Swedish dance-pop duo Icona Pop and British singer/rapper Cher Lloyd will join Scottish soul singer-songwriter Emeli Sandé as headliners at this year’s Capital Pride Festival, organizers announced today. The trio of young female pop acts are all stars in Europe but still bubbling up in the U.S. As Metro Weekly announced yesterday, Sandé will perform Sunday, June 9, in ... [more]

Remarkable young soul singer-songwriter Emeli Sandé will be one of three featured headliners at this year’s Capital Pride Festival, Metro Weekly can confirm today. Sandé is to perform Sunday, June 9, during the 4 p.m. hour on the Capitol Stage, set up on historic Pennsylvania Avenue, with the U.S. Capitol as a dramatic backdrop. “We are thrilled to have ... [more]

“Tracks was very transformative and influential in the D.C. music scene, far beyond any of the acclaim that it’s gotten,” says Patrick Little, who was the general manager of the storied straight-friendly D.C. mega-nightclub when it ended its 15-year reign in 1999. As detailed in this week's Metro Weekly, Little led efforts planning this weekend’s Tracks Reunion event, with ... [more]

Ever notice the brightly colored, baroque hi-tops that Mika wears? Turns out, they were created for the international pop star by celebrity shoe designer Christian Louboutin. Certainly Mika is known for a fashion-forward sensibility. As he explained in this week’s Metro Weekly cover feature, he’s been into fashion since childhood, raised with four siblings in a London apartment that ... [more]

"Here he is!" Wanda Sykes said in a nelly voice as she swished across the stage at Strathmore last Friday night. The popular lesbian comedian was impersonating a gay Navy Seals officer holding Osama bin Laden from a noose, in full limp-wrist fashion. In fact, Sykes hypothesized from the stage that the American military's success in capturing and killing Osama ... [more]

Is LMFAO a fad? Well, if the dance-rap crew that goes by the Internet acronym doesn’t prove to have staying power, it’s at least taking full advantage of the moment, with sky-high popularity of its carnival-like, over-the-top antics. In concert, LMFAO comes across like the Black Eyed Peas on speed -- and not just because the group offers an even ... [more]

David Weissman and Bill Weber's powerful, captivating and carefully crafted We Were Here -- having just screened at Reel Affirmations -- is so much more than simply the first documentary to reflect on the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco. It's also one of the first documentaries about AIDS to focus more narrowly on the community itself, at ... [more]

Moby admitted to being a former raver at his concert at the Fillmore Silver Spring on Wednesday, Oct. 26. He said he was even one of those annoying kids with glowsticks. There were no glowsticks in the packed house that night, but the 46-year-old wasn’t the only former raver present. He wasn’t even the oldest. In fact, the concert was striking ... [more]

At the end of its concert at the 9:30 Club on Monday night, Oct. 24, the Brazilian dance-rock band CSS gave a Beastie Boys-esque rap-chant, wishing the crowd well and hoping they got their money’s worth. Did they ever: The lead singer, who goes by the name of Lovefoxx, saw to that all her own. Throughout the show, she both ... [more]

Rebecca Luker is as corny as Kansas in August. Well, at least that’s what she’s singing at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall this weekend. What she really is, though, is as charming as Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music. Performing with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington Chorus, Luker proves she’s as good an interpreter of tunes from ... [more]