Public Enemy, The Roots To Perform At African-American Museum Opening
Public Enemy, The Roots, Meshell Ndegeocello, Living Colour and D.C.’s own Experience Unlimited are scheduled to play opening weekend of…
Public Enemy, The Roots, Meshell Ndegeocello, Living Colour and D.C.’s own Experience Unlimited are scheduled to play opening weekend of…
Update, May 16: This post has been updated to include a new Team Familiar video for “Straight to the Bar.”…
Plenty of Washingtonians already salivate over things that are locally grown, organic or vintage. Great news for them: The region’s soon-to-be-biggest song is all three. That’s…
Scenes from the 2016 Broccoli City Fest, April 30 at St. Elizabeths East: Anderson .Paak BJ the Chicago Kid Nag…
Ask some music fans about D.C. concert audiences, and they’ll say our crowds suffer from paralysis of the feet. But as I reported recently in my story…
Update, 2 p.m.: Hear a discussion about D.C.’s allegedly subdued audiences on WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi Show. Read the story that…
Go-go hasn’t seen much national attention since the days of E.U.’s “Da Butt,” but D.C.’s Backyard Band is changing that…
Storied D.C. venue the 9:30 Club turned 35 this year, and it’s celebrating by publishing a big ol’ book. A…
On the heels of a successful show at this year’s South by Southwest festival in Texas, self-styled “hood-rock” band Black…
This post has been updated. Nationwide this week is called Banned Books Week. At the D.C. Public Library, it’s called “Uncensored.”…
While the Corcoran’s 2013 exhibit “Pump Me Up” might have conditioned some to think of the D.C. area’s homegrown funk…
No one could say that Wale, D.C.’s most successful rapper to date, has forgotten where he came from. The major-label artist out of…
Kevin Hammond was 14 when he saw D.C. go-go band Rare Essence — in matching red sweatsuits — perform at Prince George’s Community…
Update, 11:40 a.m.: At the request of “House” Colquitt’s friends and family, organizers of the Funk Parade are asking for…
This month, thousands of bands, industry execs and people with the word “guru” in their Twitter bios are descending upon…
Original fans of D.C.’s biggest rapper, Wale, know that he got his start rhyming over go-go beats crafted by production…
Last night, I attended Smithsonian Associates’ advance screening of the second episode of Sonic Highways, the HBO series directed by Foo Fighters…
George Washington University already has a class about D.C. punk rock. But for the last year, the pricey university in…
Sept. 17: This post has been updated to include feedback from the music video’s director. It’s been more than two…
A go-go version of the movie “Footloose” is playing out in Prince George’s County. A $10 million class action filed…