Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

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good but not mind-blowing Destroyer show last night. Very mellow crowd appropriate for the music. As usual for Black Cat, it was obnoxiously loud--can't remember ever going to a show there that wasn't ear-splitting. I was wearing plugs and had to put my hands over my ears a couple times.

Was curious about that show but parental duties kept me home. I'm guessing your reference to a "very mellow crowd" meant that they did not talk loudly through the whole gig.

i loved the show, but yeah the black cat's sound has never been the best.

Mark Jenkins review in the W. Post was kinda critical. He liked some aspects but suggested Bejar was not charismatic enough.

In my experience, Bejar's schtick is generally seeming bored/over it/disengaged/can't be bothered. I think it gets discussed in one of those epic 9 million post Destroyer threads from a couple of years ago.

yeah that annoyed me when he was touring for Rubies w/ a 4 piece band, but for the Kaputt sound and vibe it wasn't a problem at all imo.

i would like to arrange a real meetup this coming week, a happy hour type thing, preferably downtown, preferably monday or wednesday. and if that won't work, sometime next week.

and it would be cool if it at least 5 people came! :)

DC represent!

monday today monday?

I guess that's way too short of notice! Maybe next Monday? The 18th?

i travel for work monday - thursday, so weekdays are kinda weird for me (although i'm actually in town right now owing to jeopardy tomorrow, cf. the other thread)

Old guy me is busy parenting most Monday and Tuesday nights (and every other weekend), maybe some of the others here can do so

i am down for this obv

z_s u may also want to post this in the other dc thread?

BlackCatDC Oh hey! Archers of Loaf are playing here on Fri Aug 5. Tickets on sale Fri.

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new Red Palace web site: http://redpalacedc.com/events/

<3 red palace v much

never been but probably going to head over there for Woodsman on Monday. Wonder what the new and un-improved Pipettes will sound like.

I was wondering about Pipettes too

Mostly unpublicized new Jazz book talks on Wednesdays at the national Portrait Gallery. The Will Friedwald one on his new jazz vocalists book is going on right now. He was on with Kojo Nnamdi (spelling?) on WAMU today.

A Miles Davis book is next week. http://www.npg.si.edu/shop/bookshop.html

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/short-takes-tv-on-the-radio-chalk-circle/Content?oid=3555221

Here's a Jessica Hopper review of a just-issued retrospective release of DC band Chalk Circle. They played 4 gigs in the early 80s and included Sharon Cheslow who was one of the folks who put together the book Banned in DC. I met her at the U of Md where she was a WMUC dj for awhile like me. I saw one of the Chalk Cirle gigs. I never knew that in 1980 or so they wanted Henry Rollins to be their drummer.

gonna def go to that davis book thing xp

how is banned in dc?

It might be out of print now--It's a mostly all photo history of Dischord related punk from 1979 to 1983. It's good. If my brother's negatives (ah pre-digital photo era)had not disappeared it might have been even better! Leslie Clague, Cynthia Connolly and Sharon Cheslow put it together. I helped them get photos as I had a DC fanzine out then.

Actually it goes to 1985 and Amazon still has copies.

http://www.outlawjam.com/event-details.htm

Check out this wacky festival in Frederick, MD this summer--New York Dolls, Andrew Dice Clay, Motley Crue, Elvin Bishop and others...

BlackCatDC Oh hey! Archers of Loaf are playing here on Fri Aug 5. Tickets on sale Fri.

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someone needs to be hooking up the presale code.

for real

Anybody been to Public House # 7, 6315 Leesburg Pike (near 7 corners at the intersection with 50 and Wilson)? It's now a Brit pub type place and used to be called Brinkley's. Free rockabilly tonight with local act Jumpin Jupiter

I work at the BBT building nearby and pass that pub every day. Can't get a read on what it's like from a drive-by though. Report back if you make it.

more biker fest wackiness - Thunder Festival - featuring Jackyl and Little Ozzy:

http://i56.tinypic.com/2nsuc1i.jpg

I went with friends to Public House #7 in Falls Church last night. At 10pm the front room was closed up but the upstairs room was pretty crowded as great local rockabilly band Jumpin Jupiter played in a corner. The place is covered with various types of Brit memorabilia --Who and Beatles posters, etc. We came from having eaten Ethiopian over at Meaza on Columbia Pike so we did not try the Brit pub food. A nice selection of beer and alcohol. Oh, the music was free. So that was good too. I think they only have bands play on Saturday nights.

What are your favorite DC Hardcore Bands?

I forgot about this thread that some folks just posted on...

oh, don't think it matters anymore but the dc archers presale was hardcoreloaf. got my tixxxx

I always wait too long re sales of tickets for rock shows as I 'm not sure if I will have a conflict, and then the shows are sold out. I should buy and then try to sell the ticket later if I can't go.

I haven't listened to Archers of L. in ages but did like them once upon a time.

Oh boy. I'm not a fan but if you are:

From Malitz at W. Post Click Tracks

Baltimore-bred indie rock superstars Animal Collective will finally perform at Merriweather Post Pavilion, the Columbia, Md., venue that provided the name for the band’s 2009 breakthrough album. The show will be on Saturday, July 9. Tickets go on sale Friday.

haha I was wondering when that was going to happen

Falls Church has actual live music options now?!?!?!?!
things have changed since my youth

well i hadn't bought my titus tickets for the black cat yet and now they're sold out

lol

sorry i was just in shock over that falls church post
but yeah figgered the merriweather post thing was just a matter of time

H, I saw a great Ethiopian woman singer accompanied by a keyboard player at Meaza's on Columbia Pike, just off of Route 7 Leesburg Pike earlier in the evening before seeing the rockabilly band. I need to find out her name. She sings there every Friday and Saturday. She was better than the guy who followed her (dressed like an Ethiopian Tom Jones but not as flamboyant).

x-post-

I was gonna go to Titus and didn't get a ticket yet either. Oh well.

i'm gonna see em next month in ny and they'll be back in dc again in june, i'd just been lookin forward to this a lot

criaglist maybe

some of the acts from argentina's tropical/cumbia/etc outfit zzk records playing judy restaurant next thursday
(article curiously doesn't mention zzk)

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/40743/chancha-via-circuito-at-restaurant-judy-april-28/

damn i fuckin love that clip on the wcp page

i guess my thursday is booked

also got a nice targeted ad one of the times i hit that link for the impresarios (dunno them) with fort knox five (latin funk / breakbeat dj set, sometimes live drums, longstanding part of the dmv edm community) at artisphere tonight

I keep meaning to look into the Impressarios (some sort of local Latin funk band that are pals with Fort Knox 5 and possible associated with Theivery Corp.) but haven't yet really--part of a youtube video is all I have seen

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/04/21/wmuc-fights-to-stay-on-air/

WMUC 88.1, low watt station, at the U. of MD. in big financial problems. Old man me was involved in the station in the early 80s, before there was a Baltimore station at 88.1 that cut heavily into its signal range. I should listen to it on the internet more and send 'em a buck or 2.

more than a few friends that went to umcp worked there

likewise, hope they pull through