One of the best parts of living in D.C. is all the amazing live music venues. The likelihood that one of your favorite bands will play here at least once a year is decently high. From the Verizon Center, DAR Constitution Hall and 930 Club to DC9, U Street Music Hall and Rock and Roll [...]
On Saturday night, Frankie & Betty will be returning to their roots. The duo first met at Phase1 at an open mic nearly two years ago. Before long Rachel Bauchman and Jessie Strick were jamming together and obsessing over Hot Sundae — as any true child of the 90’s knows, that’s the girl band from Saved [...]
One of the many awesome bands taking center stage for this year’s Phasefest is Ohio’s very own Vanity Theft. The trio has spent the better part of 2012 on tour promoting the release of their newest EP, The Right Amount of Distance. Singer / keytarist, Alicia Grodecki, says that deciding to play Phasefest was a [...]
Maybe some of you have heard of the new DJ in town (well newish- she’s been here for just over a year now). She goes by LadyFace, she hails from Lawrence, Kansas, and she was the winner of the HER HRC DJ Battle this past January. Possibly best of all though, she’s this month’s special [...]
PHOTOS It’s well established that WTGG, queers, hipsters, geeks, foodies, that cute baby with the hot moms – everyone – goes to Big Bear Cafe. They have great coffee, hot staff, a quaint little location tucked a mini-block off of Florida Ave., and a burgeoning offering of events. WTGG overcame our wintertime provincial DCist attitudes [...]
The phrase “female singer-songwriter” has been longhand for “queer chick” ever since the demise of the world’s very first U-Haul partnership left some poor grrl alone in an English basement with nothing but a six-string and a Moleskine to ease her pain. Brooklyn-based guitarist Allison Weiss might fit the phrase, but she shatters the breathy, [...]
If you’re anything like me, your holiday shopping procrastination verges on paralysis. You’ll trudge through crowds of overheated suburban clones at Pentagon City on Christmas Eve, searching among the picked-over department store racks and Brookstone shelves for that elusive gift that says “I’m a financially secure, creative, classy human being who loves you and knows you [...]
We can dance if we want to We can leave your friends behind ‘Cause your friends don’t dance And if they don’t dance Well they’re no friends of mine. If there’s one legitimate complaint that DC newcomers make about our mother city, it’s that the hyper-ambitious type-A folks that run this joint have their helmets [...]
If for some reason you missed the Andrea Gibson show at the Fridge last week, let me tell you, she was UH-Mazing. As a writer, of both journalism and fiction, I have been to numerous open mics, poetry slams, and literary readings. And frankly, many of them have left me gunshy, because, for every talented [...]