Hear Mount Pleasant, a group that has been fighting to bring live music back to the neighborhood's bars and restaurants, and its foe, the Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Alliance, will both be holding live concerts in Lamont Park this Sunday. In a press release, Hear Mount Pleasant's Natalie Avery calls it a "weird showdown."
The concerts will [...]
On Monday Punk Planet magazine announced that its latest issue would be its last, citing "bad distribution deals, disappearing advertisers, and a decreasing audience of subscribers." It wasn't surprising news—when the owner of distributor Publishers Group West declared bankruptcy last December a lot of independent publishers took a huge hit—but it was still sad to [...]
As reported last week in the New York Times and the Akron Beacon Journal, Alan Canfora—who was shot in the wrist during the Kent State shootings in 1970—recently released a recording of the incident in which, he claims, the listener can hear members of the Ohio National Guard being ordered to fire upon students. The [...]
“I'm a musician,” D.C. punk legend Ian MacKaye testified yesterday at Councilmember Jim Graham’s roundtable on minors and nightclubs. “You may not know me. You may not even recognize my band Fugazi.” But many music fans across the world do, he said. And “I knowingly have not played a show that was not all ages.”
Addressing [...]
I understand you
You've got a problem
Now understand me
It's your problem not mine
—Dag Nasty, “All Ages Show"
Last summer, several teenagers were shot (though none fatally) outside a matinee go-go show at Market Lounge, a venue at the Florida Avenue Market. In fact, shootings and stabbings in (or, more often, outside) clubs are not uncommon in D.C. [...]
