Preview: Bikini Kill On Tour — 9/9 – 9/26/26
Legendary feminist punk pioneers Bikini Kill today are on tour! In the DC area, Bikini Kill play a sold-out show at The Fillmore Silver Spring on Sept. 19. But read on for more tour details.
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Live Review: Kehlani @ Merriweather Post Pavilion — 9/6/26
Kehlani brought her World Tour to Merriweather Post Pavilion Sunday night, and the DMV did exactly what the DMV does: showed up and made sure the energy was impossible to ignore.
Live Review: Blackberry Smoke @ Capital One Hall — 9/5/26
A 25th-anniversary tour can easily turn into a museum exhibit. The hits come out in predictable order, the deep cuts disappear, and the whole night becomes a carefully polished reminder of what a band used to be.
Blackberry Smoke took a different approach Saturday night at Capital One Hall in Tysons. Over roughly two decades’ worth of material, the Atlanta band treated its catalog less like a finished history and more like a working repertoire, pulling songs apart, folding other songs into them and moving freely between eras without much concern for which album was supposed to matter most.
Live Review: Social Distortion and Descendents @ The Anthem — 9/4/26
There is something deeply reassuring about walking into The Anthem in 2026 and seeing a crowd that looks suspiciously like the audience I remember seeing at punk shows 25 years ago…except now of course many of us have children, lower back problems, and a much more complicated relationship with our metabolisms.
Such was the scene on Sept. 4, when two of Southern California’s foundational punk institutions, Descendents and Social Distortion, descended upon Southwest DC for an evening of loud guitars, youthful (ha!) rebellion, and the collective realization that apparently none of us have actually grown up.
Live Review: Quicksand @ 9:30 Club — 8/31/26
Quicksand released their debut album, Slip, in 1993. Mid-July 2026, the band released, in my opinion, one of their best albums to date, Bring On The Psychics. They are touring in support of the new album — and this time around, they’re playing as a trio.
Live Review: In Color w/ Hana Eid @ The Atlantis — 8/25/26
“Friendship is the foundation” of In Color, your newest alt-pop-rock obsession.
Hailing from Nashville, In Color consists of Matthew “Matt” Hastings (vocals), Holden Clontz (bass), Miles Leaderman (drums), and Val Hoyt (guitar). Hoyt and Leaderman met in middle school, and both later attended Belmont University, where they eventually met Hastings and Clontz. All four were already involved in music, but the band ultimately came together during one fateful snowed-in weekend in 2024.
Live Review: Chance The Rapper @ Nevermore Hall — 8/25/26
Chance the Rapper took over Baltimore’s Nevermore Hall last week for a sold-out show on his Coloring Book 10 Year Anniversary Tour, celebrating the release of his 2016 breakout album. Coloring Book launched Chance into a household name, from becoming a judge on The Voice to having his own Kit Kat.
Preview: The Wooten Brothers @ The Hamilton Live — 9/13/26
There are few families in live music that carry as much sheer power with combined improvisational instinct as The Wooten Brothers. On Sunday, Sept. 13, five-time Grammy winner Victor Wooten and his brothers bring their full setup to The Hamilton Live for an absolute clinic in funk, jazz, and soul presented by All Good Presents.
Live Review: James Taylor and His Allstar Band @ Wolf Trap — 8/30/26
A line of severe weather pushed James Taylor’s Sunday night return to Wolf Trap back by roughly 20 minutes, a delay made largely out of consideration for the thousands of people sitting exposed on the lawn. By the time Taylor and his All-Star Band finally walked onstage, the rain had not entirely given up, but neither had the crowd of dedicated James Taylor fans. The pavilion was full, the lawn remained populated, and there was remarkably little sense that anyone’s enthusiasm had been washed away.
Live Review: Tedeschi Trucks Band w/ Lukas Nelson @ Wolf Trap — 8/28/26
The legendary Texas singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt said there’s only two kinds of music: the blues and “Zippity Doo Dah.” My own spin on that is that it all breaks down to good music and bad music. Trying to categorize the Tedeschi Trucks Band or Lukas Nelson is a pointless exercise: They draw from all the rivers of American music, and even beyond. Moreover, they do it with the utmost skill. Friday night’s show at Wolf Trap was full of great songs, soaring vocals, and brilliant playing.
