Welcome!
The Fall 2012 STPP Musical Fest will be bringing you 200+ awesome bands/acts over the course of 2 days from DC, PA, NYC, VA, MD, NC, TX and beyond for a 2 day music festival across multiple venues around U Street, Cleveland Park, and more in Washington, DC!
STPPFest 2012 Will be announcing artists over the coming weeks and months, check in regularly to see if your favorite bands are playing, and submit bands to play at our gmail address.
Sponsor: Alexandria Music Co.
STPPFEST Spotify List
Artists Archive
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Antennas Up (Kansas City, MO)
Posted on April 27, 2012 | No CommentsAntennas Up is an indie rock band who fuses post–new-wave guitar hooks with electronica elements. Their sound that is all at once familiar, reminiscent of your favorite Elvis Costello song,... -
Corsair (Charlottesville, VA)
Posted on April 24, 2012 | No CommentsCorsair is Paul, Marie, Jordan and Aaron. Paul and Marie met in 2007 while playing together in Charlottesville Va’s Black Sabbath annual Halloween tribute band,Mass Sabbath. In early 2008 Marie... -
Lightfoils (Chicago)
Posted on April 24, 2012 | No CommentsFormed in Autumn of 2010, five friends (guitarist Zeeshan Abbasi, vocalist Nicole Baksinskas, bassist Cory Osborne, drummer John Rungger, and guitarist Neil Yodnane) came together to play the type of... -
Education (San Antonio, TX)
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsEducation is a group of local musicians from San Antonio with a passion in life to make people happy through music. The band’s influences range from: Rolling Stones, The Walkmen,... -
The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsThe Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library is the world’s only male-fronted, all-female, librarian-attired, downtempo, indie, ensemble-pop act featuring intricately constructed, tongue-in-cheek tortuous songs with an emphasis on narrative. “Michael Epstein,... -
The Yawpers (Boulder, CO)
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsLed by dynamic young singer-songwriter/guitarist Nate Cook, emerging Boulder trio The Yawpers (named after Walt Whitman’s promise to “sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world”) recall a... -
My Pet Dragon (NYC)
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsRecently featured in Filter Magazine’s “Discover The Undiscovered”, with a Nomination by Deli Magazine for Best of NYC 2011 Emerging Artists, and a commanding performance at Indie Ambassador TV, the buzz about My... -
Fooligans (Carrboro, NC)
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsThe Fooligans are a three-piece alt rock band hailing from the Carrboro, North Carolina D.I.Y. music scene. Historically comprised of guitarists Ian Leinbaugh and William Taylor, bassist John Colvin and... -
Ravenous (NYC/DC)
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsRavenous is a SludgeSTOMPdoomPOPpunk troupe originally from Silver Spring, Maryland now residing in Brooklyn. It consists of members Mattson Ogg, Taylor Bragg, Alex Becker, Ben Field-Pickering, and Nick Maestro who have been... -
The Foreign Resort (Denmark)
Posted on April 17, 2012 | No CommentsSonically expressive, dark and moody, catchy and up-beat are words to describe this Danish Nu Gaze/Noise-pop foursome. The Foreign Resort has fused the dark sounds of the 80′s with electronic... -
Lenorable (Washington, DC)
Posted on April 17, 2012 | No CommentsLenorable matches the best elements of post-punk with the sonic depth of electronic music. Armed with Ian Graham’s sometimes-noisy, shoegazer-inspired guitar, Lisa Reed’s haunting vocals and layered, ghostly synth lines,... -
EULA (NYC)
Posted on April 17, 2012 | No CommentsConnecticut natives Alyse Lamb, Nathan Rose and Jeff Maleri bursted on to the music scene in 2007, playing to packed New Haven art spaces and rowdy house parties consistently raided... -
Yeveto (Baltimore, MD)
Posted on April 17, 2012 | No CommentsYeveto is an instrumental band featuring guitar, organ, cello, and drums who compose experimental rock music. They have shared the stage with other Baltimore acts like Monarch (Wye Oak), Arboretum,... -
The Sour Notes (Austin, TX)
Posted on April 13, 2012 | No CommentsThe Sour Notes are an American independent rock band based in Austin, Texas, consisting of members Jared Boulanger, Amarah Ulghani, Rene Chavez & Justin Selman. Formed initially as the moniker... -
Freak Owls (NYC)
Posted on April 13, 2012 | No CommentsFreak Owls was created from the amalgamation of ideas, restlessness, and frustrations of Josh Ricchio. After spending the past 12 years playing and touring in a wide variety of collaborative... -
Time Columns (Baltimore, MD)
Posted on April 13, 2012 | No CommentsInstrumental progressive post-rock duo Time Columns uses highly expressive instrumentation, complex rhythmic meters, catchy melodies and live loopingto create music that is sincerely unique. Comprised of two multi-instrumentalists, Kenny Eaton... -
Drowner (Houston, TX)
Posted on April 13, 2012 | No CommentsDrowner began as a side project of Darren Emanuel (Swimming In, Apples to Earth). Darren’s increasing use of the guitar in both of his previous bands led him to an... -
The Fire Tapes (Charlottesville, VA)
Posted on April 11, 2012 | No CommentsThe Fire Tapes are a Rock and Roll band. “A pretty f*cking killer combo of morose southern gloom and fuzzy indie-jams;” a wild, sprawling landscape of sound. They experiment with... -
Snowy Owls (Richmond, VA)
Posted on April 11, 2012 | No CommentsA mix of jangle, drone and swirl in the tradition of noise-poppers like YoLa Tengo, Sonic Youth, and My Bloody Valentine, Snowy Owls blend daydreaming melodies over washes of fuzzed... -
Rozwell Kid (Kearneysville, WV)
Posted on April 4, 2012 | No CommentsWithin the first few seconds of the driving, jet-propulsed opener “Rocket,”listeners are taken far off their reservations by Rozwell Kid’s maiden,self-titled LP. The name is more than just a moniker... -
We Were Pirates (Washington, DC)
Posted on April 4, 2012 | No Comments2012 marks the release of We Were Pirates’ second full-length record, Change. Lyrically and musically, Change is slightly more mature and aggressive than Boggs’ previous albums. Thematically, the question of... -
Hoax Hunters (Richmond, VA)
Posted on March 30, 2012 | No CommentsHoax Hunters is a Richmond Virginia band fronted by PJ Sykes that has a sound reminiscent of some of their southern, indie-garage rock predecessors like Superchunk, And You Will Know... -
The Invisible Hand (Charlottesville, VA)
Posted on March 29, 2012 | No Comments“Born amongst wolves: forged in smoke and fire; Invisible Hand plays baroque acid-rock with power-pop guitar theatrics. From and inspired by the ever pastoral central Virginian landscape, with two members having served time... -
Hammer No More The Fingers (Durham, NC)
Posted on March 29, 2012 | No CommentsThere is no neatly packaged description for Hammer’s sound. You could shoehorn them into a 90s indie rock revival thing, but it’s a little like putting a squid in a... -
kntrlr (NYC)
Posted on May 30, 2011 | 1 Commentkntrlr is disarmingly contradictory. The centrifuge of confliction that powers kntrlr’s circuitry reached the red-level RPMs after years of playing rock music with The Press. -
Dead Leaf Echo (NYC)
Posted on May 30, 2011 | No CommentsWords like ethereal, atmospheric and dreamy all come to mind after a spin of Dead Leaf Echo's Truth...