Yep, the Foo Fighters played a surprise two-hour set for Big Tony’s Birthday Celebration at 9:30 Club last night.

It really, really seems that way.

We all remember how we reacted the first time we heard Bad Brains.

Make it a Bad Brains Christmas, D.C.

Bad Brains: A Band in D.C. played at Silverdocs last night, followed by a late-night question-and-answer session with the film’s directors and Bad Brains’ enigmatic singer, H.R. Here are the highlights.

Local viewers will delight in pointing out the local landmarks that pepper the Bad Brains: A Band in D.C. Washington stars in this film as much as the four members of the seminal hardcore reggae-punk band.

Capitol Hemp may be closing its two stores in August, but it isn’t going quietly—nor will it disappear altogether.

Videographer Rob Parsell hosted a screening for the trailer of his forthcoming documentary about famed Bad Brains–singer H.R. last night at DC9, but didn’t know until late that he would be joined by a special guest: old Human Rights himself. The documentary, which is still in production, covers the story of H.R. (and by extension, his legendary hardcore fusion band Bad Brains) from 1984 ’til the present. “He’s such an enigmatic person. A legend,” says…

D.C. has been the homebase for its share of musical luminaries. Duke Ellington, Marvin Gaye, and Bad Brains come to mind for their efforts in their respective genres. Right in this mix should be the man called the “Godfather of Go-Go,” Chuck Brown. For non-native Washingtonians, go-go is likely foreign and only experienced during the urban radio stations’ “go-go hours” or Brown’s D.C. Lottery commercials. However, go-go is D.C.’s music, Chuck Brown is D.C.’s musician,…

New music is often created through the collision of hitherto disparate styles. Immigrating to the U.S. from Ukraine in the 1990s, Eugene Hutz (pictured), the driving force behind Gogol Bordello, grew up on his native music but also caught the tail end of the American hardcore scene, most notably D.C. legends Bad Brains and Fugazi. Hutz does not recognize any disparities between the two. “I see the punk and hardcore scene as an anthropological study….