This Town Ain’t Enough

The city that got D.I.Y. down to a science is currently one of the hardest places in America to stay true.

Pete Seeger discusses Woody Guthrie, Martin Luther King, and “We Shall Overcome”

Pete Seeger performs for an audience that included Eleanor Roosevelt at the opening of the Washington labor canteen. Photo by Joseph Anthony. America’s great folksinger, Pete Seeger influenced both American music and American history. In 2006, when he was in his mid-80s, Seeger did the following interview to promote a concert celebrating the life and …

If You Will Dare

More often than not, being a musician has barely anything to do with music.

Trey Gares: A Friend I Probably Did Not Deserve

A music scene is lucky to have a room that serves as its training ground, proving ground, breeding ground, epicenter, and clubhouse.
In my tenure in the Washington, D.C., alternative independent hardcore arts and lifestyle community, I’ve seen a few such spaces emerge.
In the earliest of the 2000s, the Kaffa House was that place. In 2010, the Corpse Fortress was D.C.’s underground sanctuary for the wild and free. And between the heydays of those venues there were a few years where the best, most consistent, and most welcoming venue for the kids, the vets, the curious, and the freaks was the U-Turn. I made more of the most important friendships I currently cling to inside of that weird venue above U Street than anywhere else in the world. And one of the many friendships that began in that usually cool, often funny, and occasionally violent mid-size room was the one that I formed with Trey Gares from the Unabombers — a band that was a consistent force in the Norfolk / Virginia Beach region for more than 20 years.

Finally, Someone Documented D.C. Punk: “This Was My Night & This Was a Lot of Other Nights”

What do you get when a Muslim, a Christian, two atheist Jews, a Bard graduate, an animal rights advocate, Chris Suspect, Nick Tape, several vegan dog walkers, Loren Martin, Killer James, and a self-proclaimed dyed-in-the-wool scumbag of the highest order walk into an Ethiopian restaurant?

Damaged City Fest V: They Lit Up That Church Like It Was In Norway

I used to have the best times in the ’90s at these big shows, but now I’m not getting kicked out for underage drinking. Now I am being called “sir” and being politely asked to go past the church’s property line to drink my beer.