Photo by Joseph Leonardo

Photo by Joseph Leonardo

For the past few weeks, D.C. has been gripped by one of the most perilous summer mysteries in recent memory: Where is the Fort Reno schedule? It’s June 27, and we still have no clue when the 45-year-old free outdoor concert series begin, or who will be featured on the elevated stage that goes up every summer in the park on D.C.’s highest hill.

Until now. Well, just a bit. Fort Reno programmer Amanda MacKaye tells The Washington Post that her brother Ian’s band, The Evens, will play Monday, July 8 at 7:15 p.m. It’s curious scheduling though. While The Evens are Fort Reno mainstays, the band usually plays one of the last bills of the season. Not this year.

As for the rest of the summer, well, that’s still a gaping enigma, that only became more twisted this week. The Fort Reno website was briefly taken down on Monday, then relaunched with a new design, but still no information about when the concerts will begin. And Amanda MacKaye also retreated from social media. The Fort Reno Facebook page has gone secret, and the Twitter account has been deleted.

“We just don’t feel the need to use Facebook and Twitter anymore, period,” MacKaye told the Post.

At least this proves that social media aversion is consistent in the MacKaye family. The official—and verified—Twitter account for Fugazi hasn’t been updated since Apr. 18, 2009, when it advised fans to “Check MySpace for updates.” And then there’s the parody account that purports to be Ian MacKaye, if Ian MacKaye wrote like a teenage girl.

So, yeah, see you at Fort Reno on July 8, and who knows when the hell else this summer.