Local noisemakers Screen Vinyl Image are still at work completing the follow-up to their 2009 full-length Interceptors, but they have a new video "Stay Asleep," a track from the new album that plumbs the duo's dancier side.
The as-yet-untitled new record also features tracks like "New Visions" (Arts Desk-approved!) and "Tomorrow is Too Far" (which we [...]
An ethereal post-punk song is probably the last place one would expect to hear a slide guitar when there's synth at hand. But there it was, right in front of me Saturday night at the Black Cat Backstage, expertly played by Deleted Scenes guitarist Dominic Campanaro on the band's catchy new single "BedBedBedBedBed." Celebrating the [...]
"We're not sure who all of you are," said Allo Darlin's Elizabeth Morris at the start of the group's Black Cat Backstage show last night, "as the last time we were here, I think our audience had six people in it. So we'd like to thank you all for coming." It's great that ears are finding their [...]
It was easy to miss Bodycop. During the local band's short tenure, it shunned websites and mostly played DIY spaces and house shows. But the band's crushing, twisted Swans worship—and a cassette release on Fan Death Records—has brought it a loyal underground following. As Bodycop's shows got more intense, rumors began to fly about self-mutilation [...]
Portland/D.C. supergroup Wild Flag will release its self-titled debut album on Merge Records September 13.
The band, composed of D.C. resident Mary Timony (Helium) and West Coasters Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney), Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney, Quasi, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks), and Rebecca Cole (The Minders), will also play the Black Cat on October 20.
Wild Flag sold out [...]
Those yearning to dance with people other than Jefferson Memorial protesters should consider the Depeche Mode Dance Party, the synth-tastic DJ night that celebrates its 10th anniversary at Black Cat tonight. Touted as the biggest Depeche Mode night on the East Coast, its DJs should be commended for their stalwart commitment to one band, though [...]
According to Dischord's website, early hardcore heroes Marginal Man are bringing their two-guitar attack back to D.C. this summer for the first time since their a reunion show in 1995. The entire original five-piece lineup is playing at The Black Cat on August 20. Between '83 and '88, the band toured nationally and put out [...]
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman probably isn't the first person who comes to mind when a musician playing the Black Cat announces she has a special guest. But then again, Neko Case is anything but usual. (Landesman and Case, who promotes literacy awareness, repped the D.C. chapter of 826 National, a literacy [...]
Saturday's sold out show at the Black Cat Backstage was the last night of Ted Leo's current solo tour, and Leo seemed downright giddy. Leo regaled the audience with Paul Stanley quotes about concert participation, name-checked all of the cool bands who had opened for him this tour, led the crowd in an enthusiastic acoustic [...]
At South by Southwest this year, the band Yuck's big, shoegaze-y sound had a lot of folks buzzing it being the next big thing. "Georgia," off Yuck's self-titled debut, runs a super-catchy pop melody across shredding and distorted guitars. Sadly, the band's opening slot Friday at the Black Cat showed "Georgia" is the lone standout. Redundant [...]
