haha that is ballot box stuffing at it's finest - even most other djs in DC haven't heard of them.
― Dane Cook's Illustrated (I DIED), Saturday, 28 March 2009 00:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I will do some braggin 2009 to mention that I played a large part in the design of the top two dance clubs in that poll and regulary dj at the third.
― Dane Cook's Illustrated (I DIED), Saturday, 28 March 2009 00:30 (fifteen years ago) link
when's the next time you're djing at the cat?
― W i l l, Saturday, 28 March 2009 01:34 (fifteen years ago) link
And what alias do you use?
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 29 March 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Unrelated: There was an underpublicized tribute to the late Piedmont blues guitarist John Cephas at the Baird Auditorium today, and there's an even less publicized after-event jam at 4 at the Westminster Church in SW DC where they have blues Mondays and weekly Friday jazz shows.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 29 March 2009 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link
The mystery re "I Died"'s dj name remains unresolved. Meanwhile I did a brief little W. CP black Plastic Bag blog post about DJ Neville Chamberlain aka Neal Becton, who runs SOM record store. He spins old-school Brazilian, Latin, and soul around town.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 March 2009 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
$ MONEYTOWN $ Moneytown welcomes it's special April guest DJ: NYC's Jared Boxx aka JBX! Friday, April 3rd 10PM-3AM http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a222/blueimage/MoneytownFLYERAprilSmall.jpg
Dahlak (1771 U St., NW DC) Free! No Cover w/ DJ Nitekrawler & special guest: Jared Boxx:
Jared Boxx (aka JBX) is the co-owner of Big City Records, one of NYC's top used vinyl record stores which specializes in Jazz, Soul, Latin, Funk, and Hip Hop, but with an extra special emphasis on funk & soul 45s. And speaking of 45s.......when not flippin' wax at the store, you can find Mr. Boxx at one of his many NYC residencies.....one of which is Bumpshop, NYC's premier funk and soul extravaganza at APT! Check out this mix he did for the mighty Daptone Records during Christmas 2008: http://daptonerecords.podbean.com/2008/12/14/soul-santa-by-jbx
― Nitekrawler, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link
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Civilian Art Projects is having a fundraiser at Local 16!6 DJs3 Visual artistsplus drink specials & more (see flyer below for details)Hope to see you there!
― Nitekrawler, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
That Civilian Arts Project thing is tonight I think-- Thursday. Nitekrawler, Neville Chamberlain and others spinning.
Another impressive guest for Moneytown.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 April 2009 12:49 (fifteen years ago) link
dj hut's physical store in dupont is closing, which sucks. they're going all online. 20% off in-store liquidation.
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 2 April 2009 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
The Marquees, Marvin Gaye's old backing band, are playing free right now on the roof deck at Marvin. Like woah to hear them doing "I Heard It Through the Grapevine".
― Dane Cook's Illustrated (I DIED), Thursday, 2 April 2009 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I am spinning tomorrow night at the black cat, btw
― Dane Cook's Illustrated (I DIED), Friday, 3 April 2009 00:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Saw Teedra Moses last night. The sound was kind of fucked for the first half but straightened out by the end. Her set was a bit too similar to the one she played at Black Cat 2 years ago (only 2 new songs). I guess you can't blame her for leaning heavily on the crowd-pleasers from Complex Simplicity though.
Actually the real treat was the opening set by Muhsinah.
― lou, Friday, 3 April 2009 13:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Never heard of her/them before, but Muhsinah sounds good in that electro/r'n'b vein on her myspace.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 4 April 2009 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
So 12, apparently a lounge/restaurant that took the place of Cluck U, at 1123 H St NE is gonna start having music. Chitlin Circuit soul singer Lee Fields is gonna be there Sunday the 12th. The Yelp reviews for the place say the drinks are overpriced and the place poorly managed. We'll see.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 4 April 2009 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I've got a quickie blog post q and a with 88's fogel on the CP BPB blog
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
i recall a rumor of one of the spots on either side of the old state of the union supposedly in plans of becoming a spot for dancehall nights, wonder how that's fleshing out
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Ethiopian restaurant Almaz at 1212 U was supposed to start having soca on one midweek night and dancehall on another (I think Eman mentioned it on the dancehall thread), plus I think they have "Saturday Soul Sessions" with Louis P. playing house. But if you just go to Almaz's website it says they only have Ethiopian music and jazz.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 17:57 (fifteen years ago) link
But I guess that's farther East on U than near the old SOTU
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
For any Dischord fans: Title Tracks 7" release show at the Black Cat tonight...
― Shannon Whirry & the Bad Brains, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
More pop than most Dischord releases I'm guessing, this being John Davis in his post-Georgie James mode.
Garland of Hours cello player Amy Domingues (who's played on Fugazi cds and other related Dischord stuff) will be playing with Bob Mould at the Birchmere tonight with Richard Morel on keyboards and a bassist whose name I don't recognize.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Missed both of those.
Saw Extra Golden at Comet Ping Pong last night. Wish they had a stage (or that I was much taller)
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link
catching up on posts--have been traveling. sorry i missed I DIED djing. also apparently missed lovefingers (!) at comet. nice piece on 88, curmudgeon. lots of comments, too. good to see people are paying attention.
saw stereo total at the cat backstage last night. fun show. never really listened to them but would see again.
― W i l l, Friday, 17 April 2009 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks. Yea, the 88 posting got a ton of comments. I thought Stereo Total would be fun. I bought a S. Total cd awhile back and liked it, although I haven't listened to it in quite awhile. Busy w/ parental stuff, missed that show and the African one at Lisner last night, and likely everything this weekend.
Posted a salsa dj thing, Raulin Rosendo at the Salsa Room, and Celia Cruz Filmfest and more combined item CP Bl. P. Bag posting early this morning. The various posts go up there fast and furious Friday mornings.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 April 2009 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
looking forward to Wolf + Lamb spinning at Comet on May 2nd
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Sunday, 19 April 2009 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link
by the way, was reading an article in the Dupont Current or something and apparently there's a guy named RICARDO VILLALOBOS who runs a shoe repair shop on Calvert St.
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Sunday, 19 April 2009 00:50 (fifteen years ago) link
cool about wolf + lamb. does comet have a mailing list?
went to hometown heroes last night at the trindad & tobago assocation on georgia. i like the idea of a party at a storefront cultural assocation in north country, and the execution was mostly all right, but man that place is not designed for good sound.
tim sweeney friday: http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/events/deep-cuts-feat-tim-sweeney-411-warehouse/
― W i l l, Monday, 20 April 2009 00:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd like to get on a Comet mailing list too. I get e-mailed about some Comet events that the guy from Gypsy Eyes Records promotes (he has a list, and I've spaced on his name right now), and I was told that Amanda K. from the Apes also promotes some things there, but otherwise I think you have to just check their website periodically. They seem to have outside promoters do everything and they don't advertise the events or get them listed anywhere.
Chain & the Gang and the Hive Dwellers are there Wednesday. Those are Ian S. 's and Calvin Johnson's new bands respectively.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 April 2009 12:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Justin Martin (dirtybird) is at Muse this Friday on the 3rd floor - tough choice between that and Tim Sweeney
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Monday, 20 April 2009 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd go with Tim Sweeney myself. I'll be in NYC though (Michael Mayer at Studio B on Saturday).
Just read the other day that Martyn is based in DC. Has he played out here yet? Someone needs to book him.
Also heard that Brendon Moeller is playing 18th St. Lounge, but I'm not sure when exactly.
― lou, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 00:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I'm going to go with Justin Martin - dirtybird is probably my favorite US label.
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 00:42 (fifteen years ago) link
DCist weekend movie roundup blurbs "Jazz in the Diamond District", "a film by a local director centered on D.C.'s go-go scene." premiered at last year's dc filmfest but is back at e street. anyone seen it?
― W i l l, Friday, 24 April 2009 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link
co-starring avon barksdale. makes me think of this short i once saw about an inner-city teenage girl sneaking out to lesbian clubs. bunk played the dad who viciously beat her when he found out.
― W i l l, Friday, 24 April 2009 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Have not seen it. I think the director went to the Duke Ellington School for the Arts so there's scenes there and in a go-go funk club. It's gotten mixed reviews.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 April 2009 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Joining us on May 1st is NC's best kept secret: Midnite Cowboy
Celebrate May Day in true soul style! Brian "Midnite Cowboy" Harris has really made a name for himself since busting on the DJ circuit in 1994. This cowboy has turned many a party out from his homestate of North Carolina, to the cold climates of the north. Expect plenty of soul stompers mixed in the with the funk this time around.
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a222/blueimage/MoneytownFLYERMaySmall.jpg
― Nitekrawler, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a222/blueimage/DCRecordFairMay09.jpg
FULL Bar w/ lots of drink options for ya, FOOD, Daptone........and of course:
CHUCK BROWN!!
Plus 10 DJs/DJ Teams in 2 seperate rooms:
StylusEurokLunch Money & Almighty DollahNeville C.Deep SangGavin Holland & the Nouveau Riche CrewProvokeD-MacDan AmitaiNitekrawler
oh, and TONS of records of all styles. 30 dealers in the hizouse.
― Nitekrawler, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
wish i could be thurr
― 69, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
i want to see the BOOZE BABY!
― W i l l, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Wonder how Chain & the Gang were at Comet P? That's Ian S.'s new group. The same folks also back Calvin Johnson for his new band.
King Khan at the 930 sounded fun too.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 April 2009 04:25 (fifteen years ago) link
nice writeup of Nitekrawler's night in the Post today:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/30/AR2009043001465.html
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Friday, 1 May 2009 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I ended up going to see Afrika Bambaataa at Current last night - nice! Pretty much played what he did when I saw him 10 years ago, but given who he is it would have been a disappointment otherwise.
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Friday, 1 May 2009 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link
When I went to see him spin at Nation (10 years ago maybe?) he had not started at some wee hour in the morning, and I gave in to the pressure of the person I was with and left. So I still haven't seen him. Maybe it's best I just stick with images in my head from the writeups in history of hiphop books of his supposedly innovative record mixing at Zulu Nation parties in the Bronx, plus the 12" singles I have somewhere.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 May 2009 18:11 (fifteen years ago) link
so will anyone be at junior boys tonight? I DIED?
― W i l l, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll be there.
― lou, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll be there, too.
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
shit, i never checked back in...good show, though. their live blend of instruments and electronics felt perfectly organic and unified, which you'd feel like should always be the case but ime isn't. the sound was kinda iffy though--certain elements of songs just disappeared. and i was standing about 10 back, center-right, not in an out-of-the-way place at all. disappointed they didn't play "hazel". jeremy greenspan kinda looks like he could be in an apatow movie, didn't pick up on that from photos.
― W i l l, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 12:07 (fifteen years ago) link
How long has it been since you've partied at Local 16 (16th and U St., NW DC)? If you're like me, it's been a looong time (save the recent Civilian Fundraiser).....but hopefully that's about to change. Local completely gutted their upstairs system and installed a sick PA and Sub combination.....guaranteed to rock the floor with some serious sound. And they've also re-upped weekly DJ spots.....leading me to the introduction of the newest funk/soul/disco party in town: SOUL CANDY, kicking off this Thursday (5-7). There's no cover, we've got good tunes to move your feet, free candy available upstairs, and candy-related drink specials for ya each and every Thursday! (think Vodka skittles, etc.) So swing by and help me break in the new system correct!
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a222/blueimage/soulcandydone3small.jpg
― Nitekrawler, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link
{x-post) they opened with Hazel, didn't they?
Good show - much better than their last. You're right about the sound problems, though - it's been ages since I saw a show there with good sound.
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
oh, did they? my mind must have been elsewhere.
― W i l l, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
x-post Different folks running the board then in the past? Or some other reason for the sound issues?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link