Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

Took Friday off from work and pre-storm ended up at Smithsonian Folklife Fest for a bit (was showing a cousin the sights in the heat). The Beat Ya Feet hiphop dancers from Anacostia were excellent as was the Facez Ya Know go-go band. I also enjoyed the Dennis Stroughmatt Cajun band from Illinois. There were only around 30 or so people under each tent that day. 103 degree weather meant we had the mall practically to ourselves.

ctrl-f "theylobleu": no hits

Saw them at Axum on Friday night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqaZ8cepDbQ&feature=related

live show is loud:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDDZ8czuXgI&feature=relmfu

I am not at all biased even though the guitarist IS ME BROTHER

seriously though, if I lived in DC I would be trying to be at many of their gigs and just through familial obligation

Troll Tax (July 5) are shouty and super fun, kinda Rezillos/B-52's vibe. Recommended.

May follow GYA's advice and see them at Fort Reno Thursday

awesome, i'll probably be there/seeing the men at dc9 afterward

i will also be at the men

Me three

didn't know they were playing. i always forget DC9 exists.

Speaking of, Mary Christ that i linked to earlier plays DC9 tonight opening for The Men and Streetwalkers, dunno either of them.

MC made DCist song of the day: http://dcist.com/2012/07/song_of_the_day_mary_christ_-_absen.php

ilxors above like The Men as does this freelance reviewer for the W. Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/music-events/the-men,1233569.html

The Men are incredible.

Not incredible is go-go band Cold-Hearted who I saw at the Folklife Fest yesterday. Raw bounce-beat gogo that needs some work

Deadline got moved up on me so I had to stay home and write last night rather than see Troll Tax at Fort Reno or the cool Venezuelan brass band at Millennium Stage and later at the Venezuelan embassy or rockers Men later at DC 9 and whatever else was happening

short sets from both bands I saw at DC9 but the Men were pretty great.

Chuck Brown day Saturday at the Folklife Fest with the Junkyard Band and others plus gogo panel discussions

man Downtown Boys like made my entire life at asefu's this evening, at the end i was yelling AMEN

Just found this on the internets about them:

Downtown Boys (Providence, RI)
A smaller group that calved off the mighty and infamous What Cheer? Brigade the 18 piece brass behemoth from Providence, RI , Downtown Boys have enough energy to seriously rupture even the hardest cynic’s night with gleeful abandon. Earnest, over the top and fun as sh-t, boasting a double sax attack over a power trio with frontwoman Victoria giving everything like she’s channeling HR circa 1981. Full on fireworks of sweaty positivity is the Downtown Boys’ steez and you should get some

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cache:IMkmk_WmZuMJ:http://www.bigtakeover.com/top-ten/Matt-Lee-120513%2Bdowntown+boys+rhode+island+rock&gbv=2&gs_l=hp.12...2161.18936.0.20986.31.15.0.16.1.0.340.1253.8j3j0j1.12.0...0.0.ny3Ifv2-Cio&ct=clnk

And I thought Video Love(French drums & synthpop & laptop duo with filmmaker James Schneider on the laptop and stuff), Janka Nabay(Sierra Leonian vocalist using percussive club-friendly bubu music backing tracks), and Heavy Breathing at Comet last night was fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yswx7Hw8s4&feature=related

Nunchucks (July 12) do better-than-average power pop revisionism somewhere on the Teenage Fanclub/Sloan continuum (when the harmonies come in, anyway).

RCRDS who are appearing with them at Fort Reno Thursday are Arlington High Schoolers that my kid knows

Nunchucks (July 12) do better-than-average power pop revisionism somewhere on the Teenage Fanclub/Sloan continuum (when the harmonies come in, anyway).

Sold!

Has anyone heard anything about a Bombino show at Millennium Stage in early Sept? Friend of mine mentioned it, but didn't have any details. I'm not finding anything online and the Kennedy Center schedule only goes through the end of July.

Sept. 4 (it's on his record company's page)

http://www.cumbancha.com/events/40

ana tijoux at the black cat thursday

thanks curmudgeon!

mary christ in the city paper

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/42965/one-track-mind-mary-christ-listen-to-absent-minds/

Mary Christ were selling their cassettes for either $3 or $5, whichever you wanted to pay. I gave them $5.

spoek mathambo early at u hall tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKfwSFI8LhQ

May be busy with my kid and unable to go. Like his gothic-rap version of Joy Division's "She Lost Control" (and the video's pretty wild) and another song with a Brit grime rap beat, that's about all I have heard. So much going on.

Last night just did Fort Reno (Nunchucks garage rock and power pop was decent enough)and missed Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux, Brazilian forro band Quarteto Olinda, and Morris Day & the Time at the Howard and more. I wonder if Girlfriend in a Coma are good? They're in town.

This Friday at St Stephens there's a pretty rowdy lookin Pos Force/Housing For All benefit--Chain & The Gang, Heavy Breathing (seriously y'all need to see fuckin Heavy Breathing), and Shit Stains for $5. I will sure as shit be there.

is there general site of diy show listings like pheer.com used to be?

inyrbasement.tumblr.com

sweet

hasn't the max levine ensemble been going on for over a decade now?

I'm no fun-- I like Heavy Breathing for a few songs and then get bored with their very loud and heavy sound

And Ian S.'s shtick in Chain & the Gang is even less interesting. Sacrilege, I know.

sweet

hasn't the max levine ensemble been going on for over a decade now?
--fauxmarc

From what I hear, yeah--friends pushing 30 say they saw them in high school.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2012/07/16/friday-will-be-a-great-day-in-d-c/

dc jazz cats photo day on Friday

funny photoshopping

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/07/17/someone-make-this-happen-minor-treat-ice-cream-truck/

NOT FUNNY

Most popular flavor: Guilty of Being Vanilla

lawl

stuck on salsa's 9th anniversary workshop series is this saturday at the salsa room during the day. it'll actually be my first time treking down there.

http://www.eventzilla.net/web/event?eventid=2138972583

so many DMV rappers dropping mixtapes, so little time to listen.

And then there's this:

Anyone heard of this guy?

Saturday 7/21: Lost Society w/ DJ Cortega
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My good friend DJ Cortega, who throughs the Electrafrique party in Nairobi, Kenya, will be joining me this week for my Saturday residency at Lost Society. Cortega has made quite a name for himself in his city and is sure to bring his signature style of blending classic US house with the contemporary sounds that have given dance music its own voice in the African continent.

Lost Society
2001 14th St NW WDC 20009
10PM /// 21+ /// No Cover

the new D.C. Go-Go thread

May talk more about the Hopkinson go-go book here (when I read it!). Have discussed excerpts from it.

curmudgeon you should check out the new Sol Power All-Stars EP: https://soundcloud.com/solpowerdc/sol-power-all-stars-ep-sampler

Will do (despite my ocassional knee-jerk aversion to 18th Street Lounge associated acts)

wut u can't vibbbbbeeee mannnn

Back from a week at the beach. What's up? Anyone catch Iceage at Black Cat or Liars at Uhall? I saw that reviewers for the W. Post liked those gigs, plus Hot Chips too.

wish I could go to this tonight:

Natalie Hopkinson discusses her book Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City. We reviewed this treatment of D.C.'s homegrown sound and cultural identity earlier this month. 7 p.m. at Politics & Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Free

That's from the W. City Paper

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2012/07/31/go-go-live-author-says-politics-prose-silenced-her-mix-cd-store-disagrees/

that one customer