Sure, we could have said that Guns N' Roses was set to play a show at the Filmore in Silver Spring on February 23, but that would be doing the memory of an otherwise great band a disservice. more ›

The truth is, on the cusp of the 20th and 21st centuries, you’d have been hard-pressed to find many people outside of the 212 area code talking much about a New York City rock “scene.” But when the Strokes emerged in late 2000 to play a pair of dates at the Mercury Lounge and the Bowery Ballroom, it touched off a period during which it often seemed that few could talk about anything else. Coupling stateside word-of-mouth with UK fandom stoked by NME’s weekly need to go into complete apoplexy over a band no one had ever heard of, the Strokes soon became something of a lightning rod, summoning acclaim and backlash in equal measure and in extremis. Music bloggers were sent in to mitigate the nonsensical frenzy of hyping and hating, but they only ended up making the problem much, much worse. In fact, things have gotten so bad now that Axl Rose is actually convinced that hanging out at Misshapes will somehow make his songs better. The sad fact is, he’s probably right. more ›

FRIDAY: >> Here at DCist we like to pimp scrappy locals and industrious indies who are charging hard against the establishment. When it comes to stand-up comedy however, sometimes we have to make an exception. This isn't to say you shouldn't support up-and-coming local comedic talent. You should. But we'd be the first to admit that there's something particularly distasteful about amateur stand-up done badly -- when a comic punts on stage, you just have... more ›