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    Live: Janelle Monae at the Black Cat, DC

    Janelle Monae’s mothership landed last week in DC, bringing space-age soul to a sold-out crowd at the Black Cat. The Grammy-nominated singer, on tour now through April, didn’t just put on a show. She gave us an experience. Sort of like a Warhol Factory happening – meets – Alice in Wonderland, set in a strange [...]

    March 24, 2010 2 Comments

    REVIEW: The Foreign Exchange at Black Cat, Washington DC (Photos from NYC)

    Photos from The Foreign Exchange’s NYC show at BB Kings by Joann Gomez, Music Looks Like This. Follow her on Twitter @MLLT. The Foreign Exchange, the North Carolina based duo of Little Brother’s Phonte and Dutch producer Nicolay is steeped in legend. Meeting online via the hip-hop site Okayplayer, they exchanged beats and rhymes over [...]

    October 29, 2009 1 Comment

    Concert Review: Matt and Kim and Amanda Blank at DC’s Black Cat – 9/16/09

    Photos by: Danielle Scruggs, Danielle Scruggs Photography Matt and Kim, Brooklyn’s twin prime ministers of awesome, visited the Black Cat on Wednesday night with Secretary of Sensual Aural Panic Amanda Blank in tow for an evening that agreed with the musical sensibilities of everyone in attendance, and portended that both acts have the talent and [...]

    September 21, 2009 3 Comments

    Just Added: Gnarls Barkley at 9:30 Club, Other Shows

    DC is getting some fly shows lately! They’re not free like our friends in New York , but I still can’t complain. Gnarls Barkley at 9:30 Club – August 5th Show just added today. Gnarls is rocking 9:30 with (er, transvestite fronted) Hercules Love Affair on August 5th. I saw Gnarls at the MCI Center [...]

    June 26, 2008 No Comments