A Hyattsville music teacher’s new EP is getting attention in the crowded D.C. music scene.
Called “The Fork Universe of Funky Love,” the five-track EP has already been written up by the Washington Post and Washington City Paper after it came out on July 29 on the the local nonprofit label This Could Go Boom!
The pop-punk band is called Professor Goldstein, a nod to lead singer Aeryn Goldstein’s day job as a music teacher at an elementary school in Bowie. One track, “The Ballad of Alfred Wegener,” is a nod to the originator of continental drift theory.
Goldstein jokingly describes the sound as “Weezer-core,” after the popular 1990s band that has spawned a thousand imitators.
“I’d love to find my niche in the Weezer-core genre,” she writes. “Whether it’s a nasally, stream-of-conscious screechfest of a song or a carefully crafted ballad that subtly describes how Dinosaur documentaries shaped my childhood.”
Goldstein, who grew up in Berwyn Heights, now lives in Hyattsville, where she and bandmate Venkatesh Ananth Batni run a DIY venue from their home called The Classroom, which records and streams shows from bands like Spring Silver.
You can buy the EP for $4 on Bandcamp here.
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