Friday
Suzanne Vega, Marc Cohn. Strathmore. $25-$48.
The Sneaky Bastards, The Silver Liners. The Red & The Black. $8.
C.J. Chenier. IOTA Club & Cafe. $17.
Rebelution, Zion-I, Jah Works. 9:30 Club. $17.50.
The Sometime Favorites, Farm Vegas, The Bootleg Gatsby, Carl & Carleigh. Rock and Roll Hotel. $10.
Stealin' the Deal. Bangkok Blues. Call for price.
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet. Wolf [...]
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 [...]
Dutch band Epica brought its bombastic mix of symphonic, gothic, and death metal to (the newly renovated!) Jaxx on Tuesday night to a nearly sold-out house. More photos of Epica after the jump and at the full gallery. The full gallery also includes shots of the opening bands.
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 [...]
New York's Hanzel und Gretyl are a thoroughly ridiculous band in music, lyric (their latest big hit? "Fukken Uber Death Party"), and imagery. Luckily, they know it, and they don't take themselves seriously at all. As a result, a show that would just be utterly laughable is, well, still laughable, but also big fun.
More photos [...]
Punk leftovers-cum-merchandising powerhouse the Misfits have announced a fall tour, stopping at Jaxx Sunday, Oct. 25. It's not quite Halloween, but close enough.
The Jersey-bred musclemen/metal punks emerged in 1977, developed a crude catalog of '50s B-movie themes banged out and recorded with even less tact, and, technically, disbanded by 1983 (when head howler Glenn Danzig [...]
Last Friday night, Jaxx may have been the best place to find the highest concentration of absurdly talented musicians in the D.C. area. Florida legends Atheist, featuring a brand-new guitarist who made his debut at Maryland Deathfest, headlined a show full of technical metal bands and enough fast riffage, blast beats and time changes to [...]
Sweden's The Haunted made me a new fan on Wednesday night at Jaxx. I had long planned on going to this show despite having no familiarity with this band. A few months ago, the lineup included three other metal bands of which I am a big fan: Nachtmystium, Kylesa and Intronaut. Incredibly, all three of [...]
Abigail Williams—named after one of the first accusers in the Salem Witch Trials made infamous by Arthur Miller's The Crucible—play a weird kind of black metal with American metalcore tendencies. Their recorded sound is bolstered by epic clean piano lines and majestic orchestrations; unfortunately, both times I have seen them live, their keyboardist was nowhere [...]
As promised, from the show last Sunday evening. These three sure put on a visually appealing show, and here's the evidence. Some samples below.
Amorphis (melodic folk metal from Finland):
Samael (industrial/electronic metal from Switzerland):
Virgin Black (goth/doom/classical metal from Australia):
The Green Evening Requiem (opening; black-ish metal from Philly):
And you've seen the ones of Dark [...]
