Ally Schweitzer

Ex Hex is already one of Washington, D.C.'s most exciting bands, and not just because of the lightning-strong licks that scream out of Mary Timony's guitar. This is a group that lets itself have as much fun as possible, and that sense of joy is crucial.

There aren't a ...

The warm and wistful Suburban Light, by the British indie-pop band The Clientele, has seemed more deserving of a reissue as each year passed. A collection of earlier singles, the 2000 album wasn't a conventional debut — but it was one whose sound the band struggled to achieve, with "every ...

The free-form duo Protect-U is part of a small electronic-music community in the nation's capital. It sprouts from unlikely but fertile ground: punk and hardcore, which inform the darker tendencies that turn up on Protect-U's recent debut album, Free USA.

It was an album that almost didn't happen: While ...