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One of the most common questions on the Yahoo Group is about practice space and where to find it. A list is being compiled here of practice spaces in the D.C. Metro Area, which you'll be able to access anytime through the link under "Resources For Musicians" in the right hand column. If you have something to add, please post it as a comment below. The list will be updated as people submit more information.

Practice Spaces in the D.C. Metro Area:

Barco Rebar
Falls Church, VA
703-207-1657
http://www.barcorebar.com

7Drum Lessons
2008 8th Street NW
Washington DC 20001
http://www.7drumlessons.com

Uncle Bob's Self Storage
Alexandria, VA
800-242-1715
http://www.unclebobs.com

Music Cave Studios
46040 Center Oak Plaza #150
Sterling, VA 20166
(703) 430-1095
http://musiccavestudios.com

Rock Shop Studios
8455 R Tyco Road
Vienna VA 22182
(703) 801-4737
http://www.rockshopstudios.com

Str8way Music Service
(240) 479-5855
http://www.str8waymusic.com

The Pittipad
5317 Lafayette Pl
Hyattsvil…

MMS Premiere - "Wind Me Up" by Two Dragons and a Cheetah

Greetings, blog reader(s). Waking us from the torpor of our long absence and the longer nights is a new song from our friends Two Dragons and a Cheetah (2D&C). Inspired by not one, but two, Beatles songs, "Wind Me Up" sheds the sturm und drang for a toe-tapping, booty-shaking, bar brawl of a number complete with a group singalong.

The band's post-post-punk aesthetic is driven by vocalist Maryjo Mattea's slyly catchy guitar work, channeling 60s power pop with strains of 90s psychedelic rockers like Tripping Daisy and Presidents of the United States of America. Mattea's high octane voice, underpinned by Joel Wu's frenetic work on the skins, reinterprets the 90s heyday of Hole and Garbage in all their genre-bending glory.

Theirs is a common (platonic) musical love story. Girl meets boy. They make beautiful music together. Boy moves to the frozen north. They make it work.

You can catch 2D&C in a rare local show this Saturday at the Rock & Roll Hotel,…

Wednesday Is For (Side Project) Lovers

Today's choices for our ongoing Hump Day series, Wednesday Is For Lovers, we have a pair of new projects by artists better known as members of other groups. First up is "Tick-Tock (Frontrunner)" Frontperson, a collaboration between Kathryn Calder of The New Pornographers and Mark Andrew Hamilton of Woodpigeon.

Their indie folk evinces the trademark ethereality of Calder's solo work, with the vocal interplay between her and Hamilton reminiscent of Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop. Whether intentional or not, the backwards track meet motif of the video recalls Kierkegaard's claim that life must be lived forward but understood in hindsight.

Frontperson's Frontrunner comes out September 21 on Calder's own Oscar St. Records.

Next up we have Season 1: Kuiper, the first full-length from Endless Winter. This is a solo project of Color Palette guitarist Joshua Hunter. While it shares some of Color Palette's drone-y psychedelic elements, this album takes the listener do…

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