Ekko Astral are rereleasing their 2024 album Pink Balloons with five bonus tracks. - Credit: Moll Kinnunen* Washington, D.C., punk band Ekko Astral are releasing a deluxe version of their buzzy debut, ...

“THE DISTRICT SLEEPS ATONED TONIGHT.” Those are the final words screamed on “Pomegranate Tree,” the latest single from D.C. punk band Ekko Astral. The words are a condemnation and indictment, coming ...

While relatively new, local band Ekko Astral is swiftly claiming their title as heavyweights in the D.C. punk scene. The band’s intense, debut album, “pink balloons,” has been caught in a whirlwind of ...

Earlier this year, Ekko Astral became our Band To Watch and released the gnarly debut full-length Pink Balloons, one of the best albums of 2024. Since then, the punk crew has amicably parted ways ...

Washington, D.C., punk band Ekko Astral have teamed up with national collective and nonprofit organization Gender Liberation Movement to stage a new music and arts festival. Liberation Weekend will ...

Welcome to the 33rd Songs of the Week of 2024.This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Mark Moody, Scotty Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries helped me decide what should make the list. It wasn’t the ...

Miri Tyler of DC punks Ekko Astral told us about five of her favorite bands from the DC-area, past and present: ...

Ekko Astral are back with the new song “Horseglue.” The single arrives with a black-and-white music video directed by John Lee and the band’s Jael Holzman. Watch it below. “‘Horseglue’ is a screeching ...