Hometown Sounds Podcast

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!)

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] […]

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 […]

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 […]

Just in the nick of time, it’s our annual tradition of DC holiday music and cheer! Tracklisting: Astra Via – It's a Prepper Christmas [music video] Boomscat – Wishlist [Xxxmas] The Resolutions – Red Green Silver and Gold [For Now Until] Luna Honey – In the Bleak Midwinter [Why Not, It’s Christmas] Silent Old Mtns. […]

The Luce Listening Party, our collaboration with the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, continues with special guest Drew Dave! Tracklisting: Drew Dave – SoulSangin' [LateShift] Uptown XO – Song 4 CC [Culture Over Corporate] Drew Dave – Twittr.Beats [Focused] Kev Brown feat. Kenn Starr & Quartermaine – Say Sumthin' [I Do […]

Paul goes on a hike, while Tony meets a strange character at the Quarry House. Tracklisting: Jau Ocean – Start Again [Lifted] Soft Punch – Astering [Astering] SpaceMan Spliph – Run DMV [single] Near Northeast – Shadow [Gatherings] Winzday Love – Manifesto (Big Bank) [single] Cody as Always – Forever Love [Forever Love] Subscribe to […]

The Luce Listening Party, our collaboration with the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, continues with special guest Rosie Cima of Rosie Cima & What She Dreamed! Tracklisting: Rosie Cima & What She Dreamed – Stuck [Realm of the Warring Gods] Rosie Cima & What She Dreamed – The Wheel [Realm of […]

Tony’s out on assignment this week, while Paul recaps the 10 Years of Luce Unplugged panel discussion. Tracklisting: Nic D – Icee Pop [single] Empresarios – Welcome to Puerto Rico feat. Desi Hyson [Warriors EP] J Scienide x Body Bag Ben – Stepping Stone [single] Backbeat Underground – Cramp Your Style feat. Nneka Lyn [Mutual […]

The Luce Listening Party, our collaboration with the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, continues with special guest Night Train 357! Tracklisting: Allison Balanc feat. Durand Bernarr – Friendzone [single] Night Train 357 & Rone – Turn It Up [Grays] Crank Lucas feat. Ethan Spalding – Up Up [single] NuChoyce – Just […]

Paul’s iPhone goes haywire, while Tony reveals a musical theater past. Tracklisting: 10issues – Sayings [single] Run Come See – Unhinged [Unhinged] The Grey A – Providence [single] Des Demonas – Cure for Love [Cure for Love] Golden Girls – Blame [Afternoon Views] C.M. Jenkins – Piano Etude in Agitato [single] Subscribe to the Hometown […]

The Luce Listening Party, our collaboration with the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, continues with special guest Flowerbomb! Tracklisting: Flowerbomb – Sorry [pretty dark] Flowerbomb – Comma [pretty dark] Spring Silver – Hypnotist [The Natural World] Color Palette – Change Your Mind [Shed Your Skin] Flowerbomb – II [pretty dark] Subscribe […]

Tony visits the PNW, while young Miles Copps grooves to the hot new song by Islands. Plus, a special appearance from Honest Lee of Growroom Productions! Tracklisting: Scorpio – Post Its [single] Deborah Bond – Cure for Pain [Growroom Interpretations Vol. 1 : Cure for Pain] BRNDA – Service Loser [Do You Like Salt?] Rock […]

The Luce Listening Party, our collaboration with the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, continues with special guest Bartees Strange! Tracklisting: Bartees Strange – Boomer [Live Forever] Bartees Strange – About Today [Say Goodbye to Pretty Boy] Bartees Strange – Mustang [Live Forever] Broke Royals feat. Bartees Strange – Goldbrick Champion [single] […]

Tony DJing 90s one-hit wonders, while Paul discovers a familiarly-named cryptocurrency. Tracklisting:Brown Royal feat. Kenny Allen – Epic  [single]Washington Social Club – Drunk and Dreaming  [single]Damu the Fudgemunk feat. Nitty Scott – Four Better Or Worse (Part 1)  [Conversation Peace]Greenland – Cicada Summer  [single]Amorous – In Light of Distant Events  [single]Andalu – Earth  [WRAPture and […]

The Luce Listening Party, our collaboration with the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, continues with special guest Wes Felton! Tracklisting: Wes Felton – Dust and Limited Dreams feat. Pete Muldoon  [Diary of a Black Misanthrope] Wes Felton – The Way Things Used To Be feat. Uptown XO & Kenny Allen  [Quarantine […]

Paul pretends to DJ a wedding, while Tony borrows ice from work. Tracklisting:Freddy Hall – Something Good  [single]DJ 2-Tone Jones – The Curry Out  [single]Melk – Let's Pretend This Never Happened  [single]Matt Rippetoe – Ida  [Northwest]Romance Languages – Let's Get Out!  [Romance Languages EP]Ice Out – Bougie  [single] Subscribe to the Hometown Sounds podcast in […]

The Luce Listening Party, our collaboration with the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, continues with special guest Yasmin Williams! Tracklisting: Yasmin Williams – Sunshowers  [Urban Driftwood] Yasmin Williams – Urban Driftwood  [Urban Driftwood] Stranger in the Alps – The Days Are Over Sooner (But The Light Is Better)  [The Days Are […]

Hometown Sounds presents a preview of this weekend’s Couchella online music festival benefitting Arlington Independent Media and WERA 96.7 FM! Tracklisting:Maimouna Youssef – Work  [single]The Internet – Body High  [Monolith]The NRIs – Your Time  [single]Crys Matthews – Call Them In  [Changemakers]Leo Rua – Abrecamino  [single]Given Eye – Soops Hoots  [single] Subscribe to the Hometown Sounds […]

The Luce Listening Party, our collaboration with the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, continues with special guest Jenna Camille! Tracklisting:Jenna Camille & The Other Guys – Love Me Right  [Autumn in Analog]Golden Browne – Power  [Bright Moments]Jenna Camille – My Country, My Love  [The Time Is Now]Deborah Bond – Door  [compass: […]

Paul performs an online poetry reading, while Tony spots a suspicious package at the post office. Tracklisting:Edy Blu – New Edition  [Wild & Free]April + Vista – Every Void  [Pit of my Dreams]Tired All The Time – The Board  [single]Amal – A New Dance feat. The Khan & Nappy Nappa  [gleam]Dream in Delay – Ammunition  […]

The Luce Listening Party, our collaboration with the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, continues with special guests Lightmare!

Tony’s car has a mysterious stink, while Paul makes a 5 hour long playlist for Pyramid Atlantic. Tracklisting: Sunstoney – Astral Plane [In Your Apartment] La Palma – Sábado [single] Rosie Cima and What She Dreamed – Another Sundown [Realm of the Warring Gods] Nino Green (Kaimbr & Sean Born) – Neighborhood Disturbance feat. LetTheDirtSayAmen […]

The Luce Listening Party, our collaboration with the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, continues with special guests Amy Domingues and Dennis Kane! Tracklisting: Domingues & Kane – Rough Magick Part 2 [Rough Magick EP] Domingues & Kane – Evergreen [Gut + Voltage: Viola da Gamba & Electronics in Synthesis] Telegraph Melts […]

Tony eyes a battery replacement, while Paul fights off a plague of flies. Tracklisting: Yasmin Williams – Jarabi [Urban Driftwood] The Airport 77s – (When You’re Kissing On Me Do You Think Of) James McAvoy [Rotation] The Sebastions – The Snake [Here For Now] Mister Jackpots – Patio Encounter [Patio Encounter EP] Apollo 66 – […]

The Luce Listening Party, our collaboration with the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, continues with special guests Emily, Alli and Matt of the band Lavender! Tracklisting: Lavender – Berlin [You Are In The Right Place] Mystery Friends – Nowhere To Be [single] Nah. – Bodies [single] Lavender – Adrenaline [Head in […]

Paul goes vegan for January, while Tony shows off his new Mountain Dew cookbook. Tracklisting: DoubleMotorcycle – Year’s Gone, Bye [III] Xendi – Give It All [Give It All/Backseat] Enoch 7th Prophet – RYS [1 Moment, Please] Half Bath – Michigan [Michigan/Mother] KTW – Mary Anne [single] Wordless Flight – Another Morning [Emergence] Subscribe to […]

It’s our 200th episode! Paul & Tony look back at the podcast’s history, and reveal their favorite Christmas gifts. Tracklisting: Annie Stokes – Real Good [single] Shamans of Sound – District Vibes [DJ single] The Crowd Scene – Records You Love the Most [South Circular] No One Sphere – Bad Behavior [single] Prowess the Testament […]

It’s our annual episode filled with holiday-themed DC music and cheer! Tracklisting: Astra Via – Merry Christmas, We Got This [single] Lauren Calve – Christmas Is Where The Heart Is [single] Dumi Right – The Best Time of the Year [single] My Kid Brother – White Christmas [single] Too Free – Glue (On You) [single] […]

The Luce Listening Party, our collaboration with the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, continues with special guest Jamal aka Terracotta Blue! Tracklisting: Terracotta Blue – Rolling Hills [Shenandoah 2] Kuniva – Until It’s Over [Alpha Underdog] Diamond District – I Mean Business [In The Ruff] Ari Lennox feat Cozz – Backseat […]

Paul goes on a hike, while Tony captures curious scenes from around his building. Tracklisting: Bailey Avenue – Auditory Love Affair [Tied Down, Tied Up] KNO1 – Basic Training [Tripping] STAFFERS – Fuck the Brixton [In The Pigeon Hole] Lightmare – Chanson de Peur [single] East Ghost – 10 x 20 Gardens [Fin] Zen Warship […]

The Luce Listening Party, our collaboration with the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, debuts with special guest Sasha from Lotion Princess! Tracklisting: Lotion Princess – In The Summer [single] Asha Santee – Rock [Gingko] Knyves Escobar – Phantom Limb [single] Lotion Princess – Poetry [Take Care] Oh He Dead – Lonely […]

Paul contributes to a neighborhood yard sale, while Tony gets called for jury duty. Tracklisting: Hiphopmcdougal – Killer Party, Man 2: Sick Puppy Bites Back! [single] Kiri No Mikito – Siren [single] TCB – What You See [single] Coup Sauvage & The Snips – Requiem for a Mountaintop (Atoms Apart Remix) [Requiem for a Mountaintop […]

Paul DJs a baby shower on Zoom, while Tony finds a beloved musician on a compelling TV series. Tracklisting: Franklin Gotham – Keeping On [single] Bartees Strange – Mustang [Live Forever] Mettabbana – Latlal [Anticuario] Moozy – Don’t U Need Somebody [single] Broke Royals – U + Me + WWIII [single] Mary Madden – Charmer […]

Paul tries unusual ice cream flavors, while Tony sacrifices blankets to record an audiobook. Tracklisting: The Mighty Heard – Butt That Funk [WORD] Thalia Falcon – Kiss Me [single] Suburban Hermit – Lake FX [single] Knope – Broken Couch [An Exercise In Patience] Maryjo Mattea feat. Rogério Naressi – Help Me Understand / Mentiras no […]