
Oh nostalgia, if you didn’t know, the 90s are back. And by 90s I mean the late nineties, when DC101 would play bands that were sure to get the party started. Just this year Garbage, Eve 6, The Offspring and Marilyn Manson all released a new albums, so what better way to relive the glory days then have a super tour of bands?
Well you are in luck as Everclear and Sugar Ray have teamed up with Marcy’s Playground, Gin Blossoms and Lit for a tour that can only be made in alt-rock heaven. The five-act all-killer-no-filler line-up is coming to Wolf Trap tonight and it is sure to get the cheap beer flowing and fists pumpin’.
Lit, who most know from their ubiquitous hit “My Own Worst Enemy” or their Pamela Angela-featuring video “Miserable” are just one of the acts along for the ride, and like their tour mates have just released a new album—their first since 2004. What took them so long? Well along the way the brothers Popoff lost their father, and in 2009 the band lost its original drummer to a brain tumor. The band hasn’t let all of the tragedy spoil their mood, as they are ready to enter the new decade with The View from the Bottom.
While this tour mostly features acts playing the songs that made them famous, new songs are sprinkled in to let fans know this is not just a cash grab. Today’s song of the day is a track from Lit’s new album “Miss You Gone.” As much as the track looks back to the band’s glory days—hell, they had a number one Billboard Modern Rock single—Lit switches things up with a modern twist. The track’s guitar line borrows the riff of The Ting Ting’s “Shut Up and Let Me Go.” This is the kind of music that is made of boob flashes and cold Miller Lite.
Lit play with Everclear, Sugar Ray, Gin Blossoms and Marcy’s Playground tonight at Wolf Trap. Tickets are $42-$100.