Best of the Year: Top 10 Photos of 2019 by Rashad

Posted on 12/20/2019 by mdxpc in Live Review and tagged 9:30 Club, Agnostic Front, Beck, Best of 2019, best of the year, Cafe 611, Cage the Elephant, Con Brio, Dom Flemons, Hill Center, Integrity, Masked Intruder, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Metro Gallery, Pixies, Royal Farms Arena, The Devil Makes Three, The Fillmore Silver Spring, The Hamilton, The Hamilton Live.

A photo from Beck’s summer concert at Merriweather Post Pavilion ranked among Rashad Polk’s Top 10 Photos of 2019 (but not this photo). (Photo by Rashad Polk)

Editor’s Note: This year, we asked our bloggers to name their Top 10 shows of 2019 or choose their Top 10 photos of the year. We will run them over the course of mid-December as our Best of the Year posts.

Editor (again): The very skillful Rashad Polk picked 10 of his photos as the best of 2019 — take it away, Rashad!

Live Review: Cage the Elephant @ The Anthem — 12/3/19

Posted on 12/06/2019 by Kyle Gustafson in Live Review and tagged blues, Cage the Elephant, garage, Kentucky, The Anthem.

Cage the Elephant performs at The Anthem on Dec. 3, 2019. (Photo by Kyle Gustafson)

It’s been a good year for Cage the Elephant fans in DC. The band has been through town twice this year, playing Merriweather over the summer with Beck and Spoon and also headlining the recent DC101 holiday shindig at The Anthem. Add in October 2018 performance at the new Entertainment and Sport Arena, and that’s three shows in just over a year. Not too shabby.

Live Review: Beck @ Merriweather Post Pavilion — 8/22/19

Posted on 08/28/2019 by mdxpc in Live Review and tagged Americana, anti-folk, art pop, Beck, Cage the Elephant, California, Los Angeles, Merriweather Post Pavilion.

Beck performs at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Aug. 22, 2019. (Photo by Rashad Polk)

In preparation of the release of his upcoming album Hyperspace, Beck stopped by Merriweather on his co-headlining tour with Cage the Elephant.

Live Review: Cage the Elephant @ Merriweather Post Pavilion — 8/22/19

Posted on 08/27/2019 by mdxpc in Live Review and tagged blues, Cage the Elephant, garage, Kentucky, Merriweather Post Pavilion, punk.

Cage the Elephant performs at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Aug. 22, 2019. (Photo by Rashad Polk)

The last time Cage the Elephant played the DC area was last fall at the DC Entertainment and Sports Arena. This time around, the six-piece band from Kentucky played Merriweather Post Pavilion at the DC stop of their co-headlining The Night Running Tour with Beck recently.

Preview: Cage the Elephant and Beck @ Merriweather Post Pavilion, 8/22/19

Posted on 08/14/2019 by Parklifer in Preview and tagged Beck, blues, Cage the Elephant, garage, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Nashville, Tennessee.

Cage the Elephant (Photo by Neil Krug)

Cage the Elephant released their fifth studio album, Social Cues, in April via RCA Records. “Night Running,” a track on that new album, features Beck! So perhaps then it was natural that Cage the Elephant and Beck would team for The Night Running Tour, which arrives at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Thursday, Aug. 22!