Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

Can Moby play an acoustic set? His fans can tell the rest of us this morning. At roughly 1:30 a.m., a power outage shut down the 9:30 Club — along with other homes and establishments near 9th and U Streets NW and along Florida Avenue. By Kriston Capps at dcist.com in News on January 19, 2009 1:59 AM

http://moby.org/gfx/19990821_Dallas/moby_-_acoustic_guitar.jpg

Nice.

The power was apparently out for an hour or so before it came back on and there's controversy over whether the 930 will offer refunds to those who left.

I just want to know how the Skip Mahoney and Jewels show at the Chateau on Benning Road was on Saturday, or the Socarama last night with David Rudder and Alison Hinds up Georgia Avenue at an old Chevy dealership.
Nothing on the Post.com Post Rock blog or the City Paper blogs or Dcist.com about those events (or the dj events at the warehouse for that matter).

Aretha was incredible at the Kennedy Center. A packed house with many turned away. The show packed the concert hall and folks who could not get in packed the foyer and watched the show on video screens.

http://www.caribbeanworldnews.com/entertainment_one.php?sid=1528&a=2&cut=301&ad=entertainment

On Friday night, singer Cocoa Tea brought `Barack` to the Zanzibar night club and to the Obama Socarama on Sunday night.

Both events, however, fell short of the expected fan base while seemingly poor organization of the Obama Socarama led to poor attendance, a cold auditorium and an ultra late start.

The show got underway closer to 1 a.m. but top acts including David Rudder, did not grace the stage until after 4 a.m. At 4:55 a.m., Soca singer Allison Hinds still had not made it to the stage, despite promoters touting a 5 a.m. end time.

I was at the Moby show and vibes were generally good despite the power outage. Turns out he is pretty good at playing an improvised drumset made out of trash buckets and empty beer kegs.

Moby and the Junkyard Band may be appearing on a streetcorner somewhere today after the inaugural!!!

sascha dive "US premiere" at electric cabaret (new name for the 88 people's thursday night) at the muse tonight. would that i could go!

yeah the bookings there all of a sudden are like wooooah!

1/29 - SASCHA DIVE (Kompakt / Drumpoet Community / Deep Vibes - Frankfurt) - US DEBUT

1/30 - MATTHEW DEAR $15 before 12 w/list

2/5 - MARC HOULE (Minus - Berlin) - LIVE

2/6 - DERRICK MAY $15 before 12 w/list

2/12 - KONRAD BLACK (Wagon Repair, Minus - Vancouver) - DC Debut

2/19 - JOHN TEJADA (Palette Recordings - Long Beach)

2/26 - DAMIAN LAZARUS (Crosstown Rebels - London)

Wow. Do they have an e-mail list?

http://www.museloungedc.com/files/subscribe.html

88's is somewhere on their site
http://www.eightyeightdc.com

anyone see today's city paper?

rad

stay posted in 2009 for news about FA's 7"s!

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at Muse-"Dress stylish, relaxed, MTV style"

MTV style!!!

Got 2 Events coming up:

Moneytown @ Dahlak (1771 U St., NW DC) w/ Mr. Finewine of NYC (Bumpshop, Downtown Soulville on WFMU)
Friday Feb. 6th (always every first friday of the month)
10pm-close

More details to follow.

AND:

Som Records is teaming up with The Vinyl District blogspot, DC Soul Recordings and The Civilian Art Projects to host a record fair on Sunday, February 8 from 12-5PM.
All the info is on the attached flyer but basically this is gonna be a great afternoon of records, DJ's, refreshments, and more records. We're getting dealers from New York, Richmond and points in between. DJ's confirmed so far include DJ's Name Names, D-Mac and Nitekrawler.

http://somrecordsdc.com/
http://vinyldistrict.blogspot.com/
http://dcsoulrecordings.com/
http://www.civilianartprojects.com/

flyer with more info is here:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rWbrnXYgdB8/SX5z8SNwOfI/AAAAAAAAElQ/V0E9ceuXgAU/s1600-h/recordfair_tvd.gif

facebook invite, search for "DC Record Fair"

I wonder if these short movies showing at the National Gallery in assocation with the Robert Frank photo exhibit are worth seeing:

Echoes of Silence
and Happy Birthday to John
January 31 at 2:00PM

East Building Concourse, Auditorium
In Echoes of Silence, short installments from the isolated lives of people living in Greenwich Village are sustained by the soundtrack music of Charles Mingus, Pete Seeger, Igor Stravinsky, and Sergei Prokofiev. (Peter Emmanuel Goldman, 1965, 16 mm, 75 minutes)

Jonas Mekas' collection of clips from John Lennon's life includes the singer's birthday party, an art opening in Syracuse, a 1972 concert in Madison Square Garden, and the vigil on the day of his death. (Jonas Mekas, 1972–1996, 16 mm, 24 minutes)

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a222/blueimage/dc_vinylshow31.jpg

How about that Sat. nite 2-7 Nouveau Riche and Jackie O dj night "Kids" thing at DC 9 featuring free olde English before 10 and free condoms all night. I guess I have no sense of humor

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Nitekrawler, that is so cool you are bringing DJ Finewine down here. He's a great spinner of old-school soul on WFMU and in NYC.

Thanks man, sorry you can't make it out for the night! Maybe next time. I plan to have him again next year. I promised more details, and the flyer is below.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a222/blueimage/MoneytownFLYERFebsmall.jpg

And also....for those who don't know who Finewine is.......:

Matt "Mr. Finewine" Weingarden has been tracking down soul & funk singles since before many of us knew what a soul record was. As fate would have it, he was offered his own radio show at WFMU (NYC), a program which he dubbed "Downtown Soulville".....and it just celebrated it's 15th birthday! But a successful radio spot isn't the only thing that Finewine has accomplished. Matt's a resident DJ at 2 NYC nights, including the prestigious Bumpshop at APT. In fact, he's become such a talented club DJ that he's regularly booked in both the United States AND overseas. I mean, how many people have rocked out both Detroit and Russian clubs with only 45s? It takes an extra special DJ to do just that. Don't miss Finewine as he uncorks a truely monumental bottle of DANCE PARTY SOUL at Moneytown this month.

How about that Sat. nite 2-7 Nouveau Riche and Jackie O dj night "Kids" thing at DC 9 featuring free olde English before 10 and free condoms all night. I guess I have no sense of humor

not sure what this refers to--a past event, or upcoming? i was at NR this weekend, didn't see condoms, and it was free sparks not OE. the crowd was much younger/collegiate than my one previous NR experience, dunno which is typical and which the exception.

I went to a couple of the Thievery Corporation shows at the 9:30 club last week and they were pretty extraordinary - their live show has really turned into a monster with the two of them on turntables & keyboards, two percussionists, three horn players, a guitarist, a bassist, and a rotating cast of ten vocalists. Some parts were better than others but the moments when Roots and Ze of See-I were onstage were especially good.

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How about that Sat. nite 2-7 Nouveau Riche and Jackie O dj night "Kids" thing at DC 9 featuring free olde English before 10 and free condoms all night. I guess I have no sense of humor

This event is coming up on February 7th. I did not paste the flyer as the text I quoted is pretty small. You can google it. PC me finds it objectionable. Or maybe just stupid.

The Olde English thing seems like something out of that Malibu's Most Wanted comedy flick about the white boy rapper

oic, a hip-hop night named "Kids" w/ one of the nouveau riche djs. hmm.
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"Kill Whitey"--'Ironic' so-called hipster dj night in Brooklyn

four years late and tamer, what up dc

cheap shot i guess.

"The district's most diverse group of DJ coeds team up"

"kids" as in the film? ugh

Stupid on many levels

But there are much better dj events this weekend--Derrick May at Muse, and Mr Fine Wine w/ Nitekrawler at Dahlak tonight, and Tim Regisford at The Trinidad & Tobago Association Saturday

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/blackplasticbag/2009/02/06/soul-house-and-techno-old-school-style-this-weekend/

the jackie o thing is actually at velvet lounge i believe, unless they're doing both.
i can't get into that crowd, but i'm over hating on them, let 'em do their thing.

unless we're speaking strictly within the district proper, can't not mention gene ferris at loda in ss tonight.

next week: DJ SNEAK. DUDE. DJ SNEAK.

Cool.

so i went to loda a couple weeks ago, good music, but that space it's in--small dancefloor awkwardly placed, big empty dining room behind the djs, and an overall trying for upscale lounge feel (blue lighting and clear glass) that i cant get with. guess the last one is just personal taste, but the first two points i felt detracted from the dancing. shame.

yeah, feel you on that but it's not like the place (gallery) is actually their spot, i think during normal times it actually is wannabe upscale lounge what have you. the area in front of the bar that melds into that little alcove actually does well for dancers, but i don't go out there unless it's someone i'm really into.

same deal with muse actually - talent comes through but that place is kind of terrible.

I didn't think Sneak's set was all that last time I saw him at Gallery. Got better right toward the end but I don't think I'll go this time.

lalalalala i am not hearing this.
when he came through i was out of town.
when i went to toronto he was out of town.
he + jason hodges are kind of the end-all for me and i just want to get one night out of the way.

Very excited about John Tejada at Muse.

xpost - yah it's not their space and i'm sure there's reasons why it's at gallery (maybe not all good reasons--the 88 people seem to reallly like silver spring for some reason; i'm not a hater but it's harder to get to and not as fun to walk around as some dc hoods).

i went to pulse, their saturday party at bebar, and that was less than ideal too. the front 3/4s seemed to be all dudes there for bebar qua bebar, and only the rear dancefloor area around the dj booth was people dancing to the djs. understandable--if somebody dumped, say, a sad bastard show in the back of my favorite spot i'd probably avoid it too--i just wish they could find a unified space of their own.

yeah any good potential friday/saturday party at bebar tends to be less than optimal, like they tried having a salsa night saturdays a couple of months back but in the end it just ended up being being crowded out by the typical homo crowd.

Police discovered two men in their 20's shot around 1 a.m. at the Sisy's Salvadorian and Mexican Restaurant in the 3900 block of 14th Street NW

Ow. Never heard of that place.

mike simonetti at 930 friday. cool!

Yes! I'll be there. I was out of town when he played the backbar a couple months ago but heard he was great.

from the Going out Gurus weekend nightlife agenda...

Sunday, Feb. 15

It's the Battle of the Go-Go Legends on a No-Work-Or-School-Monday holiday weekend! At Fur, Black President's Day finds Rare Essence (listen), still the Wickedest Band Alive, joining forces with the recently-reunited L!ssen Band and the Publicity Band for a party that goes until 3 a.m. The cover's $25. Meanwhile, out in Crystal City, the Positive Black Men Coalition is taking over the Hyatt Regency's ballroom for an NBA All-Star Game viewing party. When the hoops are over, it's time for Familiar Faces, which features former members of Rare Essence, E.U., Junkyard Band and Northeast Groovers, and Godfather of Go-Go Chuck Brown. Michel Wright of WPGC is the host. Tickets are $30 in advance.

xp well it'll be a lil ol reunion then because 69 and i and ladies will be there too

sounds like a FAP!

as in FACE ACCIDENTS PARTY

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Yea, I read and like their list most of the time. I also got on the Take Out to the Go-go e-mail list. I get bombarded with go-go e-mails. Go-go is still everywhere. So Chris Richards, ex-Washington Post copy-aide and former Q and Not U member etc. and freelance writer for the W. Post, now lives in NYC but he came down over inaugural weekend and wrote up the Lissen reunion and also a Backyard show (where Genghus who was also on the Wire was a no-show) for the Post's post-rock blog where they post show reviews that do not always make it into newsprint. Then this week Sarah Godfrey reviewed Mambo Sauce (whom Chris had done a feature on a little while back) at the Left Bank (formerly Cities, I think, in Adams Morgan). I guess the Post wants to prove they give respect to go-go (or Chris and Sarah can review whatever they want and they are into go-go more these days). Fritz and Rhome on the GOG's list also highlighted other dj events I see.

Enjoy. Whirled music me may be over at Cucu Diamantes from Yerba Buena at Black Cat