Mar 05, 2012
Weekly Music Agenda
In this installment of the Weekly Music Agenda, a local non-profit celebrates local female musicians, one of the country’s most well-known DJs stops by Fur and Comet Ping Pong makes Monday and Tuesday fun again.
Jun 19, 2009
DCist Interview: Major Lazer
It’s not every day we get to interview a cartoon. OK, we’ve never interviewed a cartoon. But that ends today with Major Lazer, the creation of DJs Diplo and Switch. The Major’s cartoon backstory is that he’s a Jamaican commando who lost an arm in a secret zombie war in 1984. He was rescued by the U.S. military, who replaced his arm with a laser, and now he flies around on a rocket-powered skateboard…
Nov 14, 2008
Click Click: Diplo and No Age @ the Black Cat
On most nights, upon walking through the double doors on the Black Cat’s second floor, it’s immediately obvious what type of show is going on, judging only by the sort of people who show up. Punk rockers. Hip-hop heads. Indie rockers. Electro kids. Had you walked into the Black Cat on Wednesday night, however, you might have thought that there were four shows going on all at once. That’s because Diplo’s Mad Descent tour was…