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We Love Music: Middle Brother @ 9:30 Club, 3/2/11
All photos by Erin McCann
Wednesday night’s show at the 9:30 Club was the start of a high-profile tour for Middle Brother. It’s a side-project for its members, all of whom have highly respected bands on the cusp of greatness of their own to tend to. For less-talented musicians, gambling time away from their primary projects [...]
We Love Music: The Avett Brothers @ DAR Constitution Hall, 2/18/11
All photos by Erin McCann
I didn’t much like the Avett Brothers when I first heard them. The banjo was too much, the vocal harmonies sometimes too off-key, the melodies sometimes just on the other side of pleasant. That changed a little bit for me one day when “Ballad of Love and Hate” from 2007’s “Emotionalism” [...]
Hot Ticket: Avett Brothers @ DAR, 2/18/11
Straight from last Sunday’s Grammy awards broadcast, where they performed with Mumford & Sons and Bob Dylan, the Avett Brothers are bringing their show to DAR Constitution Hall on Friday night.
Linguistically speaking, folk rock is a genre that shouldn’t exist. Rock is too powerful, and folk is too sweet, to logically co-exist, right? And yet [...]
Photos: Old Washington in the Winter
Photo courtesy of the DC Public Library
I love Flickr. Here at We Love DC, we all love Flickr. Without your contributions to our pool, the site would be a lot less colorful. But one of my favorite things about Flickr is The Commons, where museums of the world post selections of their historic photography collections. [...]
Dismemberment Plan: a weekend in tweets
When Dismemberment Plan’s “Emergency & I” was first released in 1999, “tweet” was the sound a bird made. This weekend, as they played three reunion shows in our city’s finest venues (check back at 3 for Brittany’s review!), it became an often hilarious and sometimes poignant way for some fans to experience the event. Many [...]
More »Photos: MAGfest 9
Chances are, you’ve played a video game or two in your day. Maybe you haven’t picked up a controller since Mario made his first (of many, because man she was helpless) attempts to rescue Princess Toadstool. Or maybe you’re a little tired this afternoon because you stayed up too late last night obsessively launching birds [...]
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‘projection-4′
courtesy of ‘dr_kim_veis [''o ]‘
December’s increasingly short days and this week’s biting wind have forced many of us into hibernation mode. With the outside world so inhospitable these days, it’s time to look for inside activities to keep from going stir-crazy, and dr_kim_veis has shared his cure for the winter blues with us for today’s [...]
Getaways: Centralia, Pa., is one smokin’ hot town
Photos by Erin McCann
What was it Joni Mitchell sang? “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”? Let’s just say that it took growing up and moving away from Central Pennsylvania for me to realize the true greatness of the place. Amish quilts and baked goods? Rolling hillsides? Whatever. What I’m talking about is [...]
We Love Music: Reel Big Fish (and Aquabats!) at 9:30 Club
You can tell a lot about a show by the way people leave after it’s over. The lights come up, the house music kicks in, and people filter through the door, clinging a little bit to the last two hours. Or, in the case of Reel Big Fish at the 9:30 Club on Monday night, [...]
More »Why I love DC: Erin McCann
In 2004, staring at acceptance letters from graduate programs, I had a choice to make: fulfill a lifelong dream and move to England, or come to D.C. Finances and a weird sort of tugging in my heart led me here. Six years later — longer than I ever intended — I’m still here. It’s a [...]
More »The Winning Ticket: A Q&A With Dawes
The “next big thing” is thrown around a lot in music culture. What you hear about less often is the next great thing, the next band that’ll knock your socks off not just because all the cool kids love them but because they are just that good. If there is a musical god out there [...]
More »Weekend Flashback: Sanity Edition
courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
Hey, did you hear we had some guests this weekend? Roughly a quarter of a million of them, in fact. A lot of you took photos of them. Good lord, did you take a lot of photos of them. Click on through for an extra special super-duper-sized edition of your Weekend Flashback: Rally [...]
Weekend Flashback 10/22-10/24/10
‘Silver Spring Zombie Walk 2010′
courtesy of ‘mediaslave’
Hi, Monday. You’ve got a lot to live up to, given how gorgeous the weekend was. I’m willing to give you a chance, being a fresh week and all, but really, check out all the great stuff the photographers got up to the last two days: rock concerts, fall [...]
Photographers get a win
Via our neighbors up in New York City, some good news for all you DC photographers: The Department of Homeland Security is, once again, being forced to admit that you have the right to take pictures of federal buildings. As part of a settlement brokered by the New York Civil Liberties Union, DHS –and specifically [...]
More »Photos: DC Henge, such as it was, the moon and special bonus storm
‘Washington Monument – Old Glory Aflame – 09-22-10′
courtesy of ‘mosley.brian’
Yesterday had the potential to be a squee-worthy afternoon for DC photographers. The first day of autumn meant the possibility of spectacular light as the sun set directly along the east-west axis of the city’s streets during an event we have come to know as DC [...]
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‘DC Streets’
courtesy of ‘pnzr242′
The few elements of this photo that shine out from the darkness tell us everything we need to know: a man, a train station, a grim expression, head bowed. We’ve all been there, isolated as we trudge from the Metro to the office or back again.
Photography is a game of precision timing [...]
TSA warns you to report photographers
I like to take pictures. A lot of my friends like to take pictures. Sometimes, we even like to take pictures of things like airplanes. You might call us hobbyists, photo enthusiasts, or just photographers. But now, thanks to a new campaign from the Transportation Security Administration, there’s something else you can call us: terrorists. [...]
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‘Katy in the surf’
courtesy of ‘MudflapDC’
Labor Day weekend is traditionally recognized as the End Of Summertime. School starts again, the weather (reportedly) begins to cool, and collectively we put away the swimsuits and get down to the business of life. In their quest to document summer’s last grasp, our pool of photographers did not disappoint: [...]
Get your science on
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courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
So hey, did you know there’s going to be a big old science fair in DC next month? No? Neither did I until I caught sight of the USA Science and Engineering Festival Twitter feed last week, and it took about 10 seconds to hook me on the whole [...]
Kermit gets some new friends at the Smithsonian
‘Jane Henson, Brent D. Glass, NMAH director, and Dwight Blocker Bowers, NMAH curator’
courtesy of ‘erin m’
Kermit the Frog and Oscar the Grouch have long been popular attractions at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. On Wednesday morning, courtesy of a donation by Jane Henson and the rest of the Jim Henson family, they gained [...]
