Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

I'm hoping to attend that unless I have family obligations.

Meanwhile here's some of the international music events this weekend that interest me:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/04/16/international-music-roundup-asha-bhosle-anoushka-shankar-oscar-dleon-and-more/#more-22206

i am moving here in a couple weeks! is there a good local show listing site besides the city paper's calendar?

You've got to jump around--some things are on brightest young things; others on facebook; others on dcist.com or the washington post(weekend section and going out gurus blog and clicktracks blog) and so on. There are go-go sites and certain techno/dance promoters and djs have their own e-mail lists. I hear about some soul and international shows only on WPFW 89.3 FM.

More (mostly non-music) DC over on ILE -- Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/04/19/velvet-lounges-new-sister-club-dodge-city-opens-this-week/

I guess the club name is a reference to the 1988 Go Go Posse song, “D.C. Don’t Stand For Dodge City” (I Hear Ya! Records). I bet some people won’t appreciate this as the name of a club.

I appreciate the name now but it's more than a bit abstruse.

Or insulting to some who may not find a reference to D.C.'s history of violence amusing.

So are Mathew Dear, Michael Mayer, Soundmurder or Dizzee coming to town and/or where could you hear their music?

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Matthew Dear 5/14 @ Muse
Michael Mayer 5/25 @ U St Music Hall

Nice

So Hot Chip have a DJ set in the parking lot behind Sweetgreen? I can already hear the sound check from my apartment. http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/18.jpg

Oh I can hear them now from mine too...

How did they sound? Anybody see them with XX at the 930? The W. Post liked HC I see.

Interesting lunchtime presentation at the Library of Congress Wednesday at noon

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/05/04/tomorrow-john-szwed-discusses-folklorist-alan-lomax-the-man-who-recorded-the-world/#more-23279

The Dynamite Brothers return to U St. Music Hall TONIGHT (5/5).......

DYNAMITE

They've got what each lady wants! Cross them and there’s nowhere to hide…
They pack the greatest punch in town, and they want to know if you've got a match....

The Dynamite Brothers are: DJ Nitekrawler & DJ Lunch Money
For your dancing pleasure, they'll use only the best funk & soul bangers available TONIGHT (5/5) from 9pm-2am. All for FREE.
Be there or get kicked in the FACE. Again.
U St. Music Hall is located at 1115 U Street NW DC.

See what the Washington Post Express has to say about the first edition last month:
http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2010/04/dynamite-dance-night-u-street-music-hall-ts.php

..and RSVP to THIS edition here on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122207764460840&ref=mf

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a222/blueimage/dynamitemay.jpg

Also, this Friday is the first installment of "Kool Toast" at Dodge City. Gonna be spinning lots of Disco, Boogie, 70s/80s Hip Hop, Go-Go (finally get to play out my 3 crates!!), 80s electro, and Island Grooves. Still working on the flyer.

What to go to this Saturday night that isn't a DJ/dance party and isn't emo or country or jazz or sold out?

Hmmmm.

Vandaveer backstage at Black Cat is folky almost country so maybe not them

lowercase letters at Velvet Lounge (never heard of. website says their hiphop folk soul)

Sukwinder Singh (Bollywood singer with song in Slumdog Millionaire) at 7 at DAR Constitution Hall. Probably expensive

Hardway Connection and Dynamic Superiors (old-school soul) at the Solar Eclipse on Bladensburg Road NE DC.
301-587-1858-Roadhouse Oldies is sponsoring the show. Hardway are great but this hand-dancing club might be hard to get to.

DC Tango Festival at Lisner

"Wheedle's Groove" (movie doc about the Seattle `60s and `70s soul and funk scene) at the Maryland Film Festival at 9:30pm at the Charles Theater, 1711 N. Charles St. in Baltimore

nerd night at dc 9

they're

Thanks! Nerd night looks great, but really looking for music. Signed up to their updates though. Others are good leads, will check them out and let you know if I made it.

Have fun

e-mail I received today, Saturday afternoon-

Today is the actual 25th anniversary of the Full Moon Jamboree/Doom Metal Sunday at Tito's Farm aka THE FARM on Travilah Road (May 4-5, 1985), and I want to mark this occasion by announcing the premiere of Heavy Metal Picnic, a feature length documentary celebrating that mid80s Maryland rock and roll party scene:

Friday, July 30, 2010
AFI Silver Theater
Silver Spring, Maryland
Time: tbd

More details soon, but I wanted to give you a heads up, especially since it was 25 years ago this very instant that Asylum was performing on stage, ushering in a weekend that became dubbed by the news media as Maryland's Woodstock.

I did not see any live music this weekend, though I heard some cool pre-recorded Afghan dance music through the wall separating the banquet room (where an event was going on) from the restaurant room where I was eating a yummy Afghan veggie combo on Route 1 near Target in Alexandria. I found a postcard there for "Superstar Tour 2010" with Ghazal, Jonibek and others that is coming to 6 North American cities including May 21 at the Sheraton in Tyson's Corner afghanconcerts.com has the info

I ended up at a night called Spellbound at Recessions, finding out what Dark Wave means and all kinds of other subgenres I had absolutely no idea about.

Can't tell whether you sound enthused or not. I'm guessing maybe some indifference? That's kinda industrial sounding stuff, right?

Intrigued but not super-enthused! Yeah, industrial-sounding, to my untrained ears...

Tonight Thursday at Station 9 on U street:

FaiBien*, a DC-based non-profit, will throw a fundraiserto help rebuild schools and jump start education in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. With two full floors of live bands, DJs, and g drink specials

Music provided by CODR** includes a performance by DC Mambo, a 9-piece band from the DR preforming salsa, merengue, and bachata, and Haitian music upstairs followed by DJ RBI (Ill St. Grooves WPFW 89.3FM) on the 1st floor spinning RnB & hip hop and the Globaltropical DJs (www.globaltropical.blogspot.com) on the 2nd floor pumping tropical bass music.

*FaiBien builds schools in Haiti for children who would not otherwise receive education and offers skills and trade training to adults. FaiBien was featured by local News Channel 8: http://www.news8.net/news/stories/0110/698774.html.

**CODR is DC-based non-profit supporting higher education for rural students in the Dominican Republic, showing support for their neighbors on the island of Hispanola!

DJ set from Andy Butler of Hercules & Love Affair at U Hall on Friday...

http://www.ustreetmusichall.com/2010/05/red-fridays/

1978 was a pivotal year in the evolution of dance music. Saturday Night Fever had hijacked disco from the gay, black and Latino underground scene and turned it into a strutting global pop phenomenon spurring DJs like Frankie Knuckles in Chicago and Larry Levan in New York to push the expansive, electronic dreams of Gorgio Moroder (I Feel Love) and Walter Gibbons (Ten Percent) towards what would eventually become House and Garage.

1978 was also the year that Andy Butler was born. Exactly 30 years later, with a little help from his vocalist friends Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons), Kim Ann Foxman and Nomi, Andy is reviving the spirit of real disco and the house sounds it spawned with enough passion and finesse to ignite both the underground and the pop world all over again.

In its name, sound and romantic, heroic spirit, Hercules And Love Affair is the result of Andy’s dedication to the Classics: both the myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome that captured his imagination as a child, and the timeless club tracks that soundtracked the euphoria and delirium of his adolescence and adult life.

And Mathew Dear at Muse and a Little Brother farewell gig elsewhere for those into that brand of Native Tongue type hiphop

City Paper music issue available--more indie rock focussed but some other stuff

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/calendar/show/summer-music-guide-2010

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/05/21/tonight-afghan-and-tajik-pop-plus-jamaican-dancehall/

Missed both of these events...

a couple of friends of mine are playing this weekend, more folky/jazzy style with some ethiopian elements, one of 'em Meklit just released an album so lil promo tour, attaching links to Meklit's webpage where can check audio and video and initial reviews

http://meklithadero.com/html/links.php?psi=33
http://www.bernos.org/meklit/

oops date and time in link above but still shld have posted it

Sat, May 29
The Warehouse Loft
411 New York Ave NE
Penn St & 4th St NE enter @ Penn St. PNC Bank

Interesting voice Ethiopian meets Nina Simone and some folky whose name has slipped my mind at the moment.

A whole different kinda thang happening in DC tonight-

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/05/25/tonight-kompakt-djproducer-michael-mayer-at-u-st-music-hall/#more-24132

Anyone else go see Michael Mayer last night?

How was he? How late in the night did he go?

I had to leave early, so I caught maybe an hour of his set, I don't know what time he finished. His set was definitely good but it wasn't too revelatory. Crowd was pretty into it so he didn't really have to try hard. Maybe 150 people in attendance?

We had almost 300 people total! Really good night, he went until about 2:45.

Also, LOU was there!

:) Yeah, I *finally* made it to U Hall. Very impressed! Looking forward to Pantha du Prince.

2:45 on a Tuesday night? Wish I could do that but I'd love to keep my job.

Might have to make an exception for Pantha du Prince though...

Bob Mould and the Evens will be performing at the Monday night 930 Club 30th anniversary celebration

Good news, skip - Pantha du Prince is playing live and will be a much earlier show.

That 9:30 Club anniversary show lineup is insane:

http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/5/3/9/53962cf014/800f2c50ae/9b1e25dbae/image1.jpg

This a busy town this weekend...Not sure if I'll get to anything though--the 930 stuff or other things including these: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/05/28/international-and-roots-music-weekend-roundup-tito-rojas-barrington-levy-pinetop-perkins-and-more/

That list does not include any of the numerous dj events the Going Out Gurus mentioned or the Soundclash event at the Marx cafe tonight

Plus I missed out on the United House of Prayer funky marching band parade

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/uhop-parade-2010/

Missed all the 930 club stuff (the invitation only Sunday night thing and the Monday night deal with the bands). Saw a few of someone's photos on Facebook--Scream with Dave Grohl, and Henry Rollins introducing the current version of Troublefunk.

Saw with the W. Post review the photo of the Evens playing upstairs on the balcony, rather than on the stage.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/06/11/your-weekend-in-international-and-roots-music-salif-keita-angel-y-kris-beausoleil-ar-rahman/#more-25081

Lots of stuff I am interested in this weekend (but I may not be able to attend).

I'm still at work, day from hell, but will hopefully make Pantha du Prince. RA says he starts at 10:30 at U Street Music Hall. http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?166856

Yep, that's when things seem to start there.

Good news, skip - Pantha du Prince is playing live and will be a much earlier show.

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Started at midnight, which would have been annoying had I arrived with everyone else in my group at 10:30. But instead the timing was perfect. :) By 1:20 we were out the door. He was good, not mind-blowing. The set straddled the line between dance set and art piece--that's probably the point, but it created some awkward transitions for the crowd between dancing and standing around waiting for the next beat to show up. My friends were not totally weirded out by my taste in music so I was happy.

Holy Ghost sounds like a lot of fun on Saturday but I'm probably going to be at Mixtape that night.