MUSIC

Not since the animatronic animal band, The Rock-afire Explosion, have I been so duped into expecting one thing and given something else. Not since the animatronic animal band, The Rock-afire Explosion, have I been so duped into expecting one thing and given something...

This article appears in our current issue. You can see the entire issue, online for free, hereYou’d be lying to yourself if you said that you didn’t have a dark side. Everyone does, to some degree. Some people are really good at keeping their shadow self hidden...

What were you up to last Saturday? Maybe you dropped by Plaza Bowl and checked out El Presidente? Perhaps you made new friends at your local watering hole? I personally descended to Shockoe Bottom to see an absolutely fantastic show that was grin inducing to say the...

It’s the type of music that grabs you by the back, that throws its arms around your shoulders and caries you with bounding elation into the benevolent fray of jumping and dancing concertgoers. It chucks Molotov cocktails through speakers and reads your tarot cards, it...

In a music industry that seems exponentially more fucked as each day passes, it’s a gasp of fresh air to run across a label that manages to not only to be self-sustainable In a music industry that seems exponentially more fucked as each day passes, it’s a gasp of...

It might be hard to formulate a definable preconception of music described as “post-brontosaurus indie/folk crunk”, and to be honest, I don’t really know what it means. But it’s cute, and if the press photos are any indication, so is the musician self-applying that...

The Bentzen Ball is a comedy festival in Washington DC 10/22- 25th. Curated by Tig Notaro and featuring great comics from across the city and country. Named after an unfortunate soul who supposedly died while watching A Fish Called Wanda the Bentzen Ball is not to be...