D.C.’s own Lightmare is winding down after nearly six years, and fans can say goodbye at a blowout show this weekend.

The $60 million venue is slated to open on October 12, 2017.

The week in concerts around the area, including hip-hop provocateurs, indie-rock victory laps and The Who.

The week in concerts around the area, including multiple supergroups, ska-punk victory laps and a smattering of long-ago sold-out shows.

The (paltry) week in concerts around the area, including punk lifers, noise rock mainstays and the sweetest sounding Reverend in show business.

As he recovers from an unknown affliction in the hospital, Chuck Brown has postponed shows through May.

>> Will D.C. soon be joining the ranks of fine art festival go-to locations like Miami and New York? The inaugural (e)merge art fair has been officially scheduled for September 22-25 at the Capitol Skyline Hotel. Behind the event, “a new vetted art fair that internationalizes the current groundswell of creative activity in DC,” is Leigh Conner and Jamie Smith, of Conner Contemporary, and Helen Allen, former creator and Executive Director of PULSE Art Fairs. They’ll be working with, among others, the Phillips Collection, the National Gallery of Art and the National Museum of Women in the Arts to create events during the fair. (e)merge is accepting applications from galleries, non-profits and unrepresented artists through May 2.

Photo by jmw470 Perhaps the result of these economical times, but satisfying triple bills continue to pop up throughout the District’s spring calendar, with Saturday night’s lineup at the Rock and Roll Hotel yet another convergence of quality and value. Opening was New Zealand’s Surf City, whose self-titled 2008 EP has steadily garnered attention in all of the right places. Its moniker — an abbreviated homage to The Jesus and Mary Chain’s “Kill Surf…

Three songs into Bob Mould’s set at the 9:30 Club on Saturday night, he sang, “The twentieth century has not been particularly kind to me.” Actually, he more screamed it than sang it, cords standing out in his neck and palpable rage spilling out over the microphone. It almost seems odd now that Mould can still deliver this line from his self-titled 1996 record with such vitriol; whatever the twentieth century’s transgressions, the twenty-first…

So now you know who we loved locally this year. Here’s our list of the live shows that came through town and left a lasting impression in ’07. Dismemberment Plan Reunion Shows @ Black Cat DCist Ian says: The Plan’s much anticipated reunion to benefit Cal Robbins, the son of Jawbox/Burning Airlines frontman and recording engineer J. Robbins, sold out in under five minutes. So Travis Morrison & co. added a second show. In all…