I got here late but luckily everyone else was also on island time (the island of Washington DC probably)
syd B’s set was great. This was my first time listening. What a great voice with great prodution!
She played a new one which was my favorite
And closed with this awesome song
syd B got off stage and the house music started playing.
Suddenly, a mosh pit broke out!
I got to the club at 9:40 and the line was around the corner. The end of the line was at Roy Boys and grew quickly. Very friendly crowd.
Line started to move at 10:20. I still haven’t seen the guy in the wheelchair so I hope he’s good.
I think this is her tour van
Fana Hues opened at 10:35
Icarus was my favorite song which was the first song I had heard by her.
She left the stage around 11:10 and the crowd got tighter as we waited.
At 11:30 a stage hand put some bouquets of flowers on the stage
Raveena took stage at 11:45 and the energy in the room exploded. Here are some videos of her set. More to come soon!
I showed up 40 minutes late to the meet-up but got to hear some great questions & answers
This question was about songwriting
Another fan asked why they switched from one microphone to two
We took a group picture and left the club at 6, and waited outside until 6:45. It was still beautiful outside.
Back inside, I was able to grab a spot one row back from the stage, away from the big vent that blows down. At 8pm, Celisse came out.
Celisse was shredding. Switching back and forth between an awesome sg and a double cutaway prs.
She closed with this song, and joined in on drums while still playing guitar.
It was an evening of special shoes
And special outfits
9:15 and the stage was set
Lucius opened with Second Nature
They are such great musicians. Everything was so tight. The second song was Next To Normal
They ditched their shiny keytars and gave off a Mary Lou Lord vibe with Promises, but if Mary got popular 5-10 years before she actually did
They shifted gears and switched to a single mic with no instruments of electricity. I was glad my phone mic picked up the sound of the lady in the audience do the tom fill with her voice at 3:36
They brought Celisse back out on stage and had an audience member dance competition to Dance Around It
They channeled their best 80s movie soundtrack anthem when they played Heartbursts, and gave a little nod to motown with their dance with the guitarist and bassist
After they left stage, they came back out dressed like disco balls and sang Two Of Us On The Run and Turn It Around
Everyone was really nice at this show. It was an audience full of laid back but energized happy people. I drove back to the World Record Studios headquarters with no music on just kind of reflecting on the awesome show. They are a very uplifting band.
Sunshine On Me
B word From The South
Big Energy / Muwop
This show might have given me pink eye just kidding (sort of)
I showed up to the 930 club about 30 minutes before the doors open. There was a line around the corner and everyone was in a great mood. There were two guys asking for money but the usual older guy in a wheelchair wasn’t there this time. We got in and the crowd was already established.
Grace Ives was the opening act and I am so happy I was able to catch her full set. This was my first time hearing her and she blew me away. She is really good at communicating her most vulnerable feelings with her audience.
The first clip I recorded was “Anything” which is an intense, desperate declaration to keep someone around. I can feel her panic in the beat and words.
Man, I really love this singer. She later played a song that I liked so much I dug through her entire catalog to find later. When I couldn’t find it I contacted her asking where to find it and she thanked me gracefully (get it?) and told me it was unreleased. I think the song is about love and passion. I can’t wait to hear the recorded version of this:
She later played her new song “Lullaby” which feels like a beautiful thing to come from a bad situation. A butterfly emerging from a garbage pit, or a pretty flower from a crack in the cement.
After Grace’s set, there wasn’t much of a wait. The crowd got a little tighter but was not aggressive or pushy at all.
Remi came out and hit us with her newer single, Liquor Store
She went through a couple more songs and did some crowd work. Part-way through her crowd work I started noticing an English accent. “Oh I didn’t know she was English . . . that’s cool”
Then she played Monte Carlo
She did a little more crowd work and went back and forth between an English and an American accent when I finally realized she was just joking around. She had a lot of good things to say about Washington DC tap water.
She changed the subject and eventually played Sexy Villain
The band then went right into the intro of Liz and she interrogated us whether we were actually all named Liz or not (I couldn’t handle the pressure and whispered sorry for not having that name but you can’t hear it over the music).
They went right into a cover of “Crazy” after that
They changed gears and played a new song called “Michael”. She asked our permission first. She wrote it with Jack, the mad scientist. A heavy, moderate beat with an alternative rock pace. She belts out Mike’s name and the clean fender tones from Jack’s guitar get distorted during the chorus, and in the solo he adds modulation and does some pinch harmonics!
After a couple more songs, Jack played the back to the future classic “Mr. Sandman” and started getting cuddle jostled by Remi at the end of the song. Then they introduced “Woo!” and everyone in the crowd started saying the name of the song.
At one point, she made us all stretch together as a group. I felt way better after that. I don’t know why she waited so long to promote our wellness but I won’t take it personally.
One of the highlights of the show was Remi playing drums. I unfortunately stopped recording, but we found out at the end of the song that Conor’s new glasses are really cool.
As we were getting towards the end of the show, Remi’s true colors started to show. I was willing to give the English accent confusion the benefit of the doubt, but after she disrespected Conor’s glasses, and lied to us about how many songs she had left, I felt myself conflicted as a fan.
But then she played Shawty. This was the roughest the crowd got, with the occasional slight shoulder bump.
Without a break, she went right into Photo ID. The gentle-shoulder-bump mosh pit continued, and in the intensity of that I lost track of Remi with the camera. More modulation on the guitar solo!! The song ended, she thanked us, the whole band dashed off the stage, everyone cheered.
The projector is off. Show’s over, right? I was wrong. I finally realized it was a night of lies. How could she do this to her fans? But when she started playing “Street You Live On” I realized I actually preferred she played extra songs, and I didn’t care about all of the lies.
Further diminishing her trust with the audience, she went against her word again and played ANOTHER SONG! However, the melody of “Disco Man” changed my mixed feelings to positive. As I comfortably settled into forgiveness, she escalated her toxic behavior into criminal activity, by using the force to make someone’s hat teleport to her hand. To worsen things, she taunted us by parading her stolen property to the unsuspecting audience. But disco man is a good song, and we had short memories.
The best song from an album that is a great listen from start to finish. Secrets is a big, driving sound that won’t give up.
Very upbeat melody, major chords, with rich analog sounds driven nicely. A touch of calypso mixed with dub, and an attitude that it will all work out.
KIRBY sings her way into everyone’s heart, and this song is just another example of her amazing talent and charm. A little more old-school soul sound in this track, but KIRBY’s energy cuts through no matter what subgenre she performs under.
No Va A Ser Contigo shows influence from bachata and island sounds, while staying rooted in sierreño. This song is proud of its tradition, while serving as a bridge to the future of its genre.
“Tweet tweet but they never left the nest”. This song is a smooth victory lap for when they make it big
The musical version of a waitress at a diner asking “more coffee, hun?”. This is a more basic Olivia song that doesn’t really showcase her talents, and that is part of it’s elegance.
A little bit of jazz and soul, with dashes of old rap beats and math rock. Dacey’s smooth vocals sing an upbeat melody over major chords that contrast nicely with the topic.
A garage psych song with strong proto-metal and punk rock roots. Very fat distortion sounds on just about every instrument, with an intensity I haven’t heard since Raw Power by Iggy and the Stooges.
I don’t really know about jazz but this is a good song to get chores done in the city while it rains.
From Uganda, Kataleya & Kandle deliver a relentless hit that flows between tension and resolve within their verses and chorus over a stepping beat that paints a lush and vivid experience.
An raw and honest emotional journey by a talented genius
Bubbly bass over a hard moderate beat. Tae recently got a contract for her music to play at H&M stores.
Indie dance / pop song that I think was written by a sad robot. The song feels like it could be a teenage romance movie montage where our sad robot protagonist makes efforts to be cooler. When the guitar solo hits, he breaks out his new cool guy dance at the prom in front of everyone at the prom and impresses the cool girl.
A perfect slow jam. Song has a nice spacey interlude that relaxes you before the song hits you with the harder-hitting, but still-delicate chorus
Dancehall from Uganda, blurring the lines of Caribbean and African music. Dre Cali’s voice is smooth, over the soothing guitar and keyboard and an energetic rhythm arrangement.
A folksy, blue grassy, rock country song that was written by a real life version of a Mike Judge character
An avant-pop song by Harriet Zoe Pittard under the pen name Zoee. This song made me late for my meeting at the audio-visual club at the 80’s high school I made up in my head while listening to this.
An rnb ballad that connects to it’s audience on different levels with vulnerable vocals sung in a pentatonic melody, and as an homage to the late 80s/early 90s
Is it a blend of Mexican folk and pop? Is it from an alternative universe? Did the melody appear first in a dream?
A song about cooking a late breakfast by Welsh stoners who listen to a lot of 70s rock
A happy and fun afropop / afrobeats that shows a little reggae style too. A catchy and melodic hit from Nigeria.
Soul rap poetry, or as we like to say, slroetry. Very good video too. “Bring ya ass home, bring ya ass home”
Song of the year. This song sounds like a PhD candidate cracked under the pressure and turned to songwriting instead of alcohol. “Not much to say unless you have a slow joke you wanted to tell I guess”
Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/31rqTkFtkTdhmq961tTXEn?si=721dff4744614b45
Extended 2021 Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4U3QmAgL18ReFkZZS0gXoh?si=3929488e4441413b
This is our 5th location. We are now in Frederick, MD. This is our first place with a mixing room, a live room, and an isolation booth. We look forward to making more music, and hosting small shows soon!
