DC Live

Featured Shows of the Week! June 17 Monday June 17 2013 Low @ 6th and I Synagogue Low is an American indie rock group from Duluth, Minnesota, formed in 1993. The group is composed of Alan Sparhawk, Mimi Parker and Steve Garrington, and is characterized by slow tempos and minimalist arrangements. The band’s latest album, [...]

Featured Shows of the Week! June 10 Monday June 10 2013 Animal Collective @ 9:30 Club The strange, shimmering star at the center of the early 2000s psych-pop revival, Animal Collective garnered both critical plaudits and rabid, devoted acolytes by blending Brian Wilson-esque vocal harmonies with spaced-out instrumentation, tribal percussion and odd ribbons of sound. [...]

Philadelphia-band Nightlands brought the mellow vibes to DC9 last Thursday night, entrancing the crowd with their powerful harmonies and dream-pop like tracks. Dave Hartley, known for his work in The War On Drugs, brings the music from his solo project to the diamond stage, complete with a supporting lot of musicians to bring his live [...]

Featured Shows of the Week! June 3 Monday June 3 2013 Charli XCX @ U Street Music Hall The nom de pop of Charlotte Aitchison, Charli XCX mixes influences and inspirations as diverse as the Spice Girls, Kate Bush, Lil Wayne, Quentin Tarantino, and Twin Peaks into moody-yet-catchy synth pop described by some as “neon [...]

Featured Shows of the Week! May 28 Tuesday May 28 2013 The Uncluded @ 9:30 Club In 2007, while on tour supporting his album None Shall Pass, indie rapper/ producer Aesop Rock wrote a fan email to folk singer/songwriter Kimya Dawson. A few years later they reconnected during the creation of arts-and-oddities blog 900Bats, which [...]

Brooklyn’s folk-rock songstress, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper concluded her Ripely Pine tour at DC’s Black Cat with label mates Xenia Rubinos, and Cincinnati-rock band, Healing Power. After seeing Aly Spaltra twice before but as openers for Beirut and Typhoon, she headlined the night with a full band, two members consisting of Xenia Rubinos and Marco [...]

Fully reformed from their hiatus, The Hush Sound made their way back to DC last Friday night performing for the crowded room at the U Street Music Hall. And the band has not missed a beat! Coming into the night, I had decided that I would be the happiest girl if they played just about [...]

Featured Shows of the Week! May 20 Monday May 20 2013 Lady Lamb the Beekeeper @ Black Cat More than anything, Aly Spaltro has 20,000 second-hand DVDs to thank for her first album. Despite being recorded at a proper studio in her recently adopted home of Brooklyn, Ripely Pine showcases songs conceived during her tenure [...]

Music and food fans came together in the rain and mud for Sweetgreen’s 4th annual day long Sweetlife Festival last Saturday at Merriweather Post Pavilion. Major headliners came onto the 2013 lineup like Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kendrick Lamar, Passion Pit, newcomers like MS MR and Haerts and more! Check out photos from the Music [...]

Featured Shows of the Week! May 13 Monday May 13 2013 Twin Sister @ Black Cat Twin Sister create the kind of hypnotic pop you’ve been dreaming about since Galaxie 500 fizzled, cut with Tusk-era Fleetwood Mac thump, and a shot of Lynchian weirdness for good measure. They’re slack yet focused, a spark in the [...]

9:30 Club was the first stop on tour for Sweden’s Shout Out Louds, bringing along with them the New York’s new buzzworthy band Haerts. Both bands didn’t disappoint as I’ve been a big fan of the Shout Out Louds’ latest record Optica, which they’ve played many songs off of. I was excited to see and [...]

Featured Shows of the Week! May 6 Monday May 6 2013 Telekinesis @ Black Cat Telekinesis returns April 2 with Dormarion. Telekinesis is both a band and a person. It’s taken Michael Benjamin Lerner, now a wizened, grizzled 26-year-old, four years to come to terms with this and understand what responsibilities it does and does [...]

Great things happen when The Joy Formidable come to town. And last Sunday night at the 9:30 Club was no different! Our friend, John-Paul Zajackowski (JPZPhoto) provided us with some words and fantastic photos from Sunday’s sold out show. “Arriving late I walked into a very packed and sold out 9:30 Club to see bands [...]

Having done an artist feature on Laura Stevenson prior to her show at the Rock N Roll Hotel, I had asked her to explain her live show in three words. “Sad, happy, sad,” she replied and that was exactly what we got during her live set at the packed H Street venue on Saturday night. [...]

Featured Shows of the Week! April 22 Monday April 22 2013 Deerhunter @ Sixth & I From Atlanta, Georgia, the origins of Deerhunter can be traced back to when frontman Bradford Cox first met guitarist Lockett Pundt at high school. Years later Bradford and Moses Archuleta began making music together, and the seeds of what [...]

We’re excited to feature singer-songwriter Erick Baker before his show at Foundation Gallery & Liveroom tomorrow night (4/11). With two full-length records under his belt, his latest Goodbye June being released last year, Erick Baker already has his sights set on writing and recording another record. We reached out to Erick about becoming an artist, [...]

Featured Shows of the Week! April 8 Tuesday April 9 2013 Caveman @ Black Cat Caveman was born in New York in January of 2010, when a group of friends decided it was time to put aside their boyhood ways and start being men. The sound they crafted in that large, dark room is equal [...]

Featured Shows of the Week! April 1 Monday April 1 2013 Family of the Year with The Mowgli’s @ Rams Head On Stage “Family of the Year’s story began in 2009, when Joe assembled a band around an album, Songbook, that he completed while decompressing from a five-year stint with Unbusted, the alt-rock trio he [...]