awesome
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
75 years old and still busy.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 September 2011 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
war on drugs at red palace friday night
why not
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 1 September 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
They're getting so much online acclaim lately. I haven't heard 'em yet. Need to check spotify or youtube or something
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 September 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
woah, an H St. NE show on a Friday night. Metro accessible!
― Gukbe, Thursday, 1 September 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
tonight: Parachute Musical's CD release in DC @ Comet Ping Pong. $7, all ages, 9pm!
a pretty good ben foldsish band based out of nashville. i went to montgomery blair with the drummer.
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 1 September 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
figures I will be away Saturday and miss these 2 local African music events
Zouk and more Summer Fest (djs' spin African and Caribbean sounds popular in African countries where they speak French)The Music-Soukous - N'Dompolo - MakossaCoupe - Decale – Mbalax-Cadence - Cabo Zouk – Kompa-Kizomba - Afropopplus local band Sahel ; all from 12 noon to 7 pm at the Bladensburg Waterfront, 4601 Annapolis Road, Bladensburg, MD .luvzouk.com
African and more dj event at night at Love Nightclub with locally based djs DJ Chick("United States of Africa) and DJ Banti ( KENYA'S #1 )DJ Mensah ( GHANA )DJ Yveco.DRC ( CONGO )Vasco ( SENEGAL / CAPE VERDE )T. Boogie ( NIGERIA )DJ Sam I Am ( SIERRA LEONE )Claude – Tag Sounds ( CAMEROON )DJ Spakks ( SOUTH AFRICA )Jofe ( ANGOLA )DJ Eric ( CAMEROON )DJ Preview ( NIGERIA )DJ D ( UGANDA )DJ Lenny, Jaymoh, Lex, Lou, Yard( Kenya) allafricanparty.com
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 September 2011 12:14 (twelve years ago) link
didn't know there's a zouk scene in dc. i'm not into it but i feel like i've been hearing more about it lately in ny
― fauxmarc, Friday, 2 September 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
Don't think it's that big of a scene. They do a 4th thursday night event at Red Lounge on 14th st. The Bladensburg event seems like an attempt to reach out to all French speakers from the Caribbean or African countries.
The event at Love is put together by different folks
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 September 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
stoked for the free J Mascis show at the kennedy center wednesday
― los blue jeans, Sunday, 4 September 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
waht
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 4 September 2011 04:29 (twelve years ago) link
6 on weds?
yuuup
http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/artists/?entity_id=79299&source_type=B
― I DIED, Sunday, 4 September 2011 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
well hell
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 4 September 2011 04:58 (twelve years ago) link
Is there been a more exhausting and amazing performing arts effort in DC than the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage? Fourteen years of live performances free, 7 days a week, all streamed online. One of those things that's a huge benefit to living here that I take advantage of far too rarely.
― I DIED, Sunday, 4 September 2011 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
It seems like they've been trying to do 1 indie-rock show a month lately. I'm also interested in the following non-rock shows there: Eleanor Ellis (idiosyncratic DC based Louisiana rooted blues guitarist, vocalist) Sept. 11th at the Millennium Stage
Wed. Sept. 14:
Augustin Lira (Mexican song traditions such as ranchera, huapango, and bolero with Anglo folk ) and Quetzal (Mexican and Afro-Cuban rhythms, Jazz, R&B, and Rock) at noon at LOC and at 6 to 7 at Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Both free
Wed. Sept. 21:
Youssou N'Dour for free (to celebrate the Peace Corps) at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 September 2011 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2011/09/09/the-surf-clubs-non-alcoholic-buddy-holly-tribute-saturday-night/
The Surf Club's ongoing license issues mean they can be open as a bar with no music, or have music but not sell booze.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 September 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
Tomorrow night: Grave Babies & The Electrocutions at Comet, The Coits & Love the Bomb at Corpse Fortress. Can't decide.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
when it comes to decisions like this, my general life rule is to go to the place called "Corpse Fortress"
― Gukbe, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
Plus Male Bonding at Red Palace and a Brazilian-style Carnival at Artisphere with Alma Tropicalia (DC's band influenced by Brazil's psychedelic pop movement from the 1960), the all-female drum group Batala, DC's own WPFW 89.3 Carnival Queen Zezeh Zax, live Brazilian jazz with Elin, and DJ Neville C!
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
alma tropicalia rules
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
dude, the coits
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Saturday, 10 September 2011 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
i knowwww but the electrocutions!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 10 September 2011 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
did electrocutions replace xray eyeballs?
― whether rock (los blue jeans), Saturday, 10 September 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
nah they're both playing
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 10 September 2011 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
Glad I finally saw Alma Tropicalia. Fun.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 September 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
National Geographic gets hip. This is Saturday the 17th:
Enjoy world beats at a dance party featuring D.C.’s club-rocking DJ—Dave Nada. Nada’s self-styled electro music “Moombahton” spins a mix of reggaeton and Dutch house music that packs in the crowds at local hotspots. Opening for Dave is D.C. standout DJ Underdog, whose monthly Afrobeat party heats up African rhythms with Latin and Brazilian on the side. 21 and over; ID required
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 September 2011 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
lol. er. it's cool and all but i'd have thought/hoped an institution like natgeo would support a scene with a less upfront and continued misogynistic slant? re: moombahton
http://s3.amazonaws.com/mad_decent_production/public/system/releases/images/61/medium/MAD-134_coversmall.jpg
never heard of underdog though, interesting
― fauxmarc, Monday, 12 September 2011 13:30 (twelve years ago) link
sorry for nsfwishness
Seth Hurwitz of IMP's comment in that W. Post article on the new Silver Spring Fillmore:
“I thought they might be competition, which is okay,” Hurwitz says. “But they are clearly going after the soccer mom crowd and their children — people either too old or too young, to be venturing down to the big city. ”
But Dante of Black Cat still sounds a bit concerned:
“I doubt I would lose too many shows directly to them,” says Dante Ferrando, owner of Washington’s Black Cat. “But I do worry that they’ll take an approach with, say, the 9:30 Club to compete head on. If 9:30 loses some shows, they have to fill their Friday night. Now I’m competing with them over a show I would have gotten. If I lose that show, then I’m competing with Rock & Roll Hotel over a show they would have gotten.”
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 September 2011 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/fillmore-silver-spring-makes-splashy-entrance-on-dcs-concert-scene/2011/09/01/gIQA5DjLFK_story_1.html
Ticket prices look real high for this Live Nation hall
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 September 2011 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
x-post -
I wonder if U Hall is now worrying about its new competition-- National Geographic.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 September 2011 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
imp's demographic is definitely talking about shows at the fillmore.
― fauxmarc, Monday, 12 September 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
and lol at trying to minimalize silver spring which is increasingly a destination for yon big-time city dwellers
― fauxmarc, Monday, 12 September 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, can't imagine I will be seeing many shows there.
― skip, Monday, 12 September 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
$45-75 for Cheap Trick...right...
$35 for Psychedelic Furs and Tom Tom Club could be worth it though.
― skip, Monday, 12 September 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
x-post
fauxmarc, here's the DJ Underdog story:
http://www.ontaponline.com/2010/10/01/dj-underdogs-special-niche-afrobeat-4-ya-soul/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 September 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
btw japandroids & bass drum of death at red palace tonight
japandroids can be a lil languid for my taste but bdod rulez
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 September 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
hoos how do you get home from the red palace?
― Gukbe, Monday, 12 September 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
walk a long ass way to union station
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 September 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
or take a cab a short-ass way to union station
Do the gigs at the red palace finish in time to get the last metro home? coz the rock n roll hotel has fucked me over on the count several times.
― Gukbe, Monday, 12 September 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
as a general rule it works out, but i try to leave around 11:40ish regardless of what's happening w/the show just to make sure i make it home. one too many cabs home from the ass-east end of the red line have taught me that one.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 September 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I've managed to get the X2 to union station at around 11:40 but that cuts it pretty close (I need the yellow or the blue line). I get pissed about paying cab fare back to he VA, or having to miss a good portion of the headliner just to get home.
― Gukbe, Monday, 12 September 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
Sloan and You Am I at 8 pm at RNR Hotel tonight.
― skip, Monday, 12 September 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
How do I miss Sloan every time...
Chris Richards from his review of Mary J. Blige at the Fillmore Silve Spring's opening night:
On Thursday, eager fans had to wait just a little bit longer. At 7 p.m., as doors were scheduled to open, a massive line of ticket holders stretched northeast on Colesville Road, around the corner of Fenton Street, and then around the corner of Cameron Street. Those at the end of the line waited well over an hour to get into the venue, gridlock that organizers said was due to the fact that VIP ticket holders were given first entry.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 September 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
raincoats at comet tomorrow night
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 September 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
Raincoats at Comet is sold out. Hope you bought a ticket in advance.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 September 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
I bought a ticket but do not have extras.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 September 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
City Paper, Washington Post and Washington Post Express fall previews are out now, if you want to plan ahead at the standard established venues
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 September 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link