Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

Glad I did not see Pusha-T at UHall Sunday night. The Washington Post review said he came on at 12:40 am Monday morning and finished a mere 25 minutes later. Rappers.

The Treme brass band thang at the K. Ctr. was fun last night.

Music-realted movies:

Blank City movie doc opens Friday at the Landmark E St.

In the late 1970s a group of aspiring New York filmmakers, inspired by the burgeoning underground music scene, takes to the streets to shoot guerrilla-style movies and in the process fosters the influential and highly regarded No Wave movement. This film examines the events that led to No Wave's creation, in which the city itself, which was in decay at the time, plays a significant role. Featuring interviews with Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Thurston Moore, Debbie Harry and Lydia Lunch.

And my buddy Jeff is showing Heavy Metal Parking Lot and Heavy Metal Picnic (the latter hour or so effort is not on Youtube and I think was only shown once before) Friday night at 9:30 at the AFI

related

Only a Baltimore show (Mon. 6/20) but no DC one for highly touted Danes Iceage

surprised that Junior Boys and Miracle Fortress hasn't sold out Black Cat.

yeah, I was just looking at that. might head along.

Got my ticket for it! They sold out last time, suspect they will again night of show. Hope the sound is better this time.

Will probably head over to Moombahton Massive after that.

I'm guessing it hasn't sold out yet because of Yeasayer at the 930 splitting the audience.

Only a Baltimore show (Mon. 6/20) but no DC one for highly touted Danes Iceage

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was v disappointed to learn this

i tried seeing blank city opening weekend at the ifc in nyc - i noticed fisher stevens (played The Plague in hackers) standing around and was pretty excited about it, classic movie for me. when i tried getting tickets it was sold out, stevens walks up to me and gives me two tickets, "i produced this" he says - i shake his hand all "YEAH YEAH YOU'RE THE PLAGUE!!!". sorry about calling the guy the plague still in 2011. i didn't even get to see blank city he accidentally gave me the receipts instead of the tickets and was gone before i'd noticed.

That stinks re the receipts but cool re your greeting of the Plague. I want to see "Blank City" although I kind of understand the cynical take on it noted by Simon Reynolds--he was a bit critical of the overly worshipful nostalgia for dangerous late 70s NYC (although that current attitude helps support his current Retromania book and glosses over the role he had with his earlier books in fueling that nostalgia)

Friday Night
Strange Boys, White Fence, and Heavy Breathing (ex-Apes) - Comet Ping Pong

fuck yeah

first austin garage band to roll through since i've moved here, so amped

Here's an interesting if pricey summer show-

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/activitiesandevents/celebrations/rocknroar/?hpout=homepage

August 10, 6-9 p.m.
the B-52s summer concert at the Zoo!

Tickets will go on sale June 23 at 10 a.m.

General Admission:
$50 FONZ members (Members may buy up to four tickets at the member price.)
$65 nonmembers

smellyest concert

Was going to see Junior Boys but a friend wants me to go see Allo Darlin (??) and she's gonna give me her spare ticket.

Also Bill Callahan on 7/13 at the RocknRoll Hotel. Is that the type of thing that would sell out quickly in DC?

yeah, i can't imagine that one not selling out tbh

hey gya you down for strange boys tomorrow?

i forget if you're into that kinda 60s garagey thing

i would be! but i'm going to the first night of the oneida show in ny instead

ahh nice. enjoy that!

6/24 @ St. Stephen's Church (in the Sanctuary) - ILSA (local true metal), THE BODY (providence art metal), THE ASSEMBLY OF LIGHT CHOIR (a women's choir, providence), & BRAVEYOUNG (NC) - $10

incidentally this is coming up next week and it'll be awesome

This might be good:

NMAFA’s Africa in Motion Series presents Artificial Afrika with Living Colour’s Vernon Reid this Saturday night June 25th @ 6:30 pm. The event will take place at the National Portrait Gallery in the Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium (8th and F St NW). Please enter on the G St NW side. Seating is on a first come first serve basis. We are expecting a big crowd so get there when the doors open at 6:00 pm.

musician and visual artist, Vernon Reid presents Artificial Afrika, a multimedia work based on the various ways that the West has mythologized and invented an image of “African culture,” through appropriation of mythology, religious traditions, visual and musical forms. The work includes a multi-screen video exhibit that is itself a kind of appropriation –using digitally manipulated images as genuinely African–and __music that is a hi-tech, up-tempo blend of live electric guitar, electronic sounds and digital processing.

hey guys, this isn't quite a show, but me & my mans n dem are doing an event at the now-renovated Hole in the Sky--i haven't been since they reopened, but they tell me they're totally redone + they have a fire escape now! hooray safety.

i'm pretty amped about it.

http://www.parley.co/blog/2011/6/20/1hr-mag-hole-in-the-sky-on-627.html

Swamp Dogg at the Smithsonian Folklife Fest Saturday night July 2nd (and during the day at various times) will hopefully be awesome.

Gah Hoos, I want to go to your Hole in the Sky Event because I've never been to anything like this, but I don't have a single artistic bone in my body!

That's OK! That's part of the point--we just want people to have fun. The "magazine" that we put out after the fact isn't the focus, the idea is to be with the people in the room and interact and have a good time and try new things.

And besides--all a collage takes is a pair of scissors and a magazine, and lord knows you can do some wacky things.

Will try to work up courage then!

I always seem to miss Art Brut, and I think I'm gonna miss them tonight also. DC Carribean Carnival coming up on Saturday and Chi-Lites Saturday night at Carter Barron.

It’s only attracted 48,169 visitors since October, well short of the 250,000 initially projected by Arlington Cultural Affairs, the agency that oversees Artisphere.

from http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2011/06/22/artispheric-ambitions-did-arlington%E2%80%99s-new-resident-arts-center-expect-too-much/

I don't see how Artisphere is possibly going to get the 250,000 visitors a year they're expecting. I wonder if the company that did the projections for that was the same one that did them for the City Museum?

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lol

x-post--You predicted this awhile back. One of the Bluebrain guys works there but I do not think he has programmed many events. They had a few brightest young things events but not many. They were begging me to write about a Brazilian-American bluegrass group that is there tonight or tomorrow, but that's not my thing. They have booked some oddball international stuff but its not always the kind that I am into. Like that.

Their pr for their Latin shows has been lame.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/click-track/post/local-news-beauty-pill-to-record-new-album-at-artisphere/2011/06/22/AGQ9vKhH_blog.html

Beauty Pill is back

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/06/24/caribbean-carnival-parade-shorter-but-still-on/

yah thats gonna rule xp

One of the architects I used to work with was in Smart Went Crazy and the initial lineup of Beauty Pill - amazing guy

Fort Reno starts Monday. Indie-pop act Valley Tours is an Arlington band--my kid goes to high school with one of them (the others are at different Arlington high schools)

Busy weekend music-wise -- dj events (Nitekrawler's 3rd anniv. and more); Swamp Dogg & others at the Folklife Fest; the last Slickee Boys reunion show really

DRESS CODE:
Please note that dress code admission will not merely pertain to articles of clothing, but more importantly to style and execution.

GUEST LIST & VIP:
FOR Table reservations (ask for the table specials)

Lotus Lounge
1420 K ST NW DC

"style and execution"

The Spiv's people have uploaded 5 or 6 Felt Letters songs to one of his other bands' YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/CHAINANDTHEGANG
I really love the Felt Letters stuff and hope they put out an LP.

"The Spiv's people"

I saw one of those groups backstage at Black Cat. He's got a formula but it mostly works

July 9
The Indonesian Embassy’s cultural festival showcases dance, music and martial arts. See a performance by Grammy-nominated singer Raheem DeVaughn and witness an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the largest “angklung” (a traditional instrument) ensemble in history. The first 5,000 receive a free anklung!

From the Going Out Gurus. But what connection does DeVaughn have to Indonesia?

Eric Hilton of Thievery Corp. did not like Ally S.'s City Paper review of their latest album. The battle is in the comments section

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/06/29/the-empire-of-chill-thievery-corporation-helped-build-u-street-but-sounds-homeless/

yeah it was some #shotsfired

friend of mine that works for TC shares a first name w/the writer of the piece

it has been a very confusing week of discussing this thing

To be honest, I never liked Thievery's music that much, and it always used to bug me that in the past they had a doorman who would decide who could enter their club. I will leave the discussion of the article itself and the comments to others, due to my writing for the newspaper at issue.

they do have some defining albums for me but that was late 90's, 2000 - they were great selectors and producers before getting so steeped into the reggae and funk - but it's been that way for a long while now, pressing the issue feels dated.

it always used to bug me that in the past they had a doorman who would decide who could enter their club

which one? the 18th street lounge was always low-key but i'd only been sundays, since sam burn's underground soul solution got moved there after red, then dragonfly closed. i had heard rumours about tackiness like the door thing mentioned and had made it a point to avoid going for a decade but ended up loving it (sundays at least).

also i don't know much i'd directly credit them for management of a spot vs just owning it, (i think) they were hardly ever around esl at least

I thought ESL was once that way