Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

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

x-post re go-go and GoGs

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

would like to meet yall ilxdc folks. meet at the upstairs bar at midnight or something like that?

hadn't realized richards wrote for the post, kind of funny considering matt borlik wrote for the cp.

Fellow one-time Q and Not Uer Borlik is at the Onion now doing their music listings (he's mainly an indie-rock only guy). Richards has done lots of freelance writing about rock, rap, pop and more for the Post and also has a nice blog
http://summerbleeding.blogspot.com/

yeah, borlik's on another board i'm on. actually the first time i realized the old q and not u practice space was on the street i grew up on was a few years back when i saw him in a 7-11 in columbia heights, i'd recognized him as just being another person from silver spring. i asked him about it and he mentioned he'd been in q and not u and their space had been on thayer avenue, and it all came together at that point.

Will I don't think the upstairs bar will be open on Friday but I'm down for meeting up.

aw that sounds fun, good deal. is there any reason to buy tickets to this early, or will things be cool if we just roll up night of?

I can't imagine it will sell out.

def can't meet at a bar that isn't actively selling booze! so, what's a smart way to arrange this?

everyone attach a rose to your lapel

smart, and timely

I will be going by the name "Suggest Ban"

Will, the rest of us know each other so you're going to have to wear the weird hat or whatever.

fair enough

Some nice old-school hiphop faves on the Russ Parr 8 a.m. "Wrong song' segment on the radio this morning--"That's the Joint" "Big Beat" But I just forgot who he had dj'ing. Doh!

so i dont have any weird hats or whatever. i'm wearing an orange sweater, that's about as zany as i get. tall lanky white dude, orange sweater, jeans and chucks. drinking makers early, yuengling later.

if in doubt, challenge is "nabisco", response "otm"

hope to see some of yall there!

I'll probably be wearing a tshirt with either helvetica or futura text on it.

and I'll have something on the shirt that looks something like this

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3100/2654366250_f0d4f64fe3.jpg?v=0

YA HEARD

see this why i was thinking place/time.

http://img19.picoodle.com/img/img19/3/2/13/f_930m_8100866.jpg

lol

now when you say 12:30am do you mean eastern standard time

if obama visits what is our contingency plan

anyway thanks for making that easy.

mike s put me on the list based off just an email i sent him. <3 the internets right now

Hope y'all had a good time. I wimped out and did not go to Cucu D. at Black Cat as I planned.

R.I.P. Coleman Mellett who died in that plane crash near Buffalo. He was a local guy from Maryland apparently--
An accomplished jazz guitarist, Mellett was a touring member of trumpeter Chuck Mangione's band for the last several years. The group was scheduled to perform Friday night at the Kleinhans Music Hall with the Buffalo Philharmonic.
Mellett grew up near Washington, D.C., and moved to New Jersey to study at William Paterson University, according to his MySpace profile. After graduating he moved to New York and earned a master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music in 1998.

sneak delivered so well last night, i seriously haven't seen a full floor of people enjoying themselves like that in ages.
closed out with FLOWERZ.

the openers, measax + docindo were surprisingly funky as well, should have expected it as they're with the 88 crew.

I kinda wished I had splurged and bought tickets for the reunited Labelle at Constitution Hall

Who are these people in this year's Wammies ceremony. This organization gets more irrelevant every year-- Other than go-go band Familiar Faces

Performers Include: (in Alpha Order)
Christylez Bacon
Cletus Kennelly and Lori Kelley
with Arthur Loves Plastic
Esther Williams
Familiar Faces
4 out of 5 Doctors
Jon Carroll & Love Returns
Juniper Lane
Margot MacDonald

Hosts:
Andrea Roane
Jim Bohannon
Kojo Nnamdi
Pit Band:
Tommy Lepson Band