Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

don't know anything about her but a shame if not, for all of nyc's multicultural reputation i miss the heavy ethiopian + eritrean presence in dc and take it less for granted

Can't find any reviews of the Saturday night Helen Berhe gig at DC Star.

So many sold-out gigs at 930, RnR Hotel, Black Cat and elsewhere this month.

kind of surprised that Beirut sold out so early at $30.

Wow, college kids with money...

And $30 for Beirut seems a bit much.

byt website is hiring

BYT is having a casting call in order to advance its coverage of everything awesome in the DC area.
(and beyond)
We aren't talking just about music.
If you want to write about literature and Olsson's book signings, we want you.
Food/Wine reviewers-we want you.
If you're stylish and crafty, we want you.
Got an itch to gossip with the gays, we want you.
If you're a struggling photojournalism grad who can rock a Canon 30D at a concert (or any other event, really), we want you.
...

info (at) brightestyoungthings.com (with the subject line FUTURE CONTRIBUTOR?)

Wonder if they pay

i don't believe so

David Malitz at the W. Post reported that Sonar in Baltimore is closed because of a dispute among its owners that somehow resulted in the liquor license not being reviewed.

How was In Flagranti at UHall last night? Speaking of the W. Post, they're a Chris Richards fave that he likened to a post-disco LCD Soundsystem

renewed not reviewed.

Not sold-out (yet) May rock gigs that look of interest:

5-7 Punk Rock Flea Market @ St. Stephens; Velvet Marias @ Hill Country BBQ; 5-9-Dirty Beaches @ Black Cat;

5-13-The Queers @ the Ottobar; 5-18-Alasdair MacLean w/ Lupe-Nunez Fernandez of Pipas as Amor de Dias plus Damon and Naomi @ Red Palace; 5-27 Scream @ Black Cat; Quintron @ Red Palace 5-28-Beach Fossils @ Kennedy Ctr. Mill. Stage; 5-29 Medications @ K. Ctr. Mill. St.; 5-30-Times-New-Viking @ Black Cat

Non-rock gig highlights include Calle 13 at Galaxy tonight; some UHall stuff; and May 21-Los Amos de Nuevo León at El Boqueron II, 1330 East Gude Drive Rockville ( accordion-slinging combo linked to the controversial "Narcocorrida" genre)

I'm goin to

+Municipal Waste, D.O.C., Extermination Angel
@ Comet Ping Pong 10pm $10 (available at Smash!)

tomorrow night

http://www.tgrionline.com/2011/04/challenge-to-all-moombahton-producers.html

Dowling's blog can be fun to read even when I don't agree with him or think he's being too dramatic

Moombahton should not end up like the hipster evolution of Baltimore club music, a sound plagued by a choking overabundance of bootlegs and edits ultimately for internet mixtape consumption that ultimately left the sound without a significant localized or grass roots core. Moombahton must be global and local, with a perpetually supportive and progressive grass roots community. Without the proper attention and dedication from the DJ and production community, there is a problem on the horizon.

I challenge moombahton to create community and to create a strong localized fanbase that can carry the sound to greater and deeper penetration and a higher expectation when the time is right for both a consistently excellent and musically important underground, but also crossover and mainstream success. DJs, producers and fans, the ball is in your court.

moombahton is cute but yeah, no.

Calle 13 (from Puerto Rico) at Galaxy in Hyattsville last night Thursday started actually on Friday morning at 12:50 am and ended at 2:20 am. 2 security people frisked me and everyone had to take out everything that was in their pockets and hold them-- keys, change, wallet, whatever) or put them on the ground. I hate worknight events starting that late. I won't go back there on a weeknight.

Tame Impala/Yuck tonight, I'll be wearing my flannel.

Wish I'd gotten a ticket! I'm even already wearing my flannel.

Ha. Sold out show. My kid played Yuck for me and I liked them even though they are so derivative(see Washington Post clicktracks blogpost re dreampop and Pavement and Yo La Tengo and Sonic Youth "Teenage Riot'. I have no idea who Tame Impala are.

Just noticed that this show is tonight:

Bells≥'s D.C. debut tonight at 8 p.m. at St. Stephens with Office of Future Plans (that'd be the band of Barocas' former Jawbox bandmate J. Robbins) and More Humans for a Positive Force benefit to fight spinal muscular atrophy. $5.

Zach B. from Bells was in Jawbox with J.

office of future plans are great live btw - a lot of their stuff sounds almost exactly like the first burning airlines record, which is totally fine with me

yeah i was considering that if not muni waste

do we have opinions on that which is superior?

if you can't do both (aren't municipal waste a late show?) municipal waste 100%

noted

roxy toured w/them a few years back or something iirc and she really talked them up so i'm kinda going ears unheard

interivew with Sharon Cheslow re the Chalk Circle retrospective

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/click-track/post/revisiting-chalk-circle-dcs-first-all-female-punk-band/2011/05/12/AF72FI0G_blog.html

Saturday late morning and afternoon bluesy-soul and zydeco programming on WPFW 89.3 is great even if they're doing their annoying 4 times a year(for 2 plus weeks at a time) on-air fundraising. I should listen more to their weekday 10 pm backback rap djs--kinda smug but a change of pace from KYS and mp3s and cds

seein rev horton heat tonight @ 9:30

little bit of texas comin to visit

He's fun. Was going to go see the DC Brazilian bill at Artisphere-Alma Tropicalia, all female percusshion orchestra Batala, and DJ Neville, but this cold or something bug I somehow caught may keep me home

Is it worth a late night before an early Sunday start to see Shortstaxx at Comet?

Maybe Hoos or others know, I saw the following in an e-mail I got but have never seen burleque act Short Staxx

Saturday May 14th, Satan’s Youth Ministers, Shortstaxx (Sticky Buns Burlesque) and The Drains
All Ages, Doors 10:30pm & $10

Satan's Youth Ministers (Psychedelic/Garage/Gospel, Kill Shaman, Tuscumbia AL)
http://www.facebook.com/satansyouthministers
These deep south Alabama natives bring their twisted take on growing up in bible belt to DC. This show promises to be all brimstone and fire!

Shortstaxx (Sticky Buns Burlesque, Washington D.C.)
http://www.facebook.com/people/Short-Staxx/1250551351
Our very special guest, the outrageous Shortstaxx, will bring her unique stye of burlesque, blending comedy and rock'n'roll attitude.

The Drains (80's influenced hardcore/punk, Washington D.C.)
If the Ramones and The Circle Jerks threw up in a gutter, The Drains are what would crawl out.

Lotsa interesting music coming to town this summer at both big places and small. But can I complain again that I can't persuade any promoter (or at least their underlings) to bring the Louisiana based Ponderosa Stomp to town. The Stomp folks dig up obscure soul, rockabilly, Louisiana swamp romp, and blues and have done events at Lincoln Center in NYC in addition to SxSW and their annual gatherings in New Orleans. I'm gonna have to win the lottery and do it myself.

^ saw that at Lincoln Center last year and was really great

Anybody seen Texas music at Hill Country bbq yet?

waht

Rootsy acts like the Derailers have been playing there for free. The gigs are only mentioned on their website.

Hill Country BBQ (http://hillcountrywdc.com/) opened around 7th & E Sts NW a month or so ago. Hill Country refers
to the Hill Country of Texas. The original one of
these places is in New York City(the owner's father is from Texas but he grew up in the DC suburbs). It has a
basement bar where they have bands. Most of the gigs are for
veteran local bands; the Grandsons, Oklahoma Twisters, Honky Tonk
Confidential,etc. My friend noted " And since this places is a BBQ joint first and a
venue second, I think it's useful explain how things work for the
uninitiated. You've got a choice to make as soon as you walk in the
door: seated at a table or at the bar. They are treated differently.
For table seating each person gets a meal card which tracks your
purchases (don't loose it). Service is cafeteria style; there are a
few meal options, but you pick what you want like a deli... 1/4 lb of
brisket, sausage, or whatever. The food is quite good, even if they do
follow that strange Texas emphasis for barbecuing cows. When I arrived
on Friday the wait for tables was significant, 45 minutes maybe. But
you can call ahead and reserve a table, which is particularly
important if you want one downstairs."

wahhhhhhhhhhhhhht <3 the derailers

You have to get tickets for some of them-- Heybale, Slaid Cleves...

Are they worth seeing?

man heybale...they're really really great austin-style country-roots-rock, but their lead singer/songwriter killed himself back in january--i don't understand how they can tour without him in front, let alone if they're worth seeing without him. well hell, they're worth seeing, but it won't be the same.

slaid cleaves is alright enough. i'd see him if tix were 10-15.

$15 it is for the Cleves show and $15 for Heybale. $10 for someone named Carolyn Wonderland

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/05/16/humes-britton-powell-eyes-a-less-agrarian-diy-scene/

This sounds really cool: Diane Cluck/etc on Friday "in the parking lot behind Million Man Tires."

oh man so hard to pick between this and the director q&a at westend for HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN

^ posts that should be self-parody but aren't

ha ha

Bringing my car in for repair at a Honda dealer down on Route 1 south of Alexandria, I noticed flyers in the window of a Hispanic grocery store for gigs at Maxwell's in Manassas and Mexico Lindo in Alexandria. None of the online sites I look at list these shows, and I haven't found them through googling yet. Maybe someone also tweets about 'em, or they're advertised on AM radio, but they seem pretty under the radar to me.

I'm thinking Maxwell's in Manassas could be as cool as uncapped LIVE, the vitaminwater-sponsored, Brightest Young Things-curated temporary arts space on 14th Street NW (& W).

Hey I Died, haven't seen or heard anything about knuckleheads under 21s going into UHall on weekends and acting dumb; did the buy ticket in advance policy for youngins' take care of the problem?

I think he's on vacation or away

This November 2010 article periodically gets new comments (I guess people googling Zanzibar on the Waterfront)

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/11/04/zanzibar-on-the-waterfront-closes-down/#comments

I hate to be like this, but it seems D.C. is hell bent on getting rid of all it's successful hip hop/r&b clubs in the name of redevelopment, Funny how these white or gay clubs never get shut down, adams morgan is a drunk fools paradise, georgetown is for the whites, you gotta play for the redskins or the wizards to go to the park on 14th street, I remember going to the ritz, dc live, vip, when white people would'nt dare hang around after dark, it was just us, the bums & the rats.