God, that's awful. I only got to see The Points once, with Title Tracks at U Hall a couple of years ago, but that guy was a monster drummer. Just these effortless machine gun blasts that elevated an already pretty great band to next level. That album is a flat-out unsung high point of garage rock.
Since it's not on YouTube... this jam: https://myspace.com/thepoints/music/song/feeling-sorry-29010828-28913175
R.I.P.
― Walter Galt, Friday, 17 January 2014 10:12 (ten years ago) link
I think I saw on Facebook that someone is setting up a fund to help his family--wife, and one year-old son
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
http://wamu.org/programs/metro_connection/14/01/17/after_nearly_80_years_maryland_polka_hall_prepares_for_last_dance
excerpt from the article:
The Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore owns the land on which Blob's sits, and last month, Max got the news that the Archdiocese has decided to develop the property.
"On the first of December, they sent a messenger out from the law office with a short notice that I had 120 days to vacate the place, they were taking it over," he says.
That means Blob's will close for good on March 30.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
There's a Buddy Holly tribute gig at Blob's, in Jessup, MD on February 1st
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link
Loved The Points, was lucky enough to see them a bunch and even play a couple of shows with them over the years. Travis was a really good guy, very sad about this. Here is a link to the fund for his family:
https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/fgGY8?psid=a4b8dfa137e840019fd7d3ee2dfc7ad2
― grandavis, Friday, 17 January 2014 15:47 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/01/17/trouble-funk-premieres-new-hump-day-video/
Big Tony on their just ok recent song & new video, the new makeup of his band, and Taylor Swift. Really.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 January 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
Travis made great music and also ran a great label, Windian. He was also a great guy - hung out with him a bunch of times until late at night/early in the morning when he was working door at the Gibson. Super passionate and funny but with a huge amount of dedication and focus to the way he ran his label and made music.
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Friday, 17 January 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/african-princes-of-comedyft-cheif-obi-foxy-p-kanmi-and-kaponefeb-14-tickets-9553690345
Nigerian and diaspora comics at Rio in Laurel, Md. This club sometimes hosts Haitian music gigs as well
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/01/23/alexandros-alexi-petersen-gentleman-scholar-and-punk-rocker/
Another DCer gone too soon
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 January 2014 23:03 (ten years ago) link
fuck
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 24 January 2014 05:46 (ten years ago) link
Sat. feb. 8th at Comet Ping Pong-- not my thing, but this type of happening might be yours
Pat Noecker (aka RAFT and formerly of Liars and These Are Powers) brings his patented ASSEMBLE series to DC at Comet Ping Pong. Noecker and several other musicians will perform his ensemble piece "Transmissions, Long Tones in A and E", in which the artists, through various sound sources, will collectively sustain the note of A for 30 minutes and the note of E for 30 minutes in an hour long piece that boils up into a haunting, transcendent and cacophonous sonic meditation. The event promises to be an immersive one, with guests encouraged to wander around the space, each feeling a unique aural experience.
The DC Ensemble includes Amanda Kleinman, Deena OH, Doug Kallmeyer, Elise Pierre, Erick Jackson, Jasmine Chehrazi, Marian McLaughlin, Milena Aradski, Norm Veenstra, Ted Zook, and The Grey A.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 February 2014 20:22 (ten years ago) link
drugs
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 3 February 2014 20:51 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/film/2014/02/11/eli-janney-drafted-for-seth-meyers-late-night-band/
I wish Eli's brother Eddie would play in a band again. He was in the Faith, Rites of Spring & Happy Go Licky
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
local punkers down at the pinch tonight
The Sniffs, Crumms, and a couple of touring gangs starting at 9
i'll be there
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 15 February 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnZimVtbboU
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 16 February 2014 04:38 (ten years ago) link
broken record department-- I looked at the list of Wammies winners from Sunday. While some nominations and even winners make sense, there remain so many omissions. No go-go bouncebeat bands, no metal, no Future Times or Cricket Cemetary label nominations, no bluesy soul folks like Jim Bennett or Hardway Connection...And I'm sure there are more problems with other genres
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/45473/remembering-the-palladium-at-atlas-performing-arts-center-saturday-feb/
Local folks pay tribute to old-school NYC mambo dancehall
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 20 February 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
local punkers down at the pinch tonightThe Sniffs, Crumms, and a couple of touring gangs starting at 9i'll be there
how was it? we played there saturday night, i like that spot.
― natlawdp, Thursday, 20 February 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
crumms were playing their first show and kept having tech problems
*riff* *crackle*"hang on, i just blew out my amp"
songs were great tho. high energy garagey stuff.
sniffs were predictably rad.
pleasantly surprised to find the pinch becoming my favorite venue to walk to.
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 20 February 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/02/26/mambo-sauces-black-boo-on-creativity-and-sustainability-in-go-go-music/
I hold go-go responsible as much as I hold [Prince George’s] county responsible.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link
FYI-http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/02/27/remembering-paul-hawkins-pioneering-d-c-percussionist-bandleader-and-dancer/
An excerpt:
A life-long D.C. resident, Hawkins was involved in the D.C. music scene from the 1950s—when he was winning dance contests at Turner’s Arena—through decades of drumming with Latin dance music and jazz ensembles into this century. In the early 1960s he became the first African-American dance instructor at Arthur Murray Dance Studios. Although Hawkins never released an album as a leader, he played congas on Ramsey Lewis' Ramsey Lewis at the Bohemian Caverns, sat in live locally with Dizzy Gillespie and Tito Puente, and played countless gigs with his own bands. He regularly played for school audiences and in D.C.'s summer in the parks series.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 February 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
So if you guys are into Leverage Models they're playing at my house this Saturday for a fundraiser.
https://www.facebook.com/events/664615793595251/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming
Should be a helluva show.
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 27 February 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
Did it live up to your expectations? Did your house survive?
TONIGHT: Ex Hex (10:15), TEEN (9:15), Foul Swoops (8:30). Doors 8PM. SOLD OUT
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link
house survived & i had a fuckin blast--plus we made about 10% of our development costs to fix up the house for our purchase, so as a fundraiser it was a huge success as well.
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
Excellent.
Finally saw the Swoops do their garage-punk with howled vocals thing. Pretty fun, mostly. Teens were bland synth-pop w/ guitar. Ex-Hex are going for a 70s glam meets Runaways rawk sound. Mostly fun too. Timony and company looked like they were enjoying themselves. A 70s Nick Gilder cover as one of the encores...
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:11 (ten years ago) link
DMV bands have till March 31 to submit demos to Amanda for consideration for Fort Reno
http://www.fortreno.com/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 8 March 2014 02:40 (ten years ago) link
Old-school longtime DC resident and James Brown style singer Little Royal is at Westminster Church in SW tonight from 6 to 9. Post-stroke, but he's still entertaining.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 March 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
buncha bedroomy black metal bands at DC9 tonight, including me homie Bastet
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 10 March 2014 17:40 (ten years ago) link
Cool. I've gotta couple friends playing that show
― Heez, Monday, 10 March 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
http://bandwidth.wamu.org/for-some-d-c-bands-sxsw-isnt-worth-the-trip/
Bandwidth sometimes does more than just re-post NPR Music webpage stories
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:41 (ten years ago) link
http://bandwidth.wamu.org/watch-sunwolf-live-at-wamu/
and they have Brendan Canty interviewing Sunwolf.
Some day Bandwidth might even have a posting on DC music that's not rock, as well.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
http://bandwidth.wamu.org/a-brief-introduction-to-d-c-s-garage-rock-scene/
But they're stepping up on rock
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
Was listening to some bounce-beat go-go on WkYS last night. In the print and website media bouncebeat is so under the radar these days. I'm not that crazy about it, but am intrigued how its holding on, and wondering whether any such group will have a commercial breakthrough.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 16:14 (ten years ago) link
aw man it's been TEN YEARS since the last Black Eyes show
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/03/26/listen-to-black-eyes-final-show/
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 18:30 (ten years ago) link
Bandwidth has had a post or 2 on DC rap and edm now, yay.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 29 March 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2014/04/07/want-to-run-your-own-nightclub-love-is-going-on-the-auction-block/
Lots of debt to pay off.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 April 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
in other is the club open news:
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/top-shelf/2014/04/ibiza-nightclub-shut-down.html
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 April 2014 14:10 (ten years ago) link
it took TEN MONTHS for the city to realize one of the biggest clubs in DC was operating w/o a business license? Amazing even by DCRA standards.
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Friday, 11 April 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
HA.
Meanwhile, the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration method for granting tavern and restaurant liquor licenses in Georgetown seems like something out of the 1980s, with folks camping out to be first in line.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2014/04/09/people-camp-out-for-days-to-snag-a-georgetown-liquor-license/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 April 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
Tereu Tereu @ The Beehive Saturday night. Want to see them but am off to Baltimore tonight for an Os game.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 12 April 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
Plus Hoo's thang today
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 12 April 2014 15:45 (ten years ago) link
it went great!
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 14 April 2014 04:06 (ten years ago) link
I'm in town what's good tonight? Fun place to get dinner? Drinks? Any good music?
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Saturday, 19 April 2014 18:04 (ten years ago) link
ya know, there's nothing on my radar in terms of music tonight. i bet contendo has ideas?
what part of town are you in?
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 19 April 2014 18:33 (ten years ago) link
Wound up going to Dukem for ethiopian (which was ok but maybe not up to the hype) and then a wine bar around the corner that was fun. U Street is ridiculously different than I remember it, granted that the last time I was there was over 8 years ago and most of my memories are from like 18 years ago.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Sunday, 20 April 2014 02:59 (ten years ago) link
I think the best Ethiopian is in the 'burbs now. Saturday was kinda of a slow night for music unless you wanted to see metal band Pentagram at AU or the reunited Blackbyrds out in Bethesda.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 April 2014 03:22 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/04/23/new-d-c-record-label-could-put-a-weird-slant-on-dance-music/
CP's Marcus Moore re new label
yesterday, new D.C. label 1432 R dropped its first single ever, "Yarada Lij," a majestic instrumental song from Mikael Seifu. Seifu is a relative unknown who creates so-called "Ethiopian electronic" music, which combines Ethiopian folk and British garage, according to an email. It's an anything-goes number that aligns with the focus of 1432 R, which takes its name from the now-defunct Subterranean A punk house (1432 R St. NW was its address). "The music is so out there," says Sami Yenigun, one of the label's founders. "The goal is to just have a platform and have the artists' music drive the vision."
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
more attention for a certain place and its residents:
well you can find it at dcmusicdownload.com .
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 April 2014 14:03 (ten years ago) link
*googles furiously*
http://dcmusicdownload.com/2014/04/23/lamont-street-collective-inside-d-c-s-affordable-abode-for-the-diy-community/
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 24 April 2014 14:44 (ten years ago) link
Very nice.
oh and x-post-- the fader is also giving love to new DC dance label 1432 R and its Mikael Seifu release
http://www.thefader.com/2014/04/22/stream-mikael-seifu-yarada-lij/
more miscellaneous stuff:
Sunday night was the 17th annual DC reggae awards
Longtime tiny bar JVs in Falls Church is gonna expand next door
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 April 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link