1811 14th St Nw
Washington, District of Columbia 20009
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Junior Boys
Junior Boys are a Canadian indie electronic pop group.u000AAt a point in time when a person can create, record, manufacture, and distribute his/her own music, Aqueduct becomes quintessential bedroom ...
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-04-13 21:00:00
City-State "Monument" CD Release Show
The CD release party for city-state's first full length album, Monument. With A Study in Her and special guests. Cover $8, backstage at the Black Cat.
http://www.city-state.net
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Category: Music, 21:30:00, 2007-05-10 21:30:00
The Jet Age
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-05-22 21:00:00
Stamen and Pistils
Coming out of Washington DC, Stamen and Pistils come with a sound very atypical of what is commonly expected to come out of the city. The music is largely acoustic based pop, filled out with programme...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-05-30 21:00:00
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Fans often go ape for the unique antics of this pop/rock group. Trey Spruance, Secret Chiefs 3's chief composer and a former guitarist for Mr. Bungle, is a visionary madman capable of instilli...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-06-05 20:00:00
Voxtrot
Voxtrot combine classic '60s pop with the heady, subversive sounds of '80s Britain.u000A
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-06-13 20:00:00
The Fiery Furnaces
The Fiery Furnaces are a rock band that has played around the world and has a growing fanbase. Its safe to say that dios (always lowercase) are a unique band. dios' gift to borrow and fuse tog...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-07-05 20:00:00
Mirah
A prolific writer and gifted musician, Laura Veirs is a musical risk-taker. Her recordings offer a haunting mix of deadpan folk and blues with sparse arrangements and Pacfic Northwest flavors.
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-07-21 21:00:00
Bishop Allen
This indie-pop band blends sharp, jangly guitars with catchy melodies and big choruses. Page France is a indie/folk/pop band from Maryland.
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-07-22 20:00:00
The Engine Room
Check out The Engine Room with speical guests, Candy Bars at the Black Cat. Tickets are $7 and doors open at 9pm.
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-07-30 21:00:00
Calla
The refined artrock ensemble Calla have a fine catalog of compelling, memorable material to their credit, having released an album each for the Arena Rock Recordings, Sub Rosa and Young God imprints. ...
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-08-07 21:00:00
Shortstack
Shortstack features vocalalist Vanessa Diaz, bass player Michael Linder, guitarist Mike Cassini and drummer Herman Castro. The Hard Tomorrows is an indie/rock/pop quintet from Washington, DC.
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-08-10 21:00:00
Local H
Scott Lucas and Joe Daniels began playing together in high school in Illinois. Additional members never worked out, so Local H is a two-piece band that plays feedback indie rock with three recordings....
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-09-18 21:00:00
Girl Talk
Sounds from the streets of NY to the tropics of Brasil, Girl Talk create a latin/bluesy blend of jazz truly off the beaten track. Dan Deacon is a Baltimore, Maryland-based absurdist electronic music c...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-19 20:00:00
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats -- both hyper prolific and militantly lo-fi -- are one of the more unusual bands to find shelter under the ever-expanding umbrella term indie-rock.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-20 20:00:00
Crap
Crap is a dance party with DJ YumYum celebrating the best of the worst music that drum machines, keytar, and octagonal drums have offered the world. Indie kids, goths, punks, gays, lesbians, suburbani...
Category: Music, 21:30:00, 2007-09-21 21:30:00
Telograph @ Black Cat with Robbers on High Street and Longwa...
Telograph will be opening the show with Robbers on High Street and Longwave at the Black Cat, Saturday, Sept. 22 at 9pm. This will be a great night of good music. See you there!Event submitted by Even...
Category: Other, 21:00:00, 2007-09-22 21:00:00
The Tossers
The Tossers are a seven-piece Celtic punk/folk band from Chicago.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-09-23 21:00:00
The Plastic People of the Universe
The Plastic People of the Universe is a rock band from Prague, Czech Republic. It was the foremost representative of Prague's underground culture (1968-1989).
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-25 20:00:00
Dirty Projectors
The Dirty Projectors is the project of Dave Longstreth, a former Yale student who left college to become one of the most prolific and unique indie singer/songwriters of the early 2000s.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-09-26 21:00:00
Magnolia Electric Company
Magnolia Electric Company plays the kind of rock you'd expect to hear in the '70s. Shearwater's music features sparse, mostly acoustic instrumentation, lightly augmented by pia...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-27 20:00:00
Liars
The noisy, angular post-punk outfit Liars came along at just the right moment: Their 2001 debut 'They Threw Us All In Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top' came out at a time when indie-...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-09-28 21:00:00
Double CD Release Party, DC
Le Loup is a seven-piece alternative/experimental band from Alexandria, Virginia.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-09-29 21:00:00
Ken Andrews
Ken Andrews is the former front man of Failure, Year of the Rabbit and The Replicants. This classically trained singer/pianist draws comparisons to Kate Bush and Tori Amos.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-10-02 21:00:00
Strung Out
Strung Out is a popular melodic punk band that plays in venues across the United States. Evergreen Terrace puts its own slant on riff-heavy rock 'n' roll with growling lyrics and melod...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-10-03 20:00:00
The Blow
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-10-04 20:00:00
Voxtrot
Voxtrot combine classic '60s pop with the heady, subversive sounds of '80s Britain. The Little Ones have adopted the rule that a song is appropriate if, and only if, each of the band m...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-10-06 21:00:00
Uz Jsme Doma
U! Jsme Doma is a progressive rock band from Prague, Czech Republic, originally formed in Teplice in 1985. Capillary Action's amorphous sound mixes disparate influences, unpredictable song str...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-10-08 21:00:00
Minus the Bear
Though the song titles may lead one to believe that they're a novelty act, Minus the Bear provides polished, shrewdly arranged songs. Finger-tapped guitar riffs mixed with catchy melodies and ...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-10-10 20:00:00
Sunset Rubdown
Sunset Rubdown features Spencer Krug, Jordan Robson, Cramer Mike Doerkson and Camilla Wynn Ingr. Cataract Camp is an American arena rock band that saw great success in the 1970s and 1980s, penning suc...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-10-11 20:00:00
Tiger Army
The California punk trio Tiger Army came together in early 1996, opening for AFI and earning respect from other players and fans including Rancid frontman and Hellcat Records co-founder Tim Armstrong....
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-10-12 21:00:00
The Alphabetical Order CD Release Show @ Black Cat
$5, all ages, w/ Red Racer. Can't wait? Stream the album at http://www.thealphabeticalorder.org , thanks to last.fm.
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-10-14 21:00:00
British Sea Power
BRITISH SEA POWER, STARDEATH, WHITE DWARFS $13 Mainstage 9:00
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-10-19 21:00:00
Middle Distance Runner
Middle Distance Runner is a five-piece indie/pop band from Washington, DC. Born from the embers of the flickering guitar fuzz of the early '90s, The Dance Party (formerly Spitbitch) has arrive...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-10-20 21:00:00
Jens Lekman
Jens Martin Lekman is a Swedish pop musician. His lyrics are often witty, melancholic and romantic.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-10-25 20:00:00
Boris, Damon and Naomi
w/ MICHIO KURIHARA
$12 Mainstage
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-10-26 21:00:00
Bobby Bare Jr. w/ Lucero
With a big-as-the-room persona, an ability to rock the doors off the most jaded of clubs, the heart to hold a room completely still with just his guitar, and a genius for arrangement, Bobby Bare, Jr. ...
Category: Other, 20:00:00, 2007-10-31 20:00:00
David Bazan
David Bazan fronts the enigmatic rock band Pedro the Lion and the electronic-based Headphones. His emotionally charged narratives, eye for telling detail, and mournful voice have more in common with J...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-11-01 20:00:00
The Thermals
$13
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-11-03 21:00:00
Rogue Wave
Rogue Wave is an indie rock band blending wistful vocals over and under blankets of sonic textures.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-11-05 20:00:00
Menomena
Menomena is an experimental rock band from Portland, Oregon. Illinois is a Pennsylvania-based rock foursome.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-11-06 20:00:00
IAMX
IAMX features Chris Corner from Sneaker Pimps.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-11-13 21:00:00
The Gossip, Long Blondes, Panther
Tickets are $15
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-11-14 20:00:00
Benefit for NCOR : The Opposite Sex w/ Police & Thieves and ...
Mirroring the identity of the times, The Opposite Sex express a shocking vision of dark beauty. Assembled in 2004 and inspired by the post-punk era’s harder acts, the band has gained a reputation f...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-11-14 21:00:00
Stiff Little Fingers
Belfast-based punk band Stiff Little Fingers formed in 1977 and made a huge name for itself with songs like 'Alternative Ulster' and 'Suspect Device.'
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-11-15 20:00:00
Georgie James
Georgie James is the dynamic duo of Laura Burhenn and John Davis.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-11-16 21:00:00
The Electric Six
The Detroit sextet Electric Six mixes garage, disco, punk, new wave and metal into cleverly dumb, in-your-face songs like 'Danger! High Voltage' and 'Gay Bar.' Inspired...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-11-17 21:00:00
Yell County
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-11-19 21:00:00
Prefuse 73
Scott Herren, also known as Prefuse 73, is an Atlanta, GA, based experimental hip-hop producer.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-11-23 21:00:00
Shonen Knife
Shonen Knife formed in 1981 in Osaka, Japan, when founding members Naoko Yamano, Atsuko Yamano and fellow office clerk Michie Nakatani decided they needed a distraction from desk life. They spent the ...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-11-24 21:00:00
Dinosaur Jr.
BLACK CAT
1811 14TH ST., N.W.
DOORS OPEN @8PM
DINOSAUR JR.
* * *
TUE NOV 27, 2007
$20.00
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-11-27 20:00:00
Antelope
Antelope plays meditative, stripped-down punk music which uses the melody vs. repetition equation to produce tightly crafted gems. This band was formed in Washington, DC in 2001 by ex-members of the V...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-11-28 21:00:00
Soulsavers
Soulsavers are the English production and remix team of members Rich Machin and Ian Glover. This project features collaborations with such performers as Screaming Trees vocalist Mark Lanegan, Will Old...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-11-29 20:00:00
Chuck Ragan
Category: , 19:00:00, 2007-11-30 19:00:00
CRYFEST - THE CURE vs THE SMITHS DANCE PARTY
FYM Productions Presents:
CRYFEST - The Crybaby Championship of the World!
THE CURE vs THE SMITHS DANCE PARTY
(The largest Cure/Smiths dance party in the US!)
w/DJ Steve E P . Killa K . Krasty Mc Nast...
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-11-30 21:00:00
Little Brother
This Durham, North Carolina trio makes music that brilliantly splits the line between art and commercialism, all while maintaining a fun-loving hip hop purist stance.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-12-01 21:00:00
Evan Bliss
Evan Bliss is the former frontman of DC's The Low Life.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-12-04 21:00:00
The Sword
The Sword is a metal band from Austin, TX whose influences include Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Prong. Black Cobra are an LA based indie rock band. Valient Thorr features Ralf, Sascha, Carsten, Udo ...
Category: , 20:30:00, 2007-12-05 20:30:00
Madlib
Rapper/producer/DJ Madlib made a name for himself in the '90s. He has branched out with solo and joint projects. Percee P is one of the most important rappers to never get his due. Peanut Butt...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-12-06 20:00:00
Le Loup
Le Loup is a seven-piece alternative/experimental band from Alexandria, Virginia. Described as a cacophony of electric and acoustic instruments that sat on top of rock-type rhythms, Margot and the Nuc...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-12-10 20:00:00
Lorelei
The Antiques feature Joey Barro, Chris Good, Ben Donaldson and Josh Hertz.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-12-11 21:00:00
Mikal Evans
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-12-12 21:00:00
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Jones, the first lady of funk and soul, has performed with the Four Tops, The Drifters and Maceo Parker. She is backed by The Dap-Kings, a group of musicians from The Soul Providers and The Mighty Imp...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-12-15 21:00:00
The Lemonheads
Evan Dando and the Lemonheads return, with a tour behind their new self-titled album, the band's eighth. Vietnam, otherwise known as Joshua Garrett and Michael William, released their debut al...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-12-19 20:00:00
Stress
djezus
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-12-20 20:00:00
DJ Milk
Category: , 21:30:00, 2007-12-21 21:30:00
The Hackensaw Boys
The Hackensaw Boys combine the primitive strains of old-time mountain and string band music with modern-day sensibilities. The eight-member group has shared the stage with acts ranging from the Flamin...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-12-22 21:00:00
Marfa
The Shakes, from Binghamton, New York, are a professional female fronted rock, pop, punk band that performs live original material and cover songs.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-12-23 21:00:00
Telograph CD Release Party!
Telograph's new CD is finally DONE! Celebrate with us at the Black Cat where we will be giving away 100 fully packaged copies of our CD - first come, first served.
We'll be playing wi...
Category: Other, 21:00:00, 2008-01-04 21:00:00
No Second Troy
Lejeune is a Washington, DC quintet dedicated to writing and performing romantic pop rock about the usual: Japanese nightclubs, dorm-room affairs, street violence. Lejeune's songs have been de...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2008-01-11 21:00:00
CLOAK/DAGGER, Scanner Freaks, Police & Thieves!!!
NIGHT OF ROCK!
Fantastic all ages show featuring:
Richmond's
CLOAK/DAGGER
and two of DC's favorite sons
Scanner Freaks and Police & Thieves
ALL AGES $8 Tickets on sale now!!!
Category: , 21:00:00, 2008-01-13 21:00:00
Rhett Miller
Rhett Miller is the singer and guitarist of the Dallas, TX, alt-country quartet The Old '97s. Rhett Miller has also had a successful music career away from the Old 97's.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2008-01-18 21:00:00
Buffalo Tom
Hailing from Boston, Buffalo Tom is an alternative rock band formed in the 1980s.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2008-01-25 21:00:00