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Wingtip
How does one make the weird fork-in-the-road choices that steer an impromptu career? How do you go from a youthful, happy-accident starting point which happens to become a viral dance pop smash, to a debut singer-songwriter album that succeeds in transcending the genre spectrum, unlocks a few emotional truths and redefines your artistic outlook? And in the midst of such disparate points on the map, how do you navigate both music’s professional corporate pop lane AND serve the song, tapping into your own personality, over and over again?
Nick Perloff-Giles, often known by his artist moniker Wingtip but increasingly by his birth name as a successful songwriter for hire, has lived numerous musical lives. It comes almost as a surprise that, following a slew of singles and an EP which were mile-markers on his twisting climb, All Your Friends Are Here is Wingtip’s debut full-length album. Less so that it is a pearl in today’s convenience store of musical shells, a distinctive statement of the artist’s evolving personality that also shows off the pop craftsmanship required to master the system.
And if anybody should be able to pull this off, it’s Perloff-Giles, who has already seen both sides of the equation: “In some ways, the last couple years have been the process of unlearning everything I learned. It’s very liberating, and I realize that the stuff that moves me and that I really want to emulate, is both personal and a little bit more unstructured.
Stevedreez
Born in Japan,Virginia-based Stevedreez is the moniker of producer and songwriter StephenDries. Fueled by a longstanding love of 80’s culture and imagery, his space-age blend of synth-pop and indie transcends genres and is largely self-produced.Where other pop artists choose the extremes of extroverted vulgarity or introverted comfort, Dries’ music does neither.Instead, he chooses to ride the intoxication of nostalgia
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
DC9 Nightclub, 1940 9th St NW, Washington D.C., United States
Tickets
USD 12 to USD 15