Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

I'm learning about the Ethiopian music scene, but you've stumped me on that one. Seems like there's 3 main geographical locations for Ethiopian entertainment--

9th & U NW;

George Mason Drive/King Street in Bailey's X-Rds/Seminary Road in Falls Church plus Alexandria at Jolleys

Silver Spring, MD

Semi-retired DC soul and gospel singer Eddie Jones & his band the Young Bucks are at Westminster Church in SW near Arena Stage Monday the 13th from 6 to 9 pm. It will be mostly covers but he has a great voice (and sometimes his brother and sisters join him and they sound fantastic too).

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This was awesome last night. Yep, just covers but Eddie & the band plus his brother, younger sister, and son sounded great. Marvin Gaye, Clyde McPhatter, Sam Cooke, "When Something is Wrong with my Baby" (Hayes & Porter stax # I think), Bill Withers and more. I got my $5 admission's worth

Tereu Tereu @ Black Cat Friday the 17th

Why do I always have something else going on when these guys are playing? Maybe in February or March they'll have one I can attend

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/01/16/travis-jackson-points-drummer-and-windian-records-founder-killed-in-collision/

Terrible news

FUUUUUUUCK

God, that's awful. I only got to see The Points once, with Title Tracks at U Hall a couple of years ago, but that guy was a monster drummer. Just these effortless machine gun blasts that elevated an already pretty great band to next level. That album is a flat-out unsung high point of garage rock.

Since it's not on YouTube... this jam: https://myspace.com/thepoints/music/song/feeling-sorry-29010828-28913175

R.I.P.

I think I saw on Facebook that someone is setting up a fund to help his family--wife, and one year-old son

http://wamu.org/programs/metro_connection/14/01/17/after_nearly_80_years_maryland_polka_hall_prepares_for_last_dance

excerpt from the article:

The Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore owns the land on which Blob's sits, and last month, Max got the news that the Archdiocese has decided to develop the property.

"On the first of December, they sent a messenger out from the law office with a short notice that I had 120 days to vacate the place, they were taking it over," he says.

That means Blob's will close for good on March 30.

There's a Buddy Holly tribute gig at Blob's, in Jessup, MD on February 1st

Loved The Points, was lucky enough to see them a bunch and even play a couple of shows with them over the years. Travis was a really good guy, very sad about this. Here is a link to the fund for his family:

https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/fgGY8?psid=a4b8dfa137e840019fd7d3ee2dfc7ad2

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/01/17/trouble-funk-premieres-new-hump-day-video/

Big Tony on their just ok recent song & new video, the new makeup of his band, and Taylor Swift. Really.

Travis made great music and also ran a great label, Windian. He was also a great guy - hung out with him a bunch of times until late at night/early in the morning when he was working door at the Gibson. Super passionate and funny but with a huge amount of dedication and focus to the way he ran his label and made music.

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/african-princes-of-comedyft-cheif-obi-foxy-p-kanmi-and-kaponefeb-14-tickets-9553690345

Nigerian and diaspora comics at Rio in Laurel, Md. This club sometimes hosts Haitian music gigs as well

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/01/23/alexandros-alexi-petersen-gentleman-scholar-and-punk-rocker/

Another DCer gone too soon

fuck

Sat. feb. 8th at Comet Ping Pong-- not my thing, but this type of happening might be yours

Pat Noecker (aka RAFT and formerly of Liars and These Are Powers) brings his patented ASSEMBLE series to DC at Comet Ping Pong. Noecker and several other musicians will perform his ensemble piece "Transmissions, Long Tones in A and E", in which the artists, through various sound sources, will collectively sustain the note of A for 30 minutes and the note of E for 30 minutes in an hour long piece that boils up into a haunting, transcendent and cacophonous sonic meditation. The event promises to be an immersive one, with guests encouraged to wander around the space, each feeling a unique aural experience.

The DC Ensemble includes Amanda Kleinman, Deena OH, Doug Kallmeyer, Elise Pierre, Erick Jackson, Jasmine Chehrazi, Marian McLaughlin, Milena Aradski, Norm Veenstra, Ted Zook, and The Grey A.

drugs

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/film/2014/02/11/eli-janney-drafted-for-seth-meyers-late-night-band/

I wish Eli's brother Eddie would play in a band again. He was in the Faith, Rites of Spring & Happy Go Licky

local punkers down at the pinch tonight

The Sniffs, Crumms, and a couple of touring gangs starting at 9

i'll be there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnZimVtbboU

broken record department-- I looked at the list of Wammies winners from Sunday. While some nominations and even winners make sense, there remain so many omissions. No go-go bouncebeat bands, no metal, no Future Times or Cricket Cemetary label nominations, no bluesy soul folks like Jim Bennett or Hardway Connection...And I'm sure there are more problems with other genres

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/45473/remembering-the-palladium-at-atlas-performing-arts-center-saturday-feb/

Local folks pay tribute to old-school NYC mambo dancehall

local punkers down at the pinch tonight

The Sniffs, Crumms, and a couple of touring gangs starting at 9

i'll be there

how was it? we played there saturday night, i like that spot.

crumms were playing their first show and kept having tech problems

*riff* *crackle*
"hang on, i just blew out my amp"

songs were great tho. high energy garagey stuff.

sniffs were predictably rad.

pleasantly surprised to find the pinch becoming my favorite venue to walk to.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/02/26/mambo-sauces-black-boo-on-creativity-and-sustainability-in-go-go-music/

I hold go-go responsible as much as I hold [Prince George’s] county responsible.

FYI-
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/02/27/remembering-paul-hawkins-pioneering-d-c-percussionist-bandleader-and-dancer/

An excerpt:

A life-long D.C. resident, Hawkins was involved in the D.C. music scene from the 1950s—when he was winning dance contests at Turner’s Arena—through decades of drumming with Latin dance music and jazz ensembles into this century. In the early 1960s he became the first African-American dance instructor at Arthur Murray Dance Studios. Although Hawkins never released an album as a leader, he played congas on Ramsey Lewis' Ramsey Lewis at the Bohemian Caverns, sat in live locally with Dizzy Gillespie and Tito Puente, and played countless gigs with his own bands. He regularly played for school audiences and in D.C.'s summer in the parks series.

So if you guys are into Leverage Models they're playing at my house this Saturday for a fundraiser.

https://www.facebook.com/events/664615793595251/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

Should be a helluva show.

Did it live up to your expectations? Did your house survive?

TONIGHT: Ex Hex (10:15), TEEN (9:15), Foul Swoops (8:30). Doors 8PM. SOLD OUT

house survived & i had a fuckin blast--plus we made about 10% of our development costs to fix up the house for our purchase, so as a fundraiser it was a huge success as well.

Excellent.

Finally saw the Swoops do their garage-punk with howled vocals thing. Pretty fun, mostly. Teens were bland synth-pop w/ guitar. Ex-Hex are going for a 70s glam meets Runaways rawk sound. Mostly fun too. Timony and company looked like they were enjoying themselves. A 70s Nick Gilder cover as one of the encores...

DMV bands have till March 31 to submit demos to Amanda for consideration for Fort Reno

http://www.fortreno.com/

Old-school longtime DC resident and James Brown style singer Little Royal is at Westminster Church in SW tonight from 6 to 9. Post-stroke, but he's still entertaining.

buncha bedroomy black metal bands at DC9 tonight, including me homie Bastet

Cool. I've gotta couple friends playing that show

http://bandwidth.wamu.org/for-some-d-c-bands-sxsw-isnt-worth-the-trip/

Bandwidth sometimes does more than just re-post NPR Music webpage stories

http://bandwidth.wamu.org/watch-sunwolf-live-at-wamu/

and they have Brendan Canty interviewing Sunwolf.

Some day Bandwidth might even have a posting on DC music that's not rock, as well.

http://bandwidth.wamu.org/a-brief-introduction-to-d-c-s-garage-rock-scene/

But they're stepping up on rock

Was listening to some bounce-beat go-go on WkYS last night. In the print and website media bouncebeat is so under the radar these days. I'm not that crazy about it, but am intrigued how its holding on, and wondering whether any such group will have a commercial breakthrough.

aw man it's been TEN YEARS since the last Black Eyes show

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/03/26/listen-to-black-eyes-final-show/

Bandwidth has had a post or 2 on DC rap and edm now, yay.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2014/04/07/want-to-run-your-own-nightclub-love-is-going-on-the-auction-block/

Lots of debt to pay off.

in other is the club open news:

http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/top-shelf/2014/04/ibiza-nightclub-shut-down.html

it took TEN MONTHS for the city to realize one of the biggest clubs in DC was operating w/o a business license? Amazing even by DCRA standards.

HA.

Meanwhile, the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration method for granting tavern and restaurant liquor licenses in Georgetown seems like something out of the 1980s, with folks camping out to be first in line.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2014/04/09/people-camp-out-for-days-to-snag-a-georgetown-liquor-license/

Tereu Tereu @ The Beehive Saturday night. Want to see them but am off to Baltimore tonight for an Os game.

Plus Hoo's thang today

it went great!

I'm in town what's good tonight? Fun place to get dinner? Drinks? Any good music?

ya know, there's nothing on my radar in terms of music tonight. i bet contendo has ideas?

what part of town are you in?

Wound up going to Dukem for ethiopian (which was ok but maybe not up to the hype) and then a wine bar around the corner that was fun. U Street is ridiculously different than I remember it, granted that the last time I was there was over 8 years ago and most of my memories are from like 18 years ago.