http://digdc.dclibrary.org/cdm/search/collection/myfirst/order/descri
old people punk archives online. Does DC Library instagram?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 05:21 (nine years ago) link
more links:
DC blues harmonica player Phil Wiggins is subject of a cover story in the December 2014 Living Blues magazine
http://digital.livingblues.com/publication/?i=236266
Pics of 1994 Cynthia Connolly postcards of DC punks with old cars
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/postcards_of_d.c._punk_rockers
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, January 6, 2015 5:21 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
whoaaaaaaa
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link
Sean Gray of D.C.'s Fan Death Records lists his fave 2014 DC hardcore songs
http://bandwidth.wamu.org/the-best-d-c-hardcore-of-2014/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link
I still haven't checked those out yet.
Unrelated:
Eddie Jones & the Young Bucks, a longtime DC soul act, are making their annual one-time appearance Monday the 12th at Westminster Church in SW DC not far from Arena Stage. 6 to 9 pm . I think its a $5 cover. They always start off slow, with jazzy instrumentals, before Eddie starts testifying...
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:13 (nine years ago) link
Folk-punk kids Mallory at my place tonight at 8, all at the door goes to jail support for Black Lives Matter community organizers & activists
https://www.facebook.com/events/356930791098151/357225754401988/
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 9 January 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bethesdanow.com/2015/01/09/historic-bethesda-theater-building-on-the-market-for-8-5-million/
Another arts venue for 'I Died' to take over management of...This time the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Club
Brown bought the building for 2.85 million, then took loans to add kitchen, bar and more. He says the club made 2.5 mill in its first year (but still ended up in the red). Will anyone want to pay 8.5 million?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 January 2015 05:17 (nine years ago) link
I have so many memories tied to that building, from when it was a movie theater and from when they would host local 'battle of the bands' concerts with kids from local high schools running wild. The parking was always the curse of that location (and for most of Bethesda the last time I visited a couple of years ago)
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Monday, 12 January 2015 09:27 (nine years ago) link
"Brown went to the County Council last year with a request for $100,000 in funds to buy sound and lighting equipment he said the county previously paid for but had since vanished or been replaced."
SHOCKING the county didn't approve this
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Monday, 12 January 2015 14:20 (nine years ago) link
also it seems really unusual to ask someone to purchase the building with a 10-year lease to a tenant that's losing money
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Monday, 12 January 2015 14:22 (nine years ago) link
Yep, that jumped out at me too.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 January 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link
Your Ribs:
Bethesda has parking garages, and Metro
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 January 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link
Haha - certainly not enough garages (hence all hell breaking loose with local merchants and government when the paid lot across from the Barnes & Noble/Landmark cinema closed as that development was constructed. Is that all finished now?). If I remember correctly, the building with the club has a parking lot *in it* (which wasn't there when it was the Cinema 'n' Drafthouse), but it's limited to 3 hours so people would sometimes have to duck out to move cars or feed meters.
Admittedly it's been a couple of years...
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Monday, 12 January 2015 17:53 (nine years ago) link
Not trying to be snarky, but have been to Bethesda Blues & Jazz Club once and found a parking spot in that garage and I don't recall trouble with enough hours. Not exactly a scientific survey admittedly.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 January 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
construction is still going on at the former lot across from B&N. I've had a mixed luck finding parking in Bethesda, sometime on the weekends it's pretty tuff.
― breakfast josiah (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 03:41 (nine years ago) link
Ex Hex at 11th in the album voting in the Village Voice Music Critics PazznJop Poll
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 January 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
aw, good for them - i love that record
it's been mentioned a bit over in the emo/pop-punk/pizza feelings thread, but the two inch astronaut record is great - total shudder to think vibes, which is a great reference point for dc bands (and bands from elsewhere) in 2014 imo
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 15 January 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link
I heard a Two Inch Astronaut song I liked, but need to hear the whole thing. I dunno, Shudder's prog aspects sometimes scared me off
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 January 2015 20:25 (nine years ago) link
oh man i got to get on that two inch astronanaut
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 15 January 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
Sat. 1-17-Max Levine Ensemble, Radiator Hospital, the Rememberables, and Black Sparks - Net Neutrality Benefit at St. Stephens
Sun. 1-18- TroubleFunk and Rare Essence at the Howard Theatre
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 January 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link
oh shit i hadn't heard about that benefit thats up my alley as hell
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 January 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
Not sure how they got the word out. Positive Force now has Facebook page that I think anyone can join and I think I saw it there
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 January 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2015/01/review_hemlines_at_rock_and_roll_ho.php#photo-1
This group is at a February St. Stephens benefit show
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
Howard Theatre was packed Sunday night for Rare Essence & TroubleFunk. Alas, as its a go-go show they did a lengthy security check pat-down beforehand of everyone coming in, with separate female and male lines. Promoter & Howard Theatre (think it was an outside promoter, but not sure) didn't have enough folks working the lines, especially the gals one. Plus the doors opened late. By the time most folks got inside, TroubleFunk had already finished.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 19:50 (nine years ago) link
separate female and male lines
is this because of the patdowns? Never heard of that before.
― skip, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
they had separate male/female lines at a fillmore show in silver spring recently apparently
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
no patdowns involved there iirc
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
Yes because of the patdowns. Women security patting down women, etc.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link
My wife heard a woman say "most of us here are old and we're not gonna be getting into trouble, why do they have to do this" .
Don't recall such lines at either Chuck Brown tribute show at the Howard that I attended. I think the doors opened earlier at those gigs, and they had more security.
I have seen tweets complaining about go-go promoters who offer "cut lines." Pay a lot extra and they'll let you go right in. No such line at Howard Sunday. Unrelated--promoters did do 1 good thing: All ticketholders at that Trouble & Re Howard U gig got given the new RE 2010 live cd, and a Globe poster style hanging press badge with a code on the back to access a 1979 Rare Essence live show.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:51 (nine years ago) link
Different and older DC related music history can be seen in the showing of Jeff Krulik's "Led Zeppelin Played Here" at the Black Cat tonight (unofficial street team publicity). While its unclear whether Zep did play Wheaton decades ago tonight, you will also footage re Stooges in Falls Church and other such shows
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:56 (nine years ago) link
really can't see anyone getting violent at a RE/Trouble Funk show in 2015
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 22:10 (nine years ago) link
Go-go and rap ski trip in February
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1qml7vWHQM&feature=youtu.be#!
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 January 2015 02:10 (nine years ago) link
Tomorrow at noon Capital Fringe will kick off their "Music in the Library" series with Chain & the Gang, and on Feb. 7th DC Music Download's three year anniversary show will feature Paperhaus, Loud Boyz, Baby Bry Bry and the Apologists, and DJ Ayescold, with proceeds to benefit the DC Punk Archive
Univ. of Md music archives are also putting stuff up online
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 January 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link
ayescoooooooooooold
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link
Paperhaus, Loud Boyz, Baby Bry Bry and the Apologists, and DJ Ayescold,
is it just because i live in the neighborhood with most of these people or is there a weird mount pleasant ~scene~ happening
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:58 (nine years ago) link
or are they all just getting each other gigs together cause they're bros
Maybe both?
In another hood, wonder if this was at a soca event or something else, as this place has been rented out for non-Caribbean type house and electro club events too
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/18/club-house-northwest-dc-club-shuttered-after-large/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 January 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
Another benefit gig tonight
Friday: Local bands Alarms & Controls, Laughing Man, Polyon, and Two Inch Astronaut perform at St. Stephen's to raise funds for BlackLivesMatter DMV. Find more details on Facebook. 7 p.m. at 1525 Newton St. NW. $10 suggested donation.
And Bootsy Collins at the Howard...
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 January 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
my housemate put that one together!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 23 January 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
Funeral services For Jessie Kittrell SR. owner of the New Vegas Lounge on P. St NW across from Whole FoodsDr Blues/JETTuesday Jan 27th 201510-12 public viewing12:00 noon funeral service Kellogg Conference Center 800 Florida Ave NE 20002On the campus of Gallaudet UniversityInternment Ft Lincoln Cemetery 3401 Bladensburg Rd Brentwood MD 20722
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 05:10 (nine years ago) link
The king of library appearances does another one:
As part of the "Fringe Music in the Library" series, Ian Svenonius presents "ESCAPE-ISM," a narrative performance created using sound effect records, at the Petworth Library. 6 p.m. at 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. Free.
hmmmm
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
oh boy
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:21 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2015/01/30/the-howard-theatre-hosts-its-first-bounce-beat-go-go-show-tomorrow/
talking with members of ABM and AJA Cranknation re the bounce beat and r'n'b matinee at the Howard on Saturday
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 January 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
did not discuss clappa dancing in the piece
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link
http://brightestyoungthings.com/articles/top-25-dmv-artists-to-watch-in-2015.htm
rappers and some rockers mostly
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:46 (nine years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2015/01/the_best_dance_clubs_and_nights_in.php
No international other than Tropicalia, no current r'n'b, no Glen Echo
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 January 2015 22:32 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/the-untold-history-of-postwar-washingtons-nightlife/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 31 January 2015 01:43 (nine years ago) link
That's an Eddie Dean article (he wrote for the City Paper back in the 90s) about the Quonset Club, a hillbilly turned rock and soul joint from the 40s to the 60s that later became the now closed go-go & r'n'b Legend Nightclub in Temple Hills, MD
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 31 January 2015 01:46 (nine years ago) link
lots of good music coming in February and into spring...
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 31 January 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
Both the Eddie Dean article & my bounce beat one mention strippers. Some things never change I guess
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 1 February 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link