The 4-time Grammy Award winners Maná recently arrived in Baltimore on on their current Vivir Sin Aire World Tour and played a sensational concert for fans, who were not only energetic throughout the evening but also sang along with each word of each song. It was an amazing night seeing the supergroup from Mexico play at the terrific CFG Arena.
A fall night in West Virginia just feels right for Southern rock, when it’s cool enough for denim jackets and warm enough for cold beer.
The Hollywood Casino Events Center in Charles Town, West Virginia, isn’t exactly a honky-tonk, but Blackberry Smoke made it feel like one on Saturday night and the crowd, half small-town locals, half die-hard travelers in vintage tour shirts, buzzed with slow-building anticipation. But before Blackberry Smoke came out swinging, Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band lit the fuse.
All Things Go once again hosted its annual fall music festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion in the DC edition of its indie pop spectacular on Sept. 26-28.
The grand festival has expanded rapidly since its early days when it took place first in a DC park and later at a dock in Union Market. Nowadays, it’s a Merriweather juggernaut, and it has a companion festival in New York!
For All Things Go DC 2025, we were pleased once again to send Micaela Cerball to photograph the action. She captured major headliners Noah Kahan, The Marias, Lucy Dacus, Clairo, Doechii, DJO, and many others!
With a capacity just shy of 2,000, Strathmore isn’t a small venue. But in her recent appearance there, British blue-eyed soul singer Joss Stone made it feel intimate, in an evening filled with great songs, lots of warmth, and plenty of good vibes.
Growing up in Kent, England, Stone was influenced by the classic R&B of Aretha Franklin and Dusty Springfield. She burst onto the music while she was still in her teens, releasing her debut, The Soul Sessions, when she was just 16. The album received a Grammy nomination, as did its single “You Had Me,” and Joss herself was nominated for Best New Artist. In the two decades since, she’s continued to achieve critical acclaim and commercial success.
Sierra Hull, one of the finest mandolin players in the world recently stopped by The Birchmere, with John Craigie opening the outstanding night of some of best bluegrass, folk, and Americana music on the planet. Hull is currently touring the country in support of her latest album, A Tip Toe High Wire, and the fans at the show were very enthusiastic that Hull and band made the stop in Alexandria.
Originally hailed as heroes of the ’90s alt-country scene, My Morning Jacket has, like their peers in Wilco, evolved into something very different and much more expansive. In their recent performance at The Anthem, they showed just how far they’ve come.
Alex G Vibes at The Anthem
The artist’s mix of songs and instrumentals with strong melodies and a psychedelic light show engulfed The Wharf venue.
Words by Matt Bailey
Photos by James Todd Miller
Singer-songwriter Alex G packed about 30 songs into just over two hours. A gifted triple threat (writer, instrumentalist, and vocalist), Alex’s legions of fans seem to recognize each number by the opening note.
Alex G opened his recent set at The Anthem with “Louisiana.” The number showed off his normal vocals as well as his ability to access a near-grating nasal falsetto. It was perfectly weird, which may have been the point.
“It’s only taken me 20 years to get the bottom of my career,” Brent Cobb told the audience in his recent appearance at The Hamilton Live with his band The Fixin’s, after joking, “Someday, we might be able to afford guitar techs,” and asking for the audience to be patient while they tuned their instruments. Jokes aside, Cobb has emerged over the last decade as a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, earning Grammy nominations.
When I was in college in 2021, I was browsing for something to watch when I stumbled upon a new show called The Sex Lives of College Girls. At its core, it was a Gen-Z Girls. The standout from the show was undeniably Reneé Rapp, who played a closeted gay girl named Leighton, masking as a rich queen-bee archetype. Her character’s storyline was relatable to a lot of queer people’s coming out journeys, and fans quickly latched onto Reneé’s audacious personality on social media.
The Violent Femmes turned The Lyric Baltimore into a communal sing-along on Oct. 5, delivering a brisk, hit-stacked “evening with” set that doubled as a love letter to folk-punk’s scrappy core.
Steve Satzberg was there to photograph the show!
