New EP from electro-dance punk quintet Light Beams from Washington D.C. Their latest single “Step Back” (their first on Peterwalkee following a split 7" and LP release with Dischord & Lovitt Records earlier this year) continues their exploration of music created solely with percussion, samples, and vocals (and, okay, some bass guitar). Featuring members of D.C. stalwarts BRNDA, Sensor Ghost, Bed Maker, Dim Wizard, and Antelope. FFO: Tom Tom Club, Tune Yards, The Rapture, Black Eyes, The B52'S, Gang of Four
7 COLOR $11.35
11/28/2025
***Light Beams’ new two-song 7" is out now, released as a co-release between Dischord Records and Lovitt Records. The record features tracks recorded by Zach Goldstein at Kawari Sound in Wyncote, PA, and by Justin Moyer at the band’s own Solar Power Station in Washington, D.C. Light Beams continue to carve out their own space in the post-punk landscape. The band will be playing select shows throughout the remainder of the year in support of the release.
7" $11.00
10/24/2025
***On their upcoming album Wild Life, DC dance punks Light Beams paint a surreal portrait of a world filtered through front person Justin Moyer’s recent experiences as a protest reporter (and a member of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team that covered the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol). The shadow of the attack looms large over the record as the quintet acutely distills nine songs into a twenty-five-minute package that voyages through insurrection deep into the bittersweet heart of 21st-century America. From their self-titled debut album through 2020’s Self Help, Light Beams have eschewed traditional melody instruments in favor of Moyer’s minimalist samplers and vocals, Sam Lavine’s drumming and Arthur Noll’s basslines. On Wild Life, they expand this palette with the addition of Leah Gage (vocals, rototoms) and Erin McCarley (vocals, timbales, samples). The result: bigger sounds, bigger themes, and a bigger canvas. Wild Life arrives on Nov. 3 in a collaboration between legendary DC label Dischord Records and Moyer’s own Mud Memory Records. This release is the latest in a lengthy relationship between Moyer and Dischord which stretches back to his former bands El Guapo, Antelope, and Edie Sedgwick.
LP $19.75
11/03/2023