Featured Shows of the Week

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Featured Shows of the Week! April 29 Monday April 29 2013 Johnny Marr @ 9:30 Club The early 1980s weren’t the best of times to be an aspiring guitar player. Twenty years earlier, the head of Decca records, Dick Rowe, had made the biggest A&R gaff in pop history with the legendary clanger “Guitar groups [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Featured Shows of the Week! March 25 Wednesday March 27 2013 The Feelies @ 9:30 Club Haledon, New Jersey (USA). It’s here, in this little town in the NY area, where the story began. In the mid-seventies, when the punk era was about to explode, Glenn Mercer and Bill Million started playing together in a [...]

Featured Shows of the Week! March 18 Monday March 18 2013 Tyler the Creator @ U Street Music Hall Tyler Okonma (born March 6, 1991), better known by his stage name Tyler, the Creator, is an American rapper and record producer from Los Angeles, California. He is the leader of the collective OFWGKTA. He has [...]

Featured Shows of the Week! March 11 Monday March 11 2013 Scott Weiland: The Purple to the Core Tour @ The Howard Theatre Scott will perform selections from the Stone Temple Pilots albums Purple and Core, as well as some choice covers. Rocketing to the forefront of the music world in 1992, Scott Weiland has [...]

Featured Shows of the Week! March 4 Monday March 4 2013 Alt-J @ 9:30 Club alt-J (∆)’s name takes a little explaining. Pronounced “alt-J”, the delta sign is created when you hold down the alt key on your computer keyboard and punch ‘J’ on a Mac computer. The symbol has a deeper meaning for the [...]

Featured Shows of the Week! February 25 Monday February 25 2013 Pree @ DC9 After touring for two years with Le Loup, guitarist May Tabol returned home to launch a new project with a close group of friends converging in the DC arts scene. Now playing as a four-piece, Pree combines a wide variety of [...]

Featured Shows of the Week! February 18 Monday February 18 2013 Liz Longley @ Jammin’ Java Most recently, Liz’s music has taken center stage on a national level with numerous television placements and radio airplay. ABC’s critically acclaimed series NY Med featured Liz’s music throughout the first season, and the 2012 season finale of Lifetime’s [...]

Featured Shows of the Week! January 22 Monday January 28 2013 The xx @ Rams Head Live! The xx are an English indie pop band, formed in London in 2008. The group released their debut album, xx in August 2009. The album ranked highly on many best of 2009 lists, placing number one on the [...]

Featured Shows of the Week! January 22 Tuesday January 22 2012 The Growlers @ Black Cat The Growlers are a rock-and-pop group from Long Beach, California. Although rooted in 1960s rock’n'roll and skiffle, the group plays with different musical genres, ranging from ice-flossing hip hop to psychedelic rock. Which is to say, The Growlers aren’t [...]