The First Year
We recently finished the first year of The Capitol Heights, and what a year it’s been. We are extremely happy and excited about how far we have come and what the future has in store for us. The Capitol Heights have personally been the most successful music endeavor we’ve been part of and we want more...
0 CommentsTop 7 Tips to Enhance Your Home Recordings
Note: We only wish our home set-up looked like that 😉 We all wish we had unlimited free access to a studio backed by Sony or Capitol Records and we all fantasize about our tracks being produced and mastered by the best in the industry. The unfortunate fact is we don’t have the dough to more...
0 CommentsMonthly Playlist – May 2015
What’s on The Capitol Heights’ playlist? May 2015 Edition The theme for this month is uncomfortably good. We Are the In Crowd – The Best Thing I love punk with female vocals! A hint of electronica….and hearing someone talking about breaking someone’s jaw makes it great workout music. It reminds me of early Paramore. The Civil more...
0 CommentsAfter Action Report – The Board and Brew
The Board and Brew was one of our favorite stops so far on the long, cold road of the Open Mic Challenge (and we’ve still got a few more to go). I never thought we’d find a contender against Iota or some of the others, yet here we here. Board and Brew is located in more...
0 CommentsAfter Action Report – Rosies and Rockers
Our open mic challenge series continues with an impromptu show at Rosies and Rockers boutique on 13th and U. Boy.. do we mean impromptu. Josh received an email from D.C. Music Download containing information about an open mic. Naturally – Josh was excited and forwarded the email to Kenny and included something along the lines more...
0 CommentsAfter Action Report – We Are The 9 @ Gypsy Sally’s
Warning! This night was preeeeeetty crazy, yo. And because of that, this is a huge post with lots of pictures. Be prepared to deal. So we got invited to play this We Are The 9 event at Gypsy Sally’s from Justin Trawick about 2 weeks before the show. And the subsequent two weeks after were more...
0 CommentsAfter Action Report – Republic
After living in the DC area since 2009, Josh visited Takoma Park for the first time in 2015. Isn’t that crazy? And Republic is right over the DC/MD line – like a block away. How cool is that? Needless to say, but we’re going to anyway, this was our first time playing Republic in Takoma. more...
0 CommentsThe Write Brothers – Free Bandname (03/06/15)
This week’s band name is: The Write Brothers. 2 dudes, writing songs…get it?! Geez. Gotta be a bluegrass band tho. Note: Feel free to use any of our band names. We create all of them ourselves, so you don’t need to worry stealing or borrowing names or anything like that. The only thing we ask more...
0 CommentsMonthly Playlist – March 2015
What’s on The Capitol Heights’ playlist? March 2015 Edition This months theme is – cult underground. Neutral Milk Hotel – King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 This is a classic band from the late 80s / 90s. If you were an 80s [cult underground] baby – you were a fan of NMH. Daniel Johnston – more...
0 CommentsAfter Action Report – Sauf Haus
Almost everything about this night was magnificent. It was like that one scene in Sex in the City when… nevermind. We had decided that since our last show did not go well, we’d try again and hopefully not fail so god.damn.hard. And it seems like the pendulum swung in the complete opposite direction leading to more...
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