Alive & Kicking: Warped Tour thrives
There are many who say punk rock is dead, but if it is indeed dead, how do you explain the popularity of one of the longest-running summer music festivals in the country?
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There are many who say punk rock is dead, but if it is indeed dead, how do you explain the popularity of one of the longest-running summer music festivals in the country?
"We're poised to be the gay Matchbox Twenty," Del Marquis, guitarist for the rock band the Scissor Sisters, proclaimed in a phone interview. "It's weird because we're a little bit more of a cult pop act here in the U.K. and Europe, and in the States we're going to be one of those pop acts with a successful single, and then everybody realizes what you look like."
This Battle of the Bands pits The Killers against Franz Ferdinand in a number of categories. See who comes out victorious.
The Cure "The Cure" (I Am Records/Geffen) Sounds like: A dying man who spends his last breath uttering brilliant music. 3 1/2 stars
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This summer has seen the reunification of several bands that used to be seminal rock bands, but have since become the nostalgic listenings of music fans. Braid - a so-called emo band that is considered a forefather of the contemporary emo genre - has reunited for a U.S. tour in support of a new DVD that details the last days of their existence.
D.C. - always considered the capital of politics and international relations - also has a surprisingly thriving music scene. The District offers a multitude of smaller nightclubs and stadium-sized amphitheaters. Here is a selection of some of the best places to see live music.
Theater usually gets a bad rap from college students. More interested in drinking or nights out on the town, students frequently ignore perfectly good plays that are actually not that dorky or just for the artsy intellectuals. Why bother with $5 pints, when the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Va. offers a play with full frontal nudity and is solely about the pre- and post-coital interactions between 10 couples.
The Rejected, fronted by Mel Gagarin, was the first of eight bands to play the Tavern on Saturday in an all-day show sponsored by the Department of Audio Technology. Donations totaling about $300 were made at the show to benefit a new chapter of Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) that is being set up in honor of AU student Andrew Burr, who was killed by a drunken driver in January. Cab Assassin, the AU band Burr sang in, also played. For more information, visit www.saddonline.com.
1. Vans Warped Tour will hit the parking lot of D.C.'s Nissan Pavilion on Aug. 4 for its 10th year. This year's tour includes New Found Glory, Simple Plan, Bad Religion, Lars Fredrickson and the Bastards and Coheed and Cambria, as well as dozens more. The tour features two rotating mainstages, a variety of smaller stages, skateboarding and motocross, hundreds of vendor booths, and the promise of dehydration and a sunburn. For more information and a complete list of bands, visit www.warpedtour.com.
It takes forever to get places in D.C. It especially takes forever to get from AU to U Street, the rather shady home of the Black Cat and the 9:30 club. Waiting for your roommate, waiting for the AU shuttle to take you to the Metro, waiting for your slow friends at the Metro stop, waiting for the train, waiting to transfer trains, walking to the club - what would be a 15-minute drive turns into an hour-long inconvenience. But when your car is broken and your friends want to drink, there is really no option but to risk a disgustingly slow trek on the Metro that usually results in missing the opening band of every show.
There are only a select few rock bands whose brand of music and carefully crafted image can withstand the test of time and changing generations. Sadly, the Misfits are not one of these bands.
Alkaline Trio / One Man Army Alkaline Trio: * Sounds like: One of my favorite bands died and some high school rejects tried to recreate their brilliance, but failed.
Local bands are a much-maligned sect of the elitist music industry. Audiences and critics tend to assume that a band is untalented just because they are: a) not signed, b) playing in local dives to crowds of five people and c) releasing trashy little EPs that sound like they were recorded in a cave. Certainly not every local garage rock band offers a show worthy of bands on the majors, but there are surprising numbers of unknown local bands that rock the D.C. scene.
Harry Potter is something of a cult figure nowadays, and the release of the third Harry Potter film is a monumental occasion in lives of children and adults alike. But this film, unlike the second film, is not only immense in its cult status, but also in the talent behind its camera. Alfonso Cuaron, the genius behind Mexico's "Y Tu Mama Tambien," has stepped into Chris Columbus' much sought-after shoes to direct "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," the third installment in the Harry Potter book and film series.