Vote: What Is the Best in DC for 2018?

Posted on 11/26/2018 by Mickey McCarter in Around Town, Live Review and tagged 9:30 Club, All Things Go, All Things Go Fall Classic, awards program, Bacchae, Bat Fangs, best of dc, best of the year, Black Cat, Broke Royals, City Winery, DC Music Rocks, DC Music Rocks Festival, DC9, Funk Parade, Kingman Island, Kingman Island Bluegrass and Folk Festival, Loi Loi, Park Snakes, Pearl Street Warehouse, Priests, ShamrockFest, Sol Roots, The Anthem, Thrushie Awards, Tiny Cat Dark Music Festival, Union Stage.

A wood thrush! (Photo by Trish Gussler)

Parklife DC will honor DC bands and venues with our inaugural awards program, named for our new mascot, DC’s own state bird — the Wood Thrush. Our Thrushie Awards are inspired by our mission to review live music concerts.

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Poll: What Is the Best Music Festival in DC?

Posted on 11/16/2018 by Mickey McCarter in Live Review and tagged All Things Go Fall Classic, awards program, Black Cat, DC Music Rocks Festival, Funk Parade, Kingman Island Bluegrass & Folk Festival, music festival, ShamrockFest, Thrushie Awards, Tiny Cat Dark Music Festival.

Welcome to the 2018 Thrushie Awards! Parklife DC will name the best music festival of the year with your input. Vote for the best music festival in DC now through Dec. 1.

Music Park: Tiny Cat Dark Music Festival @ Black Cat — 8/3-8/4/18

Posted on 08/08/2018 by paivi in Live Review and tagged Black Cat, Crash Course in Science, dark wave, goth, Hante, industrial, Kontravoid, minimal wave, music festival, post-punk, Radiator Greys, Remote/Control, synthesizer, synthwave, Technophobia, Tempers, Tiny Cat, Tiny Cat Dark Music Festival, TWINS, Void Vision, Working Order Records.

Hélène De Thoury of Hante performs at Tiny Cat Music Festival on Aug. 3, 2018. (All photos by Paivi Salonen. Words by Mickey McCarter)

Working Order Records, home to DC’s own synthpop duo Technophobia, held its first Tiny Cat Dark Music Festival to celebrate “dark electronic music” over the weekend at Black Cat. By any measure, the first edition of Tiny Cat was a wild success, drawing 10 bands of remarkably different soundscapes together over two nights of immersive music.

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