Archive: Live Last Night
Live Last Night: Tale Of The Tape
David and I went to two decidedly different shows last night and decided to compare notes afterwards - though my afterwards actually began before David had even left for his concert. Here's how the concerts stacked up.... My show: The Neville Brothers = NoLa's first family of funk David's show:...
By J. Freedom du Lac | July 2, 2008; 04:35 PM ET | Comments (4)
Live Last Night: Pearl Jam, Song-By-Song
Eddie Vedder (shown here at Bonnaroo) led Pearl Jam through a nearly three-hour, 31-song show. I won't waste time with pleasantries because Pearl Jam played a whopping 31 songs last night and it's my job to say something about all of them. It was a very good show, with...
By David Malitz | June 23, 2008; 12:26 PM ET | Comments (50)
Live Last Night: The Muslims
The Muslims, much more than just an attention-getting name. The Muslims want attention. Er, lemme try that again. Seeing the Muslims gave me flashbacks to 2001. Damn, strike two. A San Diego group called the Muslims (four white dudes, natch) played 40 minutes of brash, swaggering rock-and-roll at DC9...
By David Malitz | June 19, 2008; 02:46 PM ET | Comments (1)
Live Two Nights Ago: Clinic/BBQ
The world needs more bands like Clinic. Or maybe it doesn't. If there actually were more bands like the Liverpool quartet, which played a fantastic show at the Black Cat on Wednesday night, perhaps we wouldn't be able to fully appreciate what a great little act they are. Clinic's easy...
By David Malitz | May 30, 2008; 04:33 PM ET | Email a Comment
Live Last Night: The Roots (Haiku Remix)
Funky urgency Hendrix, go-go, Curtis, Biz Rap's rangiest band....
By J. Freedom du Lac | May 15, 2008; 10:29 AM ET | Comments (4)
Live Last Night Weekend Report: Urban Verbs and Old Haunts, the anti-Nissan
While J. Freedom spent the weekend with about 50,000 of his closest friends at Nissan "Never Again" Pavilion, I kept it much more low-key. As always. There are probably more people in Kanye's stage crew than were at the pair of shows I attended. First up was the Urban Verbs...
By David Malitz | May 13, 2008; 04:32 PM ET | Comments (4)
Radiohead Visits D.C., Mother Nature Disapproves
You can't even call it a coincidence anymore. It's a fact -- the weather gods of the D.C. area react in strong and violent ways when Radiohead comes to town. No meteorological training is necessary to predict massive storms when the band visits. By all accounts (including J. Freedom's in...
By David Malitz | May 12, 2008; 10:44 AM ET | Comments (11)
Parton The Interruption
'And, of course, my name is Barbara Mandrell!' Went to a comedy show last night, and a Dolly Parton concert broke out! Or is it the other way around? Whatevs: While Dolly is a brilliant songwriter and a superlative vocal stylist, she's also one of country music's great all-time...
By J. Freedom du Lac | April 29, 2008; 11:35 AM ET | Comments (2)
Live Last Night Weekend Report, Part 2: Child Ballads Bomb
Stewart Lupton, more unfulfilled promise. On Friday night the kids were alright, but on Saturday night Stewart Lupton most certainly was not. A decade or so ago Lupton was a star in the making, lead singer of consensus Next Big Thing Jonathan Fire*Eater. They were the Strokes before the...
By David Malitz | April 22, 2008; 03:59 PM ET | Comments (5)
Live Last Night Weekend Report, Part 1: Double Dagger Delivers
Baltimore's Double Dagger: Three dudes, two instruments, one great band. Friday night I saw Steve Buckhantz's favorite art-punk trio, Double Dagger. The band is on my "don't miss" list, and since they are from Baltimore, well, it means I see a lot of Double Dagger. According to my trusty...
By David Malitz | April 22, 2008; 12:24 PM ET | Comments (1)
Live Last Night: The New Pornographers
Neko Case = Gilbert Arenas. Just stick with me for a minute, OK? After an illness rendered rock's most fawned-over backup singer a last-second no-show for the New Pornographers' Monday night engagement at the 9:30 club, all anyone could talk about yesterday was whether or not she'd take the...
By David Malitz | April 16, 2008; 05:40 PM ET | Comments (7)
Live Last Night: Monotonix and Dark Meat
Yes, that's fire. No, that's not Borat. I learned my lesson during the second song: There is no "safe" spot during a Monotonix show, especially in a club as tiny as the Red & the Black. I thought I would be out of harm's way hiding next to the...
By David Malitz | April 14, 2008; 05:00 PM ET | Email a Comment
Live Last Night: The Coathangers
The Coathangers, probably not coming back to D.C. anytime soon. Sometimes I feel this weird obligation to go to certain shows. Last night was one of those instances. The Coathangers, a fun, all-girl punk band from Atlanta, were at the Red & the Black. There was no local support...
By David Malitz | March 7, 2008; 05:23 PM ET | Comments (2)
Live Last Night: Atlas Sound
Bradford Cox (back center) and Atlas Sound kept it mellow, man, at the Black Cat. "I swear, all the kids got stoned before they came out tonight." That's what the woman working the door of the Black Cat's backstage said to a friend of hers as she stamped my...
By David Malitz | February 22, 2008; 06:03 PM ET | Comments (3)
Week Late Review: Yeasayer
Brooklyn's Yeasayer, the latest blog sensations. A week ago I went down to the Black Cat to review the very sold out Yeasayer show. You didn't see the review in the paper because it never made it to the paper. Casualty of limited space, at least that's what the...
By David Malitz | January 23, 2008; 12:51 PM ET | Comments (3)
Live Last Night: The Hold Steady/Art Brut/1990s
My review of last night's Hold Steady gig at the sold-out 9:30 club? Right here. It was pretty much the same show as last year's - almost identical setlist, same speech at the end, my same complaints about singer Craig Finn missing the timing on some of his best lines...
By David Malitz | November 21, 2007; 03:21 PM ET | Comments (6)
