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…

MONDAY >> This ain’t not J-Pop, we swear. If you want good old-fashioned Japanese rock ‘n’ roll (OK, it’s true, we don’t really know what that’s supposed to sound like either), The Captains from some place in Japan (the city name on their MySpace page uses Japanese characters) will drop by The Red & The Black tonight. They will be supported by Sugarcane Crawl, formerly known as Blues Hammer, and D.C.’s The Bourbon Dynasty. 9…

July 16, 2006 was a very sad day for the D.C. nightlife scene. After one final kick-ass party, the club known as Nation (and before that, The Capital Ballroom), closed its doors to make room for (sniff) more office buildings. Home to the industrial party Alchemy on Thursdays, the electronic party Cubik on Fridays and the gay party Velvet Nation on Saturdays, Nation drew in a very diverse crowd over the course of any given…

If sex were a genre of music, Jette Kelly might be the John Lennon, Madonna and Etta James of the style all rolled into one. The 27-year-old songstress has the song-writing prowess, sex appeal and voice to back both of them up. Last year, Jette teamed up with local electronic producer Holmes Ives for a Frou Frou meets Massive Attack meets Goldfrapp one-off project under the name Jette-Ives. An Emerson graduate, Jette spent most of…

Written by DCist contributor Jason Cox Good news for all you electronic fiends out there – you no longer have to fly overseas to hit up the Mecca of nightlife, Ibiza. OK, that might be a bit of an overstatement, but a new dance metropolis borrowing the island’s name opened in D.C. last weekend and has not only drawn the attention of local clubbers, but some of the city’s biggest party planners as well, namely…

Story and photo by DCist Contributor Jason Cox The last time Paul Van Dyk was in town, it was an almost somber occasion — his trance anthems pulsed through the chambers of Nation one last time, only weeks before the raver haven shut its doors for good. When would he return? Where would he play? Fur, the most obvious choice, was likely out of the question if you listen to the urban legends about PVD…

By DCist contributor Jason Cox While bees across North America have been dropping like flies this year, one D.C. bee in particular still buzzes strong — perhaps stronger than ever. Buzzlife Productions, organizers of the infamous Cubik party held at Nation up until its close last year, has been hard at work to make summer 2007 as electroneriffic as possible. Longtime Buzz DJ and hive worker Muramasa said that the close of Nation has…