column on the closing of Red Palace by a guy who was involved with the place
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-taylor/killing-the-museum_b_2434653.html
But between the massive hit taken by the club from the declining economy and the increasingly vocal neighborhood complaints about noise levels from the club (arguably, on the nights the bands played the house, not the nights of variety entertainment), the Palace's days were numbered. Even the addition of a bar-grub kitchen couldn't keep folks in the venue, not with the entire H St. NE corridor now crawling with restaurants, eateries that would pull them in before show time and keep the crowds distracted long enough to not return for those shows they'd promised themselves they'd come to see, promises they'd made when sober and hungry. The Palace had gotten its start when the street was a frontier for the audience, an artsy space in a neighborhood peppered with that itchy feel of all pioneer spaces for entertainment and the arts, a hall that had helped start it all. And now simply couldn't cut the competition.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
ehhhhhh I've read some very thoughtful and honest assessments by owners of different places that have closed and that one doesn't make the list
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Thursday, 10 January 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
Those variety/burlesque/sideshow shows never really interested me, just thought the H St. NE commentary was provocative enough to mention. But he never mentions the size of the crowds they were getting for those nights.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 January 2013 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2013/01/15/corcoran-gallery-announces-pump-me-up-party/#more-86080
Just Henry R. as guest dj?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
And $35.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
Evens and Janka Nabay got some Pazz & Jop critics poll votes
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2013/01/16/howd-d-c-do-in-the-village-voices-music-poll-not-so-hot/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/film/2013/01/18/led-zeppelin-played-here-coming-to-afi-silver-theatre/#more-86248
Sunday night, my buddy's latest movie doc
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 January 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
Can't wait to see that!
― Walter Galt, Friday, 18 January 2013 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
Also Sunday:
The Hip-Hop Inaugural Ball will be held for the second time on January 20th at the Washington, D.C. Harman Center to celebrate the re-election of President Barack Obama. Hosted by Russell Simmons, LaLa Anthony & Terrence J, the Ball will feature food and desserts, open bar, photo ops, and entertainment from Meek Mill, Marsha Ambrosius, and a couple First Ladies of rap.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 19 January 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
"Led Zep Played Here" touched on more than Led Zep-- James Brown & band at Walt Whitman High in Bethesda in the late '60s; Iggy & the Stooges at the Falls Church Community Center (and the Kennedy Center); various gigs at the now-gone Alexandria Roller Rink; and the Laurel Pop Festival with Sly Stone and others that took place a month before Woodstick
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
DC Funk-Punk Throwback Jam Sunday afternoon February 24th 3 pmTrouble Funk, Scream, Shady Groove, Black Market Baby, DJ Kool, Junkyard, Youth Brigade, Static Disruptors, Worlds Collide, w/ Special Guests Stinky Dink, DJ Tommy B and more, Hosted by Henry Rollins
I just bought my tickets for this. '80s nostalgia
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 January 2013 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
Just received an email about this Jamaican restaurant & club. Never heard of it (but someday I will include it in my Best of Prince Georges County if its any good.)
Irie Bar & Grille2200 Petrie Lane Glenarden, MD 20706
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 January 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
James Brown & band at Walt Whitman High in Bethesda in the late '60s;
I went to Whitman in the early 90s and we always heard stories about this show but never knew any real details. Is there footage?! I can't wait to see this.
― Walter Galt, Friday, 25 January 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
The Zep movie just included a photo of the Godfather and his band onstage, and siad the show was actuaaly sponsored by Walter Johnson High but took place at Whitman because it had a better room for a show.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 26 January 2013 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
So are the Evens really playing Coachella ? Deathfix and the Make-up are also. Dischord going mainstream sorta.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 26 January 2013 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
C R*chards tweets that the Evens have played Coachella before. Coachella I think is promoted in part by old-school punk show promoters whom Ian M proablaby has a history of dealing with too.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 January 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
probably.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 January 2013 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
The Evens played the same year that Q and Not U played (2004), which is why Chris knows! Flea joined The Evens on trumpet, no less. It was a pretty great show. Dischord definitely has some history out there.
― She Got the Shakes, Monday, 28 January 2013 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
Wammies nominations are out. You know they missed out on lots of deserving locals, but managed to include a few. Same as ever (well, the last two years I have suggested some names to a board member and some of those names make it as nominees, but not all. Most of 'em that do make it, don't end up winning)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-state-of-nova/post/what-is-a-dive-bar-a-colloquy/2013/01/29/fc58fc16-672e-11e2-93e1-475791032daf_blog.html?tid=pm_local_pop
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2013/01/best_up_and_coming_bands_in_dc.php
Could be read as "best up and coming bands in DC that have played Fort Reno"
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 31 January 2013 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
This is tonight and has received zero press and publicity--
Mon Feb. 4
the Peace in Mali Concert with local Malian musicians Supernova King and Master Griot Cheick Hamala Diabate with Cameroonian singer Taka Tanni, and Finckya of the Congo. H.E. Al Maamoun Keita, Ambassador to the USA from the Republic of Mali, will speak. $25-proceeds to humanitarian organizations in the Malian area. from 6-9 PM at the Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, 6th St SW----------------------------------------------------------__________________________
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 February 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
What's happening?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 February 2013 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
What's new and exciting?
I finally went to Blob's Park (Buddy Holly tribute gig not polka), but that's more old & kinda fun
The Malian thang was ok
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 February 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
So many panels and events coming up in association with the Corcoran Pump Me Up exhibit. If that era is of interest there's lots to do.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/washington-has-a-music-scene-but-its-found-in-other-cities/2013/02/13/e73fd826-7459-11e2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_story.html
Some DC musicians and djs who have moved elsewhere, tell why
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 February 2013 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
lol i didn't even realize oddisee was in brooklyn now. can dc writings stop trying to make him happen then? ...not that he's not but.... yeah.
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 14 February 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
I know this show was mentioned upthread but this flyer rules!
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/26365_10151518963649458_1138598595_n.jpg
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 17 February 2013 10:37 (eleven years ago) link
Whoa! I would love to go to that. I grew up in D.C. and the only act on there I ever saw live was Stinky Dink, of all people. Worlds Collide were always an enigma to me as a Dischord-head. Were they kind of related to the Krishna-core stuff, or something like that?
― Walter Galt, Sunday, 17 February 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
I would go to that *just* for youth brigade, they're so fun live.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 18 February 2013 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lBsZj1mhw8
DJ Kool "Let Me Clear My Throat" is always fun
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 February 2013 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Metal-Dc-Zine-Thrillseeker-Minutemen-Motorhead-Barrence-Whitfield-Marginal-Man-/281066104172?pt=Magazines&hash=item4170d8656c
$50!
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
That's someone else selling that, not me btw
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
This looks interesting:
Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/faking.shtm
― los blue jeans, Thursday, 21 February 2013 03:36 (eleven years ago) link
Should I sell some back issues of Unicorn Times on ebay or is there something better to do with them?
― los blue jeans, Thursday, 21 February 2013 03:37 (eleven years ago) link
Wasn't Marc Andersen or someone setting up a zine section at a local library
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 February 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
Lots going on around town (in multiple genres)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 February 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
spam alert: my review of movie about old DC club. You can see the movie on MD Public tv Monday night
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/film/2013/02/22/the-bayou-d-c-s-killer-joint-reviewed/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 February 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
WALL OF SLEEP (DC's friendly neighborhood stoner metal band)http://wallofsleep.bandcamp.com/www.facebook.com/wallofsleepdc
THE SNIFFS (good ole fashioned garage punk, most popular band in DC for the last week of February!)http://thesniffs.bandcamp.com/www.facebook.com/TheSniffs
AKRIS (bass worshipping, heavy ass doom duo from NoVa. 100% satan approved.)http://akrisband.bandcamp.com/http://www.facebook.com/pages/Akris/170082017913
TREBLE LIFTER (hardcore/metal insanity. total riffage from NoVa!!)http://treblelifter.bandcamp.com/http://www.facebook.com/treblelifter
https://www.facebook.com/events/517558401610244/?ref=3&suggestsessionid=269a4359a2dd057db706db615a51d93c
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 23 February 2013 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.arlnow.com/2013/02/22/artisphere-two-community-centers-could-be-on-next-years-chopping-block/
Also on the chopping block is Artisphere, the Rosslyn-based cultural center that opened with high expectations in 2010. As previously reported, Donnellan is including $1.8 million in taxpayer funding for Artisphere in her proposed FY 2014 budget, but warning that she’s “assessing its performance and programming model” for next year.
“We’re going to evaluate the fiscal sustainability,” she told County Board members on Wednesday. “I’m forcing them to reevaluate how they operate. It’s an expensive operation to continue and I need to evaluate it to make sure it’s sustainable.”
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 February 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2015/mingering_mike/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/free-1920dc
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 04:37 (eleven years ago) link
got around to seeing one of the disco dan doc q+as at the afi the other week, rill rill entertaining
― fauxmarc, Friday, 15 March 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
I missed the flick unfortunately. I saw the panel with DJ Kool, Alec Mackaye, Seth Hurwitz(930 Club/IMP) and Iley Brown (TTED records & more). Pretty interesting but I wish they would have given props to WOL's AM go-go programming and WMUC's 10 watt fm programming even if such sources were not all powerful wattage 80s era FM radio stations. Plus like the exhibit, there was no mention of 80s zines. (Yes I am biased and self-interested here). A go-go musician in addition to go-go rapper DJ Kool should really be on one of the panels (and there should have been more interview material in the exhibit with go-go musicians)but there is not one.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 March 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
The exhibit still offers a lot, just could have been better.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 March 2013 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Leroy Fleming, sax player in Chuck Brown's Soul Searchers, best known for his playing on "Bustin' Loose"
http://www.tmottgogo.com/the-passing-of-leroy-fleming/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 March 2013 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
floor next week!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
ok
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 19:47 (eleven years ago) link