Most of the time, John Beckham makes music as half of D.C.'s lowercaseletters, a poppy, polymathic neosoul group whose bio lists off a wide-ranging string of influences. One of those, perhaps curiously, is "the DIY mentality." Or maybe not curiously at all. Beckham recently dropped a cache of instrumentals on his Bandcamp page, one of [...]
Friday
Kinoeye, Maximillion Dunbar, Protect-U, Steve Summers. The Cherch. $5 donation.
Vladimir Feltsman. Strathmore. $27-$77.
Ravenous, FOX Japan, Caustic Casanova. The Red & The Black. $8.
Justin Jones, Down Dexter, Peter Bradley Adams. IOTA Club & Cafe. $12.
Shearwater, Wye Oak, Hospital Ships. Rock and Roll Hotel. $12.
Next Door Ellen. Bangkok Blues. Call for price.
Imperial China, Cephalopods, Lo Moda, Busses. [...]
Friday
Salt-N-Pepa. DAR Constitution Hall. $41.50-$70.
Bellmer Dolls, Monozid, Bootblacks, We Fought The Big One (DJs). The Red & The Black. $8. 21+.
Tom McBride and the Whig Party. IOTA Club & Cafe. $10.
Perpetual Groove, Future, Poor Man's Lobster. 9:30 Club. $14.
Junior League Band, The David Wax Museum, Lightfoot. Rock and Roll Hotel. $10 in advance, $12 at [...]
Friday
Al Green. DAR Constitution Hall. $70.
Balkan Beat Box, Bajah + the Dry Eye Crew. 9:30 Club. $20.
Mambo Sauce. Strathmore. $10 in advance, $12 at door.
Greg Brown, Justin Wilber. Wolf Trap. $30.
The American Space Cadets, American Speedway, Sin 4 Sin. The Red & The Black. $8. 21+.
Matthew Ryan, Garrison Starr. IOTA Club & Cafe. $15.
RAMZY, The [...]
Friday
Educated Consumers. Strathmore. $10 in advance, $12 at door.
Big Bang TV, Bridges and Powerlines, The Jet Age. The Red & The Black. $8. 21+.
Taylor Carson, Peter Mulvey. IOTA Club & Cafe. $12.
Rogue Wave, Avi Buffalo. 9:30 Club. $15.
Sondre Lerche, JBM. Rock and Roll Hotel. $20.
Stacy Brooks. Bangbok Blues. Call for price.
Jon Carroll. Wolf Trap. $22.
Bellman [...]
Friday
State Radio, Big D and the Kids Table. 9:30 Club. $20.
Justin Trawick. Strathmore. $10 in advance, $12 at door.
Christian Tetzlaff Trio. Wolf Trap. $35.
Powder Kegs, The Torches. The Red & The Black. $8.
Juniper Lane, Melodime. IOTA Club & Cafe. $12.
US Royalty, Phil Ade, Poor But Sexy. Rock and Roll Hotel. $12.
Curbfeelers. Bangkok Blues. Call for [...]
In the T2: Judgement Day-style techno-battle for punk rock's soul, the machines are winning. At least that's how it seems listening to Brooklyn's These Are Powers. On its '07 debut, Terrific Seasons, the trio was still pounding out wiry post-punk rhythms with fairly conventional gear–bass, guitar, a drum kit. But over the last couple of [...]
Friday
Incwell. Strathmore. $10 in advance, $12 at door.
Hotspur, No Second Troy, Margot MacDonald Band, Boys Will Be Boys. 9:30 Club. $15.
Bo Bice. Wolf Trap. $25.
Yell County, The Courtesans, The Secret Pop Band. The Red & The Black. $8. 21+.
New Rock Church of Fire, Greenland, Drunk Tigers. IOTA Club & Cafe. $10.
Sweet Interference, Tripp, Hot Coffee [...]
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For a moment, on the first night he worked the door at the Velvet Lounge, Andrew Bucket thought he was staring death in the face. Her name was Allison Wolfe.
"I was excited to meet her, let alone work the show at all," he says of the Partyline singer, who helped found the riot-grrrl movement [...]
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 [...]
