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― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
stuck on salsa's 9th anniversary workshop series is this saturday at the salsa room during the day. it'll actually be my first time treking down there.
http://www.eventzilla.net/web/event?eventid=2138972583
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 13:21 (eleven years ago) link
so many DMV rappers dropping mixtapes, so little time to listen.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
And then there's this:
Anyone heard of this guy?
Saturday 7/21: Lost Society w/ DJ Cortega ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------My good friend DJ Cortega, who throughs the Electrafrique party in Nairobi, Kenya, will be joining me this week for my Saturday residency at Lost Society. Cortega has made quite a name for himself in his city and is sure to bring his signature style of blending classic US house with the contemporary sounds that have given dance music its own voice in the African continent.
Lost Society2001 14th St NW WDC 2000910PM /// 21+ /// No Cover
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
the new D.C. Go-Go thread
May talk more about the Hopkinson go-go book here (when I read it!). Have discussed excerpts from it.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 July 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
curmudgeon you should check out the new Sol Power All-Stars EP: https://soundcloud.com/solpowerdc/sol-power-all-stars-ep-sampler
― I DIED, Friday, 20 July 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
Will do (despite my ocassional knee-jerk aversion to 18th Street Lounge associated acts)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 July 2012 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
wut u can't vibbbbbeeee mannnn
― fauxmarc, Friday, 20 July 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
Back from a week at the beach. What's up? Anyone catch Iceage at Black Cat or Liars at Uhall? I saw that reviewers for the W. Post liked those gigs, plus Hot Chips too.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 July 2012 05:45 (eleven years ago) link
wish I could go to this tonight:
Natalie Hopkinson discusses her book Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City. We reviewed this treatment of D.C.'s homegrown sound and cultural identity earlier this month. 7 p.m. at Politics & Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Free
That's from the W. City Paper
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 July 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2012/07/31/go-go-live-author-says-politics-prose-silenced-her-mix-cd-store-disagrees/
that one customer
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
The Howard Theatre should really list on their website that for some shows they have a $10 minimum per person/per set at the tables. Food and drinks are not cheap there, and many of the food offerings are small in quantity for what one pays.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 August 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry to seem like I'm just plugging this one source, but this is of interest (also mentioned it on the go-go thread): local rap producer and website owner Timothy “Judah” Matthews
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/08/06/interview-the-dmvs-one-and-only-judah/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) will stage a solidarity concert this Friday, August 10, from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. outside the Russian embassy (corner of Wisconsin Ave. and Edmunds St., NW) in support of the Russian punk rock group Pussy Riot.
AIUSA supporters and local D.C. music groups and artists, including indie and punk rock bands Brenda, Möbius Strip and Sad Bones, will call for the release of the prisoners of conscience. From 5:30 - 8:00 p.m., AIUSA will host a concert directly outside the embassy, as high-energy activists dressed in full Pussy Riot regalia lead chants and musical performances.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 August 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
on my way there now
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 10 August 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2012/08/10/mere-words-cannot-mark-the-end-of-fur-nightclub-but-we-can-try/
Was Fur Nightclub really that bad? Just askin'.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 August 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
let me draw a venn diagram for you of citypaper writers and fur's audience
O O
― I DIED, Saturday, 11 August 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
still a pretty sucky place though
http://www.wtop.com/109/2988482/DC-rallies-around-Russian-punk-band
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 12 August 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Pp8xql.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 12 August 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
the sole purpose of taking that photo was to sneakily capture zorro bardem there in the bkgrnd
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 12 August 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
I know y'all are excited about the chance to get tickets to see ZZ Top and Skrillex, together at last.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
what
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
so Jens Lekman/Taken By Trees at the 930 and Lindstrøm at U Street both on Friday, Oct. 12. What are the chances I could see *both*?
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 06:07 (eleven years ago) link
should be doable - we'll probably put Lindstrøm on no earlier than 12:30 and I'd imagine the 9:30 Club show will be over by then
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 10:34 (eleven years ago) link
Lindstrøm at U Street
!!!!!!!!
― skip, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
Any prospect of getting Blondes to play?
― skip, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 14:09 (1 week ago) Permalink
what― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver
Virgin Mobile freefest seems kinda dull to me this year (Nas, Dismemberment Plan, Das Racist & M83 could be good though). Free tickets available Thursday to those with the secret password, Friday to the masses
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
(xpost) Blondes played last year! Almost nobody came though :(
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
Damn
― skip, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
a ton of stuff on our calendar I'm really stoked for:
8/30 Claude von Stroke9/1 Gesaffelstein/Brodinski9/14 Matt Tolfrey9/26 John Talabot (I'm opening for that one!)9/28 Damian Lazarus9/29 Grimes early show9/29 Classixx10/3 Aeroplane/Tiger & Woods10/12 Lindstrøm10/20 FLight Facilities10/21 SBTRKT10/26 Carl Craig 6-hour set
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
Talabot is enticing but ugh weekday.
Grimes/Classixx is gonna be a busy day.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
Disco nap for Talabot - his first US live show!
I'm straight up worried for my health on Damian Lazarus/Grimes/Classixx weekend
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
Hearing new Taxi fares are making trips from DC out to VA late at night more expensive than they were. I'm skint anyway, though I would love to see Talabot. I'll make do with Lindstrom and *maybe* Classixx if I can scrape the money together.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
Is Lindstrom the sort of thing that would sell out or is that cool for a "ticket on the night" kind of deal?
Gutted I didn't get a ticket for Grimes, especially with Elite Gymnastics.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
Lindstrøm should be fine for a walk up ticket
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
Not that I don't love Elite Gymnastics, but people should be beating down the doors for Lindstrom
― skip, Thursday, 23 August 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
His next album needs to get a BNW on P4k and then it'll sell out. The Chromatics gig at RNR Hotell was unbearably packed.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Thursday, 23 August 2012 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
freefest tickets went in a minute. Scalping agencies must have some secret way to nab 'em
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 August 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
nah just think about the 16-24 population in the DC area and it being a free show, HUGE demand
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Thursday, 23 August 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
Plus those ZZ Top fans!
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 August 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Vance Bockis, member of 9353, Factory and others. Saw it mentioned on Facebook but no other details
― curmudgeon, Sunday, September 2, 2012 2:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Was also in Obsessed
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 September 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
I'm looking forward to these Friday night showings:
Library of Congress Jazz Film Series Presents Pioneering Television series “The !!!! Beat: Legendary R&B and Soul Shows From 1966” AT HILL CENTER on Capitol Hill, Southeast of the U.S. Capitol Building921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE Washington, DC Every Friday night in September THEY’ll be showing four, half-hour programs from this rarely seen music series. All screenings are free and begin at 7:00 pm. The !!!! Beat was a pioneering blues, soul and r&b television show broadcast from WFAA in Dallas, Texas and hosted by radio d.j. William “Hoss” Allen. The series, which began production in January 1966, ran for 26 episodes with a rocking house band and go-go dancers.
Sept 7: Volume One includes performances by Little Milton, Frank Howard & the Commanders, Esther Phillips, Gatemouth Brown, Joe Tex, Etta James, Lattimore Brown, Roscoe Shelton, Lee "Shot" Williams & Gerri Taylor, Carla Thomas, Art Grayson, Cleo Randle, Mighty Joe Young and Jimmy Church
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
edm analysis
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/09/06/rolling-in-the-deep/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
ticketed for Saint Etienne. So much good stuff coming to U Hall this fall.
― skip, Thursday, 6 September 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
Is getting to DC Star(soon to be Echostage) on Queens Chapel Rd NE (near Stadium) without a car, that much harder than getting to H St NE clubs without a car? I guess so, but am not sure.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 September 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
Saint Etienne are one of my favorite bands of all time. Thrilled about the show.
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Thursday, 6 September 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
curmudgeon, that looks even worse than getting to H Street. You'll probably want to take Metro to NoMa or RI metro stations and then cab.
― skip, Thursday, 6 September 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
x-post--I should probably get St. Etienne tickets (if they're not gone).
My old-school weekend starting tonight-Those 1966 The !!! Beat tv episodes filmed in Dallas, at Hill center on Capitol Hill;
Bob Mould doing Sugar and his new album with band tomorrow at 930
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 September 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
i'll be at bob mould, as well as mission of burma after at black cat. memo to self: EARPLUGS
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 7 September 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link