Black Cat

Friday, June 7th 2024
Booty Rex Queer Pride Dance Party
8:00 - $20 Advance / $25 Day of Show - All Ages
Limited low income $10 tickets available

Harness the power of spring eclipse and summer days to prepare for the return of your favorite queer pride party! Your hosts at Booty Rex are here to transport you for a one night only gamified dancefloor experience. It will be an ensemble of fresh and familiar, visionary and legendary talent including the Anthology of Booty and She Rex crews. Take advantage of early access before tickets sell out.

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Wednesday, June 12th 2024
The Raveonettes + Soap Horse
7:30pm - $30 - All Ages

THE RAVEONETTES
Copenhagen, Denmark
http://www.theraveonettes.com/

When The Raveonettes released their debut album Whip it on! in 2002, there was quite a buzz around the Danish duo. With its dogmatic concept a la Lars Von Trier/Dogma ’95 and a razor-sharp sound, Whip It On! kicked off the biggest rock event in recent Danish history.

After 20 years, Whip it is on! sounds just as precise and uncompromising. And after a 5-year concert hiatus, Sune and Sharin are once again cracking the whip with a series of anniversary concerts. "... It’s a thrill for us that Whip It On! is still a source of inspiration out there. That album passed the test of time somehow, and it makes us very proud. We’re excited to play it live again in its 21 minute glory. Our own little time travel.”

Sune & Sharin Sune Rose Wagner (guitar and vocals) and Sharin Foo (bass, guitar and vocals) drew inspiration from 1950s American Rock'n'roll, 60s girl groups and the surf guitar sound from California. Back in the Noughties, they were part of the new garage rock movement that featured bands like The Strokes, The Hives and The White Stripes. Their unique contribution were especially Wagner and Foo's 'vocal candy': the compressed, modal, sweet boy / girl harmonies in stark contrast to an explosive and dissonant sound, and that peculiar feeling of surfing in the rain.

The Raveonettes have since become a source of inspiration for a large number of bands, and according to NME helped trigger the American pop renaissance that took place in the 10s with bands like Best Coast, The Drums and Dum Dum Girls who found inspiration in Raveonettes' classic pop
sensibility.

The Raveonettes who have had a solid and unshakable cult fan base ever since releasing their first album, would like to celebrate the sound that started it all. The duo will hit the road in the key of Bb minor,- which was one of the original dogmas when the band created Whip It On! “Recorded in Glorious Bb Minor” Sune and Sharin are bringing the original live band from 2002, consisting of Manoj Ramdas on guitar and Jakob Høyer on drums.

SOAP HORSE
Copenhagen, Denmark
https://soaphorse.bandcamp.com/

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Friday, June 14th
All Fantasy Everything Podcast Live
6:30 - $30 - All Ages
*Limited VIP front row seating available for $40. VIP ticket holders may access the front 2 rows of seating*

All Fantasy Everything is a show where funny people and experts come together to fantasy draft the whole entire world - from pop culture to nostalgia to the Taco Bell drive-thru menu - everything is in play. Hosted by Ian Karmel and featuring the talents of Sean Jordan and David Gborie, each episode the crew picks a topic - anything from Rom-Coms to Rap Albums, the Best Breakfast foods to the Best Smells. You name it, they can draft it. And then debate it, clown each other for the picks, reveal our secret terrible taste that we didn’t even know was terrible and then laugh about the whole operation. 

Note: There will be no recording or photography of any kind permitted at this show. This includes personal cell phones. You will be subject to removal without refund if caught recording the show.

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Sunday, June 16th 2024
Strung Out + Adolescents + Mercy Music
7:00 - $28 Advance / $32 Day of Show - All Ages

STRUNG OUT
Simi Valley, CA
https://www.strungoutofficial.com/

ADOLESCENTS
Fullerton, CA
https://www.theadolescents.net/

MERCY MUSIC
Las Vegas, NV
https://mercymusicforyou.com/

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STRUNG OUT VIP MEET & GREET
$128
- 1 general admission ticket
- Access to soundcheck
- Early access to merch
- Photo with the band
- VIP laminate
- Can bring or buy items to sign

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Tuesday, June 18th 2024
Los Campesinos! + Short Fictions
7:30pm - $25 - All Ages

***In order to attempt to make the shows as accessible to all, Los Campesinos! and Black Cat are subsidizing a limited number of tickets for low income buyers.***

LOS CAMPESINOS!
Cardiff, Wales
https://www.loscampesinos.com/

SHORT FICTIONS
Pittsburgh, PA
https://shortfictions.bandcamp.com/music

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Friday, June 21 2024
Home Rule Music Festival Opening Night
7:00 - $40 Advance / $50 Day of Show - All Ages

THE JOGO PROJECT
Washington, DC
https://www.jogoproject.com/
Jazz and GoGo Band featuring Elijah Jamal Balbed

THE NEW DOUG CARN SEXTET 
w/ Special Guest VANESSA RUBIN
St. Augustine, FL / New York, NY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Carn
https://www.vanessarubin.com/
The legendary spiritual jazz artist Doug Carn brings his magic back to the Home Rule Music Festival with the amazing Vanessa Rubin. 

Doug Carn, Piano/Organ
Vanessa Rubin, Vocals
Duane Eubanks – Trumpet
Stacy Dillard, Saxophone
Derrick White, Trombone
Dishan Harper, Bass
Bernard Linette, Drums

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Friday, June 28th 2024
Les Savy Fav
8:00 - $25 Advance / $30 Day of Show - All Ages

LES SAVY FAV
Brooklyn, NY
https://lessavyfav.com/

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Friday, June 12th 2024
Gilsons
Presented by Educarte
8:00 - $40 Advance / $45 Day of Show - All Ages

GILSONS
Brazil
https://www.instagram.com/gilsonsoficial/
Formed in 2018, Gilsons continue the musical legacy of their father and grandfather, Gilberto Gil, a leading artist in the Tropicália movement of 1960s Brazil. Gilsons is the musical partnership of Francisco, João, and José Gil, a leading band of the new Brazilian popular music (MPB), blending influences of pop rock, samba, reggae, and Bahian rhythms alongside the sounds of classic MPB.

After a series of successful releases, including their smash hits “Várias Queixas” and “Devagarinho,” the band won a 2022 Latin GRAMMY®  for their debut album “Pra Gente Acordar.” The trio has toured at major festivals throughout Brazil—including performing on the  Sunset Stage of Rock In Rio to an audience of over 100,000 people, as well as at Lollapalooza Brazil in 2023. 

Formada em 2018, os Gilsons continuam o legado musical de seu pai e avô, Gilberto Gil, um dos principais artistas do movimento Tropicália do Brasil dos anos 1960. Gilsons é a parceria musical de Francisco, João e José Gil e uma das principais revelações da nova geração do MPB que mistura influências de pop rock, samba, reggae e ritmos baianos ao som da música popular brasileira (MPB).

Após uma série de lançamentos bem-sucedidos, incluindo os sucessos "Várias Queixas" e "Devagarinho", a banda ganhou um Latin GRAMMY® em 2022 pelo álbum de estreia "Pra Gente Acordar". O trio já se apresentou em grandes festivais em todo o Brasil, incluindo shows no Sunset Stage do Rock In Rio para um público de mais de 100.000 pessoas, assim como no Lollapalooza Brasil em 2023.

**Ticket buyers email addresses will be shared with Educarte.**

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Friday, July 19 2024
The North Country (Record Release Party!) + Mystery Friends
8:00 - $20 - All Ages

THE NORTH COUNTRY
Washington, DC
https://www.thenorthcountrymusic.com/
"The Future’s All We Need is 11 tracks of genre-defying, danceable deliberations on 21st-century civilization and its discontents" - Washington City Paper

MYSTERY FRIENDS
Washington, DC
https://www.mysteryfriendsmusic.com/

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Saturday, August 17th 2024
Chameleons performing the album "Strange Times"
8:00 - $40 - All Ages

CHAMELEONS
Manchester, UK
https://www.chameleonsmark.com/
'80s post-punk take note, Chameleons will be touring in 2024. This marks a reunion between The Chameleons frontman Mark Burgess and guitarist Reg Smithies, who had not toured together under Chameleons name in nearly two decades until 2023's tour with The Mission UK. The band formed in Greater Manchester UK and is known as one of the genre's greatest bands. 

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Tuesday, August 20
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley
performing his 1975 debut album "Simigwa" in its entirety
7:30 - $30 - All Ages

GYEDU-BLAY AMBOLLEY
Takoradi, Ghana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyedu-Blay_Ambolley

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Friday, August 23, 2024
KorchFest featuring Gnarly Rae Jepsen 
+ Hobis + Monument + Pilau + The Armors
7:00 - $15 Advance / $20 Day of Show - All Ages

GNARLY RAE JEPSEN
Washington, DC
https://www.instagram.com/p/BpVvb1zAX1E/

HOBIS (Reunion show!)
Washington, DC
https://hobis.bandcamp.com/

MONUMENT (Reunion show!)
Washington, DC
https://monumentdc.bandcamp.com/

PILAU
Washington, DC
https://pilau.bandcamp.com/

THE ARMORS
Washington, DC
https://thearmors.bandcamp.com/


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Friday, September 6 2024
Amen Dunes
8:00 - $30 - All Ages

AMEN DUNES
New York, NY
https://amendunes.bandcamp.com/

With Death Jokes, for the first time since the project's incarnation in 2006, the spiritual reflections and meditations of Amen Dunes are turned away from himself, and out sharply towards the world. The album is also a drastic turn musically and thematically, rooted in the electronic music of raves and of rap music he grew up with but never imagined himself able to make, playing like a scathing electronic essay on America's culture of violence, dominance, and destructive individualism.

The work on Death Jokes began just weeks before the first word of the pandemic came in the winter of 2019; it was completed three years later as we began to emerge from the worst. The album's meaning morphed as the pandemic went on, first a reflection on our attachment to form, and to ourselves, and then shifting into a solemn indictment of our culture's blind spots as we misjudge and attack, veiled self-centeredness and self-importance masquerading as morality."

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Saturday, September 14th 2024
DeVotchKa "How It Ends" 20 Year Anniversary Tour
8:00 - $32 - All Ages

DEVOTCHKA
Denver, CO
https://www.devotchka.net/

A cross-pollination of numerous influences, including cabaret, spaghetti Westerns, norteño, punk, and the immigrant dance music of Eastern Europe, Colorado-based quartet DeVotchKa, formed in Denver by multi-instrumentalists Nick Urata (vocals, guitar, trumpet), Tom Hagerman (violin, accordion), Jeanie Schroder (sousaphone, bass) and percussionist Shawn King, emerged as unlikely indie heroes in the mid-2000s infusing modern indie music with a global flavor. 

They found widespread success in 2006 with their Grammy-nominated soundtrack to the hit indie film Little Miss Sunshine. Signing with revered indie, Anti-, the band delivered A Mad and Faithful Telling in early 2008, reaching the number nine slot on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. A lengthy world tour followed, including stops at major festivals like Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and Bumbershoot. After doing more soundtrack work, this time for the 2009 comedy I Love You Phillip Morris, the group returned to the studio for 2011’s moody and triumphant 100 Lovers. Embarking on another world tour, they collaborated with the Colorado Symphony on the 2012 concert album Live with the Colorado Symphony. Over the next several years, Urata became increasingly involved in his own film composition career, scoring movies like Crazy Stupid Love, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Paddington, and the Netflix series A Series of Unfortunate Events. Meanwhile, the band regrouped for a lengthy recording session, eventually returning in 2018 with their sixth album, This Night Falls Forever, this time via Concord Records.

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Tuesday, October 15th 2024
Yard Act
7:30 - $25 - All Ages

YARD ACT
Leeds, UK
https://www.yardactors.com/

What do you do when everything you’ve ever wanted suddenly lands in your lap, but the questions still keep on coming?

Since first steering their golden Rover into swift public acclaim back in 2020, Leeds quartet Yard Act have become one of the great indie success stories of the decade so far. Along the way, they’ve ticked off milestones ranging from a Number Two chart placing and Mercury Prize nomination for debut album ‘The Overload’, to a co-sign from Elton John who joined the band to guest on a string-laden reworking of album closer ‘100% Endurance’.

Yet, whilst the band’s trajectory continuously shot upwards, vocalist James Smith and his wife had also welcomed in a son. And it’s this duelling sense of responsibility and ambition, guilt, love, drive and everything in between that forms the narrative backbone of brilliantly exploratory second album ‘Where’s My Utopia’.

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