Shearwater opens for Sharon Van Etten tomorrow night at Black Cat's mainstage, and we got to talk to singer Jonathan Meiburg ahead of the show. more ›

Rene Marie @ THEARC, Andrea Parkins @ the Caverns, Soul Patch @ Bossa, The Cookers @ Ken Cen and V-Day specials -- all that and more is happening This Week in Jazz. more ›

This week in hip-hop, including George Clinton, Eric Benét and a tribute to Don Cornelius. more ›

Virginia ditched its last official state song in 1997, and legislators keep searching for the tune that would best represent the Old Dominion. We've got a few suggestions. more ›

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

We caught up with Theophilus London before his show tonight at the 9:30 Club, and he had one thing he wants you to know about himself: "I'm tall, skinny and cool." more ›

Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés is a wizard on the keys, and is considered among the finest Latin jazz musicians in the world. He will be performing with the Afro-Cuban Messengers tonight at George Mason University. more ›

Tribute to Junebug @ HR-57, JLQ @ the Atlas, Red Baraat @ U Hall, Chucho Valdés @ GMU and Lee Konitz @ the Caverns -- all that and more is happening This Week in Jazz. more ›

Combining the beats of the subcontinent with a the power of a brass band, percussionist Sunny Jain will lead the 9-piece Red Baraat this Friday at U Street Music Hall. Here's a preview. more ›

This week in hip-hop: Nicolay Rook, Educated Consumers, the Sol Power All-Stars and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. more ›

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

Jeff Magnum made his long-awaited return to a D.C. stage on Friday and Saturday, and his memorable, mostly solo-acoustic performance was worth the wait. more ›

Brad Mehldau @ Sixth & I, Roy Ayers @ Blues Alley, Kenny Rittenhouse @ Twins and Craig Alston @ the Caverns -- all that and more is happening This Week in Jazz. more ›

Long Island’s Twin Sister have deftly perched themselves on a fine line between kitschy pastische and artful eclecticism, forging a distinctive and winsome musical aesthetic which they put on convincing display at the Rock and Roll Hotel on Monday night. Currently touring behind their first full-length record, In Heaven, the quintet delivered a dynamic performance that affirmed their place amongst the most promising young bands on the current indie scene. more ›

This week in hip-hop: Sexual Chocolate! And much more, of course. more ›

You can help a local band make it to the Grammys by voting. A lot. more ›

NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb is best known for his playing on Miles Davis's seminal Kind of Blue album. DCist interviewed the native Washingtonian about his career and upcoming shows this weekend at Bohemian Caverns. more ›

Jimmy Cobb and Min Xiao-Fen @ the Caverns, CapitalBop's Jazz Loft, the Indian jazz series @ Blues Alley and Brad Linde @ The Hamilton -- all that and more is happening This Week in Jazz. more ›

Last weekend, Gold Leaf Studios hosted its final show. But it wasn't going to say goodbye quietly. more ›

This week in hip hop: Stephanie Mills, Tony Humphries, Syleena Johnson, Ozomatli and The Furious Force of Rhymes. more ›

Bluebrain is bringing back their old Boombox Walk one last time tomorrow. Ryan Holladay, one half of the experimental duo, talks about retiring the event in style. more ›

For the past decade, Blues Alley has partnered with embassies to present jazz series highlighting artists from different countries and regions of the world. Monday marks the start of the Indian jazz series. more ›

Chris Byers Octet, Rodney Richardson Trio, Leonard Brown's Joyful Noise, Bobby McFerrin, the Indian Jazz Series and Cheikh Ndoye -- all that and more is happening This Week in Jazz. more ›

This week in hip hop includes Tabi Bonney, Chrisette Michele, Stephanie Mills and a screening of The Furious Force of Rhymes. more ›

Our lengthy conversation with Beauty Pill's Chad Clark begins with his attempts to demystify the record making process while explaining the nuts and bolts of the creation of "Steven and Tiwonge" and reveling in the uniqueness of his residency at Artisphere. more ›

Sofia Rei and a tribute to the Arab Spring @ Ken Cen, Mose Allison @ Blues Alley, the Anderson Twins @ Twins and Tedd Baker @ the Caverns -- all happening This Week in Jazz. more ›

This week in hip hop: Lady Alma, Mark de Clive-Lowe and the National Symphony Orchestra does hip hop and soul. more ›

You may not like the Occupy D.C. encampment at McPherson Square, but it's hard not to dig "Unified Tribes," the new Thievery Corporation and Mr. Lif collaboration that extols the virtues of the movement while featuring D.C. prominently in the song's video. more ›

While we've previously focused our year-end efforts on recapping what shows we've seen and what local artists we've loved, the time honored tradition of choosing albums of the year has eluded us. No more. more ›

Are you a local band? Did you release a full length album in 2011? Did we forget to review it? If you answered yes to the first two questions, the answer to the third is probably also an affirmative. Oops. Our bad. We're sorry. We'll do better in 2012. Still, since "we'll do better" doesn't sound much like a retroactive "we'll review your album," relax. We'll do that, too. Here are some brief thoughts on the local LPs that we'd meant to analyze earlier. more ›