It’s only Wednesday, and this week has already brought two '90s punk stalwarts back from retirement. Both At the Drive-In and Refused will play this year’s Coachella, prompting many gray-bearded music journalists to reinsert their plugs. Bands here in D.C. are certainly not immune to the musical seven-year itch, but one thing we lack is [...]
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We covered a lot of music in pictures this year, but some truly stood out.
I didn't realize how great a year it's been for music in D.C. until I started compiling this list. While I didn't hear many landmark, career-defining albums in 2011, there were a ton of great songs from both young and veteran artists. Whatever D.C.'s reputation, there's a healthy community of smart, ambitious musicmakers in this [...]
Well, this is awkward. Washington City Paper contributor (and Tereu Tereu singer) Ryan Little is launching a new record label with his buddy Tommy Siegel (of Jukebox the Ghost and Drunken Sufis), and, obviously, we'd usually feel kind of weird about plugging it.
But screw it, because the first release on Bad Friend Records is pretty [...]
The sixth annual Pitchfork Music Festival wrapped this weekend. Dismemberment Plan smiled the whole way through. Attendees got mad at Odd Future for saying offensive things. Face paint sales throughout the Midwest rose. It was dusty. It was hot. It was fun. I learned a few things that concert-goers, specifically those who have tickets to [...]
The Dismemberment Plan gave one of the liveliest performances at The Roots Picnic in Philadelphia this past Saturday. "It was cool, kind of like a 2-minute warning," frontman Travis Morrison said of the group's 25-minute set. "It was awesome." It was indeed. If you weren't at the picnic, no worries! Here are two videos I recorded [...]
Today, for the first time since it dropped a compilation of remixes in 2003, The Dismemberment Plan released a new album. The band's label in Japan, Bad News Records, recorded the Plan's Feb. 9 show at Shibuya O-West in Tokyo, and you can buy Live in Japan 2011 in the iTunes store. It's a strong, varied [...]
Fans eager to relive the euphoria of a Dismemberment Plan concert will be happy to hear that the band will release its first live album on June 1. Japanese label Bad News Records is behind the 23-song CD, called Live in Japan 2011, which was recorded during the band's February 9 show in Tokyo. Pitchfork [...]
Maybe this reunion can keep going forever. Four days after the lineup for The Roots Picnic was announced when Questlove made good on his plan to get Travis Morrison and company to play his crew's annual one-day festival in Philadelphia on June 4, The Dismemberment Plan became one of the first acts announced for this year's [...]
Last night, per tradition, The Dismemberment Plan played "The Ice of Boston" toward the end of its show at the 9:30 Club, and a throng of fans joined the band on stage. As a service to you, the reader, I documented the whole thing, making no attempt to 1) hold my camera steady; or 2) [...]
