Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

Dante Carfagna has never DJed in DC, so let's give him a good welcome. This is a DO NOT MISS if you're into funk/soul of the dance floor variety!

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Oops, here's the flyer for the above show:

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lol at "dj shadow's digging partner"

haha, well he is. Here's more info on him:

“Dante Carfagna has made his name as one of the world’s greatest authorities on rare grooves. Hailed as a funk archaeologist, Carfagna is currently co-writing a book on the history of funk and soul with renound DJ & Producer Josh Davis, aka DJ Shadow, a partner and friend with whom he’s toured the nation. He blew minds with his DJ sets at Brainfreeze (with Shadow and Cut Chemist of Jurassic 5), and then later during the Product Placement tour. A major contributor to & editor for record collector bible Wax Poetics Magazine, he also runs Memphix records, a respected label that issues 45s (each restricted to a release of 500 copies) as well as compilations such as 2003’s acclaimed ‘Chains + Black Exhaust’ CD. Memphix is also home to Express Rising, Dante’s beautifully produced instrumental lp which has gained a large cult following since it’s release in 2003.”

That's tonight.

Another thing happening this weekend is an obscure rock movie that Zack of Face A. and I saw at the LOC and mentioned way upthread, now it's back at the AFI this weekend--

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS Rarely seen anywhere, but finally to be released on DVD in September, this 1981 punk satire has a reputation as an intriguing disaster. A teenage Diane Lane plays a small-town Pennsylvanian who's inspired by the Looters (Ray Winstone backed by ex-Pistols Paul Cook and Steve Jones and the Clash's Paul Simonon) and starts her own band, the all-female Stains. Laura Dern had to sue to be emancipated from her mother, Diane Ladd, to appear in the film, which was directed by music producer and Ode label boss Lou Adler and co-written by Jonathan Demme and Nancy Dowd. (Also July 12) 11:15 pm, American Film Institute Silver Theater, 8633 Colesville Rd

From Mark Jenkins' writeup on his movie blog reeldc.com

Also-Shelter dj at Gallery, hiphop ones at Black Cat, Alejandro E. and/or Brazilian Girls at 930, and reggae at the Anne Arundel county Fairgrounds...A busy summer weekend

The next Moneytown night is this Friday (8-1)!

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Keep missing the crate-digger djs Nitekrawler's been bringing to town (plus the soul vets who've been performing at Fort Dupont for free). Shame on me, but the beach was fun, and other less fun real life stuff gets in the way sometimes.

Smallest crowd I've seen in years at the 930 Club last night for the Pee Wee Ellis, Fred Wesley and African (Cheikh Lo & Vieux Farka Toure) show. Outside promoters MN8 did not get the word out to jambanders, old-school funk and soul heads, the Senegalese & Malian embassies, African restaurants, etc. 930 Club Weekend section and City Paper ads are not always enough.

I think I'm gonna miss the nice Ben's Chili Bowl 50th anniversary free show taking place there right now. Boring stuff to do. Oh well.

pink reason is supposed to be playing a house show with drunkdriver (album forthcoming on parts unknown) in DC on 9/6, and its NOT at 611 FL! anyone have any idea???

ok looks like its in riverside. cool!

Where? myspace site just says DC on the 6th and at WMUC on the 7th

i think i meant riverDALE btw - its at some punk house? my gf found the address. lets see... comb through the gchats...

6107 43rd st. thats it.

Memories of hardcore, Roy Buchanan, Insect Surfers and more...

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/bad-dog-cafe/106157-what-story-dc-70s.html

Let's hear from people that remember the El Corols with Little Wimpy Johnson and the El Corolettes. What a show they would put on. For those that missed out on the DC -
Baltimore soul music/R&B scene in the late 60's, this was a great local funk band with a 5 piece horn section and four singers up front.

Carl Craig (!) at Loda in Silver Spring tomorrow

How wuz he?

Meanwhile in the rock scene, I missed the Points cd release party. I understand they're now a 4-piece, and that they only got a small crowd. This can be a tough town to get a following, and maybe the Points(antagonistic seeming garage/Stooges/punk types but actually nice folks don't play the game or the biz well enough).

The last time I can remember that Carl Craig played here was one of the late 90's Ultraworld parties at the armory - he did a live performance as Paperclip People. Him and three mannequins in lab coats behind keyboards, good stuff.

Oh, Craig is tonight. I misread the date. Oops.

Will Nightclub Five ever be able to reopen?

There was a "Business of Go-go" panel on Wednesday at the DC Historical Society. Naturally, the event was not well publicized.

Moderated by Dr. Kip Lornell, the panel includes: Moe Shorter, former
manager for Junk Yard Band; John Mercer, entertainment lawyer and former
manager for EU; Michelle Blackwell, vocalist for What? Band; Malachai
Johns, creator of Mambo Sauce Band and owner of Red C Records; Kato
Hammond, owner of Take Me Out to the Go-Go, Inc. (Funding for this
program is provided by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
The program will be filmed and aired on DCTV.)

Nor this

Move and groove with some of D.C.’s most renowned go-go bands with special guest host Rane from
WPGC 95.5 FM. (Gallery Place/China Town Metro Station)
City Center Lot (Former Convention Center site) (9th & H Streets, NW)

Op Tribe • Mambo Sauce • CCB • Backyard Band • Chuck Brown

That's today, Saturday, at 5

Washington City Paper's owners Creative Loafing (who bought the Paper last year?) are declaring bankruptcy. Oy.

BAILOUT

"Living the Hiplife" (Ghanaian
> > music movie doc) at 2 p.m.Saturday today for free at the > Smithsonian Museum of
> > African Art >

Highlife plus hiphop

It was good, plus the director was there. About 30 people there--The Smithsonian Museum of African Art promotes African music events as poorly or worse than other local establishments (no reach-out to embassies, Simba records, African restaurants, online sites, etc.). But I hate seeing movies in that basement room there anyway--the screen isn't big enough and the chairs are lined up in such a way that it was hard to read the ocassional subtitles. Still it was fun and informative.

This could be fun

So, roughly six years ago this night of indie/jangle pop got started, and one Alex Hacker and one Damien Taylor, both of local band (The) Sounds of Kaleidoscope fame, were to blame. Herr Hacker has DC indie roots going back to the heady early '90s, what with his drumming in the Ropers and bass moonlighting for the Lily's, both of course Slumberland bands. So yeah, it's been ages, and he's returning with a promise to revel in the music of his youth. Come here the influences written all over his smile.

As for the Pinstriped Rebel and myself, nothing fancy, just a quick thanks and invite to the normal. As always, our monthly Streaming Piss mix shows you what we're on about. To listen, you go here: http://dcsoundclash.com and then click on Taking the Piss 10.24 at the top. Had to toss in the classic old Ropers, of course.

Ok then, this Friday it is. Hope to see you there. Bring us cake.


WHERE: Marx Cafe, 3203 Mt. Pleasant St, NW
WHEN: Friday, Oct 24, 2008, from 10 pm to 3 am

NO COVER

Poor City Paper. I worked there for a time in the 90s. Lots of fun, but it wasn't sustainable.

The economics of traditional publishing are simply brutal.

fuck a city paper

Creative Loafing that bought the DC City Paper and the Chicago Reader last year over-extended themselves. Publishing in this day and age is tough, but Loafing's attempts at reducing costs have been outweighed by their other expenditures and their other foolish editorial and journalistic decisions.

what happened at dc city paper

bankruptcy.

sort of. it is going to continue publishing, and from what i understand the WCP itself is actually profitable. but creative loafing, as curmudgeon said, over-extended and whatnot.

Lol @

16. “Hipsters” who viewed the service journalism as a sellout to corporate America tended to leave their expressions of disapproval on the Web sites of other publications, thus denying City Paper the Web-page views (“pageviews”) that are the currency of the new media landscape.

http://www.expressnightout.com/ Is this getting more web traffic?

or byt or this:

http://dcist.com/arts_and_events/2008/10/

U Street is rocking tonight. And so is 16th & Pennsylvania Avenue!

Obama coming, Mountain Goats tomorrow, I'm almost happy to live in this town.

almost

Go ahead and tell us what you don't like about this town. I'll leave the complaining about the DC government and the feds to others; on a nit-picky music front I wish we had promoters bringing to town better-publicized and coordinated events with either African, electronic club dj, Latin, and roots soul performers.

This town may be too pricey rent-wise and house-buying wise but we have this impressive event coming up this week and other fun stuff--

STOP SMILING DC ISSUE RELEASE PARTY: NOV. 13th

You are cordially invited to celebrate the release of STOP SMILING's DC Issue at Civilian Art Projects with guests George Pelecanos and Anwan Glover from the ground-breaking HBO series "The Wire" and DC DJs Ian Svenonious and Kevin Coombe.

Cover stories on George Pelecanos and Anwan Glover, serve as centerpieces of a long look into the heart of our nation's capital. The issue eschews the political machine that the world associates with the city and instead focuses on the rich history and indigenous culture of the District of Columbia and its residents.

Our DJs for the night will be Ian Svenonious, who fronted legendary bands Nation of Ulysses and the Make-Up, along with Kevin Coombe, proprietor of DC Soul Recordings, the most comprehensive online resource for soul and funk from the capital city. The party's two guests of honor will be none other than the issue's cover story subjects: Anwan Glover, critically acclaimed actor from The Wire and member of DC go-go legends The Backyard Band, and DC crime writer, as well as a writer and producer of The Wire, George Pelecanos.

STOP SMILING's DC Issue Release Party

Thursday, November 13, 7 - 10pm

Civilian Art Projects - 406 7th St, NW, Washington DC

There will be a recommended $5 donation at the door.

Every guest will receive a copy of the new issue with the donation.

R.I.P. Lawrence P. Wheatley, jazzman

Ambassador Theater Psychedelic memories

The roundtable talk and video thing salsa dance instructor Eileen Torres arranged with Cuban violinist Alfredo De La Fe Saturday night at the Juste Lounge in Bethesda was great. 15 folks sitting around listening to De La Fe talk about old Cuban musicians, his time playing with Eddie Palmieri, Celia Cruz and others, and other stuff.

THE DC ISSUE
ISSUE #37 EXCLUSIVES:

INTERVIEWS

Harper's Washington Editor KEN SILVERSTEIN
Author and blogger ANA MARIE COX
Former Alaska senator MIKE GRAVEL
Poet and NEA Chairman DANA GIOIA
DC native and activist FRANK RICH SR.
New York Times journalist DEXTER FILKINS
Author and journalist THOMAS FRANK
Political satirist CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

ESSAYS

ALEX COX on The Manchurian Candidate and Seven Days in May
JONATHAN ROSENBAUM on paranoid DC cinema
MICHAEL GONZALES on Akashic Books
J. ROBBINS on Inner Ear Studio's Don Zientara
NATHANIEL RICH on Dashiell Hammett

FOOD

Capital City Soul
The Ethiopian Experience

PHOTO ESSAYS

DAN WINTERS
PAT GRAHAM

RECORD

STOP SMILING presents BACKYARD BAND BOOTLEGS, a collection of live tracks from the extensive career of the classic DC go-go group, the Backyard Band

& MUCH MORE

From WAMA:

Chick Hall Sr.

On Tuesday, November 18, 2008, Chick Hall Sr. passed away. He was a musician of enormous talent and a humble man.

Chick Hall Sr. was a country-jazz guitar virtuoso who made Armed Forces Radio records with Glenn Miller. Around 1953, he began playing with his own band, the Chick Hall Trio. After playing for a few years at the Surf Club, on Bladensburg Road in Colmar Manor, Chick decided that he'd like to make the club his musical home, and so he bought the place in 1955 and began playing there 6 nights a week.

The Surf Club transitioned from Jazz to Country Music, and many of the country greats visited, including Jim Reeves and Lefty Frizzell. Patsy Cline sang her heart out at the Surf Club. Jimmy Dean, Roy Clark, Charlie Daniels, dropped by to jam. It was around this time that the Colmar Manor/Cottage City area was in it's heyday, with numerous clubs such as the Crossroads, Rusty Cabins (which turned into Burt Motley's), the Dixie Pig, Angelo's, the Wheel, and Basin Street, mostly all offering live music 7 days a week. There was always a party going on.

Things change gradually. Chick got married early on and had two sons - Chick, Jr. and Chris. In 1975, a developer made a good offer on the Surf Club, so Chick sold the club property, and built another one up the street at 4711 Kenilworth Ave (at the corner of Kenilworth Ave and Crittendon Street), He is survived by his wife of 67 or so years, and his kids Chick and Chris.

That should say Birk Motley's Sirloin Room, a very unique place on Bladensburg Road that may now be gone but was once a joint where I saw the late Birk Motley stand on head and play the trumpet. PG County rules.

stand on his head

Go ahead and tell us what you don't like about this town. I'll leave the complaining about the DC government and the feds to others

Except for the weather, my complaints can be traced back to those two things, mostly the latter--so the problem is with me; I should live someplace else. But massive fed presence confers recession resistance so I'm probably not going anywhere for a couple years.

RIP Chick Hall. I had fun at his place a couple times last autumn when it was still supposedly closing.

I see. As an Arlington resident and longtime federal govt. employee I don't have too much to say about those items.

The Setting reggae and dancehall club is shut down while Dan Deacon plays to thousands at a museum. Class and socio-ecomics always has to screw things up. That's life.