“How do they see when there is no light?”
“They live by night, they live by night!”
“Where do they go, and when do they sleep?”
“They live by night, they live with me!”
I hit up the H Street Festival largely to see what was up with DC music legend H.R. This is pretty much what he is up to: It was close to what I expected, but he played a tiny bit of punk as an encore: The whole thing was pretty fun. H.R. draws an interesting [...]
I tend to find out about new music from the randomest sources these days. One of them is WFMU and their stunningly good website, plus its affiliated Free Music Archive. Last spring I really got into this set of music from a California garage rock band called Bare Wires. You should check it out! Download [...]
In the past few years I have mostly stopped listening to new indie rock music — a combination of me getting older and also having a whole internet worth of music to explore. Nowadays I get more excited about listening to old-school rockabilly or German folk-punk or classic country as opposed to, like, the new [...]
I have rambled on about Medications before, and I’m doing a ridiculously belated review, so let me just quickly go over what I remember about this show. The first band on the line-up was Hume but there is some kind of karmic law that almost always prevents me from seeing Hume perform live. I forget [...]
I got into indie rock in the mid-’90s, but I was never a hardcore kid. During the early-’90s era when hipper kids my age were into hardcore, I was listening to Queensrÿche and later Alice in Chains. So then I came to DC for college and got into post-hardcore via Fugazi, then other DC bands, [...]
So I moved to DC a few years too late to ever see Unrest, the flagship act of Teenbeat Records, but the label itself was still thriving back then, in the mid-’90s. Teenbeat still exists, it still puts out interesting music, but much like its friendly neighbor Dischord, it doesn’t have the cultural impact that [...]
In this unusually ugly and hot summer, we have had occasional gemlike days in the 70s. One of these happened to be Thursday, July 1. I had dinner plans with some relatives, but things happened to work out that I was done in time to head to Fort Reno. It was such a nice night [...]
I waited a long time to see Lightning Bolt a second time. The first time I saw them was around 9 years ago and it was pretty close to a life-altering event. It was by far one of the very best concerts I’ve ever been to. In fact, when people really press me on the [...]
My friend Yulia had a photo show at the DC Photo Co-op in Shaw, and she invited the local band the Cornel West Theory to perform. They were nice enough to accept. I had seen these guys once before at the Sockets Showcase, and I liked them well enough. For the photo show, they put [...]
A couple totally unconnected friends recommended seeing Tinariwen when they came through town a couple weeks ago. I didn’t really know anything about them, and it was quite expensive for a 9:30 Club show ($40!), but eventually persuaded myself to go check them out. Apparently they have a great back story, and I do have [...]
