Harold Stallworth didn’t grow up in the nation’s capital.
Washington D.C.’s go-go scene is challenging to cover. It’s still a live genre, so in order to document and report on the city’s active bands with any kind of authority, a journalist would have to venture to hole-in-the-wall venues in Prince George’s County and rub elbows with teenagers. They would have to purchase countless PA tapes of live performances that often take months or even years to surface. In other words, to properly cover go-go, one must invest a substantial amount of time and money into the culture, because the genre’s narratives rarely take shape on blogs or social media.
For band’s like New Impressionz—a quasi-grown and sexy outfit that recently took it upon themselves to liberate an unreleased double album via Twitter and Facebook—reputation and goodwill is largely forged by word of mouth, in hair salons and dorm rooms and passing cars with license plates decrying “taxation without representation.” Like practically every double disc that isn’t Wu-Tang Forever, this album vacillates between the good, the bad, and the ugly. But it’s probably as good an introduction to New Impressionz as any of their more succinct outings.
Download:
Disc 1: https://t.co/LLCO5x2VSa
Disc 2: https://t.co/5Z6MsjrHev
