Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

Saw photos on someone's twitter feed of long line down U street to get into UHall to hear new Daft Punk on vinyl. Eh, I just listened to it on Spotify. I know-- inferior sound and all that.

I was out on the town Monday seeing 3 go-go vets with the Burnt Sugar Arkestra and poet/photographer Thomas Sayers Ellis at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. The crowd consisted of a mix of tourists checking out the building and Burnt Sugar & go-go fans. I had feared the music would be too avante with bleating horns, but that was not the case. Go-go congas and Indian tabla and more sounded fresh and lively.

I still need to listen to the archived tape of Alec Mackaye & Lucian Perkins on WAMU with Kojo.

jesus, I thought we'd get maybe 50 people for the Daft Punk listening party at U Hall and we got 800. Crazy.

rad

Is anyone here going to the Cocksucker Blues screening/lecture at the National Gallery tomorrow without going to the preceding Ornette Coleman documentary?

― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Friday, May 24, 2013 10:28 PM (Yester

This was posted over on ILE Brad Pitt DC thread, but am re-posting here. These are showing today, Saturday at the National Gallery at 2 (Ornette) and 4 (Stones)

I missed the movies, Blank Realm & Foul Swoops and Total Control on separate nights at Black Cat playing fast n loud; the return of The-Dream (with Kelly Rowland this time); and El Gran Combo's old-school salsa, and more, but I did see Lil Margie from 60s DC soul/girl group the Jewels at Westminster Church in SW last night. A great voice and charismatic and cute.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2013/05/29/hey-come-to-our-show-at-the-smithsonian-american-art-museum-on-friday/

2 indie bands and a rapper, for free

http://soul51.com/

Guy takes photos of old-school DC soul singers

Folklore Society of Greater Washington Folk Festival this weekend at Glen Echo Park.

I went to Gator Day instead. WPFW Dj Gator's bill of local blues and southern soul plus Mississippi southern soul singer Ms. Jody and dj Larry Robinson, down at Lamont's in Pomonky, Md off of Indian Head Highway, a little ways south of Wilson Bridge & National harbor

A few folks there were linedancing like this to Larry Robinson playing "the Wobble"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFdeskwbhAM

Lots happening this month:

New Zealand's Bats on Wednesday plus

6-6-Hot 8 Brass at 6th & I
6-7- Alexander Abreu with his Havana D'Primera big band vs Barbaro Fines & Mayimbe at the Palace, Woodbridge, VA (Cuban Timba, salsa)
6-13-Susanna Baca at the Howard Theatre (Afro-Peruvian)
6-18-Amadou & Mariam w/ Bombino at 930 Club (Mali & Niger)
6-28-5th Annual Flags Till Morning DC Carnival Featuring Bunji Garlin, Kerwin Dubois, Lyrikal at 12am w/ DJs The Dream Team DJ majestic & Dj Stephen at the Hampton Conference Center, Capital Heights, MD (soca and more)

Muscle Shoals doc at AFI fest; plus various UHall events; Smithsonian Folklife fest and more

http://dcreggaeawards.com/

This was on Sunday the 2nd. This one guy seems to do this nicely every year. He's up to his 16th one. It seems better than the Wammies, albeit he is just covering one genre.

iceage, kylesa & torche all in town within the next few weeks

kylesa

sweet thanks

I keep wanting to see Iceage and then I read another blogpost somewhere attacking them as racist skinheads and I get torn. I have read lots pro and con on those young Danish guys

all 3 at rnr hotel btw

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2013/06/05/black-cat-turns-20-with-shudder-to-think-ted-leo-mary-timony-and-others/

Gray Matter!

tuscadero n shudder to think in one show omg

Back in May I saw on Saturday Night Live J. Mascis and Kim Gordon backing Fred Armisen in a performance skit. But how did I not notice (till I saw recent photo someone posted on FB) that Mascis was wearing a Void t-shirt. Awesome.

Sequester took its toll on Fort Dupont and Carter barron summer schedules. Here's what they are offering for their abbreviated summer skeds

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2013/06/20/fort-dupont-and-carter-barron-announce-summer-lineups/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2013/06/27/the-evens-will-play-fort-reno-on-july-8/

Hmmmm, is all I can say re Amanda's explanation for the late start to the series this summer and the deletion of the Fort Reno Facebook page and Twitter account. I guess she and her family will put up flyers. Nah, she is gonna keep the webpage and update it soon.

July 8: The Evens

July 11: Feed the Bird, Typefighter, Blockhead

July 15: Thundermilk, The Obsessives, Joy Buttons

July 18: Bearshark, Washington Bach Consort

July 22: The Mauls, Southern Problems

July 25: Capital Ghost, The Buzz

July 29: Humblefire, The Accidentals, Priests

Aug. 1: Nervous Impulse, Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Sniffs

Aug. 5: Sunwolf, Mary Christ

Aug. 8: Quivered, Paint Branch

That's the Fort Reno sked so far

oh shit aug 1

how many more years until the Fort Reno schedule isn't announced until after Labor Day

they're on punk time, ok

Someday it will just be one show on Labor Day Weekend featuring Ian's kid and Alec Mackaye's kids

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2013/07/02/mayor-announces-slate-of-vanilla-shows-at-lincoln-theatre/

hahaha, i totally figured this would happen when they got the space.

My guess is that they'll branch out as they specifically start booking artists for the space, but that post-announcement they just shifted some shows they would have put other places (9:30, Strathmore) to Lincoln. Booking a handful of shows from scratch within a couple days of the announcement would be crazy difficult.

Various other factors too--The Fillmore gets some rap acts because its a Live Nation building and they may be doing gigs for such artists nationwide; the Howard Theatre's New York booking people deal with certain acts; and IMP has African-American acts at its other locations but not as many. It still looks bad appearance-wise imho, unless you want to pretend that this is just the new DC and the existing community and the historic roots of the building don't matter.

I gotta get one of the Southern soul/chitlin circuit promoters to start bringing up more acts to DC and have them contact IMP or the Howard or whomever. Lamont's does not have the $ to do many shows down there.

It still looks bad appearance-wise imho, unless you want to pretend that this is just the new DC and the existing community and the historic roots of the building don't matter.

exactly, i understand timing n bookings etc but if you're going to sell it all with "historic lincoln theater" this and "cultural" that so hard throughout the press releases, respect it at least a little up front? if the situation had been just like "the city has given up, imp has bought the space and are renaming it the 9:32" or something with the same line-up it'd probably be less offensive.

Les Rhinocéros

haven't heard these DCers yet but I am curious (although I think math-rock klezmer may not be my thing). They're at the Black Cat Backstage tonight

i wanna see wire @ black cat

Do you think the show will sell out?

i would think if it was it would have already happened but who knows

also (black) flag is @ baltimore soundstage in september

exactly, i understand timing n bookings etc but if you're going to sell it all with "historic lincoln theater" this and "cultural" that so hard throughout the press releases, respect it at least a little up front? if the situation had been just like "the city has given up, imp has bought the space and are renaming it the 9:32" or something with the same line-up it'd probably be less offensive.

yeah if I were them I'd just have held off a while on announcing anything until a more complete lineup was available - I don't think anybody was really expecting/asking for announcements this soon

Speaking of vanilla, the soundtrack to the DC fireworks on the mall yesterday featured Lumineers, U2, Elvis, pop country, and the 1812 Overture. Not a single African-American artist that I recall. I remember when Ray Charles version of America the Beautiful got lots of play on the 4th (and when I later got home, I saw on tv the Chicago fireworks where Brother Ray was heard). NYC's turned into an infomercial for Usher for the most part--lots of Usher songs, plus Sam Cooke "A Change is Gonna Come" and Blake Shelton & Miranda Lambert's kinda mediocre take on "America the Beautiful."

I like indie too and speaking of which-- anyone wanna buy 2 floor/pit tickets for Friday July 12 Belle & Sebastian/Yo La Tengo at Merriweather Post? Can't make it now. I will eat service charges if you will buy.

So no opening acts for the Evens at Fort Reno tonight?

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2013/07/17/will-the-caribbean-carnival-ever-return-to-d-c/

More CP plugging-- this time re Fort Reno tonight: Bach Consort includes Amy Domingues

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2013/07/18/whats-the-washington-bach-consort-doing-at-fort-reno/

Bach Consort is managed by Marc Eisenberg who has done those panels/salons at the Shaw Library on DC Space; bluegrass; Duke Ellington and others

Y'all bought your $28 Minor Threat t-shirts, right?

UHall folks are gonna hang out with the Orioles mascot at Merriweather this weekend. I'm jealous

haha xp

But seriously, interesting that anyone can make and sell Fugazi t-shirts it appears (or is Ian going after those "bootleggers" too), but not Minor Threat ones, or at least with Cynthia's black sheep design. Not that I have a problem with the folks involved making $

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2013/08/08/with-crossroads-closed-where-will-dc-caribbean-scene-settle/

Got a complaint saying that the sold in 2005 Settings nightclub on University Blvd was better and never had any problems at all. I know that I always had trouble finding out about Settings gigs unless I happened to be out in Md at the Red Apple Market or the since-closed West Indian Record Mart and found a flyer