Lambchop’s Slow Boil at U Street
Over its career, Lambchop has been known to travel with as many as 20 members performing its hushed, quirky and often contemplative alt-country. At the U Street Music Hall Saturday…
Review: Chuck Prophet, Bottle Rockets
Even as he rocks out with his band the Mission Express, Chuck Prophet has mortality all around him. “Bobby Fuller Died for You Sins!” he declares in the anthemic title…
Two Nights, 50 Songs: Magnetic Fields
The Magnetic Fields has been known to write a whole lot of songs about one subject, the prime example being the epic “69 Love Songs” that came on three discs…
Remembering Chuck Berry, 1926-2017
Other than Elvis, the number of rock ’n’ roll pioneers that have been still among us all these years is pretty impressive, with Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Fats…
Dan Baird, Eric Ambel at Hill Country
It wasn’t just the overhyped blizzard that bedeviled gigs along the Eastern Seaboard last week. There were also more mundane barriers, like the missing drain plug in the oil tank…
John Doe Stands Alone at Jammin Java
It’s a long road from the throbbing epicenter of Los Angeles punk origins to an acoustic Tuesday night gig at a suburban Northern Virginia strip mall. But John Doe has…
Review: Lee Fields & the Expressions
Round about showtime Saturday night, as the backing band the Expressions were churning out the cool and lightly funky sounds of the past, the way serious students from Greenpoint, Brooklyn…
How Trent Reznor Met Ken Burns
It seemed an odd contrast: The sexagenarian Beatle bob of Ken Burns vs. the darker, calculated spikes of the rock star. But where the documentarian is pegged with using (or…
Mos Def: Yasiin Bey’s Final Performance
It’s been a tough year for Yasiin Bey, the rapper formerly known as Mos Def, who now wants to be known as a former rapper. He was arrested in South…
The Old 97’s Ring in Another New Year
In the 2014 song “Longer Than You’ve Been Alive,” The Old 97s note “most of our shows were a triumph of rock, although some nights I might have been checkin’…