Igor German

As college students, living in a city like D.C. during the summer is great: we have constant access to incredible restaurants, concerts, art galleries, rooftop pool parties and, aside from our obligatory unpaid internships, very little holding us back from constantly indulging in any and all of these opportunities. It’s easy to get wrapped up in this world of $2 PBR happy hours and mirage-producing city streets and forget that there is a world out there where nature extends beyond the manmade realms of Roosevelt Island and the National Zoo. Read More »

A little while ago we had our annual Open Mic night (if you missed last year’s, you can catch up here) in Bulldog Alley. As always it was a really enjoyable evening of music, slam poetry, and a whole lot of acoustic guitars, and the house was packed. We recorded all of it and have posted it here for you.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what is a video? I don’t do math, as a policy, but it seems like that would be a ton of words, so here, then, are a lot of words. Never mind that these are a bit belated; memories fade but videos are forever! Enjoy this footage of our variously talented student body and let us know what you enjoyed best in the comments. Read More »

The Sweetlife Festival was in the backyard of the Dupont Sweetgreen store last year. This year, it held almost 13000 people at the Merriweather Post Pavillion. The Lineup was astounding for such a young festival, and despite the rain, each act brought a welcome boost of energy to the stage. Bryan and I were there for the day, tweeting stuff, and taking as best of pictures as we could. Enjoy them below. Read More »

Georgetown freshman Tate Tucker has a mixtape, Blue Dreams, in the making that we over at WGTB are salivating for. In the meantime, he’s given us a single, “Clueless.” This track, like a lot of his work, shows the beginnings of a very promising trajectory for Tucker. In the first verse he gets the alliterative and lyrical gymnastics all out of his system. It’s impressive, definitely, but the second verse is really what inspires me about this young talent. He manages to transcend the particularities and some of the hedonistic indulgences of being a freshman rapper and write intelligently about his identity, “I’m a ying yang specimen, black dad, white mom, identity peddling, hardest working nigga that I know check the regiment.” Tucker is bursting with ambition and talent, and his journey to craft that talent intelligently and restrain himself judiciously is going to be really interesting, and enjoyable, to watch.

Stream and download the track after the jump.

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I can’t gush about Jessica Lea Mayfield any more. The girl can do it all, and her sound translates gracefully into a live performance. Though the Black Cat was unusually attentive Tuesday night, a couple of suit-strapping, suburban lobbyists were seriously creeping out Mayfield with marriage proposals in between songs. Seriously dude, do you really want to end up in one of her songs? She seemed nonetheless flattered and a little surprised by the crowd, and when artists are happy we’re happy. Click through for pics of Mayfield and her opener, Daniel Martin Moore.

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