Here's what's happening in the District tonight. See our full Summer Music Guide for more music events to come.
The Prodigy, Tittsworth. 9:30 Club. $35. All ages.
Edmund Burke Middle School Youth Band (early show). Georgetown Day School Youth Band (late show). Blues Alley. $15 per show. All ages.
Mixel Pixel, Ear Pwr. Galaxy Hut.
Ben Sollee, Anni Rossi. [...]
Saadiq/Legend at DAR Constitution Hall; Dr. John and the Lower 911 at Blues Alley
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Raphael Saadiq and Dr. John are both on tour at present, peddling different brands of regressively delightful music to packed, loyal audiences. The Doctor (Mac Rebennack, to get technical) and Saadiq (né Wiggins) wear their influences on their sleeves and dress [...]
After Paquito d'Rivera's phenomenal set at the Inter-American Developmental Bank, I hurried over to Blues Alley to catch Jamie Broumas' second show. It's hard to imagine a better home for Broumas than Blues Alley, and easy to imagine the scene in black and white—3 a.m. drunks slumped astride their chairs with their ties loosened [...]
"I'm a certified senior citizen/Got Florida on my mind/I won't even mess/With checkers or chess/Just take me to the place where they bump 'n' grind...."
Though not characterized by the bump 'n' grind, Sunday's 10 p.m. show at Blues Alley drew a rapt and well-dressed crowd of LP nerds, precocious twenty-somethings, and couples in search of [...]
