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This week’s Rainy Day Album is the first jazz album to make the cut (gasp!). Wayne Shorter’s 1964 masterpiece Speak No Evil, nominated by my good friend/old bandmate Yoni Arbel, is an inimitable album, perfect for the more meditative stretches of a calm,...

DC emo-nites Soundtrack to Sleep came by the studio for an intimate acoustic session. Packed to the brim with sing-along choruses, punchy rhythms, and vocal/heart tearing lyrics, Soundtrack to Sleep are perfectly emotive. Around since 2011, this isn’t just some...

Dilute‰'s Grape Blueprints Pour Spinach Olive Grape is an album of extremes and contradiction. Instruments dance around each other like migratory birds, individually chaotic but with a warped cohesion in the grander scale. Voices sing with glassy fragility, but slowly...

For 4 years, U Street Music Hall has blessed DC with cheap shows from world class DJs. And every year, to celebrate their birthday, they bring the best and brightest DJs from all parts of the dance music spectrum to grace the venue’s legendary sound system. Come...

With the release of Oxymoron, we are confronted by the very new and long awaited project ofåÊSchoolboy Q. Schoolboy Q noted in an interview that the album has a double meaning; it refers not only to a kind of debut, a coming of a new artist into the mainstream of...

Through numerous lineup changes and decades spent making music, Swans have covered ground from no-wave to post-rock, but their artistic vision has remained extremely focused and identifiable. Swans make music that is hellish, blacker-than-black, and suffocating. All...

Hey Spring Breakers! Whether you’re partying it up at at SXSW, Cancun, or your basement, hopefully you’re enjoying some time off this week. In need of some new tunes during all this idle time? Look no further than these Music Staff picks, highlighted by...

Reviews aren’t really my thing. I don’t like ‘em and they always leave me feeling as though the recommendations given through them are arbitrary and useless. That is why this isn’t going to be a real review but more of me reciting a recent...

Last week‰'s Rainy Day Album, Elliott Smith‰'s self-titled second release, was an intimate, acoustic exploration of the human emotions along the grey spectrum. This week‰'s pick, Silent Shout by The Knife, dives even deeper into the human psyche, unearthing grimy...

It‰'s the start of Spring break, and for more obvious reasons than one (i.e. ‰ÛÒ temperamental climate) everyone has a legitimate reason to get out of the place we call home for the four years or so. Spring break brings along images of beaches, red skin, warm and...