DCist interviewed saxophonist Karl Denson in advance of his show with his band, Tiny Universe, tomorrow night at 9:30 Club.

Rich arrangements, strong performances and an enthusiastic crowd characterized last night’s performance with Trey Anastasio and the NSO Pops at the Kennedy Center. Here’s DCist’s review.

Rusted Root’s infectious sound brought the band to the top of the charts in the mid-’90s. The band continues to put on quality live shows, and will be at 9:30 Club on Sunday.

Galactic embodies the modern New Orleans Sound, so it’s only appropriate that they dropped their new album, Carnivale Electricos on Mardi Gras. Here’s a preview of the group’s Thursday night show at 9:30 Club.

Twenty years have passed since the three members of Medeski Martin & Wood came together and formed a band that defies category. The trio will be at the 9:30 Club on Thursday.

(Interview by DCist contributor Justin Kielsgard) In the late 70s, through forces still unknown, six different mothers on the East coast gave birth to six different babies, all somehow imbued in the womb with the influences of Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, the Beatles, and Dave Brubeck. The children, all boys, were raised on Voodoo Economics, Marvel Comics, RUN DMC records, and the public school system of the 1980s. Later on in their lives, they somehow…