Despite the false starts in earlier reunion tours, the new wave legends New Order returned to Merriweather after a lengthy absence bringing a set packed with old favorites.

They probably played “Temptation” on repeat. A lot.

In all honesty, it’s tough to wholeheartedly recommend going out on New Year’s Eve at all. We love the spirit of the holiday, but paying around $100 a person for a regular night of dancing dressed up with champagne is enough to make anyone feel like a schmuck. It’s a safe bet most of us at DCist will be hitting various house parties to ring in the new year with friends at a more reasonable…

So really there’s not much of a story to last week’s triple bill at the Rock and Roll Hotel in NE. One of our first visits to the club started with the City Goats, a local modern rock band with a Southern Californian punk feel, who played loud and aggressively, if not…you know…well. Part of the blame was certainly on the sound system at RnR (a recurring theme), but if either nuance, discernible vocal melodies,…

Stars, as they might remind you, are a band from Canada, a country whose bands are pimped far and wide as being the greatest in current indie rock. Websites a lot like this one have carefully picked their way through the remains of ruined social scenes, gawking at the ashy, creosote stained remnants of various arcades, and deemed the result to be not just good, but great — not just great, but “teh awesome.” Not…

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…