Trey Anastasio fronts Ghosts of the Forest at The Anthem on April 6, 2019. (Photo by Ari Strauss)
Phish fans were jubilant recently as Trey Anastasio made a weekend stop at DC’s The Anthem to unveil a new band, Ghosts of the Forest, and a forthcoming album by the same name. The sold-out performance was the third stop on a short nine-show April run for the Phish frontman’s newest side-project.
Jon Hopkins (Photo courtesy Ticketfly)
Jon Hopkins released Singularity, his fifth studio album, last year via Domino as an exploration of the dissonance between dystopian urbanity and the green forest. He brings those wondrous electronic sounds to 9:30 Club on Wednesday, April 24, and you can win tickets to go with Parklife DC.
Spiritualized (Photo by Juliette Larthe)
English space rockers Spiritualized, described by Vogue as “revelatory” and by Uproxx as “staggering grandeur,” will perform at the Lincoln Theatre on Tuesday, April 16, in support of their latest album, And Nothing Hurt.
DMX performs at The Fillmore Silver Spring on April 7, 2019. (Photo by Shedrick Pelt)
“WHAT’S MY NAME!!!” The answer came easily at The Fillmore Silver Spring on Sunday — DMX!
Hayes Carll (Photo by David McClister)
Touring with a full band behind his new album, What It Is, critically-acclaimed Americana singer-songwriter Hayes Carll brought the Texas roadhouse experience in a return to DC at the City Winery recently.
Don McLean performs at The Birchmere on April 5, 2019. (Photo by Ari Strauss)
Don McLean visited The Birchmere on a recent Friday night, and the singer-songwriter best known for his 1971 hit, “American Pie,” gave a masters class on storyteller musical performance.
Emily King performs at the 9:30 Club in DC on April 4, 2019. (Photo by Brenda Reyes)
Emily King kicked off her Scenery Tour recently at the 9:30 Club. It’s been almost four years since she last came to DC — since the release of The Switch in 2015. And DC embraced Emily with with lots of cheer and couldn’t wait for the night to begin.
Al Jourgensen fronts Ministry on stage. (Photo by Andy Jillson)
“Holy shit!!! What the fuck is this?!? Some kind of funky electronic heavy metal punk rock? This is the strangest music I have ever heard. I either hate this shit or this is my new favorite band. And what the hell is on the cover of the album?!?.”
You can ask yourself the same questions that 12-year-old me asked when you see Ministry perform their classic material at a Wax Trax! reunion show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Monday, April 15.
Amanda Palmer performs at National Theatre in DC on April 5, 2019.
Amanda Palmer made a deal with her audience at the National Theatre on Friday. If ever anyone became too sad during the course of her music and conversation presentation, he or she could simply exclaim, “Amanda, I’m too sad!” and the artist would respond to brighten things up with the opening chords of “Coin-Operated Boy” by her band The Dresden Dolls.
By our count, she was called upon to play those chords at least five times, which might not be so bad for a 4.5 hour show.
Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives (Photo by Alysse Gafkjen)
In 2017, Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives won the Americana Music Association Award for Group of the Year. It was easy to see why at an appropriately fabulous show at The Birchmere recently.
