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
isn't the express a lot of ex-dcists anyway or did i make that up
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Not sure...Stephen Deusner writes for lots of alt-weeklies around the country, Shauna Miller was once at City Paper, Rudi Greenburg is something at the Post; Chris Porter writes also for the City Paper (and like me used to do freelance concert reviews for the Post till they cut back on the number of freelancers and concert reviews).
Their Thursday issue includes their weekend entertainment guide and thankfully includes more than just that 1 page prepared by Zublin.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/09/benoit_and_sergio_interview_dfa.php
Sometimes ILXer and Voice contributor Matos interviews DC based electronic dance producers/djs/performers Benoit and Sergio
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 September 2011 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I just discovered that the "Awesome Tapes from Africa" blog guy (he's a NYer who bought a ton of cassettes in various African countries and then converts them to put them on his great blog) is gonna be at U St Music Hall Wednesday October 12 with the Beautiful Swimmers folks. It's the same night as the "DC Space Revisited' salon thing at a DC library with that sadly defunct location's owner Bill Warrell and onetime booking agent Cynthia Connolly. But I think that's early in the night, so maybe I will try to do both, punk rock and African music nostalgia in one night. Perfect for me!
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 September 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
sounds cool
― skip, Friday, 30 September 2011 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
oh rad
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 30 September 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
We are kicking off the second DC Music Salon on Wednesday, October 12th at 7pm with a visit to space... d.c. space! d.c. space was the place for punk, new wave, performance art, free jazz, poetry, independent films and all things avant-garde from '77 to '91 at 7th & E Streets, NW. The bar/restaurant was a center for innovative art and artists; 20 years later, numerous musicians and fans still say its closing has left an unfilled hole. space's owner/founder artist Bill Warrell and the club's booker, photographer Cynthia Conolly, as well as other key players will be on hand to tell us what was really happening from the inside. Great music, live footage, still photos, old calendars, and other first hand accounts will remind those who were there and educate those who weren't: space was the place.
http://www.dclibrary.org/node/14943
Shaw Library1630 7th St. N.W.Washington, DC
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 September 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
More DC nostalgia-- City Paper has online interviews (and newsprint reviews) with members of Faith and members of Void in relation to the new Dischord reissues.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 September 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
yah the void piece was great
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 30 September 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
Technically not reissues, archived material not previously released. You get the drift, right.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/09/30/void-discusses-emptying-the-vaults-being-punk-rock-in-columbia/
here's the Void email interview
and the Faith one
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/09/29/faith-discusses-its-new-dischord-reissue-history-has-been-kind/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 September 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
The next Whale w/ Awesome Tapes From Africa and Beautiful Swimmers will also be with DJ Harvey. Should be a great night!
― I DIED, Friday, 30 September 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
Does that mean the Awesome Tape from Africa guy won't be on till 1 am.? Some of us have to get up early for work on Thursdays. Maybe he will be programming at 10 or 11...
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 September 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
That means Awesome Tapes From Africa guy will probably be on earlier
― I DIED, Friday, 30 September 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
so Harvey is 1 am then? Ugh...but I will still be there
― skip, Friday, 30 September 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know why anyone's assuming a headliner would go on at 1am on a weekday?
― I DIED, Saturday, 1 October 2011 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
For some reason (perhaps mistakenly) I thought someone upthread mentioned a U St Headliner coming on really late on a weeknight. I like how the 930 Club lists approximate start times on the day of a show for the event that night. But maybe that's not a dance culture thing or simply takes too much work to do on the website(as I think the 930 is the only one who does that)
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 October 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
can someone recommend a good place to get a haircut? i'm in an odd situation, because my ex-gf cut my hair for the last 7 years, and before that a friend of mine cut it for another 2 years. and before that, i just let it grow for like 6 months because lol college.
― Z S, Monday, 3 October 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link