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lil xan goes to washington by Ekko Astral on Apple Music

listen to lil xan goes to washington by @ekkoastral.bsky.social !!!!!!!!

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lil xan goes to washington by Ekko Astral is playing now on New Music Daily

my first wig was charli xcx’s self titled hairstyle doo off her merch store. from having a pop 2 poster in my bedroom to joining her on the front page of apple music. dreams do come true

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TOUR 2026 *with Perennial KINGSTON, NY Friday, May 29 - Tubby's* BURLINGTON, VT Saturday, May 30 - Monkey House* PORTLAND, ME Sunday, May 31 - SPACE* PROVIDENCE, RI Tuesday, June 2 - Machines with Magnets BOSTON, MA Wednesday, June 3 - The Rockwell" NEW YORK, NY Friday, June 5 - Night Club 101 PHILADELPHIA, PA Saturday, June 6 - PhilaMOCA

ekko astral is taking the beltway on the road up north this spring. select dates with @perennialtheband.bsky.social

tickets on sale now: linktr.ee/ekkoastral

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TOUR 2026 *with Perennial KINGSTON, NY Friday, May 29 - Tubby's* BURLINGTON, VT Saturday, May 30 - Monkey House* PORTLAND, ME Sunday, May 31 - SPACE* PROVIDENCE, RI Tuesday, June 2 - Machines with Magnets BOSTON, MA Wednesday, June 3 - The Rockwell" NEW YORK, NY Friday, June 5 - Night Club 101 PHILADELPHIA, PA Saturday, June 6 - PhilaMOCA

ekko astral is taking the beltway on the road up north this spring. select dates with @perennialtheband.bsky.social

tickets on sale now: linktr.ee/ekkoastral

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caffeine baby

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yes and no

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When Ekko Astral dropped their searing debut pink balloons in 2024, it would be another year and change before Trump took office and deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C. Recorded immediately after the 2024 U.S. General Election, Ekko Astral’s second album the beltway is burning was always intended as a real-time historical document in the form of a dark comedy. Each song plays out like a vignette, with Ekko Astral beckoning listeners into their fictionalized version of The Beltway (the area within I-495), in which Adam Sandler is a god-president and the DMV has become a demilitarized zone, a wasteland run by butt rockers and Soundcloud rappers. On the surrealist lead single “lil xan goes to washington,” the titular character travels to D.C. to lobby for addiction assistance legislation before succumbing to the cartoonish horror that is K Street (where all major lobbying firms are based), ultimately becoming a sellout himself. Such noisy, absurd caricatures abound on beltway, whose anchors are simultaneously heavier, poppier, and more complex than on predecessor pink balloons. Take the album’s pop diamond “lovesick american romance”: a 90s rock-indebted anthem that snarls at mainstream culture’s embrace of the manosphere. And then there’s the album’s centerpiece, “this is not a call to action but a lamentation on the situation at hand (or, capital riot),” which sees the band take an entirely new direction in a stretched-out, climactic barn-burner that invites listeners into the band’s funhouse version of D.C. Where pink balloons was written to uplift, the beltway is burning is meant to remind you of the stakes. On penultimate track “blood mountain,” Holzman asks “if I don’t know what’s wrong / how can it be righted?” This kind of tension is omnipresent in Ekko Astral’s work, grounding beltway in our present reality, injecting urgency and realism into each song despite their surrealist contours.

yeah sure I guess

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Ekko Astral announce new album, the beltway is burning - Treble Hear "lil xan goes to washington"

@ekkoastral.bsky.social have announced a new album, 'the beltway is burning', via @topshelfrecords.com

Hear "lil xan goes to washington"

www.treblezine.com/ekko-astral-...

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Ekko Astral.

Ekko Astral Announce New Album ‘the beltway is burning’, Release New Song https://ourculturemag.com/2026/02/11/ekko-astral-announce-new-album-the-beltway-is-burning-release-new-song/

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everyone tap in. new ekko astral record april 22nd

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Liam Hughes and Jael Holzman of Ekko Astral

Ekko Astral announce new album 'The Beltway is Burning' & shows, share "lil xan goes to washington" www.brooklynvegan.com/ekko-astral-...

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YouTube video by Ekko Astral Ekko Astral - "lil xan goes to washington" [Official Music Video]

There’s a video for the new @ekkoastral.bsky.social

Ekko Astral are headlining @liberationwknd.bsky.social in DC, on Saturday night, 25 April.

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Ekko Astral to release new album, share “lil xan goes to washington” video

Ekko Astral to release new album, share “lil xan goes to washington” video

www.punknews.org/article/8755...

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Ekko Astral - lil xan goes to washington - stereobar.net Ekko Astral - lil xan goes to washington

DC punks Ekko Astral announce sophomore LP the beltway is burning (April 22, Topshelf). Lead single: Lil Xan goes to DC to lobby for addiction legislation, gets eaten by K Street.
#EkkoAstral #BestNewMusic2026 #W07 #TopshelfRecords
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Ekko Astral I saw Washington D.C. punk band Ekko Astral a couple of years ago at SXSW and really dug the group's queer punk and political aesthetic. Th...

Cool new punk from Ekko Astral...

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YouTube video by Ekko Astral Ekko Astral - "lil xan goes to washington" [Official Music Video]

#BestSongHeardToday

ekko astral
lil zan goes to washington •
2026

youtu.be/NLNIO0BRL0c
#MusicChallenge

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WEEKLY PLAYLIST:

Ft. Lootpack, Monolake, Tapper Zukie, Majesty Crush, Should, Velocity Girl, Jaco Pastorious, Sun Ra, ladylike, Damaged Bug, Anna Calvi, Elder Island, MUNA, Ekko Astral, and more…

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Ekko Astral Después de dos años, Ekko Astral presenta el single 'lil xan goes to washington' , primicia del álbum que el 22 de abril cubrirá las cubeta...

Ekko Astral presents the single 'lil xan goes to washington', via Topshelf Records, where the post-punk percussionist is carried away by a world of psychedelia and fuzz, unleashed through a wall of noise caused by distortions and altercations #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/02/ekko...

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shmekko shmashtral

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all the benefits and none of the drawbacks

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hirshhorn

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before

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eric clapton

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sure

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i was there on the day paul ryan resigned.

after seeing the news, i immediately enter the elevator to the house tunnels.

the doors open on the 2nd floor. a mob of reporters are after paul ryan like a flood in a miyazaki movie.

he ducks into a room. doors close.

i then say, “end scene.”

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there’s no right answer here i am afraid

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the feeling you get when you are concerned

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the ekko album was out already

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its 3 am eastern standard time and i cannot sleep. ask me anything

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🆒💁‍♀️

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