Who knew Dulles Airport was a location for interesting events :
What: K-Style DCWhen: May 1-3, 2013Where: Washington Dulles International Airport (2nd floor lobby)
The Korean Cultural Center Washington DC is taking the local Korean Wave to new heights with K-Style DC, a 3-day event featuring traditional-modern fusion music, Hanbok fashion shows, Taekwondo exhibitions, and interactive K-Pop dance performances at Washington Dulles International Airport, May 1-3.
Sure to delight guests are a lively rendition of Psy’s Gangnam Style on centuries-old instruments by performance group MIJI, and the designer fashions of Joo Young-sook, whose clothing has appeared in several Korean dramas. Both will be visiting from Korea for the event.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, May 5, 2013 3:11 PM (Yesterday)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 May 2013 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2013/05/03/dmv-beats-oneway-nooch-x-o-yaddiya-alli-the-abstract-lyriciss-rathemc/
I can't keep up with DC rap. Too may rappers, too many releases. I am old I guess.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 May 2013 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
Speaking of old, fellow old guy Ian Mackaye is gonna talk for free at the Library of Congress Madison Building tonight May 7 at 6 about archiving music.
His brother Alec is gonna talk May 17 at Politics & Prose alongside photographer Lucian Perkins about their new book "Hard Art," that includes Perkins great photos from 1979 DC punk shows at the Hard Art Gallery, and essays by Alec Mackaye and others
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
LA-based dream rockers SISU (including members of Dum Dum Girls) are at Black Whiskey tonight. Wonder if they're any good, I kinda liked Dum Dum Girls
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2013/05/17/chuck-brown-fans-friends-assemble-for-joyous-tribute-at-howard-theatre/
This was a fun tribute event
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 May 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
Saw photos on someone's twitter feed of long line down U street to get into UHall to hear new Daft Punk on vinyl. Eh, I just listened to it on Spotify. I know-- inferior sound and all that.
I was out on the town Monday seeing 3 go-go vets with the Burnt Sugar Arkestra and poet/photographer Thomas Sayers Ellis at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. The crowd consisted of a mix of tourists checking out the building and Burnt Sugar & go-go fans. I had feared the music would be too avante with bleating horns, but that was not the case. Go-go congas and Indian tabla and more sounded fresh and lively.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
I still need to listen to the archived tape of Alec Mackaye & Lucian Perkins on WAMU with Kojo.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
jesus, I thought we'd get maybe 50 people for the Daft Punk listening party at U Hall and we got 800. Crazy.
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
rad
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
Is anyone here going to the Cocksucker Blues screening/lecture at the National Gallery tomorrow without going to the preceding Ornette Coleman documentary?
― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Friday, May 24, 2013 10:28 PM (Yester
This was posted over on ILE Brad Pitt DC thread, but am re-posting here. These are showing today, Saturday at the National Gallery at 2 (Ornette) and 4 (Stones)
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 25 May 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
I missed the movies, Blank Realm & Foul Swoops and Total Control on separate nights at Black Cat playing fast n loud; the return of The-Dream (with Kelly Rowland this time); and El Gran Combo's old-school salsa, and more, but I did see Lil Margie from 60s DC soul/girl group the Jewels at Westminster Church in SW last night. A great voice and charismatic and cute.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2013/05/29/hey-come-to-our-show-at-the-smithsonian-american-art-museum-on-friday/
2 indie bands and a rapper, for free
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://soul51.com/
Guy takes photos of old-school DC soul singers
― curmudgeon, Friday, 31 May 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
Folklore Society of Greater Washington Folk Festival this weekend at Glen Echo Park.
― los blue jeans, Saturday, 1 June 2013 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
I went to Gator Day instead. WPFW Dj Gator's bill of local blues and southern soul plus Mississippi southern soul singer Ms. Jody and dj Larry Robinson, down at Lamont's in Pomonky, Md off of Indian Head Highway, a little ways south of Wilson Bridge & National harbor
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 June 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
A few folks there were linedancing like this to Larry Robinson playing "the Wobble"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFdeskwbhAM
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 June 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
Lots happening this month:
New Zealand's Bats on Wednesday plus
6-6-Hot 8 Brass at 6th & I 6-7- Alexander Abreu with his Havana D'Primera big band vs Barbaro Fines & Mayimbe at the Palace, Woodbridge, VA (Cuban Timba, salsa)6-13-Susanna Baca at the Howard Theatre (Afro-Peruvian)6-18-Amadou & Mariam w/ Bombino at 930 Club (Mali & Niger)6-28-5th Annual Flags Till Morning DC Carnival Featuring Bunji Garlin, Kerwin Dubois, Lyrikal at 12am w/ DJs The Dream Team DJ majestic & Dj Stephen at the Hampton Conference Center, Capital Heights, MD (soca and more)
Muscle Shoals doc at AFI fest; plus various UHall events; Smithsonian Folklife fest and more
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 June 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
http://dcreggaeawards.com/
This was on Sunday the 2nd. This one guy seems to do this nicely every year. He's up to his 16th one. It seems better than the Wammies, albeit he is just covering one genre.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
iceage, kylesa & torche all in town within the next few weeks
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
kylesa
sweet thanks
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
I keep wanting to see Iceage and then I read another blogpost somewhere attacking them as racist skinheads and I get torn. I have read lots pro and con on those young Danish guys
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
all 3 at rnr hotel btw
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2013/06/05/black-cat-turns-20-with-shudder-to-think-ted-leo-mary-timony-and-others/
Gray Matter!
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 June 2013 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
tuscadero n shudder to think in one show omg
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 6 June 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
Back in May I saw on Saturday Night Live J. Mascis and Kim Gordon backing Fred Armisen in a performance skit. But how did I not notice (till I saw recent photo someone posted on FB) that Mascis was wearing a Void t-shirt. Awesome.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 17 June 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
Sequester took its toll on Fort Dupont and Carter barron summer schedules. Here's what they are offering for their abbreviated summer skeds
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2013/06/20/fort-dupont-and-carter-barron-announce-summer-lineups/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 21 June 2013 14:29 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2013/06/27/the-evens-will-play-fort-reno-on-july-8/
Hmmmm, is all I can say re Amanda's explanation for the late start to the series this summer and the deletion of the Fort Reno Facebook page and Twitter account. I guess she and her family will put up flyers. Nah, she is gonna keep the webpage and update it soon.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 June 2013 19:05 (ten years ago) link
July 8: The Evens
July 11: Feed the Bird, Typefighter, Blockhead
July 15: Thundermilk, The Obsessives, Joy Buttons
July 18: Bearshark, Washington Bach Consort
July 22: The Mauls, Southern Problems
July 25: Capital Ghost, The Buzz
July 29: Humblefire, The Accidentals, Priests
Aug. 1: Nervous Impulse, Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Sniffs
Aug. 5: Sunwolf, Mary Christ
Aug. 8: Quivered, Paint Branch
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 June 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
That's the Fort Reno sked so far
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 June 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
oh shit aug 1
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 28 June 2013 16:04 (ten years ago) link
how many more years until the Fort Reno schedule isn't announced until after Labor Day
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Friday, 28 June 2013 18:26 (ten years ago) link
they're on punk time, ok
― fauxmarc, Friday, 28 June 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
Someday it will just be one show on Labor Day Weekend featuring Ian's kid and Alec Mackaye's kids
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 29 June 2013 03:52 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2013/07/02/mayor-announces-slate-of-vanilla-shows-at-lincoln-theatre/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 00:18 (ten years ago) link
hahaha, i totally figured this would happen when they got the space.
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 03:23 (ten years ago) link
My guess is that they'll branch out as they specifically start booking artists for the space, but that post-announcement they just shifted some shows they would have put other places (9:30, Strathmore) to Lincoln. Booking a handful of shows from scratch within a couple days of the announcement would be crazy difficult.
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
Various other factors too--The Fillmore gets some rap acts because its a Live Nation building and they may be doing gigs for such artists nationwide; the Howard Theatre's New York booking people deal with certain acts; and IMP has African-American acts at its other locations but not as many. It still looks bad appearance-wise imho, unless you want to pretend that this is just the new DC and the existing community and the historic roots of the building don't matter.
I gotta get one of the Southern soul/chitlin circuit promoters to start bringing up more acts to DC and have them contact IMP or the Howard or whomever. Lamont's does not have the $ to do many shows down there.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
It still looks bad appearance-wise imho, unless you want to pretend that this is just the new DC and the existing community and the historic roots of the building don't matter.
exactly, i understand timing n bookings etc but if you're going to sell it all with "historic lincoln theater" this and "cultural" that so hard throughout the press releases, respect it at least a little up front? if the situation had been just like "the city has given up, imp has bought the space and are renaming it the 9:32" or something with the same line-up it'd probably be less offensive.
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
Les Rhinocéros
haven't heard these DCers yet but I am curious (although I think math-rock klezmer may not be my thing). They're at the Black Cat Backstage tonight
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
i wanna see wire @ black cat
― worldstar (am0n), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 17:47 (ten years ago) link
Do you think the show will sell out?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
i would think if it was it would have already happened but who knows
― worldstar (am0n), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
also (black) flag is @ baltimore soundstage in september
― worldstar (am0n), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
yeah if I were them I'd just have held off a while on announcing anything until a more complete lineup was available - I don't think anybody was really expecting/asking for announcements this soon
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Thursday, 4 July 2013 00:07 (ten years ago) link
Speaking of vanilla, the soundtrack to the DC fireworks on the mall yesterday featured Lumineers, U2, Elvis, pop country, and the 1812 Overture. Not a single African-American artist that I recall. I remember when Ray Charles version of America the Beautiful got lots of play on the 4th (and when I later got home, I saw on tv the Chicago fireworks where Brother Ray was heard). NYC's turned into an infomercial for Usher for the most part--lots of Usher songs, plus Sam Cooke "A Change is Gonna Come" and Blake Shelton & Miranda Lambert's kinda mediocre take on "America the Beautiful."
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 July 2013 14:52 (ten years ago) link
I like indie too and speaking of which-- anyone wanna buy 2 floor/pit tickets for Friday July 12 Belle & Sebastian/Yo La Tengo at Merriweather Post? Can't make it now. I will eat service charges if you will buy.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 7 July 2013 16:04 (ten years ago) link
So no opening acts for the Evens at Fort Reno tonight?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 July 2013 14:42 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2013/07/17/will-the-caribbean-carnival-ever-return-to-d-c/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link
More CP plugging-- this time re Fort Reno tonight: Bach Consort includes Amy Domingues
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2013/07/18/whats-the-washington-bach-consort-doing-at-fort-reno/
Bach Consort is managed by Marc Eisenberg who has done those panels/salons at the Shaw Library on DC Space; bluegrass; Duke Ellington and others
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 July 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
Y'all bought your $28 Minor Threat t-shirts, right?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 August 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link