- Chris Richards
- Critic
Chris Richards became the Post's pop music critic in 2009. He happily spends his evenings in D.C. nightclubs listening to rap, rock, jazz, country, go-go, bluegrass and bachata. Sometimes he remembers to go home and sleep. You can also find him and his music writing partner David Malitz at Click Track.
Fifty shades of Grace Potter
On her first stadium tour, perennial up-and-comer pulls from her roots but isn’t afraid to get rowdy.
In D.C., a summer soundtrack
What started in the ’70s in Fort Dupont Park has become a gathering for neighborly rhythms.
Frank Ocean at the 9:30 Club
At sold-out show, R&B’s next big thing offers a contemplative, confident and rewarding set.
Gone country? Not as easy as it sounds.
Darius Rucker and Lionel Richie managed hit-making crossovers from pop music to country. But Staind’s Aaron Lewis and others are finding that Nashville can be a cold place.
- Concert review: Whitey Morgan and the 78’s at Hill Country
- Fans mourn Kitty Wells, Funk Brothers bassist Bob Babbitt — and more from the world of pop music
- Music review: Frank Ocean’s ‘Channel Orange’
- Frank Ocean drops album early — and more from the world of pop music
- The Dirty Projectors are all over the musical map in ‘Swing Lo Magellan’
- Positive reception for Twin Shadow’s ‘Confess’ shows mediocre taste in indie-rock world
- Debo Band prepares to serve Ethiopian jazz fusion to the masses
- The court case that changed hip-hop — from Public Enemy to Kanye — forever
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