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…
Theatre Review: One-Woman ‘Pike St.’
Nilaja Sun sits in the chair, absorbed in herself as the audience at Woolly Mammoth takes its seats for her electrifying one-woman “Pike St.” Sun may be familiar from her…
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…
Trocks: Accomplished Men in Tights
It's a long way from a cramped second-floor loft in lower Manhattan to the splendors of the Kennedy Center Opera House with a full orchestra. But that's what has happened…
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…
Less Political Leno at Kennedy Center
What would have happened if Jay Leno were still hosting “The Tonight Show” today? The longest monologue in late night would probably have been Trump heavy, with every day’s twist ripe…
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…
Stage Review: ‘Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing’
Bad singers make interesting stories. After Meryl Streep got an Oscar nomination for her role as the classical world’s “Florence Foster Jenkins,” last year, here comes Broadway’s Debra Monk, warbling…
A ‘Feud’ That Illuminates Women’s Roles
Delicious for its melding of Hollywood lore and golden age gossip, done up with a lavishness that is 10 times the budget of the pulpy film it portrays, “Feud: Bette…
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…