Pete Rock, American Idol winner Fantasia and Kurtis Blow highlight this week in hip-hop.
MONDAY >>Satisfy your cheese cravings as former American Idol star (and Richmond, VA native) Elliot Yamin plays the 9:30 Club, with the Last Goodnight and Josh Hoge. $25, Doors at 7 p.m. >>Australian pop singer Ben Lee — he of the short-lived Bens and “Catch My Disease” moderate fame — comes to Alexandria’s Del Ray neighborhood to play the Birchmere. Joining him is are Cary Brothers. $19.50, 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY >>Dinosaur Jr. just can’t stop…
Their debut album has been out for almost two years and somehow the outside world is only just getting to know them as that band that has that backward music video on YouTube. However you know them, Mute Math (or TBTHTBMVOYT, for… short?) is hitting up Sonar in Baltimore tonight for an evening of art rock/post rock/electro rock/whatever the hell music snobs and critics want to label it as. The band has come a long…
The early part of the week is looking a little light for shows, but after the Fourth things really get rolling through Sunday night. MONDAY >> After coming down with a case of “David Letterman throat” last week, Morrissey was forced to reschedule three shows, including his gig at Madison Square Garden in NYC. Right now it looks like NYC’s loss is our gain, as we just recieved an email from the staff at Wolf…
MONDAY >> Joseph Arthur & the Lonely Astronauts return to D.C., and this time they’re playing at a larger, more Metro-accessible venue. While critics don’t exactly love the new album, Let’s Just Be, Arthur puts on a great live show. Check him out at the 9:30 Club with Stars of Track and Field opening. 7:30 p.m. $15. TUESDAY >> Local upstarts Le Loup, fresh off signing with Hardly Art, are opening for The Rosebuds, the…
>> Ward 1 council member Jim Graham hopes the residents of Ward 5 won’t mind if he moves some strip clubs displaced by the new Nationals stadium into their neighborhood. Here’s a tip to make sure there’s no local resistance: Ward 5 residents get in for free! [Examiner] >> Don’t miss Tamara Jones and Roxanne Roberts’ merciless ribbing of President Bush for almost accidentally suggesting Queen Elizabeth II was over 200 years old. The…
Attending Saturday’s White House Correspondents dinner continues to get less and less appealing. First, it was announced that Rich Little, a comedian whose popularity peaked in the 1970s, would host. Compared to Stephen Colbert’s able hosting last year, we weren’t terribly excited about seeing Little’s famous Richard Nixon impression. Now it turns out that American Idol’s latest cast-off, the adorable yet dubiously talented Sanjaya Malakar, will be there too. In an apparent coup by People…
Run for your lives, Washington. Rats have taken over our fair city, and there is no hope of escaping their evil, rat-like ways. We shall flee to the suburbs and their clean, plastic, rat-free lifestyle. But wait! Inside Edition, long-time bastion of quality broadcast news, is here to save us. Thank God for Inside Edition’s Rat Patrol. Let me start out by saying that Inside Edition is possibly the greatest news show on television. Not…
Start singing the blues D.C., just don’t do it in front of a panel of judges hostile to you and a nation with their fingers literally on the button of your career. Last night Catholic University student Antonella Barba was dismissed from American Idol in a cut that chose the final 12 contestants. While the judges were shocked when voters gave Jason “Sundance” Head the boot, they seemed content to let Barba go. Much of…
Austinist gets arty with an interactive guide to SXSW, loved some local art galleries and a new art exhibit and lamented the possible loss of “Friday Night Lights” production to New Mexico. Bostonist was happy they finally found an Anna Nicole Smith connection to their fair city and that an Apple Store was opening up. They were less happy that new rules have been established limiting underage shows and that their Governor is spending…
