Artist description Welcome to Washington D.C. On the right, you will see the White House, Congress, and monuments for founding our unique brand of democracy. On the left, past the homeless, prostitutes, and low wage earners, there is The Washington Social Club. Step inside and you will discover a rock and roll band ready to take over the world, armed with anger and melody, rhythm and song. We rock cause we need to…

Music Style To stimulate mirth en masse via beat, melody, and energy by inducing rhythmic movement of the body

Musical Influences People say stuff from the Jam to Pavement to Creedence to Sea and Cake. Just listen...

Group Members Marty - Lead Vocals and Guitar Olivia - Bass and Vocals Randy - Drums (and being Hot)

Press Reviews A Preview of the Next Big Thing (Maybe) at South by Southwest By Joe Heim washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Thursday, March 20, 2003 "Frontman Marty Social seems like a rock-god-in-traingin" Article by Mike Baker and Matthew Pollesel www.splendidezine.com Friday October 04, 2002 SHOW REVIEW: The Washington Social Club Art-o-Matic Saturday, November 23 2002 Of the four '60s-rooted rock bands on the bill Friday night at Art-o-Matic, the month-long ad hoc arts fair at the EPA's former Southwest home, two were local and two from Philadelphia. One of the latter, the Capitol Years, came equipped with the biggest buzz, and it was easy to see why. Yet the two D.C. bands were both more appealing in their quite different ways. As its retrospective-box-set name suggests, the Capitol Years plays record-collector rock, with a roughly eight-year span of sources that begins with the Beatles and the Yardbirds and runs up to early-'70s Americana rock. The quartet has some reasonably catchy songs but is most notable as an act so choreographed that it verges on vaudeville. Perhaps these musicians think that jumping off amps and doing Rockettes-style high kicks will distract from their connect-the-dots material. (Sounds of) Kaleidoscope also drew on rock-historical precedents, but its music was less of a pastiche. The D.C. trio's neo-psychedelic drones and vamps sometimes surged forward, but at other times simply whirled in place. Most of the songs were mid-tempo and hypnotic, in the manner of many bands that have transcribed minimalism's strategies to punky guitar. Yet the band's style also had undertones of mid-'60s pop-rock, an influence that came to fore with the encore, a noisy version of the Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset." The Washington Social Club, another local threesome, played the evening's most engaging set. The band hasn't completed the task of assimilating its influences, which range from Eddie Cochran and the Modern Lovers to Orange Juice, but its buoyant delivery and such jumpy, tuneful songs as "Modern Trance" were entirely winning. Relay, a Philadelphia trio, was stylistically akin to Kaleidoscope but less fluid and adept. -- Mark Jenkins

Location Washington, DC - USA

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