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 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone else go see Michael Mayer last night?
― Ivor, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
How was he? How late in the night did he go?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 17:37 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
Yep, that's when things seem to start there.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:04 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
the new D.C. Go-Go thread
More bad go-go related news
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 June 2010 23:07 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
Lotsa stuff happening through the weekend in multiple music genres.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 13:26 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
what's the deal with that panel? i have zero time this weekend but if there is an accompany website or something i would love to see it
― W i l l, Friday, 25 June 2010 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link
From the press release Jeff sent me:
On Saturday, June 26 at 2:30PM, the Historical Society of Washington, DC will host an encore of a popular conference panel discussion, EAT DRINK AND BE MERRY IN 1950-60s DC, a nostalgic journey using images from the HSW Emil Press Collection (1959-1979). As a hobby, Mr. Press shot nearly 4000 color slides of Washington DC between 1959 to 1979, and many are images of our lost buildings, streetscapes and commercial establishments.
Panelists:local writer Vance Garnett, longtime music fan Mike Baker and Washington Post On The Town columnist John Pagones (1959-65). More panelists to be announced.
And audience participation will be encouraged.
“These are people who experienced the city’s cultural tapestry of the 50s and 60s,” Krulik says. Baker will talk about the Howard Theater, Ebart’s Jazz Mecca, Bohemian Caverns and other r’n’b, rock, and jazz clubs in the city’s U Street and Southeast neighborhoods. Garnett will address Coffee ‘n’ Confusion, the D.C. beatnik hangout that opened in 1959. (Jim Morrison would frequent the place when he was growing up in Alexandria.) Garnett will also cover Bassin’s at 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, known for its outdoor cafe and honky tonk piano sounds; the Rocket Room, an early rock club at 12th Street and New York Avenue near the old Greyhound Bus Station; Charlie Byrd’s Showboat Lounge on 18th Street; and the Blue Mirror, a music club on 14th Street that later became a strip bar.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 June 2010 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Garnett also used to be a lounge singer I think. He was on with Jeff on Kojo's WAMU radio show on Wednesday throwing out his brief memories of places.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 June 2010 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
panel sounds awesome--really wish i could go to it!
― W i l l, Friday, 25 June 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I wonder if the panel talked about the Blu Mirror (discussed in this linked John Kelly Washington Post item)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/26/AR2010062603621_pf.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 June 2010 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Jeff told me the panel had about 100 persons in attendance. He also said, "Lots of great stories from everyone, including Richard Mendelson whose father owned Benny's Rebel Room."
Speaking of old DC music history, I missed the tribute to Carr's Beach concert that took place in Annapolis on Sunday. When many of the area beaches and amusement parks were off-limits to Blacks, Carr's Beach near Sandy Point was the place to go for area African-Americans.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2010/07/02/international-roots-music-weekend-roundup-the-smithsonian-folklife-festival-arcangel-and-more/#more-26229
cough ....plug....cough(quickie post I prepared last night that includes a UHall event, the Folklife fest, and some reggaeton and more
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 July 2010 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Glen Echo dancing types love the Folklife Fest...(and me too. It has been slimmed down over the years. Less money available)
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 3 July 2010 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks for the tents there. Made it bearable. Not too crowded there today on this Monday government holiday.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 July 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
W. Post critic David Malitz' band the Cheniers are at Fort Reno tonight.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 July 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Morgan Geist (Metro Area) and DJ Sprinkles at U Street Music Hall tonight.
― skip, Friday, 9 July 2010 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
How was it?
Saturday:
Unrest at Black cat tonight; Norwegian pop group whose name I forgot at Iota; ConFunktion, Zapp & Slave at Carter Barron; and a Brit postpunk group at Comet Ping Pong
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 10 July 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Really good. Morgan Geist played a mix of stuff and Thaemlitz's set was all his own music. Both were more uptempo and crowd-pleasing than I expected, especially Thaemlitz. A track like Masturjakor sounds amazing on that sound system and people were dancing about as hard as you can dance to his music. I thought the crowd would mostly be gay nerds but it was almost all straight people--just the typical crowd for U Hall's Friday night parties? Unfortunately Thaemlitz came on at 1:30 a.m. and I only lasted until 2:30, but it was a very solid hour. I got there at 11:30 and Geist's set lasted the full two hours until Thaemlitz.
― skip, Sunday, 11 July 2010 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
hmmmmm. Interesting. http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/07/19/for-dj-neekola-iphone-app-is-the-new-show-flyer/#more-26897
“DJing a big club in D.C. is definitely different than DJing in Europe,” she says. “If it’s a local night here, it’s never as full as a club would be over in Europe. And in Europe I can get more creative with the music…I don’t have to stick to just vocal house, and I never have to mix in top 40 or commercial stuff, but it’s like a necessity here in D.C. And almost always in Europe, the people jump, wave their hands and dance like crazy.”
Neekola DJs at local venues like L2, MOVA, Funxion, and Auld Shabeen in Fairfax. She spins at L2 on June 23.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 July 2010 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Never been there, but based on what I've read, I can imagine that dj'ing anywhere else would be better than dj'ing at Georgetown lounge L2.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 July 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
"Georgetown lounge"
Ugh
― skip, Monday, 19 July 2010 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
noooo comment on that piece.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 04:59 (fourteen years ago) link