A look ahead at music playing in the DC area in the coming week.
Monday 3/1/10
Black Cat: Gist and Kodiak – 9:00pm
Tuesday 3/2/10
9:30 Club: Ani DiFranco and Erin McKeown – 7:00pm (more…)
Feb
21
Music This Week in DC: 2/22 – 2/28
A look ahead at music playing in the DC area in the coming week.
Monday 2/22/10
Bourbon Street: Noise in the Basement – 9:00pm
Tuesday 2/23/10
9:30 Club: Chrisette Michele – 7:00pm (more…)
Feb
14
Music This Week in DC: 2/15 – 2/21
A look ahead at music playing in the DC area in the coming week.
Monday 2/15/10
9:30 Club: Kings of Convenience – 7:00pm
Tuesday 2/16/10
Fat Tuesday’s: Mardi Gras Party (they don’t call it Fat Tuesday’s for no reason) – 3:00pm
Wolf Trap: Paula Cole – 8:00pm (more…)
Feb
07
Music This Week in DC: 2/8 – 2/14
A look ahead at music playing in the DC area in the coming week.
Monday 2/8/10
Jammin’ Java: 9Davine – 8:00pm
Tuesday 2/9/10
Birchmere: The Neville Brothers – 7:30pm
Jan
24
Music This Wek in DC: 1/25 – 1/31
A look ahead at music playing in the DC area in the coming week.
Monday 1/25/10
Blues Alley: Kenny Wesley – 8:00pm and 10:00pm
Tuesday 1/26/10
Black Cat: Cobra Collective and The Chance – 8:00pm (more…)
Oct
04
Music This Week around DC 10/5/09 – 10/11/09
A look ahead at music playing in the DC area in the coming week.
Monday 10/5/09
Hard Rock Hotel: Musicians Bringing Musicians Home – 8pm
Tuesday 10/6/09
Merriweather Post Pavillion: The Allman Brothers Band and Widespread Panic – 6:00pm
Wednesday 10/7/09
Clarendon Grill: Battle of the Bands – Citizen and The Shields Brothers – 7:00pm
Thursday 10/8/09
The State Theatre: Perpetual Groove and Future – 8:00pm
Friday 10/9/09
Whitlow’s: HyJinx – 10:00pm
Saturday 10/10/09
Awful Arthur’s (Blacksburg, VA) – True Sound and DJ Sprigs – 10:00pm
Sunday 10/11/09
Blues Alley: Monty Alexander – 8:00pm and 10:00pm
Jan
05
Music This Week in DC – 1/5-1/11
A look ahead at music playing in the DC area in the coming week.
Monday 1/5/09
Rams Head Tavern: Gregg Allman – 8:00pm
Tuesday 1/6/09
Jammin Java: The High Fives, Murphy’s Kids,and Elephant Appreciation Day – 7:00pm
Dec
02
Holiday Shows
One of the oddest parts of the month of December to me is . . . Christmas Music. I realize that it gets people in the mood for Christmas, but seriously, the music is around for one month of the year for a reason: its incredibly lame. Now, I’m no scrooge, my tree is going up very soon, its just the music. Too often, artists and bands produce Christmas albums for two reason: 1) if they’re hot or has-beens, it can be a good way for their record label to make a few bucks (for some reason there is a huge market in this stuff). 2) it puts the artist/band one album closer to getting out of their record contract. Expect every popstar on Earth to make one of these things (a further demonstration of their lack of integrity).
That brings me to holiday shows. There are a lot playing in the area these days. I used to like these shows. They kind of got me pumped (I do like classic Christmas tunes . . . just not Miley Cyrus singing them), but then I worked at a music theatre for several years that had a christmas show. After watching the same show 6 nights a week (and some matinees) for two months, it made me really bored of these things. Somehow it was always the best selling show of the year and crowds would flock to it (it makes me almost fathom how people could trample someone at a Wal-Mart . . . no, no it doesn’t). While there are plenty of venues and artists playing these shows, this is not going to be the place to find your favorited Holiday/Winter/Christmas Shows.