Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

I have raved about Bobby Blue Bland's appearance Saturday at the free Bluebird Fest at PG Community College on other threads and will praise him again here, along with that well-curated and fun free event

ugh wish i'd gone to fiesta dc

I missed the Mambo orchestra Saturday night at Artisphere(former members of Tito Puente's band). Jim Byers was enthusiatically hailing the gig on WPFW Sunday night

GYA, you going to see any music before you move to NYC? I last saw you at Titus/ Okkervill River at 930 I think.

afghan whigs friday for sure, not sure about anything else - my gf is staying here, so i'll actually be back a couple times a month on weekends

oh, man, the whigs friday. i've been staring at my ticket for months.

So many things going on tonight. The Whigs plus Sonic Circuits, Grimes in Baltimore(I think; UHall tomorrow sold-out) and

Red Baraat (NYC Asian Indian funk) at Hamilton

Vicente Fernandez at the Patriot Center

RnB FILMS FOR FREE FROM 7 TO 9PM AT HILL CENTER on Capitol Hill, Southeast of the U.S. Capitol Building, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE Washington, DC. performances by Freddie King, Mabon "Teenie" Hodges & Fred Ford, Willie Mitchell, Big Amos Patton, Veniece Starks, Little Milton, Don Bryant, The Ovations, Otis Redding, Percy Sledge, The Bar-Kays, Mitty Collier, Garnett Mimms, Sam & Dave, and Patti Labelle & The Bluebelles

SWENKA dj night with resident DJ Mothershiester and resident DJ Brian Senyo with guest DJ, DJ Stylus, playing kuduro, afro-house, tropical-electro, bashment, azonto, reggae, and more African riddims + beats from the past and present at the 930 Club Back Bar

Asia party at the Sackler from 7 to 11 with DJ Spooky and instrumentalists Danielle Cho and Jennifer Kim, set against 1940s black and white films featuring Asian American pioneer actress Anna May Wong

Los Rakas(Oakland rap en Espanol) at Love

Palenke Soul Tribe (Colombia) at National Geographic (plus food trucks

7 Days in Havana and Tropicalia movie doc at AFI (part of AFI Latino film fest0

pretty disappointed with John Talabot...or rather that I found a great spot at the front and a group of about 10 college kids went right next to me and talking VERY loudly the whole time, and couldn't find a good second spot, and it was really late...grumble grumble getting old...

Miguel was pretty good at the Howard Wednesday night

x-post--Chris Richards on the Wash Post blog talking about how quiet Talabot's music was at UHall:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/john-talabot-at-u-street-music-hall--it-might-not-get-loud/2012/09/27/30182ad4-08c2-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_blog.html

So it wasn't just me.

I just hope that the same thing doesn't happen with Lindstrom.

I see myself having some sort of meltdown at a club on a Friday night for that one. Pumped tho.

during a live show at U Hall you can always stand at the back of the room for great sound and fewer people

at least that's what I usually do

heading to U Hall tonight for Damian Lazarus and tomorrow for Grimes and then Classixx later, maybe I should just spend the night.

Show of the year with Grimes yesterday, what a great venue and concert!

I guess I need to give her a few more listens.

Are there any rock bands at that Sweet Tea Pumpkin Pie thang that are actually worth seeing?

Skrillex played a two hour surprise set at U Hall last night and it turns out he's a pretty great DJ!

Did he just turn up and say "I'm Skrillex and imma DJ for y'all"?

we had booked Alvin Risk for a late set after he played the Virgin FreeFest, he and Skrillex have toured together and are friends so they ended up both coming over.

Wow

so apparently the warehouse loft got evicted/electricity pulled due to non-payment and starting in november it's being rented out to sculptors

(and friday there was a shooting so the liquor license was pulled)

woah, and Omar S is supposed to be there this Saturday

Black Cat just announced!

Fri Dec 28::
SALAD DAYS PARTY
w/ short sets from:
BLACK MARKET BABY, DAG NASTY, KINGFACE

Sat Dec 29::
SALAD DAYS PARTY
w/ short sets from:
SCREAM, GOVERNMENT ISSUE

That's the right time of year to do nostalgia shows. Folks who moved away may be visiting from elsewhere. BMB, Scream and GI, nice. Don't tell anyone but I was never a big Kingface fan. They were ok, just ok.

least surprising story since Artisphere not hitting its audience projections:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-fillmore-silver-springs-rental-fees-unaffordable-some-nonprofits-say/2012/10/10/a0f91c56-1243-11e2-ba83-a7a396e6b2a7_story.html

I saw that too. Montgomery County Chief Exec Gillett's sweetheart deal with the big corporation did not spell out how much to charge for rent for these events. I am expecting Seth Hurwitz of IMP/930 to pop up again and say I told you so.

x-post== those DC hardcore shows sold out quickly online. Instead of talking about Kingface I shoulda just bought tickets to see the others.

I only knew this guy's 1966 garage rock hit with the Hangmen that pushed the Beatles out of the #1 slot on DC radio, via a decade later Slickee Boys cover, but I just learned a lot about him. RIP

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/10/12/tom-guernsey-hangmen-guitarist-who-had-a-no-1-d-c-hit-in-1966-has-died/

the omar s thing got moved to "studio braat" at 1711 florida nw, do other things go on there?

?

cp article on the loft's closing

entire thing seems to center around/blame the shooting and loss of liquor license, the behind on rent thing gets a few sentences tho; the loft was operating just fine for a while without liquore in the spot when it first started up i believe

There's also always some idiot who decides to fire a gun

latin club night at la tasca opening in chinatown this saturday, two floors (bachata / kizomba / mix downstairs, salsa / mambo / cha cha upstairs)

*opening of the club night, not la tasca

Cool. I still need to make it to Tropicalia, which has Chicha Libre and djs tonight

meanwhile in quiet dull Rosslyn, Artisphere's small amount of programmed events each month are still largely skewing narrowly to an older demographic, maybe the new pd will try to vary things next year and offer events for a wider spectrum of ages and cultural interests

http://www.artisphere.com/calendar/music.aspx

Ahem, self-promo spam alert

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2012/10/05/artisphere-turns-two-but-it-hasnt-matured-just-yet/

aw i feel i'd seen artisphere listings at some point and was kind of excited, like i know some friends' bands had played there, but i know myself and a lot of others from downtown just don't make it out there. that said i haven't even made it to tropicalia like six or seven blocks away

lol richards' gnr at the fillmore review

Lindstrom at U Hall was awesome, so many nerds dancing and the sound was great. I would have loved to hear the second half of the set but we were too tired to keep going. Saint Etienne tonight.

completely geeking out about Saint Etienne. One of my favorite bands for the past two decades. Saw their last two US tours but it's been a long time.

Thinking I should have gone to Saint Etienne. Was it great? Did they have a band with them or use lots of tracks or what? Did the vocals sound as wonderful as I think they might have?

Her singing (especially pitch) was actually quite bad but it was almost endearing. I had a great time. The crowd had a very uncommon mix of high politeness and high enthusiasm. People who yell that loud in between songs don't usually get that quiet during them.

Oh. Saw a few tweets which just focussed on the fact that not many people were under the age of 30 there

"endearing" is a great description. Really fun show. The (mostly) gay men's chorus singalong to Sylvie was a highlight.

You guys, the show at Dead Kennedy Center last night was so rad

Who was there? Will they be back soon?

it was just members of Sick Fix, Nervous Impulse and Coke Bust doing cover sets of Clash, Wipers, Blue Cheer, Gorilla Biscuits and Infest songs in honor of Halloween.

aka totally awesome

The (mostly) gay men's chorus singalong to Sylvie was a highlight.

Guilty as charged