Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

The Howard Theatre should really list on their website that for some shows they have a $10 minimum per person/per set at the tables. Food and drinks are not cheap there, and many of the food offerings are small in quantity for what one pays.

Sorry to seem like I'm just plugging this one source, but this is of interest (also mentioned it on the go-go thread): local rap producer and website owner Timothy “Judah” Matthews

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/08/06/interview-the-dmvs-one-and-only-judah/

Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) will stage a solidarity concert this Friday, August 10, from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. outside the Russian embassy (corner of Wisconsin Ave. and Edmunds St., NW) in support of the Russian punk rock group Pussy Riot.

AIUSA supporters and local D.C. music groups and artists, including indie and punk rock bands Brenda, Möbius Strip and Sad Bones, will call for the release of the prisoners of conscience. From 5:30 - 8:00 p.m., AIUSA will host a concert directly outside the embassy, as high-energy activists dressed in full Pussy Riot regalia lead chants and musical performances.

on my way there now

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2012/08/10/mere-words-cannot-mark-the-end-of-fur-nightclub-but-we-can-try/

Was Fur Nightclub really that bad? Just askin'.

let me draw a venn diagram for you of citypaper writers and fur's audience

O O

still a pretty sucky place though

http://www.wtop.com/109/2988482/DC-rallies-around-Russian-punk-band

http://i.imgur.com/Pp8xql.jpg

the sole purpose of taking that photo was to sneakily capture zorro bardem there in the bkgrnd

I know y'all are excited about the chance to get tickets to see ZZ Top and Skrillex, together at last.

what

so Jens Lekman/Taken By Trees at the 930 and Lindstrøm at U Street both on Friday, Oct. 12. What are the chances I could see *both*?

should be doable - we'll probably put Lindstrøm on no earlier than 12:30 and I'd imagine the 9:30 Club show will be over by then

Lindstrøm at U Street

!!!!!!!!

Any prospect of getting Blondes to play?

I know y'all are excited about the chance to get tickets to see ZZ Top and Skrillex, together at last.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 14:09 (1 week ago) Permalink

what― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver

Virgin Mobile freefest seems kinda dull to me this year (Nas, Dismemberment Plan, Das Racist & M83 could be good though). Free tickets available Thursday to those with the secret password, Friday to the masses

(xpost) Blondes played last year! Almost nobody came though :(

Damn

a ton of stuff on our calendar I'm really stoked for:

8/30 Claude von Stroke
9/1 Gesaffelstein/Brodinski
9/14 Matt Tolfrey
9/26 John Talabot (I'm opening for that one!)
9/28 Damian Lazarus
9/29 Grimes early show
9/29 Classixx
10/3 Aeroplane/Tiger & Woods
10/12 Lindstrøm
10/20 FLight Facilities
10/21 SBTRKT
10/26 Carl Craig 6-hour set

Talabot is enticing but ugh weekday.

Grimes/Classixx is gonna be a busy day.

Disco nap for Talabot - his first US live show!

I'm straight up worried for my health on Damian Lazarus/Grimes/Classixx weekend

Hearing new Taxi fares are making trips from DC out to VA late at night more expensive than they were. I'm skint anyway, though I would love to see Talabot. I'll make do with Lindstrom and *maybe* Classixx if I can scrape the money together.

Is Lindstrom the sort of thing that would sell out or is that cool for a "ticket on the night" kind of deal?

Gutted I didn't get a ticket for Grimes, especially with Elite Gymnastics.

Lindstrøm should be fine for a walk up ticket

Not that I don't love Elite Gymnastics, but people should be beating down the doors for Lindstrom

His next album needs to get a BNW on P4k and then it'll sell out. The Chromatics gig at RNR Hotell was unbearably packed.

freefest tickets went in a minute. Scalping agencies must have some secret way to nab 'em

nah just think about the 16-24 population in the DC area and it being a free show, HUGE demand

Plus those ZZ Top fans!

RIP Vance Bockis, member of 9353, Factory and others. Saw it mentioned on Facebook but no other details

― curmudgeon, Sunday, September 2, 2012 2:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was also in Obsessed

I'm looking forward to these Friday night showings:

Library of Congress Jazz Film Series Presents Pioneering Television series “The !!!! Beat: Legendary R&B and Soul Shows From 1966” AT HILL CENTER on Capitol Hill, Southeast of the U.S. Capitol Building
921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE Washington, DC
Every Friday night in September THEY’ll be showing four, half-hour programs from this rarely seen music series. All screenings are free and begin at 7:00 pm. The !!!! Beat was a pioneering blues, soul and r&b television show broadcast from WFAA in Dallas, Texas and hosted by radio d.j. William “Hoss” Allen. The series, which began production in January 1966, ran for 26 episodes with a rocking house band and go-go dancers.

Sept 7: Volume One includes performances by Little Milton, Frank Howard & the Commanders, Esther Phillips, Gatemouth Brown, Joe Tex, Etta James, Lattimore Brown, Roscoe Shelton, Lee "Shot" Williams & Gerri Taylor, Carla Thomas, Art Grayson, Cleo Randle, Mighty Joe Young and Jimmy Church

edm analysis

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/09/06/rolling-in-the-deep/

ticketed for Saint Etienne. So much good stuff coming to U Hall this fall.

Is getting to DC Star(soon to be Echostage) on Queens Chapel Rd NE (near Stadium) without a car, that much harder than getting to H St NE clubs without a car? I guess so, but am not sure.

Saint Etienne are one of my favorite bands of all time. Thrilled about the show.

curmudgeon, that looks even worse than getting to H Street. You'll probably want to take Metro to NoMa or RI metro stations and then cab.

x-post--I should probably get St. Etienne tickets (if they're not gone).

My old-school weekend starting tonight-Those 1966 The !!! Beat tv episodes filmed in Dallas, at Hill center on Capitol Hill;

Bob Mould doing Sugar and his new album with band tomorrow at 930

i'll be at bob mould, as well as mission of burma after at black cat. memo to self: EARPLUGS

Thanks for the reminder. Thought about doing Mission of Burma also, but may not see 'em this time. Treasure my memories of seeing 'em a long time ago and talking to them when they came out to WMUC.

i've seen them a bunch post-reunion up in boston and they've always killed. i took a guitar lesson once from roger miller (through a line6 pod, of all fucking things) and it brought me no closer to understanding how they do all that

general rule of thumb is the smaller the venue the better/louder they are, imo

Did you get to Mission of Burma as well? I just did the Mould gig

yeah, we walked over and got there a couple songs in. fun show, heavy on the hits - maybe the shortest set of theirs i've ever seen though. place was half full, if that - talk about lousy scheduling

nostalgia:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1243182560/salad-days-the-birth-of-punk-rock-in-the-nations-c

and

other DC movie with no kickstarter yet:

http://www.dcpunkrockdoc.info/ Schneider and Bishow's Punk documentary website

dj blass at u hall tomorrow i'm geeking so hard right now

Was it as good as you hoped?

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/43235/our-band-could-be-your-band-how-the-brooklynization-of/

Whether Svenonius is right or not, in the early 2000s, Brooklyn—in both its psychic and physical forms—devastated the Washington RMS. A partial list of D.C. bands who lost members or former members to Brooklyn includes El Guapo (my band), Supersystem (my band), Antelope (my band), Edie Sedgwick (my band), Orthrelm, Measles Mumps Rubella, Quix*o*tic, Fugazi, Black Eyes, Q and Not U, Dame Fate, No Lie Relaxer, The Crainium, The Long Goodbye, Cold Cold Hearts, Bratmobile, Partyline, and Trans Am. At its creative peak, The Rapture imported half its members from D.C. Ted Leo—a former Washingtonian—stole an ex-member of The Make-Up and a member of French Toast. New York also spirited away a Black Cat booker and at least one popular recording engineer.

That’s just our little indie-rock world.

re: blass - he played a lot of good old school stuff but for the other half it looks like for everything new he's pretty much bought into moombahton =/. wanted to stay around for toy selectah as well but i was kinda tired and it was really crowded.

wow, i don't really buy into that article at all in terms of dc; as a commenter said: "So until recently, people never moved to new cities to pursue their music career before?"

i thought it was pretty much taken for granted at this point that the same gentrification that author is blaming for making new york more accessible and getting people to move there as the reason dc's died down on the underground indie rock + hardcore fronts - crowds with an appreciation for those aesthetics being drowned out and most of all the real estate hikes driving so many of the affordable / reachable venues out

Awww, I missed Toy Selectah. Another time.

re the article:
I don't buy into it either. The author, Justin Moyer (of El Guapo and Edie Sedgwick ) often writes well, but this "Brooklyn and the internet" whining gets tired quickly.

Shameless plug department--in this City Paper Fall Arts issue out today, in addition to that article are previews of all kinds of events--readings, dance, music, etc. I did Laetitia Sadier, Miguel, and Staff Benda Bilili.

oooh good heads up on miguel