Wilco's setlist last night at Merriweather Post Pavilion had something for fans of every Wilco. Prefer cowpokey Wilco,  from immediately after the days of Uncle Tupelo? They played "Boxful of Letters" off of A.M. ("The record six of you bought," said frontman Jeff Tweedy.) The netherworldly sonics of the band's output from the last decade or [...]

Let's face it: Getting to Columbia, Md. can be a pain in the ass. There's no direct train—MARC's station in Dorsey is as close as commuter rail will get you, and Metrobus and other public transit options would require an interminable number of hours and route transfers. And we all know how pleasant driving to [...]

It's Open! And Maybe Tolerable!: Washington Post theater critic Peter Marks went back to the Foxwoods Theatre on Broadway to see the revamped, overhauled, surgically fixed hullaballoo known as Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. And he didn't totally hate it: "You can’t go so far as to declare that 'Spider-Man' has found its voice, but at [...]

Baltimore City Paper recently (well, a week ago) posted this Q&A with Ben Allen, the Atlanta-based engineer who worked on Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion (which we reviewed in this week's Washington City Paper). Allen—who spent most of his career working in hiphop and R&B—can probably be credited with bringing most of the low-end [...]