THE BARNS AT WOLF TRAP
Tina Turner at Verizon Center
1645 Trap Rd.
Vienna, VA
703-255-1900
www.wolf-trap.org
· Noel Paul
Stookey -- the ''Paul'' in Peter,
Paul & Mary (10/10)
· Saffire-The
Uppity Blues Women -- ''Post-feminist
traditional blues, sung and played with gorgeous abandon,'' says The
New York Times of this sassy,
Virginia-based female blues trio (10/12)
·
Jon Carroll
-- This prolific artist from the Mary
Chapin Carpenter band showcases the sharp piano skills captured in
his most recent release, Jon Carroll &
Love Returns, Live at The Barns at Wolf Trap (10/18)
· The Flying Karamazov Brothers
(10/22)
· Elisa
(11/4)
· Melissa
Manchester (11/8) Chad
& Jeremy (11/9)
· Duncan
Sheik -- Performing his pop hits as
well as songs from his Tony Award-winning musical Spring
Awakening (11/12)
· Loudon
Wainwright III -- the
two-time Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter, and dad to Rufus and
Martha (11/19)
· John Eaton --
Eaton pays tribute to music from the mid-20th Century (11/29)
·
Schooner Fare --
Maritime songs from this folk duo
(12/4-5)
BLACK CAT
1811 14th St. NW
202-667-4490
www.blackcatdc.com
· Mousetrap --
Britpop dance night (9/13, 10/18, 11/15)
· Balkan
Beatbox (9/17)
· Homo/Sonic:
An alternative co-ed dance party for queer folks and their friends
(9/19, Backstage)
· Black Kids
(9/26)
· Raphael Saadiq
(9/28)
· The Juan MacLean
(9/29)
· Dressy Bessy
(9/30)
· Ratatat (10/2)
· Sorted --
Britpop, Soul, Indie Pop w/DJ Stereo Faith
and guests (10/3)
· Los
Amigos Invisibles (10/10)
· Lykke
Li (10/19)
· Mirah,
No Kids (10/25)
· Little
Brother (10/26)
· Deerhunter
-- This popular indie-rock band is lead by queer singer Bradford Cox
(11/4)
· The
Gutter Twins (11/7)
· The
Sea and Cake (11/8)
· Diplo
(11/12)
· M83
(11/13)
· Electric Six
(11/19)
THE BIRCHMERE
3701 Mt. Vernon
Ave.
Alexandria, VA
703-549-7500
www.birchmere.com
· Sonny
Landreth (9/13)
· Kasey
Chambers & Shane
Nicholson (9/17)
· Jeffrey
Osborne (9/21)
· Rachael
Yamagata (9/23)
· B.J.
Thomas (9/25)
· Patty Loveless
(10/1-10/2)
· Tuck & Patti w/Judith
Owens (10/3)
· Jane
Monheit (10/12)
· Bootsy
Collins presents a tribute to
James Brown (10/13)
· Julia
Fordham (10/14)
· Girlyman
(10/17)
· Cheryl
Wheeler (10/18)
· musiq
soulchild (10/19-20)
· Paula
Poundstone (10/23)
· The
Floacist -- Natalie Stewart of
Floetry (10/29)
· The Kinsey Sicks
(10/30)
· Henry
Rollins -- On election eve, the
gay-rights activist punk-rocker and radio and TV show host, aims to
fire up his hometown crowd for a Recountdown Tour (11/3)
· Joan
Baez (11/6)
· Dar
Williams & Lucy Wainwright Roche (11/7-11/8)
· Shawn Colvin (11/10)
· Kate Clinton (11/14)
· Robyn Hitchcock (11/18)
· Shelby Lynne (11/19)
· Catie Curtis & Lori Mckenna (11/21)
· Bela
Fleck & The Flecktones (12/11)
·
Four Bitchin' Babes (12/12-12/13)
· Aimee Mann
-- Third annual Christmas show (12/15-12/16)
· 1964:
The Tribute -- The penultimate
Beatles tribute band (12/20)
· Good
for the Jews (12/21)
D.A.R. CONSTITUTION HALL
1776 D St. NW
202-628-1776
www.dar.org/conthall
· Alanis
Morissette (9/22)
· Ben
Folds w/Missy
Higgins (9/24)
· Kathy
Griffin (9/25-9/28)
· John
Prine (10/3)
· Jason
Mraz (10/20)
· Kings
of Leon (11/10)
· Maze
-- With Frankie Beverly, Stephanie
Mills, Mike Brooks (11/28-11/29)
DC9
1940 Ninth St.
NW
202-483-5000
www.dcnine.com
· Liberation
Dance Party (9/12, and every Friday
night)
· Sam Champion (9/14)
· Mugison
- ''Mugison has often been stamped as the
Icelandic Beck, but on his fourth album, he edges onto John Lennon's
turf,'' says Spin
(9/23)
· Clap
Your Hands Say Yeah (9/24, 10/14)
·
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult --
The Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears, for
one, has sung the praises of this band, now on its 20th Anniversary
Tour (9/28)
· Theresa Andersson
-- This New Orleans-based singer, born and raised in Sweden, swings
between blues-rock, Dixieland jazz, indie-pop and showtunes (9/30)
· Mother Mother
(10/25)
IOTA CAFE
2832 Wilson
Blvd.
Arlington, VA
703-522-8340
www.iotaclubandcafe.com
· The
Fleshtones (9/11)
· Kyler
England (9/14)
· Dana
Fuchs (9/15)
· Last
Train Home (9/26-9/27)
· Plastic
People of the Universe (10/2)
· Ane
Brun w/Theresa
Andersson and Tobias
Froberg (10/24)
· Junior
League (10/31)
· Jolie
Holland (11/4)
· Holly
Golightly and the Broke-offs (11/6)
JAMMIN' JAVA
227 Maple Ave.
E.
Vienna, VA
703-255-1566
www.jamminjava.com
· Ron Sexsmith
(9/19)
· Jennifer O'Connor
- charming new singer-songwriter Time
Out describes as ''a rush of
everything you ever liked about indie songwriters: substantial
songwriting, crystalline vocals, sumptuously simple pop.'' (9/21)
·
The Bird and the Bee
(10/3)
· Kate Campbell -
An eloquent Nashville-based singer-songwriter who has drawn
comparisons to Lucinda Williams and Emmylou Harris
(10/10)
· Val Emmich(10/13)
· Wicked Jezabel -
This all-female party band is a regular at Capital Pride and also won
last year's ''Wammie'' for Best Hard Rock Duo/Group (11/8)
· Shane
Hines and the Trance -- Another
''Wammie'' winner last year, this pop band is increasingly getting
notice through exposure on XM Radio and television (11/28)
LISNER AUDITORIUM AT GWU
730 21st St. NW
202-994-6800
www.lisner.org
Cesaria Evora
-- Popularly called ''the Barefoot
Diva,'' you might also call this native of Cape Verde the Queen of
Morna, a Portuguese ballad style. It may be mournful, but you'll
never be sad when she sings (10/5)
·
Crosby & Nash (10/7)
· The Magnetic Fields (10/26)
LYRIC OPERA HOUSE
140 West Mount
Royal Ave.
Baltimore, MD
410-685-5086
www.lyricoperahouse.com
David Byrne
-- As co-founder and lead singer of the
acclaimed '80s group Talking Heads, Byrne help shape the sound
of today's pop and rock music, and is touring in support of the first
album in 27 years with his Heads partner Brian Eno, Everything
That Will Happen Will Happen Today
(9/17)
NIGHTCLUB 9:30
815 V St. NW
202-397-SEAT
www.930.com
· Paul Weller
(9/13)
· Mogwai w/Fuck
Buttons (9/17)
· James
(9/18)
· Blowoff
(9/20, 10/11, 11/22, 12/20)
· Booker
T & The M.G.s (9/21)
· The
Dandy Warhols (9/22)
·
Cut Copy --w/The Presets &
Heartbreak (9/26)
· Rusted Root (9/29)
· Stereolab with Atlas Sound -
Atlas Sound is the queer Bradford Cox's captivating and eccentric
electronica side project from his fulltime work as the lead singer of
indie-rock band Deerhunter (9/30)
· Delerium
- Guest vocalists from this
electronic act's previous albums are expected to appear on the tour,
though probably not Sarah McLachlan, the singer responsible for the
group's biggest hit, ''Silence'' (10/1)
· The
Fratellis (10/2)
· Duke
Ellington Jazz Festival -- Featuring
La Timbistica, Chopteeth, Fertile Ground
(10/3)
· Chromeo
(10/4)
·
Hot Chip (10/8)
· Of
Montreal (10/9)
· Shudder
to Think (10/10)
· Alison
Moyet - The Yaz singer returns for a
seated solo show (10/14)
· The Notwist (10/15)
· Donavon
Frankenreiter -- With Sara Watkins of
Nickel Creek (10/19)
· The
Black Crowes (10/23-10/25)
· Deerhoof
(10/26)
· The Mountain Goats &
Kaki King -- Lesbian King is a
dazzlingly nimble guitar player who is calling her tour with the
Goats ''The Last Happy Night of Your Life'' (11/6)
· Conor
Oberst (11/10)
· STS9
(Sound Tribe Sector Nine) (11/15-16)
· Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers
-- With Erin McKeown (12/4)
NISSAN PAVILION
7800 Cellar Door
Dr.
Bristow, VA
703-754-6400
www.livenation.com
Mary J. Blige
w/Robin
Thicke (9/20)
· Martina
McBride (9/27)
RAM'S HEAD LIVE
20 Market Place
Baltimore, MD
410-244-1131
www.ramsheadlive.com
· Indigo Girls
-- Lesbian folk rockers Amy Ray and
Emily Saliers have been at it for 20 years now, singing sharp lyrics
in sweet harmony. Bisexual opening act Missy Higgins is getting
better all the time, with a peach of a new album (9/17)
· The
Mars Volta (9/21)
· Built
to Spill & Meat
Puppets - Built to Spill was one of
the most popular indi-rock acts of the '90s, and tonight the
band will perform with one of its influences
(9/24)
·
Tegan and Sara - This identical-twin,
lesbian-sister act is still out touring in support of last year's The
Con, its major-label debut produced
by Death Cab for Cutie's Christopher Walla (10/2)
· Common
& N.E.R.D. - Common is one of
rap's most socially conscious and artistically daring, while
N.E.R.D., consisting of the two men behind pop's super-producer duo
the Neptunes, is one of pop's quirkiest (10/6)
· The Decemberists
(11/8)
THE RED & THE BLACK
1212 H St. NE
202-399-3201
www.redandblackbar.com
· Hypernova --
This Iranian band is as literally rebellious as rock can get, having
recorded its new album, Who Says You
Can't Rock In Iran?, illegally in its
home country, where Western music is banned (9/21)
·
Starfucker
- This bisexual, drag-friendly electroclash band from Portland, Ore.,
has turned in a fetching cover of Madonna's first hit ''Burning Up''
and apparently puts on a hot live show (10/17)
ROCK AND ROLL HOTEL
1353 H St. NE
202-388-ROCK
www.rockandrollhoteldc.com
· Miles
Benjamin Anthony Robinson (10/2)
·
Soft Complex
(10/3)
· These United States
(10/4)
· Ben Kweller
(10/17)
· The Legendary Pink Dots
(10/30)
· Nicole Atkins (11/7)
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
600 I St. NW
202-408-3100
www.sixthandi.org
· Yael Naim
- This French-Israeli pop singer's ''New Soul'' provided the
commercial theme song for Apple earlier this year (10/29)
· Yeasayer
- This Brooklyn-based indie-rock band
calls its music ''Middle Eastern-psych-snap-gospel.'' (12/3)
THE STATE THEATRE
220 N.
Washington St.
Falls Church,
VA
703-237-0300
www.thestatetheatre.com
· Lez Zeppelin
-- All-girl tribute band (9/26)
· Jefferson
Starship -- With special guest
Grateful Dead's Tom Constanten (9/28)
· Broken
Social Scene -- The Canadian
collective that gave us Feist (10/22)
· Blues Traveler (10/27)
· Matthew Sweet
(10/29)
· Satisfaction,
''the most authentic Rolling Stones tribute band'' (11/13)
STRATHMORE MUSIC CENTER
k.d. lang
5301 Tuckerman
Lane
North Bethesda,
MD
301-581-5100
www.strathmore.org
· Randy Newman
-- This frequent Oscar, Grammy and Emmy
nominee, Newman has explored various styles and sounds of the cannon
of 20th-century American music (9/24)
· Neil
Sedaka (9/27)
· Natalie
Cole -- Cole returns to Strathmore
with a 13-piece big band after launching her album Leavin'
at the venue in 2006 (10/9)
· Citizen
Cope (10/15)
· Chuck
Brown -- This 72-year-old legend is
the godfather of go-go, D.C.'s own bopping brand of R&B (10/17)
·
k.d. lang
(10/17)
· Arlo Guthrie
- The legendary folk singer-songwriter is celebrating the release of
his first album in 12 years (10/30) James
Naughton and Christine
Ebersole - These two Tony
Award-winning musical stars will perform from their respective
repertoires (11/9)
· Tommy Tune &
The Manhattan Rhythm Kings -- An
evening of showtunes (1/23-1/24/09)
· Bebe
Neuwirth -- The two-time Tony winner
in a evening of song (4/2/09)
· Bernadette
Peters -- The Broadway legend returns
with another round of enchanting songs (4/18-4/19)
VERIZON CENTER
Janet Jackson at Verizon Center
601 F St. NW
Washington, D.C.
202-628-3200
www.verizoncenter.com
· New Kids on
the Block (10/2)
· Janet
Jackson (10/15)
· Coldplay
(10/31)
· The
Who (11/3)
· Sarah
Brightman Symphony (11/19)
· Tina
Turner (11/23-11/24)
WARNER THEATRE
513 13th St. NW
202-397-SEAT
www.warnertheatre.com
· Jackson
Browne (9/15)
· The Australian Pink Floyd Show
-- Performing The Wall
(10/12)
· Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt
-- An acoustic evening (10/19)
· Sweet
Honey in the Rock (10/24)
· Cassandra
Wilson (11/8)
