Senegalese singer Baaba Maal’s “Tales from the Sahel” show tonight at the Birchmere should prove to be very different from his last local appearance a year and half ago. That gig offered his 13-piece band Daande Lenol adapting songs from his 2009 album Television, which featured programmed beats and guest vocals from members of New York band [...]
In a press release today, Live Nation announced a few significant hires at the forthcoming Fillmore Silver Spring concert venue.
Predictably, the entertainment behemoth has packed the club's staff with its own people: Justin Kujawa, former promoter at The Pageant in St. Louis, will lead the club's booking team; Jackie Knight, a former Live Nation tour [...]
Friday
Salt-N-Pepa. DAR Constitution Hall. $41.50-$70.
Bellmer Dolls, Monozid, Bootblacks, We Fought The Big One (DJs). The Red & The Black. $8. 21+.
Tom McBride and the Whig Party. IOTA Club & Cafe. $10.
Perpetual Groove, Future, Poor Man's Lobster. 9:30 Club. $14.
Junior League Band, The David Wax Museum, Lightfoot. Rock and Roll Hotel. $10 in advance, $12 at [...]
The Hurt Locker, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Christopher Waltz, Mo’Nique.
There, I just freed up your Sunday night. Wanna go see some excellent music instead?
Actually, if Bridges gets any Oscar love, it bodes well for the status of the guitar-toting troubadour in America’s cultural mythology—and, perhaps, for the prospects of Joe Pug and Justin Townes Earle. [...]
Friday
Educated Consumers. Strathmore. $10 in advance, $12 at door.
Big Bang TV, Bridges and Powerlines, The Jet Age. The Red & The Black. $8. 21+.
Taylor Carson, Peter Mulvey. IOTA Club & Cafe. $12.
Rogue Wave, Avi Buffalo. 9:30 Club. $15.
Sondre Lerche, JBM. Rock and Roll Hotel. $20.
Stacy Brooks. Bangbok Blues. Call for price.
Jon Carroll. Wolf Trap. $22.
Bellman [...]
Friday
Incwell. Strathmore. $10 in advance, $12 at door.
Hotspur, No Second Troy, Margot MacDonald Band, Boys Will Be Boys. 9:30 Club. $15.
Bo Bice. Wolf Trap. $25.
Yell County, The Courtesans, The Secret Pop Band. The Red & The Black. $8. 21+.
New Rock Church of Fire, Greenland, Drunk Tigers. IOTA Club & Cafe. $10.
Sweet Interference, Tripp, Hot Coffee [...]
Friday
Ben Sollee, Carrie Rodriguez. IOTA Club & Cafe. $15.
The Gerunds, Golden City, MilkMachine. The Red & The Black. $8. 21+.
The Vita Ruins, Casper Bangs, The Jaguar Club. Rock and Roll Hotel. $10.
King Soul. Bangkok Blues. Call for price.
Shawn Mullins, Justin Trawick. Birchmere. $25.
Cowboy Mouth, Junior Brown. 9:30 Club. $25.
Exit Clov, True Womanhood. Strathmore. $10 in [...]
Friday
Haiti Benefit Concert for the Red Cross Relief Effort: Brother Shamus, The Walkways, No Second Troy, Boxcar Collision, Bobby Thompson and more. IOTA Club & Cafe. Donations based.
Sockets Records Showcase (with The Cornel West Theory, Hume, Imperial China, Buildings and Big Gold Belt). Black Cat. $12.
Mike Terpak Blues Explosion. Bangkok Blues. Call for [...]
The crowd that saw Back Door Slam Davy Knowles and Back Door Slam execute an acrobatic set at the Birchmere last night probably hadn’t seen guitar mastery like that since they were Davy Knowles’s age.
The audience skewed middle-aged—I was probably the youngest person there apart from the 22-year-old Knowles himself—and didn’t fill up [...]
Amadou & Mariam, who will be at the Birchmere Wednesday, have been performing together since 1980. However, only in recent years has this blind Malian couple started reaching a sizable audience on this side of the Atlantic. Their wonderful latest cd, Welcome to Mali, is catchy, creative Afropop, not purist traditional Malian folkloric music or [...]
