>> Continuing their trend of showing only the weirdest awesome movies for free in this city, the Library of Congress’ Mary Pickford Theater will actually screen an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 tonight as part of their Screening Shakespeare series. Really. It’s the episode of MST3K where the crew is forced to watch a laughably bad German made-for-TV adaptation of Hamlet — as the press release rightly notes, “is that Ricardo Montalban as…

Post and photo by DCist Contributor Mehan Jayasuriya “It’s just not fair,” my friend said to me as we stood and watched multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird perform at this year’s South by Southwest conference in Austin. “How can one guy be so talented?” Admittedly, it does seem a bit unfair: Bird holds a degree in violin performance, is an accomplished guitarist, knows a thing or two about the glockenspiel, has a soaring voice that often recalls…

This DCist must admit we are something of a casual fan of Moby, having only seen him perform live once before, at the Area 1 tour at Merriwether in 2001. That said, Moby played a tight and professional show at last night’s sold-out show at the 9:30 Club. We were happy to find some of the things we remembered from the 2001 tour hadn’t changed: a well choreographed light show and Moby’s confident and energetic…

Damn. We hate to see our loveable, talented, ex-Dismemberment Plan lead singer and all-around local favorite Travis Morrison get smacked upside the head, but we can’t help but laugh ruefully at this Pitchforkmedia review of his debut solo album, Travistan, which receives the stellar rating of ZERO. 0.0. Nothing. Nada. The review includes such gems as: “[This is] one of the most colossal trainwrecks in indie rock history”; “I’ve never heard a record more angry,…