FRIDAY: >> It’s the DAM! Festival, son. We’ve already written a blue streak about it, so check out our recent music archives for some great interviews and MP3s from participating artists, and weigh your options between The Red and the Black, the Rock and Roll Hotel, or Velvet Lounge, full schedule with too many bands to list here. Of course, the non-DAM! show of the night is clearly Baltimore’s Spank Rock, who’ll be bringing their…

Written by DCist contributor E.K. Eckert The lights are just coming up in the main room at Nation Night Club, despite the sun having risen an hour earlier, and Scott Henry is spinning his final record, a remix of Donna Summer’s “Last Dance.” People all around us are crying. Lots of people, and lots of tears. This is, honestly and not in the cliché sense, the end of an era. Before Nation is to be…

Any readers remember walking out of Buzz back in the good days, watching the sun rise over the Capitol? Remember that persistent ringing in your ears — the one caused by heavy bass caused by a John Tab set in the small room or Scott Henry’s Bit o’Honey on the deck? It wasn’t very fun, and as we guzzled Gatorade on the way home we prayed the ringing wouldn’t keep us from sleeping. Imagine if…