WashPost Readers Poll

Top Ten Local Bands

1. JunkFood
These Northern Virginia rockers have moved beyond their days as a cover band and always deliver high-energy performances.

2. OAR
3. Kenin
4. Virginia Coalition
5. The Speaks
6. Eddie From Ohio
7. The Lloyd Dobbler Effect
8. Gonzo's Nose
9. Welbilt
10. Oktbrwrld

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Top Ten Places to Hear Live Music

1. 9:30 Club
Popular club packs in the crowds nightly for top-tier rock, punk, hip-hop and country shows. It deserves its rep as the best live music venue in town.

2. Wolf Trap - Filene Center
3. Birchmere Music Hall
4. Jammin' Java
5. Black Cat
6. IOTA
7. The State Theatre
8. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
9. Blues Alley
10. Whitlow's on Wilson

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looks about right to me … [vomit]

these are the same people who (yet again) have named Maggiano's the best Italian restaurant in the area … oh suburbanites and your stubborn lack of taste, i love you

when i think of a place to go see live music i think of … whitlows!! that's it!

and, yes, i did vote in this thing … i'm not one of those dumbasses who forgot to vote in the last election but bitches about bush non-stop

#1 Best Live Theatre – THE CAPITOL STEPS!!!

interesting that nine thirty is always the number one venue to see music, and you [vomit] within a box. wolftrap is so awesome though. when beck played there it was as if the second coming (beyond dar) was achieved, but i feel that beck does that to every venue he plays. god knows patriot needs a little divine intervention.

and completely off of the subject, but have you or anyone else on here ever heard of something called e-blast, which is somehow based inside the confines of the washingtonpost?

I couldn't find the part of the poll that disaggregated the suburbanites' votes from those of the urban denizens. Could you provide a link to those stats?

Originally posted by walkonby:
interesting that nine thirty is always the number one venue to see music, and you [vomit] within a box.

my projectile vomiting was actually in reference to the "10 Ten Bands" … the venues are relatively reasonable, but big snub to DC9, velvet lounge and warehouse

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
I couldn't find the part of the poll that disaggregated the suburbanites' votes from those of the urban denizens. Could you provide a link to those stats?

oh, you're right GGW, i'm sure all the average district native is just gaga over these suburban italian chains and virginia bands

I imagine it is a source of ceaseless comfort to believe oneself superior to those with tastes different from one's own.

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
I imagine it is a source of ceaseless comfort to believe oneself superior to those with tastes different from one's own.

it is what has fueled the leaders of countries and dynasties throughout the ions of our past and present sojourns. and sometimes everyone else as well.

Originally posted by walkonby:
it is what has fueled the leaders of countries and dynasties throughout the ions of our past and present sojourns.

it is what has fueled the leaders of countries and dynasties throughout the charged particles of our past and present temporary periods of residence????

Who paged Mrs. Malaprop?

How could they leave Clutch out of the top local bands. Maybe it had nothing to do with good music?

Mainstream bands and venues that cater to mainstram music (e.g. 9:30 Club) rule the day. What else would you expect?

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:

Originally posted by walkonby:
interesting that nine thirty is always the number one venue to see music, and you [vomit] within a box.

my projectile vomiting was actually in reference to the "10 Ten Bands" … the venues are relatively reasonable, but big snub to DC9, velvet lounge and warehouse

I have never even heard of JunkFood.

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Mainstream bands and venues that cater to mainstram music (e.g. 9:30 Club) rule the day. What else would you expect?

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:

Originally posted by walkonby:
interesting that nine thirty is always the number one venue to see music, and you [vomit] within a box.

my projectile vomiting was actually in reference to the "10 Ten Bands" … the venues are relatively reasonable, but big snub to DC9, velvet lounge and warehouse

It's hard to tell if that's a snub or not?

Got JunkFood?

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The Post does a really lame job presenting the results. All you get is a bland boosterish line for the winner? How about snark, discussion of the list, what was close, etc? Potential wasted. Does City Paper do a similar list with a little more interest?

Just a statement, not a snub.

In general, bands that play the 9:30 Club are bands that have achieved a certain amount of mainstream commercial success.

Originally posted by Shadrach:

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Mainstream bands and venues that cater to mainstram music (e.g. 9:30 Club) rule the day. What else would you expect?

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:

Originally posted by walkonby:
interesting that nine thirty is always the number one venue to see music, and you [vomit] within a box.

my projectile vomiting was actually in reference to the "10 Ten Bands" … the venues are relatively reasonable, but big snub to DC9, velvet lounge and warehouse

It's hard to tell if that's a snub or not?

Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
I have never even heard of JunkFood.

Neither have I. Band-wise, I'm completely out of touch.

I know that Gonzo's Nose is a Dewey Beach-type cover band from my early days at the Clarendon Ballroom with my friends who had places out in Dewey…

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Mainstream bands and venues that cater to mainstram music (e.g. 9:30 Club) rule the day. What else would you expect?

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
the venues are relatively reasonable, but big snub to DC9, velvet lounge and warehouse

these are mainstream bands?? and i didn't have a big gripe about the venues, other than the whole whitlow's on wilson thing …

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
oh suburbanites and your stubborn lack of taste, i love you

you're right GGW, a lack of taste isn't a suburban or urban issue, there are plenty of DCites who have no cultural taste at all either … but it's clear that most of these voters were from virginia, otherwise we would have gotten Grog & Tankard as a "top 10 venue" along with the crap bands that play there