Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

I'm no fun-- I like Heavy Breathing for a few songs and then get bored with their very loud and heavy sound

And Ian S.'s shtick in Chain & the Gang is even less interesting. Sacrilege, I know.

sweet

hasn't the max levine ensemble been going on for over a decade now?
--fauxmarc

From what I hear, yeah--friends pushing 30 say they saw them in high school.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2012/07/16/friday-will-be-a-great-day-in-d-c/

dc jazz cats photo day on Friday

funny photoshopping

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/07/17/someone-make-this-happen-minor-treat-ice-cream-truck/

NOT FUNNY

Most popular flavor: Guilty of Being Vanilla

lawl

stuck on salsa's 9th anniversary workshop series is this saturday at the salsa room during the day. it'll actually be my first time treking down there.

http://www.eventzilla.net/web/event?eventid=2138972583

so many DMV rappers dropping mixtapes, so little time to listen.

And then there's this:

Anyone heard of this guy?

Saturday 7/21: Lost Society w/ DJ Cortega
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My good friend DJ Cortega, who throughs the Electrafrique party in Nairobi, Kenya, will be joining me this week for my Saturday residency at Lost Society. Cortega has made quite a name for himself in his city and is sure to bring his signature style of blending classic US house with the contemporary sounds that have given dance music its own voice in the African continent.

Lost Society
2001 14th St NW WDC 20009
10PM /// 21+ /// No Cover

the new D.C. Go-Go thread

May talk more about the Hopkinson go-go book here (when I read it!). Have discussed excerpts from it.

curmudgeon you should check out the new Sol Power All-Stars EP: https://soundcloud.com/solpowerdc/sol-power-all-stars-ep-sampler

Will do (despite my ocassional knee-jerk aversion to 18th Street Lounge associated acts)

wut u can't vibbbbbeeee mannnn

Back from a week at the beach. What's up? Anyone catch Iceage at Black Cat or Liars at Uhall? I saw that reviewers for the W. Post liked those gigs, plus Hot Chips too.

wish I could go to this tonight:

Natalie Hopkinson discusses her book Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City. We reviewed this treatment of D.C.'s homegrown sound and cultural identity earlier this month. 7 p.m. at Politics & Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Free

That's from the W. City Paper

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2012/07/31/go-go-live-author-says-politics-prose-silenced-her-mix-cd-store-disagrees/

that one customer

The Howard Theatre should really list on their website that for some shows they have a $10 minimum per person/per set at the tables. Food and drinks are not cheap there, and many of the food offerings are small in quantity for what one pays.

Sorry to seem like I'm just plugging this one source, but this is of interest (also mentioned it on the go-go thread): local rap producer and website owner Timothy “Judah” Matthews

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/08/06/interview-the-dmvs-one-and-only-judah/

Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) will stage a solidarity concert this Friday, August 10, from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. outside the Russian embassy (corner of Wisconsin Ave. and Edmunds St., NW) in support of the Russian punk rock group Pussy Riot.

AIUSA supporters and local D.C. music groups and artists, including indie and punk rock bands Brenda, Möbius Strip and Sad Bones, will call for the release of the prisoners of conscience. From 5:30 - 8:00 p.m., AIUSA will host a concert directly outside the embassy, as high-energy activists dressed in full Pussy Riot regalia lead chants and musical performances.

on my way there now

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2012/08/10/mere-words-cannot-mark-the-end-of-fur-nightclub-but-we-can-try/

Was Fur Nightclub really that bad? Just askin'.

let me draw a venn diagram for you of citypaper writers and fur's audience

O O

still a pretty sucky place though

http://www.wtop.com/109/2988482/DC-rallies-around-Russian-punk-band

http://i.imgur.com/Pp8xql.jpg

the sole purpose of taking that photo was to sneakily capture zorro bardem there in the bkgrnd

I know y'all are excited about the chance to get tickets to see ZZ Top and Skrillex, together at last.

what

so Jens Lekman/Taken By Trees at the 930 and Lindstrøm at U Street both on Friday, Oct. 12. What are the chances I could see *both*?

should be doable - we'll probably put Lindstrøm on no earlier than 12:30 and I'd imagine the 9:30 Club show will be over by then

Lindstrøm at U Street

!!!!!!!!

Any prospect of getting Blondes to play?

I know y'all are excited about the chance to get tickets to see ZZ Top and Skrillex, together at last.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 14:09 (1 week ago) Permalink

what― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver

Virgin Mobile freefest seems kinda dull to me this year (Nas, Dismemberment Plan, Das Racist & M83 could be good though). Free tickets available Thursday to those with the secret password, Friday to the masses

(xpost) Blondes played last year! Almost nobody came though :(

Damn

a ton of stuff on our calendar I'm really stoked for:

8/30 Claude von Stroke
9/1 Gesaffelstein/Brodinski
9/14 Matt Tolfrey
9/26 John Talabot (I'm opening for that one!)
9/28 Damian Lazarus
9/29 Grimes early show
9/29 Classixx
10/3 Aeroplane/Tiger & Woods
10/12 Lindstrøm
10/20 FLight Facilities
10/21 SBTRKT
10/26 Carl Craig 6-hour set

Talabot is enticing but ugh weekday.

Grimes/Classixx is gonna be a busy day.

Disco nap for Talabot - his first US live show!

I'm straight up worried for my health on Damian Lazarus/Grimes/Classixx weekend

Hearing new Taxi fares are making trips from DC out to VA late at night more expensive than they were. I'm skint anyway, though I would love to see Talabot. I'll make do with Lindstrom and *maybe* Classixx if I can scrape the money together.

Is Lindstrom the sort of thing that would sell out or is that cool for a "ticket on the night" kind of deal?

Gutted I didn't get a ticket for Grimes, especially with Elite Gymnastics.

Lindstrøm should be fine for a walk up ticket

Not that I don't love Elite Gymnastics, but people should be beating down the doors for Lindstrom

His next album needs to get a BNW on P4k and then it'll sell out. The Chromatics gig at RNR Hotell was unbearably packed.

freefest tickets went in a minute. Scalping agencies must have some secret way to nab 'em

nah just think about the 16-24 population in the DC area and it being a free show, HUGE demand

Plus those ZZ Top fans!

RIP Vance Bockis, member of 9353, Factory and others. Saw it mentioned on Facebook but no other details

― curmudgeon, Sunday, September 2, 2012 2:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was also in Obsessed

I'm looking forward to these Friday night showings:

Library of Congress Jazz Film Series Presents Pioneering Television series “The !!!! Beat: Legendary R&B and Soul Shows From 1966” AT HILL CENTER on Capitol Hill, Southeast of the U.S. Capitol Building
921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE Washington, DC
Every Friday night in September THEY’ll be showing four, half-hour programs from this rarely seen music series. All screenings are free and begin at 7:00 pm. The !!!! Beat was a pioneering blues, soul and r&b television show broadcast from WFAA in Dallas, Texas and hosted by radio d.j. William “Hoss” Allen. The series, which began production in January 1966, ran for 26 episodes with a rocking house band and go-go dancers.

Sept 7: Volume One includes performances by Little Milton, Frank Howard & the Commanders, Esther Phillips, Gatemouth Brown, Joe Tex, Etta James, Lattimore Brown, Roscoe Shelton, Lee "Shot" Williams & Gerri Taylor, Carla Thomas, Art Grayson, Cleo Randle, Mighty Joe Young and Jimmy Church