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Good Friday: The Independence Day Edition

Fri Jul 3, 5:26 PM

So, first and foremost: Happy (almost) Fourth of July, everyone! Now, let's talk about the weekend in music, per protocol. As always, the stuff we already discussed up first.Tonight's pretty busy, actually: Asylum Street Spankers, Porterdavis... More >>

Club Dada To Remain Closed Through The Weekend, Re-Open On Monday

Fri Jul 3, 4:21 PM

Like a poorly played game of Telephone in elementary school, there's been a lot of erroneous information passed along about Club Dada in the past few days--a lot of it generating from a story we ran here on DC9 that... More >>

Get Yer Independence Day Dance Jam On With A Few Choice Local Mixtape Downloads

Fri Jul 3, 3:44 PM

There's gonna be a whole lot of barbecuing and pool-hopping this weekend, if common sense is any indicator for what we should expect to go down on this Fourth of July weekend. Course, there needs to be a soundtrack... More >>

Watch: Smile Smile's Mini Tour Documentary

Fri Jul 3, 1:19 PM

It might not have the editing chops of say, their labelmates' tour doc, but there's a certain charm to the above clip that sums up Smile Smile's tour with Metric and Sebastien Grainger--just as there is with all things... More >>

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    Thursday, July 02
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    Thursday, July 02
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