Billy Corgan is outta control these days. I don't know whether to cry or vomit, but after I got an eyeful of the egomaniac with Tila Tequila, bisexual reality TV star, I think I felt part of my soul die. That part being the angry post-Nirvana, pre-Fugazi discovery era of my adolescence. "Just good friends," [...]
Friday
Chuck Brown. The Barns at Wolf Trap. $30. All ages.
Pistolera. Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. FREE. All ages.
Katy Perry. 9:30 club. SOLD OUT! All ages.
Maria Taylor, The Whispertown 2000, Laura Burhenn. Rock and Roll Hotel. $12. All ages.
BLACK CATatonia w/ DJ Dk. Black Cat Backstage. $5. All ages.
Velodrome 1 Year Anniversary w/ Fffever, Lode Runner. [...]
Ten Miles Square kicks off its latest "venture to promote local photographers" at Dahlak on Thursday. The Ethiopian eatery is no stranger to musicians, making the U Street space ideal for "I'm With The Band"–a showing of concert photography by DCers Kyle Gustafson (Washington Post, Toronto Star, Heat Magazine), Nestor Diaz (Rollingstone.com, RVA magazine, Pitchfork.com), [...]
Solvent dignity is an unfortunate casualty of these hard knock economic times. This became pointedly obvious to me after a tiff (just short of scene-making) with an equally cash-strapped barista who overcharged me 25 cents–that's for bus fare, ma'am! So who can blame musicians like Cat Power and now Joanna Newsom for licensing tunes to [...]
Friday
EARLY SHOW: Superdrag, As Tall As Lions. $18; LATE SHOW: Sebastien Tellier, Lemonade. $15. 9:30 club. All ages.
Prince of Petworth Presents: Mittenfields, Dangerosa, Crimes of Paris, guest MC Seaton Smith. Velvet Lounge. $8. +21.
'90s vs. '00s dance party with DJ Will Eastman, DJ Brian Billion. Black Cat. $10. All ages.
Lucky Dub, Kill Lincoln, East Coast [...]
Saturday
Deleted Scenes, The Drones, Pretty & Nice (mainstage); 100th BLISS Dance Party w/ DJ Will Eastman (backstage). Black Cat. $12/$7. All ages.
WVAU presents Capitol Punishment VI w/ Ponytail, Screaming Females, Mittenfields. American University Kay Spiritual Life Center. FREE. All ages.
Honor By August CD Release w/ The Alternate Routes, The Ruse, Melodime. 9:30 club. $15. All [...]
That's right. Experimental indie poppers Ponytail headline a free show with Screaming Females and locals Mittenfields Saturday night at AU's Kay Spiritual Life Center as part of WVAU's Capitol Punishment series.
Friday
DJ Rekha, Miss Modular. Black Cat. $15. All ages.
The Ting Tings, Hottub. 9:30 club. SOLD OUT. All ages.
Ron Carter (Friday & Saturday). Bohemian Caverns. $40. All ages.
The Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players, The Art Department, Moon Pie. Velvet Lounge. $10. +18.
Hot Coffee, Mississippi; Strange Faces; E.Joseph & the Phantom Heart. The Red & the Black. $6. [...]
Friday
The Foreign Exchange featuring Yahzarah, Darien Brockington, Zo! & the Ells, J*Davey. Black Cat. $20. All ages.
Blue King Brown, Rustic Overtones, The Rez. Rock and Roll Hotel. $12. All ages.
Roma Condor, Kalem Jones, Joel Sephy Trio. Velvet Lounge. +18.
ARABESQUE: Arts of the Arab world featuring Salma El Assal. Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage. Free. All ages.
Emmanuel [...]
Marnie Stern's last release, This Is It..., has garnered her much critical acclaim, as well as a spot on Pitchfork's "50 Best Albums of 2008." This month she kicks off her tour in her native NYC. Wednesday, March 11, she's set to shred at DC9. Black Plastic Bag had the opportunity to chat with Stern [...]
