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Ticket Giveaway: Harriet and the Underground @ Warner Theatre, 7/8/17

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Bishop McNamara High School Sankofa students perform “Harriet and the Underground” at the school in April. (Photo courtesy John Baltimore of Winback Productions)

Bishop McNamara High School Sankofa presents two showings of their production of “Harriet and the Underground” at the Warner Theatre on Saturday, July 8. You can win a pair of tickets to see the 2pm matinee with Parklife DC. In fact, we can award quite a few pairs! Read on for more details.

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Music Park: Al B. Sure! @ Howard Theatre — 6/28/17

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Al B. Sure! (right) with Charles Everett on Jan. 26, 2012. (Photo by Back9Network)

Al B. …Sure Still Has It!

Blueprint. Foundation. Imprint. Artists like Chris Brown, Trey Songz, and Bryson Tiller enjoy the contemporary mesh of melodious R&B and heavy-hitting hip hop beats. However, this mesh and the idea behind it isn’t a new phenomenon. Deep R&B fans can recall how Al B. Sure!, heralded by the New Jack Swing subgenre, was a pioneer for the male singer to be suave and street. Al B. reminded us of this when he played at the Howard Theatre on June 28.

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Don’t Miss: Gary Numan @ 9:30 Club, 12/9/17

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Gary Numan (Photo courtesy the artist)

Gary Numan will release his 21st studio album Savage via BMG on Aug. 11, and in support of it he has launched a tour that includes a stop at 9:30 Club on Saturday, Dec. 9.

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Ticket Giveaway: Conor Oberst (of Bright Eyes) @ 9:30 Club, 7/26/17

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Mickey McCarter
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Conor Oberst released his eighth studio album, Salutations, via Nonesuch Records in March. He’s about to launch a tour this week, and he will arrive in DC for a show at 9:30 Club on Wednesday, July 26. You can win tickets to see him with Parklife DC.

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Snapshots: Jill Scott @ MGM National Harbor — 6/25/17

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Jill Scott performs at The Theater at MGM National Harbor on Sunday, June 25, 2017. (Photo by Chris Castillo)

Ms. Jill Scott visited MGM National Harbor for two nights on June 24 and 25 as part of a 25-date US tour to serenade audiences with evenings of poetic soul.

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Don’t Miss: Downtown Boys @ DC9, 9/4/17

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Mickey McCarter
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Downtown Boys (Photo by Miguel Rosario)

Punk quintet Downtown Boys are making quite a splash with their upcoming third album, Cost of Living, out on Aug. 11 via Sub Pop Records. The band are launching a major US tour that includes a show at DC9 on Monday, Sept. 4.

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Don’t Miss: Al B. Sure! @ Howard Theatre, 6/28/17

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Al B. Sure! (Photo courtesy Universal Music Group)

Albert Joseph Brown III, better known as Al B. Sure!, will host an intimate evening of music at the Howard Theatre on Wednesday, June 28.

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Music Park: Jack Johnson @ Merriweather Post Pavilion — 6/11/17

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Jack Johnson performs at Merriweather Post Pavilion on June 11, 2017. (Photo by Theresa C. Sanchez)

Jack Johnson Radiates Chill on a Hot June Night

The accordion. That’s right — the box-shaped instrument used by everyone from The Who and R.E.M. to Arcade Fire and Gogol Bordello is something you wouldn’t normally associate with the folk rock singer-songwriter Jack Johnson. A Cole Clark acoustic guitar? Definitely. A Pepe Romero Jr. ukulele? Sure. He’s even auctioned a few off for the Kōkua Hawai’i Foundation he co-founded with his wife Kim in 2003 to support environmental education in schools all over the Aloha State. But a squeeze box?

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DJ Park: Andrew Rayel @ Echostage — 6/9/17

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Andrew Rayel at Webster Hall in New York City on May 12, 2017 (Photo by Roger Semaan)

The 24-year-old Moldovan maestro Andrei Rață, better known as Andrew Rayel, dropped by Echostage on June 9, and I was there to catch the action.

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DJ Park: Route 94 @ U Street Music Hall — 6/8/17

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Route 94 (Photo courtesy Paradigm Agency)

Hello everybody! We had the pleasure of listening to and meeting Rowan Jones, the British beat bumper known as Route 94! He was at U Street Music Hall on June 8.

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