The DMV Music Alliance’s upcoming DMV Music Benefits All Showcase & Fundraiser is featuring one of DC’s most explosive and exciting new bands: The Experience Band & Show. The funk, pop, R&B, Go-go, and rock band will be performing, bringing their positivity and joy to the DMV. Despite being made up of seven members, The Experience Band and Show really made up of two things: incredible performance quality and a mission to bring joy. Contributing writer, Margaret Adams, spoke with the band’s leader, Travisty TromboneKing, about the band’s origins, mission, and music.

A songwriter by the age of 15, Karla Bonhoff has been entertaining audiences for decades. Native to Southern California, she came up in the L.A. circuit of the hippie era, where artists such as Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and so many others were continuously floating in and out of one another’s orbits. Bonoff and singer/songwriter Livingston Taylor will jointly perform at the Birchmere in Alexandria Dec. 11. Together, they will tackle new and established variations on Christmas favorites, as well as toss in their original tunes.

Recent Articles Los Angeles-based alternative rocker, Courtney McKenna, is back with a brand-new single “C.S.R. (Corporate Social Responsibility)”. With a punk rock edge, she sears through this politically charged bluesy tune with pummeling drums and twangy guitar lines. Perhaps, it is the relentless chanting of “down to the water” that permeates through the song’s core, […]

More to Watch Ohio rock trio The Vindys recently dropped their music video for “Bugs,” the title track of their newest album. The band published the video as a celebration for a special edition vinyl release of Bugs for Record Store Day.  This song has a mesmerizing dark rock sound with a steady beat, mixed […]

Recent Articles Fab The Duo, a queer alt-rock group based in LA, have just released their debut album Mascara Revolution. Broadway performers have a very distinct vocal quality to them. There’s a power, a fullness in their resonance even when singing softly. The two vocalists in Fab The Duo remind me of the kind of […]

Recent Articles Anica (pronounced “Aniza”) Russo is a Berlin-based international pop artist, songwriter and musician. Her new song “Mirror On The Wall” plays on the classic Disney movie question, “Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?” It is a relatable track about the struggles of understanding one’s true identity among […]

Among the performers at the DMV Music Alliance’s upcoming benefit concert is Perro Sombra, or “Shadow Dog” in Spanish, a Latin rock band.

Daniel Gomez covers lead vocals and guitar, and Francisco Foschi and Lula Neira are bass. Gomez and Foschi are both multi-instrumentalists, even sometimes swapping bass and guitar on stage.

According to the band, “Francisco’s first instrument was the drums, and he was “forced” to change instruments because his neighbors kept calling the police on him.”

Recent Articles Connecticut-based singer-songwriter, Kelaska (born Kelli Wright), is back with her latest single “autopilot”. Both nostalgic and melancholy, it’s a song that strikes a chord for those who feel like they might be moving through life at a different pace from the rest of the world. “I was going through a depression when I […]

More to Watch Winsford, England-based alternative rock band, The Luka State, is back with the leading title track from their upcoming sophomore album, More Than This, which is set for a March 10, 2023, release. Accompanied by a new music video, the band sets themselves up for takeoff as they thrash into the new year […]

On Nov. 2, the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE published the scientific paper, “The Global Jukebox: A Public Database of Performing Arts and Culture,” spearheaded by Dr. Anna L. Wood (the Association for Cultural Equity at Hunter College, NY), and co-written/edited by Patrick E. Savage (Keio University, Fujisawa, Japan) and 17 colleagues. It is the first time this kind of data is available publicly online for all – “a deep dive into the massive study of expressive traditions undertaken in the 1960s-1980s by Alan Lomax, Victor Grauer, and Conrad Arensberg via statistical analyses of folk song styles across the globe.”

Recent Articles On Wednesday, November 9th, Benjamin Dakota Rogers released his latest single, “Arlo.” The track marks the first official taste of Rogers’ upcoming sophomore album, Painted Horse – which fans of the artist’s distinctive sound can look forward to this February. “Arlo” is the latest example of Rogers’ ability to distill vivid stories into […]

Early in pandemic times, Dar Williams faced the uncomfortable truth that her career as a world-touring musician had stalled. While locked down—along with the rest of us—the singer-songwriter opened up virtual photo albums to recall trips to domestic cities and foreign lands to which she brought her unique music-set poetry.

“I was going through my photos online and I got this case of FOMO—envy for this person who has traveled all over the world,” Williams said recently, “and I was like ‘oh, my god, it’s me!’
Now I’m telling myself [to] take the day to appreciate whatever city you’re in.