Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

Yes sir... I think the album is streaming now on npr or it may already be available. King on Sat Feb 6 all ages at U Hall

http://www.ustreetmusichall.com/event/1038061-king-washington/

Got mine last week!

Borderline-unfathomable that Dawn Richard is still playing a room as small as dc9. Seems like she's gotten 930-sized love and then some (deservedly).

Wow. In March.... I saw her at the Howard last year and the crowd was small, but that is a big room. There were probably around 150 to 200 there.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2016/01/29/union-arts-to-become-a-boutique-hotel-with-an-arts-program/

more details here. Boutique hotel will contain a few artists spaces, but likely no performance diy space

http://bandwidth.wamu.org/how-hardway-connection-found-fame-in-a-scene-it-had-never-heard-of/

Playing Sunday night at Bethesda blues and jazz

Union Arts zoning hearing tonight

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/a-trove-of-rarities-in-jazz-singers-exhibition-at-library-of-congress/?ref=music

This opens Feb. 11th

More music stuff at the Library of Congress:

2/9: Nicholas Brown of the Music Division discussing "boy-band sheet music and memorabilia in the Library's collections" (Noon, Whittall Pavilion)

2/11: Ted Gioia presenting "Love Songs: The Hidden History" (7pm, Montpelier Room, Madison Building; free but tix req'd)

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2016/02/11/government-issues-john-stabb-battling-stomach-cancer/

DJ EZ Street of WKYS is hosting a go-go panel discussion tonight Friday from 6:30 to 8 (although I also saw a 7 pm start time listed elsewhere) at Union Temple Baptist Church, 1225 W St. SE

http://www.uniontemple.com/content.cfm?page_content=announcement_include.cfm&announcement_id=40

Union Arts benefit gig thing tonight too (with Priests, Janelle & Anthony, Escape-ism w/ Ian S., and more)

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2016/02/22/at-panel-discussion-a-call-to-action-for-preserving-the-future-of-go-go/

Thanks for posting.

Can't help but think that preservation mode is one of the least fruitful modes for a scene to be in.

Yep. Despite less clubs hosting go-go, and few go-go bands releasing new, original material, events like the following are happening:

Keeping Go-Go Alive! Team Familiar, Junkyard, Sugar Bear w/ EU, and Suttle Thoughts at DAR Constitution Hall
Apr 16, 2016 Sat 7:00 PM EST

Even just the title of that event builds in a losing proposition ("Keeping [Anything] Alive"). I wish people would think bigger.

This might be interesting

http://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/ben-ratliff-every-song-ever-twenty-ways-to-listen-age-of-musical-plenty

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 7 p.m.

Most discussions of music in the digital age have focused on open access and the ethics of downloading. Ratliff, a New York Times jazz and pop critic for nearly twenty years, and the author of The Jazz Ear, Coltrane, and Jazz: A Critic’s Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings, looks instead at the sheer wealth of music available today, and considers how this unprecedented diversity changes how we listen. Focusing on musical qualities such as speed, repetition, and harmony, Ratliff explores the music-making traditions of several continents and periods to posit a new aesthetic of listening.

Ratliff will be in conversation with Chris Richards, the pop music critic for The Washington Post.

5015 Connecticut Ave NW

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I went to that last night. I like Ratliff's writing and him reading his writing more than when he speaks slowly like a stereotypical philosophy professor in explaining components of music that he values and does not think Spotify has made algorhythms for

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2016/02/24/there-will-be-no-landmark-music-festival-this-year/

But they say they will be back in 2017. Boo. Trust for the National Mall Prez left in Sept 2015 and still has not been replaced.

My booing is aimed at them coming back at all

My booing is aimed at Landmark featuring Miguel last time, thereby preventing him from paying a proper show in DC.

Miguel was pretty great when I saw him at the Howard. Hmmm, has he done a gig of his own here since? Maybe not. Maybe just Landmark.

awww man....
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Update, 12:42 p.m.: The Trust for the National Mall has gotten back to us and indeed confirmed that Landmark Fest won't happen this year. The reasoning? The opening of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture on Sept. 24. In an email to City Paper, Trust spokesperson MacKenzie Babb says that "as friends of our Smithsonian neighbors, we want to do everything possible to support—and not distract from—their highly anticipated opening weekend."

Babb adds that the festival will indeed return in 2017: "We remain committed to building on the success of the inaugural Landmark Music Festival and staging the cause-related festival next year, and we plan to grow it into an annual fundraising event that engages and entertains young adults while raising awareness of the park's history, significance and pressing restoration needs."

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2016/02/25/wama-postpones-30th-annual-music-awards-show-due-to-computer-crash/

Shouldn't WAMA just call it quits?

One would think.

Movies with music themes that are part of the DC Jewish Film Fest

tonight Thursday 2-25- Movie “On The Banks Of The Tigris: The Hidden Story Of Iraqi Music” at 8:45pm at Bethesda Row (In search of the exiled Jewish Iraqi musicians) also on Sunday, February 28 at 7:00 p.m. at the DCJCC and Monday, February 29 at 8:30 p.m. at Landmark West End Cinema

Movie “Kli Zemer” at 6:30 pm at E St. NW (In 1943, a group of Polish villagers gathering in the woods to discover a listless and injured man. Recognizing him to be a Jewish musician, the party heatedly argue about what to do next)

Sun 2-28-
Movie doc in progress (almost finished) “The Mamboniks” at 12:30 pm at E St. Cinema as part of WDC Jewish Film Fest --In the 1950s, a group of mostly Jewish dancers from NYC fell in love with a sultry dance from Cuba called the mambo. Set in NYC, Miami Beach, the Catskills and Havana, The Mamaboniks features the infectious sounds of Tito Puente, Celia Cruz and Mongo Santamaria. 12:30 pm – E Street Cinema

Movie doc “The Record Man” at 2:30 at the AFI---Brooklyn-born Henry Stone exported the music of Miami to the world. From distributing records out of his ‘48 Packard to establishing the largest independent label of the 1970’s, he was a shrewd record executive . His chart-topping artists (soul legend Betty Wright, KC and the Sunshine Band, George McCrae) led to the original Miami Sound and the birth of Disco with the song, “Rock Your Baby.” Also on Monday, February 29 at 8:15 p.m. at the DCJCC and Wednesday, March 2 at 8:30 p.m. at Landmark Bethesda Row

Washington Post has more dirt on Landmark Festival-- Fest's profits only covered expenses; various folks have now left the Trust for the National Mall; Drake threw a fit and threatened to cancel unless they let him have a giant tall stage with pyrotechnics. NPS eventually gave in to Drake demands

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/47934/the-legendary-orioles-at-mr-henrys-sunday-feb-28/

1950s era dc R'N'B/doo wop singers still around with special guest from that era

Would've liked to go to that.

guest vocalist Ronald “Posie” Miles of D.C.’s The Rainbows, sounded good (even at 80 something) on his group's regional hit from 1955 “Mary Lee." Show was a bit pricey with a cover and a minimum, but it's a small room. I think that's where Roberta Flack sang in the 70s, maybe even with Donnie Hathaway.

The bass player of the Legendary Orioles is the father of go-go drummer Kenny Kwick Gross (who has played with Chuck Brown and RE).

The Legendary Orioles' only surviving original member Diz Russell, can now, no longer stand for the whole show, so he sang lead on only a few songs, from a chair right up front near the stage.

"DC Music Summit"; possibly helpful for new acts:

https://www.facebook.com/events/460317270828968/

Saw a few tweets from some saying they liked the summit, but didn't hear too much about it.

In other news:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2016/03/11/wpfw-is-in-trouble-again-this-time-with-financial-woes/

Have not seen Brendan Canty's new group yet, but I did just see go-go group Team Familiar for the second time. Impressive old-school go-go beats with some sweet, lush vocals at times. Saw the first 2 sets but not the last, so I don't know if they are also doing Adele's "Hello." If you were wondering.

Dang, does anyone really call Benning Road the "pathway of death"? Is that why I can still (kinda) afford to live in NE?

http://bandwidth.wamu.org/pj-harveys-community-of-hope-misrepresents-d-c-nonprofit-says/

I read someone defend PJ, saying that those lyrics were her voicing the views of people she met. I guess there are people who still talk like that

I like that Brendan Canty's new band is named after a strain of weed... I always assumed Joe Lally was the stoner!

Sad sad news

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/47998/bohemian-caverns-to-close-legendary-u-street-jazz-club/

The Building owner won't renew the lease of the folks running both the downstairs Caverns and Liv Nightclub

And the restaurant will be gone too.

I guess someone will want to turn it into a 3 level sushi burrito and $20 mixed drink restaurant

this news also made me remember that i miss hr-57. they told me when they were leaving the h st location that they were looking at a new spot near union market, but i've since heard nothing about that.

Was writing last night and missed Tinashe in Silver Spring, now tonight is the movie doc "They Will Have to Kill Us First" about Malian musicians at the AFI Silver

Music is the beating heart of Malian culture. But when Islamic hardliners took control of northern Mali in 2012, they enforced one of the harshest interpretations of Sharia law in history and banned all forms of music. Radio stations were destroyed, instruments were burned and Mali’s musicians faced torture, even death, and were forced into hiding or exile. But rather than lay down their instruments, the musicians are fighting back, standing up for their cultural heritage and identity. With a specially commissioned soundtrack from Mali’s most exciting artists, a score written by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner, this documentary leaps headfirst into a tale of courage in the face of conflict. Official Selection, 2015 SXSW and London Film Festivals. DIR/SCR/PROD Johanna Schwartz; SCR Andy Morgan; PROD Sarah Mosses, Kat Amara Korba. UK, 2015, color, 105 min, DCP. In French, Songhay, English, Bambara and Tamasheq with English subtitles. NOT RATED

I think this might be shown again later at Filmfest in April (but I'm not sure)

had to sell my tinashe ticket. really didn't want to, but with metro down it just wasn't doable.

There's a concert in a few weeks featuring the music from the Nigerian "rock-drama" playing on Friday night: http://silver.afi.com/Browsing/Movies/Details/m-0100000561

always repping the library, but cheick hamala (mali) is playing a free lunchtime show next week:

https://www.loc.gov/concerts/folklife/diabate.html

x-post to Gubke-- who, when , where for Niger music from the Purple Rain homage?

Gubke--- come back and see above question.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/a-founding-member-of-rare-essence-talks-about-the-endless-beat/2016/03/15/3c1a8eda-db19-11e5-925f-1d10062cc82d_story.html

Q and A with RE's guitarist Andre Johnson in the W. Post magazine

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2016/03/23/bohemian-caverns-inventory-is-up-for-auction/

The more I read about this the more I wonder why Brown didn't seek investors earlier, or grants from the DC government. Also, someone should have gotten it labeled a historic building. But I have also seen some of the negative criticism about he and his team's business skills. However, I also need to balance that against some of the ugly taunts against the music played at Liv, and the audience.

Anyway, if you want to buy a piece of the place for a souvenir, you can.

Sorry curmudgeon, I missed your posts.

I'm not sure of the details. Were you at the screening on Friday? That's when he said he'd be giving out tickets to whatever the live performance was. I think it was sometime in April but I can't find any information on it.