Posts Tagged ‘9:30 Club’

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David Wax Museum- 930 Club by sightlyworn
As a guy who has photographed many musicians, I know the challenge in capturing the intensity and energy of a live show. Slightlyworn nailed it with this photo. The motion blur is what really makes this photo, because you can just see the guitarist moving and howling into the [...]

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The Winning Ticket: DCWeek Opening Night Party

Today we are giving away a pair of tickets to attend the opening night party for DCWeek at the 9:30 Club on Friday night. Digital Capital Week is a week-long conference focused on bringing together designers, developers, entrepreneurs, and social innovators of all kinds. DCWeek offers an impressive schedule of lectures, discussions, and social mixers [...]

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Q&A: Dan Haggis of The Wombats

courtesy of The Wombats.
The Wombats are performing at the 9:30 Club tonight, so we enlisted our music correspondent Mickey McCarter to have a chat with their drummer Dan Haggis about the group’s strong sophomore album and their biggest US tour to date.
Post-punk dancesmiths The Wombats, consisting of Matthew Murphy, Dan Haggis, and Tord Øverland-Knudsen, have [...]

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The Winning Ticket: Lisa Hannigan

This week we are giving away a pair of tickets to see Lisa Hannigan with Gavin Glass perform at the 9:30 Club on October 13th  - yes, THURSDAY this week – at 7pm.
For your chance to win these tickets simply leave a comment on this post using a valid email address before 3pm Thursday the 13th. One [...]

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Q&A with Debbi Peterson of The Bangles

courtesy of MSO PR.
The Bangles are performing at the 9:30 Club tonight so we asked our 80’s/New Wave correspondent Mickey McCarter if he’d like to have a little chat with Debbi Peterson about the band’s past, present, and future.
The Bangles, founded by sisters Vicki and Debbi Peterson along with Susanna Hoffs, have returned with a [...]

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The Winning Ticket: Les Savy Fav

Les Savy Fav by fotojokko
This week we are giving away a pair of tickets to see Les Savy Fav featuring
Trans Am & The Psychic Paramount perform at the 9:30 Club on October 7th at 8pm.
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We Love Music: Peter Hook presents “Closer” @ 9:30 Club, 9/21/11

Last December, Peter Hook (formerly of Joy Division and New Order) brought his band The Light to the 9:30 Club and performed the Joy Division album “Unknown Pleasures” in its entirety plus a handful of ancillary Joy Division songs. Just about everyone in attendance went in to that show skeptical and curious about Hook’s audacious [...]

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We Love Music: Atari Teenage Riot @ 9:30 Club, 9/17/11

all photos by author.
Pure energy. What else can I say?
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Hot Ticket: Atari Teenage Riot @ 9:30 Club, 9/17/11

This Saturday Alec Empire brings his reconfigured and reactivated digital hardcore terror cell, Atari Teenage Riot, back to the 9:30 Club for the first time in over a decade. For old school DC-area fans like myself, this show is Alec bringing ATR back to the place where all the DHR madness began. For a whole [...]

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The Winning Ticket: The Weepies

This week we are giving away a pair of tickets to see The Weepies perform at the 9:30 Club on September 5th at 7pm. This smooth indie duo is winding down an acoustic tour across the U.S. with their colorful tunes.
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We Love Music: Girls Rock! DC Camper Showcase @ 930 Club

For the past week I have had the privilege of volunteering as a band coach for Girls Rock! DC camp. It has been a whirlwind, but Girls Rock! DC camp is coming to a close. The end of camp week is finally upon us. For those of you unfamiliar with GRDC, it is a week-long day camp [...]

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Gilt City DC Launches with a Musical Edge

Of all the daily deal, flash sale, and flash-local-deal sale sites that have launched in the Washington area lately, none of them can quite match up to Gilt City for sophistication or excitement. While you might expect some of the deals they have offered since their launch in DC – booklets of airline tickets, fancy [...]

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The Winning Ticket: Reel Big Fish & Streetlight Manifesto

This week we are giving away a pair of tickets to see Reel Big Fish with Streetlight Manifesto and Rodeo Ruby Love with New Riot perform at the 9:30 Club on July 31st at 6:30pm. Holy crap that’s a lot of bands for one night! Ska and punk fans rejoice!
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The Winning Ticket: The Glitch Mob

This week we are giving away a pair of tickets to see The Glitch Mob with Phantogram & Com Truise perform at the 9:30 Club on July 20th at 7pm. This dose of digital goodness invades the District on the heels of releasing their new EP, We Can Make the World Stop. The Glitch Mob [...]

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The Winning Ticket: Gomez

As a way to say thanks to our loyal readers, We Love DC will be giving away a pair of tickets to a 9:30 Club concert to one lucky reader each week.
This week we are giving away a pair of tickets to see Gomez perform at the 9:30 Club on Monday, July 18th. These guys [...]

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The Winning Ticket: Rx Bandits

As a way to say thanks to our loyal readers, We Love DC will be giving away a pair of tickets to a 9:30 Club concert to one lucky reader each week. Check back here every Wednesday morning at 9am to find out what tickets we’re giving away and leave a comment for your chance [...]

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Hot Ticket: Dinosaur Jr. w/ OFF! @ 9:30 Club, 6/25/11

On Saturday night the 9:30 Club has the fixings for the tastiest show of the week.
Ingredients:
- One legendary noise-rock band (Dinosaur Jr.) performing their most revered album (“Bug”) in its entirety.
- One hardcore icon (Henry Rollins) interviewing the same legendary noise-rock band (Dinosaur Jr.) live on-stage.
- One hardcore super-group lead by Keith Morris setting the [...]

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The Winning Ticket: Grupo Fantasma

As a way to say thanks to our loyal readers, We Love DC will be giving away a pair of tickets to a 9:30 Club concert to one lucky reader each week. Check back here every Wednesday morning at 9am to find out what tickets we’re giving away and leave a comment for your chance [...]

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We Love Music: Ryan Bingham at the 9:30 Club

Photo by Rachel Levitin
It’s been said countless different ways, but according to folks who’ve lived around these parts, the District is “a northern city with southern charm.” As a daughter of two midwesterner’s, I never knew whether or not the whole “D.C. as a northern city with southern charm thing” was true or not. Then, [...]

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We Love Music: Yeasayer @ 9:30 Club, 6/16/2011

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It’s been a year since Yeasayer last visited the 930 Club, in promotion of their latest album Odd Blood. Since then, word spread about their solid live show, and tickets for Thursday night’s show sold out months in advance. They came to DC as part of a short tour to road-test some [...]

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