Scenes from the Scene – November, 2011

David Combs working at the Black Cat

Surgery Dot Com’s BETA Launch – By Ari Ross

Ping-pong tables flank the concert stage, and two yards in front of me the singer announces through the long ropes of curls binding his face, “Occupy the nest. Lay eggs and occupy the nest.” “This has been kind of a weird show,” someone standing nearby comments. It wasn’t the interstitial rants of Surgery Dot Com’s singer Ross …

The Last Corpse Fortress Show

Weeks later I’m still feeling what happened at the Corpse Fortress. I stopped by the house relatively early in the evening with my friend James. People were just starting to show up, so we decided to head into D.C. to a friend’s party. As we left, I started to experience the strange emotional cocktail of …

Interview with HR

The following interview was conducted in the living room at Hole in the Sky in 2011, a few hours before HR, the mercurial frontman of Bad Brains (or as he likes to call them, the Human Rights Big Brains Band), headlined Ain't Scared Fest.  Footage from that gig can be seen here. I blew it …

Rachel Atcheson’s Pictures: Scenes from the Scene, Courtesy of the Scene’s Preeminent Photographer Circa 2008-2011

Suis La Lune. I love this photo because of the composition; he really fills the frame. The Aftermath at the Electric Maid. I skipped my senior prom to be at that show, and it was totally worth it. DANG is that a lot of males; where da females at? Oh, hardcore: how I love and …