Perhaps the most interesting aspect of The Fake Accents is their ability to make their inherent contradictions seamlessly coexist. One might not expect that the same band who records and listens to their own practice sessions would also write a disclaimer on their first album that most of the songs that they’d written were actually just ripped off of other songs. Their songs are identifiable by both their catchy hooks and their noisy guitar riffs….
TUESDAY >>If you like your rock hard, Rock and Roll Hotel is the place to be tonight. Burning Brides, who’ve been building a fanbase for nearly a decade now on solid riffing and opening slots with big names like A Perfect Circle and Queens of the Stone Age. Locals Wooly Mammoth (pictured) open, along with The Exponentials 8 p.m., $10 advance, $12 door. >> Classic ’80s college radio staples Hoodoo Gurus reunited back in 2004,…
Photo and review by DCist contributor Valerie Paschall Providence, RI’s Get Him Eat Him has their fair share of influential friends. They’ve opened tours for behemoths such as Broken Social Scene and Arcade Fire, and Beirut’s Zach Condon plays on their latest album, Arms Down, produced by former Plan axe-man Jason Caddell. Despite all of this, they have released pockets of blog-love, but have essentially flown under the radar. Last night’s show at The…
It’s a slow beginning to the week as every venue in our purview seems to be dark Monday and Tuesday, but it’ll give us all a good chance to refuel before the ’07 concert season kicks into high-gear later this week. If you’ve got any tips for musical destinations this week, particularly tonight and tomorrow, let us know in the comments. WEDNESDAY >> Emily Haines of Broken Social Scene and Metric comes to the 9:30…
One last list of picks from local arists as we look back on the year that was 2006. Today’s final installment comes courtesy of W. Ellington Felton, Jukebox The Ghost, The Fake Accents, Telograph and the DCist Music Staff. W. Ellington Felton 1. Thom Yorke, Eraser This is an electronic record minus the noise that a lot of the others out there have. I can listen to this straight through. This is the perfect cd…
MONDAY: >> It’s a slow concert night around town. Head over to the Black Cat’s backstage for Vintage DC Punk Video Night to benefit Jobs with Justice. 9:00, $5 TUESDAY: >> South Carolina natives Jump Little Children head north and set their sights on Arlington’s Iota club tonight. All classically trained at the North Carolina School of the Arts, their first songs were based in Irish folk music and Delta blues, and has evolved over…
