Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

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.

yeah i wasn't trying to say you're too negative, i was just thinking through how my own filters could look from another perspective.

going.com and flowinsiders.com and kesta happenings all offer 3 more different perspectives. For some folks tonight's big show is the ArcAngel reggaeton gig at Ibiza rather than the Yo La Tengo show while for others there's that old-school hiphop living room dj thing.

nice little write up in the post about the sonic circuits festival and dc's experimental music scene:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/17/AR2009091701264.html

unfortunately i'm going out of town and will miss every bit of it. :(:(

Jandek and Faust. Impressive.

The Washington City Paper has gotten rid of the "Black Plastic Bag" name for its music blog. Well, actually there's just an "Arts Desk" blog now that includes music, theatre, books, etc.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/goingoutgurus/2009/09/dcs_top_djs_to_headline_their.html

^ this is what's up

woah awesome! congrats, can't wait to see it. great idea & location.

Congrats to you as well.

Police in riot gear stood guard near the protesters, who banged on drums and chanted "Ain't no power like the power of the people, 'cause the power of the people don't stop."

Pittsburgh G-20 protestors transform go-go's "Ain't no party like an RE party cuz an RE party don't stop..."

Ethiopian Appreciation Day at Nationals Park with Mahmoud Ahmed performing at a special banquet event in the late afternoon before the baseball game tonight. This sounds awesome.

Friday, Oct. 2
Moneytown at Dahlak
The October edition of the (free) monthly soul-and-funk fest should be even more fun than usual, thanks to guest DJs from other great D.C. nights like Fatback and Brazilian Rhythms.-GoGs writeup

I mentioned this over on the ILE DC thread, and Kevin/DJ Nitekrawler sometimes plugs this here. Will, I may be going as well.

cool

I missed Moneytown and now I'm gonna miss the 2nd anniversary of DJ Neville Chamberlain's Brazil thing on Thursday at St. Ex. Oh well. I did see the awesome Youssou N'Dour movie doc at the Avalon last night. It's only there through Thursday I think.

Moneytown was great fun, much more crowded than the last time I went (which was many months ago), but a good, friendly, dancey crowded.

Saturday 10/24, 2:00pm – 4:00pm, doors at 1:00pm, Renaissance Washington Hotel

Join us for an afternoon taping of Jesse Thorn’s nationally-syndicated Sound of Young America radio program at the Renaissance Washington (999 Ninth Street NW)- Jesse will be interviewing dc legend Ian Mckaye

Huh? Just noticed this after the fact on BYT. Old guy me has never heard of this radio program.

No more Muse Lounge ads in the CP and I seem to have been dropped from some e-mail lists, so are there still minimal techno and whatever djs coming to town? When is that new "I Died" designed club gonna open?

yup

In case you[re not facebooking:

mnmlife presents:
10/30 - HALLOWEEN EVE: MR C w/JUBILEE
11/6 - CLINIC TAKES THE NIGHT OFF
11/20 - CHRIS FORTIER w/SANATH & Elizabeth C.'s 21st birthday party!! :)
12/4 - IDA ENGBERG w/FISHER
12/18 - JOSH WINK w/JUBILEE

and 88 presents:
Oct. 29th | Dinky
Nov. 5th | Paco Osuna
Nov. 12th | Jeff Milligan

Particularly excited about Dinky, but won't be able to make it thanks to a particularly stressful and insane week of work.

The club I'm a partner in should open late winter.

Finely broke down and got on Facebook a few weeks ago. But thanks

"finally". 88's website has never been very user-friendly

that's true

the post discovers "the (sic) brightest young things"

Moneytown @ Dahlak (1771 U St. NW DC)
10pm-3am
DJ Nitekrawler w/ special guests:
DJ Lunch Money and The Almighty Dollah (DC)
Free

DC's funkiest DJs: Chris Farrall aka Lunch Money and Josh LaRue aka Almighty Dollah join me for this month's edition of Moneytown..........these 2 DJs are seriously my favorite funk and soul DJs out there when it comes to fantastic mixing abilty on top of DEEP DEEP crates. If you like to dance, then you NEED to be here. :)

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a222/blueimage/nov09.jpg

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2009/11/12/jeff-kruliks-eat-drink-and-be-merry-in-1950-60s-dc-panel-friday/

Friday afternoon Jeff Krulik organized DC Historical Society panel on '50s and '60s DC nightlife

derrick carter on saturday courtesy of elm at the trinidad + tobago spot. going down for this.

Cool. Lots of stuff this weekend in multiple genres--Philly soul at Constitution Hall tonight, the Slumberland anniversary show at Black Cat, Chinese postpunk bands at the Velvet Lounge, Texas 2-step act out at Blob's, soul guy at Comet and more

Goodie Mob and Scarface late show at The Scene, 2221 Adams Place, NE
Saturday night also

Teedra Moses back tonight at Liv, and Rakim Sunday at Black Cat I think.

Obscure Motown films at the Library of Congress Pickford Theater tonight. Part of a Monday fall series sponsored by the Library's music division. Weirdly, the Library's film division no longer shows movies there.

Saw the Ballou High School SE DC dance squad and marching band on tv this morning. They were doing a Drake song I think. They're gonna be in the Macy's Day Parade in NY Thursday.

And they were at Lincoln Center at night.

With Wale and other DC rappers getting attention now, I think I'm gonna be contrarian and go back to go-go. The recent KYS Go-go Awards at the Convention Center got very little online or print attention.
the new D.C. Go-Go thread

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a222/blueimage/FlyerSmallDec.jpg