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Album reviews

The top 5 D.C. jazz albums of 2024

This year, the DC Jazz Festival marked 20 years of service and the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival hit 15 —...

December 19, 2024 0

Interviews

The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis are ‘chasing energy,’ not genre, on powerful new LP

For the members of D.C.-based pyrotechnic rock trio the Messthetics and luminary tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, the question...

March 23, 2024 0

News

The Messthetics are D.C.’s hottest genre-free experimentalists. They have an album-release show on Wednesday at the Black Cat.

If you haven’t heard of The Messthetics, now’s a perfect opportunity. The uncategorizable, nationally renowned trio — guitarist Anthony...

September 10, 2019 0

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