Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

likewise, hope they pull through

a few other ilxors have worked there in addition to me.

BTW, made it to the National Portrait Gallery last week to hear the Miles Davis author speak. Thanks for mentioning that a few weeks back, curmudgeon. Anyways, it was brief but worthwhile. I picked up the author's book focusing on the studio albums of the second great quintet. Looks like a fun, if at times challenging to non-musos such as myself, read.

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One week from today, we'll be showing Ab Fab on the big screen & serving up $5 Stoli drinks. Yes, we went there.

BTW, made it to the National Portrait Gallery last week to hear the Miles Davis author speak

fuuuuuuuuuuuuu forgot abt this. it was good? let me know how the book is!

It wasn't AMAZING or anything, but it was enjoyable. He played some studio tracks and chat of the band working up Freedom Jazz Dance. That was pretty cool. Only presented for about 45 minutes. Prior to the talk, there was a trio performance in the book store that I missed. But for a newb such as myself, it was somewhat illuminating.

I have a feeling you'd get more out of the book than me. I'm gonna read it and take in as much knowledge & history as I can, but I'm suspecting there will be large sections that I will just kinda gloss over.

http://www.amazon.com/Recordings-Quintet-1965-68-Studies-Recorded/dp/019539383X/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1303755985&sr=1-3-fkmr0

Woah...btw, I did NOT pay anywhere near $99 for this book! ;)

Hey jazz folks, I think this free 7 pm screening at the Library of Congress Pickform Theatre is still on for tonight:

April 25
David Amram: The First 80 Years (2011) Directed by Lawrence Kraman (90 mins)
The subject of Lawrence Kraman’s documentary (seen here as a sneak preview/work-in-progress) is composer and multi-instrumentalist David Amram, who at age 80 continues to be break ground in the worlds of jazz, classical, and world music. As a jazz French horn player, Amram worked with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Miles Davis and many others. In the classical work he has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works and has written many scores for theater and film, including the original The Manchurian Candidate, Splendor in the Grass, and the legendary beat generation film Pull My Daisy. Special guests David Amram and Lawrence Kraman will introduce the film and take questions following the screening.

Pickford

wmuc a little safer for now

"What the exec board had voted on was to take $10,141 from this contact and put that toward the groups that needed funding and did not receive it at Wednesday's meeting," SGA Director of Communications Staci Armezzani told Arts Desk. "All voted in favor. They decided funding student groups was more important than replacing computers."

But it's still a close call. WMUC music director Chris Palardy says, "It's enough for us to keep our phone and Internet and continue broadcasting online. We're still underfunded by about 50 percent, but can still keep the lights on for the time being."

The station is moving at full speed with its fundraising campaign, which has included a social media-fueled donation drive of somewhat epic proportions. Palardy says "the response from the community has pretty great," noting that over the weekend, station alumni had donated around $5,000, and a show hosted by one of its DJs brought in around $600. A fundraiser is also planned for Thursday evening at Mamma Lucia's.

Nonetheless, it's not clear what will happen this time next year.

30th anniversary of 1st Wilson Center show (with countless DC hardcore bands) event Saturday there(it's now a school) with bands at night, Ian Mackaye talking at 5, and other stuff earlier. I missed that first one but saw a number of shows there shortly afterwards...

This might be interesting for Beatles fans.

30th anniversary of 1st Wilson Center show

!! anyone know where i can find a lineup, want to come down for this

aw nevermind, it's more of a benefit with five bands, i thought maybe a lot of bands were coming through or something.

Are the Max Levine Ensemble who are headlining, worth seeing?

i recall seeing their name around a decade ago and probably saw them a few times but i wouldn't go out of my way if there's anything else to do. of course they were in highschool then, ha i'm sure things have changed.

I have seen that band name around for awhile but was never inspired to check them out.

akufen at u-hall 5/12, nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7nNF0FJ3-I

sounds like the next best thing to getting jason forrest.

chris richards on the chancha via circuito thing at restaurant judy

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/click-track/post/lists-three-things-that-helped-make-chancha-via-circuito-the-best-dj-weve-seen-this-year/2011/04/29/AFOh6YEF_blog.html

cool but for some reason this irks me, a bit reaching for an association maybe but whatever

For fans of Washington go-go, sluggish dance music makes sense. Chancha’s “nu-cumbia” is slow and stubborn like go-go — the beat drags its feet a microstep behind the song's implicit pulse, as if being reluctantly pushed out onto the dancefloor.

I agree with you on the "reaching for an association" thing.

I wonder if anyone will cover this less than trendy international music event I mentioned on the Rolling African 2011 thread:

And I picked up a postcard for the Ethiopian show billed as "for the first time in America Helen Berhe" and "the talented Abraham Gebremedhin with the Zion band Sat. April 30 at DC Star 2135 Queens Chapel RD NE DC ethiostarent.com

don't know anything about her but a shame if not, for all of nyc's multicultural reputation i miss the heavy ethiopian + eritrean presence in dc and take it less for granted

Can't find any reviews of the Saturday night Helen Berhe gig at DC Star.

So many sold-out gigs at 930, RnR Hotel, Black Cat and elsewhere this month.

kind of surprised that Beirut sold out so early at $30.

Wow, college kids with money...

And $30 for Beirut seems a bit much.

byt website is hiring

BYT is having a casting call in order to advance its coverage of everything awesome in the DC area.
(and beyond)
We aren't talking just about music.
If you want to write about literature and Olsson's book signings, we want you.
Food/Wine reviewers-we want you.
If you're stylish and crafty, we want you.
Got an itch to gossip with the gays, we want you.
If you're a struggling photojournalism grad who can rock a Canon 30D at a concert (or any other event, really), we want you.
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info (at) brightestyoungthings.com (with the subject line FUTURE CONTRIBUTOR?)

Wonder if they pay

i don't believe so

David Malitz at the W. Post reported that Sonar in Baltimore is closed because of a dispute among its owners that somehow resulted in the liquor license not being reviewed.

How was In Flagranti at UHall last night? Speaking of the W. Post, they're a Chris Richards fave that he likened to a post-disco LCD Soundsystem

renewed not reviewed.

Not sold-out (yet) May rock gigs that look of interest:

5-7 Punk Rock Flea Market @ St. Stephens; Velvet Marias @ Hill Country BBQ; 5-9-Dirty Beaches @ Black Cat;

5-13-The Queers @ the Ottobar; 5-18-Alasdair MacLean w/ Lupe-Nunez Fernandez of Pipas as Amor de Dias plus Damon and Naomi @ Red Palace; 5-27 Scream @ Black Cat; Quintron @ Red Palace 5-28-Beach Fossils @ Kennedy Ctr. Mill. Stage; 5-29 Medications @ K. Ctr. Mill. St.; 5-30-Times-New-Viking @ Black Cat

Non-rock gig highlights include Calle 13 at Galaxy tonight; some UHall stuff; and May 21-Los Amos de Nuevo León at El Boqueron II, 1330 East Gude Drive Rockville ( accordion-slinging combo linked to the controversial "Narcocorrida" genre)

I'm goin to

+Municipal Waste, D.O.C., Extermination Angel
@ Comet Ping Pong 10pm $10 (available at Smash!)

tomorrow night

http://www.tgrionline.com/2011/04/challenge-to-all-moombahton-producers.html

Dowling's blog can be fun to read even when I don't agree with him or think he's being too dramatic

Moombahton should not end up like the hipster evolution of Baltimore club music, a sound plagued by a choking overabundance of bootlegs and edits ultimately for internet mixtape consumption that ultimately left the sound without a significant localized or grass roots core. Moombahton must be global and local, with a perpetually supportive and progressive grass roots community. Without the proper attention and dedication from the DJ and production community, there is a problem on the horizon.

I challenge moombahton to create community and to create a strong localized fanbase that can carry the sound to greater and deeper penetration and a higher expectation when the time is right for both a consistently excellent and musically important underground, but also crossover and mainstream success. DJs, producers and fans, the ball is in your court.

moombahton is cute but yeah, no.

Calle 13 (from Puerto Rico) at Galaxy in Hyattsville last night Thursday started actually on Friday morning at 12:50 am and ended at 2:20 am. 2 security people frisked me and everyone had to take out everything that was in their pockets and hold them-- keys, change, wallet, whatever) or put them on the ground. I hate worknight events starting that late. I won't go back there on a weeknight.

Tame Impala/Yuck tonight, I'll be wearing my flannel.

Wish I'd gotten a ticket! I'm even already wearing my flannel.

Ha. Sold out show. My kid played Yuck for me and I liked them even though they are so derivative(see Washington Post clicktracks blogpost re dreampop and Pavement and Yo La Tengo and Sonic Youth "Teenage Riot'. I have no idea who Tame Impala are.

Just noticed that this show is tonight:

Bells≥'s D.C. debut tonight at 8 p.m. at St. Stephens with Office of Future Plans (that'd be the band of Barocas' former Jawbox bandmate J. Robbins) and More Humans for a Positive Force benefit to fight spinal muscular atrophy. $5.

Zach B. from Bells was in Jawbox with J.

office of future plans are great live btw - a lot of their stuff sounds almost exactly like the first burning airlines record, which is totally fine with me

yeah i was considering that if not muni waste

do we have opinions on that which is superior?

if you can't do both (aren't municipal waste a late show?) municipal waste 100%

noted

roxy toured w/them a few years back or something iirc and she really talked them up so i'm kinda going ears unheard

interivew with Sharon Cheslow re the Chalk Circle retrospective

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/click-track/post/revisiting-chalk-circle-dcs-first-all-female-punk-band/2011/05/12/AF72FI0G_blog.html

Saturday late morning and afternoon bluesy-soul and zydeco programming on WPFW 89.3 is great even if they're doing their annoying 4 times a year(for 2 plus weeks at a time) on-air fundraising. I should listen more to their weekday 10 pm backback rap djs--kinda smug but a change of pace from KYS and mp3s and cds

seein rev horton heat tonight @ 9:30

little bit of texas comin to visit