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IM GETTIN THIS CABBAGE + KOHKANE MONTHLY RECAP WITH @cuni.jpg @lyebath @tonguescrapermusic @couragemother @runalongband @checkmate.md @unseemlier
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#photography #art #foams #dmvphotographer #baltimorephotographer

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🚨NEW SHOW ALERT 🚨

Come celebrate hispanic heritage month with local music from latin artists. 🎵
Sunday, October 4th @ 8pm
The Artemis, 3605 14 St NW, Washington DC
Ticket sold at the door and proceeds will go to migrant solidarity mutual aid ❤️.
Vamos!

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@couragemother at shivfest 3, 9/7/26.

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Friday night with Velvet Divide @velvetdivide, AITA @aita.band, and Courage Mother @couragemother

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This Friday @blackcatdc it all comes down to this 🥀

‘At First Glance’ drops everywhere and we’re celebrating with all of you

We’ll be playing everything we’ve worked on for the last year with @aita.band and @couragemother ❤️‍🔥

Grab your tickets now, link in our bios 🎫 :) See you there!

#washingtondc #fyp #diy #newmusic #supportlocalmusic

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Get ready for a full week of live music, comedy, tributes, and vinyl! One venue. Seven days. Something different every night. Come out, support live music, and make your week a little louder. 🤘
#WashingtonDC #DCLiveMusic #DCEvents #VinylOpenDecks #ComedyNight

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You may look at this Gigwatch Weekly Update and think: "that's not the usual plain white background!" If you do, then you aren't wrong :^)

Gigwatch Weekly Update 65 is presented by Pantone 11-4201 Cloud Dancer, Pantone's Color of the Year 2026. What do you think?

Is it a "a lofty white that serves as a symbol of calming influence in a society rediscovering the value of quiet reflection"? Is it the "landlord special," a "recession indicator" color of the year? Is it a "basic alabaster white" perfect for painting a house (show venue)? Let Gigwatch R&D's Color Consultant Team know in the comments 🤘

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Photos from @pearlstreet.dc ❤️‍🔥

At First Glance is almost here, and we’re celebrating our biggest hometown show to date at the one and only @blackcatdc with @couragemother and @aita.band

If you’re planning to come, now’s the time to grab your ticket 🎫 early sales make a huge difference more than you know, send us a screenshot and you may have a surprise care package at the show ;)

In the meantime, help us fight the algorithm and pre-save our album 💿

Links in Bio 🔗

#newmusic #fyp #poprock #girlband #washingtondc

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Why was I so excited to catch @koqueengirls, @film_and_gender, @xk_scenario, and @couragemother at @patchwork.dc yesterday? Not because XK is one of my absolute favorite local bands and I had been meaning to catch Courage Mother for a solid calendar year. Not because @wavedashdiy always puts on an amazing show. And not because I wanted to extend my streak of Massachusetts-oriented DMV gigs to 3 in a row. While those were all reasons for my desire to attend, greatest among them was my curiosity about its venue: what is this Patchwork space?

To prepare myself for the show, I wrote a whole bunch of questions to help me think about the space I was about to enter into, and what I look for in live music spaces in general.

Here are 20 questions, in the approximate order in which they came to mind, to reflect on a new live music space: Patchwork Edition!

Q1: What is its bathroom's character?

A1: Sparsely decorated but cozy, with a slight touch of liminality and a nice view onto Connecticut Ave.

Q2: What adorns the walls?

A2: Palestinian flag, patchwork letter tile Patchwork quilt, storage shelves with seafoam polaroid and cardboard boxes, 24 balls of yarn and 3 pairs of scissors, dangling coils of blue cable in a variety of locations, big orange plastic clock with white hands, cacti watering tracking poster, and community guidelines: “respect others, respect the space and equipment, and be chill and have fun.”

Q3: How does it sound in there?

A3: Loud, but DIY space loud as opposed to formal venue loud. Every instrument is audible and well-mixed.

Q4.1: What is the space's metaphorical temperature?

A4.1: Warm.

Q4.2: What is its literal temperature?

A4.2: Neutral to leans warm, with reasonable ventilation.

Q5: What do people do between sets?

A5: It’s a small room on the third floor of a building with nowhere else really to go, which combined with the comfortable atmosphere keeps everyone together in the space for the duration of the show, including between sets.

Q6: How obvious from afar is it that it is a live music space?

A6: You’d never know it was there if you weren’t looking for it.

CONTINUED IN THE COMMENTS BELOW AS ALWAYS 👇👇👇

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DID YOU KNOW? due to the abundance of lazy AI slop in the world, it doesn’t matter if you make something and aren’t satisfied with your results. the fact that you made it is awesome enough.
anyways, come to shivfest, i made like 5 flyers for it.
which one is your favorite? / tag yourself / comment your fav emojis for engagement ok

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‘At First Glance’ is officially 3 weeks away!

@velvetdivide Debut Album will be available on streaming everywhere Friday August 21st

Album Release show at @blackcatdc with @aita.band and @couragemother - Grab your tickets while you still can 🎫

Pre-Save link in bio 📎

Produced and Engineered by @eric_taft at @buzzloungestudio

#dmv #albumrelease #newmusic #poprock #supportlocalmusicians

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The first Gigwatch Weekly Update of 2026 fully under the sign of Leo is dedicated to all of our Leo Gigwatchers 🤘🦁♌️ what is in your horoscope for the remainder of this astrological season, as we reach and move past the peak of summer? Do you anticipate that live music will play a role in your self-actualization 🧗‍♀️ in the strengthening of your relationships and building of new ones 💑 in your professional and financial wellbeing 💸🤑💰?

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