So I'm-a sittin' here fighting off a head cold and watching a little Life on Mars, when comes a commercial break. What snaps me to attention are the fingerpickings of late Takoma Park native and primitive guitarist John Fahey—to be specific "In Christ There Is No East or West" (the '67 version, pretty sure).
It was [...]
At Coachella 2007, smokin' starlet Scarlett Johanson lent her sultry vocals to then-freshly reunited Scottish noise-poppers Jesus & Mary Chain's performance of their best-known single, "Just Like Honey" (also featured in Lost In Translation). Roughly a year later, Johansson foisted an album of low key, lounge-lizard reworkings of Tom Waits classics (Anywhere I Lay My [...]
D.C. Historic Review officials have approved Ellis Development's plans to rehab the historic Howard Theater in Shaw. This is good news of course since the 98-year-old building served as the hub for black entertainers in the '50s and '60s and became a model for other theaters across the country. It was right up there with [...]
Courtney Love should already be on The Surreal Life by now. That's the great tragedy. This is just farce: Apparently, Courtney Love's new album will be "sponsored" by a tequila company and a tampon maker. The Guardian UK writes:
When [the album] does finally land, the album, Nobody's Daughter, will be Courtney Love's first release since [...]
Truth be told, this Page Six Magazine item that ran back in November probably isn't going to forever alter your perceptions of DC social cliques. Billed as "An Insider's Guide to Washington", the article lumps the entire local population into NW-centric groups of journalists, lobbyists, politicos, and hipsters.
Nonetheless, it's blowing my mind–if only a [...]
The DC Society of Art Rockers (that splash screen on their website will tell you instantly whether you'll like what they do or not) in an arts education nonprofit that has been sponsoring and calendaring progressive rock events around the area since 2005 —everything ranging from uber-retro proggy-prog to more experimental out-rock. Yesterday they announced [...]
May we suggest that you nerd out i.e. scan the list of new LP arrivals at Red Onion after the jump. Not on the list but just as fine as anything out there–two new titles from hot vinyl-only label Mississippi Records. Red Onion's got both (a gospel comp. and a reissue of an obscure punk [...]
DCist is reporting that "Arlington Institution" Dr. Dremo's is about to finally see the wrecking ball. The massive bar complex is getting razed to make way for.... more condos (ugh). The blog notes: "Demolition has finally begun. Most of the surrounding buildings are being taken down today, and one construction worker said he had been [...]
D.C. production duo Thievery Corporation will become the latest high-profile independent act to experiment with online album distribution/promotion, as their latest full-length, Radio Retaliation, will be available to stream in its entirety via iLike and Facebook on Friday, Sept. 19th — four days before the official September 23rd release date. No stranger to political statements, [...]
While the recording industry is busy lamenting the death of their business model at the hands of the Internet, a number of local hip-hop artists have found a way turn this market threat into an opportunity. Free download mixtapes (which are neither mixed nor on tape, discuss...) have been catapulting artists such as Wale, Ra [...]
