Van Dyke Parks is playing a free show at the Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center on Monday night (April 9) at 6 pm -- does anyone know how packed the free shows get there?
― a-lo, Thursday, 5 April 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
depends on the show - I'm sure this one will get pretty crowded and there aren't many seats, but that hall stretches waaaay back
― I DIED, Thursday, 5 April 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, that stage is kind of like watching a show in a really big hallway. Apparently he's playing the Hamilton (where the Borders used to be downtown) later on Monday, too.
― a-lo, Thursday, 5 April 2012 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
If you can get to the K. Ctr. early do so, as lots of the seats get grabbed by tourists touring the building and area senior citizens. Really. Sometimes they end up leaving if they don't like the music though. The show will start promptly at 6 and end at 7, and be streamed and archived at their website.
The Hamilton gig costs $22.50 for a general admission ticket and $38.00 for a seated ticket.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
Chickfactor and Windian label gigs this weekend
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
Plus on Saturday the go-go Bounce Beat Teen Awards 2012 3 to 9pm at the Scene on Adams Road with TOB, ABM, XIB and more
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 April 2012 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
i'm gonna go to the windian thing tonight - i'd be a poor son of syracuse if i didn't see the penetrators
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 6 April 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
I only know the old Dc band Penetrators not the Syracuse ones
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 April 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsNkLET6BGg
here's the syracuse penetrators' "shopping bag" video (rejected by mtv in 1982!)
swami put out a great comp a few years ago that's on spotify - "teenage lifestyle" and "number 1 band in town" (chorus: "we're the penetrators/we don't fuck around/we're the ________") are near-classics
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 6 April 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
woww
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/2012/04/06/gIQAEsNg0S_story.html
Bounce beat article got moved to the Saturday Washington Post newsprint front page
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 7 April 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2012/04/09/parades-off-caribbean-day-short-on-cash-forced-to-cancel/
The comments threads in both of these 2 articles I posted are something else. A few good ones but lots of others, well you know
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
How was the Windian thing GYA?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
i had a good time (i only went to night one) - suns of guns were really fun, penetrators were way louder and sloppier (in a good way) than i expected, and i liked foul swoops a million times more than the other times i've seen them, which was no small feat given their first-out-of-five slot and the fact that there were about ten people there
i dunno about montserrat house as a space for that kind of show, although i guess there are worse places in the city they could have had it
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
and i for one am SHOCKED that an article on the caribbean parade attracted a bunch of weird crypto-racist fruitflies
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
I missed the first two bands but the Penetrators were great
― Veteran of the psych bid wars (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://thehowardtheatre.com/show/2012/04/21/bad-brains-second-show-added-by-popular-demand/
Second Bad Brains/GZA show added next weekend, on sale Friday
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
lumen8acostia festival saturday with music and art stuff saturday including big/bright + volta bureau
http://www.lumen8anacostia.com/performance-schedule/
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 12 April 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
yah i'm p excited about that
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 12 April 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
for some reason i thought it was in may, already have plans for the Occupy Gala poetry/spoken/music/art/etc thing saturday night
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2012/04/12/why-gala-hispanic-theatre-is-getting-occupied/
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 12 April 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
that should be a lotta fun, some friends of mine gonna be rockin the stilts
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 12 April 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
I saw Bad Brains last year and it was pretty fun. Kinda state fair or whatever, but they play all hits and the vibe is really nice.
― She Got the Shakes, Thursday, 12 April 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
Maracuyeah dj collective anniversary event at Judy's tonight and this free thing in College Park:
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/04/13/prince-georges-county-the-rock-n-roll-years/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 April 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
Seeing old-school bailey's x roads guys Scream at the St. Stephens benefit could be fun, but I do not know any of the other acts.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 April 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
I missed the below event on Thursday (was seeing Vieux Farke Toure at the overpriced swanky Hamilton) but am curious (this is from the Post Going Out Gurus)
“Ratchet” is the au courant term for anything lacking couth, gentility and propriety. For those that like slackness in their dancehall, the grimiest rap, and pretty much anything else that you wouldn’t admit enjoying in polite company (or when you’re sober), DJ Afro Boy serves up Ratchet Thursdays at Zeba Bar.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 April 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
Free show and lecture by Morton Subotnick, "accompanied by a lighting and projection landscape created in real time by visual/projection/lighting designer Lillevan" this Wednesday night at UMD (lecture starts at 6:30, concert at 8):
http://claricesmithcenter.umd.edu/2010/c/performances/performance?rowid=13735
― los blue jeans, Sunday, 15 April 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
That looks interesting. Although I have always heard more about his Silver Apples of the Moon, than I have actually heard it.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
Ian Mackaye and I both celebrate birthdays this week. Awesome.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
HBDWEEK. heh i've got the most watched ian mackaye clip on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TFNXUsr7gM
the fanboy etc comments haven't stopped in five years
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
fuck jim graham
― I DIED, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/all-opinions-are-local/post/jim-grahams-concerns-about-later-dc-bar-hours/2012/03/29/gIQA1ZCFjS_blog.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
I mean just in terms of pretty much everything relating to him and the nightlife industry at all ever
― I DIED, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-gurus/post/eleanor-friedberger-alex-winston-and-forward-festival-this-weeks-nightlife-agenda/2012/04/16/gIQAszyMMT_blog.htm
So the Caribbean sound like a mellow Fountains of Wayne to me and I can't decide what Deleted Scenes sound like (and I haven't listened enough to decide whether I like 'em). But some think these are two DC's best indie rock bands. Maybe (or maybe not).
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
two of D.C.'s best
might as well see the real Fountains of Wayne tomorrow night at 9:30.
― skip, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah, I forgot
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
record store day at joint-custody-below-the-pharmacy-bar-which-i've-never-heard-of this saturdayhttp://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s720x720/556073_3186903111234_1225470080_32365841_1880172277_n.jpg
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/04/18/no-age-high-places-to-perform-at-song-1-happening-at-the-hirshhorn/#more-70610
$25 to see rock bands at Pitchfork sponsored event. I do like No Age.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
Busy weekend w/ electronic dance, indie-rock, Rare Essence mixtape release, and more including various Latin genre gigs
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 April 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
88's forward festival starts wednesday, it's a pretty big event for (future) bass music, which dc is generally behind the times on
http://www.forwarddc.com/
― fauxmarc, Friday, 20 April 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
Ouch, lots of negative comments about HR (but not the rest of the Bad Brains) live in NY on the 80s hardcore DC scene kids group on Facebook.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 21 April 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
yeah he's not the awesomest live frontman lately ime
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 21 April 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
heard he was in pretty poor shape last night, people worrying about his health
― I DIED, Saturday, 21 April 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i didn't go but a good friend of mine who's a major bad brains fan said, "All the shit people talk about HR being a weirdo space cadet is true. The rest of Bad Brains is on their 1982 game, though."
so i mean yeesh
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 22 April 2012 06:32 (twelve years ago) link
Chairlift was amazing on Saturday.
― skip, Monday, 23 April 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
When I saw Bad Brains a couple of years ago in London, HR was walking around outside the venue with a big bag of sliced bread, handing pieces out to people along with religious blessings. He was definitely pretty kooky.
― Walter Galt, Monday, 23 April 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
I've heard it said that HR needs to be on medication (bi-polar and more) but does not necessarily do so. Sad.
x-post-the W. Post had a Chairlift review (with 80s Human League and Fleedwood Mac comparisons.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/concert-review-chairlift-at-u-street-music-hall/2012/04/22/gIQALdrYaT_story.html
I saw (and danced to) old-school Cubans Sierra Maestra on Friday at Artisphere, and sat and watched flamboyant funky New Orleans pianist & organ player Davell Crawford (with a bassist & drummer) at his Saturday night late show at Bohemian Caverns.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 April 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
pretty lazy summation of their sound but I suppose if you have 1 paragraph's worth of space to describe their music to a mainstream audience it's justifiable...
― skip, Monday, 23 April 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
I hope Chuck Brown's gonna be ok. He had a Facebook post over the weekend thanking folks for well wishes. He's currently hospitalized but there are no details.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 April 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2012/04/23/no-more-pho-dogs-at-u-street-music-hall/
Awww man.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 April 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link