- 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.
- D.C.’s jazz scene gets an online boost from CapitalBop’s young advocates
- Doc Watson dies: remembering the legendary guitarist through the Post archives
- Justin Bieber roughs up paparazzi? And more from the world of pop music
- Travis Porter’s debut album ‘From Day 1’ eclipsed by rap trio’s mix-tape output
- Wolf Trap kicks off summer season tonight
- One Direction whips Patriot Center into a G-rated frenzy
- Song of the Summer: Carly Rae Jepsen? Rita Ora? Icona Pop? Maybe a boy band?
- Summer songs, 2002-2011
- Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry adds new picks
- Austin City Limits announces line-up; Jay-Z unveils roster for Made In America festival — and more from the world of pop music
- Robin Gibb dies: Remembering the Bee Gees singer through the Post archives
- Dope Body carries on Baltimore’s out-there rock tradition
- Donna Summer dies — Remembering the disco queen through the Post archives
- Chuck Brown’s musical impact: Deep into Washington, and beyond
- Chuck Brown dies: The ‘Godfather of Go-Go’ was 75
- Lady Gaga to cancel concert in Indonesia — and more from the world of pop music
- Beach House’s ‘Bloom’: Dreamy pop that’s stately, sumptuous and alert
- Bacharach serenaded with his songs at D.C. Gershwin Prize concert
- Beastie Boys sued over Trouble Funk samples, legendary go-go band was unaware of lawsuit or Adam “MCA” Yauch’s death
- Mike D, Ad-Rock mourn MCA, thank fans — and more from the world of pop music
- Songwriters Burt Bacharach, Hal David to receive Gershwin Prize
- Adam Yauch dies: remembering MCA of the Beastie Boys
- Suddenly, audiences everywhere want to have fun.
- Chuck Brown death rumors swirl on twitter
- What brand of tire would Carrie Underwood slash?
- Review: Carrie Underwood’s dark side gives way to the sunshine on ‘Blown Away’
- Young Jeezy, President Obama and the White House’s complicated relationship with hip-hop
- Concert Review: Performers, and food, rock at Sweetlife Food and Music Festival
- Stream the Sweetlife Festival on Saturday, here on the Style Blog
- What will the Roots play when President Obama appears on “Fallon?”
- Sam McPheeters, from punk’s Wrangler Brutes to a new novel, “Loom of Ruin”
- ‘Jazz Samba,’ landmark album recorded in a D.C. church, turns 50
- Dick Clark’s ‘American Bandstand’ legacy lives on — in Philadelphia
- Levon Helm dies at age 71
- Mexican rock band Mana set record; Tupac ‘hologram’ may tour — and more from the world of pop music
- Rock Hall prepares to induct Guns N’ Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys and more
- Rap’s Future finds inspiration from pop singers
- Review: James Brown biography ‘The One’
- Axl Rose declines induction to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Is Lana Del Rey dating Axl Rose? — and more from the world of pop music
- ‘Bounce beat’ and go-go’s generation gap
- One Direction turns down White House invite — and more from the world of pop music
- Pianist finds the right notes between hip-hop and jazz
- Among masked musicians, maintaining anonymity is the new fame
- Fiona Apple puts on heartfelt concert
- Madonna’s childish ‘MDNA’ gets into the gnarly nooks of her personal life
- Share your #springplayist
- Fiona Apple postpones D.C. concert
- SXSW may have gone all commercial, but the music is still real
- Can rapper Fat Trel take D.C. rap to the top tier?
- At SXSW, real rock-and-roll lives
- Kennedy Center announces new jazz season
- Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Wrecking Ball’ doesn’t live up to the Boss’s previous music
- Bachata music star Romeo Santos is shaking things up
- Lauryn Hill moves her R&B toward progressive rock
- Guns N’ Roses, minus the heavy artillery, at Fillmore Silver Spring
- In concert: Guns N’ Roses at Fillmore Silver Spring
- Suzanne Ciani’s retrospective showcases her groundbreaking musical fireworks
- Fresh from White House show, Mick Jagger says: ‘Every gig is a gig’
- At White House, B.B. King and Mick Jagger, among others, to play the blues
- Sleigh Bells’ ‘Reign of Terror’: Title says it all about bad rock-and-roll album
- The surprising, rock source behind D.C.’s ‘Nobody bothers me’ TV jingle
- Pop music critic Chris Richards dissects the Grammys
- Grammys 2012: What did you think? Join our online chat at noon
- Grammys leave local artists little to celebrate
- Disjointed Grammys honor Whitney Houston
- Grammys 2012: Everything you need to know
- Whitney Houston dies — pop music loses one of its most influential voices
- After lifetime of hurdles, country singer Julie Roberts ready to make music again
- Grammys by the numbers
- Click Track’s Grammy picks revisited
- Grammys slim down but there’s still fat to cut
- On Spotify, Obama’s campaign playlist is a mixed bag
- President Obama shares campaign playlist on Spotify
- Dierks Bentley, on a role with “Home”
- Madonna to play Verizon Center Sept. 23; Kid Rock’s Made in Detroit clothing line not really made in Detroit; Daft Punk collaborating with Nile Rodgers?
- Dierks Bentley makes the most of his roles on ‘Home’
- Washingtonians remember Don Cornelius of “Soul Train”
- Bruce Springsteen to perform at Grammys; Artist Mike Kelley dies; Kanye West filming in the Middle East?
- ‘Soul Train’s’ Don Cornelius put one nation under groove
- Lana Del Rey has the voice, but not the emotion
- Spring preview — Pop music: Concerts are unusual but promising
- Military veterans seek support and release through song at LifeQuest music camp
- Album review: Skrillex, “Bangarang”
- Critic review: Skrillex’s ‘Bangarang’ lives in the glorious moment
- Video: Bluebrain’s Botanic Garden boombox walk
- Grammys announce first wave of performers: Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Foo Fighters; Black Tambourine reunite
- Local venue news: Some thriving, others closing, others still making great seitan sandwiches
- Coachella 2012 line-up announced: At the Drive-In, Refused reunite; Jay-Z serenades newborn; ODB had an FBI file?
- Beyonce and Jay-Z welcome Blue Ivy; Junkyard’s classic tunes are on iTunes; Don’t miss Beauty Pill’s “The Immersive Ideal”
- Van Halen returns; Music biz takes its temperature; Bjork is for the children
- Jiffy Lube Live lifts tailgating ban
- Album review: Symmetry, “Themes for an Imaginary Film”
- D’Angelo covers Soundgarden?; Aretha Franklin gets engaged; Youssou N’Dour runs for president
- Symmetry’s ‘Themes for an Imaginary Film’ evokes a cinematic soundtrack for life
- A 44-minute disc that takes 4 months to play? It’s time stretching.
- Click Track’s best concerts of 2011
- The List is here!; Adele sold more than five million albums this year; Magic Johnson recruits rappers to take a stance against homophobia
- Lost tracks: Jhene Aiko, Scott Holstein, Britta Persson, Los Rakas, Dope Body
- Lost Tracks
- ‘The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years,’ by Greil Marcus
- SOJA — NoVa reggae goes global and back again
- Reggae band SOJA hopes new album brings stateside renown
- Tyler the Creator arrested; Adam Lambert arrested; So long Big Tigger; Steve Jobs wins a Grammy
- Dead Prez performs Occupy DC
- Dead Prez perform Occupy D.C.
- Fat Trel’s “Nighmare Before Xmas” at U Street Music Hall — bright futures, huge tunes, six pizzas
- Benoit & Sergio on listening to their standout track “Everybody” for seven hours straight
- Justin Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun on the future of Justin Bieber
- Benoit & Sergio: Burning up the dance floor with left-field pop music
- Gary Clark Jr. — The blues in the bright lights
- Blues guitarist Gary Clark Jr. is poised to be a breakout star in 2012
- Justin Bieber on butterflies, Cee Lo Green on the new Goodie Mob album and more interview extras from “Christmas in Washington”
- Justin Bieber, Jennifer Hudson, others take the stage at ‘Christmas in Washington’
- Best pop albums of 2011
- Chris Richards picks his top 10 albums of 2011
- Justin Bieber, two years later — the pop star returns to “Christmas in Washington” on Sunday
- Listen: Topdolla Sweizy, “The Real Washington Post”
- Bluebrain takes Manhattan; NBC to screen Questlove’s walk on music; Kid Rock for Mitt Romney?
- Guns N’ Roses, Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Donovan, Laura Nyro, The (Small) Faces to be inducted to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- A Mac Miller fan responds
- Animal Collective headed back to the studio; Take that Kurt Cobain-inspired Flipper shirt off your holiday wish list
- The Roots’ ‘undun’ is filled with evocative hip-hop
- Don’t fall for the siren rap song of Mac Miller: There’s better music out there
- Kennedy Center Honors 2012: Sonny Rollins — A saxman, seeking heaven
- In concert: Mac Miller at Fillmore Silver Spring
- Joshua Redman on the influence of Kennedy Center Honoree Sonny Rollins
- Sonny Rollins: A jazz mind in pursuit of improvisational heaven
- Questlove says Bachmann dig not worth it; Springsteen to keynote SXSW; SOJA signs on with Dave Matthews
- And the nominees are... Acts with local ties nominated for Grammys
- 2012 Grammy nominations: Kanye West leads with seven, but Adele is poised to win big
- Fall Massive draws noise complaints; Gearing up for gearing up for the Grammys; Paste settles on the best albums of 2011... in November?
- Skream and Benga, Moby, Diplo, Armand Van Helden and others bring the bass to Fall Massive outside RFK Stadium
- Fall Massive pumps up electronic dance music at RFK
- Gift options for music lovers
- Review: ‘Country Music: In Performance at the White House’
- The Roots serenade Michele Bachmann with Fishbone’s “Lyin’ Ass B----”
- James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, Lyle Lovett, Alison Krauss and others celebrate country music at White House
- Album reviews: Yelawolf, “Radioactive” and Rihanna, “Talk That Talk”
- ‘Radioactive’: For Yelawolf, a defanged debut
- Lyle Lovett, Darius Rucker, Dierks Bentley talk country music and national politics at the White House
- Are Kanye West and Jamey Johnson actually the same person?
- Jay-Z and Kanye West are two kings offering royally good rap
- Prince bio underscores need for Prince autobio
- Jay-Z and Kanye West triumphant at Verizon Center
- Jay-Z shouts out Georgetown — but should the Hoyas be studying Hova?
- Jay-Z and Kanye West bring ‘Throne’ to Verizon Center
- Wale’s “Ambition” discussed, debated, disemboweled
- In today’s Post: Jay-Z 101 at Georgetown University
- Jay-Z 101: Georgetown sociology course focuses on rap star
- Wale's "Ambition" is a plateau, not a peak
- Wale’s ‘Ambition’ is catchy but not a standout performance
- Week ahead: Freddie Gibbs, so cold; Metro Area visit our metro area; Robyn - Eddie Murphy duet?
- Who is the best masked musician?
- Album review: Miranda Lambert, “Four the Record”
- Miranda Lambert’s ‘Four the Record’: Magnetic contemporary country music
- Loutallica speaks!; ASAP Rocky officially the most overpaid rapper in the game; Wale lyrics explained
- Beyonce can’t stop making videos; Adele tops the charts again
- Week ahead: Kiran Ahluwalia get ancient; Drummer Greg Fox plays his last show with Liturgy; Amos Lee eight months after no. 1
- Last night’s gig: Odd Future is for the children
- Review: Cameron Crowe’s “Pearl Jam Twenty”
- A peek inside “Prince: Inside the Music and the Masks”
- Review: ‘Pearl Jam Twenty’ focuses on the Seattle slacker behind the camera
- Maroon 5 snubs Fox News; New Leonard Cohen album on the way; Springsteen memorabilia headed to Monmouth University
- Album review: Real Estate, “Days”
- More to the trip than first meets the ear with Real Estate
- Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder perform at MLK memorial dedication; Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore separate; Raheem DeVaughn arrested at protest alongside Cornel West
- The Band Perry are still on tour
- Remember that show “Mad Men” and the awesome RJD2 song that came with it?
- Adele leads AMA noms; Who invented the remix?; See banjo great Sammy Shelor for free
- Kanye West occupies Wall Street; Lil Wayne uploads “public service announcement”; Hank Williams Jr. snaps at the media in song
- Be specific: Trans Am look back on “Futureworld,” Gold Leaf Studios and being written out of harDCore history
- Raving in the heartland — Electronic dance music, and Skrillex, are taking over
- Sonny Moore, a.k.a. Skrillex, beeps to top of electronic dance music scene
- What you should be listening to: David Heartbreak, Scott Holstein, Motion Sickness of Time Travel, Ricardo Villalobos, Wolves in the Throne Room
- Lady Gaga attends Obama fundraiser; Justin Bieber rents out Staples Center for a date
- Nirvana’s “Nevermind” at 20: Change kept coming after the album that changed everything
- Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ at 20: Change kept coming after album that changed everything
- “Nevermind” nostalgia spikes; Baltimore’s Ponytail break up; House legend Theo Parrish — honorary Wu-Tang member?
- Mary J. Blige at opening night of Fillmore Silver Spring
- In concert: Mary J. Blige at Fillmore Silver Spring
- Katy B on U.S. ‘Mission’
- Katy B’s ‘Mission’ to the U.S.
- Album review: Lady Antebellum, “Own the Night”
- 9/11 musical tributes abound; Posthumous Amy Winehouse song out Wednesday; New Kate Bush album on the way
- Be specific: Richard Branson on keeping FreeFest free and how Faust spawned a global conglomerate (sorta)
- 50,000 fans turn out for FreeFest
- TV on the Radio outshines headliners at colorful FreeFest
- 50,000 turn out for colorful Virgin Mobile FreeFest
- Kanye West and Jay-Z aren’t the only pop stars collaborating in the studio, on tour
- The buddy system: This season finds pop stars joining forces
- Local concert news: Mary Chapin Carpenter plays Irene make-up shows; Peter Bjorn and John cancel at 9:30 Club
- Fillmore Silver Spring makes splashy entrance on D.C.’s concert scene
- The Fillmore arrives in Silver Spring
- Manu Chao to play protest concert; Soulja Boy takes back anti-Army lyrics; DJ Screw vinyl collection headed to the University of Houston
- Five covers we hope to hear at FreeFest
- PJ Harvey wins Mercury Prize; Taylor Swift leads CMA nods; Huntsman knows his Beefheart
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