Everyone's favorite singing socialist Billy Bragg brought his guitars, his convictions, and a fascination with masturbation to the 9:30 Club stage last night. With D.C.'s close proximity to Delaware, the state where Christine O'Donnell just won a primary on an anti-masturbation platform, Bragg said he had a strong urge to play all of the songs [...]

It's an iron-clad rule of concertgoing that there'll always be one person who'll reflexively cheer when their hometown is mentioned, regardless of the context. A few years back I was at a Randy Newman concert in San Francisco, and the songwriter was playing "Rednecks," a brilliant retort to smug northerners who feel they have the [...]