Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

hmmm not too sure there's much going on this weekend show-wise except for coke bust (hardcore) at alfishawy cafe on saturday

for a bar, there's also pharmacy in adams morgan. good jukebox, if you get there early enough (like usually around 10) you can get a seat, there's table service, and if you grab the right seat you can watch dickheads get hammered and belligerent on the streets from the comfortable vantage of a huge window.

oh also if you're still looking for record shopping lemme correct that red onion is closed this sunday, not this saturday

The windows in the 2nd floor of The Reef are also great for dickhead watching - from there I've seen more than one drunk dude try to fight a cop after last call.

Patio seats at Polly's are also really good for people watching.

mika miko at comet thursday

^^^ yes, this

Yea, that looks good. Alas I'm gonna miss that and at lunchtime

The High Lonesome Sound Revisited: Documenting Traditional Culture in America

presented by filmmaker John Cohen

June 11, 2009, 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm, Mary Pickford Theater, 3rd Floor, James Madison Building, Library of Congress

In the early 1960s, the multitalented musician, filmmaker, and photographer John Cohen journeyed to eastern Kentucky to document the songs of church-goers, miners, and farmers, and the rural community that produced and sustained their uniquely American sound. The result was The High Lonesome Sound, a classic 1963 documentary film than evocatively illustrates how music and religion help Appalachian people maintain their dignity and traditions in the face of change and hardship. Featuring master traditional musician Roscoe Holcomb, Cohen's film also documented how different musical strands are synthesized in the playing of an individual performer. In this presentation, Cohen will discuss the making of his influential documentary, its initial reception, and its continued impact in the shaping of documentary filmmaking and ethnographic research on traditional culture both in the United States and abroad.

A respected musician and founding member of the seminal old-time string band "The New Lost City Ramblers," John Cohen has also had an equally distinguished career as a filmmaker, photographer, and record producer. The term "high lonesome sound," which he coined for his legendary 1963 documentary film, has become synonymous with an entire genre of American music. In addition to extensive fieldwork and documentation of Appalachian culture, Cohen has done important ethnographic research throughout the United States, Britain, and the Peruvian Andes. His highly-praised publication, There Is No Eye: John Cohen Photographs (2001), and the complementary Smithsonian Folkways CD There Is No Eye: Music For Photographs, brought together several threads of Cohen's work over the past fifty years.

I guess the Wednesday night Dylan movie outside got washed out--

http://www.nomasummerscreen.com/
http://fatbackdc.com/

anyone know these guys? http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/events/scheisse-dahlak/

Nope.

I'm gonna go see Jordan's band tonight at the Surf Club and probably check out one of those Mexican restaurants out there that I have heard about--maybe El Tapatio.

El Tapatio is awesome, but be warned that it's one of the loudest restaurants I've ever been in.

The chicken mole is RIDICULOUS!

future times crew @ comet tonight. i'd be there if i weren't gonna be out of town.

also, yeesh, clark sabine (motorcycle wars/statehood/metropolitan/andalusians) died. super lame. motorcycle wars were a good time.

yah that sucks. didn't know him myself but some friends are pretty upset. did not know he was in metropolitan - they were one of the first local bands i ever bought an album by, back in college when i was obsessed with spacemen 3.

do you know the future times people? i don't know much about them but am curious. who else is on their roster besides beautiful swimmers?

yeah they're good dudes. lineupwise so far there's max dunbar (1/2 of beautiful swimmers, also 1/2 of disco city), rhythm based lovers (guy who used to be in a group with the other 1/2 of beautiful swimmers, love his stuff - ilx max blogged one of his songs here, also goes by a million other names), and they've got a 4 group comp coming out soon too.

cool, thanks. i'm going to try to check this out. fuck getting to comet tho - why are all these interesting shows there - is it like a maryland thing?

I think you are in part being rhetorical, but that's where promoter Kalani (gypsy eyes) seems to like to do things or is able to do so I guess. He has filled a void that more centrally located metro-accessible clubs have not. But yea, I was talking to a DC resident without a car who said it was easier to go to Iota in Arlington than up Connecticut Ave to Comet.

yeah for me those trips are comparable and long enough to be discouraging. truth is, i'm spoiled from easy biking to 14th/u corridors. comet would be a nice ride normally but at night in the state i'm usually in when i leave a show - i'll pass

Anyone go to the first Fort Reno show the other night? Read a GOG blog post that said the city had dug up the lawn area so the bands might have to set up and use the back of the stage with people sitting back there. Kinda wanted to give Funk Ark another chance who were just ok when I last heard them(jazzy and afrobeatish sorta)

So much live roots, Latin, Caribbean stuff this weekend--the Carribean carnival parade and related Banneker park concerts and club shows; Baltimore Latino Fest; Smithsonian Folklife Fest with Latin acts and just added show with Beausoleil and Phil Wiggins and Corey Harris; Femi Kuti at 930;Stylistics at Carter Barron

Title Tracks tomorrow night at the Black Cat. Curmudgeon, what do people think of them out there?

Ha, I haven't seen 'em yet myself. City Paper, Dcist.com, and BYT folks seem to like them.

So are you folks going to those BYT hipster pool parties?

nah byt is very lame imo

Are there blogs and sites covering DC sounds--either dance or punk or whatever, that folks who post here like, or do you gather bits of information from various locations including friends and online

the latter for me. in rough order, i consult mailing lists, venue schedules, friends, certain performers' blogs, byt. i find byt's content more or less unreadable but the upcoming events right smack on the front page is handy.

i haven't gone to any of those pool parties - chef spike of the capitol hill burger place has one too on sundays. if i were planning a day at the pool i think i'd bike to the public one on haines point

yeah i pretty much do the same as thing as will

that future times show was good times, btw. still love the intimacy of the dancefloor and the soundsystem is pretty alright, considering. and people dance! i briefly/drunkenly talked to chr1s burn5 and ended up sending him the tiedye remix of dj kaos in the selfish hope of hearing it played out sometime...

http://board.crewcial.org/thread/view/321282/&p=109

lotsa videos on this go-go thread on board.crewcial.org

who are you on bco, i'm pushingit.

Actually I'm not on it (yet). Just discovered it via some other ilm thread.

i just noticed they're doing some capital fringe performances at the warehouse next door -- is that venue back?

Maybe Will or 'I Died' know, not me, although I should. My e-mail address has apparently appeared on a list given out to all alternative theatre types, so I am getting deluged with stuff (shhhh, I have not carefully read most of them).

Speaking of other chatboards/ websites I see that the mostly UK folks on Dissensus do not know anything about go-go beyond the '80s

http://dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=9506

that's still pretty good considering you're hard-pressed to find people in places as close as ny or fl that have heard of go-go at all

Saw the reunited British Walker last night at Winston's in Rockville. They were a DC rock band from 1964 to 1967 who covered Stax and Motown and penned their own Beatles-ish songs. Me and my buddy were theo only folks there under 50, make that 60. Well, Kim Kane isn't 60.

British Walkers

So when is DC gonna open up that fenced-in area of Fort Reno? It works ok now with the stage left being the front, but it's not quite as good sightline-wise.

I'm curious about Timony's band who are there next Thursday with Benjy Ferrae.

I've got a CP/Black Plastic Bag blog post up about seeing Original P (P-Funk vocalists) at Fort Dupont Park in Southeast DC.

Did anyone see Electrik Red (girl group w/ songs by The-Dream) at either Artscape or 14th & Park? I can't find any reviews. Nor of the Clipse at DC Star Saturday night. Everything is on the internet they say, maybe not.

yo steve, good to see you @ future of the left!

have you listened to any of the newer slow bounce go-go? a friend of mine is super into it and played me xib's "booty bounce" last night; sounded pretty epic.

Yep, likewise.

I think I might have that once on the radio (but not sure). I saw it mentioned on that crewcial board thread that I linked to above. So I need to check it out. I am on the Take Me Out to the Go-go E-mail list and get deluged with e-mails about go-go shows (mostly in Maryland). More of the big names than the up and comers.

I didn't see the Clipse at DC Star, but I did make it to My Crew Be Unruly 2 at Paradox in Baltimore last Friday night. Crazy lineup:

THE CLIPSE
DJ CLASS
ULTRA NATE PERFORMING LIVE
SCOTTIE B, SHAWN CAESAR, KING TUTT
NADASTROM
DOO DEW KIDZ ::: DJ BOOMAN, KW GRIFF, JIMMY JONES
TITTSWORTH
DJ AYRES
SUPA DJ BIG L
DJ TAMEIL
DJ SEGA
SAY WUT
EMYND & BO BLIZ
COUSIN COLE
NOUVEAU RICHE ::: GAVIN HOLLAND, NACEY, STEVE STARKS
THE HEAT ::: STEREOFAITH & JONNY BLAZE
CULLEN STALIN
WILL EASTMAN
UNCLE JESSE
ADAM GONZO & MARK BROWN
JAMES NASTY & ANDREW JAYE
MULLYMAN
THE GET EM MAMIS

Wow. Did you stay all night. I'm guessing to fit that many djs in unless they did short sets

can't have gone on for too long, doesn't everything in bmore have to close down by 2:30? the youtube clip or two seemed pretty hot, i miss paradox.

It went from 10pm-5am, with a front room, back room, and patio with DJs. Most people played about 45 mins. Great night!

oops, make that 11pm-5am.

Chris Richards coming back to the Washington Post as pop critic (but with Joe Heim as his editor).

How was Run for Cover at Black Cat?

Richie Unterberger Velvet Underground multimedia show for his book on that band was nice at the Library of Congress Pickford Theatre Monday. around 50 people there. Too bad they rarely show movies there anymore.
I missed Lou Reed at his photo opening at Adamson gallery though last night.

i saw those lou reed photos last week--they are surprisingly pedestrian! maybe that's too harsh. they're just landscapes, nice ones i guess, only really notable for being shot by lou reed though. the mingering mike album covers at another gallery in the same building were much more fun.

run for cover was kind of a slog. i enjoyed watching bands in which i knew people but for the most part the covers just made me want to hear the originals. also, like 4+ hours?

Oh yeah, another Mingering Mike exhibit

Lotsa r'n'b related events Saturday--Eryka Badu, C. Michele, Foreign Exchange and Chuck Brown at M. Post; O'Jays and a bunch of other 70s velour soul acts at Constitution Hall; funky New Orleans hornman Glenn Andrews and band at the Reston free concert series; Rose Royce at Fort Dupont...

Rest in Peace Eddie Daye at age 78. I first saw this longtime DC soul singer perform with his wife Denise in the 1980s at the long-since defunct Gold Room in Northeast DC. Later I saw them perform together numerous times at Gee's 4400 Club in Brentwood, Md., just near the DC line and later at Chuck & Billy's Lounge on Georgia Avenue NW, and PG Community College. He and his wife were always so friendly to everyone (and they always wanted to make sure we, their youngest and uh palest fans, felt comfortable). Brits online may cherish copies of his obscure '60s singles, I will just keep my memories of those fun late nights out seeing that always dapper gentleman sing bluesy soul. Here is a link to my 2002 feature on him:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=23835

While Malitz linked on the W. Post Post-Rock blog to my CP blog post re Eddie Daye, the W. Post obit staff has yet to write anything...

Still nothing on Eddie Daye in the paper of record in this town.

Wale and go-go band UCB all through the MTV awards tonight. Chris Richards profiled UCB in the Post Saturday. Now that he's their music critic he's been writing a bunch.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/11/AR2009091103834.html