By DCist Music Contributor Justin Kielsgard. The name Greenland refers not only to the world’s largest island, which floats around in the North Atlantic, but to arguably the District’s most underrated rock band. Like the territory of Greenland, this trio is quite misunderstood. Greenland the island isn’t green. It’s tundra, covered in ice. And Greenland the band isn’t just another three-piece with a gig, but a band on the rise. Blending British Invasion-era pop and…

From DCist contributor Justin Kielsgard If you walk the D.C. streets past midnight, there is a good chance you have already heard 23-year-old singer songwriter Ethan Edwards. Setting up shop on street corners and in bus enclosures, the Mosquito Bay, Maine native sings through his smoke stained throat, meditations of the rocky road of love, life and the French countryside. Armed with only his guitar, harmonica and tambourine, Edwards has played steadily in the D.C….

(Review and interview by DCist contributor Justin Kielsgard) Tegan and Sara are water bubbling in a pot. Blending tender, sometimes raucous harmonies with pop and punk sensibility, these 20-something twin sisters from Canada are not simply the fresh-faced darlings of the indie scene, but seasoned rock musicians (having toured with Ryan Adams, Hot Hot Heat and The Killers). In a Monday night performance at the 9:30 Club in support of their latest release, “So Jealous”…

(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…

(Review by special DCist contributor Justin Kielsgard) Despite the debilitating D.C. humidity, summer is a time when people live in the open air. It’s a time when restrictions are looser, when possibilities seem fuller and closer. And no band represents the idea of possibility or freedom better right now than the eclectic 12-piece ensemble Pink Martini. For about two hours on Monday night the 9:30 Club was transformed from Hipster Haven to Continental Cabaret. In…