Not seeing it in google and no access to Facebook right now. Will post it later. Sorry.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
Try "80's DC hardcore scene kids"
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
curmudgeon, you might like this recording from the last Moombahton Massive vs. Tormenta Tropical - especially Uproot Andy's set that starts around 23 minutes in
http://soundcloud.com/uhalldc/moombahton-massive-vs-tormenta
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
Found it; thanks - great stuff!
― She Got the Shakes, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
Bachata, Kizomba, Zouk Once a Month Mixer @ Eleventh St. Lounge, scheduled to occur on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 7:00 PM has been cancelled. Please update your plans accordingly.
I've never been to this Arlington joint. Has anyone here been there?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
going to the Field at U Hall tomorrow. Hopefully it doesn't snow.
― skip, Friday, 28 October 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
Don't know why U Hall can't have early shows on a weeknight when they'd be really helpful. Is it meant to snow?
― encarta it (Gukbe), Friday, 28 October 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
i'm hearing it could.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 28 October 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
Actually scrap that early shows thing. I don't know what I'm talking about.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Friday, 28 October 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
I'm spinning pre-Field tomorrow! Doors at 7, The Field at 8:30
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Friday, 28 October 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
yay
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 28 October 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
BTW those posters at U Hall are indeed very nice.
The Field was solid, and hopefully will be able to make it out for the Magician on Wednesday.
― skip, Monday, 31 October 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/11/01/rip-d-c-soul-singer-reese-palmer/
I saw Reese Palmer sing sometime in the '90s with the Legendary Orioles but his claim to fame was starting the Marquees at Cardoza High in DC in 1957 with Marvin Gaye. RIP
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
Still no Washington Post mention of Palmer's death. That bugs me.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/11/02/raheem-devaughn-occupies-bandcamp/
Raheem DeVaughn's getting political sorta, any other DC musicians?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 November 2011 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
X-post. So emailing my City Paper obit for Reese Palmer to the Washington Post's obit writers just paid off:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/reese-palmer-lead-singer-of-washington-doo-wop-group-the-marquees-dies-at-73/2011/10/31/gIQASOcRjM_story.html
RIP Reese. funeral today
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 November 2011 12:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2011/11/04/the-surf-club-closing-forever-after-56-years/
Sold to become a laundromat
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 November 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
Hard Art Gallery 1979 DC punk photos exhibit opens Saturday. The opening reception is from 7 to 9 pm at the Civilian Art Projects, 1019 7th St. NW
The exhibit runs to 12-31 and the gallery has kind of limited hours.They're taking it on the road to Austin, New Orleans and maybe elsewhere after DC
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 November 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2011/11/02/the-artspace-race-d-c-%E2%80%99s-newest-artist-apartments-are-great%E2%80%94if-you-can-get-in/
― fauxmarc, Friday, 4 November 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
Gonna try to get to the Hard Art 79 opening tonight. Missed Scratch Acid/Kepone and other stuff last night
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 5 November 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
The geezer punk photo opening at Civilian was fun last night.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 6 November 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
You can see the photos in the 2 rooms in about 5 minutes.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 November 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
So yes I like work night gigs to start early, but last night at the State Theatre they were still checking ids and taking tickets for the sold-out Julieta Venegas show with a line out the door onto the sidewalk when they went ahead and started the show (I'm guessing at 8:30, the announced start time on their website). I was there early waiting for a friend to arrive and after picking up tickets from will-call and then getting into the only entrance line we didn't get in the hall till nearly 8:45 with Venegas singing. She performed till 10:30.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
Glad I got to the National Gallery of Art at 3 for the free 4 pm Dean & Britta Andy Warhol thing as the line went way down the hall. Folks who got there at 3:30 or later could not get seats. I think every DC music critic in town was there (insert everyone will write about Velvet Underground jokes here)
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 13 November 2011 07:33 (twelve years ago) link
ted leo at sacred heart tonight was p good
also got a flier for a ~secret coits matinee~ tomorrow
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 13 November 2011 08:31 (twelve years ago) link
secret
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 13 November 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
Lots of the Wale "Bait(work)" video is shot at Howard and is featuring a go-go band in some concert shots(not sure where the gig is), but Wale's wearing a New Orleans Louisiana jersey (which I guess is a smart marketing decision as far as getting national video play). Great song but not on his new album.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 November 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/film/2011/11/15/afro-blues-in-the-final-four/
OK, I finally watched Howard's Afro-Blue on tv last night. Not bad, although I am not completely won over by lead vocalist Christie Dashiell on Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together".
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://thesobsister.blogspot.com/
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/01/03/melody-records-will-close-this-winter/
Melody Records in Dupont Circle closing and the Georgetown Barnes & Noble
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
Ian Mackaye's on Kojo's show on WAMU today Wednesday talking Fugazi archive(they just added 25 more shows)
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
Waldorf, MD soulman Jim Bennett has gotten nice coverage at Daddy B. Nice's r'n'b soul blog
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
I posted about this in the sandbox thread - there are successful record stores in every city I have spent time in post-high school - Amoeba in San Francisco (though there were always negative rumors about how well they were actually doing), Princeton Record Exchange, Academy Records (and many others) in NYC. The key to all of those was increasing foot traffic by selling music at every price point, from 99 cents to 99 dollars. I don't buy that DC is too unartistic or unworthy for a CD shop. But DC is indeed not a town that can sustain a CD shop that prices new albums at $16.99 and $17.99, with a "sale" at $15.99. Even at the clearance price, I got 11 CDs for $150.
Bridge Street Books in Georgetown is still open for people who miss B&N, though the amazing old/rare book shop down the street on 29th also recently closed, to little fanfare.
― skip, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
Bridge Street is pretty nice, I bought Xhuxk's book there
― los blue jeans, Thursday, 5 January 2012 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
just noticed U Hall booked Aeroplane again for February.
What's the deal with the "9:30 Club/Black Cat presents" designation for the rock shows?
― skip, Thursday, 5 January 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
Cassian's opening for Aeroplane, which is exciting! In a similar vein, Classixx is coming back in Feb and I'm opening for them, which is also exciting!
this explains the 9:30/Black Cat/U Hall thing better than I could:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-gurus/post/u-street-music-hall-and-930-club-partnership-brings-more-bands-to-u-hall-more-djs-to-930-backbar/2011/11/22/gIQAtYzflN_blog.html
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Thursday, 5 January 2012 04:20 (twelve years ago) link
omg after about 10 months of being ill I might finally be on the mend. I will hit it for Classix and probs Aeroplane if at all possible.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Thursday, 5 January 2012 05:18 (twelve years ago) link
Classixx are seriously some of the best DJs I've ever seen.
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Thursday, 5 January 2012 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
i don't know if it was part of the partnership or if there were undersales or what but i'm super-psyched that buraka som sistema is moved from the 930 club to u. so much more dancefloor-oriented (wherein the 930 club sort of just isn't)
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
RIP DC blues man Whop Frazier (who also played with various old DC soul outfits and maybe even Chuck Brown at some point)
http://inabluemood.blogspot.com/
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/01/06/william-whop-frazier-1943-2011/#comments
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 January 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
I just got home from the U Hall annual staff party and I just want to say that it's such a genuinely great group of people with extraordinary chemistry, and I have no doubt our success is attributable to them in so many ways.
Also we had a moonbounce and sumo suits at the party and it was amazing.
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 08:17 (twelve years ago) link
i think mark farina a few weeks back was my first time out there. i'd just like to thank the establishment for allowing me to listen to house music while standing there eating a blunted pho dog, life just seemed really right
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
Busy with family, gonna have to likely miss Buraka Som Sistema there tonight, and at Politics & Prose tonight at 7- Daphne Carr, ethnomusicologist and series editor of the annual Best Music Writing anthology in a discussion about music and music writing with this year’s guest editor, New Yorker music critic and author of The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross, along with contributors including Ann Powers, Chris Richards, Frankin Bruno, and Jason Cherkis.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
the buraka show was NUTS. how do we make that happen again like tomorrow
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
I don't believe we can make it happen tomorrow but especially with the 9:30 club partnership there should be a lot more great live shows coming up.
I couldn't make it to the show tonight (at home working on flyers for more shows) but all the feedback I heard was super great.
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 05:36 (twelve years ago) link
Did Buraka spray water guns like they often do?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
well there was the water bottle they sprayed
and erm the vodka bottle i may or may not have gotten vodka poured into my mouth from them like a clubbing it up undergrad
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
...and bonus points for the kuduro'd lionel ritchie "all night long" and the straight "rhythm is a dancer" from snap
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
orchard lounge was really good last night too, i hadn't heard of them just went on a whim. lol i'm kind of into 18+ over shows, the kids like to have fun rather than stand there on the floor drinking/grinding.
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 12 January 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
eeeeverybody was dancing last night it was fun but so unexpected for a rainy Wednesday night!
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Thursday, 12 January 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry for posting it at the last minute, but Paint Fumes at Comet Ping Pong tonight looks like it will be fun
― Just to the left of her pelvis is Lord of the Flies (los blue jeans), Monday, 16 January 2012 00:08 (twelve years ago) link