For more info about upcoming shows — free, kid- and date-friendly, or otherwise — see our Summer Music Guide.
Cricket Fusion Quartet. 1905. Call for price.
Jonathan Coulton, Chelsea Lee. Birchmere. $29.50. All ages.
Deleted Scenes, The XYZ Affair, Casper Bangs. Black Cat Backstage. $8. All ages.
Dick Morgan. Blues Alley. $25.
Buster Brown and The Get Down. Cafe Martini. [...]
Happy Hump Day! Tonight's D.C. music events, culled from our Summer Music Guide and beyond.
Joey Cape (Lagwagon), Jon Snodgrass (Drag the River), Chad Rex. Black Cat Backstage. $10. All ages.
Sol Blues. Bangkok Blues. $5.
Yazarah. Blues Alley. $20. All ages.
Noon:30, The Press, Achtung Panda. DC9. $8. +21.
Northwestern University Bienen School of Music. Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. [...]
Here's what's happening in the District tonight. See our full Summer Music Guide for more music events to come.
The Prodigy, Tittsworth. 9:30 Club. $35. All ages.
Edmund Burke Middle School Youth Band (early show). Georgetown Day School Youth Band (late show). Blues Alley. $15 per show. All ages.
Mixel Pixel, Ear Pwr. Galaxy Hut.
Ben Sollee, Anni Rossi. [...]
Sunday
Dan Deacon & Ensemble, Future Islands, Teeth Mountain. 9:30 club. $12. All ages.
The Dig, All The Kings. The Red & The Black. $6. +21.
MC Chris, Whole Wheat Bread. DC9. $14. +18.
Ben Lee, Low vs Diamond, Dawes. Rock and Roll Hotel. $16. All ages.
NSO plays Mozart. Kennedy Center. $20-$80. All ages.
German Academic All-Star Jazz Ensemble. Kennedy [...]
The King of Pop is back! The Guardian reports that Michael Jackson has begun rehearsal for his marathon of London performances—50 crotch-grabbing moonwalks in 50 nights, beginning July 9. According to the UK broadsheet, Jackson spends "four days a week at a rehearsal space near Los Angeles's Burbank airport. The show will be called This [...]
Friday
US Royalty, Cut Off Your Hands, CANNOT BE STOPPED. Black Cat. $12. All ages.
Death By Sexy, The Whore Moans. The Red & The Black. $8. +21.
Mello D & the Rados, Soul Cannon. Velvet Lounge. $10. +21.
Super Diamond (Neil Diamond cover band), The Reflex. 9:30 club. $22. All ages.
Freeland, Alex Metric. Rock and Roll Hotel. $17. [...]
David Byrne's had his hands in many a cookie jar. The ex-Talking Head and Luaka Bop label founder played a building (literally), designed cheeky bike racks, and released one of 2008's best records with fellow '70s-era musical-genius-who-just-won't-quit Brian Eno. Now Byrne's got a new concept album in the works (via Stereogum via BBC).
Inspired by Imelda [...]
Pirates on the high seas have been stealing headlines lately, holding captains hostage and attacking their ships. But today, music industry execs struck a potentially fatal blow against e-piracy.
A Swedish court sentenced Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde–founders of the peer-to-peer (P2P) search engine/BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay–to a year [...]
Friday
Justin Jones & the Driving Rain, The Jackfields, Mother. Rock and Roll Hotel. $10. All ages.
Thao with The Get Down Stay Down, Sister Suvi, David Schultz & the Skyline. Black Cat. $13. All ages.
Lily Allen, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head. 9:30 club. SOLD OUT! All ages.
Andy Zipf, Damion Suomi, Tiny Animals, The Empties. The Red & [...]
Powered by his critically successful new release (Bromst) and glowing green skull, music-as-performance artist Dan Deacon chugs along on his North American tour, leaving his mark on dancefloors and day-glo wearing revelers along the way. But if there's one thing on which Deacon won't leave a mark, it's the environment. At least, that's the idea. [...]
