The city will celebrate five decades of Go-Go music at the Go-Go Music Awards at Lincoln Theatre in D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood.

As we gear up for the summer music and concert season, a pair of local technologists want to make it even easier to find your next favorite band. Panlaqui and Rizvi, who are dating, got the idea ...

WASHINGTON -- Starting this week, musicians in the D.C. area can fill out a new survey as part of the District of Columbia’s first-ever music census. The idea is that the results of the census will ...

In 2017, when a wildfire devastated Sonoma County, California, Smithsonian Folklife Festival curator Nichole Procopenko wanted to preserve the collective memories made in the thousands of buildings ...

WASHINGTON — It’s a Friday night and the band We Were Promised Jetpacks packed a crowd inside D.C.’s legendary music club The Black Cat. A huge contrast from 2020, when COVID hit, and club owner ...

In the late ’70s, when he was a student at Georgetown University, Jay Bruder was assigned a term paper for a class in American history. Rather than drum up some new angle on, say, the Teapot Dome ...

Keeping local music venues alive in D.C. will require city funds, according to one coalition. Using the hashtag #SaveDCVenues, the campaign by DC Music Stakeholders is hoping to convince D.C. Mayor ...

Washington, D.C.'s local version of the Grammy Awards, the Wammies, is back this weekend after several years of hiatus. The Washington Area Music Awards, known as the Wammies, are a two-day experience ...

There’s a new way of recording music in the District, and it’s all about giving lesser-known artists a chance to shine. The “Out of Our Shells Project” was put together by Aram Sinnreich, the chair of ...

AC/DC singer Brian Johnson said he hopes the band will reconvene to make more music. Their last outing was Power Up, released in November 2020 but completed two years earlier. It came after the ...