Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

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.

I think the best Ethiopian is in the 'burbs now. Saturday was kinda of a slow night for music unless you wanted to see metal band Pentagram at AU or the reunited Blackbyrds out in Bethesda.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/04/23/new-d-c-record-label-could-put-a-weird-slant-on-dance-music/

CP's Marcus Moore re new label

yesterday, new D.C. label 1432 R dropped its first single ever, "Yarada Lij," a majestic instrumental song from Mikael Seifu. Seifu is a relative unknown who creates so-called "Ethiopian electronic" music, which combines Ethiopian folk and British garage, according to an email. It's an anything-goes number that aligns with the focus of 1432 R, which takes its name from the now-defunct Subterranean A punk house (1432 R St. NW was its address). "The music is so out there," says Sami Yenigun, one of the label's founders. "The goal is to just have a platform and have the artists' music drive the vision."

more attention for a certain place and its residents:

well you can find it at dcmusicdownload.com .

*googles furiously*

http://dcmusicdownload.com/2014/04/23/lamont-street-collective-inside-d-c-s-affordable-abode-for-the-diy-community/

Very nice.

oh and x-post-- the fader is also giving love to new DC dance label 1432 R and its Mikael Seifu release

http://www.thefader.com/2014/04/22/stream-mikael-seifu-yarada-lij/

more miscellaneous stuff:

Sunday night was the 17th annual DC reggae awards

Longtime tiny bar JVs in Falls Church is gonna expand next door

Bandwidth's been busy lately with coverage of DC sounds and live sessions too

http://funkparade.com/

the parade will include:

- The Ballou High School Marching Band
- Batala Percussion Band
- Asheru
- Hung Tao Choy Mei Lion and Dragon dancers
- Yamomanem Jazz
- BicycleSPACE riders

and the world’s first FLASH MOP, a spontaneous clean-and-dance civic action squad!

MUSIC FESTIVAL (7-10 PM)
Free shows, in a dozen of the neighborhood’s finest venues. The lineup:

U Street Music Hall: Sugar Bear & EU, Nappy Riddem (DJs: Qdup, Fort Knox Five set)
Tropicalia: Cheick Hamala Diabate, Backbeat Underground, Joe Keyes “The Late Bloomer” and The Late Bloomer Band (DJs: Fort Knox Five)
Solly’s: Flashband Project - Flashband Funk Party
DC9 Nightclub: Elikeh Afropop, Black Masala (DJs: Sol Power All-Stars)
Patty Boom Boom: Lucky Dub, Kickoman – Official
Liv Nightclub DC: Clones of Funk
The Brixton: Aztec Sun, Beyond Modern
Jojo Restaurant: The Good Thing
Busboys and Poets: A Special Edition of Live! From Busboys: Women of Funk
Twins Jazz Club: Tony Martucci
Work It! Studio by WandaWoman – Funk Dance Party featuring “The Root of Funk” with drum sensation Tiacoh Sadia 7pm – 9pm

And an after-party!

Ben’s Next Door: “THE SOUL OF FUNK” Wes Felton World and Sol Zahran All Star Jam Session After-party. Starting at 10pm

This looks fun. Glad Ballou High is involved, I encouraged the organizers to include them.

That's this Saturday May 3 with the parade from 5 to 7 and a fair earlier in the day from 1 to 5

the flash mop kind of made me put my head in my hands a little i must say

Oh missed that. Uh yeah.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/04/30/casa-fiesta-hosts-its-last-show-tonight/

RIP tiny tiny space with big loud bands

Too bad

The Ballou High marching band and majorettes are awesome, and as always the Batala drummers are pretty fun too. Saw 'em all Saturday, while eating tacos from Tacos El Chilango

http://bandwidth.wamu.org/the-heyday-of-blue-note-records-captured-in-photographs/

This Goethe Institute exhibit has the worst hours-- Mon. to Thurs. 9 to 5, Fri. 9 to 3

yeugh

They are having some special evening events (6:30 starting time) in association with the exhibit there (and more gigs at the K. Ctr.)--I wonder if there would be time to see the photos sa when they've having a nighttime panel discussion?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2014/05/08/how-the-sassiest-boy-in-america-became-the-most-interesting-man-in-rock-and-roll/

Discussed on another thread

o lord

That was largely my reaction but not most of the others

idk i like NoU but i find dude p tedious

thought it was a really good interview - spiv's got some good thoughts but they're usually so buried by character that's it's nice to see a straightforward discussion

Saturday at 3:30 at the Gala Hispanic Theatre is the DC premiere of "Looking For Johnny, The Legend of Johnny Thunders!"
Directed by Danny Garcia ("The Rise & Fall of The Clash") who will be present for post-film Q&A
3:30-5:30pm, Saturday, May 17th
Gala Theatre, 3333 14th Street NW
(1 1/2 blocks from Columbia Heights metro)

"Looking For Johnny" is the definitive documentary on New York legendary guitar player Johnny Thunders. In 90 minutes, this film covers Johnny Thunders' career from his beginning in the early 70's with the proto-punk New York Dolls, his troubles with drugs and alcohol to his demise in New Orleans, where he died under mysterious circumstances in 1991.

Admission is $5-10, sliding scale

The show will help support the work of The Gala Theatre as well as Samaritan Inns, a local non-profit combating addiction and homelessness, while rebuilding lives.

Sponsored by Positive Force DC

Just quoting the press release there. There was a previous Thunders doc that is now unavailable, and I 've seen neither, so it could be better.

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same day as my sister's wedding in texas

I saw Thunders play in my neighborhood about a month before he died

almost went to see Titus Andronicus tnite at Black Cat but lol doing that on vacation from Brooklyn

no fuckin shit you saw thunders

envious

titus is badass live, recommend when you got the time

http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/05/12/eli_meir_kaplan_photographs_soul_and_funk_musicians_in_washington_d_c_in.html

Have mentioned this guy before. Great photos of great Dc soul musicians.

He took some of his posed shots in the Panorama Room in Anacostia. Years ago I saw a WPFW benefit show there with Ruth Brown singing. An aptly named place, with a great view across the water of the rest of D.C.

http://www.examiner.com/article/music-promoters-hit-prince-george-s-county-with-10-million-class-action-lawsuit

Some of this I don't understand. Somehow, big Latin clubs in Prince George's are still open. Maybe it really is aimed solely at go-go.

No Baltimore deathmetal fest for me this weekend, I'm going to this:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/45804/biker-festival-at-american-legion-post-170-sunday-may-25/

Southern soul Biker Fest

oh sweet

hey, does anyone happen to know of a decent semi-secluded campground within an hours drive of DC (toward the Baltimore side)? I know it's probably going to be impossible to find one this late in the day but I thought I'd check.

Have you been to Cunningham falls or Ole Mink Farm in Thurmont, MD.?

cunningham falls is booked (as are all MD state parks) and ole mink farm only allows 2-day minimum reservations.

this is going to be difficult if not impossible. i just heard about the possibility of an awesome meteor shower late tonight and wanted to get out of the city to watch it.

Yep, read about the meteors in the W. Post

With clear skies, sky gazers may see meteor activity late Friday night – at about 10:30 p.m. – according to Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. Astronomers predict the peak will occur from 2 to 4 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time, on Saturday morning, but Cooke believes gazers can catch shooting stars all the way through dawn, when the sunrise washes them out.

ugh, i've spent 3 hours straight searching, no luck. it's so sad how difficult it is to try to escape light pollution, even when you have access to a car and are willing to go anywhere in the state

So between 2 and 2:30 am I looked for meteors but did not see any. Gave up and went to sleep.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/05/24/camelopardalids-meteor-shower-a-bust-but-not-a-surprise/?hpid=z3

yeah, i watched from the front porch until about 2 am then went to bed, saw nothing. glad i didn't go across the state to try to camp!

The Black Biker Fest was fun. Just about 300 to 400 people there, most of them were not bikers. Just fans of southern soul--Mel Waiters, Ms. Jody and Hardway Connection. I had previously seen a southern soul show at the Showplace Arena in Upper Marlboro that attracted around 4,000. It was advertised on WHUR 96.3 radio, this one was not.
I'm sure deathfest and Cass Mccombs were nice too.

If you're curious about demographics, me and my fiance and 2 others were the only non-African-American folks there in the audience.

Giving nightclubs and go-go and the Distict's ABC board a bad name:

the ABC Board issued an order allowing XII to operate under an expired liquor license while it files a third application for renewal, after the first two were dismissed for XII’s failure to attend required hearings."

http://dcist.com/2014/05/anc_wants_h_street_ne_club_temporar.php

District's

http://dcist.com/2014/06/thanks_for_coming_to_our_concert_we.php

Dcist.com once a month summer gigs

http://dcist.com/2014/06/the_problem_with_rabbl_crowd-fund.php

https://twitter.com/FortRenoRumors

mildly amusing and sometimes lol funny