Ethan Gruska performs at 9:30 Club on March 7, 2017.
Last week, Ethan Gruska presented hushed folks songs for a watchful audience as the opening act for Agnes Obel at 9:30 Club. (Read our Parklife DC review of Agnes Obel’s show.) Ethan’s concert followed the release of his debut album, Slowmotionary, on March 3 via Sire Records.
Tiësto spins at Echostage on Friday, March 10. (Photo by Chris Castillo)
Who can sell out DC’s Echostage (capacity: 6,000) two nights in a row and get Washington to party as hard as Miami or Ibiza? One sure answer: Tiësto.
Overkill performs at the Howard Theatre on March 8. (Photo by Paivi)
New Jersey metal legends Overkill released their 18th studio album, The Grinding Wheel, on Feb. 10 via Nuclear Blast and eOne Music. And they just wrapped up a tour that stopped at The Howard Theatre on March 8 to support it!
Regina Spektor (Photo courtesy Sacks & Co.)
Regina Spektor released her latest album, Remember Us to Life, last fall via Sire Records, and she makes a tour stop tonight, Tuesday, March 14, at DAR Constitution Hall.
Katie Alice Greer fronts Priests at Black Cat on Saturday, March 11, 2017.
Hometown heroes Priests wrapped a US tour with a smashing, sold-out show at Black Cat Saturday. Billed a record release party, Priests actually released their full-length debut, Nothing Feels Natural, at the end of January via their own Sister Polygon Records.
Katatonia (Photo by Ester Segarra)
Swedish metal band Katatonia released their 10th studio album, The Fall of Hearts, via Peaceville in 2016, and they launch a North American tour at 9:30 Club on Thursday, March 16.
Isaac Holman of Slaves performs at DC9 on March 8, 2017.
Laurie Vincent and Isaac Holman started out their band Slaves playing small pubs in their hometown in Kent, England. The UK punk rockers were trying to work out their act, and they would often play to one lone pub patron on a slow night, Isaac recalled at DC9 on Wednesday.
Daryl Hall and John Oates (Photo by Mick Rock)
Daryl Hall and John Oates broke through in the early ’70s with undeniably catchy songs of blue-eyed soul, and went on to create 18 studio albums, selling more than 40 million records. Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith formed Tears for Fears in the early ’80s, creating alternative synthpop, which also produced #1 hits (they had two while Hall and Oates had six, if we are keeping count).
The Americans and the Englishmen were both very popular in the mid-1980s, as their songs climbed the charts and their videos were in heavy rotation on MTV. Now, the two bands are touring together, and they perform at the Verizon Center in DC on Monday, June 26.
Agnes Obel performs at 9:30 Club on March 7, 2017.
Anges Obel played songs at turns crystalline, absorbing, and resplendent in an appearance at 9:30 Club on Tuesday. The Danish-born resident of Berlin passed through DC as part of her biggest US tour yet on the heels of her third album, Citizen of Glass, released late last year via Play It Again Sam.
Migos (Photo by Diwang Valdez)
Hip hop trio Migos released their second full-length album Culture in January via Quality Control Entertainment. They are now on tour, and Quavo, Takeoff, and Offset visit Echostage on Sunday, March 12.
