Tricky at the Lincoln Theater, October 14, 2026 Tricky apparently did not come to Lincoln Theater to help anyone’s camera autofocus. Bathed in dim blue light, he was sometimes more silhouette than frontman, a profile at the microphone emerging from the darkness just long enough to disappear into it again. For those of us trying to photograph the man, the name felt a little too appropriate. Shooting Tricky was, indeed, tricky. But that shadowy presentation suited the music bea

The Fillmore Silver Spring | October 8, 2026By The Hot Spots Network Some concerts leave you humming on the way home. Escape the Fate’s show at the Fillmore Silver Spring left you checking whether your neck still had its original range of motion. On October 8, the band brought the sort of heaviness that makes earplugs feel like a sound investment and tomorrow’s chiropractor appointment seem unusually sensible. Eardrums bleeding? Figuratively, of course. But they would have be

Lincoln Theater, Washington DC, October 6, 2026 There is something wonderfully disarming about Daði Freyr. He looks perfectly comfortable surrounded by synthesizers, wearing a flowing white outfit that falls somewhere between futuristic choir robe and the uniform of a very exclusive space laboratory. Then he opens his mouth, the groove takes hold, and the whole strange picture makes complete sense. At Lincoln Theater on October 6, the Icelandic musician’s odd genius was the m