Author Archive for Matthew Borlik

Darkest Hour Writes the Most Kickass Hockey Anthem Ever Created

From Victory Records' publicity department:
Darkest Hour have recorded a new arena anthem for their favorite ice hockey team – the Washington Capitals.
Based on their song A Thousand Words To Say But One, Let's Go Caps! can be downloaded from a special page Darkest Hour have set up www.myspace.com/letsgocapsmusic
Ex-youth puck player and Darkest Hour guitarist Mike [...]

Best Rock Show I Barely Remember Attending in 2007

Boris at the Black Cat. I'm pretty sure they played at the Black Cat, but the whole night was a little fuzzy, you know? I'm positive it was in 2007, though. I think.
But yeah: Boris was, reportedly, awesome. I've been told that they fucking rocked. I don't remember too much about the band's actual set, [...]

Show Alert: Food For Animals’ Belly CD Release Show

Washington, D.C./Baltimore-area glitch-hop trio Food for Animals performs at 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, with Gowanus Bay Funeral Marching Band and Snack Truck at the Velvet Lounge, 915 U St. NW. $6. (202) 462-3213. Tonight's show is the first of a three-performance weekend celebrating the upcoming release of the band's second debut full-length, Belly, which [...]

Ian MacKaye Is Totally Fucking With My D.C. Rock Cred

Well, I guess I can scratch “Played the Last Show at the Wilson Center” off of the short list of musical accomplishments I oh-so-casually mention when wooing the womenfolk at the Black Cat’s Red Room or telling well-worn tales of indie-rock glory to a wide-eyed showgoer who has absolutely no idea who I am or [...]

Jimmy Page Fractures Finger; Led Zeppelin Reunion Postponed

I've got some bad news for you Led Zeppelin superfans eagerly anticipating the band's upcoming reunion show: Old Man Page still knows how to rock—but he rocks so hard that his own brittle bones break as a result.
The Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert, originally scheduled for Monday, November 26th and featuring Led Zeppelin, Bill Wyman and [...]

House Show Alert: Turboslut Tonight at the Bervin Haus

Local all-girl, grunge-punk quartet Turboslut performs for the first time tonight with Pizza and Shittagoddamn at 7 p.m. at the Bervin Haus, 929 Farragut Ave. NW. $5 gets you in the door. "The excitement and nausea are building," the band says of it's upcoming debut peformance on its Web site. "[B]e wary of the splatter [...]

Rebustle Your Hedgerow

Earlier this afternoon, CMJ reported that the members of Led Zeppelin are getting what's left of the band back together:
The three surviving original members of Led Zeppelin have announced that they will come together on stage for one night only, marking the third time they've done so since disbanding in 1980 following the death of [...]

Stop Staring at My Walkman, Man.

Like most tech-savvy music fans in this age of aesthetically-pleasing-yet-flimsily-constructed electronic gadgets, I own an Apple iPod. And, as happens to many iPod owners, mine eventually broke.
I continue to hold no suspicion that the inevitable demise of my fourth-generation "click wheel" iPod had anything to do with the near-simultaneous release of Apple's fifth-generation, full-color, video-capable [...]