Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

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

lots of good music coming in February and into spring...

Both the Eddie Dean article & my bounce beat one mention strippers. Some things never change I guess

DC folks, on FEb 7th from 6 pm to 2 am there's going to be a weird "audiovisual arts festival" event in Montgomery Co. at the "Pike & Rose" complex. It's free but you have to RSVP online or something? anyway, (self promo alert) Matmos is going to play. So now you know, sort of.

woah thanks, sounds cool.

I'm thinking about going to Joe's Noodle House before it if anyone wants to meet up

http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2015/Pike-Rose-to-Use-Office-Space-to-Host-One-Day-Arts-Festival-Next-Month/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/remembering-innovative-guitarist-bo-diddleys-time-in-washington/2015/01/31/8bad4296-a88c-11e4-a7c2-03d37af98440_story.html

casa ruby benefit at st stephens next friday w/hemlines (!), jail solidarity, crimson waves & stuff

https://www.facebook.com/events/343534385838771/

my lil org gonna be tabling too

Tereu Tereu too

that's Feb. 13th not the 6th btw

http://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2015/02/passings-don-covay-1938-2014.html

Soul singer-songwriter went to school and lived in DC for awhile. The Rolling Stones and many other covered his songs. He was also the uncle of Robert Owens of local group Hardway Connection

Lots of rock benefit shows happening

2-7- *Radio CPR benefit @3:30pm w/ Romantic States, Mattress Financial (mem. Two Inch Astronaut), The Creature People (mem. Pygmy Lush, Big Hush) @ La Casa, 3166 Mt Pleasant St NW;

Paperhaus (album release), Loud Boyz, Baby Bry Bry & the Apologists, and DJ Ayescold @ 9:30 Club (DC Music Download's 3rd Birthday & Benefit for DC Punk Archive - 7 PM show);

2-13- Casa Ruby Homeless Shelter Benefit with Tereu Tereu, Hemlines, Crimson wave, Jail Solidarity, Jack on Fire @ St. Stephen's Church;

i will be at all of those and tabling at the last, ppl should come

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2015/02/12/why-patty-boom-boom-is-closing-and-why-theres-a-silver-lining/

So Eric Thievery Corp & club-owning magnate Hilton is selling Patty Boom Boom (the building) on U Street cuz he can't make money there he says on 99 folks dancing to Irie sounds. He wants to just do it now as a dance night at the 930. Cloak & Dagger, that will take the place of Patty boom Boom is billed as a Gibson-like drinking joint

Oh Clinton Yates weighed in on this too:

When Patty Boom Boom announced that it was closing over the weekend, a very specific feeling came over me. I couldn’t help but get the sense that the very specific brand of entertainment provided there was simply going away. As the most popular U Street outpost for reggae and available late night beef patties, as far as bars/clubs went, it was the most authentic on the strip. Its closing means that the nouveau-urban lounge/speakeasy has officially taken over as the standard style for nightspots along that corridor, not the annoying exception.

But when, two days later, Rhino Bar said they’d be shuttering, a larger realization came over me: The days of the no-frills, regular-folks bars that allow you to dance and have fun are nearly done in D.C. (Somehow, Rumors is still standing.) Everything’s got to be upscale American, or tapas, or whatever. Even though Patty and Rhino had entirely different constituencies and styles, their overall appeal was basically the same.

You knew what you were getting when you walked in. Nothing special. And you could tell neither place was trying to be.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/02/10/rhino-bar-patty-boom-boom-to-close-another-cog-in-wheel-of-d-c-bar-evolution/

I dunno, while all this is kinda true it just means the outliers and the exceptions and the fringes may have to go elsewhere in the region

Did anyone go to that Prava fest w/ Matmos out in Rockville? How was it?

https://www.capitalfringe.org/fringe-music-inthe-library

Wish I coulda gone to today's lunchtime event

And I really wanted to meet Hoos and see the bands at last night's St. Stephen's benefit, but the Stylistics and others at the 70s soul jam at DAR were calling out to me, and I had to hear them hit those falsetto notes.

Next time, really.

Last night went well!

Nice. Raising money for a good cause

So the Wammies got so lazy in proofreading their ballot that they did this pop-rock instrumentalist nomination, combining two people into one:

Ian Kid Congo Svenonius kidcongopowers.blogspot.com

http://www.wamadc.com/wama/wammies/wambal29.html

So Wammies "fixed' the ballot making both Ian S and Kid Congo pop-rock instrumentalist nominees. But doesn't Ian S. mostly just sing these days? The Wammies left a bunch of worthy folks off the ballot: WAMA still does not acknowledge that go-go bounce beat bands exist, and metal bands are hard to find. At least two of City Paper jazz writer Michael West's favorite musicians for 2014, Tom Williams and Antonio Parker, are nowhere to be found. Also absent are a number of blues musicians who have played at Westminster Church’s weekly blues gigs, including Stacy Brooks, Memphis Gold, and David Cole, to name a few. Also noticeably absent from the ballot are such critically acclaimed D.C. rockers as Tereu Tereu, Thaylobleu, and Paperhaus, as well as rapper Fat Trel and electronic music duo Protect-U.

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Before I saw Dawn Richard last night with just a 100 or so others at the Howard, I was out in Silver Spring at Bump n Grind seeing the below with 30 some people max:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2015/02/16/photographer-chip-py-on-the-go-go-underground-and-why-he-doesnt-put-his-photos-online/

Maybe if I had posted this earlier, y'all would have joined me in seeing some awesome photos of Chuck Brown, RE, Familiar Faces and more. I got to get Chip to do this again. Maybe at the DC Salon, that every 2 month event at the Shaw library which tonight is having a panel discussion on DC 70s soul from 7 to 9.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2015/02/25/raheem-devaughn-on-d-c-s-entertainment-industry-and-musics-new-civil-rights-movement/

Hmmm, looks like he would have preferred not talking about Chris Brown; but other than that his interest in being both a Marvin Gaye activist and romance type is of interest

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2015/02/27/super-sly-at-dcs-chateau-nightclub-the-moves-have-never-stopped/

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2015/03/04/after-21-years-in-business-p-a-palace-closes-its-last-store/#more-119593

P.A. Palace, a longtime seller of live and studio-recorded go-go CDs, has confirmed to Arts Desk that its Iverson Mall location in Temple Hills, Md., has closed.

The go-go purveyor will continue to sell new and old recordings via download and mail order “for years to come,” a representative wrote in an email. The business used to have stores in the Forestville Mall and Prince George’s Plaza, but after more than two decades in business, its last physical outpost is gone. "We may reopen somewhere in the future, but there are no immediate plans as of yet,” the store's representative wrote.

P.A. Palace sold many of the CDs in its store at reduced rates to customers and to others in bulk. Go-go fans have long loved getting live go-go concerts recorded off bands' power audio (P.A.) soundboard on record, tape, and CD, and P.A. Palace has catered to that need. Its list of recordings includes the likes of the Junkyard Bard's Nov. 7, 1988 show at Hillside Firehouse and Northeast Groovers on May 31, 2014 at Icon.

But now, many fans just want digital downloads, and others are satisfied with YouTube videos of shows. In addition to the recordings it sells, P.A. Palace has its own free app and maintains a digital go-go radio station and a go-go news blog.

For those who still want to buy go-go in person on CD, the nearby Kemp Mill Music in Temple Hills sells live and studio go-go releases. Kemp Mill's Armando Cruz hopes his store gets some of P.A. Palace's old customers,but he acknowledges that the patrons of each business tend to stay loyal to their respective outlet.

aw man :(

The Ibiza club in DC has had its issues and reportedly was gonna be sold, but for now (shhh, don't tell DC P*lice & L*quor Board and future nearby condo residents) has hosted the bounce beat Kingz on the 10th and will again on the 17th.

Also, glad to read Black Cat is going with earlier weekday start times. Being able to use the metro to leave there (or whatever mode of transportation) while still seeing a band's full set is a good thing, not just for us old folks and whomever has to get up early the next day, but for all.