What concerts will you see over the next two months?
There are tons of exciting bands and artists coming to DC in March and April. What’s your plan? Use this as a blueprint for discovering your own strategy to the thorny problem of ascertaining just how many concerts is too many in a month. Let me know the answer. I’ll add a few more details to April’s concerts later.
As always, find local music in yellow. Use some of your concert going capital to see local music at DC’s small venues. You’ll be helping those businesses and artists, and too much live music is not a thing.
(List updated 3/17/25)
March
My Body My Festival (featuring Pretty Bitter, Cherub Tree, Flowerbomb and Massie) @ Songbyrd Music House (3/1/25)
90s Flannel Channel Flashband Showcase @ Black Cat (3/1/25)
Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy and Friends @ 9:30 Club (3/4/25)
Mall Girl @ Pie Shop (3/6/25)
Ray Bull @ The Atlantis (3/7/25) (Formed in New York City, Ray Bull is an indie pop duo that started in 2020 using Instagram and TikTok to reach the masses. They just released their latest EP on Feb. 21st titled Little Acts of Violence (via AWAL).)
Girls Rock! (featuring Massie + Keep Your Secrets + Courage Mother + Aminori) @ The Garage (3/8/25)
Andrea von Kampen @ Songbyrd Music House (3/9/25)
Savanna Leigh (opening for Mackenzy Mackey) @ Union Stage (3/14/25) (Indie pop artist Savannah Leigh recently released her fourth EP, reminders of you. She was in DC late last year, good to see she’s already back, this time at Union Stage.)
Kim Deal w/Ratboys @ Capital Turnaround (3/15/25)
Glixen w/ Suzy Clue + she’s green @ DC9 (3/17/25) (Glixen just released their second EP, Quite Pleasures (via AWAL), and according to member Aislinn Ritchie, ‘Quiet Pleasures explores change, desire, devotion, sensuality and lovingness. We used layers of fuzzed-out and gritty guitars to introduce a darker, more intense iteration of Glixen while still capturing the fluttery charm of shoegaze.‘ Meanwhile, shoegazers from Minneapolis she’s green, just signed with Photo Finish Records and released a serenely shimmering single called “Graze”. Alliteration is merely a bonus.)
A Shrewdness of Apes w/ R-Not + Sol Reactor @ Jammin Java (3/19/25) (Deft prog rockers ASOA will be releasing their new EP, Mythology, at this show. Don’t miss it!)
Cloe Wilder (opening for Spencer Sutherland) @ Union Stage (3/19/25) (LA-based folk/Americana/pop singer-songwriter Choe Wilder just released her new single, “Tallahassee”, last week and announced her third EP, Life’s A Bitch (due on March 21st). The album delves into the transition to adulthood and her own personal life changes.)
Sarah and the Sundays @ Howard Theatre (3/20/25) (Sarah and the Sundays, indie rockers from Austin, Texas, come to DC on the strength of their third album, Like A Damn Dog. The album wrestles with a world filled with chaos, allowing us listeners to navigate modern life defiantly and through shared experiences. Their name comes from practicing on Sundays, but since The Sundays already exist, they added the name of Miles Reynolds’ (keyboard/guitar) sister to the band’s name.)
Basia Bulat @ Pearl Street Warehouse (3/21/25)
Horsegirl @ Black Cat (3/22/25)
Patterson Hood w/ Lydia Loveless @ The Atlantis (3/22 & 3/23/25) (Patterson Hood, of Drive-By Truckers fame, is doing a solo tour, and hitting up The Atlantis for two nights! His new collaboration single, “The Forks of Cypress” (feat. Waxahatchee), drops on Feb. 28th. Lydia Loveless is also exceptional, I witnessed her at The Atlantis in late 2023.)
Sarah Shook and the Disarmers @ Songbyrd Music House (3/22/25)
Alaska’s Angels w/ Milo In The Doldrums + Gerf @ Pie Shop (3/27/25)
LYNSY w/5th of Four + Betamax @ Songbyrd Music House (3/27/25)
Archer Oh @ Comet Ping Pong (3/27/25) (Check them out if you like Nirvana, Cage the Elephant and The Strokes. This indie garage band from California just released their debut album, The Internal Theater, and should be witnessed live!)
Stereophonics @ Lincoln Theatre (3/28/25) (Stereophonics will release their 13th(!) album in April, Make ’em Laugh, Make ’em Cry, Make ’em Wait (via EMI). Vocalist Kelly Jones describes their first single, ‘“There’s Always Gonna Be Something” is a song that could be describing the restlessness in uncertainty, struggling to arrive at acceptance. A part within all of us.’ The Wales band started in 1992 and will tour for the first time in three years, so don’t miss them this time!)
Deep Dive Live @ The Atlantis (3/29/25) (With local bands Spring Silver, Breezy Supreme and Massie. These Deep Dive shows are only $10, why would you miss it? Test your limits!)
Beth Gibbons @ The Anthem (3/30/25) (Beth Gibbons is the lead singer of Portishead, and she’s touring for her third solo album, Lives Outgrown.)
Immersion & SUSS @ Pie Shop (3/31/25) (Immersion is an electronic duo with Colin Newman (from Wire) and Malka Spigel (from Minimal Contact). They’ve partnered with the ambient country trio SUSS to release the third album in a series called Nanocluster. Vol. 3 is available now and both bands will be at the Pie Shop to perform their melting pot of ideas. The first two singles are “State of Motion” and “In the Far Away”.)
April
The Weather Station @ The Atlantis (4/5/25) (Tamara Lindeman is The Weather Station. She just released a new album, Humanhood (via Fat Possum), which has been described as a record of ‘intense details; piano notes disintegrating into static, fiddle materializing out of a cloud of cymbals.’ Indeed. Sounds promising!)
Franz Ferdinand w/ Telescreens @ The Anthem (4/7/25)
The Tallest Man on Earth @ Strathmore Music Center (4/8/25)
Annabel Lee (opening for Transviolet) @ The Atlantis (4/8/25) (Los Angeles rocker Annabel Lee slams us with her rough and tumble debut album, Mother’s Hammer, with a smidge of pop polish on the edges. She’s opening for the pop/rock band Transviolet, from San Diego.)
Maysuns w/ Social Creatures + Massie + Argo and the Violet Queens @ Pie Shop (4/11/25)
Naked Giants @ DC9 (4/11/25)
Michigan Rattlers @ Pearl Street Warehouse (4/12/25)
flipturn w/ The Stews @ The Anthem (4/12/25)
Caravan Palace w/ Zayka @ 9:30 Club (4/13/25)
Maoli @ The Howard Theatre (4/13/25) (Maoli introduces us to his Hawaiian island heritage with a country sound on his new album Last Sip of Summer. He adds, “It’s very special to me because I’m very proud of where I come from, and I feel like Hawaii has something really special to offer the world — but until now, you’ve had to live here to understand it… I feel like it’s my kuleana — my job — to share that with the world.”
The Ivy w/ Lyncs + Glosser @ Pie Shop (4/15/25) (Glosser is a great local band, check them out. Synth-poppers The Ivy are from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and are fun live. I witnessed them at DC9 a couple years ago. They have three EPs and one album so far, 2024’s A Door Still Open, and have collaborated with Lyncs (also performing) on a new single called, “Don’t Fall Asleep to This”. It showcases their collective synth-pop acumen and is an ‘ode to the challenges and hopes of long-distance relationships.’)
Jill Sobule (opening for The Fixx) @ The Barns (Wolf Trap) (4/15/25)
Nightly @ 9:30 Club (4/18/25) (They are great live, check out our review of one of their previous DC shows.)
The Linda Lindas @ Black Cat (4/18/25) Sold Out
Lucy Dacus w/ Katie Gavin @ The Anthem (4/18 & 4/19/25)
Sedona (Opening for Goldie Boutilie) @ The Atlantis (4/23/25)
Steven Page @ The Hamilton Live (4/24/25)
10,000 Maniacs @ The Birchmere (4/24 & 4/25/25)
Gang of Four @ 9:30 Club (4/25/25)
Petworth Porchfest 2025 (4/26/25)
The Blue Stones @ 9:30 Club (4/26/25)
The Crystal Casino Band w/Mystery Friends @ Howard Theatre (4/26/25)
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory w/ Love Spells @ 9:30 Club (4/28/25) (Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory released their debut self-titled album in February (via Jagjaguwar). Sharon has changed her approach, and has now included her backing band (when she toured as a solo artist) in the creative process, ‘For the first time in my life I asked the band if we could just jam. Words that have never come out of my mouth – ever! But I loved all the sounds we were getting. I was curious – what would happen? In an hour we wrote two songs that ended up becoming “I Can’t Imagine” and “Southern Life”.’)
Taylor Bickett @ Pie Shop (4/30/25) (Taylor is a singer/songwriter from Indiana, now based in Nashville. Her latest single “The Crime” is about a traumatic event and the female experience. Taylor has partnered with The Circle (a charity founded by Annie Lennox to prevent violence against women) to donate proceeds from the song to the cause.)
Bonus
(Because no one ever is to blame for wanting more.)
Black Masala @ New Deal Cafe (3/8/25)
The Altons @ Pearl Street Warehouse (3/13/25)
Haley Blais w/ Natalie Wilson @ Songbyrd Music House (3/13/25)
Midamerican Elevator w/ Foot Traffic @ The Pocket (3/23/25)
Ally the Piper @ Union Stage (3/24/25)
Wheatus w/ Punchline @ DC9 (3/24/25)
Arooj Aftab @ Union Stage (3/27/25)
Guster @ The Kennedy Center (3/28 & 3/29/25)
Scythian w/ Justin Trawick and the Common Good @ The Hamilton Live (3/29/25)
Kylie Minogue @ Capital One Arena (4/8/25)
Maggie Antone @ Union Stage (4/26/25)
A DC Journey 