If you're reading this, that means it is now 2025, which means I'm in the eleventh year away from my homeland of Baltimore, and six years into the revival of this here bloggin' concern. It's a pretty nice feeling, yet bittersweet. We've made it another year, a bit farther away from then and much closer to tomorrow.
I don't know why I don't recall Decatur Blue; it's the exact kind of place I would have been stoked to visit in DC, during a period in my life when I would have been most able to do so. This 2003 comp commemorates that period, courtesy of Planaria Recordings. Don't let the minimal artwork below fool ya. This was home to a lot of DC's cutting edge visual art and music, ranging from the noise rock of Early Humans to the one-two no wave punk of Black Eyes and Measles Mumps Rubella to Canyon's winsome Neil Young-goes-emo alt-country. These are the folks that played the Talking Head, CCAS, the Ottobar, the Sidebar; some spots long gone, others still kicking against the pricks. It was a good time for DC independent music and art, and this, a fine document.
And if you came here thinking this was a collection of late 70s/early 80s Peter Holsapple/Chris Stamey tracks, well, sorry to disappoint cha.
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