In April, St. Vincent released All Born Screaming, her seventh studio album, via Virgin Music Group. St. Vincent is now on tour, and she performs at The Anthem in DC on Friday, Sept. 13.
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Live Review: Peter Hook & The Light @ 9:30 Club — 9/1/24
Mancunian icon Peter Hook recently swung by DC to play songs of New Order and Joy Division at 9:30 Club. It was a welcome return to 9:30 Club for Hooky, who performed there a few times in 2010 and 2011 in the early days of touring with his band Peter Hook & The Light.
Those early 9:30 Club appearances focused on revisiting the albums of Joy Division, but this time around, Hooky and his band dug into the greatest hits of both rock innovators Joy Division and the successor dance band New Order, playing through the tracklisting of the Substance compilation albums for both bands.
Live Review: Tems w/ Naomi Sharon and DJ Kmeta @ The Anthem — 9/1/24
Nigerian-born singer Tems has embarked on her first-ever world tour following the success of her album Born in the Wild. The tour recently made a highly anticipated stop at The Anthem in Washington, DC, with tickets selling out two weeks in advance!
Preview: PJ Harvey @ The Anthem, 9/11/24
For her first tour in seven years, PJ Harvey includes a date at The Anthem in DC on Wednesday, Sept. 11.
In the summer of 2023 PJ Harvey released her 10th studio album, I Inside the Old Year Dying, via Partisan Records — her first studio record since 2016.
Live Review: Avril Lavigne w/ Simple Plan @ Jiffy Lube Live — 8/31/24
While the weather may have made things a little, … well… Complicated, it didn’t stop over 22,000 people from recently packing into Jiffy Lube Live to see Simple Plan and Avril Lavigne on their Greatest Hits Tour. The rain delay unfortunately meant that the opening band, Girlfriends, was unable to play their set, but lucky for us, we did get to see them come out to perform a few songs with the two headlining acts.
Live Review: Old Crow Medicine Show and Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway @ Wolf Trap — 8/30/24
As the lone US national park founded in the name of the performing arts, Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia, is ceremonious and alluring not just for concert attendees, but for the invited musical guests, who get an entirely different view of the place.
Like the wolves said to run wild on the property in past centuries, the acts taking the stage of the storied Filene Center customarily do so with invigoration granted by the vast park and its hidden delights. The mostly forested grounds — 117 aces in total — can restore any band that’s been chasing adventures out on the road, and the park has proven to be an ideal setting for musicians to reach new heights together.
Live Review: Silverada w/ Jason Scott & The High Heat @ The Atlantis — 8/30/24
Any number of people have bemoaned the state of mainstream country music. Tom Petty called it bad rock music with fiddle. Podcaster and author Tyler Mahan Coe cuts off his discussions of the history of the genre at the year 2000. But there are still folks carrying the torch for classic country, although you may not find them on the pop-dominated country radio stations. Among these folks are Austin, Texas’s Silverada, who headlined The Atlantis recently.
Live Review: Childish Gambino @ Capital One Arena — 8/29/24
Multidisciplinary artist Donald Glover recently brought his latest and last hip hop show to DC at a sold-out Capital One Arena for his New World Order Tour, in support of his final album under the rap moniker Childish Gambino, Bando Stone and the New World. The musician, director, writer, actor, and comedian has continuously found ways to build entire worlds around his work from TV show’s like “Atlanta” and “Swarm,” and movies like “Guava Island” but especially with his music, and his DC date was no exception.
Preview: Oceans Calling w/ Blink-182, The Killers, Dave Matthews Band @ Ocean City Inlet Beach, 9/27-9/29/24
Oceans Calling 2024 takes place on Sept. 27-29, 2024, at Ocean City Inlet Beach.
The Friday lineup includes Blink-182, Cage the Elephant, Sublime, 311, OAR, and more. The Saturday lineup includes The Killers, The Offspring, Rebelution, The Beach Boys, Young the Giant and more. And the Sunday lineup includes Dave Matthews Band, Mt. Joy, Counting Crows, Boyz II Men, Barenaked Ladies, and more.
Live Review: Samantha Fish @ The Jefferson Theatre (Charlottesville, VA) — 8/30/2024
When Grammy-nominated guitarist and singer Samantha Fish recently graced the stage at The Jefferson in Charlottesville, Virginia, the venue lit up with an electrifying blend of rock and blues.