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Jan 14, 2025 | 
offtherecordpress.com | Brooke Shapiro
Jan 14 Written By Brooke Shapiro Photo by Sarah Ritter. Indie sweetheart Samia announced her new album, Bloodless, on Tuesday via Instagram, accompanying the release of lead single “Bovine Excision.”Set to release April 25, Bloodless is the singer-songwriter’s third studio album and follows her debut record, The Baby, and sophomore album Honey.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
offtherecordpress.com | Brooke Shapiro
Jan 31 Written By Brooke Shapiro With the month of January tends to come an overuse of the word “new.” From new beginnings to new year’s resolutions, we as humans usually hold a more optimistic outlook on life during the first 31 days of the year.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
gwhatchet.com | Brooke Shapiro
Winter break affords students a much-needed break from academia, but going home for the holidays is not always “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.”With the “Bleak Midwinter” weather, the exhaustion of living in close quarters with family for a month and the temptation for end-of-year doom spiraling, the holiday season can trigger an overwhelming feeling of melancholy.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
offtherecordpress.com | Brooke Shapiro
Nov 30 Written By Brooke Shapiro From unexpected Grammy nominations and snubs to a no-promo album from Kendrick Lamar, November was full of surprises in the music industry. But, what’s not surprising is the penultimate month of the year’s delivery of stellar new releases. Between a fresh record from a classic band and younger artists’ reworkings of classic songs, the end of 2024 is clearly not the end of musical innovations.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
offtherecordpress.com | Brooke Shapiro
Oct 25 Written By Brooke Shapiro From eccentric visuals to loud choruses and witty metaphors, indie rockstar Declan McKenna has returned to do what he does best with his latest release. McKenna via Instagram. “Champagne” and “That’s Life,” a double A-side pair of singles, are the English songwriter’s first releases under his new, independent record label, Miniature Ponies.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
gwhatchet.com | Brooke Shapiro
While students ascend the stairs of Gelman Library during midterm season, members of GW Club Climbing are scaling rock walls. Clad in cargo pants and glove-like grippy shoes, a cohort of GW students take the Metro’s Blue Line four times a week to mount the climbing walls of Crystal City’s Movement Gym.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
offtherecordpress.com | Brooke Shapiro
Oct 31 Written By Brooke Shapiro As temperatures drop, Target aisles become decked with holiday decor and a US election looms, 2024 is nearing its end. But as we head into the final months of the year, rollouts of fresh music releases show no signs of stopping. As musical hues shift from Brat to CHROMAKOPIA green, October offered a luscious soundscape to match the changing of the seasons. Orla Gartland is everybody’s hero in sophomore album Listen to Everybody Needs a Hero on Spotify.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
offtherecordpress.com | Brooke Shapiro
Oct 7 Written By Brooke Shapiro Dora Jar for No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire via Spotify. Since the release of her debut album last month, budding indie pop icon Dora Jar has been on fire. Born Dora Jarkowski, the California-based singer and songwriter gained traction after opening for Billie Eilish in 2022 and The 1975 in 2023.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
offtherecordpress.com | Brooke Shapiro
Sep 30 Written By Brooke Shapiro Tour dates for the Chaos Angel World Tour via Instagram. Singer, songwriter and actress Maya Hawke announced dates for the Chaos Angel World Tour via Instagram Monday, five days after announcing the release of the Clipped Wings EP. The tour will stop in 33 cities in North America and Europe, starting in Seattle on March 10 and ending in Dublin, Ireland on July 23.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
gwhatchet.com | Brooke Shapiro
Behind a facade of minimalistic green LED signs, walls lined with bamboo shelves holding Mandarin translations of “American Prometheus” alongside pink and red spindly orchids welcomes customers to Dupont Circle’s new hotspot for Chinese literature and learning. JF Books opened its doors on Connecticut Avenue on Sept.
