It's not pleasant when the moment happens, but it's important nonetheless. That small revelation. Perhaps it's obvious to everyone else already. Perhaps they've been telling you all along that this wasn't a good idea. Whether you're coming to terms with a nasty coke habit, suddenly remembering your wife's birthday was yesterday, or just figuring out [...]
In some circles, Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures is a more important record than Abbey Road and Exile on Main Street combined. It’s filled with a haunted sense of longing and loss that was only magnified after singer Ian Curtis committed suicide a couple of years after it was made. The remaining band members, including bassist [...]
Lately, I've been getting a lot of e-mails from publicists about Jukebox the Ghost, who have a new album out on Sept. 7 that I had no plans to write about, because: 1) The band hasn't been based in D.C. for some time; and 2) I don't like the album.
However! Yesterday the band's flack pointed [...]
Good morning! Yesterday I learned about the Russian Rickroll! I'm fairly late to the party on this one, I gather. Nevertheless: Guess where this roundup is going!
Long before she became the first woman to win a Best Director Oscar, Kathryn Bigelow directed a New Order video, in which she dressed the synthpop heavies up as [...]
"This is Africa music," vocalist Kofi Cromwell proclaimed last night, moments after taking DC9's stage with the Occidental Brothers Dance Band International. There was something didactic, maybe even ambassadorial, about the Chicago quintet's hour-long set—the singer often shared nuggets about his band's songs and their Ghanaian roots—but mostly, Cromwell and Co. just wanted the small [...]
