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
DC folks, on FEb 7th from 6 pm to 2 am there's going to be a weird "audiovisual arts festival" event in Montgomery Co. at the "Pike & Rose" complex. It's free but you have to RSVP online or something? anyway, (self promo alert) Matmos is going to play. So now you know, sort of.
― the tune was space, Sunday, 1 February 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
woah thanks, sounds cool.
I'm thinking about going to Joe's Noodle House before it if anyone wants to meet up
― breakfast josiah (los blue jeans), Sunday, 1 February 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2015/Pike-Rose-to-Use-Office-Space-to-Host-One-Day-Arts-Festival-Next-Month/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 February 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/remembering-innovative-guitarist-bo-diddleys-time-in-washington/2015/01/31/8bad4296-a88c-11e4-a7c2-03d37af98440_story.html
casa ruby benefit at st stephens next friday w/hemlines (!), jail solidarity, crimson waves & stuff
https://www.facebook.com/events/343534385838771/
my lil org gonna be tabling too
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 2 February 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
Tereu Tereu too
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 February 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
that's Feb. 13th not the 6th btw
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 February 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
http://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2015/02/passings-don-covay-1938-2014.html
Soul singer-songwriter went to school and lived in DC for awhile. The Rolling Stones and many other covered his songs. He was also the uncle of Robert Owens of local group Hardway Connection
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
Lots of rock benefit shows happening
2-7- *Radio CPR benefit @3:30pm w/ Romantic States, Mattress Financial (mem. Two Inch Astronaut), The Creature People (mem. Pygmy Lush, Big Hush) @ La Casa, 3166 Mt Pleasant St NW;
Paperhaus (album release), Loud Boyz, Baby Bry Bry & the Apologists, and DJ Ayescold @ 9:30 Club (DC Music Download's 3rd Birthday & Benefit for DC Punk Archive - 7 PM show);
2-13- Casa Ruby Homeless Shelter Benefit with Tereu Tereu, Hemlines, Crimson wave, Jail Solidarity, Jack on Fire @ St. Stephen's Church;
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
i will be at all of those and tabling at the last, ppl should come
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 5 February 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2015/02/12/why-patty-boom-boom-is-closing-and-why-theres-a-silver-lining/
So Eric Thievery Corp & club-owning magnate Hilton is selling Patty Boom Boom (the building) on U Street cuz he can't make money there he says on 99 folks dancing to Irie sounds. He wants to just do it now as a dance night at the 930. Cloak & Dagger, that will take the place of Patty boom Boom is billed as a Gibson-like drinking joint
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 February 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link
Oh Clinton Yates weighed in on this too:
When Patty Boom Boom announced that it was closing over the weekend, a very specific feeling came over me. I couldn’t help but get the sense that the very specific brand of entertainment provided there was simply going away. As the most popular U Street outpost for reggae and available late night beef patties, as far as bars/clubs went, it was the most authentic on the strip. Its closing means that the nouveau-urban lounge/speakeasy has officially taken over as the standard style for nightspots along that corridor, not the annoying exception. But when, two days later, Rhino Bar said they’d be shuttering, a larger realization came over me: The days of the no-frills, regular-folks bars that allow you to dance and have fun are nearly done in D.C. (Somehow, Rumors is still standing.) Everything’s got to be upscale American, or tapas, or whatever. Even though Patty and Rhino had entirely different constituencies and styles, their overall appeal was basically the same. You knew what you were getting when you walked in. Nothing special. And you could tell neither place was trying to be.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/02/10/rhino-bar-patty-boom-boom-to-close-another-cog-in-wheel-of-d-c-bar-evolution/
I dunno, while all this is kinda true it just means the outliers and the exceptions and the fringes may have to go elsewhere in the region
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 February 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
Did anyone go to that Prava fest w/ Matmos out in Rockville? How was it?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 February 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link
https://www.capitalfringe.org/fringe-music-inthe-library
Wish I coulda gone to today's lunchtime event
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 February 2015 18:27 (nine years ago) link
And I really wanted to meet Hoos and see the bands at last night's St. Stephen's benefit, but the Stylistics and others at the 70s soul jam at DAR were calling out to me, and I had to hear them hit those falsetto notes.
Next time, really.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 February 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link
Last night went well!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 14 February 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link
Nice. Raising money for a good cause
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 February 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
So the Wammies got so lazy in proofreading their ballot that they did this pop-rock instrumentalist nomination, combining two people into one:
Ian Kid Congo Svenonius kidcongopowers.blogspot.com
http://www.wamadc.com/wama/wammies/wambal29.html
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 15 February 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
So Wammies "fixed' the ballot making both Ian S and Kid Congo pop-rock instrumentalist nominees. But doesn't Ian S. mostly just sing these days? The Wammies left a bunch of worthy folks off the ballot: WAMA still does not acknowledge that go-go bounce beat bands exist, and metal bands are hard to find. At least two of City Paper jazz writer Michael West's favorite musicians for 2014, Tom Williams and Antonio Parker, are nowhere to be found. Also absent are a number of blues musicians who have played at Westminster Church’s weekly blues gigs, including Stacy Brooks, Memphis Gold, and David Cole, to name a few. Also noticeably absent from the ballot are such critically acclaimed D.C. rockers as Tereu Tereu, Thaylobleu, and Paperhaus, as well as rapper Fat Trel and electronic music duo Protect-U.
-----------------Before I saw Dawn Richard last night with just a 100 or so others at the Howard, I was out in Silver Spring at Bump n Grind seeing the below with 30 some people max:
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2015/02/16/photographer-chip-py-on-the-go-go-underground-and-why-he-doesnt-put-his-photos-online/
Maybe if I had posted this earlier, y'all would have joined me in seeing some awesome photos of Chuck Brown, RE, Familiar Faces and more. I got to get Chip to do this again. Maybe at the DC Salon, that every 2 month event at the Shaw library which tonight is having a panel discussion on DC 70s soul from 7 to 9.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2015/02/25/raheem-devaughn-on-d-c-s-entertainment-industry-and-musics-new-civil-rights-movement/
Hmmm, looks like he would have preferred not talking about Chris Brown; but other than that his interest in being both a Marvin Gaye activist and romance type is of interest
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2015/02/27/super-sly-at-dcs-chateau-nightclub-the-moves-have-never-stopped/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 March 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2015/03/04/after-21-years-in-business-p-a-palace-closes-its-last-store/#more-119593
P.A. Palace, a longtime seller of live and studio-recorded go-go CDs, has confirmed to Arts Desk that its Iverson Mall location in Temple Hills, Md., has closed.
The go-go purveyor will continue to sell new and old recordings via download and mail order “for years to come,” a representative wrote in an email. The business used to have stores in the Forestville Mall and Prince George’s Plaza, but after more than two decades in business, its last physical outpost is gone. "We may reopen somewhere in the future, but there are no immediate plans as of yet,” the store's representative wrote.
P.A. Palace sold many of the CDs in its store at reduced rates to customers and to others in bulk. Go-go fans have long loved getting live go-go concerts recorded off bands' power audio (P.A.) soundboard on record, tape, and CD, and P.A. Palace has catered to that need. Its list of recordings includes the likes of the Junkyard Bard's Nov. 7, 1988 show at Hillside Firehouse and Northeast Groovers on May 31, 2014 at Icon.
But now, many fans just want digital downloads, and others are satisfied with YouTube videos of shows. In addition to the recordings it sells, P.A. Palace has its own free app and maintains a digital go-go radio station and a go-go news blog.
For those who still want to buy go-go in person on CD, the nearby Kemp Mill Music in Temple Hills sells live and studio go-go releases. Kemp Mill's Armando Cruz hopes his store gets some of P.A. Palace's old customers,but he acknowledges that the patrons of each business tend to stay loyal to their respective outlet.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 17:35 (nine years ago) link
aw man :(
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 19:59 (nine years ago) link
The Ibiza club in DC has had its issues and reportedly was gonna be sold, but for now (shhh, don't tell DC P*lice & L*quor Board and future nearby condo residents) has hosted the bounce beat Kingz on the 10th and will again on the 17th.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 March 2015 14:46 (nine years ago) link
Also, glad to read Black Cat is going with earlier weekday start times. Being able to use the metro to leave there (or whatever mode of transportation) while still seeing a band's full set is a good thing, not just for us old folks and whomever has to get up early the next day, but for all.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 March 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
Wonder if Rare Essence and the other DC bands and rappers on that Sx SW bill in Austin last night managed to impress the right people and fans alike? So much going on there
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
Neither Kid Congo nor Ian S won a Wammie btw. Shocking I know. Some bluegrass guy Frank Solivan won a bunch of awards. Plus I saw on Facebook some others noting how they were winning for like the 5th year in a row. Why do I even pay attention. I am a trainwreck spotter I guess who won't look away.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 19:15 (nine years ago) link
http://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2015/03/fire-guts-indian-restaurant-in-silver-spring/
Fire damaged the nearby Quarry House says the article. Oh no, I've seen rockabilly bands there.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2015/03/fort_reno_now_accepting_submissions.php
No cover songs...Too bad, was all ready with my reggaeton versions of "Stepping Stone" and "1, 2 X U"
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 March 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
"Quarry House Benefit Concert Tomorrow night at Jackie's Restaurant." This was posted late Friday night I think, so I guess "tomorrow" means today Saturday but it might mean Sunday. Rockabilly bands and more
There's an indiegogo benefit link page too. See the Quarry House FB page
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 21 March 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
The fire was in the building portion above the Quarry House (which is in the basement), so the Quarry House got smoke and water damage.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 21 March 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
I haven't read anything about the last-minute benefit gig that took place Saturday night. Hope they raised some bucks. The employees are without work for a bit I guess (with some concerned that the old-school buildings like the one that burned are destined to be torn down and turned into condos which could make it difficult for Quarry House to stay open).
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 March 2015 13:31 (nine years ago) link
In my 20s I did not like 2amish events and I like 'em even less now. Saturday night/Sunday morning I went to Fire Station 1, a rented out restaurant/bar in Silver Spring for Ivory Coast danceclub/afropop act Serge Beynaud. Security presence at the gig included cops with bulletproof vests on and they were packin.' Btw, crowd was mostly 20-something African immigrant gals (dressed up in heels and such) and some African immigrant guys in afro-chic pastel jackets. Security looked bored most of the night. Until Serge came on at 2:15am most of the crowd was bored as well, looking at phones and only ocassionally dancing to the pre-gig dj sounds. Glad the wife and I stuck out for Serge though.
Posted this below elsewhere
Saw Serge Beynaud with Cameroon's P Brodaz doing a quick ten minute opening set. Well actually this morning,as he came on at 2:15 am with a dancer and DJ and performed till the cops shut the gig down at 3 am. He had some charisma and material that worked, although the show lost some energy mid-set when the folks who came onstage to dance were not as good as Beynaud's dancer, and the music during that section did not impress. The DJ beforehand was spinning a mixture of old and new Afrobeats, reggae dancehall and soca.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 March 2015 13:39 (nine years ago) link
Ha, stuck it out.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 March 2015 13:41 (nine years ago) link
Waiting until 2:15 for an act would certainly make me feel curmudgeonly
― skip, Monday, 23 March 2015 14:50 (nine years ago) link
We foolishly got there at 11. I have heard some folks say, "oh the audience wants it to start that late." The looks of boredom and the lack of lots of alcohol sales (except for champagne to 3 VIP booths), and the number of people who were there between 11 and 12:30 am tells me otherwise.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 March 2015 14:57 (nine years ago) link