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TVD Live: The Grey Area at Strathmore, 2/10

Whoever keeps complaining about the demise of DC’s music scene should have stopped by the Mansion at Strathmore on Friday night for The Grey Area‘s release party for their new album 508. Comprised of Jason Steinhauer on guitar and vocals and drummer Timothy Jones (TJ), Washington’s own The Grey Area manages to distinguish itself from […]

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TVD 24-Hour Ticket Giveaway: The Grey Area, 7/18 at Jammin Java

DC’s The Grey Area spent the entire week with us last week leading up to tomorrow night’s Jammin Java show, and we thought what the heck – let’s give one of you the opportunity to see the band—on them and us. We’re going to make it easy on you too because the show is—tomorrow night! […]

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The Grey Area: The TVD Spotlight Week

They’ve spent the week with us, they’ve debuted their new video with us—now it’s up to you to check them out when they headline Vienna, VA’s Jammin Java next this coming Tuesday night, July 19. The Grey Area look ahead today… After years of playing in large bands with too many instruments, we’ve both arrived at a musical turning point. Strip rock […]

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The Grey Area: The TVD Spotlight Week

Washington, DC’s The Grey Area are on one of those career highs at the moment. Jason and TJ, guitarist and drummer respectively, debuted their new video with us in June and headline Vienna, VA’s Jammin Java next Tuesday night, July 19. Jason’s rummages through his folks’ records today… Records were a big part of my childhood. My parents have a huge record collection, […]

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The Grey Area: The TVD Spotlight Week

Washington, DC’s The Grey Area are on one of those career highs at the moment. Jason and TJ, guitarist and drummer respectively, debuted their new video with us in June and headline Vienna, VA’s Jammin Java next Tuesday night, July 19. Today, TJ takes us back to where it all began. Music for me started at Emanuel Temple Pentacostal Church in […]

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The Grey Area: The TVD Spotlight Week

Washington, DC’s The Grey Area are on one of those career highs at the moment. Jason and TJ, guitarist and drummer respectively, debuted their new video with us in June and headline Vienna, VA’s Jammin Java next Tuesday night, July 19. We’re charting their trajectory this week and today we pose that age old question… There’s not a band today not […]

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The Grey Area: The TVD Spotlight Week

As we wrote last month, you’re forgiven if you don’t know what it takes to make it these days. Hell, we can’t even come to a consensus here in the TVD office. The goalposts have become rather elusive it seems, which is why from time to time we’ll be spending a week with a band […]

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TVD Video Premiere: The Grey Area

If you’re a bit up to here with all of the DC Record Fair talk around these parts, I’m almost with you. But bear with me a sec. These thrice annually events aren’t just for the vinyl fans among us, but seemingly for those who are simply enlightened by music in general—no matter the playback […]

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Graded on a Curve:
Ben Vaughn,
The World of Ben Vaughn

Back in 1986, the estimable singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ben Vaughn cut his first record, and it was only available on vinyl. Compact disc technology had arrived, but was initially much more of a high-end situation. While Vaughn’s music has been encoded into many CDs since, his new album, issued in connection with Record Store Day, […]

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TVD Radar: Cabaret Voltaire, Chance Versus Causality and 1974-76 reissues in stores 8/30

VIA PRESS RELEASE | Cabaret Voltaire have announced the release of their 1979 soundtrack, Chance Versus Causality, which will be available officially for the first time since the film’s release. Chance Versus Causality will be out on limited edition transparent green vinyl, CD, and digital formats on August 30 via Mute.  On the same day, […]

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Graded on a Curve:
Wire,
Document and Eyewitness

Sound reads from the archives, all summer long. —Ed. When informed of Wire’s plans to reissue Document and Eyewitness Geoff Travis, known the world over as the man who started Rough Trade (the label and the shops) retorted that the group was “completely mad.” This wouldn’t be especially significant except it was Travis who put […]

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TVD Premiere: Dust on the Radio, “Waiting for the Sound”

LA quintet Dust on the Radio provides us with a blast from the present this week in the form of their tightly knit blend of new wave pop and ’80s art rock. We have the pleasure of premiering “Waiting for the Sound” off their newest release Halfway to the Stars—a track that draws heavily on […]

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Graded on a Curve:
Wire,
Document and Eyewitness

When informed of Wire’s plans to reissue Document and Eyewitness Geoff Travis, known the world over as the man who started Rough Trade (the label and the shops) retorted that the group was “completely mad.” This wouldn’t be especially significant except it was Travis who put up pounds to release the damned thing in the […]

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