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As I laid there trying to fall asleep, the neighborhood was quiet aside from the high pitch ringing that remained in my ears. Loud, carnival-like, energy-filled, ambitious and often comical. These seem to capture the bulk of the atmosphere at Dan Deacon's Saturday night concert. And after being to more shows than I can remember […]
"…Amazing show for us TRUE fans who have seen Idioteque and EIIRP enough, and appreciate some different songs that we've NEVER seen live. Go see Aerosmith if you wanna see nothing but popular shit." -Donovangoode That little ditty is compliments of an At Ease reader in response to someone that criticized Radiohead for closing last […]
Is it your local church choir? No. Is it a cult? Maybe. Am I member? Probably. The first time I saw the Polyphonic Spree, I had virgin ears. I saw them at a free show on a beautiful day on the outside plaza (Millenium Stage) of the Kennedy Center. I hadn't heard a single note […]
Does a good show require more than sonic entertainment? Maybe not, but a great one might. I'm referring to the visual entertainment that seems to be a more and more common pairing for today's musicians. Backdrops of eye candy that match the music and help set a mood can really bring something extra to a […]
I haven't seen this much purple and aqua since the introduction of Columbia Bugaboo jackets and their popularity on the landfill propped ski slopes of southeast Michigan! That was the late 1980s. Sure enough, in 2011 at the Black Cat, M83 paired its nicely done LED stage lighting with lots of synths to conjure up […]
This the show at which I had my first 9:30 Club cupcake. I was a little disappointed to find that it had a cream filling, akin to an old school hostess cupcake. I was not dissapointed, however, with Deerhunter. I thought the guys did a nice job presenting work from their latest and fantastic album, […]
I was pretty happy when I first heard that the Books were about to go on tour with a stop in DC. The suger on all of it was that their opener would be the Black Heart Procession, a band that I had tried to see but missed on several past occassions. Tickets were purchased […]