Beth Ditto (Photo courtesy Virgin Records)
After 17 years with soulful punk band The Gossip, Beth Ditto went solo last year, releasing her debut album, Fake Sugar, via Virgin Records. Beth toured after the album but she’s coming back to DC for a second round with a show at 9:30 Club on Saturday, March 10.
Ferg performs at The Fillmore Silver Spring on March 1, 2018. (Photo by Brenda Reyes)
On the second stop on his Mad Man Tour, A$AP Ferg demonstrated his chops at The Fillmore Silver Spring Thursday. Most recently, Ferg released Still Striving, his fourth solo project, in summer 2017.
Xylouris White entrances at the Creative Alliance on March 1, 2018. (Photo by David LaMason)
Almost immediately after you see George Xylouris (laouto, Cretan lute) and Jim White (drums), you get the feeling they are two halves of the same whole. As the story goes, Jim met George back in 1990 in a bar in Australia but didn’t start recording and really touring together until 2013. And to a degree that friendship, built over decades, is the fuel for Xylouris White as we saw in a harmonious performance on Thursday at the Creative Alliance at the Patterson Theatre in Baltimore.
Kristie Di Lascio fronts Loi Loi at DC9 on Feb. 28, 2018. (Photo by Mark Caicedo)
How she’s able to jump and dance in those high heels is anyone’s guess, but then again, how can anyone resist jumping, dancing, or even just tapping one’s toes to Kristie Di Lascio of Loi Loi’s energetic, tuneful synthpop beats.
Lee Ann Womack (Photo by Ebru Yildiz)
Lee Ann Womack released The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone, her ninth studio album, via ATO Records last fall. Lee Ann now undertakes a tour that stops locally at The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia, on Friday, March 23.
James McMurtry (Photo by Mary Keating-Bruton)
Americana songwriter James McMurtry teams up with rising tunesmith John Moreland to play two weeks of shows across the Midwest and East Coast this month, including a stop at The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia, on Monday, March 26.
Born Ruffians (Photo courtesy Paper Bag Records)
Editor’s Update on March 21: DC9 has canceled the Born Ruffians show tonight due to snow in DC. Luke Lalonde says the band will seek to reschedule!
Post-punk rockers Born Ruffians put on a great live show, and they will put on such a show at DC9 on Wednesday, March 21, in the wake of the release of Uncle, Duke & The Chief, their fifth studio album, which they released on Feb. 16 via Paper Bag Records.
Lights performs at 9:30 Club on Feb. 27, 2018. (Photo by Paivi)
Canadian singer-songwriter Lights released Skin & Earth, her fourth studio album, in December. And on Tuesday, she visited 9:30 Club in her We Were Here Tour. Paivi was there to photograph the show!
MGMT (Photo by Brad Elterman)
Neo-psychedelic duo MGMT released Little Dark Age, their fourth studio album, via Columbia Records on Feb. 9. The gents undertake a North American Tour on March 2 with an early stop at The Anthem in DC on Thursday, March 15.
Ezra Furman (Photo courtesy Bella Union)
Ezra Furman released Transangelic Exodus, his seventh studio album, on Feb. 9 via Bella Union, and he comes to Rock and Roll Hotel in support of it on Saturday, March 10.