A crowd of protestors were gathered outside of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s house in 2020, calling on the city to defund the Metro Police Department (MPD) as music drifted over the crowd. In the middle stood OnRaé LaTeal, a local musician playing songs from her album “The...
The U Street Corridor plays host to some of the city’s best music venues – The Lincoln Theatre, The 9:30 Club, and the live music fanatic-favorite, The Atlantis. Nestled behind the iconic 9:30 Club, The Atlantis has embraced its role as a smaller venue that plays host...
Alice Phoebe Lou (of Strongboi) is finally gracing D.C. with her presence!! On April 5, Lou will be stopping in town to do a show at the Lincoln Theater. She’s an independent artist with a very soft, intimate sound, blending indie, jazz, blues, and folk influences...
When New Zealand-born singer BENEE stepped out onto the stage in a Wednesday Addams-esque, quirky and eccentric, black and white outfit, the crowd roared with excitement. I was both buzzing with anticipation for the amazing performance I was about to witness and very...
Patrick Watson sits between the mainstream and more avant-garde spaces, and more likely than not you’ve heard his music before without knowing it! Je Te Laisserai Des Mots was the first French language song to amass over a billion streams on Spotify, after going viral...
The Lincoln Theatre has hosted several incredible artists over its tenure in D.C., including Fiona Apple, Bon Iver, and Duke Ellington. Joining the ranks of these legends and more is the Grammy-nominated Perfume Genius, set to perform Tuesday, March 31. Perfume...
For comedy and cinema lovers, On Cinema is the perfect way to spend a night out. Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington’s show features movie reviews in the form of satire and comedic conflict. Their style is inspired by Siskel and Ebert, a previous and extremely popular...
BENEE, despite what she says in her COVID-era hit song, “Supalonely,” from her 2019 EP “STELLA & STEVE,” is not “just a loser.” She’s spent the better part of the last decade piecing together the chaos and anxieties of our modern-day world into sparkly, addictive,...
Mindchatter—the pseudonym for Multi-instrumentalist Bryce Connolly—asks why electronic music and indie songwriting can’t coexist on equal footing. The producer-singer-songwriter, who once joked he nearly went by “DJ People Pleaser,” has built his sound around this...
Standing in line for an hour and a half in the cold and rainy weather was all worth it. Other attendees in outfits so unique yet still cohesive with each other filed in, to the point I couldn’t even tell where the line ended. When my friends and I entered The Anthem,...