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Articles

• Planning Guides: DC Music Download’s Weekday Hits. Steve Kiviat’s Global/Soul events for the rest of May 2012. DC Music Live’s Weekly Show Roundup. Washington Post Going Out Guide’s 40 Things You Must Do This Summer.

• Artomatic opened this weekend! Check out John Anderson’s first impressions [Washington CityPaper]. Michael O’Sullivan also weighs in [Washington Post]. We’ve also listed all of the music performances at this year’s Artomatic.

• Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb died on Sunday, and Chris Richard finds this 1979 article by Geoffrey Himes in the Washington Post archives.

• Interview/Preview: Gioanni Russonello talks to Michael Bowie [Capital Bop], whose Sine Qua Non performs at U Street’s Bohemian Caverns every Tuesday this month.

• Interview/Preview: Nancy Dunham talks to Chuck Prophet [Washington Examiner], who performs tonight at the Rams Head Tavern in Annapolis and Friday at IOTA.

• Local musician interview: Stephanie Williams talks to Naseem Khuri, who’s now in Boston’s Kingsley Flood [DC Music Download].

• Local listening: Check out Tabi Bonney‘s The Endless Summer [Washington CityPaper].

• Local listening: Hometown Sounds DC’s two local music videos of the day: Vandaveer and SOJA.

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

• Metallomusikum continues her countdown to Maryland DeathFest with profiles of Yob, Morgoth, Suffocation, Saint Vitus, and Electric Wizard, as well as an interview with guitarist Anton Reisenegger from Pentagram (Chile).

Live Reviews

• Chris Klimek on Lucinda Williams and the Drive-By Truckers at Merriweather Post Pavilion [Washington Post].

• Anne Midgette on pianist Jeremy Denk at the 6th & I Synagogue [Washington Post].

• Charles T Downey on the National Philharmonic‘s performance of Debussy‘s “Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien” at Strathmore [Washington Post].

• Joe Banno on pianist Peter Serkin and the Shanghai Quartet at the Freer Gallery [Washington Post].

• Allison Lantero on Owen Danoff at the Mansion at Strathmore [DC Music Live].

• Stephen Bradley on M. Ward at the 9:30 Club [Washington Times].

Giveaways

• The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of Electric Guest‘s Mondo on vinyl. Winner must have a North American mailing address (contest ends Wednesday 5/23).
• 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).
• Metal Injection is giving away tickets to the Rockstar Mayhem Fest featuring Slipknot, Slayer, and Motorhead at Jiffy Lube Live on 7/29 (contest ends “randomly” as the concert date approaches).
• 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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Weekend/Week-Ahead Planner

Planning Guides
• Washingtonian’s Music Picks.
• DC Music Download’s Weekend Hits.
• Washington CityPaper’s Jazz Setlist.
• Smithsonian’s events around the mall.
• TBD.com points you to shows from faraway lands.

Tonight – Friday, May 4
• CD Review: Lower Dens: Nootropics. Reviewed by Brandon Weigel [Washington Post]. At the Rock & Roll Hotel.
• CD Review: Justin Jones: Fading Light. Reviewed by Catherine P Lewis (yes, that’s me!) [Washington Post]. At IOTA, tonight and Saturday.
• CD Review: Jeremy Pelt: Soul. Reviewed by Mike Joyce [Washington Post]. At the Bohemian Caverns tonight and Saturday.
• Preview: Marie Gullard on the BSO‘s performance of Shostakovich [Washington Examiner]. At Strathmore.

Saturday, May 5
• DC Music Download’s Cinco de Mayo Survival Guide.
• Preview/Interview: Moira E. McLaughlin talks to Eric Hutchinson [Washington Post]. At the 9:30 Club.
• Interview: We Love DC chats with Electric Guest. At the Rock & Roll Hotel.
• Preview: Light Asylum [All Our Noise]. Also a preview by Ally Schweitzer [Washington CityPaper]. Also, Mark Jenkins reviews their new album, Light Asylum [Washington Post]. At the U St Music Hall.
• CD Review: Ane Brun: It All Starts With One. Reviewed by Mark Jenkins [Washington Post]. Scheduled to appear at the Hamilton – please note that this show has been cancelled.
• Preview: Nancy Dunham on Chaka Khan [Washington Examiner]. Two shows at the Howard Theatre.
• Preview: Metallomusikum on Behemoth. At Rams Head Live in Baltimore.

Sunday, May 6
• Preview/Interview: Siriam Gopal on Rusted Root [DCist]. At the 9:30 Club.

Articles

• Local profile: 20kUnderDC talks to Sockets Records head honcho Sean Peoples.

• Support the local scene: Jazz blog Capital Bop puts together the D.C. Jazz Loft Series during the DC Jazz Fest in early June. They’ve recently launched a Kickstarter project to help defray costs; check out their blog post about it and then head on over to their Kickstarter page to check out the prizes, which include tickets/VIP passes to the festival and a private lesson (in bass clarinet performance or just general jazz appreciation) from Todd Marcus.

• Listen: Nathan Salsburg stopped by NPR’s DC office for a Tiny Desk Concert.

• Preview: Janet Yaceczko on Vandaveer‘s Dig Down Deep [DC Music Download]. At the Black Cat on 5/18.

•: the Washington Times’ “Heavy Metal Hensch” column is back after an 8-month hiatus with a CD review of Hours of Penance‘s album Sedition.

• Metallomusikum continues her countdown to Maryland DeathFest with profiles of Agents of Abhorrence and Coke Bust.

• We promise we didn’t make this up: There’s gonna be a David Simon Battle of the Bands in New Orleans on 5/11, pitting the cities of Simon’s two HBO series– Baltimore (The Wire) and New Orleans (Treme) against each other [DCist/WTOP].

Live Reviews

• We Love DC on fun. at the 9:30 Club.

Contests

• NEW Metallomusikum is giving away a pair of tickets to see Behemoth at Rams Head Live in Baltimore on Saturday 5/5 (contest ends today at 5 pm).
• The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of 4onthefloor‘s Lion & Lamb on vinyl. Winner must have a North American mailing address (contest ends today).
• 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 Monday 5/7).
• 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).
• 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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