Washington DC

“Surely somebody has noticed that the old 9:30 Club building in Washington, D.C., is soon to be a J. Crew store. Surely someone will claim this is somehow ”ironic,” that the club that fostered the all-ages hardcore scene of Minor Threat, Government Issue and Fugazi will soon sell pairs of $140 Café Capri pants in geranium lace…

“Circle takes the square and pg 99 were a once in a lifetime experience, black cat wasn’t ready” – Alec Simke In 2004, the experimental post-hardcore quartet Circle Takes The Square released one of the decade’s most interesting records, As the Roots Undo…

The Dismemberment Plan @ Galaxy Hut, Virginia – Jan 15, 2011 (by Jeffrey Martin)Michael Jackson would have to rise from the grave and release a new album as good as “Off the Wall” for another music story to generate as much breathless hype around these parts as the reunion of the Dismemberment Plan, the beloved, wildly inventive D…

The countdown is on until the lighting of the National Christmas tree! My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James will have the honor of performing at the 2010 National Christmas Tree Lighting…

Henry Rollins, whose only upcoming 2010 show is a sort of live radio-but-not-radio KCRW show at the Echoplex in LA on December 9th, is turning 50 on February 13th, 2011…

Agnostic Front headlined Santos on 10/16 as part of their Victim In Pain anniversary tour, the same occasion that brought them to The Bell House in late February…

A Swans concert is not a democracy. During its Wednesday night performance at the Black Cat, the New York City-based sextet — newly re-christened after a 15-year hiatus — tried to wrest control of the audience’s senses…

Okay, so everyone advertised did perform. But it sure was a nail-biter. Lauryn Hill, the eccentric erstwhile Fugee who has mostly stayed out of sight since her lone solo album, 1998’s still-scintillating R&B masterpiece “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” was clearly the lineup’s chief curiosity…

Government Issue was an American hardcore punk band from Washington, D.C. active from 1980 to 1989. The band experienced many changes in membership during its nine-year existence, with singer John Stabb as the only consistent member in an ever-fluctuating lineup that at various times included notable musicians Brian Baker, Mike Fellows, Steve Hansgen, J…

words and “Preparing to lose my shit, find it, lose it again for Scream, harDCore legends, tonight at Knitting Factory…” – krucoff Scream’s Pete Stahl (also Goatsnake, Wool) on stage @ Knitting Factory Scream played an NYC reunion show on Friday (July 2) alongside Lionize (mem Clutch), Dykstra, and Chron Turbine…