Ani DiFranco (Photo courtesy Ticketfly)
Folk rocker Ani DiFranco released Binary, her 19th studio album, last year on her own Righteous Babe Records, and she’s coming to play a show at 9:30 Club on Saturday, May 5. You can win tickets to go with Parklife DC.
Blog (Photo by airpix)
Most nights, your Parklife DC bloggers are hard at work reviewing and photographing music concerts in case you weren’t there or you want to relive a glorious night out. Well, we’re taking a break to catch up with each other. Want to join us? We’re meeting at DC9 for happy hour at 5pm on Saturday, April 7.
IAMX (Photo courtesy UG Strategies)
Chris Corner, aka IAMX, will return to DC to perform at Rock and Roll Hotel on Thursday, April 19, following the release of a new album, Alive in New Light, via Orphic and Caroline International on Feb. 2.
Steve Earle (Photo by Chad Batka)
Country rocker Steve Earle celebrates the 30th anniversary of Copperhead Road, his third studio album, with a tour that stops at The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia, tonight, April 3!
Darlingside captivates at the Union Stage on March 31, 2018. (Photo by David LaMason)
It’s a treat when two voices are so perfectly in sync with one another that you can’t tell where one starts and the next begins, but it’s a something else entirely to witness the four voices perfectly melded into a nearly indistinguishable line verse. Darlingside, the Boston-based quartet that has been been making music together since 2009, has honed the craft of harmony to perfection, as witnessed in a headlining show at Union Stage on Saturday.
Twain performs at Union Stage on March 31, 2018. (Photo by David LaMason)
It might be understandable if you haven’t heard of Twain, the musical moniker of Mt Davidson, a Virginia resident who writes beautiful, lyrical songs that are sometimes funny and often heartbreaking but always hard to shake. But if you were at Union Stage on Saturday night, you certainly heard some terrific songs played live.
Bottle Rockets perform at Euclid Records in their hometown of Saint Louis, Missouri, on April 16, 2011. (Photo by Phil Roussin)
The Bottle Rockets, one of the bands, along with Wilco and Son Volt, that formed out of the wake of legendary alt-country group Uncle Tupelo, performed at The Birchmere on Friday. They played a set of their own songs, then, after an intermission, returned to the stage as the backing band for singer-songwriter Marshall Crenshaw.
Bootblacks perform at Saint Vitus Bar in Brooklyn on March 26, 2018. (Photo by Paivi)
New York post-punk trio Bootblacks performed at Saint Vitus Bar on March 26, 2018, to open goth legends Clan of Xymox. (See our Xymox pictures!) Paivi was there to shoot the show!
Dingleberry Dynasty (Photo courtesy Chris Kamsch)
Hey, Dingleberry Dynasty, Baltimore’s best comedy band, performs tonight at The Fillmore Silver Spring, opening Steel Panther! Read our interview with Chris Kamsch of Dingleberry Dynasty, then buy a ticket to go see them.
Langhorne Slim performs at The Birchmere on March 28, 2018. (Photo by Ari Strauss)
An Intimate Evening with Langhorne Slim on “The Lost at Last Tour”
Langhorne Slim gave a very intimate solo performance at The Birchmere in Alexandria on Wednesday. Rather than relying on a prepared set list for the performance, Langhorne (whose real name is Sean Scolnick) selected songs on fly and shared nostalgic stories with the audience about his time growing up Southeastern Pennsylvania, his family, recruiting bandmates, and all the influences along the way that informed his music.
