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 ›

Along with fellow Scandinavians Robyn and Annie, Sweden's Lykke Li is one of the rare dance-pop ingénues to win the approval of the indie-music cognoscenti. Having burst upon the scene with her charming, if somewhat jejune 2008 debut LP, Youth Novels, the 25-year-old singer returned this year with an edgier, more ambitious sophomore effort, Wounded Rhymes, which has met with widespread critical acclaim. At a sold out 9:30 Club on Sunday night, Li proved a highly capable and confident live performer, delivering a slickly impressive set that showed her poised for mainstream success. more ›

Last year, DC Central Kitchen teamed up with the 9:30 Club to start what will hopefully continue as a traditional kick off to summer: the first-ever Sound Bites. The event brings local chefs and bands to the iconic club to prepare food and provide jams for those in attendance -- and all the proceeds benefit DCCK. Soundbites returns on on May 22 this year with a new lineup, including local acts (Ra Ra Rasputin and DJ lil'e) and fare from 25 District restaurants and food trucks. DCist caught up with DCCK's William Neuheisel, who gave us the details on this year's event. more ›

It seems like time away in The Dead Weather has given Alison Mosshart, half of The Kills, the ultra-confidence she lacked the last time she and co-conspirator Jamie Hince came to town in 2009. With a set mostly comprised of tracks from their recent effort, Blood Pressures, The Kills wowed a sold-out 9:30 Club crowd with an electric and ferocious performance on Sunday night. more ›

It's been twenty years since Cake formed in Sacramento, California, and fifteen years since Fashion Nugget became the antidote of irreverence to the grunge that dominated the airwaves in the early '90s. Cake built the poppy bridge between radio-friendly singles like Pavement's "Cut Your Hair" and the late-'90s pop rock that took itself too seriously. They're still creating the same horn-laden guitar riffs, releasing Showroom of Compassion in January of this year. While the band did not sell out three consecutive nights at the 9:30 Club on the buzz of this album alone, last night they struck a balance between the fresher sounds and the classics their die-hard fans have memorized for sing-a-long purposes. more ›

Short and sweet is how Dan Whitford and his merry band of Aussies played it on Tuesday night at the first of Cut Copy's two sold out shows at the 9:30 Club. Clocking in at under an hour, the Melbourne, Australia-based group's set (and a two-song encore) left a drenched audience wanting more. more ›

The Cold War Kids stormed into the 9:30 Club on Saturday night to deliver cuts off their new album, Mine is Yours, to a sold-out crowd. The band made a name for themselves in L.A., plying the scene in Silverlake with an infectious blend of blues-meets-pop hooks and the urgency of lead singer Nathan Willett's pipes. The band's newer material builds on the radio-friendly success of "Something's Not Right With Me," mixing acutely literary references (e.g. name-checking Joan Didion) in tunes that continue to call out the darker, more angular crevasses of sun-bathed Southern California's San Bernadino Valley. more ›