On April 29th, 1992, South Central Los Angeles exploded with fury, spurring riots for days, causing over a billion dollars in damages, changing not just the city, but its music as well. When four white police officers were filmed horrifically beating Rodney King...
On April 11th, DMV audiophiles experienced the heart of slow-core, up close and personal. Duster took the stage at D.C’s Black Cat on tour celebrating their musical comeback. The slow-core icons and up and coming Brooklynn’s Widow’s Peak was an energetic stop to be...
To all slow-core girlies, Radiohead heads, and incels all over the DMV, rejoice! The North Star itself might as well come down and kiss us all. Why? Three words. Duster. Is. Coming. On April 11, Black Cat will be hosting the genre-defining group, as well as emerging...
On a trip to Morocco, in 2010, Berlin producer Jannis Sturtz struck vinyl gold. While crate digging, Sturtz stumbled upon an abundance of regional 70s and 80s music, weathered from the years. Obsessed with the unique regional style, Sturtz immersed himself in the...
Tupac Shakur released his debut studio album in 1991, 2pacalypse Now, setting the tone for one of the most genre defining, conscious hip hop artist careers ever. In the album, Shakur targets police and the US government for worsening conditions in Black communities,...
“Kids these days just don’t get it” and this time it’s not your out-of-touch Grateful Dead loving parents saying it, it’s all live music loving folk. Concert goers and artists all around the country are in uproar about behavior in our post Covid-lockdown live music...
On a clear Chicago day in September 1970, 2,117 inmates assembled in the yard of Cook County Jail, America’s largest jail at the time, referred to as “The jungle”. They came to see BB King, “the chairman of the board of all the blues singers”, make history as he...