MUSIC

Air Date; 1-3am Saturday Nights/Sunday Mornings DJ: Jason Matty It’s Saturday night and you’re on your way home or to some late night diner or just to keep the night alive for a few more hours. While en route, you might want to tune into WRIR to hear The Lounge. Air...

Have you heard about Amazing Ghost, The Itchy Hearts, Long Jawns, Battlemaster, Color Kittens? Have you heard about Amazing Ghost, The Itchy Hearts, Long Jawns, Battlemaster, Color Kittens? Long Jawns pic by Joseph Talman How about Easy Tiger, Gumby, Cubscout &...

It’s a beautiful Sunday afternoon. You may be strolling through Byrd Park enjoying the smooth, rhythmic waves in the midst of the ponds. You may be running some last minute errands before the next workweek while noticing the scat-beat of human and automobile traffic....

WRIR has a long and bumpy history. Its inception started with just a few radio advocates and a little tenacity. WRIR has a long and bumpy history. Its inception started with just a few radio advocates and a little tenacity.   The idea of WRIR was born from the mind of...

Ages ago, there was a wonderful event that took place at Café Gutenberg entitled A Light in the Attic. This idea was spawned from the mind of Adam Thompson. His eclectic musical outfit, The OK Bird, acted as the house band while guests from around the country were...

Writing about Sonic Youth’s recent live shows can be a Sisyphean task for longtime fans. On one end of the spectrum, there’s the grumpy part of me that wants to stress just how disjointed the sound is at the National and how few, err… hits were played at last night’s...

Magik Markers Balf Quarry Drag City People really hate this band. The first time I saw them back in ’04 they were smashing bottles, threatening the audience, and frontwoman Elisa Ambrogio was abusing her guitar with everything but her hands. The band’s last record,...

Cut Off Your Hands @ Iota Club & Cafe-Washington DC (June 5) “Oh shit,” was the horrified, wide-eyed sentiment collectively chorused by New Zealand’s rising stars Cut Off Your Hands when they learned I was reviewing their performance at Iota, opening for Viva...