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One Track Mind: Jonathan Mudd
This Week: Jonathan Mudd's "Run Amelia"
Music

Lust for Battle: Raheem DeVaughn's The Love & War MasterPeace
Raheem DeVaughn refuses to choose between the war room and the bedroom.
Music Review

Reviewed: Quasi's American Gong
Quasi considers aging gracefully, then proceeds to rock.
Music Review

One Track Mind: Frau Eva
This Week: Frau Eva's "Don't Wait for Me"
Music

Reviewed: Jack Rose's Luck in the Valley
The first posthumous album from the American Primitive guitarist
Music Review

Reviewed: Citizen Cope's The Rainwater LP
The anachronistic blues-rocker spurns major-label dollars for an independent release
Music Review

Reviewed: Joe Pug's Messenger
The title isn't self-descriptive, and Joe Pug is no prophet—yet
Music Review

Reviewed: Field Music's Measure
Field Music wields the Hammer of the Gods on a sprawling double album
Music Review

One Track Mind: Daddy Lion
This week: "Just Die Young" by Daddy Lion
Music

One Track Mind: Birds & Wires
This week: "The Sea and the Hills" by Birds & Wires
Music

Reviewed: Title Tracks' It Was Easy
D.C. indie vet's latest is hooky, cathartic power-pop
Music Review

Reviewed: New York Art Quartet's Old Stuff
Local label revives an outfit that made free jazz without noise
Music Review

Reviewed: Citay's Dream Get Together
San Francisco band blends a little early '70s, a little late '80s, and whole lotta noise
Music Review

One Track Mind: Oddisee
This Week: "Blizzard of 09" by Oddisee
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Reviewed: Spoon's Transference
Spiky indie outfit loses its step when it should be hitting its stride
Music Review

Reviewed: Four Tet's There Is Love in You
Kieran Hebden doesn't need to prove dance music isn't dead. He does it anyway.
Music Review

One Track Mind: the beatin's
This Week: "Cold Clear Water" by the beatin's
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One Track Mind: Imperial China
This Week: Imperial China's "Corrupting the Integrity of the Grid"
Music

Reviewed: Major Stars' Return to Form
The Boston pyschedelic sextet packs three full-time guitarists. No kidding.
Music Review

Reviewed: The Whole Tree Gone by Myra Melford's Be Bread
The latest from pianist Myra Melford's sextet is immediately pleasurable. And really boring.
Music Review

One Track Mind: Felt Letters
This Week: Felt Letters' "600,000 Bands"
Music

Reviewed: OK Go's Of the Blue Colour of the Sky
A band at a crossroads, OK Go has made a vast departure from its previous work.
Music Review

Reviewed: X.O.'s One. One. Ten.
The D.C. rapper's new album is an assertive, identity-defining statement
Music Review

Reviewed: Hurricane Chris' Unleashed
The Shreveport, La., "ratchet" rapper is a lyrical giant-in-training
Music Review

One Track Mind: Nu' the Mayor
This Week: Nu' the Mayor's "Whole Time"
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James Joyce for Rap Nerds
MC Paul Barman's new album requires some explanation
Music Review

One Track Mind: Sketch's "Betta Watch Yo Self"
This Week: Sketch's "Betta Watch Yo Self"
Music

Writing Music for Monkeys
"I may be just a schmo to you, but, man, to monkeys I am Elvis."
Cover Story

The Orange Line Revolution
Before the McMansions and the Cheesecake Factory, Arlington was home to some of the region's most storied punk residences.
Music

Rank Bullshit
Pitchfork's list to end all lists should, in fact, end all lists.
Music

How the Fest Was Won
Think you had a good time at the concert? These live DVDs will prove otherwise.
Music

Greatest Pits
A concert photographer turns his camera away from the stage.
Music

Downloaded
An argument for equipping your computer with a Breathalyzer
Music

Experience Music Project
With some Crown Royal, some Kools, and the right mindset, the blues become more than just music
Music

Deficit Pending
So far, Wale's debut is a commercial dud. Is that bad for D.C. hip-hop?
Music

Stations of the Crossover
Jazz keeps looking for back channels to the mainstream.
Music

Reviewed: Gucci Mane's The State vs. Radric Davis
While Northern rappers debate hip-hop’s death, Atlanta MC makes the year’s best rap record
Music Review

Reviewed: Magma's Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré
Christian Vander visits the vaults
Music Review

One Track Mind: Macaw
This Week: Macaw's “Five Minutes at the Rainforest Cafe”
Music

Reviewed: Annie's Don't Stop
Norweigan pop singer Annie refuses to pause or even slow down
Music Review

Reviewed: Blakroc's Blakroc
With help from the Black Keys, Damon Dash swaps Roc for rock
Music Review

Reviewed: DJ/rupture and Matt Shadetek's Solar Life Raft
Dj/rupture reaffirms the importance of crate digging
Music Review

One Track Mind: Olivia Mancini and the Mates
This Week: Olivia Mancini and the Mates' "Graphology"
Music

Reviewed: Rakim's The Seventh Seal
The God MC gets spiritual
Music Review

One Track Mind: Spelling for Bees
This Week: Spelling for Bees' "Love at First Sight"
Music

Reviewed: Weezer's Raditude
Rivers Cuomo's youth movement
Music Review

Reviewed: Supersilent's 9
The Norweigan struggles to make sense of its new configuration
Music Review

Architect of the Capital: Wale's Attention Deficit
Wale helps put D.C. hip-hop on the map, but loses himself
Music Review

Reviewed: Ariadne auf Naxos
At the Washington National Opera, a Strauss gem about the limits of tragedy.
Opera

One Track Mind: Matthew Hemerlein
This Week: Matthew Hemerlein's "Silver
Music

One Track Mind: Matta Gawa
This Week: Matta Gawa's "Home Soda Gifts!"
Music

Reviewed: The Slits' Trapped Animal
The Slits fail to produce an instant hit
Music Review

Reviewed: The Swell Season's Strict Joy
The Swell Season delivers once more
Music Review

Reviewed: Do Make Say Think's Other Truths
The awful truth about Other Truths
Music Review

One Track Mind: Tennis System
This Week: Tennis System's "Esoteric"
Music

One Track Mind: Miss Jay
This Week: Miss Jay's "Sober"
Music

Wizz Kids: Pissed Jeans' King of Jeans
Pissed Jeans adds a sprinkling of swagger to its latest
Music Review

CP Music Picks

  • Gilberto Gil at Lisner Auditorium
    Saturday, March 13
    “What are you listening to?” sneered my son, a reaction he reserves for one genre: easy listening. He never would’ve guessed that the voice crooning those lullabylike bossa novas in Portuguese was...
  • Peter and the Wolf at Imagination Stage
    Saturdays and Sundays through March 21
    Anyone who grew up getting their pants scared off by the creepiness of Peter and the Wolf (both Christopher Lee and Boris Karloff have narrated recordings) may scoff a bit at Imagination Stage's...
  • Janelle Monáe at the Black Cat
    Monday, March 15
    Janelle Monáe just might be the oddest R&B singer on the planet. The Kansas City-born, Atlanta-bred songstress is still buzzing off her 2007 debut EP, in which she assumes the role of lovelorn...
  • Free Energy at DC9
    Sunday, March 14
    I got pumped, Detroit Rock City-style, to see Free Energy last year after the Philadelphia band dropped a self-titled single—all Day-Glo riffs, Thin Lizzy hooks, perfectly bored vocals. Maybe it was...

Music Calendar: This Week in Rock

Fri. Mar. 12, 2010 - Thu. Mar. 18, 2010

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Clubs

  • BIRCHMERE
    Thur., 3/11, Asleep at the Wheel. Fri., 3/12, Jonathan Coulton. Sat., 3/13, Tom Rush. Sun., 3/14, Watch Awards Ceremony. Mon., 3/15, John Hiatt & The Combo. Tue., 3/16, John Hiatt & The Combo. Wed., 3/17, Bobby McFerrin. Thur., 3/18, Bobby McFerrin.
    3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500.
  • BLACK CAT BACKSTAGE
    Thur., 3/11, The Morning Benders, Miniature Tigers, Acrylics. Fri., 3/12, Kicks! A Night of Rock and Roll, Punk, Power Pop w/ DJs Kim and Sara. Sat., 3/13, Second Saturdays featuring: Midnight Kids, Casper Bangs. Tue., 3/16, The Max Levine Ensemble, Good Luck, Beast Infection. Wed., 3/17, Film Screening: The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Fundraiser for DC Radical Space). Thur., 3/18, The Moderate, Thee Torches.
    1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490.
  • DC9
    Thur., 3/11, Small Black. Fri., 3/12, Liberation Dance Party. Sat., 3/13, Nerd Nite. Sun., 3/14, Foreign Born. Mon., 3/15, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour. Tue., 3/16, A Study in Her. Wed., 3/17, Little Bigheart & The Wilderbeast.
    1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000.
  • FLANAGAN'S HARP & FIDDLE
    Thur., 3/11, Kevin James. Fri., 3/12, The Flying Cows of Ventry.
    4844 Cordell Ave., Bethesda. (301) 951-0115.
  • IOTA CLUB & CAFE
    Thur., 3/11, Middle Distance Runner, The Subjects, Nunchucks. Fri., 3/12, Matthew Ryan with Garrison Starr. Sat., 3/13, RustBuckit. Mon., 3/15, Micah Dalton with Stella Schindler. Thur., 3/18, Robbie Fulks with Billy Coulter.
    2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340.
  • JAMMIN' JAVA
    Thu., 3/11, Jarrod Gorbel. Fri., 3/12, Tyrone Wells. Sat., 3/13, Lopez Studios, Inc. Showcase Cabaret 2010. Sun., 3/14, An Evening with Red Molly. Mon., 3/15, Sherwood. Tue., 3/16, St. Paddy's Day Pre-Party with Grada. Wed., 3/17, The Wood Brothers. Thur., 3/18, The Ataris.
    227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 255-1566.
  • JAXX
    Fri., 3/12, Ghost Town. Sat., 3/13, W.A.S.P. Sun., 3/14, Gorilla Music Presents: Battle of the Bands.
    6355 Rolling Road, West Springfield. (703) 569-5940.
  • MCGINTY'S PUB
    Thu., 3/11, DC Motors Unplugged. Fri., 3/12, Ten Feet Tall. Sat., 3/13, The Complaints. Wed., 3/17, 40 Thieves. Thur., 3/18, Eddie Pasa.
    911 Ellsworth Dr., Silver Spring. (301) 587-1270.
  • 9:30 CLUB
    Thur., 3/11, The Low Anthem. Fri., 3/12, Elliot in the Morning's Kegs & Eggs 11. Sat., 3/13, STS9. Sun., 3/14, STS9. Mon., 3/15, Rust In Peace Tour Megadeth. Wed., 3/17, Air. Thur., 3/18, Portugal. The Man.
    815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930.
  • ROCK & ROLL HOTEL
    Thur., 3/11, The Might Heard, The New Retro, Curtis D. Fri., 3/12, Ramzy, The Method, Bad Rabbits. Sat., 3/13, Here We Go, April Smith & Great Picture, Show, Glass Ghost. Sun., 3/14, The Very Best, Ninjasonik, Tabi Bonney. Mon., 3/15, Bobby Birdman. Tue., 3/16, Rock Band Bar Night. Wed., 3/17, Hockey, The Constellations, The Postelles. Thur., 3/18, The Black Dahlia, Obscura, Augury, Hatesphere.
    1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.
  • STATE THEATRE
    Fri., 3/12, Leon Russell. Sat., 3/13, Mary Ann Redmond. Tue., 3/16, Magic Hat Beer Dinner.
    220 N. Washington St., Falls Church. (703) 237-0300.
  • THE ELECTRIC MAID
    Fri., 3/12, The Carrier, Police and Thieves, Broken Bodies, Brain Laserz & Sacred Love.
    268 CARROLL ST NW. (571) 215-1395
  • VELVET LOUNGE
    Thur., 3/11, Peanut Butter and Dave, Roky Moon and BOLT, Daddy's Gonne Kill Ralphie. Fri., 3/12, Sing Swan Song (Mem of Matta Gawa, Thievery Corporation, gogogo Airheart), Kuan. Sat., 3/13, Kaleidoscope, Kohoutek, Gondola, Inzinzac. Sun., 3/14, Kind Nugget, Blvd. B, Tarica June, A.I Love You. Tue., 3/16, Maida Vale, Tayisha Busay. Wed., 3/17, La Coterie, HoneyBoat, Deb Felz. Thur., 3/18, Sweet Interference, Gist, City Folk.
    915 U St. NW. (202) 462-7625.
  • WONDERLAND BALLROOM
    Tue., 3/16, See You Next Tuesday Party. Wed., 3/17, The Pink Sock Party. Thur., 3/18, The Pink Sock Party.
    1101 Kenyon St. NW. (202) 232-5263.

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