Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

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.
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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

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.”

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

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I wonder if U Hall is now worrying about its new competition-- National Geographic.

imp's demographic is definitely talking about shows at the fillmore.

and lol at trying to minimalize silver spring which is increasingly a destination for yon big-time city dwellers

yeah, can't imagine I will be seeing many shows there.

$45-75 for Cheap Trick...right...

$35 for Psychedelic Furs and Tom Tom Club could be worth it though.

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fauxmarc, here's the DJ Underdog story:

http://www.ontaponline.com/2010/10/01/dj-underdogs-special-niche-afrobeat-4-ya-soul/

btw japandroids & bass drum of death at red palace tonight

japandroids can be a lil languid for my taste but bdod rulez

hoos how do you get home from the red palace?

walk a long ass way to union station

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.

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.

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.

Sloan and You Am I at 8 pm at RNR Hotel tonight.

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.

raincoats at comet tomorrow night

Raincoats at Comet is sold out. Hope you bought a ticket in advance.

I bought a ticket but do not have extras.

City Paper, Washington Post and Washington Post Express fall previews are out now, if you want to plan ahead at the standard established venues

Scanning the 9:30 Club calendar makes me feel out of the loop. Sellouts by The Head And The Heart, Matt Nathanson, and the Kooks? Who are these people?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NbwTQu6P78

Com Truise are opening for Neon Indian at the RNR Hotell tonight. I have no interest in Neon Indian though.

com truise rules

Neon Indian is horrible.

i kinda half-assedly watched em from the back at a festival a few years back and wasn't that impressed

Wait - what constitutes the misogynistic slant in Moombahton, besides that one wet t-shirt cover art pic?

breasts in your face and whatnot is semi-regular cover art for moombahton releases + events, usually written off/excused with a half-assed "well that's what they do in reggaeton"

http://ongakuclub.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/the-symbol-of-moombahton/

http://thebridgeoflostdesires.tumblr.com/post/6251205770/i-guess-weve-gone-from-moombahton-to

uh that seems to be pretty much entirely about Mad Decent rather than moombahton as a genre

Raincoats are definately a critics fave band-- At Comet last night I saw scribes from dcist.com, City Paper, Washington Post Express and I'm sure there were others who I missed in that crowded back room. Raincoats were great. I'm not too crazy about the Felt Letters schtick--they were reading a dialogue in which they asked folks onstage("Buddy Holly", "John Bonham" ) to help channel their never released songs.

WMAL the 630 AM news talker (mostly right wing) will be relayed on 105.9 FM, in place of classic rocker WVRX, The Edge, as of noon today. "By expanding our successful brand to the FM dial, we will be a viable listening and advertising option for many more people in the Washington DC area," said WMAL President/General Manager Jeff Boden

I do not listen to either, but ugh-- giving rightwing talkers an FM outlet as well.

friend of mine who is decidedly not a right-winger works for the station and she's calling herself "conflictedly excited."

Not sure how she can be excited at all about Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity being on fm radio as well

Not sure what this press spam I received means exactly, but if you fall into one of those categories maybe you can get cheaper tickets to something at the Kennedy Center (maybe a jazz show???)

The Kennedy Center’s new MyTix program, designed to increase access to performances for young people aged 18-30, the underserved, and members of the armed forces, launches today. Funded by Center Chairman David M. Rubenstein and his wife Alice Rubenstein, MyTix is part of the Rubenstein Arts Access Program which enables audiences to engage in more ways, at more times, and in more places than ever before.

Bad for America, good for her resume.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/09/19/live-music-returns-to-surf-club/

Youssou N'Dour for free on Wednesday at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall at 6 and Chuck Brown for free on Friday at Wilson Plaza at 5. I saw Chuck there last year and it was swell.

some big sets announced at U Hall:

The Field 10/29
Avey Tare 11/30
Digitalism 12/5

I saw Girls and Nobunny last night and was surprised at how poorly attended it was. Horrible Bon Iver just had two sold-out shows and Girls can barely fill the bottom floor. Don't get it.

SAHEL is headlining and will be performing at 8pm at the Pan African Fest 2011 in Silver Spring MD on Saturday,
September 24.

Gonna be be out of town and miss this free gig. I think Sahel are a new local band.

Fiona Zublin's "weekend top stops" in the Thursday Post Express are always so predictable(slightly left of mainstream plus indie rock)--Tosca, Fleet Foxes..........

isn't the express a lot of ex-dcists anyway or did i make that up

Not sure...Stephen Deusner writes for lots of alt-weeklies around the country, Shauna Miller was once at City Paper, Rudi Greenburg is something at the Post; Chris Porter writes also for the City Paper (and like me used to do freelance concert reviews for the Post till they cut back on the number of freelancers and concert reviews).

Their Thursday issue includes their weekend entertainment guide and thankfully includes more than just that 1 page prepared by Zublin.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/09/benoit_and_sergio_interview_dfa.php

Sometimes ILXer and Voice contributor Matos interviews DC based electronic dance producers/djs/performers Benoit and Sergio

I just discovered that the "Awesome Tapes from Africa" blog guy (he's a NYer who bought a ton of cassettes in various African countries and then converts them to put them on his great blog) is gonna be at U St Music Hall Wednesday October 12 with the Beautiful Swimmers folks. It's the same night as the "DC Space Revisited' salon thing at a DC library with that sadly defunct location's owner Bill Warrell and onetime booking agent Cynthia Connolly. But I think that's early in the night, so maybe I will try to do both, punk rock and African music nostalgia in one night. Perfect for me!

sounds cool

oh rad