WASHINGTON CITY PAPER

An Ode to Local Support From Broke Royals

By: Sarah Marloff

Photo: Aaro Keipi

When Broke Royals set out to name their third album, released earlier this year, they were thinking back to their pre-pandemic days of constant touring and endless live shows. For a while, the band were playing a plethora of “local support gigs” where they would open for touring bands without their own opening acts. So they decided that’s the perfect name for the album (and the closing track). It harkens back to a time when the now-five-member band was exhausted and electric performers. But today, it’s also the ideal title for a record made entirely within the D.C. community.

Released on July 15, 2022, Local Support was produced by fellow D.C. musician Bartees Strange, recorded in Capitol Hill’s Ivakota studio, and released by Byrdland Records, a new label from the team behind Songbyrd Music House and the record store of the same name, Byrdland Records.