All posts tagged "rich morel"
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Unboxing Bob Mould: A Metro Weekly Retrospective
We delved into our archives to celebrate the legendary musician, the impact of Blowoff, and the years he called D.C. home.
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Rich Morel turned an obscure documentary on lightning into his new musical concept album “Struck”
The album features Alan Cumming and Betsy Wright, and is available to stream now
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Bob Mould: President Trump is “worse than anything I’ve ever seen”
One of the revered scions of the '80s post-punk music scene, Bob Mould returns to D.C. with a solo tour
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Bob Mould and Rich Morel
Legendary gay punk rocker and former D.C. resident Bob Mould is nothing if not prolific. In June, he released his fourth solo album in only...
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Tour of Duty
Tom Goss is not bashful. Nor is he pushy. Put simply, he has a message to share and he’ll do what he needs to express...
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Blowoff Bows Out
Did Rich Morel and Bob Mould come to blows a few months back? Is that why the Blowoff this Saturday, Jan. 18, is the last...
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Yoko Ono’s long journey to “The Land of Hell” and back
Not many 80-year-old women are releasing experimental rock albums while simultaneously hitting the top of the dance charts these days. But then, Yoko Ono has...
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Tom Goss Celebrates “Bears” In New Single and Video
There be Bears here! D.C. area singer/songwriter Tom Goss today releases his new single (available now on iTunes) and video “Bears,” and it’s loads...
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Blown Up
''We are like two peas in a pod.'' Bob Mould wrote these words of his friend and colleague, Rich Morel, in his 2011 autobiography, See...
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Life and Deathfix
''I'm in good health,'' says Rich Morel, adding with a laugh, ''I'm going to make it through the weekend.'' Morel is in better health –...
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Heating Up the Holidays
Years ago, in its advertising for a December party, Blowoff featured a muscle-bound, cartoon Santa. This year Blowoff's Rich Morel will do the ho-ho-ho-ing himself,...
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Out of Hibernation
''I'm not just exclusively living a bear life,'' laughs Bob Mould. But gay bear life has certainly been good to Mould, who moved from D.C....
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Lovelorn Lads
Rich Morel has remixed and played Soft Complex's music at Blowoff. And yet the independent D.C. band remains relatively unknown among gays. ''We typically play...
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True Calling
Thirty-one years ago, Cyndi Lauper damaged her vocal cords. Doctors told her she would never sing again. As if they could keep the feisty, irrepressible...
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Harmonic Convergence
If ''Queering Sound'' is distorting, shaking up and subverting familiar sounds -- specifically what one might describe as ''gay music'' -- then ''Queering Sound 08...
