Boy Harsher (Photo by Adriana Iris Boatwright)
Hailing from Northampton, Massachusetts, dark electronic duo Boy Harsher released Country Girl, a new EP, on Oct. 13. Augustus Miller and Jae Matthews then picked up some tour dates, and they perform at DC9 on Sunday, Oct. 29 with DC’s own dark electronic duo Technophobia.
Chappell Roan performs at the Lincoln Theatre on Oct. 19, 2017 (Photo by David LaMason)
Chappell Roan, the performing name of Kayleigh Rose, has a powerful voice that belies her 19 years.
Hailing from Willard, Missouri, Chappell Roan signed to Atlantic Records a couple of years ago. She released her debut EP, School Nights, on Sept. 22, and then she stopped at the Lincoln Theatre on tour with Vance Joy and Amy Shark on Oct. 19. (Read our Parklife DC review of Vance Joy.)
Shaun Frank (Photo by Joshua Shultz)
Canadian DJ and producer Shaun Frank swings by Echostage in DC on Friday, Oct. 27, to open for Krewella on their New World Tour. Get to the show early to catch Shaun in action!
Lost Frequencies (Photo courtesy Mitch Schneider Organization)
Lost Frequencies released his debut full-length album in 2016 but he returned with a deluxe edition of the record, Less Is More, via Ultra Music in July. The Belgian producer has been on tour, and he visits Flash in DC on Saturday, Oct. 28.
Cloud Nothings (Photo by Jesse Lirola)
Cleveland indie rockers Cloud Nothings are on tour with Japandroids in the wake of releasing Life Without Sound, their fourth studio album, via Carpark Records earlier this year. The tour locally lands at Ram’s Head Live in Baltimore, Maryland, on Monday, Oct. 30.
Vance Joy sings to a sold-out crowd at the Lincoln Theatre on Oct. 19, 2017. (Photo by David LaMason)
Vance Joy, the stage name for Australian James Gabriel Keogh, plays the type of music that feels immediately recognizable, like comfort food for your heart. Acoustic-based, many of the songs on 2015’s Dream Your Life Away have a Dylanesque quality that is matched with a powerful voice.
Chris Rock performs at MGM National Harbor on Oct. 18, 2017.
Sometimes you sing lead vocals in a band, and sometimes you simply play tambourine. At least, that’s how relationships and marriages are when you do them right, said Chris Rock in his analysis at MGM National Harbor last week.
And when you are forced to play tambourine, you better play some damn sexy tambourine, Chris quipped.
Dhani Harrison (Photo by Josh Giroux)
Dhani Harrison released his first solo album, IN///PARALLEL, on Oct. 6 via BMG Records. He’s on tour with the new music, and he performs at U Street Music Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 7.
This Way to the Egress perform at HarFest 2017. (Photo by Chester Simpson)
Sleepy Creek actually started over 10 years ago as a house party on the hill at the venue owners’ property in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia every Apple Butter Weekend.
YehMe2 (Photo courtesy Ticketfly)
TRAP ARMS UP! YehMe2 played a high-intensity trap tracks that mesmerized his audience, which proceeded to stop, mosh, and scream through his performance at U Street Music Hall last week. His sound was filled with several new remixes of current and old popular tracks that lifted the feet of everyone in the building!