Sports(?) & Fitness

Name: Kodak Black
Start: 2019-4-24T18-18-30-00
End: 2019-4-24T23-23-55-00
Location: The Anthem

9 Reasons to get excited about the 2019 Washington Nationals

Brandon Wetherbee and Armando GallardoMarch 27, 2019

The team is better and the park is better but the hair is worse ...

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Why We Love DC Right Now – 2019

BYT at largeFebruary 13, 2019

Whether or not you're in love with a person, you can still love your city ...

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Choosing A Super Bowl 53 Team: The Anti-Sports Fan Edition

Megan BurnsFebruary 1, 2019

Don't knock our ultra-scientific method 'til you've tried it!...

Sports(?) & Fitness 08 min read

19 for 2019: BYT’s Picks and Hopes for the New Year

BYT at largeJanuary 8, 2019

We made a vision board ...

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Your Best January

BYT at largeJanuary 2, 2019

Choose to have a good 2019...

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Your Best December

BYT at largeNovember 30, 2018

It may be cold but CupcakKe is coming to keep you warm ...

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Ice Rink Roundup 2018-2019

catherinedorman, Samantha Cooper and Stephanie BrooksNovember 28, 2018

Ice skating rinks--not just a place for middle school dates....

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Your Best November

BYT at largeNovember 1, 2018

November is full of scary things, like our true crime festival and dying trees ...

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10 Reasons Social Sports are a DC Institution

Jenn TisdaleSeptember 6, 2018

District of Social Sports...

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Beers ‘n Bill Clinton: A Night At The US Open

Megan BurnsSeptember 5, 2018

Forehands 'n flossin', y'all....

NYCSports(?) & Fitness 08 min read

Bill Murray’s Greatest Television Appearance

Brandon WetherbeeAugust 8, 2018

It used to be OK to drink on air with your old friend ...

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The Best Doggos of the Citi Open

Megan BurnsAugust 1, 2018

SOME V. GOOD BOYS!...

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Your Best August

BYT at largeAugust 1, 2018

The best guide for the dog days of summer ...

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Citi Open Players To Watch

Megan BurnsJuly 27, 2018

We're maximally amped for this year's roster...

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Friends of the National Zoo Present The Fast & The Fierce 5K!

Jenn TisdaleJuly 25, 2018

Run your life a quarter mile at a time...

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ver a two-decade career, Snow Patrol has carved out a unique place for themselves. Since their 1998 debut, Songs for Polarbears, which Pitchfork hailed as “an impressive piece of work,” their melancholy anthems of heartbreak and separation have mended hearts, and the band has racked up an impressive number of critical and commercial accolades, including 15 million global album sales, 1 billion global track streams, 5 UK Platinum Albums, and are Grammy and Mercury Music Prize nominated. They emerged as heartsore musical prophets in the shadow of grunge and shallow pop, striking a chord in the minds, memories and hearts of listeners over six groundbreaking, confessional albums.

Eyes Open, released in 2006, was the biggest-selling album in the UK that year; they went on to headline such festivals as the prestigious T in the Park. But after their Fallen Empires tour ended in 2012, band members — guitarist, vocalist Gary Lightbody, guitarists Johnny McDaid and Nathan Connolly, bassist Paul Wilson, and drummer Jonny Quinn — decided to stop for a while.

“We were exhausted at the end of the tour,” says Lightbody. “We went from album to tour, album to tour for 10 years.

We needed to take a break. And it just kind of kept extending. It wasn’t that we planned to take six years off by any means.

“We all started living our own lives and realizing that we actually had lives outside of the band, a band that we still had an awful lot of fondness for and that we did want to come back to, I just perhaps needed more time than I first thought,” explains Lightbody.

“I do think the rest of the band would have been ready to record at any point over the last five years. But they never showed frustration or anger. Never did they say, ‘Hurry up and write the songs, mate.’”

In the interim, Quinn started a family and began putting in more

Sebastian in 2014). Connolly formed and fronted Little Matador, the band he started with a number of other prominent Irish and American musicians, including Dave Magee from Lafaro and Gavin Fox from Idlewild. Wilson signed on as the touring guitarist in Foo Fighters bassist Nate Mendel’s band Lieutenant, and produced a number of bands, including L.A. newcomers Broken Arrow. McDaid wrote songs and produced such diverse artists as Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, Robbie Williams, Ed Sheeran and Pink, and executive-produced Kodaline’s third album, due out this year.

Lightbody put the finishing touches on The Ghost of the Mountain, the second album by his Tired Pony side project with members of Belle and Sebastian, R.E.M, Reindeer Section and Fresh Young Fellows. He then moved to Los Angeles and began writing songs for movies (including “This Is How You Walk On” for 2017’s Gifted), and doing a number of high-profile co-writes with Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and One Direction. Songs that weren’t pulled from his own psyche were less painful to craft, and went a long way into healing what he considered to be writer’s block.

And at his website (www.garylightbody.com) he posted 15 cover versions of favorite songs by the likes of Ryan Adams, Bon Iver, Tom Waits and Glen Campbell.

But something else unexpectedly stimulated his writing even more. Two years ago he quit drinking. “Drinking was the only place I could hide from myself and if I was drunk I wasn’t depressed, just the next day but that could be remedied with more drink.” But he didn’t want that anymore.

“I’d been writing songs for years about love, been down that road so many times before: love, the end of love, the beginning of love. Mostly the end of love, to be honest. And I just knew that this album had to be something different. I hadn’t been in a relationship for some time and had no material to draw on. I had to look both deeper inside myself and out into the wider world around me and both seemed to be in chaos.”

Which is what he did for Snow Patrol’s seventh album. Titled Wildness, it taps into something raw and primitive.