In July, Night Beats — the Texas-born brainchild of Danny Lee Blackwell — released their sixth full-length album, Rajan (via Suicide Squeeze Records).
Now, Night Beats goes on tour with a show at Black Cat in DC on Saturday, Sept. 16.
“Thank you so much for being up for this,” Lauren Mayberry told her audience at 9:30 Club during her first-ever public solo performance on Monday.
Lauren compared the experience of her debut solo concert to a throwback indie rock night out when perhaps the audience didn’t fully know what they were going to hear at a show in the days before the widespread adoption of the internet by the music industry.
And yet, totally beguiled by the CHVRCHES frontwoman, the audience were along for the ride and thus for a set of really good new songs.
The Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour
Featuring Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top
Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland
Sept. 2, 2023
A clear blue sky and warm sunshine were over head at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia Maryland, and southern rock royalty, Lynyrd Skynyrd were in town to continue the Sharp Dressed Simple Man tour with Texas blues trio ZZ Top.
The niche role-playing game Burning Wheel characterizes persuasion as the art of convincing someone else that what you want is to their benefit.
And that’s exactly what Sting did when he came out for his encore at Wolf Trap recently and asked the audience what they wanted to hear, and they cried out for The Police’s first big hit, “Roxanne.”
Virginia soft rock duo Mo & Mary Mac performed at Songbyrd Music House recently, and Steve Salzberg was there to photograph them!
With the release of their 12th studio album a few weeks away, The Pretenders are on the road alternating gigs opening stadiums for Guns n’ Roses with headlining some small club gigs as they make their way around the country. The latter brought them to The Atlantis last Thursday for a very special and intimate gig.
The IOU TOUR featuring Lil Baby recently made a grand entrance at the Capital One Arena, leaving the audience awestruck with an unforgettable performance that made up for any debts owed.
Labor Day weekend kicked off a little early this year In Bristow, Virginia. Thursday night, Jiffy Lube Live played host to iconic alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins on their The World Is A Vampire Tour.
The show started early, with two opening acts, Rival Sons and Interpol.
Freaks on Parade Tour 2023
Starring Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper
with Guests Ministry and Filter
Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater, Virginia Beach, Virginia
August 30, 2023
On a rained-filled Wednesday evening, shock rockers Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper brought their Freaks on Parade tour to Virginia Beach, Virginia, with special guests Ministry and Filter.
Surprise projects tend to be welcomed with open arms by music listeners and concert goers who enjoy hearing and hopefully even seeing their favorite artists playing varied music in different settings.
William Tyler is a widely respected, seasoned guitar guru in addition to being a well-connected producer, writer, and thought leader, and it seems that any time he records lately, the nature of the music or the project is unique compared to the previous effort.
In early 2021, he and a cohort of pals traveled down to a brewery in Huntsville, Alabama, where they recorded a live performance as William Tyler and the Impossible Truth, cooking up an illusory, kaleidoscopic take on seven tracks — mostly William’s originals, plus one Kraftwerk interpretation — that would eventually be released as the Secret Stratosphere double LP early this year.
