Live music DC

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 [...]

Pittsburgh-based singer-songwriter Joy Ike hasn’t always wanted to be a musician but in 2013, she’s already released her third full-length record, All Or Nothing. “The depth of subjects she tackles in her poetic lyrics are perfectly complemented by a unique blend of neo-soul, with just the right dash of pop,” say NPR about Ike. We [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Folk-rock musician, Laura Stevenson has a new record coming out on April 23rd called Wheel. The NY-native has been making the rounds in the music world, getting her start at a very early age following in the footsteps of her music-making grandparents. Now with the new record being close to it’s release, Laura Stevenson starts her [...]

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 [...]

Duke Erikson, Steve Marker, Butch Vig, and Shirley Manson come back to town, taking complete command of the stage and of the sold out crowd at the Fillmore. Starting off with Supervixen and Queer, Garbage pleased us with a well-rounded set with hits like Special, #1 Crush, When I Grow Up, and more from their [...]