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Photo Credit: Kim Maguire The Anthem gets its own stop on The Chicks' 20th anniversary tour this fall, when the band brings its beloved Taking the Long Way to Washington on October 6. The sixteen-date theater run kicks off September 30 in Detroit and works through Chicago, New York, Nashville, Texas, and the West Coast before it wraps. Notably, the tour lands in D.C., a city built around the exact kind of fight that made the band who they are. Most artists who survive a caree

Photo Credit: Rhys Asplundh via Flickr, CC BY 2.0 The DC Council gave unanimous approval to the RESALE Act on Tuesday, a law that caps ticket resale markups and sets new rules for online ticket sellers. The law limits resale prices for concerts, theater, comedy shows, and festivals to 10 percent above face value. Beyond the price cap, the law bans speculative ticket sales, so resellers can no longer list tickets they don't own. It requires sellers to show the full ticket pric

There is a town in northwest Ohio called Waterville. A few thousand people live there, pressed against the Maumee River, far enough from Toledo to feel like its own thing. Most people have never heard of it. Photo: olihazard.com Oliver Hazard has spent the better part of a decade making sure that changes. The trio of Michael Belazis, Devin East, and Nate Miner play indie folk that sounds like home, and the name of their current tour makes the connection literal: The Watervill

In anticipation of Noah Kahan's upcoming show in D.C., we’re changing up our traditional editorial format. Instead of a standard biographical recap, we’re spelling out the narrative one specific milestone at a time. From his rustic origins and deeply personal albums to his dedicated mental health initiatives and the sheer scale of his current tour, this acrostic roadmap explores how a kid from New England captured (and kept) the world's attention. N is for Nationals Park We w

As summer concert season gets underway, country-rock star Darius Rucker is hitting the road with a catalog built for "the hits and the hot summer air." Photo Credit: Keith Griner Rucker is bringing his Songs of Summer Tour 2026 to the stage at The Theater at MGM National Harbor on July 16. The Grammy-winning singer has spent more than three decades building one of popular music's most recognizable catalogs, first as the frontman of Hootie & the Blowfish and later as one of c

Multi-platinum R&B star Khalid and pop hitmaker Lauv have just released their first-collaborative track, "Tied Up." And for fans in the DMV, you won't have to wait long to hear it live. The two artists are bringing their It's Always Summer Somewhere Tour to The Anthem in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, May 31 at 7:30 PM. "Tied Up" is about the emotional trap of a love that isn't quite working: the push and pull of staying invested in something that keeps letting you down. It's we

If you've spent any time in the company of a good road trip playlist, there's a decent chance Houndmouth has already found their way into your speakers. The Indiana-born indie rock band has announced a North American tour that will bring them to D.C.'s The Anthem on Friday, August 7, 2026, with Rayland Baxter opening. Formed in 2011, Houndmouth built their following over the course of several albums that blend roots-rock, Americana, and indie pop. The band's sound is built on

Somewhere between metalcore and the dancefloor sits Electric Callboy. Photo Credit: Christian Ripkens The German electronicore group is set to bring their TANZNEID World Tour to The Theater at MGM National Harbor on Monday, May 25, with support from Polaris and Scene Queen. Formed in 2010 in Castrop-Rauxel, a small industrial city in western Germany, Electric Callboy spent their early years grinding through the European club circuit under the name Eskimo Callboy, building a c

Two sold-out nights at Forest Hills Stadium last August left Jon Bellion fans with two distinct feelings. Firstly, awe. And secondly, the sinking feeling that they had no idea when he'd be back on stage. Or if. It's a reasonable fear. Bellion had already gone nearly seven years between solo albums, spending that stretch writing for seemingly everyone but himself, from Miley Cyrus to Maroon 5, while quietly becoming a father of three and untangling himself from a predatory lab

There was a time when seeing Noah Kahan meant squeezing into a theater and hoping he played "Maine." Those days are gone. Next month, more than 40,000 fans will fill Nationals Park when Kahan brings The Great Divide Tour to Washington on July 22. By then, fans will have had months to sit with The Great Divide, his highly anticipated fourth studio album due April 24. Kahan doesn't seem to be trying to outrun what made him successful. The title track, released Friday, finds him

Mumford & Sons have returned with a new single, The Banjo Song , giving fans a glimpse at their sixth studio album, Prizefighter , set to arrive February 20. Similar sounds: The Avett Brothers, Fleet Foxes, Dermot Kennedy Photo Credit: Jay Sansone Where their previous album RUSHMERE leaned into modern folk-rock polish, The Banjo Song harkens back to the expansive, emotive storytelling of Babel . The track opens delicately, with soft, contemplative verses that gradually swe

The Washington National Opera is charting a new course away from the Kennedy Center, ending a decades-long relationship amid sweeping changes at the venue following its controversial renaming to the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. Construction crews adjust signage at the Kennedy Center, adding "The Donald Trump and." (Photo by Atl28 / CC0 1.0 via Wikimedia Commons) The announcement comes as the opera enters its 70th anniversary ye

NEEDTOBREATHE is keeping things quiet a little longer. Similar sounds: Kings of Leon, Judah & The Lion, Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors Corner Circuit/Photo by Carson Schultz The South Carolina-bred band has added a new run of dates "due to overwhelming demand" to their Barely Elegant Acoustic Tour, extending the stripped-back experience into early 2026, and including a stop at Richmond’s Altria Theater. For a group known for filling rooms with towering, sing-along anthems, the

Sam Barber’s American Route Tour arrives at The Anthem in Washington, D.C. on February 6, 2026, bringing one of country and Americana’s fastest-scaling success stories into one of the city’s largest rooms. Similar sounds: Ty Myers, Zach Bryan, Max McNown The stop lands Barber squarely in the middle of a tour designed to match the size of his growing audience: no longer club-level, not quite stadium-ready, but rapidly filling theaters across the country. Barber began posting s

Three decades of rock history conver ge in one band. Photo Credit: Steven Cohen Rock's newest supergroup, Howl Owl Howl, brings together...

After a 2025 run of symphony halls and full band shows, Gregory Alan Isakov is scaling things down for an acoustic night at The Anthem in Washington, D.C. on January 24, 2026. Similar sounds: Iron & Wine, Ray LaMontague, Sufjan Stevens Photo Credit: Rebecca Caridad The show is part of a short run of stripped back performances that put the focus on Isakov’s songwriting rather than full band or orchestral arrangements. These shows are expected to be mostly solo, with songs pres

Matt Maeson has spent many a long night writing songs while the rest of the world sleeps. Between fatherhood, marriage, and moving...

Colony House is taking their fifth album, 77, on the road, and Washington, D.C. will get its turn when the band headlines the 9:30 Club...

Bad Suns have spent the past decade chasing light while wrestling with shadow, and their latest album Accelerator shows them closing the...

In the world of Purity Ring, synths shimmer like starlight and vocals drift like whispered dreams. Similar sounds: CHVRCHES, BROODS, PVRIS Purity Ring will stop at Washington, D.C.’s 9:30 Club on October 29 as part of their Place of My Own Tour. The electro-pop duo, vocalist Megan James and producer Corin Roddick, are celebrating the release of their fourth album, Purity Ring , out September 26. Formed in Edmonton, Canada, Purity Ring first turned heads in 2011 with “Ungirth