Abby Lavin

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• Posted The Kooks @ the 9:30 Club to DCist
  Those who showed up at the 9:30 Club on Saturday night with any doubts about The Kooks' talent were certainly persuaded, and maybe even wooed into super-fan territory. The four lads from Brighton played a pitch-perfect set that had all the classic elements of an epic rock show, including crowdsurfing and a young woman who threw her underwear up on stage. The Kooks have been on the fast track to superstardom since forming in 2004,...
• Posted Blonde Redhead @ the 9:30 Club to DCist
  Remember that episode of The Simpsons where Barney is dating a Japanese art student? And they show up at Moe’s and she orders "a single plum, floating in perfume, served in a man’s hat"? We can kind of imagine Blonde Redhead frontwoman (and former art student) Kazu Makino ordering that same thing. And Makino’s otherworldliness is so captivating that, like Moe, we probably wouldn’t bat an eye. Decked out in a menacingly short shirt-dress, Makino...
• Posted John Vanderslice at the R'n'R Hotel to DCist
  The man with the coolest name in contemporary rock music drew the largest crowd we’ve ever seen at the Rock and Roll Hotel last night. Keep in mind that it was a Wednesday. John Vanderslice also completely demolished the "fourth wall" between the audience and the stage, handing out Mrs. Field’s cookies, inviting a gaggle of fans to the stage for a sing-along of "me and my 424," and descending from the stage to play...
• Posted Three Stars: Justin Jones and the Driving Rain to DCist
  When we arrived at Adams Morgan bar Felix last Tuesday to catch a Justin Jones show, we found Jones himself standing in the doorway as Felix's de facto bouncer. "Can I see some I.D.?" asked the stubbled 27-year-old. Then, with a wry grin and a "Nah, I'm just messing with you," Jones waved us inside. Offstage, it's tough to tell when Jones is just messing with you. Which is ironic, because as soon as he...
• Posted Six Points at DC9 to DCist
  If we were in the business of judging books by their covers, here's what we would assume about the line-up at last night's installment of the Six Points Music Festival: The Glory and the Majesty are emo, The Jaguar Club are a bunch of car enthusiasts, Life in a Hospital are bleak and brooding and Lejeune are French. Ultimately, only one of these assumptions proved correct; read on to satisfy your curiosity. First up, Arlington's...