Liz Phair began the live rendition of her 1993 debut, Exile in Guyville, by thanking the 9:30 Club's sold out crowd for its enthusiasm, which continued through the night. The 9:30's DJ had warmed the crowd with hits from Guyville contemporaries like Urge Overkill's "Positive Bleeding" and the Afghan Whigs' "Gentlemen," and expectations were high.
I'd [...]
A few weeks back I was traveling through Cleveland and decided to make a more focused visit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I wanted to avail myself of the exhibits and memorabilia that had a District angle. Wandering from floor to floor in the massive and often impressive space, however, I realized [...]
The festival layout made it convenient when traveling from one stage to another to take a sojourn at the 'Dance Tent'. The above set from London based Erol Alkan was so jaw-dropping head-nodding fantastic I nearly missed Gogol Bordello's start.
The 9:30 Club deployed its elite force of security personnel en mass at the Virgin [...]
Arrived in time to see Cat Power open the festival. Had yet to hear her cover Creedence's "Fortunate Son", which ably captured the fury of the original. The Dirty Delta Blues Band (consisting of briefly-in-D.C. group the Delta 72's guitarist Gregg Foreman) backed Ms. Marshall well, sounding like a groovier Drive-By Truckers.
Gogol Bordello did not [...]
In my previous post on the future of listening to music, Futurist Magazine senior editor Patrick Tucker commented on how rapid advance of technology would ultimately lead to an evolution of cochlear-implant-like devices, and that content would be directly beamed to these devices in your head. During a WFS Annual Conference session on the End [...]
I attended the World Future Society's annual conference this past weekend at the Washington DC Hilton Hotel. Seminars and panel discussions ranged on a variety of topics (PDF of the conference program), from examinations of emerging energy technologies to the future of the religious right. One panel in particular, the End of the Written Word, [...]
From the Washington DC Historical Society:
Bring a chair or a blanket and join us for a wonderful Caribbean experience at Music on the Green. Widely recognized as one of the top steel bands on the East Coast, Pan Masters Steel Orchestra has delighted audiences for over 25 years including performances at the inaugurations of Mayor [...]
From Friday's Reuters story, Labels up volume on vinyl releases to meet demand:
It may have seemed like a fad at first, but the resurgence of vinyl is now turning into a nice niche business for the major labels. With EMI's announcement that it would reissue eight classic albums in the format, all [...]
