Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

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.

Speaking of old music, I am hoping to go see on Sunday

Sun. Oct. 9 "Downtown 81" movie doc starring late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and featuring James Chance, Amos Poe, Walter Steding, and Tav Falco, Doors Open at 3:30pm, Film Screens at 4:00pm {Free} Pre-Registration Strongly Encouraged. At the Corcoran https://getinvolved.corcoran.org/downtown81 Q&A Following the screening, Maripol and Michael Holman discuss the film, and the art and music scene in New York during the late 1970's and early 1980's.

I think there's even more Ze label NYC music in it than mentioned

aw i first rented downtown 81 from VIDEO AMERICAIN in takoma park

I just got the link to this - seems really cool. does it deserve its own thread?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/826013775/make-hard-art-happen

No in my opinion. I think DC hardcore punk nostalgia can stay here. Speaking of which:

Someone just sold for $41 a copy of the first issue of the fanzine that I co-edited (we had a Troublefunk article in there too)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/THRILLSEEKER-1-rare-82-DC-punk-fanzine-kbd-VOID-fear-NECROS-black-flag-G-Is-/230677970775?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item35b57a7f57

My main reasoning is that "Banned in DC" and "Dance of Days" do not have separate threads.

Jesus Christ, Curmudgeon - do you have that scanned, by any chance? I would kill to look at that!

Nope. I should.

Please do! That would be really great.

Hmmm(thinks me embarassingly) are they in my parents' attic or do I have them somewhere?

Speaking of nostalgia, Cynthia Connolly and Bill Warrell will be leading the reminiscing at the Shaw Library Wednesday re the history of DC Space. I may have missed those 4 Hard Art Gallery gigs and some others, but that Bad Brains gig I saw upstairs at Space (where the whole floor was shaking. Whew...)

Then if there's time and I am feeling ambitious I want to head over to U St. Music Hall for Awesome tapes and company dj'ing.

I'm pretty sure I was just slightly too late to the party for DC Space - I didn't really start seeing shows until the end of '91, and I didn't REALLY start to get into Dischord and everything until '92. But I remember reading about it in this 'zine that I would pick up at Smash records called "Crack DC" (I have some memory that might be invented that they renamed themselves "Whack DC" since they didn't want to glamorize the drug), and it always held a mythic quality for me.

I enjoy Justin Moyer's European tour diaries:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/10/09/across-the-europeverse-massa-italy/

Fun time in DC last night. First the “Remember DC Space” night thing at the Watha T. Daniel (who?) Shaw Library at 7th and R NW where we got nostalgic re that 7th & E NW location (now a Starbucks, ugh) where the Bad Brains once made the whole second floor shake, the Contortions played for 20 minutes & James Chance shook an audience member by her hair, Fugazi and countless Dischord & Slumberland bands played, and jazz players and artists made their presence. Then it was on to the U. St. Music Hall where NYC’s Awesome Tapes from Africa blogger played incredible cassettes of mostly all West African music (for free). My friends and I left during (I guess that was the)Beautiful Swimmers at 11:40ish and missed Harvey. Had a pho dog too!

It was a busy night last night --kraut-rocker Hans-Joachim Roedelius was in town as was Yuck and at National Geographic Patti Boyd, photographer and ex-wife of Eric Clapton & George Harrison was talking photography (for $40!)

So Hoos, you going to the Occupy Dupont dance party?

oh man

when is that

sounds fun, would loved to have gone to Harvey but got into national airport at 11 pm. Hopefully he comes back.

x-post-- Saw a mention of the Occupy Dupont party thing on a BYT weekend's best bets email thing I get. I think it said Friday but I didn't read any of the other details about it