Nearly two weeks ago, I traveled eastward on an excursion to the Lone Star State. I expected Texas to be a hostile experience filled with unnecessarily aggressive, booze-fueled behemoths. You know the truck driving, cowboy kind. My weekend trip proved it to be quite the opposite. I arrived at LaGrave Field, home of Ft. Worth's AAA baseball team, bright and early for the 3rd annual Wall of Sound Festival. Considering all of our Spector......

With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. It was a rollercoaster ride of emotions this week at DCist. Like the rest of country, we were floored by the news of so many dead coming out of Virginia Tech, and with so many of the victims and their relatives from the D.C. area, we felt it important to pay......

FRIDAY • Melt Banana makes an appearance tonight at the Troubadour, along with Das Oath and Toxic Shock & The Flaming Tampons at 8 PM. Tickets are $12. • Architecture in Helsinki will be giving a free in-store performance at Amoeba Music at 7 PM. • The Books and Mia Doi Todd are at the Knitting Factory tonight at 8 PM. Tickets are $12 advance, $14 at the door. • At The Fold at......