Wammies are back again, and seem as flawed as last year.
Other news—
New Sir E.U album release on February 4 @ Songbyrd; new Nag Champa Art Ensemble on February 6 @ Phillips Collection Museum after 5 event
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 January 2020 20:32 (four years ago) link
This night w veteran DC rock folks sold out fast as it’s in tiny Rhizome: Saturday 2-8-Joe Lally (w/ Anthony Pirog, Jerry Busher), POA (w/ Shawn Brown, Dug Birdzell, Jerry Busher), Bed Maker (Amanda Mackaye, Jeff Barsky & 2 others)
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
I forgot you gotta move quick & buy in advance for some things: Phillips After 5 w/ Nag Champa Art Ensemble sold out tonight; Rhizome sold out Saturday
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
Probably early to mention it, but caribou in March and AJJ/Xiu Xiu in May!
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
Lloyd Pinchback, sax player w/ Chuck Brown’s Soul Searchers from 1968 to 1978, member of Proper Utensils, composer of much sampled Soul Searchers song “Ashley’s Roachclip,” author of book about his 1968 to 78 years with Soul Searchers, & Library of Congress music specialist has passed on. RIP
Performed last night. Died later after a fall.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 9 February 2020 21:15 (four years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/its-official-go-go-music-signed-into-law-as-the-designated-music-of-dc/2020/02/19/42a4ef62-52a1-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html
Also, Lloyd Pinchback memorial service Saturday 11 am in Glenarden
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 20 February 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
Here’s my obituary for Lloyd. I went to the beautiful and sad 2 hours plus memorial service. Proper Utensils and others performed.
Later that day saw Present Tense current punk band photo exhibit by F Skeiky. Then Coriky at St Stephens , and final band of Latin flash band night at Pearl Street Warehouse. Groups put together by folks from 7 Drum City
https://thedcline.org/2020/02/22/the-cowbell-king-memorial-service-saturday-to-celebrate-the-life-of-lloyd-pinchback-who-played-with-chuck-brown/
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 23 February 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
I wrote a City Paper preview for bounce beat band TOB ‘s 20th anniversary gig at Echostage that was Sunday night
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 February 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link
Go-go town hall at 7 tonight at Kennedy Center Reach
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
RIP Sam the Man Burns , DC afro-house & more dj since 1978. Unexpected I think. He was about 60. There’s a nice old 1998 City Paper article about him by Holly Bass
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 8 March 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
DC government now recommending but not ordering all events to be attended by 1,000 or more to be postponed or cancelled, due to virus concerns.
930 Club has added disinfectant sprays, and is cleaning bathrooms more, per an email I read.
70 something Ethiopian pianist Girma Beyene who was scheduled to come here 3-20, is cancelling US tour
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link
930 Club has added disinfectant sprays, and is cleaning bathrooms more
Things they could have considered doing in 1992 (sardonic chuckle)
― Quinoa pedal (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
Ha. But now they’re postponing all shows at their various locations till April 1.
Black Cat still open. Will re-evaluate over the weekend
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 March 2020 02:27 (four years ago) link
Bliss staying open in DC. I thought it holds more than 250. Is that just a recommendation from the mayor?
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 March 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link
Oops I mean a 1000
New rules for licensed DC nightclubs today. Will have to shut down. But if licensed as a tavern or bar , can stay open with new rules re serving beer. Folks must sit at tables with no buying of beer at bar. Tables must be set a distance apart from one another!
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 15 March 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
Listen Local DC is hoping Mayor & city council can make $ available to help musicians
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 March 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link
But mayor says no.
Rare Essence is latest DC go-go band to advertise a Facebook and Instagram live video stream . RE is doing one Saturday night
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 21 March 2020 04:07 (four years ago) link
RIP DC soul singer Skip Mahoney (originally Mahoaney) who had an amazing falsetto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GFnawFYOUc
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 21 March 2020 04:08 (four years ago) link
Watched Junkyard Band stream on Facebook that drew 7,000 views at one point, and then Rare Essence that got 16,000 views!
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 22 March 2020 04:31 (four years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 22 March 2020 04:32 (four years ago) link
Have since heard other go-go bands and djs
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 March 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
Backyard Band streaming again. On Fri. March 27. Also saying they will be back live in May at Echostage
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 20:50 (four years ago) link
Funk Parade cancelled. Seeing go fund Mes for Black Cat employees, imp 930 ones, DC legendary musicians old folks, Tropicalia...
DC govt has a new form that independent contractors and non profits can use to apply for $
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 March 2020 13:56 (four years ago) link
Watched Backyard Band stream Friday. Missed Suttle one last night and Bad Moves last week.
Lots of go fund me’s — for 930/imp, black cat , and Bossa bistro employees
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 29 March 2020 23:18 (four years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/after-25-million-stimulus-stunned-nso-players-receive-one-week-notice-from-kennedy-center/2020/03/28/9c27603e-7118-11ea-aa80-c2470c6b2034_story.html
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 29 March 2020 23:34 (four years ago) link
There’s a followup W Post article about more layoffs and the decision to preserve their capital ( probably the nearly 100 million endowment ) rather than to dip into that to pay people
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
Cissa Paz dc based Brazilian music singer Facebook stream Thursday April 2 at 8 pm
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/article/21125759/city-lights-revisit-the-fort-reno-ice-cream-eater-and-read-rian-johnsons-screenplays
There’s more to the story of Fugazi and the ice cream eater at Fort Reno
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:32 (four years ago) link
RIP Skip Mahoaney, DC soul singer I saw at Carter Barron and elsewhere. They just had a small family only service for Skip.
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/article/21126662/city-lights-the-songs-of-a-soul-legend-or-rare-reads-from-capitol-hill-books
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 April 2020 04:06 (four years ago) link
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/article/21127932/city-lights-spend-friday-with-sir-eu-or-peruse-the-exhibition-presidential-pastime
Unorthodox dc rapper Sir E. U is releasing new videos every Friday during the pandemic. More details in link
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 April 2020 15:19 (four years ago) link
listened to two people from Bad Moves and then Pallindrome and later Janel & Anthony on the Comet P Instagram live thing. I missed Luke Stewart. Nappy Nappa is supposed to be on now. But Comet live IG link is gone
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 April 2020 01:33 (four years ago) link
Saw some of Sir E.U 's industrial rap
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 April 2020 01:54 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/z2EtH68YR-8
7 minute video that's an introduction to Beat Ya Feet dancing and its relationship to dc go-go
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 04:06 (four years ago) link
There’s a Backyard Band online thing Friday. ...Rhizome has been doing some and now Mr Henry’s on Capitol Hill.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/article/21134670/city-lights-hear-a-new-chapter-in-october-71s-mob-tale-or-join-dj-kool-on-gogoradio-live
Me re new October’71 psych rock hiphop album. They’ve led by Rob Stokes, best known as rapper Sir E.U’s drummer. The other short article by Alona is about DJ Kool doing 2 throwback sessions Sunday & Monday nights at 8 on Gogo Radio Live
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 May 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/arts/music/emo-songs-washington-playlist.html
Onetime DC area resident Joe Gross who has lived in Austin for a long time writes here about late 80s and 90s DC punk bands and gives 'em a song a piece. He's got obscure Annapolis bands here and more --Happy Go Licky, Fire Party, Fugazi , Nation Of Ulysses, Shudder to Think (I was not a fan of the singer's operatic/prog metal vocals) and more
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 May 2020 03:22 (four years ago) link
https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2020/05/29/864470936/stream-over-100-shows-from-the-9-30-club
― Charging for Brewskis™ (morrisp), Sunday, 31 May 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
Those are from the club's current location, not it's original F street one but still some good stuff.
unrelated--
Wednesday June 3 12 noon Facebook live with Ta-Nehisi Coates and Natalie Hopkinson talking about Coates article from 20 years ago-- Dropping the Bomb an Oral History of go-go
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ta-nehisi-coates-drops-the-bomb-on-go-go-20-years-later-tickets-106128134106
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/13019207/dropping-the-bomb
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 June 2020 04:49 (four years ago) link
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/article/21135953/city-lights-join-tanehisi-coates-and-natalie-hopkinson-for-a-discussion-of-gogo-history
12 noon today
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 14:15 (four years ago) link
above conversation was archived on facebook and will be available from DC public library go-go archive
Lots of folks protesting in DC Black Lives Matter protests got to hear TOB, Suttle, and a dj play bouncebeat go-go and or classic go-go from the back of a big truck that drove through town. Lots of video clips on twitter. A mobile Moechella put together by Yaddiya
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 7 June 2020 23:47 (four years ago) link
https://wtop.com/dc/2020/06/bills-keep-piling-up-dc-area-nightclubs-ask-for-help-as-they-await-reopening/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 June 2020 23:49 (four years ago) link
Juneteenth Million Moe March coming
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 June 2020 01:50 (four years ago) link
Paul Glenshaw (based in the Washington D.C. area) and Darroch Greer (based in Santa Barbara) created The Seven Tones Project
Musicians are invited to make home recordings of themselves playing Duke Ellington and/or Billy Strayhorn compositions. Then independent filmmakers select a recording as the basis for short homemade films. The films are posted on social media with links back to the contributing artists.
The project is taking off. Nearly 150 artists have pledged to contribute or have already contributed. Thirteen films have been completed, and 10 more are in production. Over 30 recordings are in the pool for filmmakers. The Smithsonian Associates and other education organizations have helped promote the project, and several Washington D.C. media outlets have reported on it. The Washington Post will publish a story this week.
https://afropop.org/articles/the-seven-tones-project-calling-musicians-and-filmmakers-to-create-beauty-inspired-by-duke-ellington
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 June 2020 01:59 (four years ago) link
https://www.wusa9.com/video/news/local/dc/first-lady-of-gogo-maiesha-rashad-died-stomach-cancer/65-806e1e0b-75ac-4038-bfed-0f8de924e516
Maiesha pioneered grown and sexy go-go covers of old school r'n'b in the 90s with her band the Hip Huggers
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 13:50 (four years ago) link
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/music/article/21136945/tony-redz-19742020
WPGC dj Tony Redz from a heart attack. He also was in a bouncebeat go-go band, a rapper, and an actor
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 13:53 (four years ago) link
Chris Richards has been reviewing lots of local music
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/with-the-dmv-nightlife-on-pause-these-area-musicians-want-you-to-press-play/2020/06/09/4c919558-a9b2-11ea-94d2-d7bc43b26bf9_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/music/here-are-the-best-new-recordings-from-the-dmvs-quarantined-music-scene/2020/05/19/0787160a-99c6-11ea-ac72-3841fcc9b35f_story.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
Yaddiya is doing a special Juneteenth event
In Washington's classical scene news Washington Performing Arts (which brings touring recitalists and orchestras to town) is going all-virtual i the forthcoming season, and won't even start until 2021.
― Boring, Maryland, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 16:23 (four years ago) link