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The 2nd year of the District's Awake! Music Festival is making it's grand sophomore entrance tomorrow night in clubs across town. News about the festival is traveling far and wide, with a sponsorship and podcast from everybody's favorite online radio station, WOXY, an interview on the local news, and more. A few last minute changes have been made to the festival — namely the unfortunate cancellation of Cloud Cult's set, and of the Rock &...

MONDAY >> The wait is over! We've been anxiously awaiting the start of Fort Reno's season, and the day has finally arrived. Head up to the park and hear one of DCist's favorite local outfits, Deleted Scenes, along with Mass Movement of the Moth and The Boom Orangutangs. >> It's movie night at Galaxy Hut, and tonight the theme is 80s Surf Films. Get your Point Break on and drink an Alagash or twelve. It...

MONDAY >> A year ago, Rolling Stone called The Whigs one of ten bands to watch and "the best unsigned band in America." The Athens, GA trio has since been taking their pure rock-and-roll on the road in support of Give 'Em All a Big Fat Lip, winning comparisons to the Replacements, the Strokes, REM, and the Drive-By Truckers along the way. The break hasn't come yet, but we've got a feeling it could...

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This week was all about Unbuckled. A good time was had by all (see the evidence here). Earlier in the week we sat down for a little Q&A with the bands involved: Olivia Mancini and the Housemates and The Hard Tomorrows. Thanks so much to them and to all of those who came out. Our election coverage is ramping up. This week we discussed Jim Graham's decision to remain in Ward 1, A. Scott Bolden's...

Three Stars February is rounding the finish line, just in time for you to take all that local music yearning to Unbuckled tonight. On Tuesday we visited with The Hint, yesterday The Apparitions, and today we finish with Shortstack. See you all tonight at DC9! Shortstack play music they love. They are not a political band. They do not play art rock, or at least what you would expect to hear if provided the term....

Welcome to Day 2 of February's Three Stars. Yesterday we spent some time with The Hint, tomorrow we'll talk to Shortstack, and today we're featuring The Apparitions. A slight disclaimer before we get started: The Apparitions are not exactly a D.C. band. However, their lead singer lives here and the band held their album release party here last week. Since they're sure to be major presence at local venues in the coming months, we bring...

It's that time again! For this month's Three Stars -- our monthly feature that highlights three local bands -- we'll start off today with The Hint, take a look at The Apparitions tomorrow, and finish things up on Thursday with Shortstack.

It's been a...weird week for D.C. music lovers. Fur flew over the dos and don'ts of ticket sale announcements. Strange things were afoot with venue booking. We all got twitterpated about Unbuckled. Before we move on to telling you about some things to look forward to, may we just say how much awesome Nethers brought to the Black Cat's back stage last night? This is a truly great band, D.C. or otherwise. They've got well written songs and match that to their synergistic live show. You simply can not take your eyes off of Nikki West when she sings, and the band is so in synch when they're playing instrumental portions, it almost looks choreographed. We wish them all the luck one little blog can muster as they set off on their seven week tour, hitting a few ist cities along the way.