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19aug8:00 pmThe RevivalistsZZ Ward8:00 pm Wolf Trap

20aug8:00 pmJeff BeckAnn Wilson of Heart8:00 pm Wolf Trap

22aug5:30 pm12:00 amKenny Chesney w/ Old DominionBlue Chair Bay Rum5:30 pm - 12:00 am Merriweather Post Pavilion

22aug8:00 pmMichael McDonald and Peter Cetera8:00 pm Wolf Trap

23aug8:00 pmDawesShovels & Rope and Joseph8:00 pm Wolf Trap

24aug8:00 pmFrankie Valli & The Four Seasons8:00 pm Wolf Trap

24aug9:00 pmCan't Feel My Face: 2010s Dance PartyDJs Will Eastman & Ozker, Visuals by Kylos9:00 pm 9:30 Club

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Can’t Feel My Face: 2010’s Dance Party DJs Will Eastman and Ozker Visuals by Kylos

If you’ve seen Will Eastman and Ozker DJ together, you know they have no guilt about musical guilty pleasures.

(Neither do you. Don’t even deny it.)

Will, along with DJs/friends Brian Billion and Ozker, are the masterminds behind the wildly successful NO SCRUBS: 90’s Dance Party and HOT IN HERRE: 2000’s Dance Party. From 2Pac to Nirvana to Kanye to Rihanna, the parties play your favorite chart-topping hits, underground classics, and guilty pleasures from the past two decades, turning sold-out venues up and down the East Coast into sweaty, all-night sing-along sessions.

No Scrubs and Hot In Herre are now the largest and longest-running 90’s and 00’s parties in America. Rather than host them weekly or monthly, Will, Ozker, and Brian insist on keeping the parties occasional and as guilty a pleasure as your favorite summer pop anthem.

In the spirit of the holidays, we’re helping our friends at Project Create DC with a special benefit called CAN’T FEEL MY FACE: 2010’s Dance Party.

At CAN’T FEEL MY FACE, you can expect to party to Adele, Beyoncé, Bruno Mars, Calvin Harris, The Chainsmokers, DJ Khaled, Drake, Jason Derulo, Jay Z, Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, Katy Perry, Kendrick Lamar, Liam Payne, Major Lazer, Maroon 5, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Pharrell Williams, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Zedd, 2 Chainz, and everyone 2010’s, all night long.

Get ready. We’re looking forward to seeing you on the dance floor!

Door proceeds benefit Project Create DC. Project Create provides accessible arts education to promote positive development in the lives of children, youth, and families experiencing homelessness and poverty in Washington, DC.

Time

(Friday) 9:00 pm

Location

9:30 Club

815 V ST NW, Washington, DC 20001

Cost

$12

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25aug6:00 pmKIDZ BOP LIVE 20186:00 pm Wolf Trap

25aug6:30 pmBeach Housew/ Papercuts6:30 pm The Anthem

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Super Excellent Seats are non-transferable. The ID of the person attending must match the purchaser’s name, which will be printed on the ticket face.

7 is our 7th full-length record. At its release, we will have been a band for over 13 years. We have now written and released a total of 77 songs together.

Last year, we released an album of b-sides and rarities. It felt like a good step for us. It helped us clean the creative closet, put the past to bed, and start anew.

Throughout the process of recording 7, our goal was rebirth and rejuvenation. We wanted to rethink old methods and shed some self-imposed limitations. In the past, we often limited our writing to parts that we could perform live. On 7, we decided to follow whatever came naturally. As a result, there are some songs with no guitar, and some without keyboard. There are songs with layers and production that we could never recreate live, and that is exciting to us. Basically, we let our creative moods, instead of instrumentation, dictate the album’s feel.

In the past, the economics of recording have dictated that we write for a year, go to the studio, and record the entire record as quickly as possible. We have always hated this because by the time the recording happens, a certain excitement about older songs has often been lost. This time, we built a “home” studio, and began all of the songs there. Whenever we had a group of 3-4 songs that we were excited about, we would go to a “proper” recording studio and finish recording them there. This way, the amount of time between the original idea and the finished song was pretty short (of the album’s 11 songs, 8 were finished at Carriage House in Stamford, CT and 2 at Palmetto Studio in Los Angeles).

7 didn’t have a producer in the traditional sense. We much preferred this, as it felt like the ideas drove the creativity, not any one person’s process. James Barone, who became our live drummer in 2016, played on the entire record. His tastes and the trust we have in him really helped us keep rhythm at the center of a lot of these songs. We also worked with Sonic Boom (Peter Kember). Peter became a great force on this record, in the shedding of conventions and in helping to keep the songs alive, fresh and protected from the destructive forces of recording studio over-production/over-perfection.

The societal insanity of 2016-17 was also deeply influential, as it must be for most artists these days. Looking back, there is quite a bit of chaos happening in these songs, and a pervasive dark field that we had little control over. The discussions surrounding women’s issues were a constant source of inspiration and questioning. The energy, lyrics and moods of much of this record grew from ruminations on the roles, pressures and conditions that our society places on women, past and present. The twisted double edge of glamour, with its perils and perfect moments, was an endless source (see “L’Inconnue,” “Drunk in LA,” “Woo,” “Girl of the Year,” “Last Ride”).

In a more general sense, we are interested by the human mind’s (and nature’s) tendency to create forces equal and opposite to those present. Thematically, this record often deals with the beauty that arises in dealing with darkness; the empathy and love that grows from collective trauma; the place one reaches when they accept rather than deny (see “Dark Spring,” “Pay No Mind,” “Lemon Glow,” “Dive,” “Black Car,” “Lose Your Smile”).

The title, 7, itself is simply a number that represents our seventh record. We hoped its simplicity would encourage people to look inside. No title using words that we could find felt like an appropriate summation of the album.

The number 7 does represent some interesting connections in numerology. 1 and 7 have always shared a common look, so 7 feels like the perfect step in the sequence to act as a restart or “semi-first.” Most early religions also had a fascination with 7 as being the highest level of spirituality, as in “Seventh Heaven.” At our best creative moments, we felt we were channeling some kind of heavy truth, and we sincerely hope the listeners will feel that.

Much Love,
Beach House

Time

(Saturday) 6:30 pm

Location

The Anthem

901 Wharf St SW Washington, DC, 20024

Cost

$38

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25aug7:00 pmStriking Matches7:00 pm U Street Music Hall