The Nationals are requesting your votes for "7th Inning Stretch Song," "Home Run Song," and "Victory Song." As pointed out in this Idolator post, there's only one local choice in there, Chuck Brown's "Bustin Loose" (my personal theme music for overeating) and the rest are pretty crappy (though I do get goosebumps whenever I [...]
Orpheus Records in Arlington is still open despite staff predictions that the store would be closed by now.
According to store owner Rick Carlisle, "it seems likely" that the bricks-and-mortar version of Orpheus will now stay open through the end of April.
In case you haven't been following this story, here's the original news item from Black [...]
A friend just sent me a link to a PopMatters post about the demise of Silver Spring's Harp Magazine. I asked a colleague who would know and I was told that it is indeed true.
Looks like the issue with Dain Bramage's Dave Grohl on the cover might be the magazine's swan song.
First Maxim dissed the Black Crowes' new record, Warpaint, without ever hearing it. Now, the New York Times has screwed up their name, referring to the popular roots-rock act as "the Black Cowes." Will their tribulations ever end?
DC music writer Marc Masters' No Wave book has been out for a couple months now. The Village Voice reviewed it last November. And Washington City Paper’s Mark Athitakis reviewed it and interviewed Masters back in January.
I didn’t write about it when it came out for a lot of boring reasons, but I wanted to [...]
Yesterday afternoon, Pitchfork announced part of the lineup for its popular Pitchfork Music Festival, which returns to Chicago's Union Park on July 18 – 20.
One of the bands included in this partial list is the semilocal Afropop quartet Extra Golden. This is especially welcome news, because the African portion of the band has been caught [...]
The dates for the At the Gates reunion tour–the tour that every fan of Swedish death metal has been waiting for since the band broke up in 1996–have been announced. There's no D.C. date, which breaks my heart, but there is some local relevancy: D.C.'s best melodic death metal band, Darkest Hour, and Richmond thrash [...]
Overheard yesterday at Orpheus Records in Arlington: the store might be closing within the next week. They have yet to hear from the landlord about an extension and they need time to pack up thousands of LPs and CDs (not to mention furniture and stereo gear).
Got some great deals yesterday on Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis, [...]
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Subject: That sweet new Hate Eternal disc
Dudes, I just listened to the new Hate Eternal last night–after American Idol, of course—and it's is every bit as good as the press it's been getting. I don't think I've dug a straight-up death metal record this much since I don't know when. I mean, everyone [...]
Wouldn't Ramiele Malubay and David Archuleta make, like, the nicest couple ever? I think the two of them together might be able to achieve world peace.
