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Once a year you get a valid excuse to celebrate LOVE, friendship, laughter and dark chocolate.  This playlist is carefully curated to groove you into a perfect love scenario with that special someone or just yourself  ‰ªÁ  Now, slip into your best silk underwear,...

Consequences of Sound Valentine‰'s day is right around the corner, and love is in the air whether you like it or not. I forgot about it, myself, until I realized that my discovery weekly playlist was basically force-feeding me songs about love. Everybody might not...

Courtesy of SF Gate The past week the world of Beyonce, which is fairly synonymous with the world at large, has been nothing short of a whirlwind. Beyonce has taken me on an emotional roller coaster with dips at ‰please help my fave is problematic‰' and ‰what did I do...

Backstory: Seeing live performances have been a big part of my time here in DC. I went to my first show back in October not really having been exposed to many different kinds of live music. I saw Saintseneca perform at Black Cat that night. Their music was a hybrid...

D.C. band Bad Moves dropped by the WVAU studio to flaunt their DIY prowess.

Welcome back to “Leading Ladies‰Û! I‰'m super stoked to get back to writing about some amazingly talented women in music from all over the world. To get things started, here‰'s a sample of what I‰'m still obsessed with in 2016. Eryn Allen Kane - “Have Mercy‰Û...

Courtesy of Rent A Swag Tom Haverford, mogul extraordinaire, once said, “Every song I download has to pass a series of rigorous tests to answer one simple question: is it a banger?‰” No matter who you are or what you do, situations arise more often than not that...

Courtesy of Music Today I think this is the most satirical and try-hard album I‰'ve ever listened to.  Yet at the same time this ‰rock opera‰' is beautiful. It is doing so many things at once.  Joe‰'s Garage is a rock opera without characters but with a moral.  I‰'m...

Self-taught musician Yaw Atta-Owusu, better known as Ata Kak, hails from Kumasi, Ghana and represents the country‰'s exciting, emerging musical style. His style is referred to as “Hiplife": a fusion of American hip-hop and Afro-Caribbean music. Ata Kak represents...

Courtesy of Publish Brand Last Wednesday, as D.C. hunkered down for the impending snowstorm, I sat down with Austin-based artist Roger Sellers to talk about his project Bayonne. He performed his minimalist electronic set at Black Cat later that night. Mom+Pop will...