Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

uh that seems to be pretty much entirely about Mad Decent rather than moombahton as a genre

Raincoats are definately a critics fave band-- At Comet last night I saw scribes from dcist.com, City Paper, Washington Post Express and I'm sure there were others who I missed in that crowded back room. Raincoats were great. I'm not too crazy about the Felt Letters schtick--they were reading a dialogue in which they asked folks onstage("Buddy Holly", "John Bonham" ) to help channel their never released songs.

WMAL the 630 AM news talker (mostly right wing) will be relayed on 105.9 FM, in place of classic rocker WVRX, The Edge, as of noon today. "By expanding our successful brand to the FM dial, we will be a viable listening and advertising option for many more people in the Washington DC area," said WMAL President/General Manager Jeff Boden

I do not listen to either, but ugh-- giving rightwing talkers an FM outlet as well.

friend of mine who is decidedly not a right-winger works for the station and she's calling herself "conflictedly excited."

Not sure how she can be excited at all about Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity being on fm radio as well

Not sure what this press spam I received means exactly, but if you fall into one of those categories maybe you can get cheaper tickets to something at the Kennedy Center (maybe a jazz show???)

The Kennedy Center’s new MyTix program, designed to increase access to performances for young people aged 18-30, the underserved, and members of the armed forces, launches today. Funded by Center Chairman David M. Rubenstein and his wife Alice Rubenstein, MyTix is part of the Rubenstein Arts Access Program which enables audiences to engage in more ways, at more times, and in more places than ever before.

Bad for America, good for her resume.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/09/19/live-music-returns-to-surf-club/

Youssou N'Dour for free on Wednesday at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall at 6 and Chuck Brown for free on Friday at Wilson Plaza at 5. I saw Chuck there last year and it was swell.

some big sets announced at U Hall:

The Field 10/29
Avey Tare 11/30
Digitalism 12/5

I saw Girls and Nobunny last night and was surprised at how poorly attended it was. Horrible Bon Iver just had two sold-out shows and Girls can barely fill the bottom floor. Don't get it.

SAHEL is headlining and will be performing at 8pm at the Pan African Fest 2011 in Silver Spring MD on Saturday,
September 24.

Gonna be be out of town and miss this free gig. I think Sahel are a new local band.

Fiona Zublin's "weekend top stops" in the Thursday Post Express are always so predictable(slightly left of mainstream plus indie rock)--Tosca, Fleet Foxes..........

isn't the express a lot of ex-dcists anyway or did i make that up

Not sure...Stephen Deusner writes for lots of alt-weeklies around the country, Shauna Miller was once at City Paper, Rudi Greenburg is something at the Post; Chris Porter writes also for the City Paper (and like me used to do freelance concert reviews for the Post till they cut back on the number of freelancers and concert reviews).

Their Thursday issue includes their weekend entertainment guide and thankfully includes more than just that 1 page prepared by Zublin.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/09/benoit_and_sergio_interview_dfa.php

Sometimes ILXer and Voice contributor Matos interviews DC based electronic dance producers/djs/performers Benoit and Sergio

I just discovered that the "Awesome Tapes from Africa" blog guy (he's a NYer who bought a ton of cassettes in various African countries and then converts them to put them on his great blog) is gonna be at U St Music Hall Wednesday October 12 with the Beautiful Swimmers folks. It's the same night as the "DC Space Revisited' salon thing at a DC library with that sadly defunct location's owner Bill Warrell and onetime booking agent Cynthia Connolly. But I think that's early in the night, so maybe I will try to do both, punk rock and African music nostalgia in one night. Perfect for me!

sounds cool

oh rad

We are kicking off the second DC Music Salon on Wednesday, October 12th at 7pm with a visit to space... d.c. space! d.c. space was the place for punk, new wave, performance art, free jazz, poetry, independent films and all things avant-garde from '77 to '91 at 7th & E Streets, NW. The bar/restaurant was a center for innovative art and artists; 20 years later, numerous musicians and fans still say its closing has left an unfilled hole. space's owner/founder artist Bill Warrell and the club's booker, photographer Cynthia Conolly, as well as other key players will be on hand to tell us what was really happening from the inside. Great music, live footage, still photos, old calendars, and other first hand accounts will remind those who were there and educate those who weren't: space was the place.

http://www.dclibrary.org/node/14943

Shaw Library
1630 7th St. N.W.
Washington, DC

More DC nostalgia-- City Paper has online interviews (and newsprint reviews) with members of Faith and members of Void in relation to the new Dischord reissues.

yah the void piece was great

Technically not reissues, archived material not previously released. You get the drift, right.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/09/30/void-discusses-emptying-the-vaults-being-punk-rock-in-columbia/

here's the Void email interview

and the Faith one

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/09/29/faith-discusses-its-new-dischord-reissue-history-has-been-kind/

The next Whale w/ Awesome Tapes From Africa and Beautiful Swimmers will also be with DJ Harvey. Should be a great night!

Does that mean the Awesome Tape from Africa guy won't be on till 1 am.? Some of us have to get up early for work on Thursdays. Maybe he will be programming at 10 or 11...

That means Awesome Tapes From Africa guy will probably be on earlier

so Harvey is 1 am then? Ugh...but I will still be there

I don't know why anyone's assuming a headliner would go on at 1am on a weekday?

For some reason (perhaps mistakenly) I thought someone upthread mentioned a U St Headliner coming on really late on a weeknight. I like how the 930 Club lists approximate start times on the day of a show for the event that night. But maybe that's not a dance culture thing or simply takes too much work to do on the website(as I think the 930 is the only one who does that)

can someone recommend a good place to get a haircut? i'm in an odd situation, because my ex-gf cut my hair for the last 7 years, and before that a friend of mine cut it for another 2 years. and before that, i just let it grow for like 6 months because lol college.

Good place? Nah, I just try various Hair Cuttery's.

I just re-posted your question over on the Brad Pitt DC thread on ILE

oh, thanks! yeah, it's kind of an odd question for guys i guess. i mean, i guess i should just go to the barber?
there are so many parts of my life right now that are just fucked

Diego's barber shop in Dupont

Some folks who cut hair short with a razor use this system:

Zero is almost no hair, a one is 1/8 inch, a two is 1/4 inch, a three is 3/8 inch, a four is 1/2 inch, a five is 5/8 inch, a six is 3/4 inch, a seven is 7/8 inch and an eight is 1 inch.

it's kind of an odd question for guys i guess.

It's too bad folks of that other gender don't contribute to this thread for the most part.

For some reason (perhaps mistakenly) I thought someone upthread mentioned a U St Headliner coming on really late on a weeknight. I like how the 930 Club lists approximate start times on the day of a show for the event that night. But maybe that's not a dance culture thing or simply takes too much work to do on the website(as I think the 930 is the only one who does that)

Harvey will probably be on around midnight. It's not difficult to list set times on websites but they tend to be less predetermined with DJ nights as opposed to live music - usually there's a general running order but a lot of it depends on how the night goes. There aren't nearly as many logistical considerations as there are with live music so it's more flexible. Also keep in mind that dance music culture isn't driven nearly as much by people trying to time their nights to a headliner's whole set.

thanks for the explanation

Anybody following the Future of Music coalition events (either by going to panels or listening online)? This has been quiety happening for the last day or two. Thier local music bill event included indie-rockers and WAMA rockers who I don't know or who don't interest me. The Bluebrain folks were on a panel or something and there's lots of academic and music industry types

their

only through @dj_bent tweets from industry panel type stuff, quotes from soundexchange people, etc

well not actively following for the conference specifically but i happen to follow her and she was tweeting on it

I'm hoping they're archiving the streams as I'd like to hear Seth Hurwitz and others on that panel, there's an indie label one plus the one with Hank Shocklee(what is this PE producer doing these days anyway. Every year though he is on a Future of Music panel event).

http://futureofmusic.org/summit2011/schedule

Conversation with Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen!

Oh, Shocklee's a FOM board member and was on a panel last year.

This is looking less interesting now

i knew of shocklee as a general social media + music + open culture proponent before i knew of him as being involved with pe or anything else, he's got a team of people networking around the subjects and handling shocklee.com

Maybe its just me but I find the DC Maracuyeah DJ Collective more interesting (or at least potentially more interesting) than the Sweet Tea Pumpkin Pie indie-rock fest guy. Different goals, different genres so I guess there's no point in comparing. There's a cool $5 Maracuyeah event tonight

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/10/06/pan-latin-to-the-future-a-chat-with-d-c-s-maracuyeah-djs/

There's also a big CP story on the Sweet Fest guy

so my friend Meklit Hadero, who i think i posted a show of hers on here a year or so back is playing at Kennedy Center on Oct 18th, attaching the info below

Join Meklit as she plays a free show on 10/18 from 6-7 PM (IT'S AN EARLY EVENING THING) on the eve of a trip to Ethiopia

Meklit Hadero’s music is imbued with poetry and multiplicity, from hybridized sounds of Tizita (haunting and nostalgic music) drawing from her Ethiopian heritage, to the annals of folk songs and rock & roll. Listening to Meklit Hadero transports us to the post-national space of Africa and America; inspiring us to bridge the frontiers between language, tribes and disciplines. Her songs celebrate the newness of life and the hyphens that bring us together. http://www.meklithadero.com/

Featuring:
Meklit Hadero (vocals/guitar)
Tim Keiper (drums)
Keith Witty (upright bass)
Trumpet Man Satish (trumpet)

Interesting hype description of her I saw online elsewhere:

If Joni Mitchell were East African and met Nina Simone for tea in San Francisco's
Mission District, she might end up sounding like Meklit Hadero

Malitz seems to suggest in the Post Weekend section today that Deleted Scenes are DC's best current rock band (and he feels their pain when they tour and people seem to say "Oh DC has bands since the Dischord heyday"). Good call maybe?

Interesting interview-- the band notes that they are not weird enough for some, and too weird for others

yeah, people were always saying that even during late 90's / early 2000's when some of the best bands period to come out of the dmv were most active. listened to deleted scenes, they're good and all but just make me want local natives to come out with another album.