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Noise Pop rewind: So, how did the giant music fest do this year?
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March 19, 2024
Surging local talent, national praise, unusual venues—and a couple suggestions for next year from our music critic
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Bolivian American noise artist cut through autoplay BS for adoring fans; UK headliner Actress was not so steady.
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March 7, 2024
The septuagenarian keyboardist was all but forgotten, driving a DC cab, but he's making up for lost time with fire.
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Noise Pop report: Diode diva Suzanne Ciani channeled Grace Cathedral’s ambient majesty
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March 6, 2024
Kiss the Buchla: One of our most vital electronic music trailblazers took an awe-struck crowd to church
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Noise Pop report: Seablite grabbed center stage at the Chapel with hypnogogic glee
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March 4, 2024
Full of psychedelic alt-'90s energy, the locals perfectly complemented headliner Laetitia Sadier and Broun Fellinis' sax.
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‘It’s a celebration’: Madonna pulled out all stops on tour through decades of hits
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Firing up Chase Center for a two-night extravaganza, pop's iconic provocateur provided plenty of nostalgia.
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February 26, 2024
Noise Pop show put the revival of a beloved neighborhood cinema on display.
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André 3000 spoke another language at Bimbo’s
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February 21, 2024
In the first of five local shows, the Outkast star improvised with friends, babbled glossolalia, and warned that the audience was being sampled.
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‘Omar’ is pretty to look at, but opera treats slavery with kid gloves
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November 13, 2023
New work by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels traces the tempestuous life of enslaved African scholar Omar ibn Said.
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