Interesting lunchtime presentation at the Library of Congress Wednesday at noon
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/05/04/tomorrow-john-szwed-discusses-folklorist-alan-lomax-the-man-who-recorded-the-world/#more-23279
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
The Dynamite Brothers return to U St. Music Hall TONIGHT (5/5)....... DYNAMITE They've got what each lady wants! Cross them and there’s nowhere to hide…They pack the greatest punch in town, and they want to know if you've got a match....
The Dynamite Brothers are: DJ Nitekrawler & DJ Lunch MoneyFor your dancing pleasure, they'll use only the best funk & soul bangers available TONIGHT (5/5) from 9pm-2am. All for FREE.Be there or get kicked in the FACE. Again. U St. Music Hall is located at 1115 U Street NW DC. See what the Washington Post Express has to say about the first edition last month: http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2010/04/dynamite-dance-night-u-street-music-hall-ts.php ..and RSVP to THIS edition here on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122207764460840&ref=mf
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a222/blueimage/dynamitemay.jpg
― Nitekrawler, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, this Friday is the first installment of "Kool Toast" at Dodge City. Gonna be spinning lots of Disco, Boogie, 70s/80s Hip Hop, Go-Go (finally get to play out my 3 crates!!), 80s electro, and Island Grooves. Still working on the flyer.
― Nitekrawler, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
What to go to this Saturday night that isn't a DJ/dance party and isn't emo or country or jazz or sold out?
― ljubljana, Friday, 7 May 2010 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmmmm.
Vandaveer backstage at Black Cat is folky almost country so maybe not them
lowercase letters at Velvet Lounge (never heard of. website says their hiphop folk soul)
Sukwinder Singh (Bollywood singer with song in Slumdog Millionaire) at 7 at DAR Constitution Hall. Probably expensive
Hardway Connection and Dynamic Superiors (old-school soul) at the Solar Eclipse on Bladensburg Road NE DC.301-587-1858-Roadhouse Oldies is sponsoring the show. Hardway are great but this hand-dancing club might be hard to get to.
DC Tango Festival at Lisner
"Wheedle's Groove" (movie doc about the Seattle `60s and `70s soul and funk scene) at the Maryland Film Festival at 9:30pm at the Charles Theater, 1711 N. Charles St. in Baltimore
nerd night at dc 9
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 May 2010 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
they're
Thanks! Nerd night looks great, but really looking for music. Signed up to their updates though. Others are good leads, will check them out and let you know if I made it.
― ljubljana, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Have fun
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 8 May 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
e-mail I received today, Saturday afternoon-
Today is the actual 25th anniversary of the Full Moon Jamboree/Doom Metal Sunday at Tito's Farm aka THE FARM on Travilah Road (May 4-5, 1985), and I want to mark this occasion by announcing the premiere of Heavy Metal Picnic, a feature length documentary celebrating that mid80s Maryland rock and roll party scene:
Friday, July 30, 2010AFI Silver TheaterSilver Spring, Maryland Time: tbd
More details soon, but I wanted to give you a heads up, especially since it was 25 years ago this very instant that Asylum was performing on stage, ushering in a weekend that became dubbed by the news media as Maryland's Woodstock.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 8 May 2010 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I did not see any live music this weekend, though I heard some cool pre-recorded Afghan dance music through the wall separating the banquet room (where an event was going on) from the restaurant room where I was eating a yummy Afghan veggie combo on Route 1 near Target in Alexandria. I found a postcard there for "Superstar Tour 2010" with Ghazal, Jonibek and others that is coming to 6 North American cities including May 21 at the Sheraton in Tyson's Corner afghanconcerts.com has the info
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 May 2010 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I ended up at a night called Spellbound at Recessions, finding out what Dark Wave means and all kinds of other subgenres I had absolutely no idea about.
― ljubljana, Monday, 10 May 2010 01:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't tell whether you sound enthused or not. I'm guessing maybe some indifference? That's kinda industrial sounding stuff, right?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 May 2010 01:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Intrigued but not super-enthused! Yeah, industrial-sounding, to my untrained ears...
― ljubljana, Monday, 10 May 2010 01:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Tonight Thursday at Station 9 on U street:
FaiBien*, a DC-based non-profit, will throw a fundraiserto help rebuild schools and jump start education in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. With two full floors of live bands, DJs, and g drink specials
Music provided by CODR** includes a performance by DC Mambo, a 9-piece band from the DR preforming salsa, merengue, and bachata, and Haitian music upstairs followed by DJ RBI (Ill St. Grooves WPFW 89.3FM) on the 1st floor spinning RnB & hip hop and the Globaltropical DJs (www.globaltropical.blogspot.com) on the 2nd floor pumping tropical bass music.
*FaiBien builds schools in Haiti for children who would not otherwise receive education and offers skills and trade training to adults. FaiBien was featured by local News Channel 8: http://www.news8.net/news/stories/0110/698774.html.
**CODR is DC-based non-profit supporting higher education for rural students in the Dominican Republic, showing support for their neighbors on the island of Hispanola!
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 13 May 2010 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
DJ set from Andy Butler of Hercules & Love Affair at U Hall on Friday...
http://www.ustreetmusichall.com/2010/05/red-fridays/
1978 was a pivotal year in the evolution of dance music. Saturday Night Fever had hijacked disco from the gay, black and Latino underground scene and turned it into a strutting global pop phenomenon spurring DJs like Frankie Knuckles in Chicago and Larry Levan in New York to push the expansive, electronic dreams of Gorgio Moroder (I Feel Love) and Walter Gibbons (Ten Percent) towards what would eventually become House and Garage.
1978 was also the year that Andy Butler was born. Exactly 30 years later, with a little help from his vocalist friends Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons), Kim Ann Foxman and Nomi, Andy is reviving the spirit of real disco and the house sounds it spawned with enough passion and finesse to ignite both the underground and the pop world all over again.
In its name, sound and romantic, heroic spirit, Hercules And Love Affair is the result of Andy’s dedication to the Classics: both the myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome that captured his imagination as a child, and the timeless club tracks that soundtracked the euphoria and delirium of his adolescence and adult life.
― skip, Thursday, 13 May 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
And Mathew Dear at Muse and a Little Brother farewell gig elsewhere for those into that brand of Native Tongue type hiphop
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 13 May 2010 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
City Paper music issue available--more indie rock focussed but some other stuff
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/calendar/show/summer-music-guide-2010
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 May 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/05/21/tonight-afghan-and-tajik-pop-plus-jamaican-dancehall/
Missed both of these events...
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 23 May 2010 04:18 (fourteen years ago) link
a couple of friends of mine are playing this weekend, more folky/jazzy style with some ethiopian elements, one of 'em Meklit just released an album so lil promo tour, attaching links to Meklit's webpage where can check audio and video and initial reviews
http://meklithadero.com/html/links.php?psi=33http://www.bernos.org/meklit/
― H in Addis, Sunday, 23 May 2010 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
oops date and time in link above but still shld have posted it
Sat, May 29The Warehouse Loft411 New York Ave NE Penn St & 4th St NE enter @ Penn St. PNC Bank
― H in Addis, Sunday, 23 May 2010 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Interesting voice Ethiopian meets Nina Simone and some folky whose name has slipped my mind at the moment.
A whole different kinda thang happening in DC tonight-
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/05/25/tonight-kompakt-djproducer-michael-mayer-at-u-st-music-hall/#more-24132
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone else go see Michael Mayer last night?
― Ivor, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
How was he? How late in the night did he go?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I had to leave early, so I caught maybe an hour of his set, I don't know what time he finished. His set was definitely good but it wasn't too revelatory. Crowd was pretty into it so he didn't really have to try hard. Maybe 150 people in attendance?
― Ivor, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
We had almost 300 people total! Really good night, he went until about 2:45.
Also, LOU was there!
― I DIED, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
:) Yeah, I *finally* made it to U Hall. Very impressed! Looking forward to Pantha du Prince.
― Suddenly Snoozin' (lou), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
2:45 on a Tuesday night? Wish I could do that but I'd love to keep my job.
Might have to make an exception for Pantha du Prince though...
― skip, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Bob Mould and the Evens will be performing at the Monday night 930 Club 30th anniversary celebration
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 May 2010 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Good news, skip - Pantha du Prince is playing live and will be a much earlier show.
― I DIED, Thursday, 27 May 2010 06:37 (thirteen years ago) link
That 9:30 Club anniversary show lineup is insane:
http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/5/3/9/53962cf014/800f2c50ae/9b1e25dbae/image1.jpg
― I DIED, Thursday, 27 May 2010 06:39 (thirteen years ago) link
This a busy town this weekend...Not sure if I'll get to anything though--the 930 stuff or other things including these: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/05/28/international-and-roots-music-weekend-roundup-tito-rojas-barrington-levy-pinetop-perkins-and-more/
That list does not include any of the numerous dj events the Going Out Gurus mentioned or the Soundclash event at the Marx cafe tonight
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 May 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Plus I missed out on the United House of Prayer funky marching band parade
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/uhop-parade-2010/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 31 May 2010 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Missed all the 930 club stuff (the invitation only Sunday night thing and the Monday night deal with the bands). Saw a few of someone's photos on Facebook--Scream with Dave Grohl, and Henry Rollins introducing the current version of Troublefunk.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Saw with the W. Post review the photo of the Evens playing upstairs on the balcony, rather than on the stage.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/06/11/your-weekend-in-international-and-roots-music-salif-keita-angel-y-kris-beausoleil-ar-rahman/#more-25081
Lots of stuff I am interested in this weekend (but I may not be able to attend).
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 June 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm still at work, day from hell, but will hopefully make Pantha du Prince. RA says he starts at 10:30 at U Street Music Hall. http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?166856
― skip, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Yep, that's when things seem to start there.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:04 (thirteen years ago) link
― I DIED, Thursday, May 27, 2010 6:37 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban PermalinkStarted at midnight, which would have been annoying had I arrived with everyone else in my group at 10:30. But instead the timing was perfect. :) By 1:20 we were out the door. He was good, not mind-blowing. The set straddled the line between dance set and art piece--that's probably the point, but it created some awkward transitions for the crowd between dancing and standing around waiting for the next beat to show up. My friends were not totally weirded out by my taste in music so I was happy.
Holy Ghost sounds like a lot of fun on Saturday but I'm probably going to be at Mixtape that night.
― skip, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Howard Theatre to be finally re-opened, rebuilt and modified into quasi-theatre and nightclub (ala State Theatre in Falls Church) maybe---
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/06/15/howard-theatre-restoration-may-mean-a-major-music-venue-for-shaw/
See the comments re the Howard and the Lincoln theatres and why they sit empty for the most part...
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2010/06/14/howard-theater-set-to-break-ground-in-august/#comments
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, I don't see why the city thinks that another version of the money-losing Lincoln Theater with MORE restrictions is going to work any better than the Lincoln.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
It's alot of money for a feel-good thing (and I say that as someone who is wowed by the list of amazing performers who were there in the 20th century years during segregation). I recall someone once suggesting that it be turned into some kind of DC music museum--but I doubt there's grant or corporate money to sustain that or enough tourist interest. DC r'n'b and jazz history may be important (and recent stuff in other genres as well), but this isn't New Orleans or Memphis (and the r'n'roll museum I think is struggling in Cleveland; they have a pricey offshoot in NYC now).
The Lincoln Theater management needs to be subject to scrutiny by the DC government and by the press.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
never really understood why the lincoln always seems so under-utilized, it's a great multi-purpose venue. one of the best concerts i've ever been too in dc was sigur ros at the lincoln (watching while seated with wine definitely beat struggling against the crowd at the 930 club), and always looked forward to the the annual reel affirmation's film festival's showings there.
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
IMP/930 has filed (another) lawsuit re Montgomery County's plan to financially support a planned Live Nation 2,000 seat mega-club in Silver Spring
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 June 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
the new D.C. Go-Go thread
More bad go-go related news
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 June 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
My buddy Jeff is gonna be on WAMU 88.5 (and online) Wednesday with host Kojo N. & others from 1:30 pm to 2 talking about 1950's & '60s DC (in advance of Jeff's Saturday Historical Society panel from 2:30 to 4)
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 03:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Lotsa stuff happening through the weekend in multiple music genres.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link
The New Pornographers played for almost 2 hours at 9:30 Club yesterday -- definitely worth the $40 for anyone going tonight.
― skip, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
It's sold out. They did a fun show when I saw 'em there awhile back.
I'm gonna be busy with my kid and will have to miss the DC Caribbean Carnival and related soca gigs, plus the special Boukman Exsperyans Haitian show Saturday night at the Folklife Fest.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Anybody see the ol' DC hardcore footage last night Marc Andersen of Positive Force was showing? How was...? They're busy again with shows at St. Stephens. So much going on-- deep house at U St., Tinariwen from Mali at 930, Caribbean Carnival, Folklife Fest, Wavves...Chuck Brown and Cyrille Neville over the weekend at the Barbeque Battle; the Eat, Drink and be Merry '50s and '50s DC nightlife panel...
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 June 2010 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link