I went to The Hard Art 1979 ( second edition) book release event 3 to 7 pm Sunday April 24, 2022 w/ photographer Lucian Perkins and Alec Mackaye . Mackaye wrote text for this book that includes Perkins photos at 1979 DC punk gigs including at the Hard Art Gallery. 3 bands - POA , Quattracenta Time is Fire performed @ Lamont St. plaza and saw Perkins photos on display in Elle Alley off of Mt Pleasant St NW . POA had a dub-punk sound and have Jerry Busher on drums (who sometimes used to do extra percussion for Fugazi), Dug Birdzell (from Beefeater) on bass and Shawn Brown (Dagnasty) on vocals. Kinda cool and timeless at first (but after a bit I hoped for something different or new) .
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 11:20 (two years ago) link
When Blue Monday Blues at Westminster Church in SW DC gets soulful with Eddie Jones ( and last night his sister and son as well) there’s no better place to be. Eddie leads on old school renditions of songs and keeps them vital. Little Willie John and William Bell covers sounded great
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 11:23 (two years ago) link
June 8 Home Rule Fest @ the Parks at Walter Reed with jazz, funk, and bouncebeat go-go - Doug Carn, Plunky and Oneness of Juju, David Murray, TCB
Juneteenth fest-- Pharrell was feuding with his home of VA Beach so he moved his Something in the Water Fest to DC . $$$ for 3 days with stages on Constitution Ave?
Lots of rap plus Davido, Ozuna, Dave Matthews Band, Jon Batiste, Rare Essence, Backyard Band,
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:31 (two years ago) link
Bowser and Events DC (w/ National Park Service signoff I guess) hosting $350 to $550 event near national mall
DC to host Pharrell’s ‘Something in the Water’ Prices for three-day passes run from about $350 to $550, and it prompted one to question whether there’s ever been an event near the National Mall that was not free.
Bowser cited Dîner en Blanc dinners,
…hmm
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:37 (two years ago) link
How near are we talking?
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 22:04 (two years ago) link
They're saying Constitution Ave . Wonder how many people they can fit
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 05:19 (two years ago) link
The Messthetics are playing the Petworth Porchfest this Saturday, April 30. On a porch. 4515 5th st. NW at 3pm2pm is Janel and Anthony
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 14:26 (two years ago) link
If it’s on Constitution Ave. I guess the Park Service has no say?
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 18:03 (two years ago) link
That's what I am thinking.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:17 (two years ago) link
Another Saturday April 30 event
* "Billy Stewart: How Nice It Is" program @ 1:30pm @ MLK Library, 901 G Street, NW, w/ - Screening of doc "Fat Boy: The Billy Stewart Story. A Panel discussion; Hand Dance Showcase; & "Silk Soul" performing
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:18 (two years ago) link
The Petworth Porchfest thing seems promising. Many friends and occasional collaborators seem to be involved. I know and like Sidewalk Soul, Sid Satellite, Social Musica. Probably several others.
― Fifty Centaur (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:30 (two years ago) link
I have a family commitment and can't do any of them but if I could I might also want to check out
Lightmare @ 4 @ 600 Emerson St.; Samba school @ 4 & DMV rumbaros @ 821 Upshur St.; Near Northeast @5 @ 801 Taylor St main stage; Weird Babies @ 5 @ 720 Varnum St
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 April 2022 03:30 (two years ago) link
came here to ask if you were here @curmudgeon :’(
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Saturday, 30 April 2022 22:22 (two years ago) link
can confirm it’s been kinda lit
Cool. Noticed that Homie Salazar played Porchfest too. He was in kinda shoe gaze band Go Cozy but has also done things with experimental rapper Sir EU
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 1 May 2022 02:40 (two years ago) link
Broccoli Fest day 1 happened in the rain; Funk Parade got postponed to a day tba; and Big G of Backyard Band afternoon birthday event at Bullpen got postponed till uh today Sunday 2 pm to 7 pm.
Washington City Paper final print issue is out with lots of tales told by writers and editors from multiple eras. Online too.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 8 May 2022 05:39 (two years ago) link
Noticed late (on Facebook) that there was another big gospel bill in Capitol Heights yesterday (and one in Baltimore too). Have been to a few in the past and have always been wowed by the powerful vocals, sometimes delivered old-school quartet style.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 8 May 2022 14:10 (two years ago) link
Taste of Jamaica today Sunday May 8 from 1 to 9 pm @ 1 Veterans plaza in Silver Spring MD
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 8 May 2022 16:04 (two years ago) link
Chris Richards has the dc hardcore punk scene covered. New article on band Hologram who are at Slash Run on the 13th. I don't know 'em
https://www.washingtonpost.com/music/2022/05/11/hologram-interview/
This is profoundly lonely, hyper-percussive hardcore punk delivered at varying neural speeds, all of it composed and performed by one brain — D.C. vocalist-guitarist-bassist-drummer Brendan Reichhardt, formerly of Kombat and Closet Christ, among other groups
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 May 2022 12:53 (two years ago) link
RE was great At MGM. 40 some years of music covering their early soul and funk stuff plus later rap and trap influenced sound. So many folks onstage plus nice video tribute to members of the Rare Essence family who have passed over the years
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 May 2022 01:38 (two years ago) link
CNN Sunday night 10 pm travel and food and culture show Nomad did an episode on DC. I dvr'd it but haven't seen it yet.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 May 2022 16:19 (two years ago) link
Local area vocalist Juanita Williams was powerfully singing soul, blues, and jazz last night @ Westminster Church SW Blue Monday Blues (6 to 9 pm). Trumpeter /vocalist Curtis Pope backed her. Pope used to play with Wilson Pickett back in the day. Just a small crowd there, right after that 5 pm rain and wind storm
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 11:50 (two years ago) link
Sometimes Model Home is too avant for me, and sometimes they sound just right
New Album streaming via UK mag The Wire
https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/album-premiere-model-home-s-saturn-in-the-basement
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 15:36 (two years ago) link
3rd anniversary of Moechella being celebrated Saturday night with an indoor show w/ 3 bouncebeat go-go bands @ Howard Theatre- TCB, TOB, New Impressionz
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 May 2022 12:38 (two years ago) link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/556571/voices-of-zion-bring-back-black-georgetown/
This gospel opera and drama production about historic Black Georgetown that occurs (depending on the weather) at cemeteries in Georgetown and Dumbarton Church is happening Friday and Saturday night; and Memorial Day Monday afternoon. Looks worth seeing and hearing
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 May 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/294469177243809/posts/5398852716805404/?d=n
Dischord/Minor Threat’s Jeff Nelson has been over in Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, and Croatia screening and talking about Punk the Capital doc and his own experiences over there
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 22 May 2022 13:26 (two years ago) link
Oh, James Schneider and Jeff Nelson also did Nordic countries and all over Europe as part of the April and May showings for Punk the Capital
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 22 May 2022 13:33 (two years ago) link
Ukrainian refugee benefits included at a few stops
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 22 May 2022 13:34 (two years ago) link
Not seeing a Melvin Gibbs thread (he was in Rollins Band and various jazz groups and more) or a DC band Messthetics one
had a meeting of the minds w Joe Lally (ex Fugazi bassist) over the weekend. We went over some ideas for the @htub03 Harriet Tubman/Messthetics double trio record we're cutting next month— melvin gibbs (@melvingibbs) May 23, 2022
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 May 2022 21:15 (two years ago) link
Funk Parade was postponed on a rainy May 7, with a pledge to reschedule but that hasn't happened yet.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:24 (two years ago) link
https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/05/19/first-look-sandlot-anacostia-opens-soon-with-go-go-and-good-eats/
Opens in June
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:39 (two years ago) link
The online only now Washington City Paper now has just 5 “City Lights” previews a week instead of 7, plus they just post them all only once a week- Thursday usually
I previewed today’s 11 am to 9 pm free tribute to late DC house music DJ Sam the Man Burns at Fort Reno
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/557248/city-lights-dc-black-pride-and-other-best-art-bets-for-may-26-june-1/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 28 May 2022 16:40 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG8USqMUAfI
Doc on Trouble Funk in England in 1986
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 June 2022 19:19 (two years ago) link
yea the punk archive gig on the 8th on the roof of mlk will be pretty cool, but so will these underpublicized Sunday June 5 events
Sunday June 5 daytime events - *Faaji day party-- afrobeats vs amapiano" dj event @ Gee's Lounge (Nigerian and South African dance music) in Hyattsville* The Mayor's Office on Latino Affairs presents 2022 DC Afro Latino Fest from 2 to 9 @ Malcolm X Park w/ Yissy Garcia, Dayme Arocena, Aurelio Martinez, Yasser Tejeda
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 June 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link
Afro Latin thing was disorganized and music was uneven and there weren't enough nearby food trucks, but still a good time
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 June 2022 21:13 (two years ago) link
Saw an advance zoom screening of Black Fire Records 1/2 hour doc last night . It's being shown Saturday at the home rule fest. Real interesting but left me wanting to know more-- Did label get any dc press attention then-- from W Post, Unicorn Times, City Paper which started in 81, local tv news?
Plunky said mid 70s WHUR gave him airplay. Did they then have decent record sales? Where did they gig?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 June 2022 16:49 (two years ago) link
Doug Carn & band's Love Supreme homage, David Murray and band's alternately out there and wistfully melodic jazz. TCB's uh out there bouncebeat go-go, and Plunky's afro-funky go-go & rap at Home Rules free Fest at the grass lawn naturl amphitheatre of the old Walter Reed was my kinda DC fest. Not packed but a sizeable crowd. Record fair there too.My kind of music nerds in attendance - Dr Thomas Stanley, Kevin Coombe, Soul Called Paul and more.
Show was not packed as my theories: 1. Billed by some editors as only a jazz fest -- some don't like jazz, some jazz listeners only like posh nice seats of Kennedy Center; 2. no rock or pop; 3. Folks don't know of Plunky
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 12 June 2022 16:37 (two years ago) link
event finished with Black Fire 1/2 movie doc too.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 12 June 2022 16:38 (two years ago) link
1/2 hour
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 12 June 2022 16:39 (two years ago) link
Would have likes to have gone to the festival if I didn’t have a weekend-long headache and probably would have gone to the rally downtown first.
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 12 June 2022 23:58 (two years ago) link
Sorry about that. I shoulda gone to the rally too. Went to the last one.
Meanwhile I missed and am gonna miss some flicks in this DC Caribbean Film Fest I would like to see-- next Sat. June 18 at 6 one called Rebel Dread about Don Letts= dj/filmmaker , colleague of the Clash and Johnny Rotten and once part of Big Audio Dynamite. But, a family commitment that night. I missed a doc about a studio in Kingston upstairs from randy's Records already
https://silver.afi.com/Browsing/EventsAndExperiences/EventDetails/0000000048
City Paper covered the Spain film fest but not the above one
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 June 2022 20:07 (two years ago) link
New Flasher album coming out (one member from 1st album has left the group). Family stuff means I can't go to album release Friday at Comet. Am curious what they sound like now. Were enjoyable some time back at Fort Reno
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 June 2022 04:55 (two years ago) link
NY-based jazz pianist Marc Cary used to play in dc go-go bands. He's in DC Sat. 3pm Columbia Hts Day w/ Indigenous Arkestra – go-go jazz combo w/: Cary, Tarus Mateen, Casey Benjamin, Brandon Woody, Lil Mickey, BJ /“The Future,” YML, Jrok, Michelle Blackwell, Kacey, Killa_Cal
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 June 2022 20:11 (two years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/20/us/dc-shooting-moechella.html
terrible that kid is dead. Also bad that they are going to blame Moechella promoter for for not having a permit when there were lots of police there (who didn't identify the suspect, catch the suspect, or outline a plan to stop illegal weapons from getting into the city. Plus, 2017 Las Vegas country music concert was permitted and guy still shot lots of people. There had been no violence at Moechella street events for years.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 June 2022 17:38 (two years ago) link
https://www.fortreno.com/
According to Amanda M., the schedule is still in development but there will be Fort Reno concerts this year, beginning Monday, July 18.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 13:39 (one year ago) link
Thanks. There's a DC Blues Society Summer solstice blues show at Fort Reno tonight 6 to 9 with Clarence Bluesman Turner
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
Dubai band Noon @ 6:30 @ Smithsonian Folklife Fest followed by EU w/ Sugar Bear at 7:30 . Free. Also streamed via Smithsonian Folklife
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 June 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
So is the Folklife Festival now some small thing? Not too long ago it was a huge deal, now it feels a little rinky-dink, like your local shopping mall’s Chinese New Year or Oktoberfest.
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 23 June 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
Between the National Park Service restricting space, Smithsonian budget cuts, the pandemic, it is not what it once was in prestige or coverage.
They had to take funding from human rights violators UAE this year plus corporate donations from Ford and United Airlines
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 June 2022 00:37 (one year ago) link
addressed issues here in City Paper link to various events. Plus they didn't gt the word out publicity wise and its a cloudy night and some white folks might be scared
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/560922/a-cats-movie-party-rone-and-more-best-bets-for-june-23-29/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 June 2022 00:46 (one year ago) link