While this weekend’s Sharon Jones and the Dapkings shows have attracted the attention of this paper, the Washington Post’s Going Out Gurus, and NBC4’s online self-proclaimed music snob, listeners to Saturday blues and soul programming on WPFW and to quiet storm sounds on WHUR are hearing about a different soul show.  The Mother’s Day Soul [...]

American University's WVAU is hosting its final fall installment of the student-run free concert series Capitol Punishment Saturday night. The show will be in AU's Kay Spiritual Center. Doors at 6:30; show at 7; all ages; free.
The lineup includes:
Imperial China
Caverns
Solar Powered Sun Destroyer
Hammer No More The Fingers

Given that last night was filled with the kind of surreal once-in-a-lifetime revelry generally confined to History Channel photo-montages–dewy-eyed thug dudes randomly hugging in the street, liberals performing patriotic chants at a drum circle–it's time to chill out a little bit.
Recently a friend of mine discovered this record, Sons of Ethiopia by Bethesda based [...]