Yeah, that's right. Had enough of SXSW coverage and all that damn hipster music? Armed with photo pass and camera and ready and willing to destroy any last vestige of my music-snob credibility, I joined thousands of fans, parents and curious observers for the biggest concert in town last night, Britney Spears and the Pussycat [...]
This past weekend, we learned that former Washington City Paper music critic Rickey Wright had died. I put together a tribute of sorts made from Wright's blog posts and WCP pieces, tributes from friends and colleagues and family.
On Saturday afternoon, I had the fortune of talking with Nicole Arthur. Arthur served as Washington City Paper's [...]
Former Washington City Paper music critic Rickey Wright is dead. Wright passed away at 4:31 p.m. on February 19 in Seattle after suffering from a series of small strokes. At the time of his death, he was working on a book about John Lennon's "Imagine."
Wright was probably one of the most prolific talents the Washington [...]
"I'm like a sugar bomb," Lenka Kripac sings in "Skipalong," and that about sums it up.
The former vocalist/keyboardist for Australian post-rockers Decoder Ring played a decidedly un-post-rock set at DC9 last night. In sharp contrast to her old band's material, Lenka's solo writing is basically straight-up indie pop, and almost relentlessly upbeat—even the breakup [...]
I'm pretty much happy to ignore this year's Grammys completely: Kokayi didn't win, Stevie Wonder suffered the indignity of sharing a stage with the Jonas Brothers, and I won't even get started on the bizarre Chris Brown/Rihanna incident that took place the night before the ceremony.
But there's one moment of Sunday's telecast that I just [...]
...but do you know about the supporting band for her current tour, Wildbirds & Peacedrums?
If not, you should – combining minimalist folk, Bjork-like caterwauling vocals, unusual instrumentation (lots of kalimba and whatever that stringed contraption is in the photo above), and insanely propulsive percussion, this duo were a pleasant if slightly misplaced surprise at Nordic [...]
The Going Out Gurus broke the news that MCCXXIII (otherwise known as 1223) has closed it's doors. The club's owner claims a rent increase as the reason the decade-old Connecticut Ave. club is pulling the plug. This club was the cornerstone of what I think my sister likes to call "The Gaza Strip." In other [...]
I just got back from the Green Inaugural Ball on Constitution Ave at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium. I'm sure Darrow will have photos of this event soon. But I was thinking: I just saw Wyclef Jean. And I felt nothing. At one point in my life, Jean's old band dominated every single house party [...]
Richie Unterberger, who penned the books Turn! Turn! Turn!: The '60s Folk-Rock Revolution, Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock, and Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll, among others, will be chatting Monday night about his latest effort, a 400 page, detail-filled work called The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film, and showing rare [...]
Old Man, Take a look at my list, mine’s a lot like yours is.
My list does indeed employ genre quotas and, yes, heavy metal does have an actionable case against me this year.
Statistical Breakdown
•6 downloaded albums, 4 physical versions
•7 Americans, 3 Internationals
•1 artist my Mom had heard of, although, to be fair, I didn’t ask [...]
