Worst Music Packaging Of 2010
With a great deal of sadness we tucked away the Judging A Cover By Its Cover column into designer mothballs this year. Not to say/threaten that it couldn’t retu...
johnfoster
Best Music Packaging of 2010
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY:...
LiveDC: Twin Shadow/Glasser @ The Black Cat
All words: John Foster
All photos: Shauna Alexander
We have been flirting on-line for a few months now. I watch you slowly moving into my social circles, li...
Interview: The Drums
The Drums made some of the most infectious pop music of the past few years - it really is as simple as that. I am tempted to make it all more complicated, but w...
BYT Interview: Smudge
the chocolate-covered caramel in my Whitman’s Sampler: so sweet and delicious, but requiring a little work. That band was Smudge....
BYT Fav Song of the Day: !!!
John Foster is taking over today. Cause he wanted to....
Junior League Record Release Toooonight
Some performers exude charm but few do so as effortlessly as our own Lissy Rosemont. Her blend of newgrass has been slowly shifting towards a bubbly old-timey w...
BYT Interview: Teenbeat’s Mark Robinson
From the days of seeing him grinning from ear to ear up on stage to standing next to him in the Erol’s Video check out line right up until becoming the huge adm...
Shame On Me: Shows I Attended But Didn’t Review (Part Two)
I don’t know how it happened- again – but I managed to attend a slew of worthwhile shows but kept them all to myself for a myriad of reasons. Of course, we all ...
BYT Interview: Mittenfields
Photos by Rachel Eisley
There have been plenty of times I have heard bands talked up around town, full of promise with stars in their eyes, and then gone to ...
LiveDC: Kings of Convenience @ 930 Club
all photos: Jane Briggs
all words: John Foster
As more than a thousand people came to a complete hush and one could only hear the clinking of a few random b...
BYT Interview: Kings Of Convenience
The softly sung words of Eirik Glambak Boe and his more hyper partner Erland Oye are some of my very favorite music - period. The Norwegian duo returns to our n...
Live DC: Army of Me (aka River James) / Holopaw @ Black Cat
all photos: Kimberly Cadena
It was a night of what could be called unsurprising firsts and somewhat startling lasts.
There are very few bands that I have ...
A BYT Interview: Holopaw
A few times a year, an act comes through that is an absolute must see. When that band has made some of my very favorite music of the last decade, and done so in...
Pretending I Know Everything: Lyrics
I was thinking about Cale’s birthday, as we often do around these parts, and I pulled my thunkometer into the not too distant past - to a time when I was making...
