The music documentary, which puts the spotlight on background singers, is as bittersweet as it is inspirational.

The Rolling Stones will close out their 50th anniversary tour at the Verizon Center on June 24, the band announced today.

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Performance One could argue that in Mick Jagger’s feature film debut, he’s simply playing himself. Jagger plays Turner, a charismatic rock star living in a blissed-out drug haze with his two girlfriends, spending much of his time in bed with them and whomever else might pass through his sheets on any given night. The essential difference…

Written by DCist contributor Maria Flores Sometime in the early 1970s, when the photographs in Melody Maker, NME, and Rolling Stone were no longer enough to satiate his appetite, Claude Gassian swapped his guitar for a 35mm camera and took to the road with his finger on the shutter button. So began his photographic conquest to document the lives of some of his favorite musical artists. Over three decades later, his photographs stand alone as…