new CD label District Line, brought to you by Henry Rollins. This link was brought to me by Debbie with the simple tag 'I love Henry Rollins'.

What's not to love, he's a master of many lost arts, like public oration and speaking the truth. (The lack of truth speaking I come across in a day frightens me, it's not just on TV - but with real people everywhere, it's like they have someone else's eyes in their head, alas I digress) Anyway, "30 Seconds over DC" and "Troublefunk: Live and Early Singles" I am guessing will be essential, essential, essential material for research and pleasure. Mr. Rollins has already warmed my credit card, hope I have time to report back to you about it.

It's an On Tap DC Music Timeline. I don't have time to scrutinize this timeline, other than I found it because they give a nod to what I thought was just Mr. Brace's record label. Turns out Top Records was also run by Brian McGuire (now of 52 Pickup and quite the promoter hisself) and one W. Van Hall, whom I've never hear of. I soooooooo want recordings of Frontier Theory, B-Time and The Beggars. Wow, I thought thistuff was recorded in the 90's, but not quite, turns out it's the late 80's. I found it even more interesting that 1986 coincides with when I as an 8th grader stopped listening the radio and stopped buying 'records' by anyone that made over 1,000,000 a year. Yet as a 15 year old sheltered, not-even-a-little-punk-at-the-time ingenue with no internet, I never got to hear Dischord, harDCore, or even Top Records which would have rocked my world. I did buy and listen to a ton of Folkways and S.I. source recording and listened to my mom's and grandparent's old records, so I just came to my present musical taste and education backwards of most other people.