Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

That does sound great. My nitpicking--12:30 is typical for Uhall, but it looks like on weeknights 930 had Oakenfold scheduled for 11:30. I'm also curious based on that W. Post review that stated Simian were spinning sounds on a weeknight for the folks sweeping the floor by the end of the night.

well to be fair i don't think people are into smd dj sets as much as they are into their production work and remixes of. i asked around just out of the sake of having something to do and no one was interested.

I'm thinking I might like J Wow (dj from Buraka Son Sistema I think) at U St. Music Hall Wed. 12-8

When certain DC rock bands play 930 I either can't go or I miss the on-sale date and the shows sell out quickly- Walkmen on Friday and Dismemberment Plan in January

Was supposed to be taking someone to see Walkmen Friday but saw it's sold out. Ffffffffuuuuuuuu-
Anything else going on? Standard indie venues are kinda weak this Friday afaik

there are always people selling tickets outside of the venue, you can probably just head over there.

Not to run the starting time on worknights thing into the ground, but I received this e-mail from the Salsa Room in Arlington (and no I did not contact them and ask anything):

We've been asked this a lot about this Sundays Sonora Ponceña concert...

"What time will the concert start?"

All our Sunday concerts start at 9PM...we know everyone works on Monday so we get the show started on time...concert should be over by 11pm.

Of course the club will be open till 2am if you want to stay and get your party on.

salsa social events intended for dancers (like things at the salsa room) are less late-night-partying-minded. not so much drinking (it's harder to spin) and usually done before midnight before the clubby meatmarket types arrive. unless i made that up... which i don't think i did.

Sounds logical.

Any Hume fans here?

Hume is great!

think i saw them at sonic circuits festival... if i'm thinking of the right band.

Just keep reading nice things about them

Poor but Sexy (ex-D. Plan) at Velvet Lounge tonight. Are they becoming the new Steely Dan, or funkier than that (or neither).

PG County rules:

Fri. Dec. 10-Omega el Fuerte at Copocabana in Hyattsville, MD for $50. I saw El Gran Combo here many years back. It's a nice big space.

Sun. Dec. 12 Voltio at Galaxy in Hyattsville

DJ Rupture wrote about Omega in Fader and on his blog. Yea, yea, none of those places are walkable from metro.

There's a benefit for local bluesman Memphis Gold Thursday night at the Surf Club in Hyattsville. The Surf Club is just a bar attended by mostly Spanish-speaking locals on weekends, but on Thursdays they are doing rootsy blues and rock live stuff. There's a "roots Rock Riot" show there on Dec. 30th.

Alas, you need a car likely to get there (maybe a bus from the metro would work, not sure).

hey if yall didn't hear titus andronicus & the pogues are doing a two nighter at the 9:30 in like march

i have already lost my shit on twitter about this, so i'll spare you

Probably sold out already. The Pogues charged $75 I think the last time they were here and I skipped it. I know Titus are a big deal too, but they've been here 2 or 3 times now in the last 9 months. I missed those appearances so maybe i shouldn't be grumpy (have not made up mind completely re their Civil war references and dramatic emo but Springsteenish retro approach)

DC media, please lets stop all Jeff Tweedy coverage for a bit and give someone else some ink and pixels (and yes I liked him at one point)

Just read the thing on the City Paper site about the new wave of DC emo (well, one band, called Monument) and got really excited for some new take on a Rites of Spring/NOU type thing... sadly, the sample sounded like watered-down Christie Front Drive.

Too bad.

(...but hell, I'm thrilled to hear about ANY new DC bands!)

I think last year The Pogues show was so expensive because they played on St Patrick's Day - may be less this time around.

March 8th this time (March 7 at Rams Head Live in Baltimore) but I don't think tickets are for sale yet.

While the references online to prog-rock in their sound scare me, I need to check out that Hume album

you couldn't pay me to go to that Pogues show...

My pals Jeff and John talking about the 25th anniversary of Heavy Metal Parking Lot on Carson Daly's NBC show last week:

http://www.nbc.com/Last_Call_with_Carson_Daly/video/heavy-metal-parking-lot/1264381/

Yeah, I noticed that, it'll be interesting to see how Heavy Metal Picnic will be.

I missed to sold-out Government Issue reunion Saturday night (I'm still waiting for a reunion of an earlier version of the group with Mitch Parker and Marc Alberstadt). A video of "Teenager in a Box" from Saturday looked nice.

So in a different vein, I also missed dj J Wow from Buraka Son Sistema at U St Music Hall last week who interests me a bit. Oh well.

missed the

I wonder if any craziness ensued at the Patti Smith book reading at the NPG Saturday, in view of the recent censorship scandal?

I missed the Juan MacLean at U Hall the other night as well...oh well

No reviews of either U St. gig in the Post or the City Paper. Haven't looked elsewhere.

Oops, can an editor delete that. Cut and paste error.

Done.

I was trying to cut and paste some of a dec. 7th posting from the blog http://www.tgrionline.com/

I think they're overdoing the hype a bit.

Dude is laying on the hype way too thick.

DC now finally has a completely fresh generation of DJs who have access to superior sound, top flight producers and DJs who are still extremely relevant, and a growing national reputation for crowds that international top names yearn to play in front of.

I would agree with the first part, don't know how true or relevant the second part is. But then he goes off the rails when he starts to go off the rail talking about intellectual quotient and angus beef or whatever. There's definitely a need for promotion of similar events, but I wonder how much hyperbole actually helps in this context.

i haven't read in ages but the current post on that site declares switch and diplo as this gen's jimmy jam and terry lewis so hype is probably his thing.

...which i'm fine with, now that i think about it. dc's never really gotten the credit it deserves so why shouldn't it hype itself.

yeah, "overdoing it" is sort of their m.o.

Sometimes it gets a little too smug and narrow for me. There are plenty of worthy scenes in the DC area.

Now this week, I highlighted a completely different one in the CP. The East Coast Nightclub in Wooodbridge has quietly become the place for touring Mexican-American, cowboy hat wearing duranguese bands. Shameless plug:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/40154/los-creadorez-del-pasito-duranguense-at-east-coast-december-20/

Wot's Up

Caribbean music club and more the Crossroads is closed for "maintenance." In the 60s and early 70s this was a honky tonk roadhouse. Supposedly the Stones came here one night in 71 or so to check out guitarist Roy Buchanan.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2010/12/22/crossroads-nightclub-still-closed-for-maintenance/#more-37712

City Paper cover story on Dave Nada's mini-genre, moombahton:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/40191/our-year-in-moombahton/full/

so awesome

Moombahton Mondays at Velvet Lounge were the highlight of the summer, no doubt

the couple of times i went back home recently and hit up burns' underground soul solution at the esl i kept finding myself over in the other room listening tomb drop moombhaton with a girl on drums

it's great to finally see bass music end up in print in dc

This City Paper year-end article about the difficulties in finding practice space in gentrified DC was also interesting:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/40194/practice-imperfect

Washington Post Weekend section listed top DC rock, metal, and hiphop bands/artists for the year

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/22/AR2010122203627.html?sid=ST2010122204025

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/12/27/crossroads-nightclub-reopens/

Crossroads reopens