PHOTOS: Kurt Vile / Purling Hiss @ Black Cat
all photos: Jane Briggs
Covering shows over the holidays is hard: you have a writer but you don't have a photographer, or vice versa. Well, Kurt Vile returne...
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PHOTOS: Punk Rock Flea Market
all photos: Jane Briggs
In what we heard numerous people describe as "THE DIY event of the year" Positive Force DC organized a bunch of kids who normally def...
LiveDC: Echo & The Bunnyman @ Black Cat
All words: Sarah Sherman
All photos: Jane Briggs
On Friday night, the crowd at The Black Cat was a funky mix of twenty somethings through fifty somethings, ...
Live Bmore: Deacon of Animal Collective and Daniel Higgs @ Ottobar
words by Josh Phelps
photos by Jane Briggs
Bonus: Bmoremusic.net has the audio
It’s really hard to make plans on New Year’s Day. Rather, it’s hard to keep ...
LiveDC: Future of the Left/ Drink Up Buttercup/ Uninhabitable Mansions @ RNR Hotel
all words Nicole Cohen
all photos Jane Briggs
Lets start at the beginning:
Drink Up Buttercup
Beating an aluminum trashcan with maracas while the severe...
Live DC: Deer Tick, Dorolean, Holy Sons @ The Cat
all words: Nicole Cohen
all photos: Jane Briggs
Providence band Deer Tick took to the Black Cat’s Backstage Tuesday night with a set that celebrated the ban...
Live DC: Atlas Sound / Broadcast @ Black Cat
all words: Erik Anderson
all photos: Jane Briggs
Saturday night-- The huddled shivering rain drenched crowd, filed into the Black Cat’s main-stage with eage...
Live DC: Mogwai @ 930 Club
words and photos by Jane Briggs
Scottish band, Mogwai, of Matador Records rocked out at the 9:30 Club on Monday night. This is the only band that I have eve...
Live DC: Japandroids, Slim Twig, Tennis System @ DC9
words by: Thomas Redmond
photos by: Jane Briggs
Washington DC's very own Tennis System began the show with what I'm told was loud, post-shoegaze, reverby, p...
Live DC: Lemonheads & Appomattox @ The Cat
words and photos by jane briggs
The Lemonheads, (well, Evan Dando plus his band of new recruits), headlined at the Black Cat on Saturday night. Flannel: c...
Live DC: Camera Obscura @ 930 Klub
words and photos by Jane Briggs
I never go out on Sunday nights, but for Camera Obscura, I made an exception. Maybe I have a weakness for that familiar sound...
Live DC: Au Revoir Simone, Jeff Lewis, The Antlers @ RNR Hotel
words and photos by Jane Briggs
Who wouldn't love a band that named themselves after a line in Pee Wee's Big Adventure? Last Saturday night, Au Revoir Sim...
Picnicking with The Field
words by jane briggs and matt schollenberger
photos by jane briggs
Saturday morning, I happened across four Swedes wandering around the Apple store...
PHOTOS: Travis @ 930 Club
photos and words by Jane Briggs
When I heard Travis was coming to the 9:30 Club last Thursday, the high school girl in me swooned a little bit. And I was de...
POP! Goes Katy Perry @ 930 Club
all words & photos by Jane Briggs
Even though Katy Perry is purely bubble-gum pop, we at BYT felt obliged to cover her show at the 9:30 Club on Friday ni...
Live DC: Bishop Allen, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
photos and words: Jane Briggs
I arrived at the Black Cat last Friday night to a long line of squeeling teenage girls waiting to see the band, Bishop Allen, f...
