Capital Soundcheck

Coverage · 2000 to 2025

Every show

Twenty-five shows and eighty-three frames, newest first. Click any frame to see it big.

  1. DEC 31 25Phish
  2. SEP 6  25Watermelon Pickers' Fest
  3. AUG 10 24Phish
  4. JUN 11 24Bitchin Bajas
  5. SEP 2  22Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival
  6. AUG 11 22Monroe's Tavern
  7. JUL 30 22Phish
  8. APR 26 22Girl Talk
  9. NOV 21 21Dan Deacon
  10. MAR 13 18Flamenco
  11. MAY 7  11Michael Ice
  12. JAN 5  11Girl Talk
  13. JUN 11 05Girl Talk
  14. JUN 14 03Medeski Martin & Wood
  15. OCT 23 02Medeski Martin & Wood
  16. AUG 21 02Medeski Martin & Wood
  17. JUN 22 02Bonnaroo
  18. NOV 21 01Robert Randolph & the Family Band
  19. OCT 24 01Medeski Martin & Wood
  20. OCT 21 01Medeski Martin & Wood
  21. OCT 20 01Medeski Martin & Wood
  22. OCT 19 01Robert Randolph & the Family Band
  23. JUL 23 01Estradasphere
  24. JUL 20 01Estradasphere
  25. SEP 23 00Phish

Phish

Madison Square GardenNew York, New York
DEC 31 2025 · 1 frame

Pink and white light beams fan out from a far stage over a packed arena floor, with Canadian and American flags hanging from the roof.

Watermelon Pickers' Fest

Clarke County Ruritan FairgroundsBerryville, Virginia
SEP 6 2025 · 2 frames

A fiddler in a yellow shirt and mirrored sunglasses holds his fiddle and bow under a summer sky.Bluegrass pickers with guitars, a mandolin and an upright bass jam in a circle under a white festival tent.

Phish

Bethel Woods Center for the ArtsBethel, New York
AUG 10 2024 · 4 frames

A packed lawn crowd faces a stage glowing gold under a pavilion roof while pink clouds streak the dusk sky.Red stage light washes over a packed crowd under a pavilion roof as the band plays at right.
A huge crowd covers the lawn at golden sunset, with white tents and flags behind and leaves framing the top.Black and white view of wispy clouds sweeping over a festival field with the concert pavilion in the distance.

Bitchin Bajas

Quarry House TavernSilver Spring, Maryland
JUN 11 2024 · 3 frames

Three musicians play banks of synthesizers and keyboards in a small red club under strings of blue lights.A long-haired keyboardist reaches across his gear in magenta light under a ceiling of blue fairy lights.A musician holds a flute sideways, his hand sharp against blurred blue and red club lights.

Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival

Salem County FairgroundsPilesgrove, New Jersey
SEP 2 TO 4 2022 · 4 frames

A four-piece bluegrass band with fiddle, upright bass, guitar and banjo plays under a Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival banner to a seated crowd.A banjo player looks down at his strings while a fiddler plays behind him at a festival stage mic.A bearded guitarist in glasses and a red shirt plays an acoustic guitar, lit warm against the dark at a night campground jam.A bearded guitarist's hands work an acoustic guitar, lit orange against the dark.

Monroe's Tavern

Galway, IrelandAUG 11 2022 · 1 frame

A fiddler, a guitarist and a drummer play on a small pub stage under a stained glass Monroe's sign.

Phish

Merriweather Post PavilionColumbia, Maryland
JUL 30 2022 · 4 frames

A fan raises a fist in front of a blurred stage washed in blue and violet spotlight beams.The band plays under fans of blue and green stage lights at the back of a covered pavilion, seen over the heads of the crowd.
A packed lawn crowd stands shoulder to shoulder under a pink evening sky, with a line of trees behind.A packed lawn crowd looks toward the stage in warm late sun, with oak trees glowing behind them.

Girl Talk

9:30 ClubWashington, DC
APR 26 2022 · 7 frames

Girl Talk, in a black hoodie, stands alone on the empty stage before the show, between two inflatable palm trees.A DJ in silhouette leans over his laptop as purple and gold light beams fan out behind him and a balloon hangs in the air.Black and white view of a bearded DJ in a headband leaning over his laptop while dancers throw up their hands on stage behind him.
A storm of purple and gold confetti falls over raised hands at a concert.Fans laugh with their arms up as a blizzard of confetti comes down on them.
A performer in a red hoodie leans back with a microphone and one fist raised in stage haze beside a glowing inflatable palm tree.A packed club floor and balcony throw up their hands as dozens of pastel balloons fall over the crowd.

Dan Deacon

9:30 ClubWashington, DC
NOV 21 2021 · 2 frames

A dancer throws both arms up in silhouette against golden stage beams on a checkerboard dance floor, the performer lit at his table beyond.Blue light beams fan down over a ring of dancers on an open floor, with the performer at his table beyond them.

Flamenco

Venta El GalloGranada, Spain
MAR 13 2018 · 3 frames

A flamenco dancer in a red polka-dot dress spins with her head bowed under red and green light in a whitewashed cave.A male flamenco dancer calls out with one arm raised and the other a blur, lit red and green.A wide view of a vaulted cave stage hung with copper pans, where a male flamenco dancer strikes a pose between seated performers and a guitarist.

Michael Ice

Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaMAY 7 2011 · 1 frame

A singer shouts into a microphone in dark silhouette against a white wall.

Girl Talk

Cleveland, Columbus, Louisville, New Orleans, St. LouisJAN 5 TO 29 2011 · 13 frames

Seen from behind, a shirtless, sweat-soaked Girl Talk faces a packed theater crowd with hands raised and a full balcony above.In black and white, Girl Talk peers over his gear with sweat-soaked hair plastered across his face.Girl Talk, shirtless and soaked, works a laptop in front of a glowing Girl Talk logo on the video wall.
Girl Talk crouches on stage with dripping wet hair against a blazing orange screen, a balloon in the foreground.A giant clear bag of balloons floats over a crowd reaching up with open hands.A man in a black jersey shouts with his fist raised in warm yellow light beside a speaker stack on stage.
Dancers in headbands move under red stage lights with hands raised behind them.A dancer's face in profile turns up into a wash of blue stage light, her outline traced in white.Girl Talk points skyward with a microphone in front of a giant orange and pink ST. LOUIS video wall as fans raise their hands.
Girl Talk stands with a microphone in front of a pink and purple Girl Talk logo on the video wall.Black and white silhouette of Girl Talk shouting into a microphone in front of a glowing LED dot wall.
A crowd of raised hands faces a yellow Girl Talk video screen, with the performer standing on the DJ table under the lighting rig.Confetti rains against a cyan screen as the DJ flings an arm out over the booth and the crowd's hands reach up.

Girl Talk

Garfield ArtworksPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
JUN 11 2005 · 1 frame

A shirtless, sweaty performer in basketball shorts leans into a laptop on a white plinth, with a speaker stack and a projection screen behind him.

Medeski Martin & Wood

BonnarooManchester, Tennessee
JUN 14 2003 · 5 frames

In black and white, a long-haired guitarist with a Flying V plays beside the organist under a hanging stage light.In black and white, the organist leans over his keys with his eyes down against a black background.Close view of hands on a Flying V guitar neck, with the organist soft in the background and a blue stage light above.
In black and white, a bassist's hands work the strings of an upright bass.In black and white, the organist plays in profile with his hands raised over the keys against a black background.

Medeski Martin & Wood

Harrisburg, Washington, NorfolkOCT 23 TO NOV 17 2002 · 5 frames

A long exposure turns faces and stage lights into swirling light trails, with a red neon squiggle on the right.Close up from over the shoulder, two hands spread across the lower manual of an organ in black and white.A keyboardist hunches low over a clavinet in the middle of a ring of keyboards, shot from above in black and white.
A bassist plays upright bass under spotlight beams cutting through a dark, smoky stage in black and white.A keyboardist plays a green melodica, its mouthpiece tube looping from his lips to the keys.

Medeski Martin & Wood

TonicNew York, New York
AUG 21 TO 23 2002 · 2 frames

The inside of a small brick club, rows of wooden chairs facing a stage crowded with a piano, organ and gear under a red curtain.A keyboardist in a pale shirt leans over a clavinet wired with microphones.

Bonnaroo

Manchester, TennesseeJUN 22 TO 23 2002 · 7 frames

A string band plays under a big Bonnaroo banner and lighting rig while a sunburned crowd fills the field in front.A pedal steel player in a pinstriped baseball jersey and black hat tips his head back with eyes closed as he plays on an outdoor stage.A fiddler, a guitarist and a banjo player sing and grin at their microphones, with an upright bass behind them.
A suited bluegrass band with fiddle, mandolin, guitar and upright bass sings together at a microphone inside a festival tent, hats of the crowd in the foreground.A bassist in a pith helmet, goggle sunglasses and a green military jacket with gold epaulettes plays on a scaffolded festival stage.
A banjo player in a patterned shirt plays a purple electric banjo on stage.Three suited bluegrass players on mandolin, acoustic guitar and banjo grin at one another on an outdoor stage under trees.

Robert Randolph & the Family Band

Club CafePittsburgh, Pennsylvania
NOV 21 2001 · 5 frames

Robert Randolph throws one arm high over his pedal steel as spotlights and a starry curtain glow behind the drum kit.Robert Randolph tips his head back with eyes closed while playing pedal steel against a starry stage backdrop.Robert Randolph sings into a microphone over his pedal steel while the bassist plays behind him against a starry backdrop.
A singer leans out over the club floor with a microphone toward seated fans while the band plays under red and white stage lights.Black and white view from behind the pedal steel player as he flings an arm up, with the drummer and a smiling guitarist playing beyond him.

Medeski Martin & Wood

UB Center for the ArtsAmherst, New York
OCT 24 2001 · 1 frame

A trio plays organ, upright bass and drums on a low-angle stage, all three blurred in motion under blue lights.

Medeski Martin & Wood

PromoWest PavilionColumbus, Ohio
OCT 21 2001 · 1 frame

An organist, an upright bassist and a drummer play under red, blue and green light beams, seen from the stage floor.

Medeski Martin & Wood

Bogart'sCincinnati, Ohio
OCT 20 2001 · 1 frame

Three musicians crowd together at the front of the stage with a melodica, an upright bass and a hand drum under colored spotlights.

Robert Randolph & the Family Band

Club CafePittsburgh, Pennsylvania
OCT 19 2001 · 2 frames

A pedal steel player in a white T-shirt looks up from his instrument in front of a drum kit and a starry backdrop.A blue neon Club Cafe sign glows over the venue's storefront at night, with show posters in the windows.

Estradasphere

The RotundaPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
JUL 23 2001 · 1 frame

A barefoot shirtless saxophonist crouches in a wide stance on red carpet in front of the stage.

Estradasphere

Downingtown, PennsylvaniaJUL 20 2001 · 3 frames

A saxophonist stands on the bass drum and leans over a grinning shirtless drummer mid-song.Four band members crowd one microphone and sing with eyes shut, a saxophone in front.A wide fisheye view of a small club stage with a saxophonist, guitarist and drummer as fans cheer at the edge.

Phish

Allstate ArenaRosemont, Illinois
SEP 23 2000 · 4 frames

Glow sticks streak in green arcs over a dark arena crowd as a spotlight burns through the haze.A band plays keys, guitar and drums on a stage flooded red and crossed by green light beams.
A packed arena crowd faces a distant stage washed in pale green light beneath a hanging speaker array.A hazy arena floor full of fans with arms raised toward a stage where beach balls roll by the monitors.