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The Setting reggae and dancehall club is shut down while Dan Deacon plays to thousands at a museum. Class and socio-ecomics always has to screw things up. That's life.

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Yes the rumors are true, the Washington Post has decided to save money by reducing the number of concert reviews in Style even more than they have already done over the last year or 2, and by dropping 2/3 of their freelancer concert reviewers.

Including me. What a bummer. There is nothing on music in today's Post Style & Arts section. I wonder if anyone will review some of the January shows I pitched ( Occidental Brothers Dance Band International; Rio de Janeiro’s Marcio Local; Chicha Libre)?

oh man, this sucks. bad decision on their part.

I don't do it for a living and they could have kept me for cheap on the website if they wanted to expand that. I don't understand their use of the web--they got the Going Out Gurus working out of Arlington and Josh and Malitz doing the post rock blog (pop, country, and indie) but that's it.

Meanwhile the City Paper has an article on a small portion of the DC dj scene. "Beats Working," which the writer calls "THE DC dance scene"(emphasis added)http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=36621

I am not clear why white djs spinning music for white indie-rock and electronica-whatever folks merits attention as the only dance scene worth covering without any mention of D.C. deep house nights, African and Caribbean dance nights at Zanzibar and the Crossroads, gay dance locations, old-school chitlin circuit soul/hand dancing locations like the Chateau, and r’n'b and rap dance nights at Love and the Legend and numerous other clubs. The article provided no historical context nor discussed any issues of race, class or sociology.

Monday night, Richie Unterberger,who was my editor at the defunct Option magazine, and who authored the books “Turn! Turn! Turn!: The '60s Folk-Rock Revolution” and “Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll,” will be discussing his latest effort, a 400 page coffee-table volume entitled "The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film," and showing rare films and playing rare recordings featured in the book, from 7pm-9pm at the Library of Congress Mary Pickford Theater, Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave.SE Free.

Heard the Richie U thing was good. I've been blogging some at the Washington City Paper and doing some City Paper citylights.

Most inaugural events are way too pricey

not the rumored boss lincoln memorial concert

way too crowded, perhaps

Nope, although I read one thing somewhere suggesting that they are going to require tickets for that free show at the Lincoln Memorial (I also read that HBO will broadcast it for free and make it available through cable providers to one and all not just those who pay extra for HBO). That does not make sense. Official balls are like 250 each, but Zanzibar events are also expensive, as is a Brazilian thing at Rumberos. And while I like those Chicago folks at Black Cat am not sure I'd want to spend the bucks for that. I'm a cheapskate (although if the event is for a good cause maybe that's ok to charge and pay alot then).

Brian listed some others over on an ILE thread.

Tickets for the Lincoln Memorial does not make sense, broadcasting it for free does, is what I meant.

The Inauguration entertainment schedule!

oh thanks

Chuck Brown's gonna be a busy guy. He's got a number of gigs throughout the weekend.

For your calendars: On March 7th Jeff Krulik will be doing an event (location tba ) about the Wheaton Youth Center called "Led Zeppelin Was Here." Yep, the Zep, the Stooges and others played there way back when.

I should get that Points album. Though it's too bad the organist quit the group. She was good.

I haven't heard the current version of the group

Re: the Points as nice folks don't play the game or the biz well enough.

I was just going to comment on the upthread mention of the Points CD... it's a great, great album but nobody seems to have heard it. When I was back in D.C. for the holidays, I went out to buy it, but it couldn't be found at Crooked Beat, Red Onion, or Smash. It didn't seem like it was some hot out of stock item, as far as the clerks were concerned, it was more like "Oh yeah, they have an album out... we've had it before, but I guess we didn't get any more in. You can mail order it." (I ended up buying it on iTunes since I live overseas and mailorder gets expensive and difficult). I was just wondering if it was a stereotypical apathetic D.C. thing on the part of the band (i.e. playing it cool and not hustling), or if their label (which is the label of Post gossip columnist/Edie Sedgwick main man Justin Moyer, I believe) isn't getting it out there, or what. I wonder why Dischord didn't put it out? Either way - punk/rock people, definitely look for that album...

Speaking of Dischord - has anyone heard Andalusions (the band that seem to have the most recent Dischord release)? What do they sound like?

I remember asking one of the guys in the Points when they were struggling to find a label to put out their album about Dischord, and the singer said, "I get the impression they are not putting out new cds by folks they do not already know." The Points do not seem to do the business side of things well, but what remains of the Dischord audience seems apathetic to them (except for Justin), as does the dcist.com or whatever brightest yt dc indie-rock audience. Chris Richards and I have reviewed them in the Post, and Malitz has highlighted them I think on post.com, but they can't seem to get a large audience.

supposedly v@l from dcist finally interviewed them recently

also im 99% sure that red onion has the points album right now

And Aaron Leitko just posted their video at the Washington City Paper Black Plastic Bag blog.

OMG AND NOW THE POINTS ARE STORMING THE HAYE-ADAMS

(take out the E)

Have not heard the Andalusians.

How about Thievery selling out 5 nights at the 930. I last saw them with Manu Chao at Merriwether Post, and they were alright (not great not bad) but I don't quite get the fuss. I guess they manage to get dance,rock, and whirled folks alike

If you are up late saturday/sunday night (say 1AM) and near a computer, WWOZ DJ Jamie Dell'Apa is gonna play the best of DC roots music in honor of the inauguration. The emphasis will be on guitar pyrotechnicians. In a whimsical turnaround, the city of New Orleans will actually be listening to *our* music for a change. Well, OK, maybe just the late-nite, drunk-driving New Orleanians, but still...... If you want to harass him, the station phone number is buried somewhere on their website. He probably will need to be reminded to play some Slickee Boys.

The show will be archived for later listening.

http://www.wwoz.org/blog/53511

Just heard Mambo Sauce's new version of their own "Welcome to DC." It's the Obama version with sampled Obama speech excerpts and the lyric,"Never before has there been a president with a swagga like us."

Love the radio ad for the "My President is Black" event with Young Jeezy at Fur tonight

The Inauguration entertainment schedule!

Can Moby play an acoustic set? His fans can tell the rest of us this morning. At roughly 1:30 a.m., a power outage shut down the 9:30 Club — along with other homes and establishments near 9th and U Streets NW and along Florida Avenue. By Kriston Capps at dcist.com in News on January 19, 2009 1:59 AM

http://moby.org/gfx/19990821_Dallas/moby_-_acoustic_guitar.jpg

Nice.

The power was apparently out for an hour or so before it came back on and there's controversy over whether the 930 will offer refunds to those who left.

I just want to know how the Skip Mahoney and Jewels show at the Chateau on Benning Road was on Saturday, or the Socarama last night with David Rudder and Alison Hinds up Georgia Avenue at an old Chevy dealership.
Nothing on the Post.com Post Rock blog or the City Paper blogs or Dcist.com about those events (or the dj events at the warehouse for that matter).

Aretha was incredible at the Kennedy Center. A packed house with many turned away. The show packed the concert hall and folks who could not get in packed the foyer and watched the show on video screens.

http://www.caribbeanworldnews.com/entertainment_one.php?sid=1528&a=2&cut=301&ad=entertainment

On Friday night, singer Cocoa Tea brought `Barack` to the Zanzibar night club and to the Obama Socarama on Sunday night.

Both events, however, fell short of the expected fan base while seemingly poor organization of the Obama Socarama led to poor attendance, a cold auditorium and an ultra late start.

The show got underway closer to 1 a.m. but top acts including David Rudder, did not grace the stage until after 4 a.m. At 4:55 a.m., Soca singer Allison Hinds still had not made it to the stage, despite promoters touting a 5 a.m. end time.

I was at the Moby show and vibes were generally good despite the power outage. Turns out he is pretty good at playing an improvised drumset made out of trash buckets and empty beer kegs.

Moby and the Junkyard Band may be appearing on a streetcorner somewhere today after the inaugural!!!

sascha dive "US premiere" at electric cabaret (new name for the 88 people's thursday night) at the muse tonight. would that i could go!

yeah the bookings there all of a sudden are like wooooah!

1/29 - SASCHA DIVE (Kompakt / Drumpoet Community / Deep Vibes - Frankfurt) - US DEBUT

1/30 - MATTHEW DEAR $15 before 12 w/list

2/5 - MARC HOULE (Minus - Berlin) - LIVE

2/6 - DERRICK MAY $15 before 12 w/list

2/12 - KONRAD BLACK (Wagon Repair, Minus - Vancouver) - DC Debut

2/19 - JOHN TEJADA (Palette Recordings - Long Beach)

2/26 - DAMIAN LAZARUS (Crosstown Rebels - London)

Wow. Do they have an e-mail list?

http://www.museloungedc.com/files/subscribe.html

88's is somewhere on their site
http://www.eightyeightdc.com

anyone see today's city paper?

rad

stay posted in 2009 for news about FA's 7"s!

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Got 2 Events coming up:

Moneytown @ Dahlak (1771 U St., NW DC) w/ Mr. Finewine of NYC (Bumpshop, Downtown Soulville on WFMU)
Friday Feb. 6th (always every first friday of the month)
10pm-close

More details to follow.

AND:

Som Records is teaming up with The Vinyl District blogspot, DC Soul Recordings and The Civilian Art Projects to host a record fair on Sunday, February 8 from 12-5PM.
All the info is on the attached flyer but basically this is gonna be a great afternoon of records, DJ's, refreshments, and more records. We're getting dealers from New York, Richmond and points in between. DJ's confirmed so far include DJ's Name Names, D-Mac and Nitekrawler.

http://somrecordsdc.com/
http://vinyldistrict.blogspot.com/
http://dcsoulrecordings.com/
http://www.civilianartprojects.com/

flyer with more info is here:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rWbrnXYgdB8/SX5z8SNwOfI/AAAAAAAAElQ/V0E9ceuXgAU/s1600-h/recordfair_tvd.gif

facebook invite, search for "DC Record Fair"

I wonder if these short movies showing at the National Gallery in assocation with the Robert Frank photo exhibit are worth seeing:

Echoes of Silence
and Happy Birthday to John
January 31 at 2:00PM

East Building Concourse, Auditorium
In Echoes of Silence, short installments from the isolated lives of people living in Greenwich Village are sustained by the soundtrack music of Charles Mingus, Pete Seeger, Igor Stravinsky, and Sergei Prokofiev. (Peter Emmanuel Goldman, 1965, 16 mm, 75 minutes)

Jonas Mekas' collection of clips from John Lennon's life includes the singer's birthday party, an art opening in Syracuse, a 1972 concert in Madison Square Garden, and the vigil on the day of his death. (Jonas Mekas, 1972–1996, 16 mm, 24 minutes)

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a222/blueimage/dc_vinylshow31.jpg

How about that Sat. nite 2-7 Nouveau Riche and Jackie O dj night "Kids" thing at DC 9 featuring free olde English before 10 and free condoms all night. I guess I have no sense of humor