Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

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

ESL opened with four owners before Thievery Corporation started. One of the owners (Eric) later started Thievery Corporation with another person (Rob) who isn't part of the ownership or management of any of their places. So there's overlap but looking at ESL as "Thievery Corporation's club" is pretty off target.

Ok. Hilton's reaction has probably gotten the piece more attention than it would have received otherwise.

So should I give Wugazi another chance?

its nicely chilled, nothing earth-shattering.

harvey milk's playing in baltimore on Sunday if anybody's interested

So do the folks into danceclub sounds here like NW DC club Sweet Spot? Was reading about several events there including a South African house dj called Black Coffee who's there Saturday and German Kassem Mosse who is there tonight.

There's also more old-school r'n'b at the Folklife Fest including a Gamble & Huff event Sunday night. I missed Stax singer William Bell down there last week with the Stax Music Academy but found a 20 minute video of the appearance on Youtube. Nice. I want to see the Dixie Cups. And yes that is Ian M. and his kid in a Smithsonian Folklife Fest audience shot in another Youtube video. on the Colombia portion of the fest.

Was seeing theatre last night so missed what sounded promising at Fort Reno

are fred wesley and the new jbs worth seeing at this point?

I watched their recent Kennedy Center Mill. Stage show on video archive on the center's website. It started off dull--jazz fusion boring--but later in the gig (much later) they did some James Brown stuff that was way better. I was disappointed for the most part.

yeah, that's what i was afraid of

might go to the gamble and huff thing if my sunday afternoon plans wrap up early though

This Saturday event at the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum should be nice. However, I've been to event there, and alas all the museum has for events like this is a rectangular 75 or so seat room with folding chairs. It may get crowded. The parking lot is small. I don't know how often buses run from the Anacostia metro.

9 Saturday, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
DISCUSSION AND PERFORMANCE
Evolution of the Go-Go Beat in Washington, D.C.

Charles Stephenson and Kip Lornell, co-authors of The Beat! Go-Go Music from Washington, DC, present the history of Go-Go music in the nation’s capital. Gregory “Sugar Bear” Elliot of EU discusses his story and tells how Go-Go led him to the band that was started when he was a teenager. Sweet Cherie of Bela Dona, a graduate of Howard University, talks about Go-Go music’s influence on other forms of music, including jazz and gospel. Faycez U Know, a popular Go-Go band, concludes the program with a live performance. Books and DVDs are available for purchase.

events there

http://anacostia.si.edu/News_Events/Current_Programs.htm

that looks great!

Was wondering how the 6 to 8 pm event with producer songwriters Gamble & Huff Sunday night at the Folklife Fest would go and I just noticed this:

An Evening with Mr. Kenneth Gamble and Mr. Leon Huff begins with a conversation moderated by National Museum of African American History and Culture, Director for Curatorial Affairs, Rex Ellis, exploring their work as producers and writers of some of the most well-known and classic songs in the Great American Songbook.

The evening concludes with performances to pay tribute to the 40th Anniversary of Philadelphia International Records. The PIR legend performers include:

· Soul Survivors

· Harold Melvin’s Blue Notes

· And special guest, Amazing Grace Little

Missed the go-go and the Gamble & Huff thing. Did see the Dixie Cups do Big Easy r'n'b standards, a bit of Fred Wesley, and an awesome New Orleans style horn and snare drum band with vocals from--Colombia. Who'd have guessed. Packed dancefloor with soccer style chants and flag waving and the women vocalists off the stage and moving through the dancefloor crowd.

Today's the last day of the fest.

clitfest was pretty good

didn't really feel comfortable buying a t-shirt tho

Ha. Any fave band there?

probably TIT FIT