https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/514806/bouncebeat-go-go-gets-a-wider-audience-thanks-to-tiktoks-junebug-challenge/?fbclid=IwAR0N0llcfx8SqeP_as_hEkjmoeqtTNjlJQ-OJkd5HV_Q1hW5plnzWcJJkTo
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
London-born Bowie Md rapper IDK getting Complex mag coverage for new video/song Shoot my Shot , w/ guest Offset. Catchy but as sexist as The Rolling Stones
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 April 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link
Was Glenn Close reciting a script at Oscars or does she really know all about Sugar Bear, EU, Da Butt , Spike Lee School Daze and the Backyard Band ?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/04/26/glenn-close-da-butt-oscars/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 April 2021 15:15 (three years ago) link
Too good to be true: Glenn Close dancing to ‘Da Butt’ at the Oscars was scripted https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-04-25/oscars-2021-glenn-close-da-butt-dance
― smoking grass, poor caddying. (morrisp), Monday, 26 April 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
Hold up.
You're telling me that entertainment industry may in fact have been selling us an illusion?
I am shocked, SHOCKED
― Jurassic parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 26 April 2021 18:21 (three years ago) link
‘A lady her age, doing Da Butt like that?’ E.U.'s Sugar Bear on Glenn Close’s Oscars rump shake https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-04-26/glenn-close-da-butt-oscars-2021-eu-sugar-bear
You have a favorite song about butts besides “Da Butt”? Well, “Da Butt” is my favorite song of all time.(…)
― smoking grass, poor caddying. (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 01:30 (three years ago) link
She likes "Da Butt" and she cannot lie.
― I said maybe, you're gonna be the one that shaves me (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 01:32 (three years ago) link
Sugar Bear was on the radio doing an interview with Donnie Simpson yesterday afternoon and was apparently talking to reporters all day. Nice to see him get that coverage.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 15:03 (three years ago) link
Alona got good quotes from Sugar Bear and Big G
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/515431/glenn-close-da-butt-left-eu-sugar-bear-speechless/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 15:05 (three years ago) link
In bouncebeat go-go news , Yaddiya has now done Moechella s with TOB band in both Los Angeles and Atlanta
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
No go-go bands or high school marching bands in virtual funk parade this year. That makes me sad. They do have jazz, Hiphop, r’n’b at least
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 April 2021 18:03 (three years ago) link
This may surprise you, but some intrepid soul put together a documentary about the DC punk scene!I wonder if Ian MacKaye is in it... I kid but I am a sucker for these.
http://files.constantcontact.com/67e4e85b001/8a83d00c-be7e-4274-92a0-1fdb4627f47a.jpg
Punk the Capital: Building a Sound MovementA documentary tracing the birth of punk rock in Washington D.C. (1976-1983)
Featuring Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Void, Rites of Spring, and more, with interviewsfrom Henry Rollins, Ian MacKaye, H.R., Jello Biafra, Joe Keithley, and many others
Premiering exclusively in Theaters and on Virtual Cinema nationwide beginning May 14th
DVD / Blu-ray to be released for National Record Store Day on June 8th via Passion River
Website: www.punkthecapital.info
For you folks actually in DC, there's a screening:5/14 - Suns Cinema – Washington, DC
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 30 April 2021 04:37 (three years ago) link
I wonder if Ian MacKaye is in it... I kidLol, nice. In college, a kid in my music theory class turned in a videotaped interview he conducted w/MacKaye for one of his projects (that’s how little it takes to get that guy in front of a camera).
― smoking grass, poor caddying. (morrisp), Friday, 30 April 2021 04:53 (three years ago) link
I think he's just a nice guy.
I met him once backstage after a Fugazi show at the (now closed) Marquee in NYC back in the early '90s.There I am telling him how much as a kid who spent formative years in Manassas, how important he was to me."I learned a lot from you," I said. Then I looked and noticed I had a beer in one hand and a lit cigarette in the other."Well, not all of it took," I said sheepishly.
He laughed.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 30 April 2021 05:04 (three years ago) link
Haha
― smoking grass, poor caddying. (morrisp), Friday, 30 April 2021 05:08 (three years ago) link
Ha.
So the Punk the Capital doc is worth seeing, and there’s an online screening Friday May 14 too. This doc’s 1976 to 1983 focus covers an earlier period than the other doc Salad Days. Though they both overlap in coverage a bit. Some great home movie super 8 footage in this one
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link
https://www.musicinafrica.net/fr/node/15368
Earlier bio of Amha Eshete covering his years as a pioneering Ethiopian producer and label owner, plus touching on his later years after he fled to Washington DC and started the Blue Nile and the Ibex restaurant/ clubs. In a French website obit for Eshete it noted that Nina Simone visited and ate at Blue Nile.
The Ibex club had Ethiopian bands playing on one floor and go-go and old school r’n’b on another. Rip Amha Eshete
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
You know about Inner Ear likely closing, yes?
― Frumious Cumberbatch (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link
Inner Ear may be coming back in same location in the new building but as a nonprofit educational studio; or it may move. Arlington Arts folks got grief about the impact on Inner Ear, and so while they’re going ahead with new arts nonprofit building there, they are at least sort of giving lip service or more to the future of Inner Ear.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 18:16 (three years ago) link
It is kind of LOLz that Arlington, in order to create a cultural district, may be displacing a genuine example of Arlington culture. Though it’s been a long time since Arlington was a hotbed of homegrown indie rock.
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 19:22 (three years ago) link
Speaking of Arlington, wera Arlington community radio vinyl vault show is interviewing Ian about records and stuff Thursday May 6 at 8 et online etc
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 15:36 (three years ago) link
Ian Mackaye not the notorious Ian S who has moved to Los Angeles
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 15:38 (three years ago) link
https://dcist.com/story/21/05/05/temple-hills-skating-rink-remain-open/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 15:48 (three years ago) link
https://medium.com/seventhirty-dc/on-biyya-chonta-kumera-zekarias-creates-a-heady-blend-of-ethiopian-and-colombian-grooves-353a460a9beb
Kumera Zekarias
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 May 2021 05:01 (three years ago) link
Here’s the nice video Kumera did with footage in Colombia and in the District of Columbia’s Malcolm X park among other locales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xJETByzg7A
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 May 2021 14:15 (three years ago) link
Funk Parade panels are free online today, but they’re charging for their virtual “parade” which I see has gotten smaller ( 3 acts dropped off the bill).
Later in May there’s a DC Music Summit conference with performances. R’n’b, some rap, jazz , but no go-go or street rap
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 8 May 2021 14:24 (three years ago) link
New 3rd album by postpunk trio Nice Breeze on Bandcamp and Spotify
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/516325/city-lights-nice-breeze-cast-a-spell-on-magicians-rabbit/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 May 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
Live Q&A: Punk the CapitalJoin the film's director, James Schenider, co-director Paul Bishow, and other surprise guests on Thursday, May 20 at 7 PM ET via Facebook Live. No Facebook account necessary! Hosted by George Myers from Amherst Cinema.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 13 May 2021 03:39 (three years ago) link
. DC Music Summit online-- Friday May 21 through Sunday May 23Sat. May 22 --Fly Zah Performance*9:40AM-10:40AM Carolyn Malachai KEYNOTE ADDRESS*10:40AM - 10:55AM Cecily - Guided Meditation; 12:00PM - 1:00PM Tools & Programs to Empower Youth During the Pandemic byShanay Miles3: :00 PM - 3:30PM Performances : Carly Harvey & Asha Santee Sunday 5-23- 5:30PM - 6:30PM Closing Event and Performances***Natalie Brooke, The Cruddy Crankerz, and Dior Ashley Brown & F.L.O.T.U.S.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 13 May 2021 03:40 (three years ago) link
Heavy Metal Parking Lot 35th Anniversary Party webinarDescriptionJoin directors John Heyn and Jeff Krulik for a virtual screening of the seminal 1986 documentary on 35th anniversary of that fateful Judas Priest concert at the Capital Centre. Hosted by Joe and Nick from the Found Footage Festival and featuring:-Rarely seen footage from the 35-year history of the cult classic film-Krulik and Heyn's follow-up movie, "Neil Diamond Parking Lot"-Highlights from Krulik's collection of public access weirdness from Maryland-A live Heavy Metal Parking Lot alumni reunion featuring the stars from the movieSign up and trip Jack Daniels with us!TimeMay 31, 2021 09:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Mt Pleasant uprising anniversary community concert 4 to 9 today Saturday May 15 Lamont St & Mt Pleasant street
Leonardo Rua at 5 ; Kumera Zekarias at 5:30 are only performers I have gotten word that are playing
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 15 May 2021 19:37 (three years ago) link
Former zine editor and now director of Salad Days dc punk doc and Creem doc Scott Crawford has a new podcast called Spoke. He talks to Jim Saah in episode 1. Saah is a longtime punk show photographer, had a zine I wrote for called Uno Mas, and helped Crawford on Salad Days.
https://anchor.fm/scott-crawford3/episodes/SPOKE-with-guest-Jim-Saah-e10qvpj?fbclid=IwAR1NLtFXiresBmOVzeMaQjEx8_R6Q8Sw0FXo7J0GKYaJ9iharOOMwwnrdg4
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 16 May 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/517662/city-lights-see-christopher-chens-floating-world-on-a-mount-pleasant-alley-wall/
Photos up through May in Mount Pleasant alley near Elle. Friday talk. Streetscapes plus Chuck Brown, Sharon Jones, Laughing Man band ( Luke Stewart), jazz musicians at Cafe Toulouse
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 13:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/millennium-stage/2021/reach-summer/
Cambodian garage rock and the evil Khmer Rouge movie doc “Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten “ is screening on Reach tonight. Plus first Les the DJ spinning Filipino rock vinyl
Some interesting Reach / k Ctr mill stage weekends this summer
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 May 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKY7UmIS6rY
Jeff Krulik films Bill McKenzie talking about growing tomatoes and how he got into the DC punk scene circa the late 1970s
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 May 2021 19:35 (three years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/music/best-new-rap-music-dmv-may/2021/05/25/dcb8f96e-b9ce-11eb-a5fe-bb49dc89a248_story.html
Some new Baltimore and DC r’n’b & rap cuts
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 22:50 (three years ago) link
Punk the Capital is screening at Charles Theatre in Baltimore tonight Wednesday. Jeff Nelson will be there
GoGo City doc that is about gentrification as much as go-go is screening online as part of Filmfest DC June 4 to 13 I think
Scott Crawford podcast mentioned above is now up to 3 episodes. Lyle Presler of Minor Threat in 2 sessions
A dc hiphop movie doc is coming soon. I forget what it’s called
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
Juneteenth go-go weekend gigs coming
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 04:56 (three years ago) link
https://www.fortreno.com/
June 19 deadline for DMV musicians to submit music for consideration to be selected to play Fort Reno later this summer.
Details at link
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link
Juneteenth Moechella- Friday night Bouncebeat bands and exercise workout @ Audi Field; Saturday March for equity & Justice w/ bands from BLM plaza to U Street; Sunday Moechella Unity Fest at Gateway Pavilion, MLK Ave Se with EU, Junkyard, TOB, ABM, Ambition Band, MTM plus guest rappers , a kids haven for little kids and lots of vendors
All free
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 04:13 (three years ago) link
DMV has too many rappers for old guys like me to keep up with
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 22:32 (three years ago) link
NPS has announced that Fort Dupont park concert series will be online only again this summer. They say it will include soul, funk, hiphop, jazz.” No specific dates or acts announced yet
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 June 2021 13:26 (three years ago) link
Don Zientara made an announcement on his Facebook that the legendary Inner Ear Studios is closing 10/1 which is a goddamned shame.
https://www.facebook.com/don.zientara/posts/2990457901190251
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 20 June 2021 01:21 (three years ago) link
Yeah, sucks. Don is a truly fine person in addition to running a great studio. He did something with my drum sound that will never be equaled.
― Champagne Heathernova (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 20 June 2021 01:46 (three years ago) link
https://wtop.com/arlington/2021/06/inner-ear-studio-to-close-this-october-it-needs-to-come-to-an-end/
But it sounds like he will be producing elsewhere
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 June 2021 16:00 (three years ago) link
Zientara said only the location won’t stay the same.
“Inner Ear is not going away — it will be set up somewhere else. I’m still gonna be working. I’m not finished. I haven’t bought a fishing pole, or worms or flies yet.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 June 2021 16:02 (three years ago) link
Rhizome is doing 4 outdoors shows July 1 to 4. They now also say they don’t have to move until early next year.
Black Cat is reopening Friday July 9 with a free dj night with Baby Alcatraz and Mark Cisneros spinning the tunes. Live music coming after that soon
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 June 2021 16:06 (three years ago) link
Good news about Rhizome, was just there last night for a concert.
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 21 June 2021 17:13 (three years ago) link
Cool that Rhizome can get acclaimed jazz guitarists like Mary Halvorsen
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 June 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
https://www.americanbluesscene.com/bear-family-records-announces-release-of-rb-in-d-c-1940-1960/
.@BearFamilyRec Announces Release of ‘R&B in D.C. 1940-1960’ CD box set tells the story of DC r’n’b in 16 cds and a 252 page book put together by Jay Bruder
Looks awesome
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 19:56 (three years ago) link