Live DC: Drive-By Truckers @ 9:30 Club
all words: Andy Hess
all photos: The Internet
Let's chalk this one up to pacing, length, a lack of familiarity and weighted expectations.
Everything that...
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Belated Live DC: The New Pornographers/ The Dodos @ 9:30 Club
Life happened so we're about a week late with this. Still, its a good review and good photos of good bands, so enjoy.-ed.
all photos: Jeff Martin
The New ...
LiveDC: Tortoise @ Sonar
all photos: Julian Vu
If you haven't seen Tortoise before, here's a tip: bring earplugs. Because they're loud. Really loud. I wore earplugs and my ears still...
Live DC: The National/ The Antlers @ DAR Constitution Hall
all photos: Dakota Fine
all words: Andy Hess
Programming note: I'm going to start including setlists in my reviews for at least the headliners.
The Na...
Live DC: The Mynabirds / Black Telephone @ The Black Cat
all words: Andy Hess
all photos: Shauna Alexander
I haven't been in the District long, but I've noticed people here tend to support their own. Even if one...
LiveDC: Free Energy/ Miniature Tigers/ Shapiro @ Rock and Roll Hotel
all words: Andy Hess
all photos: Brandon Hirsch
Truth be told I was weary going into this show. Free Energy are a band that I presumably would love in a l...
LiveDC: Everybody Was In the French Resistance…Now!/ The Grates @ DC 9
all words: Andy Hess
all photos: Mark Silva from before
Let's get this out of the way: I really enjoy Eddie Argos.
There are few people in music that ar...
LiveDC: Givers @ The Black Cat
all words: Andy Hess
all photos: Julian Vu
It was hard not to feel a sense of deja vu while leaving the Givers show Friday night at The Black Cat. Even the ...
Live DC: Frightened Rabbit/ Maps & Atlases/ Bad Veins @ The Black Cat
all words: Andy Hess
all photos: Joel Mittleman
When I spoke with Frightened Rabbit's drummer Grant Hutchison Monday we talked about how the band feels to b...
Live DC: Dosh/ White Hinterland @ DC9
all words: Andy Hess
all photos: Julian Vu
Martin Dosh, better known as Andrew Bird's drummer, is masterful at what he does. Looping beats, keys, drums and ...
Live DC: The Tallest Man On Earth/Nurses @ The Black Cat
all words: Andy Hess
all photos: Brandon Hirsch
Towards the end of The Tallest Man On Earth's set Friday night at The Black Cat, the girl standing in front ...
BYT Interview: White Hinterland
Initially performing under her given name, Casey Dienel has been making music since 2006. Her 2010 release KAIROS is a hazy, dreamy, hypnagogic album that sucks...
Leakage: The National, Jamie Lidell, The Hold Steady, Band of Horses, The New Pornographers
Welcome to Leakage, a BYT column dedicated to listening to your favorite band’s releases weeks before the street date. Every week I’ll be giving you brief revie...
Live DC: Xiu Xiu/ tUnE-yArDs/ Twin Sister @ DC9
all words: Andy Hess
all photos: Shauna Alexander
Brooklyn's Xiu Xiu can clear a room in one song. Because that's exactly what happened Wednesday night at ...
Leakage: Broken Social Scene, LCD Soundsystem, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Woods, Holy Fuck, Gayngs
Welcome to Leakage, a BYT column dedicated to listening to your favorite band’s releases weeks before the street date. Every week I’ll be giving you brief revie...
Live DC: Smith Westerns/ So Cow/ The Cheniers @ Black Cat Backstage
all words: Andy Hess
all photos: here and here
After all the hype surrounding Chicago's Smith Westerns, it's not hard to fall victim of the backlash th...
