Tears for Fears (Photo by Frank Ockenfels)
New wave duo Tears For Fears released their first new studio album in nearly two decades — The Tipping Point — earlier this year via Concord Records. The album hit No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 200 upon its release, truly marking the return of Tears for Fears to the world at large.
Tears for Fears are now on tour, and they perform at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Sunday, June 19.
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (Photo by Alysse Gafkjen)
Sheryl Crow and Jason Isbell have teamed for a summer tour, and they drop by Wolf Trap for two shows on Thursday, June 16, and Friday, June 17.
Bonnie Raitt (Photo by Susan Weiand)
I don’t normally begin a show review by talking about an opener rather than the headliner, but I’m going to break from precedent and start this blog by talking about Lucinda Williams’s opening set for Bonnie Raitt at Wolf Trap on Friday.
In the evening’s most emotional moment — and it was an evening full of emotional moments — the crowd rose and gave her a standing ovation when she explained she wasn’t playing guitar because she had survived a stroke late last year. Her band included an additional guitarist to cover those parts, and she had some assistance with with taking and leaving the stage, but she stood, strong and proud, for the entirety of her roughly hour-long set.
Mary Gauthier (Photo by Chad Cochran)
Introducing “I Drink” during her recent set at Jammin’ Java, Mary Gauthier shared that she’s now been sober for 32 years.
Five years into sobriety, she started writing songs. At the time, she was a chef with a southern restaurant in Boston, southern the cuisine of her native Louisiana. As unpredictable and boom-and-bust as the restaurant business can be, the music business can be an even more difficult way to make a life.
Glove performs at Songbyrd on June 7, 2022. (Photo by Mickey McCarter)
Florida new wavers Glove were a total treat for the senses at Songbyrd Music House recently. The quartet, opening for A Place to Bury Strangers, shared a fully realized sound and vision, to the satisfaction of the bustling audience that had gathered to see them as much as the headliner.
John Doe Folk Trio (Photo by Todd V. Wolfson)
John Doe, famed bass player for punk band X, released his new solo album, Fables in a Foreign Land, last month via Fat Possum Records. He’s now on tour and he performs at Jammin’ Java on Tuesday, June 14!
Sigur Rós performs at The Anthem on June 6, 2022. (Photo by Jason Nicholson)
An emotional journey through a breathtaking musical soundscape.
Sigur Rós appeared on the stage at The Anthem recently, taking their audience on a 21-song two-set spiritual journey and a roller coaster of emotions entwined in a musical soundscape complimented by stunning lighting. The show was dark, brilliant, moody, joyful, inspirational, just a few of the adjectives that match the tableau of their homeland Iceland.
It’s not every day that you encounter a band that’s not old enough to drink but has more love for Led Zeppelin than they do Machine Gun Kelly.
But hearing is believing in this case! The young members of One Way Out rocked hard at DC9 recently for a hometown stop on their Music and Euphoria Summer Tour.
Generally when a band comes back to town touring behind the same album, it’s because they’re playing a bigger venue after winning over more fans. CHVRCHES did things a bit different earlier this week, with a very sold-out three night run at the 9:30 Club for the latter part of their Screen Violence tour. It was the band’s first appearance at the club since way back in 2014.
In a secluded corner of the Hirshhorn’s Sculpture Garden, framed by pine boughs and other living greenery, Grammy Award-winning musician and multi-media artist Laurie Anderson recently performed a four-hour drone-based sonic experience in celebration of her late husband Lou Reed’s 80th birthday.
