Will the 9:30 Club’s new quasi-record label prove successful? Did every media shop in town cover lone client Justin Jones’s invitation-only CD release party last night? Well, there’s your answer. You might recall club co-owner and Jones sugardaddy Seth Hurwitz telling City Paper this last month:
The goal of this has never been making money on [...]
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Sorry this roundup is so late. I hope to have formulated a decent excuse by the end of this writing. In the meantime…
Hate gorgeous weather? Landmark E Street Cinema is the place to be this weekend. First of all, it’s day two of the DC Shorts Film Festival. Tonight at 7 p.m., they're screening [...]
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Lauryn Hill is now persona non grata among D.C. hip-hop fans, having showed up about 200 minutes late for her gig at Rock the Bells yesterday. Theories about her extreme tardiness, via WPGC 95.5’s DJ Heat (via Twitter):
-I heard that Lauryn Hill hasn't hit the Rock the Bells stage yet cuz she playing a [...]
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I'm calling it good Fridays. Yall know every Friday yall gone have a new joint from our family. We look at the game completely different now
That’s Kanye West a week ago—sayin’ stuff on Twitter, like he do. Jonah Wiener’s cheeky write-around profile of the chatty pop star, in which Wiener deconstructs West by dissecting [...]
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The 19 percent of critics who contrived some lousy reason not to like Scott Pilgrim vs. The World are so very wrong. As in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, director Edgar Wright demonstrates once again that pace can be a potent form comedic timing. Highly recommend.
Also opening over the weekend, and making [...]
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The David Wax Museum continued its colonization of D.C. last night, playing two more house shows, including one at my house. They were excellent, as usual—as was Louis Weeks, of Baltimore, who opened. Roommate and WCP arts guru J.L. Fischer, who isn’t as big of a folk junkie as I am, hung back, sipping [...]
Morning, folks! Brief Roundup this morning—I was at a wedding in New Hampshire over the weekend, and the bulk of my arts consumption was listening to the outro to Akron/Family’s “Gravelly Mountains of the Moon” over and over and over on the platform at DCA, because it is just so damn good.
Here’s some other [...]
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There’s no such thing as a Free fest. So learned a lot of people who suffered the opportunity cost of staking out TicketFly on Saturday morning in hope of securing tickets to see LCD Soundsystem, Joan Jett, et al. at the Virgin Mobile FreeFest at Merriweather Post Pavilion in September, only to have their [...]
TeenBeat Records had its big reunion do at the Black Cat on Saturday. (Before the show, BYT interviewed the label’s founder, Mark Robinson, Deborah Solomon-style.) Aaron Leitko was at the gig, as was J.L. Fischer, and pretty much every other D.C. music geek. The verdict? Leitko’s review for WaPo was tepid. Fischer said it [...]
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Local folk-rock outfit Junior League Band, has set a release date for its third LP, Jelly Roll: drops July 16. Release party is that evening at the Rock & Roll Hotel. The album, presumably named for legendary jazz bandleader Jelly Roll Morton, features the horn section from Levon Helm’s Band.
Lissy Rosemont, the medical-student-turned-folk-diva [...]
