GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter KT TUNSTALL is on the road in Canada, and she soon arrives in the United States for tour dates, including a show at The Birchmere on Saturday, May 6, when she co-headlines with Martin Sexton.
Sarah Shook sounded as good I’ve heard them when they and their band, The Disarmers, played DC9 Friday night. Over the past few years, they’ve gone through a number of changes, going to rehab embracing sobriety (100% on her own) and coming out as non-binary. The songs were always great before, but Sarah seemed stronger, healthier, and more confident on stage — more comfortable with her music and more powerful in her delivery.
Folk musicians Langhorne Slim and John Craigie met at the Newport Folk Festival in 2021. As Slim explained, “there was no hierarchy” there, and there was no hierarchy when they played The Birchmere Thursday night. Craigie went first for the utterly logical reason that Slim was wearing a white suit.
Industrial pioneers Skinny Puppy have called their final live concert tour, and they recently brought their farewell show to The Fillmore Silver Spring. Jason Nicholson was there to shoot the show.
Korean-American singer-songwriter Yaeji released her debut full-length album, With a Hammer, a few weeks ago, and soon she arrives in DC for a show at 9:30 Club on Friday, May 5.
“Thanks for coming out on a Tuesday night,” Robbie Fulks told the audience at Jammin’ Java. “We’re going to make it worth it, play for 5-10 more minutes than unusual. Call the babysitter.” So it was that the show started off with a display of the Chicago-based singer-songwriter’s fine sense of humor, a trait that has endeared him to audiences for some 30 years.
Known as one of the mainstays of the alt-country movement, Fulks has moved toward more folk and acoustic approaches to his music in the last decade, beginning with 2013’s Gone Away Backward and continuing with 2016’s Upland Stories. Just this month, he released his latest album, Bluegrass Vacation, the title of which is surely a play on the classic album Bluegrass Holiday by JD Crow and the New South. The album featured a numbered of revered bluegrass players, including dobro master Jerry Douglass and mandolin virtuoso Sierra Hull, along with many others.
Still going strong, rock legend Billy Idol is currently taking his lauded live show back on the road with a run of headline tour dates, including Rams Head Live! in Baltimore on Wednesday, May 3.
Dancehall has had several standard-bearers since emerging as a reggae subgenre in the late ‘70s and early ’80s, but few have contributed more to its global popularity than Sean Paul. The charismatic performer from Kingston, Jamaica, captivated fans during a recent show at The Fillmore Silver Spring.
The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans Tour recently arrived in DC for some artistic camp and horror, and folks at the Lincoln Theatre were thrilled to *death* to welcome the high-value production to the Nation’s Capital. Katherine Gaines was there to photograph the show!
DC soul band Oh He Dead are having quite a year! The band won the 2023 Wammie Aware for Best Pop Band (after winning best soul band in the past). And they are slated to appear at Brandi Carlile’s Out & About Festival at Wolf Trap this summer.
But first, Oh He Dead perform in Annapolis at Rams Head on Stage on Tuesday, May 2.
