alma tropicalia rules
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
dude, the coits
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Saturday, 10 September 2011 13:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i knowwww but the electrocutions!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 10 September 2011 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
did electrocutions replace xray eyeballs?
― whether rock (los blue jeans), Saturday, 10 September 2011 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
nah they're both playing
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 10 September 2011 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Glad I finally saw Alma Tropicalia. Fun.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 September 2011 01:09 (thirteen years ago) link
National Geographic gets hip. This is Saturday the 17th:
Enjoy world beats at a dance party featuring D.C.’s club-rocking DJ—Dave Nada. Nada’s self-styled electro music “Moombahton” spins a mix of reggaeton and Dutch house music that packs in the crowds at local hotspots. Opening for Dave is D.C. standout DJ Underdog, whose monthly Afrobeat party heats up African rhythms with Latin and Brazilian on the side. 21 and over; ID required
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 September 2011 01:10 (thirteen years ago) link
lol. er. it's cool and all but i'd have thought/hoped an institution like natgeo would support a scene with a less upfront and continued misogynistic slant? re: moombahton
http://s3.amazonaws.com/mad_decent_production/public/system/releases/images/61/medium/MAD-134_coversmall.jpg
never heard of underdog though, interesting
― fauxmarc, Monday, 12 September 2011 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry for nsfwishness
Seth Hurwitz of IMP's comment in that W. Post article on the new Silver Spring Fillmore:
“I thought they might be competition, which is okay,” Hurwitz says. “But they are clearly going after the soccer mom crowd and their children — people either too old or too young, to be venturing down to the big city. ”
But Dante of Black Cat still sounds a bit concerned:
“I doubt I would lose too many shows directly to them,” says Dante Ferrando, owner of Washington’s Black Cat. “But I do worry that they’ll take an approach with, say, the 9:30 Club to compete head on. If 9:30 loses some shows, they have to fill their Friday night. Now I’m competing with them over a show I would have gotten. If I lose that show, then I’m competing with Rock & Roll Hotel over a show they would have gotten.”
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 September 2011 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/fillmore-silver-spring-makes-splashy-entrance-on-dcs-concert-scene/2011/09/01/gIQA5DjLFK_story_1.html
Ticket prices look real high for this Live Nation hall
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 September 2011 13:44 (thirteen years ago) link
x-post -
I wonder if U Hall is now worrying about its new competition-- National Geographic.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 September 2011 13:45 (thirteen years ago) link
imp's demographic is definitely talking about shows at the fillmore.
― fauxmarc, Monday, 12 September 2011 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
and lol at trying to minimalize silver spring which is increasingly a destination for yon big-time city dwellers
― fauxmarc, Monday, 12 September 2011 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, can't imagine I will be seeing many shows there.
― skip, Monday, 12 September 2011 13:54 (thirteen years ago) link
$45-75 for Cheap Trick...right...
$35 for Psychedelic Furs and Tom Tom Club could be worth it though.
― skip, Monday, 12 September 2011 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
x-post
fauxmarc, here's the DJ Underdog story:
http://www.ontaponline.com/2010/10/01/dj-underdogs-special-niche-afrobeat-4-ya-soul/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 September 2011 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
btw japandroids & bass drum of death at red palace tonight
japandroids can be a lil languid for my taste but bdod rulez
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 September 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
hoos how do you get home from the red palace?
― Gukbe, Monday, 12 September 2011 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
walk a long ass way to union station
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 September 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
or take a cab a short-ass way to union station
Do the gigs at the red palace finish in time to get the last metro home? coz the rock n roll hotel has fucked me over on the count several times.
― Gukbe, Monday, 12 September 2011 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
as a general rule it works out, but i try to leave around 11:40ish regardless of what's happening w/the show just to make sure i make it home. one too many cabs home from the ass-east end of the red line have taught me that one.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 September 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I've managed to get the X2 to union station at around 11:40 but that cuts it pretty close (I need the yellow or the blue line). I get pissed about paying cab fare back to he VA, or having to miss a good portion of the headliner just to get home.
― Gukbe, Monday, 12 September 2011 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Sloan and You Am I at 8 pm at RNR Hotel tonight.
― skip, Monday, 12 September 2011 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
How do I miss Sloan every time...
Chris Richards from his review of Mary J. Blige at the Fillmore Silve Spring's opening night:
On Thursday, eager fans had to wait just a little bit longer. At 7 p.m., as doors were scheduled to open, a massive line of ticket holders stretched northeast on Colesville Road, around the corner of Fenton Street, and then around the corner of Cameron Street. Those at the end of the line waited well over an hour to get into the venue, gridlock that organizers said was due to the fact that VIP ticket holders were given first entry.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 September 2011 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
raincoats at comet tomorrow night
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 September 2011 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Raincoats at Comet is sold out. Hope you bought a ticket in advance.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 September 2011 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I bought a ticket but do not have extras.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 September 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
City Paper, Washington Post and Washington Post Express fall previews are out now, if you want to plan ahead at the standard established venues
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 September 2011 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Scanning the 9:30 Club calendar makes me feel out of the loop. Sellouts by The Head And The Heart, Matt Nathanson, and the Kooks? Who are these people?
― skip, Friday, 16 September 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NbwTQu6P78
― Gukbe, Friday, 16 September 2011 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Com Truise are opening for Neon Indian at the RNR Hotell tonight. I have no interest in Neon Indian though.
― Gukbe, Friday, 16 September 2011 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
com truise rules
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 September 2011 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Neon Indian is horrible.
― skip, Friday, 16 September 2011 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i kinda half-assedly watched em from the back at a festival a few years back and wasn't that impressed
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 September 2011 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait - what constitutes the misogynistic slant in Moombahton, besides that one wet t-shirt cover art pic?
― Walter Galt, Saturday, 17 September 2011 02:41 (thirteen years ago) link
breasts in your face and whatnot is semi-regular cover art for moombahton releases + events, usually written off/excused with a half-assed "well that's what they do in reggaeton"
http://ongakuclub.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/the-symbol-of-moombahton/
http://thebridgeoflostdesires.tumblr.com/post/6251205770/i-guess-weve-gone-from-moombahton-to
― fauxmarc, Saturday, 17 September 2011 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
uh that seems to be pretty much entirely about Mad Decent rather than moombahton as a genre
― I DIED, Saturday, 17 September 2011 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Raincoats are definately a critics fave band-- At Comet last night I saw scribes from dcist.com, City Paper, Washington Post Express and I'm sure there were others who I missed in that crowded back room. Raincoats were great. I'm not too crazy about the Felt Letters schtick--they were reading a dialogue in which they asked folks onstage("Buddy Holly", "John Bonham" ) to help channel their never released songs.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 18 September 2011 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
WMAL the 630 AM news talker (mostly right wing) will be relayed on 105.9 FM, in place of classic rocker WVRX, The Edge, as of noon today. "By expanding our successful brand to the FM dial, we will be a viable listening and advertising option for many more people in the Washington DC area," said WMAL President/General Manager Jeff Boden
I do not listen to either, but ugh-- giving rightwing talkers an FM outlet as well.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
friend of mine who is decidedly not a right-winger works for the station and she's calling herself "conflictedly excited."
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 19 September 2011 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Not sure how she can be excited at all about Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity being on fm radio as well
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 September 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Not sure what this press spam I received means exactly, but if you fall into one of those categories maybe you can get cheaper tickets to something at the Kennedy Center (maybe a jazz show???)
The Kennedy Center’s new MyTix program, designed to increase access to performances for young people aged 18-30, the underserved, and members of the armed forces, launches today. Funded by Center Chairman David M. Rubenstein and his wife Alice Rubenstein, MyTix is part of the Rubenstein Arts Access Program which enables audiences to engage in more ways, at more times, and in more places than ever before.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 September 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Bad for America, good for her resume.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 19 September 2011 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/09/19/live-music-returns-to-surf-club/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 September 2011 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Youssou N'Dour for free on Wednesday at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall at 6 and Chuck Brown for free on Friday at Wilson Plaza at 5. I saw Chuck there last year and it was swell.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
some big sets announced at U Hall:
The Field 10/29Avey Tare 11/30Digitalism 12/5
I saw Girls and Nobunny last night and was surprised at how poorly attended it was. Horrible Bon Iver just had two sold-out shows and Girls can barely fill the bottom floor. Don't get it.
― skip, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
SAHEL is headlining and will be performing at 8pm at the Pan African Fest 2011 in Silver Spring MD on Saturday, September 24.
Gonna be be out of town and miss this free gig. I think Sahel are a new local band.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Fiona Zublin's "weekend top stops" in the Thursday Post Express are always so predictable(slightly left of mainstream plus indie rock)--Tosca, Fleet Foxes..........
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link