by Dylan Shulman and Molly Szymanski

Montréal musician Peter Sagar left Mac DeMarco’s live band in 2014 and soon made a name for himself with the dream pop project HOMESHAKE.

by Molly Szymanski and Carey Cameron

Amidst the craze of the pandemic, Cat Power, who received acclaim for her rendition of “Sea of Love,” released her newest album “Covers” in January. It is the third in singer Chan Marshall’s collection of cover albums.

The mother of modern indie rock, Marshall pours intimacy and emotion into each of her recordings, whether it be an original or a cover. Despite being in the industry for nearly three decades, Cat Power tracks don’t seem to age, maintaining a timeless sound.

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Kanika Mehra and Molly Szymanski

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Car Seat Headrest’s Will Toledo started wearing a mask long before March 2020. I know. How’s that for an opener?

by Quinn Dang

Photo by Quinn Dang for WMUC

After a year of quarantine and an additional three-month delay from its typical June date, Firefly Music Festival roared back to the Woodlands in Dover, Delaware this past September.

By Dylan Shulman

Hailing all the way from Long Beach, California, genre-bending trio half•alive is set to storm the stage of the Lincoln Theatre next week on Monday, March 7, 2022 with opener Daisy the Great. The tour promotes the band’s latest LP, Give Me Your Shoulders, Pt. 1, released on streaming February 11, 2022. The group took off in 2018 after their single “still feel” rose to popularity, securing their spot in the music industry by penning a deal with RCA Records.

by Joyce Lee

In honor of Firefly announcing their 2022 festival lineup, we took a look back at when WMUC attended back in 2021. Here's the recounting:

UMD’s very own WMUC College Park Radio had the opportunity to cover the 2021 Firefly Music Festival! Quinn and I entered “The Woodlands” of Dover, Delaware with three days’ notice, two sleeping bags, and no idea of what to expect. Fortunately for us, we can say that we came out with new friends, an interview with Almost Monday, and a one-of-a-kind experience.

by Flo Petite

New Jersey rock band, Pinegrove, will be taking the stage at the Lincoln Theater in DC Thursday, February 24th at 8pm to promote the recent release of their album 11:11. They will be performing alongside Poise and Lily Konigsburg.

Being a band for nearly 12 years - Pinegrove has had different iterations of the band through the ages but songwriter Evan Stephens Hall and drummer Zack Levine have always stuck it out, being the core band members with their long term friendship spanning all the way back to their childhood in New Jersey creating the strong backbone that a lot of newer bands lack.

by Carey Cameron
Grammy-award winning, genre-bending, folk band Punch Brothers is performing for a rolicking two nights at Washington D.C. 's Lincoln Theater on Saturday Feb. 26 and Sunday Feb. 27 at 8 p.m., celebrating their recent release of their newest album, Hell on Church Street. The Brooklyn-based band is known for their effortless combination of traditional bluegrass, folk, and classical music, however, Hell on Church Street elevates their sound to another level . The album pays homage to the late Tim Rice’s Church Street Blues, an album which all band members (including Rice’s mentee Chris Eldridge) cite as vital inspiration for their current work.

By Dylan Shulman

Grammy-nominated alternative act K.Flay will take the stage of the 9:30 club next week on Wednesday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. after the release of her new album Inside Voices / Outside Voices. The LP dropped on Feb. 4 featuring rock legends Travis Barker and Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine––the intro track “Four Letter Words” has already garnered over 4 million streams. Her most popular song “High Enough” rocketed K.Flay to fame in 2017.