Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/12/29/2015-music-preview-how-d-c-artists-are-finding-faraway-fans/

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2015/01/05/deleted-scenes-breaks-up/

http://digdc.dclibrary.org/cdm/search/collection/myfirst/order/descri

old people punk archives online. Does DC Library instagram?

more links:

DC blues harmonica player Phil Wiggins is subject of a cover story in the December 2014 Living Blues magazine

http://digital.livingblues.com/publication/?i=236266

Pics of 1994 Cynthia Connolly postcards of DC punks with old cars

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/postcards_of_d.c._punk_rockers

http://digdc.dclibrary.org/cdm/search/collection/myfirst/order/descri

old people punk archives online. Does DC Library instagram?

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, January 6, 2015 5:21 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoaaaaaaa

Sean Gray of D.C.'s Fan Death Records lists his fave 2014 DC hardcore songs

http://bandwidth.wamu.org/the-best-d-c-hardcore-of-2014/

I still haven't checked those out yet.

Unrelated:

Eddie Jones & the Young Bucks, a longtime DC soul act, are making their annual one-time appearance Monday the 12th at Westminster Church in SW DC not far from Arena Stage. 6 to 9 pm . I think its a $5 cover. They always start off slow, with jazzy instrumentals, before Eddie starts testifying...

Folk-punk kids Mallory at my place tonight at 8, all at the door goes to jail support for Black Lives Matter community organizers & activists

https://www.facebook.com/events/356930791098151/357225754401988/

http://www.bethesdanow.com/2015/01/09/historic-bethesda-theater-building-on-the-market-for-8-5-million/

Another arts venue for 'I Died' to take over management of...This time the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Club

Brown bought the building for 2.85 million, then took loans to add kitchen, bar and more. He says the club made 2.5 mill in its first year (but still ended up in the red). Will anyone want to pay 8.5 million?

I have so many memories tied to that building, from when it was a movie theater and from when they would host local 'battle of the bands' concerts with kids from local high schools running wild. The parking was always the curse of that location (and for most of Bethesda the last time I visited a couple of years ago)

"Brown went to the County Council last year with a request for $100,000 in funds to buy sound and lighting equipment he said the county previously paid for but had since vanished or been replaced."

SHOCKING the county didn't approve this

also it seems really unusual to ask someone to purchase the building with a 10-year lease to a tenant that's losing money

Yep, that jumped out at me too.

Your Ribs:

Bethesda has parking garages, and Metro

Haha - certainly not enough garages (hence all hell breaking loose with local merchants and government when the paid lot across from the Barnes & Noble/Landmark cinema closed as that development was constructed. Is that all finished now?). If I remember correctly, the building with the club has a parking lot *in it* (which wasn't there when it was the Cinema 'n' Drafthouse), but it's limited to 3 hours so people would sometimes have to duck out to move cars or feed meters.

Admittedly it's been a couple of years...

Not trying to be snarky, but have been to Bethesda Blues & Jazz Club once and found a parking spot in that garage and I don't recall trouble with enough hours. Not exactly a scientific survey admittedly.

construction is still going on at the former lot across from B&N. I've had a mixed luck finding parking in Bethesda, sometime on the weekends it's pretty tuff.

Ex Hex at 11th in the album voting in the Village Voice Music Critics PazznJop Poll

aw, good for them - i love that record

it's been mentioned a bit over in the emo/pop-punk/pizza feelings thread, but the two inch astronaut record is great - total shudder to think vibes, which is a great reference point for dc bands (and bands from elsewhere) in 2014 imo

I heard a Two Inch Astronaut song I liked, but need to hear the whole thing. I dunno, Shudder's prog aspects sometimes scared me off

oh man i got to get on that two inch astronanaut

Sat. 1-17-Max Levine Ensemble, Radiator Hospital, the Rememberables, and Black Sparks - Net Neutrality Benefit at St. Stephens

Sun. 1-18- TroubleFunk and Rare Essence at the Howard Theatre

oh shit i hadn't heard about that benefit thats up my alley as hell

Not sure how they got the word out. Positive Force now has Facebook page that I think anyone can join and I think I saw it there

http://dcist.com/2015/01/review_hemlines_at_rock_and_roll_ho.php#photo-1

This group is at a February St. Stephens benefit show

Howard Theatre was packed Sunday night for Rare Essence & TroubleFunk. Alas, as its a go-go show they did a lengthy security check pat-down beforehand of everyone coming in, with separate female and male lines. Promoter & Howard Theatre (think it was an outside promoter, but not sure) didn't have enough folks working the lines, especially the gals one. Plus the doors opened late. By the time most folks got inside, TroubleFunk had already finished.

separate female and male lines

is this because of the patdowns? Never heard of that before.

they had separate male/female lines at a fillmore show in silver spring recently apparently

no patdowns involved there iirc

Yes because of the patdowns. Women security patting down women, etc.

My wife heard a woman say "most of us here are old and we're not gonna be getting into trouble, why do they have to do this" .

Don't recall such lines at either Chuck Brown tribute show at the Howard that I attended. I think the doors opened earlier at those gigs, and they had more security.

I have seen tweets complaining about go-go promoters who offer "cut lines." Pay a lot extra and they'll let you go right in. No such line at Howard Sunday. Unrelated--promoters did do 1 good thing: All ticketholders at that Trouble & Re Howard U gig got given the new RE 2010 live cd, and a Globe poster style hanging press badge with a code on the back to access a 1979 Rare Essence live show.

Different and older DC related music history can be seen in the showing of Jeff Krulik's "Led Zeppelin Played Here" at the Black Cat tonight (unofficial street team publicity). While its unclear whether Zep did play Wheaton decades ago tonight, you will also footage re Stooges in Falls Church and other such shows

really can't see anyone getting violent at a RE/Trouble Funk show in 2015

Go-go and rap ski trip in February

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1qml7vWHQM&feature=youtu.be#!

Tomorrow at noon Capital Fringe will kick off their "Music in the Library" series with Chain & the Gang, and on Feb. 7th DC Music Download's three year anniversary show will feature Paperhaus, Loud Boyz, Baby Bry Bry and the Apologists, and DJ Ayescold, with proceeds to benefit the DC Punk Archive

Univ. of Md music archives are also putting stuff up online

ayescoooooooooooold

Paperhaus, Loud Boyz, Baby Bry Bry and the Apologists, and DJ Ayescold,

is it just because i live in the neighborhood with most of these people or is there a weird mount pleasant ~scene~ happening

or are they all just getting each other gigs together cause they're bros

Maybe both?

In another hood, wonder if this was at a soca event or something else, as this place has been rented out for non-Caribbean type house and electro club events too

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/18/club-house-northwest-dc-club-shuttered-after-large/

Another benefit gig tonight

Friday: Local bands Alarms & Controls, Laughing Man, Polyon, and Two Inch Astronaut perform at St. Stephen's to raise funds for BlackLivesMatter DMV. Find more details on Facebook. 7 p.m. at 1525 Newton St. NW. $10 suggested donation.

And Bootsy Collins at the Howard...

my housemate put that one together!

Funeral services For Jessie Kittrell SR. owner of the New Vegas Lounge on P. St NW across from Whole Foods
Dr Blues/JET
Tuesday Jan 27th 2015
10-12 public viewing
12:00 noon funeral service
Kellogg Conference Center
800 Florida Ave NE 20002
On the campus of Gallaudet University
Internment Ft Lincoln Cemetery 3401 Bladensburg Rd Brentwood MD 20722

The king of library appearances does another one:

As part of the "Fringe Music in the Library" series, Ian Svenonius presents "ESCAPE-ISM," a narrative performance created using sound effect records, at the Petworth Library. 6 p.m. at 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. Free.

hmmmm

oh boy

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2015/01/30/the-howard-theatre-hosts-its-first-bounce-beat-go-go-show-tomorrow/

talking with members of ABM and AJA Cranknation re the bounce beat and r'n'b matinee at the Howard on Saturday

did not discuss clappa dancing in the piece

http://brightestyoungthings.com/articles/top-25-dmv-artists-to-watch-in-2015.htm

rappers and some rockers mostly

http://dcist.com/2015/01/the_best_dance_clubs_and_nights_in.php

No international other than Tropicalia, no current r'n'b, no Glen Echo

http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/the-untold-history-of-postwar-washingtons-nightlife/

That's an Eddie Dean article (he wrote for the City Paper back in the 90s) about the Quonset Club, a hillbilly turned rock and soul joint from the 40s to the 60s that later became the now closed go-go & r'n'b Legend Nightclub in Temple Hills, MD