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 [...]
Last night at the Rock & Roll Hotel, while Candy Claws moved its gear off the stage and A Sunny Day in Glasgow began setting up, I had a conversation with a dude who plays in some D.C. bands about useful shit that we hate. This yielded a long list! Plus one sorta-useful, kinda-annoying website [...]
Dustin Wong is set to release a very long, very intricate solo album, Infinite Love, on Oct. 5. The Ponytail guitarist—a band that has either broken up or is on some kind of Fugazi-style hiatus—is not one to mess around. Infinite Love contains two tracks each roughly 40 minutes long, each containing a dizzying flow [...]
Welcome to the weekday edition of Freestylin’ D.C., where I’ll share some of the coolest and most interesting events posted on my site, Free in DC, each Monday afternoon.
Monday
Over at the Affinity Lab on U Street there will be a mixer and free panel discussion with artists and lawyers at the Art [...]
Friday
Jakob Dylan, Three Legs, Neko Case, Kelly Hogan, Mimicking Birds. 9:30 Club. $25.
Lucy Kaplansky. Wolf Trap. $20.
Gist, Gary B. & the Notions, The Courtesy Line. The Red & The Black. $8.
Eilen Jewell, Little Pink. IOTA Club & Cafe. $12.
The Blue Line, Poor But Sexy, The Very Small. Rock and Roll Hotel. $10.
Buckshot Blues. Bangkok Blues. [...]
That the U Street area boasts no shortage of dance nights—not to mention one very loud new dance club—doesn't mean the custodians of the Velvet Lounge are worried about oversaturation: Their new space next door, Dodge City, is all about the "high-minded DJ set."
The new two-floor space at 9th and U opens this week—its chief [...]
Friday
Martin Sexton, Ryan Montbleau Band. 9:30 Club. $25.
Jamie McLean Band. Strathmore. $10 in advance, $12 at door.
Livingston Taylor. Wolf Trap. $22.
Horsehead, Hiding Places, Deutschmarks. The Red & The Black. $8. 21+.
Laura Tsaggaris, James Maddock. IOTA Club & Cafe. $12.
Pissed Jeans, Cloak/Dagger, The Wayward. Rock and Roll Hotel. $10 in advance, $12 at door.
Rhododendron Road. Bangkok [...]
Friday
Needtobreathe, Will Hoge, Matt Hires. 9:30 Club. $16.
Gato & the Palenke Music Co. Strathmore. $10 in advance, $12 at door.
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Wolf Trap. $35.
East Coast Caravan. The Red & The Black. $8. 21+.
Shwa, The Royal We. IOTA Club & Cafe. $10.
Bonjour, Ganesh!, The Jones, Big Chimney, Blankus Larry. Rock and Roll Hotel. $10.
Andy [...]
The D.C. combo Twins of a Gazelle has a lineup that ranges from three to eight or more members, which makes it one of the smaller groups Dave Mann plays in—there's the 40-plus-member Spelling for Bees collective and the 18-piece Sweet Tea Pumpkin Pie, not to mention Mittenfields. Twins performs tonight at the Velvet Lounge, [...]
Friday
Nada Surf, Dawn Landes and the Hounds. 9:30 Club. $20.
E.M. Spencer. Strathmore. $10 in advance, $12 at door.
Christine Lavin. Wolf Trap. $20.
The Bang, Chute. The Red & The Black. $8. 21+.
Justin Trawick Group, Jason Masi Band, Rene Moffatt, Jamie Marie. IOTA Club & Cafe. $12.
Midnight Sun, Nunchucks, Downtown Harvest, Blackbells. Rock and Roll Hotel. $10.
Big [...]
