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Tacocat performs at U Street Music Hall on May 18, 2019. (Photos by Katherine Gaines/AmbientEye.com; Words by Juliet Van Wagenen)
Glitter-adorned indie punk rock quartet Tacocat lit up U Street Music Hall recently for a bevy of fans that may have been the only people in the city not glued to their TVs for the Game of Thrones series finale.
Theresa Wayman fronts Warpaint at Roskilde Festival on June 28, 2017. (Photo by Krists Luhaers)
Dream rockers Warpaint took a break opening for MGMT to hop to Black Cat recently and play an absorbing set of 12 songs for a very full club.
Peewee Longway performs at the Howard Theatre on May 18, 2019. (Photo by Chris Castillo)
Rapper Peewee Longway, born Quincy Lamont Williams, dropped by the Howard Theatre recently for a performance. Chris Castillo shot the show.
Chris Smither (Photo courtesy the artist)
It’s amazing what one man, with one acoustic guitar, sitting in a chair onstage, can do. What his facial expressions and gestures can add to his songs. How he can intoxicate you with just a glass of the dry wine of his wit. Seasoned musician Chris Smither injects so much life and so much humor into his live performance, yet with such understated taste. He did so much at The Hamilton Live recently.
The Hives perform at Franklin Music Hall in Philadelphia on May 18, 2019. (Photo by Kyle Gustafson)
Look, I don’t make the rules. But the rules clearly state that if THE BEST DAMN LIVE BAND ON THE PLANET decide not to play D.C. on their tour, but they are playing Philadelphia on a Saturday night, well you gas up the car and hit the road. So that’s what we did, trekking north to the City of Brotherly Love to catch Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist, Nicholaus Arson and the rest of The Hives on the opening night of their all too brief US tour.
Matthew Logan Vasquez performs at Do512 Lounge in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 17, 2016. (Photo by David Hall Photography)
After Matthew Logan Vasquez’s recent concert at DC9, a fan sought me out to express her opinion the show. She was knowledgeable.
Chris Young performs at Jiffy Lube Live on May 18, 2019. (Photo by Jules McNamara)
Singer-songwriter Chris Young sang up a storm on his Raised on Country Tour 2019 as it stopped at Jiffy Lube Live recently. Jules McNamara was there to photograph him.
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