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We Love Music: Slash
Andrew trekked up to Baltimore to see Slash rock out. You’ll want to see this.
More »We Love Music: Virgin Mobile Free Fest 2011 @ Merriweather Post Pavilion, 9/10/11
all photos by Andrew Markowitz. It was late on Wednesday afternoon when I found out that I was going be covering the 2011 Virgin Mobile FreeFest at Merriweather Post Pavilion this past Saturday. My finger started ping-ponging down the list of the two different stage line-ups, as I began to count how many bands would [...]
More »We Love Music: Sweetlife Festival 2011
all photos by author. Sweetgreen is a locally established restaurant chain that was founded in 2007 by three former Georgetown students, Nicolas Jammet, Jonathan Neman, and Nathaniel Ru. In four short years, they have spread their environmentally conscious and healthy living message through the DMV area as well as into Pennsylvania. With a focus on [...]
More »We Love Music: Atmosphere @ 9:30 Club, 4/28
all photos by author. As I walked down the sidewalk in front of the 9:30 Club towards the box office on Thursday afternoon, I thought I spotted a familiar face lingering amongst the crowd of fans lined up outside. S…Slug? Yep, it was the Minnesota rapper and leader of Atmosphere decked out in a Ben’s [...]
More »Hot Ticket: Atmosphere @ 9:30 Club, 4/27/11
Hailing from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Atmosphere has been part of the underground hip hop scene for over a decade. With such albums as “Seven’s Travels,” and “God Loves Ugly,” that posse introspective lyrics and clever rhymes, lead rapper Slug has cemented himself as one of the “must hear” rappers to have come out of the mid-west. [...]
More »We Love Music: Cake at 9:30 Club 4/14/11
all photos by Andrew Markowitz. Who doesn’t love Cake? No, not the dessert (although everyone loves it, too), I’m talking about the band who has spawned such hits as “The Distance”, “Never There”, and “Short Skirt/Long Jacket”. These are songs that I think most everyone knows and everyone can sing along to. And when Cake [...]
More »We Love Music: Tim Reynolds @ Blues Alley, 4/1/11
all photos by author. As a photographer, I’ve never had band management ask me to check on a venue’s photography policy. But when Tim Reynolds publicist sent an email asking me to check on the photo policy for Blues Alley in Georgetown, I hopped on the phone. “Yes, I’m a photographer and I’m scheduled to [...]
More »We Love Music: TR3 @ State Theater, 3/3/11
all photos by Andrew Markowitz. I first heard Tim Reynolds on the double CD “Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds Live at Luther College” back in 1999. Being a big Dave Matthews fan at the time, I was constantly on the lookout for anything and everything related to DMB, so I’ll never forget the day of [...]
More »Hot Ticket: TR3 @ State Theater, 3/3/11
Guitar virtuoso Tim Reynolds and his band, TR3 are headlining the State Theatre in Falls Church, VA on March 2nd. Probably best known for his live acoustic performances alongside Dave Matthews and as a permanent member of the Dave Matthews Band, Reynolds has been performing with TR3 since 1984. The band has seen several different [...]
More »Hot Ticket: Linkin Park @ Verizon Center, 2/10/11
“A Thousand Suns” cover. Two time Grammy Award winning rap/rock group Linkin Park comes to the Verizon Center on Thursday night. Formed in Agoura Hills, California in 1996, the band has sold over 50 million albums worldwide, including “Hybrid Theory” and “Meteora”. What more can you say about a band that has spawned hard hitting [...]
More »We Love Music: Tokyo Police Club @ 9:30 1/19/11
all photos by author. I had heard of Tokyo Police Club before and knowing that they were popular on the indie scene I thought I’d take the opportunity to check them out at the 9:30 Club last week. I knew this was a hot ticket; it sold out rather quickly and there were people in [...]
More »We Love Music: The Pietasters @ 9:30 Club 1/8/11
All photos by the author. Growing up in Northern Virginia and going to high school in DC from ’95-’99, The Pietasters‘ name was definitely well known to me. I wasn’t a particularly huge fan, but I remember classmates always talking about them and their music would always be on mix-tapes playing in our darkroom during [...]
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