The Aliens

When "Battleship" opens on U.S. screens Friday, American naval forces will battle hostile extraterrestrials to Steve Jablonsky's ferocious, heroic, percussive music -- and sounds for the aliens based on the noise of magnetic resonance imaging machines. Read More

James Yorkston emerged from East Fife's Fence Collective in the late '90s, and the retired punk who gave his ears a rest would seem an unlikely torchbearer for the British folk revival. Read More

There was such a joyful innocence and clarity to John Denver's music that many of his most popular pop-country songs sounded nostalgic as soon as he recorded them. Read More

As is just about theatrical custom in this town, The Washington Post got the first pass at StudioTheatre's 2012-2013 season announcement, which begins Sept. 5 with an adaptation of Ralph Ellison 's classic novel of race, racism, politics, and group and individual identity, Invisible Man. The Aliens by Annie Baker , The Motherfucker With the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis , The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard , and a fifth play that's TBA. Read More