Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

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

Jawbox was nice on Jimmy Fallon the other night.

I wish DC old-school soul combo Eddie Jones & the Young Bucks would go back to playing clubs and not just doing weddings and industry functions.

a friend just found out she is interviewing wale this afternoon and is looking for questions, if anyone has any i'll pass them along

Wale seems like an interesting interview; "outspoken" seems to be his schtick. How did it go?

What are the top tracks being played nonstop on WPGC these days?

Wale's getting some PGC airtime; otherwise PGC like KYS is playing the tracks highlighted in the Rolling R''n'b and rap threads--Lil Wayne, Gucci, Trey Songz, etc

That's what I figured, though I thought I've read Wale complaining that he DOESN'T get played in D.C. Has his album kind of tanked?

yeah it hasn't done well and wpgc tends to rotate about 9 or 10 really popular songs over and over.* i swear i've heard him interviewed on that station more than i've heard them play one of his actual songs.

*they do have more specialized shows like go-go and i think a slow jam style one that stray more from the popular stuff.

he bailed last minute, his manager says it'll still happen sometime

The W. Post is changing their music blog. Now they're gonna call it Click Tracks and add postings from Sarah Godfrey and New Yorker Alison Stewart to the ones from Chris Richards and David Malitz. They will be running their concert reviews there as well I guess. A little bird informed me that for financial reasons they will be running even less concert reviews than they did in 2009 (which was less than they ran in 2008 when yours truly and others were still on their list of freelance concert reviewers).

Wish I could go see this:

Tonight in DC a film about Irish musicians engaging with North Malian culture, "Dambe: the Mali Project" will be showing at the Goethe Institute as part of the Capital Irish Film Festival. In 2006, Irish musicians Liam o’Maonlaí (from the Hothouse Flowers) and Paddy Keenan went to Mali and to the The Festival in the Desert. Malian musicians Afel Bocoum, Toumani Diabaté, and the now deceased Ali Farka Toure are in the movie.

Dambe: the Mali Project Wednesday December 16 at 7:30 pm at the Goethe Institute, 812 7th street NW

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=38231

RIP Arlington punk houses

Marx cafe, Jimmy valentines, Scream reunion and more this weekend

But what will be cancelled cuz of the snow...?

The shows went on, or some of them at least.

What will 2010 bring DC? "I Died" & company's new club soon? Reappearance of my fave obscure DC soul singers? Happening local rock band shows?