Union Stage, a 450-seat venue, will be located in The Wharf in Southwest.
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The best places to catch live music in the city. Rock on, D.C.
The 1990s saw several young guitarists gaining notoriety, despite guitar-based music giving way to saccharine pop mid-way through the decade. These players’ influence will cast a long shadow, whether it be Tom Morello’s scorching riffs with Rage Against the Machine, Kurt Rosenwinkel’s influential jazz work, or Derek Trucks’ ascension in the jam band world. One ax man among this crop is Charlie Hunter, who has spent nearly 20 years effortlessly crossing between all these…
More than ever on the concert circuit, nostalgia is the move. With everyone from Liz Phair to Public Enemy to The Pixies (and those are just the P’s) devoting gigs and sometimes entire tours to reviving their seminal albums in sequence, lots of long-lived performers — particularly those strugging to get even their cult to embrace their new music — have glommed to the trend. Travis are in a reflective mood, too, but they’re…
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By Martin Locraft Fortunately for the enthusiastic (albeit small) crowd at Jammin’ Java, last Thursday’s show featured no mediocrity. The Alternate Routes – an extremely talented quintet from Bridgeport, Connecticut – left me filled with pure appreciation. Headlining the coffee-shop-slash-music-venue in Northern Virginia, the band that released Good And Reckless And True in 2005 treated the audience to the kind of passionate performance that is rarely seen on such a small scale. Seamlessly blending songs…
MONDAY >> Not really into the whole Christmas Eve thing? Jewmongous is Sean Altman from Rockapella (of “Carmen Sandiego” fame) and “What I Like about Jew” who will be offering humorous Christmas Eve odes including “They Tried To Kill Us (We Survived, Let’s Eat),” and “Taller Than Jesus,” at Jammin Java in Vienna. $20, 7 p.m. and 9:30 (two shows). >> The music played by the DJs at the South African Christmas Eve party…
>> The woman NPR crowned the “Queen of the Acoustic Guitar,” Kaki King, takes the 9:30’s stage tonight opening for the John Butler Trio. When DCist saw her play last year at Jammin Java, we were floored by “the wild, jazzy, and melodic ‘voice’ of her guitar.” $20 will get you in the door for a great double bill. >> The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay author Michael Chabon will be at the 6th…
For those of you that don’t know, Six Points is a D.C. music festival in its third year, hosted at venues in and around the city, including the Black Cat, Jammin Java, the State Theater, The Mansion at Strathmore and more. This year’s lineup was announced yesterday on the festival’s blog. The GOG Blog has an interesting take on the festival, namely, that the bands selected are all homogeneous and don’t represent the full spectrum…
