27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Summer's best pop concerts? Go for big names and small festivals.
Popular music moves dazzlingly fast in the airlessness of digital space, but out in the three-dimensional heat of summer, it takes its time. Having so thoroughly dominated last year's pop discourse, both Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé are finally taking their respective 2024 albums on the road, hoping that last summer's frothy online blab translates into filled stadium seats. See you there? If not, a slew of local festivals — Seventh Stanine Festival, ZAP Outdoorz, DC Jazz Fest — are, surprisingly, offering something like the opposite: intimacy.
