Archive for the ‘We Love Music’ Category
We Love Music: Thomas Dolby @ The Birchmere — 3/25/12 (or “Yes, He Blinded Me With Science”)
Thomas Dolby explores multiple musical genres in support of his new album at The Birchmere Sunday night
More »We Love Music: Kasabian @ 9:30 Club — 3/20/12
Kasabian @ McCallum Park (5/2/2012)courtesy of stusev Kasabian are a great show band. They show well. They perform well. They look like great rock superstars. And they pretty much rocked down the 9:30 Club Tuesday night in a stellar display of musical muscle, also sounding, not just looking, like space rock deities. Perhaps the most [...]
More »We Love Music: Hank 3 @ 930 Club, 3/15/2012
Hank 3 is a musical maniac. Last Thursday night at the 930 club he played over three and a half hours of music…
More »Q&A with Hank 3
all photos courtesy of Hank3 Shelton Hank Williams, III, who now goes by Hank 3, is a rebel and an outlaw in the music world. The grandson of country music legend Hank Williams, and son of pop-country singer Hank Williams, Jr., Hank 3 has always gone against the grain. He refuses to conform to one style [...]
More »We Love Music: The Kaiser Chiefs @ 9:30 Club — 3/9/12
Kaiser Chiefs @ Magazzini Generali, Milano – 13 novembre 2011 courtesy of sergione infuso Could it be? Could it be that you’re joking with me and you don’t really see you with me? The Kaiser Chiefs weren’t joking at all as they pummeled the sold-out 9:30 Club Friday night with a one-two punch in a [...]
More »We Love Music: Tennis & White Rabbits @ The Black Cat — 3/7/12 (or “With Great Expectations Come Great Responsibility”)
Tennis courtesy of musicisentropy A very sold-out show at the Black Cat Wednesday night offered two remarkably different flavors. I went into it with expectations that one band would be mediocre and the other band would be pretty good, but my expectations were reversed! First, Denver-based pop band Tennis charmed the audience with its sweet [...]
More »We Love Music: Korallreven @ Black Cat 3/5/2012
Stockholm-based electronic duo Korallreven played their first DC show Monday night, headlining the Black Cat backstage. They were joined by openers Young Magic and Stout Cortez. Korallreven are currently on their first US tour, in support of An Album by Korallreven, out on Acephale Records. Young Magic played an enthusiastic and energizing set. The trio, currently based in [...]
More »We Love Music: Young Prisms, Boy Friend, & Ceremony @ DC9 – 3/4/12
Young Prisms courtesy of Ethan.K I have a friend who swears a 90s revival is around the corner. It’s going to be big and it’s going to make industrial music popular again. But while my friend wasn’t looking, the 90s revival already has come, but not in the form he envisioned. In the past several [...]
More »Q&A with Marcus Joons of Korallreven
Swedish dreamy-electronic-pop duo Korallreven, aka Marcus Joons and Daniel Tjäder (of The Radio Dept) have announced their first US shows ever, with select East and West coast dates supporting their debut album, An Album By Korallreven, available now on Acéphale. We Love DC’s Alexia Kauffman got the chance to ask singer Marcus Joons a few questions. [...]
More »We Love Music: Spineless Swine @ The Red Palace on 2/23/12 (or “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Smiths”)
Spineless Swine is a local cover band of The Smiths. They sound great and you should go listen to them sometime. I’ll get back to them in a bit, but first bear with me while I digress. A mere 10 years ago, I only had in my collection the singles compilation from The Smiths. I [...]
More »We Love Music Field Trip: Bjork @ New York Hall of Science, 2/18/12
While We Love DC typically focuses on events in the Washington, DC metro area, we sometimes make exceptions for special events that are not coming to the area. Bjork‘s performance on Saturday night at the New York Hall of Science is one of those exceptions. The concert was part of her ten-show New York residency [...]
More »We Love Music: Dead Milkmen @ U Street Music Hall, 2/18/12
100_3806 courtesy of xrayspx The Dead Milkmen, Philadelphia’s top punk export, stunned a sold-out crowd at U Street Music Hall with the nervy verve of their declarations against mainstream America along with an amazingly acute understanding of their musical niche and a nod to DC hardcore punkers Fugazi. Rodney Anonymous and crew tore through about [...]
More »We Love Music: Zola Jesus @ U Street Music Hall, 2/16/12
Synth-chamber-electronic songstress Zola Jesus and her band performed to an enthusiastic crowd at U Street Music Hall Thursday night. They were supported by openers Talk Normal, a female experimental rock duo from Brooklyn who are accompanying them on much of their tour. They are in the midst of a US tour before heading over to Europe [...]
More »Hot Ticket: Zola Jesus @ U Street Music Hall, 2/16/2012
Goth/synthpop princess Zola Jesus will be performing her enchanting, dark tunes Thursday night at U Street Music Hall. She has toured with Fever Ray and The XX, and collaborated with M83, LA Vampires and Burial Hex, among others. Check out her video for “Vessel,” off of her 2011 album Conatus, out on Sacred Bones Records. Zola [...]
More »Q&A with Justin Trawick
Justin Trawick is a local singer-songwriter, band frontman, and musical entrepreneur. In addition to his exhaustive solo performance schedule he has created a series called The 9, that packages nine singer-songwriters into one show, joining their forces to create a theatrical and diverse night of entertainment. We Love DC’s Alexia Kauffman sat down with Justin [...]
More »We Love Music: The Darkness @ 930 Club, 2/8/2012
Tight pants, long hair, moustaches, falsetto and acrobatics abounded onstage Wednesday night at the 930 club. Freddie Mercury would have felt right at home. British glam-rock extravaganza The Darkness blended sex-appeal, silliness and virtuosity into a delicious pop explosion at their sold-out show. They were joined by outrageous openers Foxy Shazam. Cincinnati rockers Foxy Shazam took to the [...]
More »We Love Music: Thurston Moore, Kurt Vile @ Black Cat 2/6/2012
At Monday night’s Black Cat show Thurston Moore dished out jokes about Dischord house, stories about Black Flag, Jello Biafra, conspiracy theories about Jimmy Carter, credited Reagan for the birth of Hardcore, and had a gin & tonic chugging contest with his guitarist. Oh yeah, and played some amazing music too. Moore, frontman of the iconic [...]
More »We Love Music: The Grey Area
Happenstance is what brought The Grey Area together. It was March 2010 when Jason Steinhauer (vocals/guitar) stopped by Zoo Bar for an open blues jam. Drummer Timothy Jones (TJ) was playing with a few other guys on stage at the time, so Steinhauer sat at the bar and waited for his turn to join. It didn’t [...]
More »We Love Music: Cass McCombs @ Ottobar, 1/21/2012
Cass McCombs turned Baltimore’s Ottobar into a spacey dreamworld during his set Saturday night. In the midst of his US winter tour, he played with a full backing band, including keys, bass, guitar, pedal-steel guitar and drums. Opening was Frank Fairfield, along for the duration of the tour, and Walker and Jay. First to the stage was the [...]
More »Hot Ticket: Cass McCombs @ Ottobar, 1/21/2012
Cass McCombs brings soulful, mellow, dreamy rock to Baltimore’s Ottobar this Saturday night. He has received high praise from the likes of John Peel and Pitchfork Media, and has performed or toured with Cat Power, Andrew Bird, Blonde Redhead & Modest Mouse among many others. His sixth album (and second in 2011), Humor Risk, was [...]
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