The Mesa, Ariz. pop rock band showcased their latest album Damage as well as old favorites for a sell out crowd last night at the 9:30 Club.
Our beloved D.C. United may have crashed and burned (again) in the MLS playoffs this season, but life goes on. Also, the playoffs go on — right in our backyard, in fact. Many moons ago, Washington was picked to host the 2007 MLS Cup this Sunday at noon, at RFK. Time to put aside your grieving and check out the game. Tickets start at $30, maybe even less on Craigslist. When else are you going…
With two years since their last area shows and a new album to tour behind, Jimmy Eat World had nothing but good expectations to fulfill. Unfortunately, last night’s show to a capacity crowd was uneven at best and flat at worst, with new songs failing to capture the imagination and many of the old songs lacking energy. Kicking off their set with the anthemic “Big Casino,” the first single from their most recent effort,…
MONDAY >> Do you like screamo? How about metalcore? Us neither, but if you do, get yourself to the 9:30 Club, for Underoath and similarly sinisterly-named Every Time I Die, Poison the Well, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, and Belle and Sebastian. Just kidding about the last one. 6 p.m., $18. TUESDAY >> Stevie Wonder needs no introduction. He’s coming to the Verizon Center today. Tickets start at $68, so get your wallet ready….
It’s not often that a venue can be the undoing of an artist’s performance, but that was the very case for emo-rockers Jimmy Eat World’s otherwise energetic show at American University’s Bender Arena. While the Arizona-based band tightly maneuveured their way through songs spanning a long career, one could hardly help but feel the dissonance between performance and place. It may have been the basketball arena’s bleachers, it may have been the banners touting the…
There’s lots going on this weekend. What are you up to? FRIDAY: — “Team America: World Police” opens tonight at theaters everywhere. Reviews from the NYT, Post, Rotten Tomatoes — Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players at Iota in Arlington, $12 — Grand opening of Eclipse, an “electro, industrial, darkwave, alternative” dance night slated for the second Friday of the month at Between Friends (11th and U St). Resident DJs include Dirty B, MindCage, MissGuided, and Ras…
