Amanda Mattos

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• Commented on The King Khan & BBQ Show @ Rock & Roll Hotel
  I missed their set, wish I'd seen it!...
• Posted The King Khan & BBQ Show @ Rock & Roll Hotel to DCist
  King Khan. Photo by Amanda Mattos From the first time I heard the music these guys make, whether together as the King Khan and BBQ Show, or in any of their other many incarnations (King Khan & The Shrines, Mark Sultan's unbelievably good solo album The Sultanic Verses, and so on,), I was in love. The nexus of garage rock, punk, and doo-wop could not be farther up my alley. In a world of...
• Posted Weekly Music Agenda to DCist
  Deer Tick (without Brian Williams, sadly) will be at the Black Cat on Tuesday MONDAY >> Japandroids and their new wave garage rock are at the Rock and Roll Hotel this evening, with New Jersey's Real Estate and Brooklyn's Neon Indian. $10/$12, 8:30 p.m. >> When we profiled True Womanhood in a Three Stars piece, we were smitten with their "crazy beats to go along with their highly emotive songs." See if that promise...
• Posted DCist Interview: Built To Spill to DCist
  By DCist contributor Ryan Little A lot of influential bands from the early '90s have been playing reunion shows lately. Everyone from My Bloody Valentine to Pavement seems to be reaping the benefits of a shared sense of nostalgia. Not Built To Spill, though – they never broke up. Doug Martsch and his crew have been churning out solid albums and hitting the road since 1992, with no end in sight. Their particular blend...
• Posted Phosphorescent and Alberta Cross @ Black Cat to DCist
  Written by DCist contributor Daniel White Country music, more than most genres, provokes reactions in its listeners that are rarely ambivalent. You love or you hate country, and there seem to be few people that would earnestly argue a position in between. Phosphorescent’s Tuesday night show at the Black Cat constitutes one of the strongest arguments for loving country music that this reviewer has ever witnessed. Essentially the project of lead vocalist and guitarist...