9:30 club

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 [...]

Chicago’s The Hush Sound are back and reformed from their four-year hiatus, lifting all the spirits of the fans who have waited for this moment. Now they’re set to start their next tour, co-headlining with Hockey and making a stop at DC’s U Street Music Hall. The band recently released a two-song EP called Forty [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We’re pumped to have New York-duo, Hockey, as our latest featured artist. The band, after relocating to New York and losing a couple of members, are back with an upcoming full-length called Wyeth IS, due out May 7th (Pre-order here). In addition to their new record, Hockey are prepared to start a co-headlining tour with [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“The Leopard And The Lung” by The Joy Formidable is our Track of the Day. While most six-minute tracks feel as though they run quite long, the Welsh-trio makes each second feel as it belongs. The epic track, filled with its whirring guitars, roaring drums, and dreamy vocals, is a definite standout from their most [...]

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 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 [...]

Second time’s a charm for us to see Wild Belle opened up at Toro Y Moi at the sold out 9:30 Club! One could easily tell how comfortable the band felt on a bigger stage (compared to when they opened for Tennis at RNR Hotel) as the brother-sister duo took the audience into the palm [...]

Featured Shows of the Week! February 11 Tuesday February 12 2013 Lady Lamb the Beekeeper @ DC9 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 at [...]