Shows To Blow Your $$$ On

morgandayMay 8, 2014Music

Music 013 min read

All the shows going on sale this week. Never be left in front of a SOLD OUT sign again.

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UNION BBQ at Dock 5 @ Union Market

Saturday June 14th Union BBQ including: Jamie xx, Kaytranada, Viceroy, Orchard Lounge, Moombahton Massive Stage, Animal Collective (DJ Set), Marty, and more! $40

9:30 Club

Sunday, July 27th The Kooks $35

Thursday, July 31st & Friday, August 1st The Disco Biscuits $35

Saturday, August 2nd Boris w/Atlas Moth * Sub Rosa $18

Saturday, May 31st Old 97’s w/Western Star * Lydia Loveless $25

Saturday, June 14th Tune-Yards w/Sylvan Esso (first show sold-out, second show added!) $26

Saturday, June 14th Who’s Bad: The Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute Band $20

Birchmere

All shows at 7:30 p.m in the Music Hall, unless otherwise noted

Saturday, May 24th Vertical Current opening for Eric Roberson

eric roberson

Sunday, May 25th The Revelations opening for Eric Roberson

Nationals Park

Monday, June 16th A Night at the Park Benefit w/Ryan Zimmerman featuring Billy Currington and Jerrod Nieman $35

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Jiffy Lube Live

Saturday, August 23rd Platinum Tour: MIRANDA LAMBERT with Justin Moore and Thomas Rhett

Echostage

Wednesday, July 9th The Nieghbourhood w/Travi$ Scott * White Arrows $40

Lincoln Theatre

Thursday, June 12th James Blake $35

Filene Center at Wolftrap National Park

Sunday, July 6th American Idol Live! Tour 2014 $30-$70

Merriweather Post Pavillion

Thursday July 24th Beck $45, $55, $75

Saturday, August 2nd 2014 Summer Spirit Festival Featuring: Ms. Lauryn Hill * Janelle Monae * Raheem Devaughn * Talib Kweli * Junkyard Band * Backyard Band * RDGLDGRN * George Tandy, Jr. * Roman Gianarthur and more $46-$125

The Black Cat

Thursday, June 12th, The Cold and Lovely $10 (Backstage)

Saturday, September 23rd Twenty One Pilots $25

Thursday, August 16th Throwing Shade $20 (Mainstage)

Thursday, November 6th The Horrors $16 Adv/$18 DOS

Birchmere

Friday, August 8th Buster Poindexter (aka David Johansen) $29.50

Wednesday, October 22nd Marshall Tucker Band

Thursday, October 23rd John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band featuring John Jorgenson, Herb Pedersen, Jon Randall, Mark Fain $25

Friday, October 31st Gerald Albright $35

The Fillmore Silver Spring

Tuesday, August 12th MKTO—American Dream Tour

Friday, August 22nd Kevin Gates

Wednesday, October 15th The Janoskians

Rock and Roll Hotel

Monday, June 16th Asher Roth

Thursday, June 26th Gameface w/Restorations

23apr7:00 pmAllie X7:00 pm U Street Music Hall

24apr6:30 pmKodak BlackYNW Melly, 147 Calboy and Sniper Gang6:30 pm The Anthem

24apr7:00 pmFamily of the Year & Lydia7:00 pm U Street Music Hall

24apr7:00 pmFamily of the YearHollis Brown7:00 pm U Street Music Hall

26apr6:30 pmSnow Patrol6:30 pm The Anthem

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Event Details

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.

Time

(Friday) 6:30 pm

Location

The Anthem

901 Wharf St SW Washington, DC, 20024

Cost

$45 – $75

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26apr7:00 pmTrevor Danielw/ Noah North and 916frosty7:00 pm U Street Music Hall

28apr6:30 pmKali Uchis and Jorja Smith6:30 pm The Anthem

28apr7:00 pmU.S. Girls7:00 pm U Street Music Hall

02may7:00 pmHellogoodbye7:00 pm U Street Music Hall

02may7:00 pmMISSIOBlackillac, Swells7:00 pm 9:30 Club

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