Q&A w/ The Faith on upcoming live album from 1981 CBGB show with Bad Brains (stream a trac…
Alec MacKaye, Michael Hampton, and Ivor Hanson talk sharing the stage with Bad Brains, CBGB memories, Kurt Cobain's Faith fandom, and more...
Dischord Records
Soulside announce first new 7″ in 31 years, ‘This Ship’ (stream a track)
The DC post-hardcore vets are in fine form on this new song, one of three new tracks they'll release on a 7” later this month via Dischord.
famed DC punk recording studio Inner Ear broken into; valuable equipment stolen
Inner Ear's client list reads like a history of DC punk and indie rock. "You just have to keep on going,” said studio founder Don Zientara.
Hammered Hulls (Alec MacKaye, Mary Timony) share song off Dischord debut, playing shows
The band's three-song debut single was recorded with Ian MacKaye and frequent Dischord producer Don Zientara.
Bill’s Indie Basement (2/22): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more
This week: a review of Sleaford Mods' terrific ’Eaton Alive,’ plus reissues from Mary Timony's first band Autoclave, Swedish band The Wannadies, and new singles from POZI and POW!
next at Nitehawk Music Driven: new hardcore film/Q&A, Ryuichi Sakamoto doc
The hardcore doc is new film 'Records Collecting Dust II' and it includes a Q&A with members of Sheer Terror, Government Issue, and Embrace.
Youth Brigade giving the first-ever official release to their first demo on Dischord (list…
DC hardcore veterans Youth Brigade (not to be confused with the LA hardcore band of the same name from the same era) were only around very briefly in the early '80s, having released just one EP on Dischord and contributed to the influential Flex Your Head comp...
Beauty Pill released their first album in 11 years, made a video, touring, playing NYC w/ …
Beauty Pill was formed back in the early 2000s by Chad Clark, who formerly fronted the great DC/Dischord eccentrics Smart Went Crazy. Beauty Pill released two EPs, followed by their 2004 debut album, The Unsustainable Lifestyle (all on Dischord), but then never got around to following that up and ha…
Fugazi’s “First Demo” now streaming, ‘Salad Days’ premiering
Long in the works, Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC 1980-1990, is premiering as part of the DOC NYC fest in NYC tonight (11/14)...
Dischord vets Soulside reunited, playing DC & NYC
The group's sound could be described as clean, heavy, and warm, with lyrics focused on politics. Soulside was one of the first DC bands to bridge the hardcore emo sound of "revolution summer" (see Rites of Spring) and move into a sound of post punk deconstruction...