The definitive record of live music in Washington, D.C. and beyond for the 2010’s

Wild Nothing @ 9:30 Club - 11/18/2018
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Wild Nothing @ 9:30 Club - 11/18/2018

Wild Nothing’s return back to the 9:30 Club on November 18th was their first time headlining the beloved venue, and they made sure to show their gratitude in the form of a surreal, atmospheric 90 minute-long set.

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Tash Sultana @ The Anthem - 11/21/2018
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Tash Sultana @ The Anthem - 11/21/2018

Two years ago Tash Sultana played a sold out show at Rock & Roll Hotel. Now, the Melbourne native is playing the much larger Anthem but still providing fans with an intimate musical experience.

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Daughters @ Beat Kitchen - 11/17/2018 [Chicago]
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Daughters @ Beat Kitchen - 11/17/2018 [Chicago]

At the first of two sold-out nights at Chicago’s Beat Kitchen, spastic noise rock outfit Daughters transported some 200 fans back to the mid-oughts. While the vast majority made it out of Beat Kitchen on this night unbloodied, none who entered the room left dry — either by their own body’s accord or the sweat of their fellow attendees.

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Marcus Strickland @ City Winery DC - 10/26/2018
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Marcus Strickland @ City Winery DC - 10/26/2018

Jazz saxophonist Marcus Strickland and his ensemble Twi-Life brought a powerful groove and thoughtful exploration of the linkages between African and American music forms to the City Winery on November 20th, in a celebration of his new record, People of the Sun. Strickland’s musical vision accentuates the connectivity between black musicianship on both sides of the Atlantic, from Mali to the American South, including the intersection of jazz with soul and hip-hop and blues textures.

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Cursive @ Thalia Hall - 11/15/2018 [Chicago]
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Cursive @ Thalia Hall - 11/15/2018 [Chicago]

Cursive frontman Tim Kasher formerly called the Windy City home, which made the band’s return visit to Thalia Hall a homecoming after more than three years away.

And truly, what a Chicago-ass show it was.

Openers Meatwave and Campdogzz also hail from the 3rd largest city in America and set the tone for the evening, a night so teeming with the working spirit of the Midwest, one could practically taste the Malört in the air. Though Thalia felt a touch roomy–it was, after all, a brutally, unseasonably cold Thursday–fellow aged emos showed up despite their day jobs and an 8:30 show time to catch Cursive on their US tour in support of their new album Vitriola, the first out on the band’s own label, 15 Passenger.

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Ron Gallo @ 9:30 Club - 11/21/2018
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Ron Gallo @ 9:30 Club - 11/21/2018

Ron Gallo hosted a cosmic celebration for everyone and everything last Tuesday at DC9 Nightclub. His set started with birthday cake for someone wearing an over-sized skull mask. It seemed spontaneous but was so thematically on point for considering his most recent album, Stardust Birthday Party, that it’s possible the giant skull has been traveling the east coast throughout the tour.

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Billie Eilish @ 9:30 Club - 11/7/2018
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Billie Eilish @ 9:30 Club - 11/7/2018

The Billie Eilish concert experience is as unique and incomparable as Eilish herself, which explains why she was able to easily sell out both an early and a late show at 9:30 Club. And even more impressively, she doesn’t even have a debut album out yet.

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St. Lucia @ 9:30 Club - 11/6/2018
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St. Lucia @ 9:30 Club - 11/6/2018

St. Lucia played their second DC show of the evening to a packed crowd on election night, bringing synths, stage production, and all around good vibes. The band kicked off the show with a build up into “September” from their 2013 album, When the Night.

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Christine and the Queens @ 9:30 Club - 11/4/2018
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Christine and the Queens @ 9:30 Club - 11/4/2018

Yes, she owes a lot of her show and her latest album to the likes of Michael/Janet Jackson, but Letissier’s poised delivery paired with the choreographed and sometimes aggressive dance sequences was refreshing, unique, and damn fun to witness.

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The Revolution @ Fillmore Silver Spring - 10/26/2018
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The Revolution @ Fillmore Silver Spring - 10/26/2018

Most stars aren’t born, they’re carefully crafted fiction. They matter only as a measure of distraction if the lie that got them there doesn’t result in some kind of long-lasting “good.” And Rock and Roll has seen its share of philistines and false prophets. But that wasn’t Prince. So when he died in 2017, there was a hole blown in the universe in the same place that was still only just filling in from the loss of David Bowie.

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