Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

What's happening?

What's new and exciting?

I finally went to Blob's Park (Buddy Holly tribute gig not polka), but that's more old & kinda fun

The Malian thang was ok

So many panels and events coming up in association with the Corcoran Pump Me Up exhibit. If that era is of interest there's lots to do.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/washington-has-a-music-scene-but-its-found-in-other-cities/2013/02/13/e73fd826-7459-11e2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_story.html

Some DC musicians and djs who have moved elsewhere, tell why

lol i didn't even realize oddisee was in brooklyn now. can dc writings stop trying to make him happen then? ...not that he's not but.... yeah.

I know this show was mentioned upthread but this flyer rules!

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/26365_10151518963649458_1138598595_n.jpg

Whoa! I would love to go to that. I grew up in D.C. and the only act on there I ever saw live was Stinky Dink, of all people. Worlds Collide were always an enigma to me as a Dischord-head. Were they kind of related to the Krishna-core stuff, or something like that?

I would go to that *just* for youth brigade, they're so fun live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lBsZj1mhw8

DJ Kool "Let Me Clear My Throat" is always fun

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Metal-Dc-Zine-Thrillseeker-Minutemen-Motorhead-Barrence-Whitfield-Marginal-Man-/281066104172?pt=Magazines&hash=item4170d8656c

$50!

That's someone else selling that, not me btw

This looks interesting:

Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/faking.shtm

Should I sell some back issues of Unicorn Times on ebay or is there something better to do with them?

Wasn't Marc Andersen or someone setting up a zine section at a local library

Lots going on around town (in multiple genres)

spam alert: my review of movie about old DC club. You can see the movie on MD Public tv Monday night

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/film/2013/02/22/the-bayou-d-c-s-killer-joint-reviewed/

WALL OF SLEEP (DC's friendly neighborhood stoner metal band)
http://wallofsleep.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/wallofsleepdc

THE SNIFFS (good ole fashioned garage punk, most popular band in DC for the last week of February!)
http://thesniffs.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/TheSniffs

AKRIS (bass worshipping, heavy ass doom duo from NoVa. 100% satan approved.)
http://akrisband.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Akris/170082017913

TREBLE LIFTER (hardcore/metal insanity. total riffage from NoVa!!)
http://treblelifter.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/treblelifter

https://www.facebook.com/events/517558401610244/?ref=3&suggestsessionid=269a4359a2dd057db706db615a51d93c

http://www.arlnow.com/2013/02/22/artisphere-two-community-centers-could-be-on-next-years-chopping-block/

Also on the chopping block is Artisphere, the Rosslyn-based cultural center that opened with high expectations in 2010. As previously reported, Donnellan is including $1.8 million in taxpayer funding for Artisphere in her proposed FY 2014 budget, but warning that she’s “assessing its performance and programming model” for next year.

“We’re going to evaluate the fiscal sustainability,” she told County Board members on Wednesday. “I’m forcing them to reevaluate how they operate. It’s an expensive operation to continue and I need to evaluate it to make sure it’s sustainable.”

http://www.americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2015/mingering_mike/

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/free-1920dc

got around to seeing one of the disco dan doc q+as at the afi the other week, rill rill entertaining

I missed the flick unfortunately. I saw the panel with DJ Kool, Alec Mackaye, Seth Hurwitz(930 Club/IMP) and Iley Brown (TTED records & more). Pretty interesting but I wish they would have given props to WOL's AM go-go programming and WMUC's 10 watt fm programming even if such sources were not all powerful wattage 80s era FM radio stations. Plus like the exhibit, there was no mention of 80s zines. (Yes I am biased and self-interested here). A go-go musician in addition to go-go rapper DJ Kool should really be on one of the panels (and there should have been more interview material in the exhibit with go-go musicians)but there is not one.

The exhibit still offers a lot, just could have been better.

RIP Leroy Fleming, sax player in Chuck Brown's Soul Searchers, best known for his playing on "Bustin' Loose"

http://www.tmottgogo.com/the-passing-of-leroy-fleming/

floor next week!

ok

lol

at rnr hotel

do people know floor? floor was torche before torche was torche. same dudes, more sludge.

Thanks for the explanation. Perhaps others know them

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2013/03/21/remembering-leroy-fleming-soul-searchers-member/

Fleming was in the Young Senators, backed Eddie Kendricks, and was best known as a Soul Searcher with Chuck Brown

Enjoyed the Pump Me Up exhibit panel discussion on 80s DC at the Corcoran tonight--Alona Wartofsky moderating with Buggs from Junkyard; Andre Johnson from Rare Essence; writer Mark Jenkins; D.C. Police detective Donald “Goose” Gossage, and Gangster George, a former member of the Gangster Chronicles crew. Detective Gossage was impressive--he spent the late 70s and early 80s coaching a kids football team in SE DC as well as working go-go shows, listening to tapes his football player kids put on in his car when he drove them home, and investigating crime. Hearing Andre talk about the mothers who managed RE when they first started out, and tales of go-go shows at the Washington Coliseum (aka Uline Arena where the Beatles played-- and my brother had a hockey game!) was fun and interesting as well.

daaaang, my gf went to that tonight. i had to work late. wish i could have made it!

The exhibit is free on Saturday April 6th and closes on the 7th

i'm goin tomorrow!

Mumbo Sauce exhibit (with folks from the Corcoran exhibit) opens tonight/Friday:

Contemporary Wing and Roger Gastman Present: "Mumbo Sauce", 906 H Street, NE Washington, DC. Hours: Tue - Sun 11-6pm. Opening reception Friday, April 5, 7-10pm, music by DJ Stereo Faith. Please RSVP for opening reception to lind✧✧✧@contemporaryw✧✧✧.c✧✧
Mumbo Sauce is a survey of artists with deep roots in Washington, DC and explores how such factors as Go-Go, Graffiti, punk, hardcore, graphic design and fine art have shaped and influenced the work of these artists. Mumbo Sauce is curated jointly by Roger Gastman, curator of the Corcoran's "Pump Me Up' show and Lauren Gentile, founder of the Contemporary Wing.
With BORF, Richard Coleman, Tim Conlon, COOL 'DISCO' DAN, Clark Fox, Cynthia Connolly, Globe Poster Archive, Mark Jenkins, Mingering Mike, Robin Rose and Rosina Teri Memolo. RSVP mandatory to attend opening reception: i✧✧✧@contemporaryw✧✧✧.c✧✧. 202-730-5037. contemporarywing.com

Friend of mine is in that!

Tonight I'm headed to a gig at La Casa:

- Mind Over Matter Music Over Mind
[Luke Stewart/Thomas Stanley/Bobby Hill]
http://onesheet.com/mindovermatter/splash/

- Stypex
[ex-Vertebrates/ex-Antelope]
Dissonant art punk. First show ever!

- Papier Tigre
http://papiertigre.com/
[all the way from France!]
"Combines elements of experimental pop compositions and aggressive math-rock."

How was Stypex?! I love that Antelope LP so, so much. Always hopedmthey'd do more stuff together.

papier tigre! i remember an awesome record of theirs years ago that kinda split the difference between don cab and 90's dischord but ALSO sounded like the offspring (in a really charming way)

I know T. Stanley and Bobby Hill from late-night WPFW jazz & poetry & funk & jimi H specials

http://www.arlnow.com/2013/04/08/artisphere-over-budget/

No surprise

Artisphere had 2 Chickfactor nights last year, but this year Chickfactor is just doing NYC it seems. Artisphere has not aimed anything in the direction of that audience since then

There's always drama at WPFW

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2013/04/08/will-wpfw-move-to-silver-spring/

god

damn, hadn't seen that artisphere thing until now. Crazy that the county paid for the buildout and they're still running at an annual $2 million+ deficit

“Ticket and admission income is low due to a decrease in programming during the first half of FY 2013 while we hired a new programming director,” she said in an email. “Catering/concession income from large social events was over-estimated in the business plan and is also low. Temp employees were underestimated and underfunded in the business plan and are therefore running over budget.”

They are still only booking a few music gigs a month since the new programming director came on board. I like the zydeco and Latin things they have been doing, but they're not gonna meet a budget on just 2 music events and a gallery exhibit a month. When I interviewed the new pd about whether they would do more stuff like the Chickfactor gigs, he said he would be reviewing everything they have done in the past and would go from there. There's been nothing really in that vein since he came on board, and have they ever made a nod in an electronic music direction lately? I don't think so.

http://www.spin.com/#articles/maxmillion-dunbar-interview-future-times-house-of-woo

This Sherburne interview I think is of interest even for those not into these dance sounds but who might have into 90s era DC punk and stuff (plus area record stores)

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/bestofdc/artsandentertainment/2013/best-local-county-for-music

Highlighting Prince George's County's Latin, rock/pop, soul, go-go, and reggae locales

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/bestofdc/artsandentertainment/2013/best-sign-of-indie-rock-life

but there’s definitely something going on: Bands like Shark Week, Foul Swoops, The Shirks, Teen Liver, and The Doozies may not share social circles or specific sonic ideas, but they all play music that’s hooky, rackety, stripped down, and urgent. Muddy your definition of garage rock even further, and you can toss in Kid Congo Powers,

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2013/04/18/is-mumbo-sauce-guilty-of-more-than-swagger-jacking/