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…
TUESDAY: >> All hail the mighty Pearl Jam! Their show tonight with openers My Morning Jacket has yet to sell out, so fulfill your duty as a child of the 90s and head to the Verizon Center at 7:30. $54. >> The locals alight on Arlington, as Pontiak, These United States and Brandon Butler take the stage at Iota. >> In “huh?” show #1 of the evening, T Bone Burnette and Jakob Dylan — remember…
Good morning, Washington. It’s time for us to let you in on a secret: some of us start work on these roundups the night before they go online. In fact, as we write this we’re watching FOX5’s 10PM storm coverage — and we’re afraid that, at the moment, the weather prognosis does not look good. Judging solely by WTTG’s graphics packages and the number of personnel on their Snow Patrol, we’re facing a bona fide…
MONDAY: >> If you snagged tickets, you’ll probably be experiencing a helluva a show tonight at the 9:30 Club, where DCist favorites Doves and Mercury Rev are playing a sold-out concert. Mercury Rev, who play almost psychedelic, orchestral pop, go on at 8:45 p.m.; Doves go on at 10 p.m. TUESDAY: >> Our mothership, Gothamist, loves Snowden; we here at DCist adore local group Cartel (at right); the two play together tonight at the Black…
In addition to the HFStival announcement, there are a few other bits and pieces floating around — and we’d just hate ourselves if we didn’t tell you about them. First off, an eagle-eyed reader let us know that tickets for the Bright Eyes/The Faint are already on sale. Though the two shows on Thursday, May 26 and Friday, May 27 haven’t been posted on the 9:30 Club’s home page, you can hit up their sales…
DCist usually laments the state of shows here in the nations capital. Often passed over for the bigger markets of Philadelphia or New York, the D.C. never seems to get a fair shake when it comes to the concerts that all the cool kids wanna go to. Its so unfair! We have some great musical venues; when are we going to get a steady influx of good live bands? Well, it seems the times, they…
