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

This week: Willie Nelson, Andrew Bird, The Avett Brothers, M. Ward, The Metal Lords' Day, and much more. 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 ›

This week in music: Wale, Nada Surf, Magnetic Fields, Chain and the Gang, Yasiin Bey, and much more. more ›

This week in music: The Wedding Present, Fiona Apple, Purity Ring, Polica, Big K.R.I.T., Band of Skulls, and We Are Augustines. more ›

This week in music: Roomrunner, Gomez, John K. Samson, Four Tet, Obits, Derrick Carter, EMA, Rich Robinson and more. more ›

This week in music: Thurston Moore, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, The Darkness and much more. more ›

This week in music, including: Simone Sattler, Samantha Crain, Smith Westerns, Luminescent Orchestrii, The Kills and Kathleen Edwards. more ›

Arguably, live shows define a year in music more so than albums. It's possible to discover or rediscover an album well after its release date. If the album is truly one of the best of that year, it will transcend the year or even the decade in which it was released. Live shows, on the other hand, are absolutely tied to the two-hour block of time in which they occur. more ›

Lauryn Hill is coming back to the area to play the Warner Theatre on Feb. 29. Unless she bails, which is always a possibility. more ›

The pre-Christmas/mid-Hanukkah week in concerts around the area, including a few holiday-related offerings, plenty of local favorites sporting Santa hats and one legendary hip-hop crew. more ›

This week in music: Matuto, Zach Condon, Deathfix, Devo, U.S. Royalty and Woods. more ›

Tori Amos, Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg, Liam Gallagher, Band of Horses and many more -- all this week in D.C. more ›

Mean, kind of Swell, or northeastern: it's a week of seasons in today's Music Agenda. more ›

Potatoes and cranberry sauce are great, but the real Thanksgiving side of choice is some good live music. more ›

The Foo Fighters lived out every single rock and roll fantasy -- and occasional cliche -- over the course of three hours on Friday night. Not that anyone was complaining. more ›

Eccentric garage-rockers, Neko Case's touring band/collaborators, and the return of D.C. garage-rock dynamos: that and more, in the Weekly Music Agenda. more ›

MONDAY
Local goth-inspired noise-rockers Lenorable play a Halloween show at the Black Cat Backstage, with Dance for the Dying and Loose Lips. $10. 8 p.m. more ›

The week in live music, including a bunch of up-and-comers, yet more '90s nostalgia and a weekend with something to offer for everyone. more ›

If you didn't get tickets to many of this week's marquee shows, get ready for some serious Craigslisting -- or just check out one of the many non-sold-out options in our Weekly Music Agenda. more ›

A couple of Grammy winners come through D.C., Windian Records curates a gritty beer-soaked garage rock festival and Throwing Muses hits the Black Cat. more ›

Reconciled partners, nostalgic acts and local flavor, plus more, in This Week in Hip-Hop more ›

It didn't take Jens Lekman long to figure out that he was working within an austere venue more conducive to echoes than to dancing. He made the most of it by turning his set at Sixth & I into an alternately heartwarming and heartbreaking storytelling session. more ›

Two bands play definitive albums in their entirety, some local favorites come home and Marissa Paternoster threatens to melt our faces with her guitar shredding. This and more in this week's agenda. more ›

Asking people to stay up late on a school night is never an easy sell. However, The Rapture played to a packed U Street Music Hall on Sunday night and made the venue jump. 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 ›

Bay Area garage rock comes to Comet Ping Pong, Scottish post-rock mainstays threaten to make your body vibrate and the 9:30 Club repeatedly has multiple shows in one night. more ›

This week brings the last remnants of the season's outdoor shows and a Sunday night -- featuring Wilco, The Rapture and Fucked Up shows -- where you cannot go wrong with whatever you pick. more ›