D.C. has seen no shortage of interesting fringe music lately, but this week is a particular highlight reel of slightly out-there stuff (especially if you count Andrea Centazzo's solo performance in Baltimore last night). Here are four shows worth checking out to stimulate your ears and brain:
Tonight: Atomic at Twins Jazz. This Swedish/Norwegian [...]
Annie Clark and St. Vincent have played the D.C. area five times in the past two years, but that didn't stop them from packing the 9:30 Club last night. The highlight was the encore, featuring a solo rendition of "Paris Is Burning" and a noisy, chaotic version of "Your Lips Are Red." Setlist and more [...]
I'll never be able to forgive the Black Eyed Peas for inflicting "My Humps" on the world, but they sure put on a pretty fun show. More photo evidence after the jump and at the full gallery.
A couple years ago, Rockville's Hotspur was the subject of an award-winning City Paper cover story about the difficulties of making a living as a musician. Last Friday, the band played its first headlining show at the 9:30 Club, at the top of a bill featuring a slew of up-and-coming local pop-rock groups. More photos [...]
Tegan and Sara managed to fill up the vast majority of seats at the cavernous Warner Theatre last night, with concertgoers that looked decidedly different from Monday's Yes show. More photos after the jump and at the full gallery.
The highlight of Yes' set last night at the Warner Theatre might have been singer Benoit David—whose voice is a dead ringer at times for Jon Anderson's—introducing a song by saying, "This next one is a beautiful song from a beautiful album... Tormato," followed by half the audience trying not to snicker. Still, when the [...]
The last show the Magnetic Fields played before last night was at Lisner Auditorium at the end of their 2008 tour. Here's their return to GWU's campus, kicking off a two-month-long 2010 tour, in photos. More after the jump.
Despite the weather, Joy of Motion DC's resident hip-hop dance company, DCypher, along with youth hip-hop companies Urban Impact and Groove Elements, sold out two shows this past weekend at the Jack Guidone Theater in Friendship Heights. Check out some photos from Saturday night's show after the jump, and a ton more at the full gallery.
You've gotta hand it to Those Darlins for driving through terrible weather to make it to D.C. last night, and to their fans as well, who packed the Black Cat backstage despite it being a dreary Sunday night. The Darlins' music is country, but their ethos is distinctively punk, and they led the crowd through [...]
The Tiptons Saxophone Quartet—really a sax quartet plus a drummer—brought its eclectic mix of jazz, world music, and the avant-garde to An Die Musik in Baltimore last night. The all-female group named after Billy Tipton, the biologically female saxophonist who spent his career and adult life identifying as male, played two sets of music far [...]
