D.C. rockers The Dismemberment Plan are, without question, the highlight of this month's music calendar -- but before they strap in for three huge shows later this month, they'll be appearing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on January 20. And they need help choosing what they'll play! more ›

If you're like us, you're probably pretty excited about the Dismemberment Plan's upcoming reunion tour, which will hit both the Black Cat and the 9:30 Club in late January 2011. (If you haven't yet taken the time to read our updated Secret History feature about the making of D-Plan's legendary Emergency & I, now seems like a good time to get on that.) Tickets for the two D.C. shows go on sale this afternoon at noon; we're expecting both shows to sell out in about twelve seconds. Maybe less. Tickets for both the January 21 show at the Cat and the January 22 show at 9:30 are $20. Here's the website to visit when noon rolls around -- good luck. more ›

Looks like bad news on the possible Jawbox reunion show front. Sean Cannon over at Buzz Grinder checked back in with frontman J. Robbins after news broke earlier this month that the legendary '90s band will perform on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in December. The planned television appearance will coincide with the re-release of Jawbox's 1994 major label debut, For Your Own Special Sweetheart, which naturally led to speculation about whether they would also reunite for some local shows. Unfortunately, Robbins' comments make the outlook not so good:

It seems like if we were ever going to do it — now would be the time. We all put our heads together, and it just seemed like — with all of us in different cities and leading complicated and over-committed lives as we do — that it would be very, very difficult for us to to dedicate the time it would take for us to live up to the standards that we want to live up to. more ›

Big news for the local D.C. music scene: influential '90s hardcore band Jawbox plan to reunite for a performance on NBC's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on Dec. 8, according to Billboard. City Paper's Aaron Leitko also reported word of the planned reunion today, noting that the TV appearance has been planned to coincide with the reissue of the band’s 1994 major label debut, For Your Own Special Sweetheart. more ›