Hometown Sounds

Ardamus and Ian Taronji from the hip-hop/jazz/funk band The Lucky So & So's guest star to preview their new single and discuss the DMV hip-hop scene.Tracklisting:The Lucky So & So’s - Car 54  [single]Ardamus - Psychedelic City Cowboy $h!t  [Psychedelic City Cowboy $h!t]RNL feat. DJ RBI - Spring Day  [single]Ryan Lucas feat. Mental Da God - Nation Building 101  [Stars & Hearts]Grindstone - Ur Everywhere  [The CHILD]For more, check out their podcast GRANDE LOQ wherever you get your podcasts.Subscribe to the Hometown Sounds podcast in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, or your favorite podcast app! (and tell a friend too!) 

Jay Nemeyer of Color Palette and Sunday Coffee guest stars to showcase his recent production work!Tracklisting:Color Palette - Pacing Like a Lion  [Pacing Like a Lion EP]Lucaa - Keep Summer Safe  [single]Mystery Friends feat. Amanda Dove - Between Us  [single]Rachel Levitin - Scar Tissue  [single]The Crystal Casino Band - Curfew  [Maryland House]Ravary - Glowing  [single]Subscribe to the Hometown Sounds podcast in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, or your favorite podcast app! (and tell a friend too!)

Paul launches a Substack weekly email newsletter, while Tony investigates ChatGPT.Tracklisting:Jarreau Williams - Cherry  [single]Magazine Beach - Sunflower Seed  [Constant Springtime]Pinky Lemon - Pop Criminal  [Pinky Heaven]KNO-1 - The Crawl September  [The Crawl]TTYK - Brood Parasites  [Love Is Not Enough]Dance for the Dying - Dark Horse  [The Party Is Over]Subscribe to the Hometown Sounds podcast in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, or your favorite podcast app! (and tell a friend too!)

Dan ABH of Flowerbomb and Dear Daria joins Paul to talk about his ABH Tape Collective, Vinyl Anonymous, and spin some DC music for our community.Tracklisting:Annie Stokes - Nervous System  [single]Fix Your Hearts - Burn  [single]Rachel Kline - Feb 2  [feb 2023 song a day demos]Echo The Narrator - FULL SMASH  [YANKS!]DAZY - Pressure Cooker  [single]Middle Distance Runner - Secret Things  [Secret Things]Subscribe to the Hometown Sounds podcast in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, or your favorite podcast app! (and tell a friend too!)

Amy K. Bormet, founder and organizer of the Washington Women In Jazz Festival, joins the podcast to preview this year's festivities!Tracklisting:Amy K. Bormet - Let's Make a Change  [single]Alex Hamburger - Waking in the City  [And She Spoke]Leigh Pilzer - East Coast Andy  [The Diva Jazz Orchestra 25th Anniversary Project]AmyAna - Voltron Defender of the Universe  [AmyAna]AmyAna - To Hino  [AmyAna]Subscribe to the Hometown Sounds podcast in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, or your favorite podcast app! (and tell a friend too!)

Paul shares a delicious vegan coffee drink, while Tony uses the power of the sun to jump his car battery. Tracklisting:Roscoe Tripp - When the Stalks Are Low  [It Always Starts with Something]Wanted Man - Coastin’  [Channels Vol. 1]Skyzoo & The Other Guys - Panther and Powder  [The Mind of A Saint]Reach Row Throw GO! - Metro Tunnels (A Wonderful New Life Underground)  [single]Pinkhouse - Dumb Expression  [single]Talk to your Neighbor - Half Moon  [single]Subscribe to the Hometown Sounds podcast in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, or your favorite podcast app! (and tell a friend too!) 

Our annual Holiday Spectacular is back! Hear the finest DC holiday music and warm your hearts with some offbeat seasonal cheer.Tracklisting:ATTINSHUN - That’s All I Want  [Christmas With Attinshun]Astra Via - A Christmas Spirit  [music video]Wytold - Walking in the Air  [Walking in the Air]Caz - Happy Holidays  [single]Ardamus - 7 Principles feat. Ryan Lucas  [The Winter Goldbrick Olympian]Honky Tonk Confidential - Crabs for Christmas  [Who Gets the Fruitcake This Year?]Subscribe to the Hometown Sounds podcast in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, or your favorite podcast app! (and tell a friend too!)

Dear Daria's Maryjo Mattea returns to the podcast to pick some new tunes and explore the MJCU.Tracklisting:Dear Daria - Dopamachine  [Can I Be Frank?]Emily Henry - How It Feels  [single]Kinda Evil - Teeth  [single]Junkyard Band - Love Soul Crank  [single]Grady - Sunnies  [single]Socieanic - Digital  [Here's the Album]Subscribe to the Hometown Sounds podcast in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, or your favorite podcast app! (and tell a friend too!)

Paul unplugs for a week at a cabin in the woods, while Tony has troubles with his AirPods.Tracklisting:The Casual Dots - The Frequency of Fear  [Sanguine Truth]Mikiah - Do Better  [Dahlia]Esko Tiko - weakening  [Arthur at the Bottom of the Sea]The Airport 77s - One Good Thing About Summer  [We Realize You Have a Choice]Jeff Draco - Fall For Another Day  [Freezing in Hollywood]Shamans of Sound - Pressure Dub  [single]Subscribe to the Hometown Sounds podcast in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, or your favorite podcast app! (and tell a friend too!)

In this episode Tom Liddle of the band Run Come See guest stars to preview his upcoming rock opera The Haunted Boy! See it at Joe's Movement Emporium in Mt. Rainier on November 11th to 13th and 18th to 20th!Tracklisting:John Figura - Head SpinningJohn Figura & Tom Liddle - Fire PowerJess Eliot Myhre - Oh, You and ISteve Kolowich - The Devil Ain't The Half of ItSubscribe to the Hometown Sounds podcast in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, or your favorite podcast app! (and tell a friend too!)

Paul breaks in a tent, while Tony troubleshoots an overactive soap dispenser.Tracklisting:Ekko Astral - YXI  [single]Hyattsvillain - Kids Don’t Buy Groceries  [Short Songs for a Fast Life]Mannywellz - No Closure  [Di Do / No Closure]Anees - Leave Me  [single]Leechjul - Chamoon  [Tunnel]Ecstatic International - High Violence  [EP]Subscribe to the Hometown Sounds podcast in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, or your favorite podcast app! (and tell a friend too!)

Paul takes on a giant multinational bank, while Tony recaps his history with Super Mario.Tracklisting:Sub-Radio - 1990something  [single]Dreamcastmoe - RU Ready  [Sound Is Like Water Part 1]The Owners - Red Room Nights  [Pandemic Demo]Cinema Hearts - Your Ideal  [Your Ideal]Tunnel - Lemonhead  [Vanilla]Stripmall Ballads - I’ll See the Elephant Now  [Laundromat]Subscribe to the Hometown Sounds podcast in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, or your favorite podcast app! (and tell a friend too!) 

Paul laments moving his comic book collection, while Tony says no to letting Geico watch him move.Tracklisting:DuPont Brass - Summer Vibes  [single]The Southern Ocean - Finish Line  [single]Pretty Bitter - Final Girl  [Hinges]Landon-Philip - Caribou  [Junebug]Carolyn Malachi - Brunch  [single]Bad Moves - My Favorite Game (The Cardigans)  [AS IF!: A Songs From Teen Comedies Covers Comp]Subscribe to the Hometown Sounds podcast in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, or your favorite podcast app! (and tell a friend too!) 

Tony buys a spork, while Paul buys a house.Tracklisting:Raw Poetic & Damu the Fudgemunk - Open Roads  [Laminated Skies]Klauss - Party Lines  [Take French]Bottled Up - Italo Love  [Grand Bizarre]No One Sphere - Where I Was  [Isn't Everything About Something]Auto Lola - Wayward  [Sonata Faction Presents: Idiomatic]Goodbye Futureman - People Here, Running Out  [Disappearing People]Subscribe to the Hometown Sounds podcast in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, or your favorite podcast app! (and tell a friend too!)

The Luce Listening Party, our collaboration with the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, concludes with a look back at some of our favorite moments in the interview series.Featuring:Maddi MaeBartees StrangeYasmin WilliamsAstra ViaSol Power All-StarsRosie CimaNight Train 357Broke RoyalsWes FeltonLotion PrincessFlowerbombFollow/Subscribe to Hometown Sounds wherever you listen to podcasts; rate/review on Apple Podcasts (and tell a friend too!) 

The Luce Listening Party, our collaboration with the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum continues with special guests Broke Royals!Tracklisting:Broke Royals - Slam Band [single]Broke Royals - Postcard [single]Broke Royals - Bad Chemicals [Saint Luxury]Spring Silver - Little Prince [I Could Get Used To This]The Crystal Casino Band - Twenty-something Socialist [single]Follow/Subscribe to Hometown Sounds wherever you listen to podcasts; rate/review on Apple Podcasts (and tell a friend too!)

The Luce Listening Party, our collaboration with the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum continues with special guests Olivia Mancini and Jarrett Nicolay of Astra Via!Tracklisting:Astra Via – U Don’t Wanna Know [single]Astra Via – What’s the Matter – [Echo Birds]The Loving Paupers – The Words [Lines]Astra Via – Fast Forward [Echo Birds]My New Mixtape – Daylight Savings [music video]Olivia Mancini – Easy Right Now - [If We Knew Then]Follow/Subscribe to Hometown Sounds wherever you listen to podcasts; rate/review on Apple Podcasts (and tell a friend too!)

https://hometownsounds.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/podcast-luce-maddi-mae.mp3 The Luce Listening Party, our collaboration with the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, continues with special guest Maddi Mae! Tracklisting: Maddi Mae – Quiet Corners of Virginia [Quiet Corners] Maddi Mae – Here Right Now [Quiet Corners] The Fly Birds – The Band Is Causing Problems [The Band Is Causing Problems] Furnace Mountain – Nine to Eleven [single] Orla – Surrendering [Transformation] Maddi Mae – Little House [Quiet Corners] Subscribe to the Hometown Sounds podcast in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, or your favorite podcast app! (and tell a friend too!)

https://hometownsounds.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/podcast-2022-02-14.mp3 Tony misses an exciting show, while Paul joins a vinyl enthusiasts club. Tracklisting: King Green – Wobble [+Positive Vibes for Negative Times] Oh He Dead – Bottle It Up [single] Mystery Friends – Beck & Call [single] Vince Opus – Some Other 48 Hours [Indefinite Distance] Round About – The Blind Lead the Blind [Inner Voices & Curious Choices] Bed Maker – Miss Dickens [single] Subscribe to the Hometown Sounds podcast in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, or your favorite podcast app! (and tell a friend too!)

https://hometownsounds.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/podcast-luce-sol-power.mp3 The Luce Listening Party, our collaboration with the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, continues with special guests The Sol Power All-Stars! Tracklisting: Sol Power All-Stars feat. Amma Whatt & Frank Martins – Every Time You Move [Distant Dawn] Chicago Afrobeat Project feat. Tony Allen – Cut the Infection (Sol Power All-Stars Remix) [What Goes Up Remixed] Sol Power All-Stars – Plaza Bolivar [Plaza Bolivar EP] Glenn Echo & Daniel Meinecke – Don’t Play With Me [Partly Cloudy] The Blackbyrds – Rock Creek Park [City Life] Asheru & The Funk Ark – Funky DC [From the Rooftops] Subscribe to the Hometown Sounds podcast in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, or your favorite podcast app! (and tell a friend too!)