Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

do people generally dance to dubstep? or what?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAVVCOxAjac

That's awesome

oh wow that dude also has an instructional video in case you can't figure out how he does his moves.

The dancefloor was pretty much full (and with people actually dancing!) the whole time I was there last night.

was it full of people like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1kCDxfBl8w

But we all missed Wicked Jezebel beating out the Evens for best hard rock band at the Wammies. I just googled Wicked Jezebel and I see that they are "an offspring of "The Outskirts of Town," and are Washington DC's 2007 WAMA award winning all female party band (est. Oct 2004). This band dynamically delivers retro party hits from all of the partying decades. With 60's Motown, 70's Disco, classic rock, the wicked 80's, to the grungy/techno 90's with a "tad" of today, Wicked Jezabel delivers the party atmosphere required to ensure the best time anywhere.

ian can't compete with grungy/techno

"all of the partying decades"

Every year the Wammies manage to screw up in a slightly different way--the gift that keeps on giving...

Anybody ever go to this:

BREAKIN' GLASS
Saturday, February 16th (monthly, every third Sat)
10PM-3am, NO COVER
Wonderland Ballroom, (11th and Kenyon, Columbia Heights in NW DC)
OldSchoolHiphop*80s*Funk*Disco*Electro*DanceClassics
DJ Nitekrawler & DJ Lunch Money

Boogie til' your glass hits the floor!

I have just heard Nitekrawler (who has posted here a few times) do his soul record thing that was pretty great, so this is probably good too.

i was in Wonderland briefly Saturday night but didn't go upstairs to the dancefloor. first time i'd been there on a weekend though i live nearby. crowded.

Busy on the home front so I'm gonna miss all these events today/tonight:

Music from Japan: Ancient Flutes/Modern Percussion 4pm Meyer Auditorium, Freer Gallery, Smithsonian

Dengue Fever (Cambodian garage rock) at Black Cat

Maceo Parker (legendary sax player w/ James Brown)at the State Theatre

Red Stick Ramblers (Louisiana Cajun swing band )at Glen Echo Spanish Ballroom

Old Line Skiffle Combo at the Quarry House

Arabesque ensemble at Georgetown Gaston Hall, 37th & O NW 202-338-1958 (performing music associated with 3 of Egyptian singer Ummm Kulthum’s songwriters on their new cd)recommended also

So the 50 something year-old Chick Hall's Surf Club on Kenilworth Avenue in Hyattsville ended up changing owners, but the new guy is still keeping mostly the same approach so far (yes, too many of the same ol' blooz rock and roots bands, with a couple of good ones and some out of town zydeco acts and stuff)

Friday, February 29 - DJ Mike Toole plays your favorites. FREE ENTRY!

Saturday March 1 - DJ Mike Toole plays your favorites. FREE ENTRY!

Friday, March 7 - Dueling Divas of the Blues, Mary Shaver and Marianna Preveti and the Smokin' Polecats

Saturday, March 8 - Yamomanem w/ Elikeh Afro Beat Band (A charity event w/ table set up for FLY, an after school program for 'at risk' kids in Berry Farms SE, DC. Please come out and support this cause!)

Friday, March 14 - JP McDermott & Western Bop

Saturday, March 15 - Mike Westcott's Blues On Board. CD Release Tour.

Friday, March 21 - Tommy Lepson

Friday, March 28 - The Grandsons

Saturday, March 29 - Tom Principato

Saturday, April 5 - The Nighthawks

Saturday, May 10 - Acme Blues Company

Saturday, May 17 - Leroy Thomas & The Zydeco Road Runners

Friday, May 23 - Curley Taylor and Zydeco Trouble

Saturday, May 30 - Guitar Shorty

Wonderland is crazy fun, but definitely packed. You all should come if you get the chance. I'm there every third Saturday of the Month.

Here's my schedule for March:

Thurs. 03/03 is Bionic @ Bourbon (2321 18th St., NW Washington DC), Funk-Soul-CarribeanGrooves-Disco-Afrobeat, 10-close, DJ Nitekrawler

Thurs. 03/13 is HEAT @ Saint Ex (1847 14th Street, NW Washington DC), Funk-Soul-CarribeanGrooves-Disco-Afrobeat, 10-close, DJ Nitekrawler

Sat. 03/15 is Breakin' Glass @ Wonderland (1101 Kenyon St. NW Washington DC), Party Jams, 10-close, DJ Nitekrawler & DJ Lunch Money

Sat. 03/22 Nite's at @ Marvin (2007 14th St. NW Washington DC), Funk-Soul-Disco-Afrobeat-Breaks, 10-close, DJ Nitekrawler

If any of you can make it to the Bourbon thing tonight, please introduce yourself. It's relatively new so I'm building a crowd.

Also, I wanted to mention a couple of interesting things that have happened as of late. I was nominated for a WAMMY award under the DJ category, and DC Magazine (Modern Luxury) featured me in their February issue. If you see any more round town, check it out. They don't mention my DJ name so look for the story on Kevin Coombe, page 128. It's partically about my DJing but mostly about my local soul music research. Thanks guys!

How's the soul research coming?

I never did find out where soul singer Eddie Daye may have moved. Another local soul singer, Eddie Jones, is keeping a low profile these days. He often plays regularly in clubs that never advertise in local papers and don't have websites. I need to find the time and make some calls. Yep, everything is not on the internets.

Changing genres,

Are Fake Accents still happening? No gigs listed on the myspace site.

I'd rather check out Jim Bennett & Lady Mary's chitlin-circuit soul out at The Decoy Lounge, 7401 Surratts Road, Clinton, MD than go to one of those upscale K St bottle service joints that keep getting written about...

Or Hardway Connection's old-school soul Fri. March 14th at the Elks Lodge in Temple Hills, Maryland

Was just reading a Sunday NY Times article on DC bloggers (mostly political ones who all live in "Flophouse," a group home on Florida Avenue near U St). There's a photo of Mathew Yglesias (political blogger), Kriston Capps (art), and Spencer Ackerman (politics) all on their laptops on the couch in their living room, wearing nearly identical glasses! I see that Catherine Andrews, the Washingtonian online blogger who I've criticized in the past for only posting whitebread indie stuff on the Washingtonian blog, used to live in the house. I commented a time or 2 on that blog, and what do you know, she actually mentioned the Missy Elliot show at Ibizia and the Marvin club this week on the Washingtonian site(first time I've looked at it in months).

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/fashion/09bloghouse.html?ref=style

Big G from the Backyard Band and the Wire tv show is having a Wire Grand Finale party tonight at the Eyebar with lots of invited guests:
"The entire cast of the Wire and the entire go-go community"

Are Fake Accents still happening? No gigs listed on the myspace site

still happening! weve mixed album #2, and we're getting ready to master. weve got a show at cake shop on may 15, and we'll def have a DC show around then. zack just moved, and weve been playing a lot, writing a bunch of new stuff. stay tunedddd

sounds good

How's the soul research coming?

Coming well, so much to do!

http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/misc-awesome/georgetown-goes-indie/

This overpriced 'indie rock' event in Georgetown can't be for real, can it? Funny stuff

"There were no lines of communication for an intimate, intelligent dialogue between artisans and DC working professionals."

lol

That whole paragraph that line is from is hilarious--

DC INDIE Music strives to promote local DC independent musicians and other artists by providing them with the exposure necessary to launch themselves to the next level. They provide a salon style atmosphere with live music, fine art exhibitions, and fashion shows featuring DC’s local artisans. Their mission is to provide lines of communication between DC’s power elite and DC’s creative visionaries. DC INDIE was created by founder Danielle Gentges. She realized that several local promoters would use local artists without giving them proper publicity and with little care for their personal welfare. Secondly, she realized that DC’s power elite were searching for a richer environment than the local night club to while away there evening hours. There were no lines of communication for an intimate, intelligent dialogue between artisans and DC working professionals. It is DC INDIE Music’s intention to build a platform, where both social groups can mingle and expand perceptions of the world around them. Our artists should be celebrated, encouraged, and offered patronage.

45 to $60 plus dress code...

independence tempered with banality = georgetown in a nutshell, maybe.

http://www.washingtonlife.com/issues/may-2007/bachelors-and-spinsters/

http://www.washingtonlife.com/issues/may-2007/bachelors-and-spinsters/images/bachlelors-and-spinsters04.jpg

"D.C.'s power elite takes a night off to slum it with the yokels"

This is the final weekend that Orpheus Records in Arlington will be open, I've read

is the g'town one still there?

No. He moved from Georgetown to Arlington a while back.

By the way, Seth Troxler is DJing at Be Bar tomorrow night. Should be fun!

i am seeing dubfire at some club tomorrow? friends (eastern europeans) really dig him, it's not something i'd seek out myself, but then, maybe i'm being unnecessarily snobbish? i dunno, never really listened to a deep dish set. what's kind of interesting is his bio says he's a local boy and namechecks, like, minor threat.

"Growing up in the Washington, DC area, Dubfire spent much of his youth playing the guitar in school bands and listening to heavy doses of classic Hip-Hop, jazz/rare groove, dub reggae new wave and industrial. Dubfire was also influenced by the local punk scene and the music of hometown bands like Fugazi and Minor Threat. Members of these bands also worked at a local record store called Yesterday And Today Records and this is where Dubfire first picked up on the sounds of acts such as Kraftwerk, Ministry, Jesus & Mary Chain Depeche Mode, Nitzer Ebb, Adrian Sherwood/On-U Sound and Einsturzende Neubauten."

i never really got into deep dish but dubfire solo is pretty good minimal. i'd be more worried about the club it's in (ibiza lol)

just hoping it's a richer environment than the local night club to while away are evening hours

got an extra ticket to the mountain goats, thought i'd offer it here first. $20 (what i paid with tm fees and all). email lolomgwtf at gmail dot com. at 4:00 i take it to craigslist.

whew check out that ILX privilege

ha i didnt think anyone would even read this by now. i'm putting it on cl but am going out for a couple hours so i guess if anyone wants it, email and say ilx and i'll give it to you over the rabble

Ah, very nice.

i take it dubfire was dudfire?

actually i was pretty happy with him. i don't often hear dance music on a club system so banging mnml techno all night was enough to please me; maybe if i listened to the set on headphones i'd be bored. even ibiza was not so bad. the dancefloor was moving, i never felt bad vibes, and i found a good bartender. good light show, too.

has anyone heard of these guys? http://www.eightyeightdc.com
i was out at a bar and So Weit Wie Noch Nie comes on. turns out music is coming from the bartender's laptop. i express my surprise, we talk, and she says that they throw good dance parties.

I think Brian (aka 'I Died') wrote favorable way upthread about the events the eightyeight DC people used to do at a club in Silver Spring. But they're no longer at that club. I don't know where they are now.

They now do Pulse at Be Bar, probably my favorite monthly event around here.

ITEM!

J0hn Darni3ll3 seen dancing at BLISS at the Black Cat last Saturday!

ITEM!

superstar DJ Arm1n Van Bur3n seen having dinner at Proof last night!

so W i l l, Dubfire actually plated pretty minimal at Ibiza? I would have expected a more prog direction from him there. How was the crowd response?

I am really getting to the point where I value a good soundsystem above all else in a club, even above good music.

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So John D., after performing with his band upstairs, headed downstairs to the back room and danced? Interesting.

So when Eric Hilton (of Thievery and owner of several clubs) talks at the monthly Modernist Society meeting at Bourbon Thursday will he be asked about the 18th Street Lounge's door policies?

I am really getting to the point where I value a good soundsystem above all else in a club, even above good music.

DAR Constitution Hall awaits

Also I just explained to a suburban maryland resident the in-joke significance of zendik's catchphrase. have I violated a code?

(x-post to Steve)

If someone asks him about them, yes.

The ESL door policy has reached near-mythical status here but I can't think of a time I've gone and been refused entry unless they're close to or at capacity and there's a line. It tends to manifest itself more as a variable cover charge.

It's easy to walk in there in jeans and sneakers with no cover at happy hour.

so W i l l, Dubfire actually plated pretty minimal at Ibiza? I would have expected a more prog direction from him there. How was the crowd response?

it was pretty minimal to my ears. there's lots of footage on youtube. this one seems representative.
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we staked out near the front. everyone up there was into it, and i think that was the case across the floor.