And I thought Video Love(French drums & synthpop & laptop duo with filmmaker James Schneider on the laptop and stuff), Janka Nabay(Sierra Leonian vocalist using percussive club-friendly bubu music backing tracks), and Heavy Breathing at Comet last night was fun
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 7 July 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yswx7Hw8s4&feature=related
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 7 July 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
Nunchucks (July 12) do better-than-average power pop revisionism somewhere on the Teenage Fanclub/Sloan continuum (when the harmonies come in, anyway).
RCRDS who are appearing with them at Fort Reno Thursday are Arlington High Schoolers that my kid knows
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 8 July 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
Sold!
― skip, Sunday, 8 July 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
Has anyone heard anything about a Bombino show at Millennium Stage in early Sept? Friend of mine mentioned it, but didn't have any details. I'm not finding anything online and the Kennedy Center schedule only goes through the end of July.
― a-lo, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
Sept. 4 (it's on his record company's page)
http://www.cumbancha.com/events/40
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 12:01 (eleven years ago) link
ana tijoux at the black cat thursday
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
thanks curmudgeon!
― a-lo, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
mary christ in the city paper
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/42965/one-track-mind-mary-christ-listen-to-absent-minds/
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
Mary Christ were selling their cassettes for either $3 or $5, whichever you wanted to pay. I gave them $5.
― skip, Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
spoek mathambo early at u hall tonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKfwSFI8LhQ
― fauxmarc, Friday, 13 July 2012 13:40 (eleven years ago) link
May be busy with my kid and unable to go. Like his gothic-rap version of Joy Division's "She Lost Control" (and the video's pretty wild) and another song with a Brit grime rap beat, that's about all I have heard. So much going on.
Last night just did Fort Reno (Nunchucks garage rock and power pop was decent enough)and missed Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux, Brazilian forro band Quarteto Olinda, and Morris Day & the Time at the Howard and more. I wonder if Girlfriend in a Coma are good? They're in town.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 July 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
This Friday at St Stephens there's a pretty rowdy lookin Pos Force/Housing For All benefit--Chain & The Gang, Heavy Breathing (seriously y'all need to see fuckin Heavy Breathing), and Shit Stains for $5. I will sure as shit be there.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 14 July 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
is there general site of diy show listings like pheer.com used to be?
― fauxmarc, Saturday, 14 July 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
inyrbasement.tumblr.com
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 14 July 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
sweet
hasn't the max levine ensemble been going on for over a decade now?
― fauxmarc, Sunday, 15 July 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
I'm no fun-- I like Heavy Breathing for a few songs and then get bored with their very loud and heavy sound
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 July 2012 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
And Ian S.'s shtick in Chain & the Gang is even less interesting. Sacrilege, I know.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 July 2012 03:27 (eleven years ago) link
sweethasn't the max levine ensemble been going on for over a decade now? --fauxmarc
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.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 16 July 2012 04:10 (eleven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 July 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
funny photoshopping
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/07/17/someone-make-this-happen-minor-treat-ice-cream-truck/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
NOT FUNNY
― I DIED, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
Most popular flavor: Guilty of Being Vanilla
― skip, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
lawl
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
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
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 13:21 (eleven years ago) link
so many DMV rappers dropping mixtapes, so little time to listen.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
And then there's this:
Anyone heard of this guy?
Saturday 7/21: Lost Society w/ DJ Cortega ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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 Society2001 14th St NW WDC 2000910PM /// 21+ /// No Cover
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
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, Friday, 20 July 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
curmudgeon you should check out the new Sol Power All-Stars EP: https://soundcloud.com/solpowerdc/sol-power-all-stars-ep-sampler
― I DIED, Friday, 20 July 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
Will do (despite my ocassional knee-jerk aversion to 18th Street Lounge associated acts)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 July 2012 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
wut u can't vibbbbbeeee mannnn
― fauxmarc, Friday, 20 July 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 July 2012 05:45 (eleven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 July 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 August 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
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/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 August 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
on my way there now
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 10 August 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
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'.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 August 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
let me draw a venn diagram for you of citypaper writers and fur's audience
O O
― I DIED, Saturday, 11 August 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
still a pretty sucky place though
http://www.wtop.com/109/2988482/DC-rallies-around-Russian-punk-band
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 12 August 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Pp8xql.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 12 August 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
the sole purpose of taking that photo was to sneakily capture zorro bardem there in the bkgrnd
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 12 August 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
what
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
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*?
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 06:07 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 10:34 (eleven years ago) link
Lindstrøm at U Street
!!!!!!!!
― skip, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
Any prospect of getting Blondes to play?
― skip, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 14:02 (eleven years ago) link