But it’s $25 if you’re a fed.
Friday night D.C. welcomed a fresh face, an old friend, and a foreign band with a peculiar fascination with hands, eyes, and lights. We walked in to American University’s Bender Arena catching only the tail end of the Silversun Pickups’ set to find the bleacher seats completely filled. It was as if the concert goers were forced to attend some lecture rather than voluntarily choosing to buy tickets to a show. Maybe they were just…
Yesterday the lineup for this year’s edition of the HFStival was announced and headlining the two day festival will be Kanye West and…Counting Crows? Kanye is a no brainer but the addition of Counting Crows, in a headlining slot no less, seems to be a curious one. The band hasn’t released an album of original material since 2002 and tends to have a fan base that skews much older than the Clear Channel approved…
Monday: Halloween on a Monday is a bit of a let down. You’ve already donned your costume and bobbed your fill of apples, and all that’s left is to egg a few motorcades and hit the discount candy bins at CVS. It’s damned anticlimactic. Much like the two orchestral “Want” albums Rufus Wainwright put together after enticing us all with two strong opening efforts (on Dreamworks, natch; pays to be a legacy). Nevertheless, Rufus is…
Were you out at any number of the great concerts this weekend? Unfortunately, bad planning and unlucky timing kept us from attending a show, but you can see a review and pictures of the Fiery Furnaces over at shesbitter.com; descriptions of the Bloc Party show at Dumbek and A Lot of Nothingness; and Bags over at the 9:30 Club Forum had a lot of glowing things to say about OK Go. TUESDAY: >> Not a…
Yes, yes, we know — we’re late this week with the musical agenda. We were checking out the beautiful city of one of our sister blogs, but now we’re back and ready with the shows of the week. WEDNESDAY: >> California band Eagles of Death Metal (a side-project of the frontman for Queens of the Stone Age) play the Black Cat with local group The Whips (whose mp3s you can listen to here). And a…
