ALBUM REVIEW: BRNDA’s Total Pain

ALBUM REVIEW: BRNDA’s Total Pain

Four years after releasing their last album Do You Like Salt?, local art-punk four-piece BRNDA returns with the phenomenal Total Pain, a 12-song LP that blends the DIY sounds of D.C. punk and 60s Art Nouveau aesthetics with lyrical explorations of food, animals, and the relationship between pleasure and pain into one of the freshest projects of the year.

Hello Mary @ Songbyrd, 3/25

By Metaksenia Evangeloulis Hello Mary will be gracing DC with a show at Songbyrd Music House next week. After signing with FrenchKiss Records last year, the Brooklyn-based girl-group recently released…