The Caribbean

A band from Washington, DC.

"They're taking Brill Building songs and writing them in invisible ink, turning jazz standards into Twilight Zone episodes, turning folk songs into clouds of fog." 
-PopMatters

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11/18/23

New show announced.


8/19/22

Our new single, “Paints Her Nails,” will be released by Brooklyn label Declared Goods on 8/26/22. Click here to pre-save it on streaming services.


6/28/22

Our Seventh Stanine Festival Milwaukee is set for Sat., 7/30/22.


2/13/22

Our annual Seventh Stanine Festival is set for Sat., 6/18/22. More details to follow.


3/26/21

Matt, under his The Jarvik 6 moniker, recorded a version of Pernice Brothers’ “Amazing Glow.” Link here.


3/19/21

Our annual Seventh Stanine Festival is set for Sat., 6/19 at Rhizome. Link here.


12/9/20

We’re happy to announce that we’ve been signed to a music licensing/publishing deal with Superior Songs, the licensing/publishing arm of Superior Viaduct.


9/20/20

New show announcement: outdoors at Rhizome, Sat., 10/17/20 with Jon Camp. Afternoon show, 4:00 PM start.


2/9/20

Dates have been posted for our fourth annual Seventh Stanine Festival at Rhizome.


7/5/19

An album of remixes of our single, “Vitamin Ship,” called “Vitamin Ships: Remixes,” was released today.


10/20/18

Our new single, “The Seventeenth Century,” is out today.


10/10/18

We’re featured in today’s Washington Post.

8/9/18

Our video for “Vitamin Ship” premiered on PopMatters today.

6/26/18

Our new single, “Vitamin Ship,”

is out today on Bandcamp.

6/13/18

Our Seventh Stanine Festival is this weekend at Rhizome.  Full details

here.

5/9/18

New single, “Vitamin Ship,” coming 6/1/18.

New tour dates in support of it now posted (see “Shows/Events” right over there, or get more info here).

New episodes of Matt’s podcast on NPR, “Essential Tremors,” now available.  Guests include Ian MacKaye, Jana Hunter, and others.

12/25/17

New show posted.  New album being recorded.  Matt has a new podcast on WYPR, Baltimore’s NPR affiliate, called Essential Tremors.  Follow/join/stay tuned.

4/17/17

We’re putting on a music festival: seventhstanine.com.  Sat., 6/3, 2:00 PM to 2:00 AM, Dew Drop Inn, DC, 12 bands, four DJs.  Join us!

12/21/15

The Jarvik 6, a project between Matt, Clinton Doggett of More Humans, and Tiny Telephone engineer Beau Sorensen is now available for streaming/download/pre-order.

7/10/15

Our first EP has been re-released by West Main Development.

5/1/15

New summer shows announced!

2/22/15

New shows announced!

12/29/14

The Denver Post has named “Moon Sickness” to its “Best Albums of 2014”

list, as has the Washington City PaperThe Architectural Dance Society, and

Erasing Clouds.

8/14/14

New Hopscotch Day Party date announced.

7/5/14

Midwest tour starts Wednesday: Columbus, Lexington, Louisville, Chicago, Milwaukee.  Do come.

5/5/14

New shows posted!

3/29/14

Magnet debuted our video for “imitation Air” a while back.

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