Mark Morris Dance Group’s weekend run at the Kennedy Center offers both temporal bliss and a textbook study in American arts funding. Thanks to a generous investment by the Kennedy Center, the company will perform “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato,” a 1988 evening-length work set to an oratorio by Handel, with live accompaniment by [...]
In a city that often looks backward musically (we get it, everybody loves Fugazi and The Dismemberment Plan), the Future Times crew is all about pushing things forward. Overseen by Mike Petillo and Andrew Field-Pickering (of the duos Protect-U and Beautiful Swimmers, shown above), the local imprint brings together global psychedelia with warm, throbbing beats [...]
After stuffing your sweaty face with succulent turkey legs and rich, dark gravy for hours, and after gorging yourself on pumpkin pies slathered in whipped cream drizzled with chocolate sauce, eventually you'll start to feel the fatigue set in. The tryptophan will take effect and your stomach, weighed down with the calorie-rich dishes concocted by [...]
Som Records is worth the hunt for parking along 14th Street NW. Just got the store's latest e-mail of new arrivals and it's fairly packed. The store has got solid new releases from Real Estate, Broadcast, Cold Cave, Girls, Kings of Convenience, Circuit Rider (reissue), Jay Farrar, Odissee, Chain and the Gang, The Clientele, Felix, [...]
