Music Review: John Hiatt at the Birchmere
Salutes since the death of Prince last week have come so far from artists as wide ranged as Janelle Monae to Bruce Springsteen. Tuesday, John Hiatt found way to tip…
Stage Review: ‘Black Pearl Sings!’
The song hunting expeditions of early 20th century musicologists, scouring rural backwoods to find tunes that have been become part of the nation’s fabric — as well as discovering authentic,…
Stage Review: Make Room for ‘Dada’
It was 100 years ago this year when Hugo Ball chose a nonsense word to label the anti-art movement of World War I - dada. At the Cabaret Voltaire, he…
The Feelies Do Record Store Day
The Feelies spent their Record Store Day in D.C. playing music — a lot of it. The bulk of it was a three hour show with two full sets and…
Jonathan Richman at The 9:30 Club
Jonathan Richman is the very picture of the traveling musician. On the expanse of the 9:30 Club stage, empty but for Tommy Larkins’ modest drum kit, he walked in for…
Colder-White-Skaggs at Birchmere
Cooder-White-Skaggs sounds like a legal firm or at the least a group of CPAs. Instead, it’s a grand musical merger of two storied families — country star Ricky Skaggs, who…
Opera Review: ‘After Life / Josephine’
What happens when American women move to Paris for creatively fulfilling careers? They sing. Or at least that’s what happened to a couple of singular women at the beginning of…
Review: Josh Ritter at The 9:30 Club
You could tell Josh Ritter was happy to be playing the 9:30 Club Wednesday night. He said so, for one thing. It was the second in a two night stand…
James Hunter Six at the Hamilton
The only trouble with a stone traditionalist is that you can’t expect much variation of the form album to album. But that’s not a bad thing with James Hunter, who…
Aimee Mann and Ted Leo Do Christmas
Like a gauzy, deadpan version of an old holiday TV special, the Aimee Mann-Ted Leo Christmas show that landed at the Birchmere in Alexandria Monday had all the traditional elements:…