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 ›

Local sausage maker 13th St. Meats is all over D.C. these days. This meat-producing newcomer has become the favorite cylindrical meat provider of several neighborhood watering holes and two of the city's popular music venues' kitchens. 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 ›

MONDAY

Last seen in D.C. opening for She & Him at the 9:30 Club in July, L.A. folk-pop duo The Chapin Sisters bring their enchanting vocal harmonies back to Iota tonight, showcasing new material from their well-received second album, Two. Leslie Stevens and Neema open. $12. 8 p.m. more ›

"One of our friends from the 9:30 Club was here last night, and he said, ‘nobody that works in this club will ever have kidney stones.’” more ›

Nice scoop from Fritz Hahn: the empty basement space at 1115 U Street NW, formerly occupied by Cue Bar, will be taken over by an all-star group of local nightlife veterans and transformed into a dance club dubbed the U Street Music Hall. Among the owners are ubiquitous local DJs Will Eastman and Jesse Tittsworth, Eric Hilton and Farid Ali of Eighteenth Street Lounge, and Marvin chef James Hilton. Nice to hear that the space, which has been the site of many a failed bar venture and been sitting empty for over a year, will see some new life. There definitely seems like there's room for something like this on U Street, as well. As Eastman noted when he spoke to Hahn, some kinds of dance nights don't fit in at either the Black Cat or the 9:30 Club, so this project could potentially fill that void. more ›