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The King Khan & BBQ Show @ Rock & Roll Hotel

From the first time I heard the music these guys make, whether together as the King Khan and BBQ Show, or in any of their other many incarnations (King Khan & The Shrines, Mark Sultan's unbelievably good solo album The Sultanic Verses, and so on,), ...

From AMANDA MATTOS, DCist,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Mark Sultan,  Johnny Thunders

Weekly Music Agenda

Deer Tick (without Brian Williams, sadly) will be at the Black Cat on Tuesday MONDAY >> Japandroids and their new wave garage rock are at the Rock and Roll Hotel this evening, with New Jersey's Real Estate and Brooklyn's Neon Indian. $10/$12, 8:30 p. ...

From AMANDA MATTOS, DCist,  19 Oct 2009

DCist Interview: Built To Spill

You've said in the past that you believe the band's current line-up is more capable than ever. Has having a five-piece significantly impacted the way you write and play music? You know, we haven't had too much of a chance to explore that. We ...

From AMANDA MATTOS, DCist,  16 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Built To Spill (musician),  Arcade Fire (musician),  Warner Brothers

Phosphorescent and Alberta Cross @ Black Cat

Country music, more than most genres, provokes reactions in its listeners that are rarely ambivalent. You love or you hate country, and there seem to be few people that would earnestly argue a position in between. Phosphorescent’s Tuesday night show at ...

From AMANDA MATTOS, DCist,  14 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Willie Nelson,  Conor Oberst,  Levon Helm

Ladyhawke & Ida Maria & ... Perez Hilton @ 9:30 Club

The “Perez Hilton Presents” tour arrived at the 9:30 Club on Saturday night, offering fans an opportunity to gawk at the self-proclaimed “Queen of All Media” while also taking in performances by Ladyhawke, Ida Maria, Semi Precious Weapons and ...

From AMANDA MATTOS, DCist,  14 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Perez Hilton,  Ida Maria

Cocorosie @ Black Cat

I didn't know much about Cocorosie going into their show last night. I'd heard the albums and pondered that voice and the heavy production that went into achieving all those effects. A combination of a very convincing friend and PR team lead me to into ...

From AMANDA MATTOS, DCist,  4 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Wikipedia

These United States Release Everything Touches Everything @ Black Cat

The band hit the ground running and opened with Crimes' single, "Honor Amongst Thieves." Elliott has had a number of different bandmates over the years (though the lineup has been mostly steady with Hnatow and Robby Cosenza plus occasional guests since ...

From AMANDA MATTOS, DCist,  31 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Bob Dylan

New Song from Le Loup

The dog days are officially upon us, so we decided the most logical thing to do is sick a wolf on 'em. Le Loup rocketed out of nowhere onto the local music scene in late 2007, with a Hardly Art record deal and international tours before we could even ...

From AMANDA MATTOS, DCist,  12 Aug 2009

Black Moth Super Rainbow @ Rock and Roll Hotel

After the projector screen went down at the Rock and Roll hotel on Sunday, an inconspicuous video blogger rattled off a loose-tongued diatribe about a band he saw open for MGMT with a “really, really stupid name” who he pointedly described as ...

From AMANDA MATTOS, DCist,  28 Jul 2009

Secret History: Emergency & I

And of all the Plan's albums, 1999's Emergency & I is the pinnacle: 45 near-perfect minutes of catchy, dancey, endlessly engaging tunes that sound as fresh and exciting today as they did a decade ago. It gained the band a relatively colossal profile, ...

From AMANDA MATTOS, DCist,  27 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Pearl Jam (musician),  Bloc Party (musician),  Franz Ferdinand (musician)

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