“Utterly whimsical” are the two words that best describe Andrew Bird’s performance at 9:30 Club last night. more ›

Rusted Root's infectious sound brought the band to the top of the charts in the mid-'90s. The band continues to put on quality live shows, and will be at 9:30 Club on Sunday. more ›

Nada Surf's pleasant indie rock had a strong emotional hold on the 9:30 Club audience, so, surrounded by biological family and kindred spirits, they were going to have a party. more ›

Devotchka did their part by warming up the crowd, when The Magnetic Fields took the stage it was as if all the energy was sucked out of the club. Pianist, vocalist and apparent band manager, Claudia Gonson’s pedantic explanations and counting off the start to nearly every song reduced the set to seeming like a freshman seminar entitled The Magnetic Fields: 101. more ›

Anyone in D.C. who wasn’t watching the NCAA championship game last night packed into the sold-out 9:30 Club to witness post-punk dream team Wild Flag continue its spring U.S. tour. Although Carrie Brownstein threatened (or tempted, depending on your point of view) to project the game on a screen and play a “Jock Jams live soundtrack,” the band rocked a solid mix of new songs and crowd favorites. more ›

The French electro-rock duo Justice played the 9:30 Club last night, and their stage setup was just overwhelming. But it drove the crowd wild the more creepy it became. more ›

What happens when you take a cult classic TV show and adapt it for a national tour of music halls? You get Portlandia, which arrived at the 9:30 Club last night. Was watching it live any better than on TV? Not really. more ›

Galactic embodies the modern New Orleans Sound, so it's only appropriate that they dropped their new album, Carnivale Electricos on Mardi Gras. Here's a preview of the group's Thursday night show at 9:30 Club. more ›

It's easy to look at a band like Beady Eye and make easy pronouncements about the bombast of their music based on the circus that is the Gallagher brothers. If you expected animosity and bitter feelings from Thursday night's Beady Show at the 9:30 Club you would have been sorely disappointed. What was on display was a millieu that was equal parts professionalism, bombast and the pure rock 'n' roll swagger. more ›

Does the 9:30 Club have a trophy case? If not, I'm not sure where they're keeping all these Billboard awards. Yesterday, the club once again was honored as the the most attended club in America during the 2011 Billboard Touring Awards. more ›

Twenty years have passed since the three members of Medeski Martin & Wood came together and formed a band that defies category. The trio will be at the 9:30 Club on Thursday. more ›

The term "short and sweet" was an all-too-apt description of EMA's blistering five-song set at the 9:30 Club on Monday night. more ›

D.C. natives Trans Am remain a potent and versatile live band capable of quoting from a wide array of styles and genres -- a fine compliment to the droning noise-rock instrumentals of The Psychic Paramount and the usual antics of Les Savy Fav at the 9:30 Club last Friday. more ›

Think that Foster the People is a mere one-hit wonder engineered solely for mass appeal? Their live show last night suggests otherwise. more ›

If, as has often been argued, pastiche is one of the defining features of "postmodern" culture, then Girls is a band that is very much of the times despite its decidedly retro-leaning sounds. more ›

Former folk-rock wunderkind Conor Oberst has grown into a institution unto himself, playing in a diverse array of musical projects with a host of prominent collaborators, running two record labels, and presiding over a legion of fans so fervently devoted that novelist Jonathan Franzen likened it to "religion without the bullshit of religious dogma." more ›

It had been about a year since the Hold Steady's last visit to the District, so the energetic quintet had to prove that their surprisingly tepid 2010 album was fluke and not a harbinger of live shows to come. more ›

Electro-pop outfit Digitalism has evolved over the last seven years from a techno-heavy prog-dance group to one with a synth-saturated sound. At either end of the spectrum, they're a rave and festival mainstay. more ›

The 9:30 Club was packed on Saturday morning for the fourth annual Girls Rock! DC Camper Showcase. Eleven bands and two DJ teams showed off their new musical skills and rocked the stage for well over two hours. more ›

Junior League Band, joined by Kingsley Flood and Typefighter, will be putting on an all local, down-home, full-throttle show at the 9:30 Club Saturday night. more ›

Since his fanfare-less introduction to Washington, D.C. almost four years ago, Bon Iver's star has taken a meteoric rise -- and he's brought the production value of his live show along for the ride. more ›

Though the genre extends far beyond the one family, the Marley name is virtually synonymous with reggae. Only recently stepping out from behind the scenes, Stephen Marley will lead his Ghetto Youths Crew on Thursday at the 9:30 Club. more ›

We're not the first to report this, but such renown deserves a mention. Billboard recently named the 9:30 Club among the hottest and most influential clubs in North America. more ›

Playing an album in its entirety as a live show has been equated to a "slam dunk contest" at best and at worst, "a cruel perversion of a concert's real-time magic." The basic question being raised from such a show is, "if you can just listen to the album at home...why go to the show? What's different?" In the case of Dinosaur Jr., sheer volume. more ›

When a band gains momentum at the rate Yeasayer has in the last year, it can become difficult for fans to reconcile why a body of music, once mesmerizing, is now diluted by ubiquity. Even in their new incarnation, the Brooklyn-based psych-pop juggernaut from Baltimore showed why they're still worth fans' time. more ›

It was halftime. The Dallas Mavericks were leading the Miami Heat, 53-51, in the game that could end -- and ultimately did end -- the NBA Finals. As such, the Dodos had no idea why they had such excellent attendance at their show. more ›

There was only one point during Sondre Lerche's set at the 9:30 Club last night that could be classified as flat. However, rather than demonstrate weakness, that single moment -- "one of the first decent songs I ever wrote," in the performer's own words -- highlighted how much Lerche has continued to grow and impress from Faces Down through his new self-titled effort. more ›

Blending equal parts Jamiroquai and The Bravery, Friendly Fires proved what your friends have been saying: "They're great live!" more ›