Brown, widely acclaimed as a “Godfather of go-go” for his pioneering sound, died Wednesday during Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore. Hospital orator Gary Stephenson reliable Brown had died after a sanatorium stay that began Apr 18. Thanks to Brown and his deep, gravelly voice, go-go strain was singly identified with Washington. That’s where he [...]

That’s worth remembering now, in the face of two big commemorative events. The first, Thursday through Sunday at the Jazz Standard, features the same ensemble heard on “Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans,” an extraordinary al

But typical this concert was not. Entire families, grandparents included, filled the arena. Every few songs someone in the audience unfurled a large Mexican flag. Hardly a word of English was spoken or sung from the stage. And the band, a rock

LAST fall Bethany Cosentino was working on “The Only Place,” the second full-length album by her indie rock band, Best Coast. Day after day, she’d drive to Capitol Studios, in the Capitol Records building in Hollywood, the hallowed halls

Schermerhorn, who died in 2005, played pivotal roles as music director in developing both the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Nashville Symphony into excellent, Carnegie-worthy ensembles. He led each in a proud Carnegie debut — Milwaukee

With money advanced by the band, each person had enough to buy eight tickets at $49.95 apiece for the group’s show in July. Once all tickets were in hand, almost 400 of them, they were carried back to String Cheese headquarters in Colorado an

In the warm months of 2012, it seems, what you’ll really need is an order of foie gras doughnuts. You’re probably going to want to save room for a pork belly shawarma taco, too, and maybe a duck hot dog with pickled cabbage and black garlic

But Ms. Smey, without fanfare or press campaigns, has quietly put her own stamp on the institution. On her watch, the Miller Theater has paid increased attention to a number of respected modern composers who happen to be women. A concert devote

“Bloom” (Sub Pop) Beach House plays as if its music had all the time in the world. From its 2006 debut album to its new one, “Bloom,” Beach House, the duo of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally, has fixated on one kind of so

From last Wednesday to Sunday on the fourth floor of the Whitney Museum of American Art, from late morning to evening each day, the Morans unspooled an extended collaboration, called “Bleed,” as a limited residency that was part of the muse