Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

Don't know why U Hall can't have early shows on a weeknight when they'd be really helpful. Is it meant to snow?

i'm hearing it could.

Actually scrap that early shows thing. I don't know what I'm talking about.

I'm spinning pre-Field tomorrow! Doors at 7, The Field at 8:30

yay

BTW those posters at U Hall are indeed very nice.

The Field was solid, and hopefully will be able to make it out for the Magician on Wednesday.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/11/01/rip-d-c-soul-singer-reese-palmer/

I saw Reese Palmer sing sometime in the '90s with the Legendary Orioles but his claim to fame was starting the Marquees at Cardoza High in DC in 1957 with Marvin Gaye. RIP

Still no Washington Post mention of Palmer's death. That bugs me.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/11/02/raheem-devaughn-occupies-bandcamp/

Raheem DeVaughn's getting political sorta, any other DC musicians?

X-post. So emailing my City Paper obit for Reese Palmer to the Washington Post's obit writers just paid off:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/reese-palmer-lead-singer-of-washington-doo-wop-group-the-marquees-dies-at-73/2011/10/31/gIQASOcRjM_story.html

RIP Reese. funeral today

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2011/11/04/the-surf-club-closing-forever-after-56-years/

Sold to become a laundromat

Hard Art Gallery 1979 DC punk photos exhibit opens Saturday. The opening reception is from 7 to 9 pm at the Civilian Art Projects,
1019 7th St. NW

The exhibit runs to 12-31 and the gallery has kind of limited hours.
They're taking it on the road to Austin, New Orleans and maybe elsewhere after DC

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2011/11/02/the-artspace-race-d-c-%E2%80%99s-newest-artist-apartments-are-great%E2%80%94if-you-can-get-in/

Gonna try to get to the Hard Art 79 opening tonight. Missed Scratch Acid/Kepone and other stuff last night

The geezer punk photo opening at Civilian was fun last night.

You can see the photos in the 2 rooms in about 5 minutes.

So yes I like work night gigs to start early, but last night at the State Theatre they were still checking ids and taking tickets for the sold-out Julieta Venegas show with a line out the door onto the sidewalk when they went ahead and started the show (I'm guessing at 8:30, the announced start time on their website). I was there early waiting for a friend to arrive and after picking up tickets from will-call and then getting into the only entrance line we didn't get in the hall till nearly 8:45 with Venegas singing. She performed till 10:30.

Glad I got to the National Gallery of Art at 3 for the free 4 pm Dean & Britta Andy Warhol thing as the line went way down the hall. Folks who got there at 3:30 or later could not get seats. I think every DC music critic in town was there (insert everyone will write about Velvet Underground jokes here)

ted leo at sacred heart tonight was p good

also got a flier for a ~secret coits matinee~ tomorrow

secret

Lots of the Wale "Bait(work)" video is shot at Howard and is featuring a go-go band in some concert shots(not sure where the gig is), but Wale's wearing a New Orleans Louisiana jersey (which I guess is a smart marketing decision as far as getting national video play). Great song but not on his new album.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/film/2011/11/15/afro-blues-in-the-final-four/

OK, I finally watched Howard's Afro-Blue on tv last night. Not bad, although I am not completely won over by lead vocalist Christie Dashiell on Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together".

http://thesobsister.blogspot.com/

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/01/03/melody-records-will-close-this-winter/

Melody Records in Dupont Circle closing and the Georgetown Barnes & Noble

Ian Mackaye's on Kojo's show on WAMU today Wednesday talking Fugazi archive(they just added 25 more shows)

Waldorf, MD soulman Jim Bennett has gotten nice coverage at Daddy B. Nice's r'n'b soul blog

I posted about this in the sandbox thread - there are successful record stores in every city I have spent time in post-high school - Amoeba in San Francisco (though there were always negative rumors about how well they were actually doing), Princeton Record Exchange, Academy Records (and many others) in NYC. The key to all of those was increasing foot traffic by selling music at every price point, from 99 cents to 99 dollars. I don't buy that DC is too unartistic or unworthy for a CD shop. But DC is indeed not a town that can sustain a CD shop that prices new albums at $16.99 and $17.99, with a "sale" at $15.99. Even at the clearance price, I got 11 CDs for $150.

Bridge Street Books in Georgetown is still open for people who miss B&N, though the amazing old/rare book shop down the street on 29th also recently closed, to little fanfare.

Bridge Street is pretty nice, I bought Xhuxk's book there

just noticed U Hall booked Aeroplane again for February.

What's the deal with the "9:30 Club/Black Cat presents" designation for the rock shows?

Cassian's opening for Aeroplane, which is exciting! In a similar vein, Classixx is coming back in Feb and I'm opening for them, which is also exciting!

this explains the 9:30/Black Cat/U Hall thing better than I could:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-gurus/post/u-street-music-hall-and-930-club-partnership-brings-more-bands-to-u-hall-more-djs-to-930-backbar/2011/11/22/gIQAtYzflN_blog.html

omg after about 10 months of being ill I might finally be on the mend. I will hit it for Classix and probs Aeroplane if at all possible.

Classixx are seriously some of the best DJs I've ever seen.

i don't know if it was part of the partnership or if there were undersales or what but i'm super-psyched that buraka som sistema is moved from the 930 club to u. so much more dancefloor-oriented (wherein the 930 club sort of just isn't)

RIP DC blues man Whop Frazier (who also played with various old DC soul outfits and maybe even Chuck Brown at some point)

http://inabluemood.blogspot.com/

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/01/06/william-whop-frazier-1943-2011/#comments

I just got home from the U Hall annual staff party and I just want to say that it's such a genuinely great group of people with extraordinary chemistry, and I have no doubt our success is attributable to them in so many ways.

Also we had a moonbounce and sumo suits at the party and it was amazing.

i think mark farina a few weeks back was my first time out there. i'd just like to thank the establishment for allowing me to listen to house music while standing there eating a blunted pho dog, life just seemed really right

Busy with family, gonna have to likely miss Buraka Som Sistema there tonight, and at Politics & Prose tonight at 7- Daphne Carr, ethnomusicologist and series editor of the annual Best Music Writing anthology in a discussion about music and music writing with this year’s guest editor, New Yorker music critic and author of The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross, along with contributors including Ann Powers, Chris Richards, Frankin Bruno, and Jason Cherkis.

the buraka show was NUTS. how do we make that happen again like tomorrow

I don't believe we can make it happen tomorrow but especially with the 9:30 club partnership there should be a lot more great live shows coming up.

I couldn't make it to the show tonight (at home working on flyers for more shows) but all the feedback I heard was super great.

Did Buraka spray water guns like they often do?

well there was the water bottle they sprayed

and erm the vodka bottle i may or may not have gotten vodka poured into my mouth from them like a clubbing it up undergrad

...and bonus points for the kuduro'd lionel ritchie "all night long" and the straight "rhythm is a dancer" from snap

orchard lounge was really good last night too, i hadn't heard of them just went on a whim. lol i'm kind of into 18+ over shows, the kids like to have fun rather than stand there on the floor drinking/grinding.

eeeeverybody was dancing last night it was fun but so unexpected for a rainy Wednesday night!

Sorry for posting it at the last minute, but Paint Fumes at Comet Ping Pong tonight looks like it will be fun

oh dag

How was it?

oh i was at the last deathrats show w/draize at la casa

it ruled

a middle aged couple walked by me on the sidewalk afterward and said "those deathrats....excitement, huh?"

So does DC band Bike Trip sound like a Latin hybrid of the Pixies and Deerhoof as the Red Palace website says, or like an indie-pop band into African soukous and highlife and art-school experimentalism as the City Paper says...

I guess I will have to research on my own and find out. They're at Black Cat tonight, but I can't make it.

...what's latin about this? the (very) remotely ncalypso sound? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOYZyQrRRgk

Pixies and Deerhoof?? Just admit it and say they sound like Vampire Weekend, that will be more effective at getting people to come.