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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple

@taylorruckle.bsky.social
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AAN Award-winning journalist at Washington City Paper; bylines at Paste, Bandcamp Daily, FLOOD Magazine, Line of Best Fit, etc. It's just a phase we're going through. It's all I ever want to do.

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Every Noun, Pumpkin Spiced @pumpkinspicenoun.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Pumpkin Spice Mental Illness
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Listen, you're never gonna hear me badmouth Nebraska. But the high point is Born to Run
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mle @inxbetweenxdays.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Live now at gutsyradio.org
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mle @inxbetweenxdays.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My baseball radio show is tonight at 9 pm ET on GutsyRadio.org
Photo of Camden Yards at Golden Hour with text 
NOT A PHASE PRESENTS Take Me Out to The Ball Game
Monday, July 12 9–11 pm ET
GutsyRadio.org
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Absolutely floored by this. It's a true privilege to write about DC music, and I owe so much to Sarah and the rest of the City Paper staff for making this possible!
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Sometimes a coffee shop is just too well-lit and sterile to be playing Massive Attack
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I can say plenty about my years in retail but I will always be grateful there was NO in-store radio
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I don't usually follow anime in real time, but Witch Hat Atelier has been an absolute delight & the highlight of my week all season
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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I enjoyed this deep dive into DC's hip hop scene, a provocative and humbling reminder there is a creative community just around the corner I cannot begin to understand fully.
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The New DMV
How two collectives in and around the District are pushing street rap to the brink.
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Washington City Paper @wcp.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A Montgomery County judge has ordered the Garage to stop hosting live music. The DIY venue—which operates on the county’s Agricultural Reserve—was found guilty of violating a zoning code that requires businesses on the Reserve to serve agricultural purposes. More on the ruling:
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Montgomery County Orders the Garage to Cease Live Music
By order of Montgomery County, the Garage will stop hosting live music. On May 19, District Court Judge Rand L. Gelber found that the Boyds, Maryland, venue—which operates on the county’s Agricultural...
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New Sweeping Promises rocks, we've never been more back
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
"Up-tight" by Perennial voted best way to lose your voice
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Green World Image is a good new wave record that sometimes strikes me as unfunny and glib. More from me on Telehealth's sophomore album at FLOOD:
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Telehealth, “Green World Image”
The Seattle band mashes up Millennial malaise with ’80s synthpunk and biting satire on a playful second LP that crowds out the more emotional elements with terminally online irony.
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Great things happening in Tomodachi Life. Falin and Marcille from Dungeon Meshi had a baby, and her first words were "In on the Kill Taker."
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Sarah Marloff @sarahmarloff.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Spent the past 2 weeks talking to the folks at Graphic Audio—the local company that put full-cast, immersive audio books on the map—about their recent vote to unionize and the layoffs that hit half their bargaining unit 6 months later. For @wcp.bsky.social washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7854...
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Maryland-Based RBmedia Lays Off 22 Workers Amid Union Contract Negotiations
During collective bargaining, parent company of Rockville-based Graphic Audio laid off half its staff, including the bargaining committee.
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I like to walk around it I'm paid to stand around it
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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
EGG HEAD - “Skibadee, skibadanger! I am the rearranger!”
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Finally read the Akira manga, which was so good it made me retroactively disappointed in the film adaptation (justice for Kei! and Chiyoko! and Miyako! And the much more blatant anti-imperialist themes)
Akira book 6, by Katsuhiro Otomo
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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Mitski at the Southern Cafe and Music Hall (Charlottesville, VA)....Chappell Roan at 9:30 Club
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Doing an experiment where I listen to Angine de Poitrine even tho I haven't seen That Video
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Sarah Marloff @sarahmarloff.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Bye Illuminati Hotties, hello Devi McCallion. The updated Liberation Weekend II lineup has been announced. @taylorruckle.bsky.social has the details at @wcp.bsky.social
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Liberation Weekend II Announces Refreshed Lineup
Devi McCallion, Hit Like a Girl, and others join the music festival to support trans rights.
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Dash Lewis // Gardener @gardenerjams.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
hire me to write for you please
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
New from me in Washington City Paper, a feature on just a few of D.C.'s dozens of amazing local show photographers--a community as impressive and diverse as the music scene itself!
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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
You should go to more shows. For the @wcp.bsky.social spring arts guide, I wrote up Mclusky, Gelli Haha, and Dry Cleaning. That’s only a drop in the bucket for what’s ahead.
washingtoncitypaper.com
Spring Arts Guide 2026: The Concerts We Can’t Wait For
This season has local bands, up-and-comers, and a few big names—not to mention the return of Mosh Madness and a rave on Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Washington City Paper @wcp.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Local music photographers squeeze into unusual venues, stumble into push pits, and climb on top of gear boxes to get the shot. For the Spring Arts Guide, contributor Taylor Ruckle turns the camera on the documentarians of the city’s underground and DIY culture.
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Shot in the Dark: Turning the Camera On Local Music Photographers
Meet the freelance artists who crouch and climb around DIY venues to capture D.C. bands and music history on camera.
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Cover design still looks like the future.
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The Albini version of Public Witness Program goes so hard
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Lars Gotrich @totalvibration.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Stop literally everything. Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time. fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...
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Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi
12 track album
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
How about it?
Black and white photo of a rickenbacker guitar captioned 1 like = 1 favorite album
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Washington City Paper @wcp.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Topshelf Records dropped D.C. punk band Ekko Astral after news broke of Jael Holzman’s peace order against former drummer, Miri Tyler. The abrupt cancellation comes amid a public reckoning with Holzman’s actions by other members of the D.C. music community. More here:
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Topshelf Records Cancels Album Release for Ekko Astral
Ahead of the D.C. punk band’s new album and Liberation Weekend festival, their scene reacts to legal action by frontwoman Jael Holzman.
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america’s local band cheekface @cheekface.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
“Hostile Street” is out now 🧿 So, an increasingly cruel society is encroaching on people who are basically good and friendly and just trying to do their thing. I know that, you know that, we all know that. Me and Mandy saw it in hostile street furniture – those bus benches that have uncomfortable
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Abacot singles have me hyped for the record - love that the DMV has its own Liquid Mike (but heavier?)
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now say something true and beautiful @sugarkelp.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I'm always sore for at least two days after seeing Pinky Lemon. That's how good they are
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Broke Royals @brokeroyals.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Here’s a music challenge: listen to this! brokeroyals.bandcamp.com/album/campr
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Campr, by Broke Royals
10 track album
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This Is Just To Say It Ain't So
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 05/02/2026
somebody’s sweet plums are crowding my icebox somebody’s cold plums are giving me chills
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Tell me five classes you took in college: Modernist Fiction into Film Public Affairs Production Muse and Memory: Women in 19th-20th Century Russian Lit Podcast Production Intro to Post-Tonal Composition
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mle @inxbetweenxdays.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Here’s my latest radio show recording: www.mixcloud.com/gutsyradio/n...
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NOT A PHASE: Best of 2025 — Emily from MD 1.26.26 9–11 pm show on Gutsy Radio
The best songs of 2025.
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Thank you Punch Tab tapes for the conversation on affordable, accesible physical media! 2025 was the year I finally bought myself a cassette walkman. No regrets 🤘
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
No escape from the alt-country-fication of everything! No escape!
Tidal screenshot of Site Unseen by Courtney Barnett and Waxahatchee
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The 59 Sound by The Gaslight Anthem is a Christmas song
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
November 7 - the Snocaps record is such a pleasant surprise. New Mountain Goats wrecked me! And in local news, I'm really digging the new Color Palette and the solo drops from the Home Remedies folks (Sue Hudson Lives, Straphanger, Unlikely Animal Frienship)
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
What happens when you stumble into Halloween wearing sparkling, forbidden "plastic" clothes?
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mle @inxbetweenxdays.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
On air with a cool band from Philly! Listen at gutsyradio.org until 11 pm ET
NOT A PHASE FEAT MOON BY MOON Oct 13 9–11 pm ET gutsy Radio dot org
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Sitting in a coffee shop weeping openly @ the new Mountain Goats
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Washington City Paper @wcp.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
For D.C. singer-songwriter Roba Djalleta, Virginia really is for lovers. Her new EP Lover’s Virginia documents the pivot between her teens and 20s—a time when she established herself in the local music scene and came out as transgender. Contributor Taylor Ruckle on Djalleta’s journey:
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Mapping out a Lover’s Virginia with Roba Djalleta of Berra
From Florida to New Hampshire, the D.C. singer-songwriter’s latest EP is a travelogue of her early adulthood.
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
No fucking way
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Dramaviolet De Velvet Blurple @taylorruckle.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this piece (especially Sarah for the edit). Ambrose Nzams told me self-publishing is the coolest thing you can do, and after reporting this, I do agree
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