Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

Sigh.

i read your babbling dude!

i'd post here more but most of my contributions would be bitter sniping at mediocre/terrible local bands

Who writes about local bands worth checking out? Your bandmate at Going Out Gurus? Blogs I do not know about?

So did anybody join Wonkette and hordes of others at the $10 lets you see art and photos you could otherwise see for free at the Hirshhorn? You can buy beer too I hear and they had a NY dj...The Tillmans photo exhibit sounds like it might be worth seeing.

Jeff Nelson's new Toledo band (with some goofy name) just got an A in the W. Post Sunday Source section.

the gog blog is all right, but i get the impression my bro's a little restrained by editorial policy.

actually, i did see a pretty rad show @ kansas house in arlington on saturday. the points (caught them w/the black lips a few months ago but didn't really get too much of a chance to listen), and my friend's new band the sons of guns.

sons of guns is dudes from the twats, measles mumps rubella, thee snuff project and another band i can't remember at the moment. they were mostly heavy mid-tempo stoogey groove (really nice motowny bass and swinging drums in particular), sometimes a little more spacemen 3ish but much more anchored. i dug em.

the points were great too - keys/guitar/drums, reminded me of something like times new viking with a more explicitly punk, less indie aesthetic. hip-shakin spiky spiky spiky catchy short songs.

from the Post's Nightlife Agenda, this struck me as kind of amazing...

Hip-hop music continues to have a problem with homophobia, from Camron's "No Homo" comments to the endless anti-gay putdowns found on diss records, but you'd never know it from tonight's Black Pride party. Chart-topping rapper/producer Unk's gonna "Walk It Out" as part of Strictly Hip-Hop With a Twist, the annual Black Pride hip-hop club night at the 9:30 club. In addition to Unk's 2-Steppin', the place will be filled with male go-go dancers. There's a $25 cover at the door.

Shhhhh, don't tell Unk or others about the sponsor.

There are so many upscale go-go shows now--

"An All Linen Affair"-Suttle with DJ Ezzy on the Spirit of Washington for $65 (in advance)($75 closer to boarding time for the boat) Saturday June 2.

more go-go stuff:

That new Chuck Brown single "Chuck Baby Don't give a " (or whatever the actual title is) is getting lots of local radio play. I wasn't crazy about it at first but now it's really growing on me.

Great. 2 guys get in a fight at H20's Boxing match party, get thrown out and one of 'em goes to his car and gets a gun and kills the other guy outside, before being shot and wounded by a cop who he had then pointed his gun at.

Too many local sites whining about when the Fort Reno schedule will be posted. Um, I was curious and anxious too, but now the overkill just has me not caring about when Amanda Mackaye will finally get around to it. Plus, I guess I'm the only one who cares that the Fort Dupont schedule gets shorter every year. There's only one soul oldies gig there that interests me this summer. Hmmmm, I wonder who's gonna be at Carter Barron.

Some good oldies soul at Carter Barron in June and August, but there's virtually nothing booked there in July. Weird.

Hey Brian, any special late-night summer outdoor dj'ing events you know about?

Fairly new local band Julie Ocean kinda interests me (cuz of the various pop bands the participants were previously in)

I don't really know of anything. Hirshhorn might do some more stuff, but I'm not really into that. There's always Starscape up in Baltimore:

http://starscapefestival.com/

Is that Silver Spring place that was doing house music still around?

gah, i hope we get a ft. reno date after being rained out last year but i've got a premonition that we won't.

friends tell me that j. ocean was pretty good at their black cat date a few weeks back, but that the room didn't do much to help them (lots of vocal harmonies, which don't really come across well on the backstage). more rocking than the saturday people were, apparently.

Gallery in Silver Spring is still around but the promoters aren't doing events there and haven't been in some time - the typical owner/management/promoter rift.

There are some interesting things shaping up around town, though. The 88 crew is throwing a monthly techno night at Be Bar. Some new venues on the way, too.

Pretzel man, I saw some complaints in the comment section of a posting about Fort Reno at dcist.com (I think) that Amanda Mackaye has put an out-of-town (Louisville, KY)band on the bill for the 1st Fort Reno show, rather than just sticking with locals.