Weekend/Week-Ahead Planner
Planning Guides
• DC Music Download’s 5 best live music events this weekend that aren’t sold out.
• DCist’s This Week in Jazz.
• Washington CityPaper’s Jazz Setlist.
• ShowlistDC’s list of changes and additions over the last week.
Today – Friday 18 January
• Rhett Miller at Jammin’ Java. Interview by Tanya Pai [Washingtonian].
• Marshall Crenshaw at the Birchmere: Preview by Alex Baca [Washington CityPaper].
• Lalah Hathaway at the Howard Theatre: Preview by Marie Gullard [Washington Examiner].
• Soundgarden at DAR Constitution Hall: Preview/interview by Robert Fulton [Washington Examiner].
• Christopher Cross at the Barns of Wolf Trap: Preview/interview by Emily Cary [Washington Examiner].
• BSO and pianist Garrick Ohlsson present Rachmaninoff 101: Preview/interview by Marie Gullard [Washington Examiner].
• the Walkaways at IOTA: CD review of Romance and Medicine by Moira E McLaughlin [Washington Post].
Saturday 19 January
• Silent Old Mtns. at the Velvet Lounge: Interview by Stephanie Lanham [Sweet Tea Pumpkin Pie].
• 2 Chainz at the Fillmore: Preview by Kriston Capps [Washington CityPaper].
• Christopher Cross at the Barns of Wolf Trap: Preview/interview by Emily Cary [Washington Examiner].
Sunday 20 January
• Catharsis at the Warehouse: Preview by Leor Galil [Washington CityPaper].
• the Soft Moon at the Black Cat: CD review of Zeros by Mark Jenkins [Washington Post].
Monday 21 January
• Iris DeMent at the Birchmere: Preview/interview by Geoffrey Himes [Washington Post].
Tuesday 22 January
• the Menzingers at the 9:30 Club: Preview by Matt Siblo [Washington CityPaper].
Wednesday 23 January
• Ra Ra Riot at the 9:30 Club: CD review of Beta Love by Ben Opipari [Washington Post].
Thursday 24 January
• Red Baraat at the 9:30 Club: CD review of Shruggy Ji by Catherine P Lewis (that’s me!) [Washington Post].
• Widowspeak at the Black Cat: CD review of Almanac by Dan Miller [Washington Post].
This Week’s New Releases (with locally-penned reviews)
• Arbouretum, Coming Out of the Fog: Reviewed by Aaron Leitko [Pitchfork].
• Dropkick Murphys, Signed and Sealed in Blood: Reviewed by Justin Beland [Chunky Glasses].
• Kingsley Flood, Battles: Reviewed by Nida Masiulis [DC Music Download].
• A Sound of Thunder, Queen of Hell EP: Reviewed by NoVA Metal Review.
• Yo La Tengo, Fade: Reviewed by Rusty Roberts [Chunky Glasses].
Articles
• New blog The Flash Band Project wrote this profile of DC Music Listing Sites– including a really nice shout-out to ShowlistDC!
• Venue profile: Club K in Baltimore, profiled by Brandon Weigel [Baltimore CityPaper].
• Booker profile: Ally Schweitzer has an excellent profile of and interview with Jim Thomson, booker of Tropicalia [Washington CityPaper].
• Schweitzer also has an excellent overview of DIY Record Labels in DC [Washington CityPaper].
• Interview: Valerie Paschall talks to Immanent Voiceless [DCist].
• Interview: Valerie Paschall talks to Teen Mom [DCist].
• Interview: We Love DC talks to Ugly Purple Sweater.
• Interview: Chris Richards talks to Jessie Ware [Washington Post].
• Jonathan Fischer analyzes how DC bands fared in the annual Pazz & Jop poll [Washington CityPaper]. Full disclosure: my ballot is here.
• DJ AngelBaby puts out a Baltimore club music mixtape [Baltimore CityPaper].
• A round-up of musicians appearing at inaugural balls and concerts [Washington Post].
• A listening tour of Mali [Washington Post].
• Vote in the Washington CityPaper’s Best of 2013 Readers’ Poll.
Listening
• Black Prairie stopped by NPR’s DC office for a Tiny Desk Concert [NPR]. They’re opening for Rhett Miller at Jammin’ Java tonight (1/18/13).
• Listen to Sunwolf‘s “Sun & Sea” [Washington CityPaper].
• Hometown Sounds DC’s local videos of the day have been Bad Domes, Show in 80 seconds and Drew Gibson, “Elmira” and New Rock Church of Fire, “the Sword” and Tom Goss, “Lover” and Thievery Corporation, “Take My Soul”.
• DCist’s songs of the day this week have been Tereu Tereu, “Savage Love” and Teen Mom, “I Wanna Go Out” and Jessie Ware, “Sweet Talk” and Freakwater, “My Old Drunk Friend” and Gringo Star, “Going Way Out”.
• Lots of DMV Beats [Washington CityPaper].
• New singles by Parquet Courts, Destiny’s Child, and Dylan Ryan/Sand – reviewed (with song clips) by Chris Richards [Washington Post].
• Heavy Uber Alles’s six heavy tunes.
Live Reviews
• Folger Consort and Cathedra at the Washington National Cathedral, 1/11/13: Reviewed by Patrick Rucker [Washington Post].
• the Gin Blossoms at the Barns of Wolf Trap, 1/16/13: Reviewed by Alan Duckworth [the Rogers Revue].
• Morrissey and Kristeen Young at Strathmore, 1/16/13: Reviewed by David Hintz [DC Rock Live] and photos by Erica Bruce [Washington CityPaper].
• David Murray Big Band with Macy Gray at the Howard Theatre, 1/10/13: Reviewed by David Hintz [DC Rock Live].
• Niki and the Dove with Vacationer at the Rock & Roll Hotel, 1/11/12: Reviewed by David Hintz [DC Rock Live].
• Paint Branch at Red Onion Records, 1/12/13: Photos by Erica Bruce [Washington CityPaper].
• Quicksilver at Dumbarton Oaks, 1/13/13: Reviewed by Charles T. Downey [Washington Post].
• Robert Egger’s Tribute Show at the Hamilton, 1/7/13: Reviewed by Stephanie Williams [DC Music Download].
• Sóley at the 9:30 Club, 11/25/12: Video by All Our Noise.
• Ugly Purple Sweater, Kingsley Flood, and Kindlewood at the Black Cat, 1/12/13: Reviewed by David Hintz [DC Rock Live] and by Kevin Hill [Chunky Glasses].
Giveaways
• DCHeavyMetal.com is giving away Corrections House and Tone at DC9 on 1/24/13 (giveaway ends 1/23/13). Corrections House is a supergroup featuring members of Neurosis, Eyehategod, Nachtmystium, and Yazuka.
• The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of the Weeks, Gutter Gaunt Gangster EP (giveaway ends 1/24/13).
• The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of Sum 41‘s Does This Look Infected? (giveaway ends 1/23/13).