Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

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

Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty and wife and 4 kids in the Washington Post real estate section Saturday talking about their Tenleytown home

cool to meet people saturday night. fun show, weird space--love 930, but configured for dj nights it feels like maybe too much dead space? was hoping someone'd drop that juan maclean track everyone is going apeshit over. happy house was a good consolation prize tho.

think i'm seeing the points thursday. i know john tejada's coming to muse and man i'd like to see him, but i forgot i'd already made plans for points with gf, plus it's a weeknight so i'd probably bug out before it got good.

I haven't seen the current lineup of the Points. Am curious but can't make it Thursday. Report back if they do anything crazy (or crazy for them; beer-spitting is normal for them).

The late Link Wray's bass player from his days in DC, Chuck Bennett, just died.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/18/AR2009021803307.html?wprss=rss_metro/obituaries

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 February 2009 17:22 (3 hours ago) Permalink

As Chuck Bennett, his stage name, Mr. Avery had been a singer and bass player with Link Wray and the Raymen, a hard-rocking Washington band of the 1950s and 1960s known for the menacing sound it produced on "Rumble" and "Jack the Ripper," songs that influenced hard rock, grunge and punk.

"Chuck had an unbelievable voice and an unbelievable amount of energy, kind of like James Brown," musician Elwood Brown recalled. "He'd glide across the floor, down on his knees; he had great moves."

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 February 2009 17:23 (2 hours ago) Permalink

That was originally posted on the Link Wray thread

The 3 week Arabesque Fest kicks off at the Kennedy Center this week. Female oud players from Bahrain Monday for free at the Mil. Stage, and on Wednesday Brian Jones' favorite trance music from the mountains of Morrocco, Bachir Attar and the Master Musicians of Jajouka.

The Arabesque (private only) preview show last night was pretty cool--I posted about it on the "Arabic music-not otherwise classified" thread. I think Pete and Zach and others who like noisy jazzy din should go see Bachir Attar and the Master Musicians of Jajouka on Wednesday--4 percussionis and 4 guys on oboe-like horns

Anybody looking at Wonkabout? can't decide if it's just more of the same ol same ol indie bands and djs. Maybe need to give it more time

wonkabout seems more or less dcist peppered with bits of byt

hey steve - that arabesque thing seems nifty! i don't really know MMoJ outside of dancing in your head, which obviously rules.

wonkabout seems...well, dcist + byt = do not really want but wvs. anyway they hype future times stuff and that's good.

Yea, big shocker, I would rather see a calendar added somewhere online that's a combination of the places mentioned in ads on El Zol 99.1, AM radio international shows, the TMOTTGOGO e-mails, one-off myspace postings, and the dcist.com week in hiphop, but no one's doing that (I do not think)...

apparently zanzibar was the spot back in the day... my salsa teacher called a short thursday class in order for everyone to show their respects that night.

Two prolific punk legends both have new bands, and they're the same band. The Hive Dwellers is the new project from former Beat Happening frontman and K Records mastermind Calvin Johnson. And ex-Nation of Ulysses/Make Up leader Ian Svenonius now fronts Chain and the Gang. Here's the twist: Both bands have the exact same four people backing their respective frontmen, including Saturday Looks Good to Me's Fred Thomas. That shared lineup will probably save room in the van when both bands tour North America together this spring. K Records will release Down With Liberty ... Up With Chains, the first Chain and the Gang album, on April 7, and the Hive Dwellers will also release a full-length later in the year.

Hmm. I thought Svenonius had a new band with Brendan Canty called Felt Letters... Have Chain and the Gang played shows yet?

I haven't seen any Chain & the Gang shows but I saw Felt Letters. K records and others are busy hyping the Chain thing and how the project is gonna tour nationally. No mention of any Brendan Canty involvement in this one. I think K might be streaming the Chain

Benjy Ferree from Washington City Paper Black Plastic Blog interview by Hilary Crowe:

What did you mean by “D.C.’s lookin’ a little weird these days”?

Oh you know, it’s just gentrified, that’s all. It’s expensive - beers cost a lot of money in bars. It’s real bourge-y and, you know, it’s just the way it is. When I jumped on the Metro to come to D.C. when I was a kid, it was a lot more wild, there was a lot more culture, but you know, this is what everybody bitches about nowadays. I think it’s like that all over the country, everything’s expensive, and I’m sure it’s like that in every city too. It’s just that D.C. used to be a little bit more wild. I think right now it’s lookin’ pretty tame. But what do I know, I’m a musician; I’m not a politician.

Plastic Bag blog...

i don't know who hilary crowe is, i'll google her in a sec, but i'm curious (genuinely) why you posted that--do you agree/disagree? see something insightful in that quote?

ah i see i confused interviewer and interviewee. well, the question still stands.