Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

future times crew @ comet tonight. i'd be there if i weren't gonna be out of town.

also, yeesh, clark sabine (motorcycle wars/statehood/metropolitan/andalusians) died. super lame. motorcycle wars were a good time.

yah that sucks. didn't know him myself but some friends are pretty upset. did not know he was in metropolitan - they were one of the first local bands i ever bought an album by, back in college when i was obsessed with spacemen 3.

do you know the future times people? i don't know much about them but am curious. who else is on their roster besides beautiful swimmers?

yeah they're good dudes. lineupwise so far there's max dunbar (1/2 of beautiful swimmers, also 1/2 of disco city), rhythm based lovers (guy who used to be in a group with the other 1/2 of beautiful swimmers, love his stuff - ilx max blogged one of his songs here, also goes by a million other names), and they've got a 4 group comp coming out soon too.

cool, thanks. i'm going to try to check this out. fuck getting to comet tho - why are all these interesting shows there - is it like a maryland thing?

I think you are in part being rhetorical, but that's where promoter Kalani (gypsy eyes) seems to like to do things or is able to do so I guess. He has filled a void that more centrally located metro-accessible clubs have not. But yea, I was talking to a DC resident without a car who said it was easier to go to Iota in Arlington than up Connecticut Ave to Comet.

yeah for me those trips are comparable and long enough to be discouraging. truth is, i'm spoiled from easy biking to 14th/u corridors. comet would be a nice ride normally but at night in the state i'm usually in when i leave a show - i'll pass

Anyone go to the first Fort Reno show the other night? Read a GOG blog post that said the city had dug up the lawn area so the bands might have to set up and use the back of the stage with people sitting back there. Kinda wanted to give Funk Ark another chance who were just ok when I last heard them(jazzy and afrobeatish sorta)

So much live roots, Latin, Caribbean stuff this weekend--the Carribean carnival parade and related Banneker park concerts and club shows; Baltimore Latino Fest; Smithsonian Folklife Fest with Latin acts and just added show with Beausoleil and Phil Wiggins and Corey Harris; Femi Kuti at 930;Stylistics at Carter Barron

Title Tracks tomorrow night at the Black Cat. Curmudgeon, what do people think of them out there?

Ha, I haven't seen 'em yet myself. City Paper, Dcist.com, and BYT folks seem to like them.

So are you folks going to those BYT hipster pool parties?

nah byt is very lame imo

Are there blogs and sites covering DC sounds--either dance or punk or whatever, that folks who post here like, or do you gather bits of information from various locations including friends and online

the latter for me. in rough order, i consult mailing lists, venue schedules, friends, certain performers' blogs, byt. i find byt's content more or less unreadable but the upcoming events right smack on the front page is handy.

i haven't gone to any of those pool parties - chef spike of the capitol hill burger place has one too on sundays. if i were planning a day at the pool i think i'd bike to the public one on haines point

yeah i pretty much do the same as thing as will

that future times show was good times, btw. still love the intimacy of the dancefloor and the soundsystem is pretty alright, considering. and people dance! i briefly/drunkenly talked to chr1s burn5 and ended up sending him the tiedye remix of dj kaos in the selfish hope of hearing it played out sometime...

http://board.crewcial.org/thread/view/321282/&p=109

lotsa videos on this go-go thread on board.crewcial.org

who are you on bco, i'm pushingit.

Actually I'm not on it (yet). Just discovered it via some other ilm thread.

i just noticed they're doing some capital fringe performances at the warehouse next door -- is that venue back?

Maybe Will or 'I Died' know, not me, although I should. My e-mail address has apparently appeared on a list given out to all alternative theatre types, so I am getting deluged with stuff (shhhh, I have not carefully read most of them).

Speaking of other chatboards/ websites I see that the mostly UK folks on Dissensus do not know anything about go-go beyond the '80s

http://dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=9506

that's still pretty good considering you're hard-pressed to find people in places as close as ny or fl that have heard of go-go at all

Saw the reunited British Walker last night at Winston's in Rockville. They were a DC rock band from 1964 to 1967 who covered Stax and Motown and penned their own Beatles-ish songs. Me and my buddy were theo only folks there under 50, make that 60. Well, Kim Kane isn't 60.

British Walkers

So when is DC gonna open up that fenced-in area of Fort Reno? It works ok now with the stage left being the front, but it's not quite as good sightline-wise.

I'm curious about Timony's band who are there next Thursday with Benjy Ferrae.

I've got a CP/Black Plastic Bag blog post up about seeing Original P (P-Funk vocalists) at Fort Dupont Park in Southeast DC.

Did anyone see Electrik Red (girl group w/ songs by The-Dream) at either Artscape or 14th & Park? I can't find any reviews. Nor of the Clipse at DC Star Saturday night. Everything is on the internet they say, maybe not.

yo steve, good to see you @ future of the left!

have you listened to any of the newer slow bounce go-go? a friend of mine is super into it and played me xib's "booty bounce" last night; sounded pretty epic.

Yep, likewise.

I think I might have that once on the radio (but not sure). I saw it mentioned on that crewcial board thread that I linked to above. So I need to check it out. I am on the Take Me Out to the Go-go E-mail list and get deluged with e-mails about go-go shows (mostly in Maryland). More of the big names than the up and comers.

I didn't see the Clipse at DC Star, but I did make it to My Crew Be Unruly 2 at Paradox in Baltimore last Friday night. Crazy lineup:

THE CLIPSE
DJ CLASS
ULTRA NATE PERFORMING LIVE
SCOTTIE B, SHAWN CAESAR, KING TUTT
NADASTROM
DOO DEW KIDZ ::: DJ BOOMAN, KW GRIFF, JIMMY JONES
TITTSWORTH
DJ AYRES
SUPA DJ BIG L
DJ TAMEIL
DJ SEGA
SAY WUT
EMYND & BO BLIZ
COUSIN COLE
NOUVEAU RICHE ::: GAVIN HOLLAND, NACEY, STEVE STARKS
THE HEAT ::: STEREOFAITH & JONNY BLAZE
CULLEN STALIN
WILL EASTMAN
UNCLE JESSE
ADAM GONZO & MARK BROWN
JAMES NASTY & ANDREW JAYE
MULLYMAN
THE GET EM MAMIS

Wow. Did you stay all night. I'm guessing to fit that many djs in unless they did short sets

can't have gone on for too long, doesn't everything in bmore have to close down by 2:30? the youtube clip or two seemed pretty hot, i miss paradox.

It went from 10pm-5am, with a front room, back room, and patio with DJs. Most people played about 45 mins. Great night!

oops, make that 11pm-5am.

Chris Richards coming back to the Washington Post as pop critic (but with Joe Heim as his editor).

How was Run for Cover at Black Cat?

Richie Unterberger Velvet Underground multimedia show for his book on that band was nice at the Library of Congress Pickford Theatre Monday. around 50 people there. Too bad they rarely show movies there anymore.
I missed Lou Reed at his photo opening at Adamson gallery though last night.

i saw those lou reed photos last week--they are surprisingly pedestrian! maybe that's too harsh. they're just landscapes, nice ones i guess, only really notable for being shot by lou reed though. the mingering mike album covers at another gallery in the same building were much more fun.

run for cover was kind of a slog. i enjoyed watching bands in which i knew people but for the most part the covers just made me want to hear the originals. also, like 4+ hours?

Oh yeah, another Mingering Mike exhibit

Lotsa r'n'b related events Saturday--Eryka Badu, C. Michele, Foreign Exchange and Chuck Brown at M. Post; O'Jays and a bunch of other 70s velour soul acts at Constitution Hall; funky New Orleans hornman Glenn Andrews and band at the Reston free concert series; Rose Royce at Fort Dupont...

Rest in Peace Eddie Daye at age 78. I first saw this longtime DC soul singer perform with his wife Denise in the 1980s at the long-since defunct Gold Room in Northeast DC. Later I saw them perform together numerous times at Gee's 4400 Club in Brentwood, Md., just near the DC line and later at Chuck & Billy's Lounge on Georgia Avenue NW, and PG Community College. He and his wife were always so friendly to everyone (and they always wanted to make sure we, their youngest and uh palest fans, felt comfortable). Brits online may cherish copies of his obscure '60s singles, I will just keep my memories of those fun late nights out seeing that always dapper gentleman sing bluesy soul. Here is a link to my 2002 feature on him:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=23835

While Malitz linked on the W. Post Post-Rock blog to my CP blog post re Eddie Daye, the W. Post obit staff has yet to write anything...

Still nothing on Eddie Daye in the paper of record in this town.

Wale and go-go band UCB all through the MTV awards tonight. Chris Richards profiled UCB in the Post Saturday. Now that he's their music critic he's been writing a bunch.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/11/AR2009091103834.html

was looking for a thread! figured i'd put on the repeat to see some of the crazy performances & saw UCB was on! of course the host didn't actually announce UCB, just wale, but still.. pretty cool to see go-go on the MTV

I gotta check out this go-go 'bounce' thing more. I heard Wale and UCB do a bit of it

Another DC artist got an MTV breakout award--Frank Sirius (aka Scooby, onetime singer with r'n'b/go-go-go band Lissen)

http://www.franksiriusmusic.com/bio.html

Home cleaning up and stuff, I missed the live interview (performance?) thing with Kid Congo(DC resident and former member of the Cramps and Gun Club) at Bourbon. Anybody go? I think the guy who organizes these things is moving to London.

So I get the decider e-mail from the Onion that lists music to see each week. Alas it remains so predictable--6 or so indie-rock shows at yer usual locations and then maybe one non-indie rock show as long as it's at the 930 or Black Cat. No club dance, nothing at the Crossroads or Zanzibar, no Iota or JVs, no Ibiza, no Archie Edward's Barbershop, no Legend.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/goingoutgurus/2009/09/nightlife_agenda_75.html#more

The Going out Gurus weekly list is more varied.

i guess the editor has decided there's profit in focusing on a niche? i've detailed my sources for finding out about shows, and decider's not among them. but my sources are my own version of a niche, and if they could somehow be combined into one publication i might just read that, and someone might well say of it that it remains predictable. i'm definitely not an all-consuming musical polymath, much as i'd like to think i have varied tastes...

The guy who does the Decider thing is just into indie-rock and the publisher is fine with that.

I complimented the Gurus to show that I'm not just negative! I look at the BYT listings that you mentioned, plus geeky me sometimes looks at the ads in the Washington Hispanic, the dcist.com calendars, and various e-mail things I get.

I'm fine with folks who just highlight one niche, as long as they don't hold themselves out as focussing on more than that. From the Onion/decider I expect a more varied list. If someone wants to put out a metal list themselves I wouldn't complain that they're not covering zydeco.