The British post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen toured last year in support of a new album, The Fountain, but this year they’re back to...
From the 9:30 Club website: “Whenever you’re here, you’re alive” are the first words sung on Dynamite Steps, the fifth album from Greg Dulli’s Twilight...
Ask Leisha Hailey about The L Word, and at first she stumbles. ''Oh gosh, it's been so long since I've been on that show,'' says...
Femi Kuti carries the torch for his late father, Nigerian Afro-beat pioneer and superstar Fela Kuti, the subject of the exhilarating recent Broadway musical sensation...
The Loretta Lynn concert set for this Thursday, March 17 has been rescheduled. The new date is Oct. 15, 2011. Tickets will be honored. Refunds...
Despite the two “vs.” in the title, DJ Lil’e’s wildly popular dance party Lady Gaga vs. Madonna vs. Kylie Dance Party is not really a...
Gang of Four, the definitive punk-funk/post-punk band, has returned 30 years after storming the airwaves and inspiring everyone from R.E.M. to Red Hot Chili Peppers...
A D.C.-based indie-rock band formed in 1993, The Dismemberment Plan actually dismembered a decade later, in 2003, with a final show at the 9:30 Club....
Troy “Trombone Short” Andrews and his bandmates from the Crescent City merge rock, funk, jazz, hip-hop and soul, or what he calls “supafunkrock.” His latest...
What the Philadelphia hip-hop ensemble The Roots lacks in mainstream popular recognition they more than make up for in influence. Combining jazz and soul elements,...
This up-and-coming rapper from D.C. created far more attention than he bargained for last May. He blames his handlers for canceling a headlining appearance at...
Best known for her 1993 album Exile in Guyville, Liz Phair fused lo-fi indie rock production techniques with the sensibility and structure of classic singer/songwriters....
After a hissy-fit departure from New Order a few years back — just the most dramatic of several recent musical flare-ups — the venerated bass...
''I've always been a very, very vivid dreamer,'' says singer-songwriter KT Tunstall. ''It's a great source of interest for me.'' Dreams inspired Tunstall's first...
After four years, soul/funk collective Robert Randolph and the Family Band finally released a new record, We Walk This Road. Produced by T Bone Burnett,...