Mickey

Mickey reviews music shows. For recent reviews, visit Parklife DC.

 

Mickey's Top Five Articles

1. We Love Music: Morrissey @ Strathmore Music Center — 1/16/13 (or “Moz Not Moz”)

   How Soon Is Then? A greyer Morrissey sings his life at Strathmore

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2. We Love Music: Shiny Toy Guns @ Rock and Roll Hotel — 11/4/12

   The return of the original lineup of @shinytoyguns rocked @rocknrollhotel Sunday night

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3. We Love Music: Saint Etienne @ U Street Music Hall — 10/25/12 (or “Hey, NYC! I’ve Got Your Music!”)

   UK pop maestros Saint Etienne got us disco dancing @uhalldc last night. NYC, go see them tonight!

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4. We Love Music: …And We Love Bartenders (RIP, KT)

   DC lost a lovely lady Tuesday. Let's take a minute to appreciate her fellow bartenders and staffers.

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5. We Love Music: Dead Milkmen @ U Street Music Hall, 2/18/12

   The Dead Milkmen, Philadelphia's top punk export, stunned a sold-out crowd at U Street Music Hall.

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Posts by Mickey:

• Capital Chefs: Aaron Silverman of Rose’s Luxury
• We Love Music: Ought @ DC9 –10/16/14
• We Love Music: Yelle @ 9:30 Club — 10/11/14
• Capital Chefs: Alex McCoy of Duke’s Grocery
• Hot Ticket: Yelle @ 9:30 Club, 10/11/14
• We Love Music: Lykke Li @ 9:30 Club — 10/6/14
• Hot Ticket: Tim and Eric & Dr. Steve Brule @ Lincoln Theatre, 10/9
• Hot Ticket: Kasabian @ 9:30 Club, 9/28/14
• Q&A: Nina @ 9:30 Club — 9/19/14 (Prior to Opening for Erasure)
• We Love Music: Erasure w/ Nina @ 9:30 Club — 9/19/14
• We Love Music: Metronomy @ 9:30 Club — 9/17/14
• Hot Ticket: Metronomy @ 9:30 Club, 9/17/14
• We Love Music: Hamilton Leithauser @ Lincoln Theatre — 9/2-9/4/14
• Hot Ticket: Buzzcocks @ Black Cat, 9/4/14
• Capital Chefs: Julien Shapiro of Eat the Rich
• We Love Music: Retro Futura Tour — 8/22/14
• We Love Music: Robyn & Röyksopp @ Wolf Trap — 8/21/14
• Capital Chefs: Jesse Miller of Bar Pilar
• We Love Music: Mike Peters (of The Alarm) @ Gypsy Sally’s — 8/7/14
• We Love Music: Chinese Disco Soft Opening–8/7/14
• Capital Chefs: Amber Bursik of DC9
• Best Rickey: DC Craft Bartenders Guild @ Jack Rose Dining Saloon–8/3/14
• Hot Ticket: International Beer Day @ Piazza Beer Garden, Bethesda, 7/31/14
• We Love Music: The Kooks @ 9:30 Club—7/27/14
• Capital Chefs: Ed Witt of The Partisan
• Capital Chefs: Spike Mendelsohn of The Sheppard
• Hot Ticket: Technophobia w/Void Vision, Curse @ Black Cat, 7/19/14
• Capital Chefs: Mike Friedman of The Red Hen
• Capital Chefs: A Rock and Roll Reintroduction
• Hot Ticket: American Beer Classic @ RFK Stadium, 7/12/14
• We Love Music: Fort Reno Summer Schedule
• We Love Music: VinoFest @ Union Market — 6/28/14
• We Love Music: Firefly Music Festival Pt. 4 (Dover, DE–6/22/14)
• We Love Music: Fort Reno Concert Series — What Can You Do?
• Hot Ticket: VinoFest @ Union Market, 6/28/14
• We Love Music: Firefly Music Festival Pt. 3 (Dover, DE–6/21/14)
• We Love Music: Fort Reno Summer Concert Series Canceled
• We Love Music: Firefly Music Festival Pt. 2 (Dover, DE-–6/20/14)
• We Love Music: Firefly Music Festival Pt. 1 (Dover, DE–6/19/14)
• Hot Ticket: American Beer Classic, 7/12/14
• We Love Music: Kaiser Chiefs @ 9:30 Club — 6/18/14; Firefly Music Festival — 6/20/14
• Hot Ticket: Kaiser Chiefs @ 9:30 Club, 6/18/14
• We Love Music: Morrissey, Interrupted
• We Love Music: La Roux @ 9:30 Club — 6/8/14
• We Love Music: June 2014 Concert Round Up
• Hot Ticket: Nightbox w/ Rush Midnight @ DC9, 6/1/14
• Comedy in DC: Michael Ian Black’s 9:30 Club Twitter Takeover! @ 3pm, 5/23/14
• Hot Ticket: Peter Frampton @ Lincoln Theatre, 7/8/14
• We Love Music: Tokyo Police Club @ Black Cat–5/13/14
• We Love Music: Sweetlife Festival @ Merriweather Post Pavilion–5/10/14
• We Love Drinks: SAVOR Craft Beer Experience @ National Building Museum — 5/9/14
• We Love Music: Moogfest Pt. 3 (Asheville, NC–4/25/14)
• We Love Music: Moogfest Pt. 2 (Asheville, NC—4/24/14)
• We Love Music: Moogfest Pt. 1 (Asheville, NC–4/23/14)
• We Love Music: Boy George @ 9:30 Club — 4/21/14
• Five Awesome Things About Awesome Con
• Hot Ticket: Awesome Con @ Washington Convention Center, 4/18-4/20/14
• We Love Music: London Grammar w/Haerts @ 9:30 Club — 4/14/14
• Hot Ticket: Pat Green @ 9:30 Club, 4/16/14
• We Love Music: The Sounds @ 9:30 Club — 4/12/14
• Hot Ticket: Space Oddity: A David Bowie Dance Party
• Hot Ticket: All That Remains @ 9:30 Club, 4/9/14
• We Love Music: Kraftwerk @9:30 Club—4/4/14 (By Christine Hall)
• The Winning Ticket: Galantis @ 9:30 Club, 4/24/14
• We Love Music: Blouse and Dum Dum Girls @ Black Cat — 3/22/14
• We Love Music: Cut Copy @ Echostage — 3/20/14
• Hot Ticket: Little Daylight @ Sixth and I Historic Synagogue, 3/25/14
• Q&A with Steve Hackett (performing @Lincoln Theatre, 3/26/14)
• Hot Ticket: Steve Hackett: Genesis Revisited @ Lincoln Theatre, 3/26/14
• We Love Music: U.S. Royalty @ P.O.V. Live, the W Hotel — 3/6/14
• We Love Music: Ex Hex @ Black Cat — 3/5/14
• Q&A with Charlie Hilton of Blouse
• We Love Music: White Lies w/ Frankie Rose @ 9:30 Club — 2/22/14
• Hot Ticket: Morrissey @ Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 6/10/14
• The Winning Ticket: Cut Copy @ Echostage, 3/20/14
• We Love Music: Mutual Benefit w/ Teen Mom @ Black Cat — 2/5/14
• The Winning Ticket: Neutral Milk Hotel @ Merriweather Post Pavilion, 7/25/14
• The Winning Ticket: Moogfest @ Asheville, NC, 4/23-4/27/14
• The Winning Ticket: Galactic @ 9:30 Club, 2/13/14
• Hot Ticket: Black Joe Lewis @ 9:30 Club, 2/18/14
• Hot Ticket: Lauryn Hill @ Lincoln Theatre, 2/9/14
• We Love Music: Dates (a.k.a. DeenaOH & Co. @ DC9 – 1/16/14)
• Hot Ticket: Youth Code w/ Technophobia, Coming @ Black Cat, 1/26/14
• The Winning Ticket: Cowboy Mouth @ 9:30 Club, 1/24/14
• We Love Music: Camper Van Beethoven & Cracker @ 9:30 Club — 1/11/14
• We Love Music: Priests and Potty Mouth @ DC9 — 1/08/14
• Hot Ticket: Cracker w/ Camper Van Beethoven @ 9:30 Club, 1/11/14
• Hot Ticket: Potty Mouth @ DC9, 1/8/14
• The Winning Ticket: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue @ 9:30 Club, 12/31/13
• We Love Music: Hugh Cornwell @ Black Cat –12/5/13
• The Winning Ticket: Gogol Bordello @ 9:30 Club, 12/27/13
• Hot Ticket: Hugh Cornwell @ Black Cat, 12/5/13
• Hot Ticket: Holograms @ DC9, 12/4/13
• We Love Music: Temples @ DC9 — 11/27/13
• The Winning Ticket: The Hives @ 9:30 Club, 12/10/13
• The Winning Ticket: Matisyahu’s “Festival of Light,” 12/9/13
• Hot Ticket: Temples @ DC9, 11/27/13
• We Love Music: Charli XCX @ U Street Music Hall—11/16/13
• The Winning Ticket: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds @ DAR Constitution Hall, 7/23/14
• Hot Ticket: Charli XCX @ U Street Music Hall, 11/16/13
• Hot Ticket: 80s Dance Party@Black Whiskey, 11/16/13
• We Love Music: Gary Numan @ Black Cat — 10/27/13
• We Love Music: Sparks @ 9:30 Club – 10/27/13
• Hot Ticket: Sparks @ 9:30 Club, 10/27/13
• Hot Ticket: Gary Numan @ Black Cat, 10/27/13
• We Love Music: A Love Letter to The Sounds
• We Love Music: Franz Ferdinand @ Strathmore Music Center — 10/17/13
• We Love Music: Simple Minds @ 9:30 Club — 10/18/13
• The Winning Ticket: The Waterboys @ 9:30 Club, 10/22/13
• Hot Ticket: The Dismemberment Plan w/Paint Branch @ 9:30 Club, 10/20/13
• The Winning Ticket: The Dismemberment Plan, 10/20/13
• We Love Music: The Naked and the Famous @ 9:30 Club — 10/7/13
• The Winning Ticket: Lee Fields & The Expressions @ 9:30 Club, 10/17/13
• We Love Music: Daryl Hall and John Oates @ Warner Theatre — 10/2/13
• Hot Ticket: Daryl Hall & John Oates @ The Warner Theatre, 10/2/13
• The Winning Ticket: The White Mandingos @ U Street Music Hall, 9/27/13
• The Winning Ticket: El Ten Eleven @ U Street Music Hall, 9/21/13
• We Love Music: Blondie w/ X @ 9:30 Club — 9/9/13
• Hot Ticket: Blondie and X @ 9:30 Club, 9/9/13
• The Winning Ticket: Black Prairie @ U Street Music Hall, 9/15/13
• Update on the Passing of Josh Burdette, That Guy at the 9:30 Club
• We Love Music: R.I.P., That Guy at the 9:30 Club
• We Love Music: The Return of the 80s Dance Party (@ Black Whiskey — 8/31/13)
• The Winning Ticket: Tommy Keene @ 9:30 Club, 9/13/13
• The Winning Ticket: Toad the Wet Sprocket @ 9:30 Club, 11/7/13
• We Love Music: Technophobia @ Black Cat — 8/17/13
• Hot Ticket: Technophobia @ Black Cat, 8/17/13
• Hot Ticket: The Virgins (Opening for The Killers) @ Merriweather Post Pavilion, 8/10/13
• We Love Music: YES @ Warner Theatre – 7/24/13
• Hot Ticket: YES @ Warner Theatre, 7/24/13
• The Winning Ticket: Paul Weller @ 9:30 Club, 7/30/13
• The Winning Ticket: US Air Guitar Semifinals @ 9:30 Club, 7/19/13
• We Love Music: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark @ 9:30 Club — 7/13/13
• We Love Music: Paul McCartney @ Nationals Park — 7/12/13
• Hot Ticket: OMD w/ Diamond Rings @ 9:30 Club, 7/13/13
• The Winning Ticket: Skylar Grey @ U Street Music Hall, 7/14/13
• We Love Music: CSS @ 9:30 Club — 7/1/13
• We Love Music: Totally 80s Summer Tour @ Tally Ho Theatre, Leesburg, Va — 6/29/13
• Hot Ticket: CSS, Io Echo @ 9:30 Club, 7/1/13
• Hot Ticket: Totally 80s Summer Tour @ Tally Ho Theatre, Leesburg, Va., 6/29/13
• We Love Music: Firefly Music Festival @ The Woodlands of Dover International Speedway, Dover, DE — 6/21-6/23/13
• Hot Ticket: Firefly Music Festival @ The Woodlands of Dover International Speedway, Dover, DE, 6/21-6/23/13
• The Winning Ticket: Morrison Brothers Band @ 9:30 Club, 7/11/13
• The Winning Ticket: John Fogerty @ DAR Constitution Hall, 11/8/13
• We Love Music: Metric @ Ram’s Head Live, Baltimore, Md. — 6/7/13
• The Winning Ticket: Ariel Pink @ U Street Music Hall, 6/10/13
• We Love Music: Paul Kelly @ The Hamilton — 5/30/13
• We Love Music: The Dandy Warhols @ 9:30 Club — 5/29/13
• The Winning Ticket: Cute Is What We Aim For @ 9:30 Club, 6/9/13
• Q&A: Dave Hartley of Nightlands (@DC9, 5/30/13)
• We Love Music: Sweetlife Festival @ Merriweather Post Pavilion — 5/11/13
• We Love Music: Lovelife @ Living Social — 5/4/13
• Hot Ticket: Lovelife, Vacationer @ Living Social, 5/4/13
• Q&A with Brendan Canty of Deathfix (Catch Them at Coachella!)
• We Love Music: Flume, Lovelife @ U Street Music Hall — 4/3/13
• We Love Music: Garbage @ The Fillmore — 3/24/13
• We Love Music: Cold Showers, Veronica Falls @ Black Cat — 3/6/13
• We Love Music: Django Django @ 9:30 Club — 3/9/13
• We Love Music: The Orwells @ DC9 — 3/3/13
• We Love Music: The Spinto Band @ DC9 — 2/19/13
• We Love Music: 80s Parties Revisited
• We Love Music: Moby (DJ Set) @ U Street Music Hall — 1/19/13
• We Love Music: Morrissey @ Strathmore Music Center — 1/16/13 (or “Moz Not Moz”)
• We Love Music: Midge Ure @ World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, Pa. — 1/10/13
• We Love Music: The Last Liberation Dance Party — 1/18/13
• We Love Music: The Faint @ 9:30 Club — 12/5/12
• We Love Music: Sky Ferreira @ DC9 — 11/30/12
• Hot Ticket: The Faint @ 9:30 Club, 12/5/12
• We Love Music: Men Without Hats @ The State Theatre — 11/29/12
• Hot Ticket: Sky Ferreira @ DC9, 11/30/12
• Hot Ticket: Men Without Hats @ The State Theatre, 11/29/12
• We Love Music: Paul van Dyk @ Echostage — 11/24/12
• Hot Ticket: Paul van Dyk @ Echostage, 11/24/12
• We Love Music: Paul Banks @ The Howard Theatre — 11/9/12
• We Love Music: Shiny Toy Guns @ Rock and Roll Hotel — 11/4/12
• Hot Ticket: Shiny Toy Guns @ Rock and Roll Hotel, 11/4/12
• Hot Ticket: Hurricane Sandy Nixes Shows, 10/29/12
• We Love Music: Saint Etienne @ U Street Music Hall — 10/25/12 (or “Hey, NYC! I’ve Got Your Music!”)
• We Love Music: Psychedelic Furs w/ Lemonheads and The Chevin @ The Howard Theatre — 10/22/12
• Q&A with Jeremy Dawson of Shiny Toy Guns
• Hot Ticket: Psychedelic Furs @ The Howard Theatre, 10/22/12
• Hot Ticket: Saint Etienne @ U Street Music Hall, 10/25/12
• We Love Music: Public Image Ltd. @ 9:30 Club — 10/8/12
• We Love Music: Madonna @ The Verizon Center — 9/23/12
• Hot Ticket: Kizzlepaloosa: A Tribute to KT Robeson @ Rock and Roll Hotel, 9/23/12
• We Love Music: Bloc Party @ 9:30 Club — 9/17/12
• We Love Music: Dragonette @ The Black Cat — 9/15/12
• We Love Music: Ladyhawke @ Rock and Roll Hotel — 9/10/12
• We Love Music: MS MR, Marina and the Diamonds @ 9:30 Club — 8/14/12 (or “You’re Going to Need a Bigger Stage”)
• We Love Music: The Zombies @ The Howard Theatre — 8/9/12 (or “The Zombies, Yes; Apocalypse, No”)
• Hot Ticket: Marina and the Diamonds, Ms Mr @ 9:30 Club, 8/14/12
• Hot Ticket: The Zombies @ The Howard Theatre, 8/9/12
• We Love Music: Iceage, Dirty Beaches and Give @ Black Cat — 7/24/12
• Hot Ticket: Iceage @ Black Cat, 7/24/12
• We Love Music: Chromatics @ Rock and Roll Hotel — 7/19/12
• We Love Music: …And We Love Bartenders (RIP, KT)
• We Love Music: Howard Jones @ The Howard Theatre — 7/5/12 (or “Howard at The Howard”)
• We Love Music: Scissor Sisters @ 9:30 Club — 7/3/12
• Hot Ticket: Howard Jones @ The Howard Theatre, 7/5/12
• We Love Music: The Hundred in the Hands @ Rock and Roll Hotel — 6/19/12
• Q&A with Eli Maiman of Walk the Moon
• Hot Ticket: The Hundred in the Hands @ Rock and Roll Hotel, 6/19/12
• We Love Music: The Dandy Warhols @ 9:30 Club — 5/29/12
• We Love Music: Party Like It’s 1989
• We Love Music: Bike Trip and We Are Serenades @ Black Cat — 5/7/12
• We Love Music: The Wombats @ 9:30 Club — 4/23/12
• We Love Music: Zarjaz @ CD Cellar — 4/22/12
• We Love Music: The Ting Tings @ 9:30 Club — 4/12/12 (or “That’s Not the Same!”)
• We Love Music: Sleigh Bells @ 9:30 Club — 3/27/12
• We Love Music: Thomas Dolby @ The Birchmere — 3/25/12 (or “Yes, He Blinded Me With Science”)
• We Love Music: Kasabian @ 9:30 Club — 3/20/12
• We Love Music: The Kaiser Chiefs @ 9:30 Club — 3/9/12
• We Love Music: Tennis & White Rabbits @ Black Cat — 3/7/12 (or “With Great Expectations Come Great Responsibility”)
• We Love Music: Young Prisms, Boy Friend, & Ceremony @ DC9 – 3/4/12
• Why I Love DC: Mickey
• We Love Music: Spineless Swine @ The Red Palace on 2/23/12 (or “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Smiths”)
• We Love Music: Dead Milkmen @ U Street Music Hall, 2/18/12
• Hot Ticket: The Dead Milkmen @ U Street Music Hall, 2/18/2012