Wonder if they pay
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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
$15 it is for the Cleves show and $15 for Heybale. $10 for someone named Carolyn Wonderland
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/05/16/humes-britton-powell-eyes-a-less-agrarian-diy-scene/
This sounds really cool: Diane Cluck/etc on Friday "in the parking lot behind Million Man Tires."
― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 19 May 2011 03:56 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man so hard to pick between this and the director q&a at westend for HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 19 May 2011 06:28 (thirteen years ago) link
^ posts that should be self-parody but aren't
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 19 May 2011 06:29 (thirteen years ago) link
ha ha
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 May 2011 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Bringing my car in for repair at a Honda dealer down on Route 1 south of Alexandria, I noticed flyers in the window of a Hispanic grocery store for gigs at Maxwell's in Manassas and Mexico Lindo in Alexandria. None of the online sites I look at list these shows, and I haven't found them through googling yet. Maybe someone also tweets about 'em, or they're advertised on AM radio, but they seem pretty under the radar to me.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 May 2011 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm thinking Maxwell's in Manassas could be as cool as uncapped LIVE, the vitaminwater-sponsored, Brightest Young Things-curated temporary arts space on 14th Street NW (& W).
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 May 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey I Died, haven't seen or heard anything about knuckleheads under 21s going into UHall on weekends and acting dumb; did the buy ticket in advance policy for youngins' take care of the problem?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 May 2011 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I think he's on vacation or away
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 May 2011 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
This November 2010 article periodically gets new comments (I guess people googling Zanzibar on the Waterfront)
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/11/04/zanzibar-on-the-waterfront-closes-down/#comments
I hate to be like this, but it seems D.C. is hell bent on getting rid of all it's successful hip hop/r&b clubs in the name of redevelopment, Funny how these white or gay clubs never get shut down, adams morgan is a drunk fools paradise, georgetown is for the whites, you gotta play for the redskins or the wizards to go to the park on 14th street, I remember going to the ritz, dc live, vip, when white people would'nt dare hang around after dark, it was just us, the bums & the rats.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 May 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
November 2010 article periodically gets new comments
how can you possibly know this
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 20 May 2011 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Um, uh as the author of the article, the Cp sends me the comments automatically when they're posted. They used to also post all their comments when received, on the Arts Desk home page, but stopped doing so.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 May 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
ahaha ok
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 20 May 2011 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i just never cease to be amazed at the things you know about, but "people keep posting comments on this article from 6 months ago" was next-level shit
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 20 May 2011 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha. Thanks
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 May 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Funny how these white or gay clubs never get shut down
funnier since the important gay clubs of the city were first to get shut down, years ago
― fauxmarc, Saturday, 21 May 2011 11:20 (thirteen years ago) link
("first" applying to the waterfront area specifically)
― fauxmarc, Saturday, 21 May 2011 11:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Yea, both the gay clubs in Southeast near the baseball stadium that got shut down and the clubs on the SW waterfront as well.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 21 May 2011 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link