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One Track Mind

This Week: Hume Presents the Phat Daughter String Quartet's "For Rabbit (Jane)"

Music By Aaron Leitko

One Track Mind
This Week: Cannot Be Stopped's "Crystals"
Music By Aaron Leitko

Nether Band
Reviewed: Gore's Hart Gore and Mean Man's Dream
Music Review By Brent Burton

One Track Mind
This Week: The Cassettes' "Countach"
Music By Casey Rae-Hunter

Doll Parts
Reviewed: Amanda Palmer's Who Killed Amanda Palmer
Music Review By Casey Rae-Hunter

Cello Darling
Reviewed: Grayceon's This Grand Show
Music Review By Brandon Wu

One Track Mind
This Week: Godisheus' "Change in America (CIA)"
Music By Sarah Godfrey

Psych of It All
Gang Gang Dance decimates every jam-rock cliché on Saint Dymphna.
Music Review By Aaron Leitko

One Track Mind
This Week: The Walkaways' "When You're Gone"
Music By Sadie Dingfelder

Tower Record
Reviewed: Deerhunter's Microcastle
Music Review By Brent Burton

We Shall Overhaul
A sampler of recent attempts to revitalize the protest song.
Music Review By David Dunlap Jr.

One Track Mind
This Week: Astronomy Dominatrix's "The Rattler"
Music By Aaron Leitko

Deity Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
On its second full-length, Fucked Up finds godliness in down-to-earth punk.
Music Review By Brent Burton

Single Tracking
Reviewed: Fort Knox Five's Radio Free DC
Music Review By Aaron Leitko

One Track Mind
This Week: Screen Vinyl Image's "Deathdream"
Music By Aaron Leitko

Dispatches from the Duke Ellington Jazz Fest
As reported on our music blog, Black Plastic Bag
Music Review By Ted Scheinman, Michael J. West

One Track Mind
This Week: 7 Door Sedan's "Caught In Between"
Music By Justin Moyer

Retro Active
Reviewed: TV on the Radio's Dear Science
Music Review By Mike Riggs

One Track Mind
This Week: Pygmy Lush's "Mount Hope"
Music By Aaron Leitko

Her and Now
Reviewed: Jolie Holland's The Living and the Dead
Music Review By Shannon Zimmerman

Regional Rail
Two archival CDs reveal a peculiar hunger for the South's old ways.
Music Review By David Dunlap Jr.

One Track Mind
This Week: Technostress' "Stripmall"
Music By Aaron Leitko

The Unseen Emcee
Reviewed: DJ Khaled's We Global
Music Review By Ben Westhoff

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Interview: Max Ochs
Dec. 03, 2008, at 4:04 pm
Glowing Review of The Points in New York Times = WTF?
Dec. 03, 2008, at 10:32 am
Love Is All: Does Anybody Care About Them?
Dec. 02, 2008, at 4:28 pm
James Mercer: Star of the Silver Screen!
Dec. 02, 2008, at 12:22 pm

CP Music Picks

Edie Sedgwick
Wednesday, Dec. 3, at the Black Cat
Named after the brazen, ill-fated debutante who hung out with Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan, Edie Sedgwick is the high-concept electro-pop project of local musician (and regular City Paper contributor)...
Deceased
Friday, Dec. 5, at the Velvet Lounge
Say the words “classic American death metal” and most metalheads will immediately think of the Florida scene of the late ’80s and early ’90s. But Virginia has its own solid candidate in Deceased, the...
Dr. John
Thursday, Dec. 11, to Sunday, Dec. 14, at Blues Alley
Chances are you know Dr. John’s music without realizing it: His sly, croaky singing, from the ubiquitous 1973 hit “Right Place Wrong Time” to the jingle for Popeye’s Chicken & Biscuits, is...
Ray Davies with Locksley
Monday, Dec. 8, at the 9:30 Club
We should be cheering for Locksley. I mean, here’s a bunch of Wisconsinites who packed up their Dave Clark Five MP3s and moved to Brooklyn, determined to make it without the help of a record label,...
Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic
Tuesday, Dec. 2, at the Strathmore Music Center
How did a long-lost 200-year-old Beethoven concerto end up with the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic? The Oboe Concert in F, written when Ludwig was 22 and a student of Haydn, had never been seen...

Music Calendar: This Week in Rock

Fri. Nov. 28, 2008 - Thu. Dec. 4, 2008

Concerts

Clubs

ARTMOSPHERE CAFÉ,
Thursdays, Black Alley Band.
3311 Rhode Island Ave., Mt. Rainier, MD. (301) 927-2233
BIRCHMERE
Mon., 12/1, Hot Tuna. Tue., 12/2, Kevin Costner, Modern West. Wed., 12/3, Rick Braun, Mindi Abair. Thu., 12/4, The Roches, Lucy Wainwright Roche.
3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500.
BLACK CAT, BACKSTAGE
Mon., 12/1, Mittenfields, Teedo, Loose Lips. Wed., 12/3, Edie Sedgwick (see page xx), Gestures, Big Gold Belt. Thu., 12/4, O'Death, Wye, Oak.
1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490.
BOHEMIAN CAVERNS
Fri., 11/28, & Sat., 12/29, Anna Torres, Rita Ferreira.
2001 11th St. NW. (202) 299-0800.
DC9
Sun., 11/30, Sebastien Grainger and The Mountains, Josh Reichman. Tue., 12/2, Snowden, Twin Tigers, Illinois.
1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000.
FLANAGAN'S HARP & FIDDLE
Tue., 12/2, Leonard Stevens. Thu., 12/4, Sean Chyun.
GALAXY HUT
Sun., 11/30, Brothers Pony, Koshari. Mon., 12/1, No Show, No Cover.
2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 525-8646.
IOTA CLUB & CAFE
Fri., 11/28, The Rhodes Tavern Troubadours, The Remnants. Sat., 11/29, Juniper Lane, Against Grace, Zelos. Sun., 11/30, Gary B and the Notions, Poor But Sexy, The Human Hearts. Mon., 12/1, The Federal Reserve. Thu., 12/4, Toby Lightman.
2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340.
JAMMIN' JAVA
Fri., 11/28, Fastball (see page xx), Shane Hines, The Trance. Sat., 11/29, The Haggis. Sun., 11/30, Anthony Fiacco, Shane Hines, Todd Wright. Mon., 12/1, Rosie Thomas, Sheila Saputo, Cheyenne. Tue., 12/2, Crash Boom Bang, The Hint, The Ocean is Theory, Amen the Animal. Wed., 12/3, Melissa Ferrick. Thu., 12/4, Adrian Legg.
227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 255-1566.
JAXX
Sat., 11/29, Arsenic, No Shots for Ben, Through Exile.
6355 Rolling Road, West Springfield. (703) 569-5940.
9:30 CLUB
Fri., 11/28, They Might be Giants. Sat., 11/29, The Clarks, The Spring Standards. Sun., 11/30, Q-Tip (see page xx) Mon., 12/1, & Tue., 12/2, Vampire Weekend, The Teenagers. Wed., 12/3, Dr. Dog.
815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930.
RED & THE BLACK
Fri., 11/28, Violet Says 5, Silver Lights, The Cornel West Theory. Sat., 11/29, Club Scout. Thu., 12/4, Janius, Sometimes Junkyard.
1212 H St. NE. (202) 399-3201.
ROCK & ROLL HOTEL
Sat., 11/29, The Jones. Thu., 12/4, Drunken Jenga.
1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.
SALOUN
Tuesdays, The Unforgiven Band.
3239 M St. NW. (202) 965-4900.
STATE THEATRE
Sat., 11/29, The Machine. Sun., 11/30, Fishbone, Heavy Mojo, Natives of the New Dawn.
220 N. Washington St., Falls Church. (703) 237-0300.
SUNSET GRILLE
Thursdays, Johnny Castle's Thrillbillys.
7250 Columbia Pike, Annandale. (703) 658-0928.
VELVET LOUNGE
Fri., 11/28, Paperhaus, Back to Save the Universe, The New Retro. Sat., 11/29, Peasant, Jotto. Sun., 11/30, Within the Lich Gate, Apocalyptic Visions. Tue., 12/2, Kocho. Wed., 12/3, City of Ships, Worn in Red. Thu., 12/4, Skeleton$, Kuschty Rye Ergot, Max Ochs.
915 U St. NW. (202) 462-7625.
WONDERLAND BALLROOM
Sun., 11/30, Jantz and Friends. Wed., 12/3, Danielle Elliot, Adam Refferty, Andrew Hoover. Thu., 12/4, Swift Technique, Dos and Natalie Walker.
1101 Kenyon St. NW. (202) 232-5263.