This might be interesting for Beatles fans.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
30th anniversary of 1st Wilson Center show
!! anyone know where i can find a lineup, want to come down for this
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
aw nevermind, it's more of a benefit with five bands, i thought maybe a lot of bands were coming through or something.
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Are the Max Levine Ensemble who are headlining, worth seeing?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i recall seeing their name around a decade ago and probably saw them a few times but i wouldn't go out of my way if there's anything else to do. of course they were in highschool then, ha i'm sure things have changed.
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I have seen that band name around for awhile but was never inspired to check them out.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 April 2011 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link
akufen at u-hall 5/12, nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7nNF0FJ3-I
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 28 April 2011 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds like the next best thing to getting jason forrest.
― skip, Thursday, 28 April 2011 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
chris richards on the chancha via circuito thing at restaurant judy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/click-track/post/lists-three-things-that-helped-make-chancha-via-circuito-the-best-dj-weve-seen-this-year/2011/04/29/AFOh6YEF_blog.html
cool but for some reason this irks me, a bit reaching for an association maybe but whatever
For fans of Washington go-go, sluggish dance music makes sense. Chancha’s “nu-cumbia” is slow and stubborn like go-go — the beat drags its feet a microstep behind the song's implicit pulse, as if being reluctantly pushed out onto the dancefloor.
― fauxmarc, Friday, 29 April 2011 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I agree with you on the "reaching for an association" thing.
I wonder if anyone will cover this less than trendy international music event I mentioned on the Rolling African 2011 thread:
And I picked up a postcard for the Ethiopian show billed as "for the first time in America Helen Berhe" and "the talented Abraham Gebremedhin with the Zion band Sat. April 30 at DC Star 2135 Queens Chapel RD NE DC ethiostarent.com
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 April 2011 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
don't know anything about her but a shame if not, for all of nyc's multicultural reputation i miss the heavy ethiopian + eritrean presence in dc and take it less for granted
― fauxmarc, Friday, 29 April 2011 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't find any reviews of the Saturday night Helen Berhe gig at DC Star.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
So many sold-out gigs at 930, RnR Hotel, Black Cat and elsewhere this month.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
kind of surprised that Beirut sold out so early at $30.
― skip, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, college kids with money...
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
And $30 for Beirut seems a bit much.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
byt website is hiring
BYT is having a casting call in order to advance its coverage of everything awesome in the DC area.(and beyond)We aren't talking just about music.If you want to write about literature and Olsson's book signings, we want you.Food/Wine reviewers-we want you.If you're stylish and crafty, we want you.Got an itch to gossip with the gays, we want you.If you're a struggling photojournalism grad who can rock a Canon 30D at a concert (or any other event, really), we want you....
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 May 2011 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
info (at) brightestyoungthings.com (with the subject line FUTURE CONTRIBUTOR?)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Wonder if they pay
i don't believe so
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
David Malitz at the W. Post reported that Sonar in Baltimore is closed because of a dispute among its owners that somehow resulted in the liquor license not being reviewed.
How was In Flagranti at UHall last night? Speaking of the W. Post, they're a Chris Richards fave that he likened to a post-disco LCD Soundsystem
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
renewed not reviewed.
Not sold-out (yet) May rock gigs that look of interest:
5-7 Punk Rock Flea Market @ St. Stephens; Velvet Marias @ Hill Country BBQ; 5-9-Dirty Beaches @ Black Cat;
5-13-The Queers @ the Ottobar; 5-18-Alasdair MacLean w/ Lupe-Nunez Fernandez of Pipas as Amor de Dias plus Damon and Naomi @ Red Palace; 5-27 Scream @ Black Cat; Quintron @ Red Palace 5-28-Beach Fossils @ Kennedy Ctr. Mill. Stage; 5-29 Medications @ K. Ctr. Mill. St.; 5-30-Times-New-Viking @ Black Cat
Non-rock gig highlights include Calle 13 at Galaxy tonight; some UHall stuff; and May 21-Los Amos de Nuevo León at El Boqueron II, 1330 East Gude Drive Rockville ( accordion-slinging combo linked to the controversial "Narcocorrida" genre)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm goin to
+Municipal Waste, D.O.C., Extermination Angel@ Comet Ping Pong 10pm $10 (available at Smash!)
tomorrow night
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.tgrionline.com/2011/04/challenge-to-all-moombahton-producers.html
Dowling's blog can be fun to read even when I don't agree with him or think he's being too dramatic
Moombahton should not end up like the hipster evolution of Baltimore club music, a sound plagued by a choking overabundance of bootlegs and edits ultimately for internet mixtape consumption that ultimately left the sound without a significant localized or grass roots core. Moombahton must be global and local, with a perpetually supportive and progressive grass roots community. Without the proper attention and dedication from the DJ and production community, there is a problem on the horizon.
I challenge moombahton to create community and to create a strong localized fanbase that can carry the sound to greater and deeper penetration and a higher expectation when the time is right for both a consistently excellent and musically important underground, but also crossover and mainstream success. DJs, producers and fans, the ball is in your court.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 May 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
moombahton is cute but yeah, no.
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 5 May 2011 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Calle 13 (from Puerto Rico) at Galaxy in Hyattsville last night Thursday started actually on Friday morning at 12:50 am and ended at 2:20 am. 2 security people frisked me and everyone had to take out everything that was in their pockets and hold them-- keys, change, wallet, whatever) or put them on the ground. I hate worknight events starting that late. I won't go back there on a weeknight.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 May 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Tame Impala/Yuck tonight, I'll be wearing my flannel.
― skip, Friday, 6 May 2011 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Wish I'd gotten a ticket! I'm even already wearing my flannel.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 May 2011 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha. Sold out show. My kid played Yuck for me and I liked them even though they are so derivative(see Washington Post clicktracks blogpost re dreampop and Pavement and Yo La Tengo and Sonic Youth "Teenage Riot'. I have no idea who Tame Impala are.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 May 2011 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Just noticed that this show is tonight:
Bells≥'s D.C. debut tonight at 8 p.m. at St. Stephens with Office of Future Plans (that'd be the band of Barocas' former Jawbox bandmate J. Robbins) and More Humans for a Positive Force benefit to fight spinal muscular atrophy. $5.
Zach B. from Bells was in Jawbox with J.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 May 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
office of future plans are great live btw - a lot of their stuff sounds almost exactly like the first burning airlines record, which is totally fine with me
― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 6 May 2011 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i was considering that if not muni waste
do we have opinions on that which is superior?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 May 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
if you can't do both (aren't municipal waste a late show?) municipal waste 100%
― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 6 May 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
noted
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 May 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
roxy toured w/them a few years back or something iirc and she really talked them up so i'm kinda going ears unheard
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 May 2011 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
interivew with Sharon Cheslow re the Chalk Circle retrospective
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/click-track/post/revisiting-chalk-circle-dcs-first-all-female-punk-band/2011/05/12/AF72FI0G_blog.html
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 May 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Saturday late morning and afternoon bluesy-soul and zydeco programming on WPFW 89.3 is great even if they're doing their annoying 4 times a year(for 2 plus weeks at a time) on-air fundraising. I should listen more to their weekday 10 pm backback rap djs--kinda smug but a change of pace from KYS and mp3s and cds
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 May 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
seein rev horton heat tonight @ 9:30
little bit of texas comin to visit
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 14 May 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
He's fun. Was going to go see the DC Brazilian bill at Artisphere-Alma Tropicalia, all female percusshion orchestra Batala, and DJ Neville, but this cold or something bug I somehow caught may keep me home
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 May 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Is it worth a late night before an early Sunday start to see Shortstaxx at Comet?
― ljubljana, Saturday, 14 May 2011 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe Hoos or others know, I saw the following in an e-mail I got but have never seen burleque act Short Staxx
Saturday May 14th, Satan’s Youth Ministers, Shortstaxx (Sticky Buns Burlesque) and The DrainsAll Ages, Doors 10:30pm & $10
Satan's Youth Ministers (Psychedelic/Garage/Gospel, Kill Shaman, Tuscumbia AL)http://www.facebook.com/satansyouthministersThese deep south Alabama natives bring their twisted take on growing up in bible belt to DC. This show promises to be all brimstone and fire! Shortstaxx (Sticky Buns Burlesque, Washington D.C.)http://www.facebook.com/people/Short-Staxx/1250551351Our very special guest, the outrageous Shortstaxx, will bring her unique stye of burlesque, blending comedy and rock'n'roll attitude.
The Drains (80's influenced hardcore/punk, Washington D.C.)If the Ramones and The Circle Jerks threw up in a gutter, The Drains are what would crawl out.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 May 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Lotsa interesting music coming to town this summer at both big places and small. But can I complain again that I can't persuade any promoter (or at least their underlings) to bring the Louisiana based Ponderosa Stomp to town. The Stomp folks dig up obscure soul, rockabilly, Louisiana swamp romp, and blues and have done events at Lincoln Center in NYC in addition to SxSW and their annual gatherings in New Orleans. I'm gonna have to win the lottery and do it myself.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
^ saw that at Lincoln Center last year and was really great
― harrumph. (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Anybody seen Texas music at Hill Country bbq yet?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link
waht
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Rootsy acts like the Derailers have been playing there for free. The gigs are only mentioned on their website.
Hill Country BBQ (http://hillcountrywdc.com/) opened around 7th & E Sts NW a month or so ago. Hill Country refers to the Hill Country of Texas. The original one of these places is in New York City(the owner's father is from Texas but he grew up in the DC suburbs). It has a basement bar where they have bands. Most of the gigs are for veteran local bands; the Grandsons, Oklahoma Twisters, Honky Tonk Confidential,etc. My friend noted " And since this places is a BBQ joint first and a venue second, I think it's useful explain how things work for the uninitiated. You've got a choice to make as soon as you walk in the door: seated at a table or at the bar. They are treated differently. For table seating each person gets a meal card which tracks your purchases (don't loose it). Service is cafeteria style; there are a few meal options, but you pick what you want like a deli... 1/4 lb of brisket, sausage, or whatever. The food is quite good, even if they do follow that strange Texas emphasis for barbecuing cows. When I arrived on Friday the wait for tables was significant, 45 minutes maybe. But you can call ahead and reserve a table, which is particularly important if you want one downstairs."
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
wahhhhhhhhhhhhhht <3 the derailers
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
You have to get tickets for some of them-- Heybale, Slaid Cleves...
Are they worth seeing?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
man heybale...they're really really great austin-style country-roots-rock, but their lead singer/songwriter killed himself back in january--i don't understand how they can tour without him in front, let alone if they're worth seeing without him. well hell, they're worth seeing, but it won't be the same.
slaid cleaves is alright enough. i'd see him if tix were 10-15.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link