Album / Aquatic Gardener, Godspeed (GÄD’SPĒD)
DC musician Jamal Gray’s latest project is this rich instrumental collection of moody hip-hop beats.
Photograph of Musgrove courtesy of UMBC
Website / Black Power in DC
George Derek Musgrove, a UMBC professor and coauthor of the essential DC book Chocolate City, is behind this en-grossing new resource (blackpowerindc.umbc.edu), which maps important sites of Black activism. It launches February 1.
Photograph of Guy Picciotto of the band Rites of Spring courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Podcast / End on End
Two appropriately unpolished hosts work through the entire Dischord Records catalog, album by album. You probably won’t hear in-depth interviews about most of these recordings anywhere else.