October 22. 2026, Lincoln Theater, Washington DC There are enthusiastic crowds, and then there was the crowd at Emei’s Lincoln Theater show. From the opening stretch, the room felt like one enormous backing choir, with fans singing along to every song as though they had personally helped write it. Every lyric came back toward the stage with conviction. The energy was incredible, and Emei gave it right back. With her curls flying and a striped, lace-trimmed outfit that brought

October 20, 2026 Fillmore Silver Spring Candlebox brought a familiar dose of ’90s Seattle grit to The Fillmore Silver Spring on October 20, delivering an evening of muscular guitars, powerful vocals, and emotion that hasn’t softened with time. At the center of it all was Kevin Martin. Sunglasses on and hair falling around his shoulders, he leaned into the microphone with the intensity that has long defined Candlebox’s sound. His voice carried both a weathered edge and a soulf

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