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The Caribbean is an American experimental pop group from Washington, D.C. The band has been critically acclaimed for its deconstructionist approach to pop music, its wry, literary lyrics, and its eclectic sound, which incorporates elements of American pop, post-rock, cool jazz, folk music, lounge music, and even Brazilian music. The Caribbean has garnered positive press from Pitchfork, The Washington Post, Washington City Paper, Magnet, Rolling Stone, PopMatters, Uncut, The Denver Post, Flak, Stylus, Tiny Mix Tapes, Harp Magazine, and Signal to Noise, and its 2011 album, Discontinued Perfume, was named Indie Pop Record of the Year by PopMatters.

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Jon Camp is a fingerstyle guitarist and composer from the Washington, DC region. His emotive twang encompasses American Primitive Guitar, psychedelia, drone, classic country, and more. Jon's set at Rhizome will be in ensemble form with long-time collaborator Nick Arrivo on bass, Dave Jones (The Caribbean) on guitar, Ryan Peterson on drums, and Jamie Linder (Crooks & Crows) on pedal steel.

https://joncamp.bandcamp.com

Attorneys General is a project led by Matthew Byars of DC-based band The Caribbean. A formative experience for Byars as a listener was hearing the work of soundman Martin Swope of Mission of Burma on their seminal 1985 live record, The Horrible Truth About Burma, in which Swope, using a reel-to-reel tape machine, captured, looped, manipulated, and destroyed elements of the band’s sound in spontaneous and unexpected ways. Byars has adapted this approach to having three people (different players every time, mostly) generate sound through a mixing board he controls, which allows him to capture, loop, manipulate, and destroy the sounds they create. Results vary from the transcendent to the disastrous, but the inherent risk involved is, ultimately, the point.