Morning all. Normally my colleague Alex Baca writes the Tuesday roundup, but you've got me instead. Not to worry, Baca fans–she'll be back on roundup duty Thursday.
WaPo's Anne Midgette has got the scoop on the Washington National Opera's lineup for the 2011-12 season. The WNO will open with Tosca in September; other works include Werther and, [...]
Someone sent us a list from the Tumblr of Gentleman's Quarterly yesterday. The list is called: "Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Political Hacks’ Best Music of 2010 Lists." The lists are authored almost exclusively by white people who probably own expensive headphones. It is mostly "Arcade Fire" written over and over again.
The list was assembled by [...]
Oooohhhh, Ben's Chili Bowl was in a Wale video last year, big deal. Today Arcade Fire released The Wilderness Downtown, an interactive clip for "We Used to Wait," a track from their almost universally acclaimed third album The Suburbs that combines HTML5 technology and Google Street View to custom-build a clip for the song featuring [...]
Morning, all. Wow, it is raining hard out there. I'm surprised my power hasn't gone out. But, I'll keep on truckin' with this as long as my lights stay on.
Maybe Arcade Fire's tour really is helping spur record sales. The band's newly released album, The Suburbs, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, with [...]
In the mid-2000s, mainstream music got injected with an unexpected shot of indie rock, and Arcade Fire was one of the lucky bands to bask in that exposure. While the band hasn't ruled the airwaves with quite the same ubiquity that so-called grunge bands achieved in the early '90s, Arcade Fire has topped the billboard [...]
Friday
Arcade Fire w/ Spoon. Merriweather Post Pavilion. $32-$48.50
Gucci Mane w/ Backyard, TOB. DC Star. $40.
Budweiser Superfest: Anthony Hamilton, Kem, Jaheim, Raheem Devaughn. Jiffy Lube Live. $31.75-$89.75
Galactic w/ Lionize. 9:30 Club. $25. All ages
Billy Woodward & the Senders, the Blackberry Belles, the Bellevederes, the Motorettes. Rock and Roll Hotel. $10. All ages.
Evan Bliss and the Welchers, Mem. [...]
Arnold Schwarzenegger, watch out: There's a new entertainer with political aspirations. Wyclef Jean is running for president of Haiti. Despite having recently claimed to have no political intentions, the recording artist–who first found fame with the Fugees–is planning to parlay his recent earthquake-relief charity work into a presidential run in his native country. Hmm, wonder [...]
We're a day late getting this online, and already, Arcade Fire's anticipated third album, The Suburbs, seems to have generated a long and full debate. Pitchfork is a fan; The Washington Post's Chris Richards is not. For the most part, the notices are enthusiastic.
Washington City Paper's Ramon Ramirez is less chipper, however. He says the [...]
Good morning! Wale has offended Baltimore. Later today on Arts Desk, we'll ponder: Why does D.C.'s biggest rapper have the lamest controversies ever?
The Washington Post Magazine thinks this air-guitar champion is worth your time. Plus: The National Pinball Museum is coming to the beleaguered Shops at Georgetown Park mall.
Why does WaPo's Blake Gopnik get to review the Hirshhorn's Yves Klein retrospective twice?
City [...]
Good morning! The Washington Post's Real Art D.C. contest has its first finalist! Joel D'Orazio takes my colleague Erin Petty's favorite kind of furniture—that'd be mid-century modern—and "violates" it, writes Jessica Dawson, which is to say he makes it look like props from a Tim Burton movie, but with tendrils. The contest kicked off in [...]
