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• Planning Guides: DC Music Download’s Weekday Hits.

• Washington CityPaper published its Summer Music Guide last week, but here’s an addendum that we didn’t link to initially: Steve Kiviat’s guide to Global Music to see in DC this summer [Washington CityPaper].

• Interview: Valerie Paschall talks to Black Clouds [DCist].

• Preview/Interview: Nancy Dunham on the Cranberries [Washington Examiner]. Tonight at the 9:30 Club.

• This show happened this weekend, but you might be interested to read Siriam Gopal on Terri Lyne Carrington [DCist].

• This show also already happened, but perhaps you’d like to read part two of the chat between Ross Hurt from Black Clouds and Brian Porter of Imperial China [The Vinyl District]. part one ran last week.

• Listen: DC Music Download’s Local Listening Booth for this week.

• Watch: University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra performs Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” [Washington Post / video]. Anne Midgette had reviewed the performance last week.

• Anne Midgette on the Virginia Chamber Orchestra‘s Claude Debussy premieres this weekend [Washington Post].

Live Reviews

• Dave McKenna on the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Verizon Center on 5/10 [Washington Post].

• David Malitz on Doug Aitken’s “Song 1: A Happening” at the Hirshhorn – featuring No Age, Oneohtrix Point Never, Animal Collective’s Geologist, Nicolas Jaar, and High Places [Washington Post].

• Metal Chris on the Heritage Hunter Tour (Opeth, Mastodon, and Ghost) at the Fillmore Silver Spring on 5/9 [DCHeavyMetal.com].

• Emily Yahr on Josh Gracin at the Cancun Cantina [Washington Post]. (The text on this one doesn’t seem to load; we’ll try to find a better link if the problem doesn’t rectify itself.)

• Joe Banno on pianist Andre Watts joining the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for a Rachmaninoff concerto [Washington Post]. (no text here either….)

• Joe Banno also reviewed the Philadelphia Orchestra at Strathmore [Washington Post], and there’s also no text on this one.

Contests

• NEW The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of Keane‘s Strangeland on vinyl. Winner must have a North American mailing address (contest ends Thursday 5/17).
• DC101 is giving away a pair of tickets to the sold-out Radiohead show at the Verizon Center on 6/3 (contest ends Sunday 5/27).
• DC101 is giving away a pair of tickets to Dave Matthews Band at Jiffy Lube Live on 6/16 (contest ends Sunday 6/3).
• DC101 is giving away a pair of tickets to see 311 and Slightly Stoopid at Jiffy Lube Live on 7/28 (contest ends Sunday 7/22).
• DC101 is giving away a pair of tickets to see OAR at Merriweather Post Pavilion on 8/10 (contest ends Sunday 7/29).

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Planning guides: DC Music Download’s weekday hits.

• RIP Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys. Chris Richards finds articles about the group from the archives of the Washington Post. In addition, Jonathan Fischer reflects on the group [Washington CityPaper].

• Katherine Boyle on the hip-hop flavor of the 13th DC Jewish Music Festival [Washington Post].

• The latest on Chuck Brown: He’s still in the hospital, but this weekend at a Harlem Renaissance festival in PG County, his daughter KK said, “He’s okay“. [Washington Post].

• Preview/interview: Jess Righthand talks to Terri Lynne Carrington about her album The Mosaic Project, an all-female album [Washington Post]. Carrington performs as part of the Washington Women in Jazz Festival this Saturday at the Kennedy Center. Righthand also previews a few of the festival’s other events.

• Preview: Jazz Loft with a steel pan battle between Jonathan Scales and Victor Provost, plus Rodney Richardson Quartet and Sarah Hughes Quartet [Capital Bop]. Sunday, 5/13 at the Dunes in Columbia Heights.

• Preview: Marie Gullard on the Kennedy Center’s Look Both Ways: Street Arts Across America festival, happening this week [Washington Examiner].

• Interview: Metallomusikum talks to Maryland DeathFest performer Noothgrush.

• CD Review: Mary Alouette‘s Midas, reviewed by Gregory Ayers [DC Music Download]. Performing 5/24 at the Kennedy Center‘s Millennium Stage.

• Listen: Last Tide‘s new EP is online [Washington CityPaper].

• Listen: DC Music Download’s Local Listening Booth. This week’s edition highlights new releases.

Live Reviews

• Several reviews of John Legend and Sharon Jones paying tribute to Marvin Gaye‘s What’s Going On at the Kennedy Center: Mark Jenkins [Washington Post] and Siriam Gopal [DCist].

• Olivia Ung on Bear in Heaven and Doldrums at the Black Cat on 5/1 [the Vinyl District].

• Toni Tileva on Beats Antique at the 9:30 Club on 5/2 [the Vinyl District].

• DeNeen Brown on Chaka Khan at the Howard Theatre on 5/5 [Washington Post].

• Reviews of Marilyn Manson at the Fillmore Silver Spring on 5/1: We Love DC and the Rogers Revue.

• Stephanie Williams’s photos of Volta Bureau‘s DJ set at the U Street Music Hall [DC Music Download].

• Robert Battey on the Morgenstern Trio at the Kennedy Center on 5/3 [Washington Post].

• Anne Midgette on UMD Symphony Orchestra at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center [Washington Post].

• Charles T Downey on violinist Stefan Jackiw‘s solo performance at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater [Washington Post].

• Nelson Pressley on Aaron Lazar at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater [Washington Post].

Contests

• The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of Lioness‘s The Golden Killer on vinyl . Winner must have a continental US or Canada mailing address (contest ends today).
• The Vinyl District is giving away a signed copy of Red Wanting Blue‘s From the Vanishing Point on vinyl. Winner must have a North American mailing address (contest ends Tuesday 5/8).
• The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of Dot Hacker‘s Inhibition on colored vinyl. Winner must have a North American mailing address (contest ends Wednesday 5/9).
• NEW DCHeavyMetal.com is giving away a pair of tickets to see Rob Zombie and Megadeth at the Merriweather Post Pavilion on 5/13 (contest ends Friday 5/11 at 5 PM).
• DC101 is giving away a pair of tickets to the sold-out Radiohead show at the Verizon Center on 6/3 (contest ends Sunday 5/27).
• DC101 is giving away a pair of tickets to Dave Matthews Band at Jiffy Lube Live on 6/16 (contest ends Sunday 6/3).
• DC101 is giving away a pair of tickets to see 311 and Slightly Stoopid at Jiffy Lube Live on 7/28 (contest ends Sunday 7/22).
• DC101 is giving away a pair of tickets to see OAR at Merriweather Post Pavilion on 8/10 (contest ends Sunday 7/29).

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