The Washington Post - USA (2022-04-01)

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sic and wants to feel the freedom

of being themselves.” Thursday at

8 p.m. at Songbyrd, 540 Penn St.

NE. songbyrddc.com. $ 16-$20.

Note: Proof of coronavirus vaccination

is required for attendance at some of

these shows. Check venue websites

for details.

One of neoperreo’s brightest pro-

ponents is Ms. Nina. Born in Ar-

gentina and based in Spain, the

Tumblr artist turned vocalist gets

bodies moving with her feminist,

sex-positive anthems. “Neoperreo

is a party for everyone,” Ms. Nina

told Billboard. “It’s about includ-

ing everyone who loves Latin mu-

years, reggaeton has been on the

soundtrack far beyond its Carib-

bean birthplace. As with all 21st-

century music, the globe-flatten-

ing powers of the Internet have

enriched creation and collabora-

tion, with reggaeton sprouting an

offshoot called neoperreo that

takes the sound back to the future.

Place,” she sings, “I know that I will

be fine if I never find my place” —

and she might have found it. Sun-

day at 8 p.m. at t he Fillmore Silver

Spring, 8656 Colesville Rd., Silver

Spring. fillmoresilverspring.com.

$27.

Ms. Nina

It’s the time of year when the

weather improves and music that

moves bodies starts to pour out of

car windows. For the past few

tion.org. In-person sold out, live
stream: $10-$15.

Poppy

Like many of her contempo-
raries, Poppy first came to promi-
nence on YouTube. But instead of
homespun acoustic covers, the
singer-songwriter mined the un-
canny valley, delivering an-
droidlike ASMR from an all-white
virtual world. Her music mixes
those art-school underpinnings
with the genre agnosticism com-
mon to her cohort. On the 2020
album “I Disagree,” she paired her
saccharine-sweet vocals with
speed metal, mall punk, surf rock
and teeny-bop pop, sometimes on
the same song. She returned in
2021 with “Flux,” an album seem-
ingly less concerned with persona
and more with songwriting and
singing that sounds like a survey
of ’90s alt-rock. On slow-burning
album closer “Never Find My

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