A belated answer key to our Rolling Stone: Parse that Platitude contest!

There is a difference between people who sing and those who take that voice to another, otherworldly place, who create a euphoria within themselves. PLATITUDE REFERS TO: Elvis Presley

You know a force from heaven. You know something that God made. And [blank] is [...]

Brokencyde's new music video, "Freaxxx," has been making the critical rounds, taking its first bashing at The Stranger's Slog, and another lickin' on Videogum. I've imbedded the video below in hopes of inspiring a few more reader submissions for Washington City Paper's year-end music video write-up.

Brokencyde – Freaxxx (Music Video) from Eat Cake Films on [...]

This weekend, DJs from across the nation will be gathering in D.C. for the Million DJ March. The event will feature a panel discussion, a celebrity basketball game, and performances on and speakers on the National Mall. The organizers hope the event will help unify DJs to assert their rights in the entertainment industry. What [...]

"Who knew jazz was such a threat to the U.S.?"
This was the rhetorical question Holly Cole posed to her audience at Birchmere Music Hall last night, by way of apology and explanation for the gig in Alexandria that she had to cancel last February. In an open letter on her Web site, the Canadian [...]

Before Barack Obama took the stage in front of a crowd of 75,000 in Portland yesterday, the Decemberists played a stacked set concluding with a mass singalong on "Sons & Daughters," with its drawn-out chorus of "Here all the bombs fade away." The song, a rallying cry for hope, peace, and...mouthfuls of cinnamon, seemed [...]

Last night, WHUT-TV was screening a pretty good documentary, entitled Sam Cooke: Legend. More or less: A lot of the time, WHUT was actually broadcasting from its studio, doing its pledge "break." A long, long break.
"It's so important to give your financial support to WHUT," they're saying, "so that we can keep bringing you outstanding [...]

When your stock-in-trade is arch white-boy funk–the kind that boosted a thousand launch parties in the dot-com '90s–the second act of your career is bound to be a little clumsy and full of odd moves. Hey, you started out odd. So when Mike Doughty, former Soul Coughing frontman and Suicide Girls photog, played the 9:30 [...]