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
Bandwidth's been busy lately with coverage of DC sounds and live sessions too
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 April 2014 15:22 (ten years ago) link
http://funkparade.com/
the parade will include:
- The Ballou High School Marching Band- Batala Percussion Band- Asheru- Hung Tao Choy Mei Lion and Dragon dancers- Yamomanem Jazz- BicycleSPACE riders
and the world’s first FLASH MOP, a spontaneous clean-and-dance civic action squad!
MUSIC FESTIVAL (7-10 PM)Free shows, in a dozen of the neighborhood’s finest venues. The lineup:
U Street Music Hall: Sugar Bear & EU, Nappy Riddem (DJs: Qdup, Fort Knox Five set)Tropicalia: Cheick Hamala Diabate, Backbeat Underground, Joe Keyes “The Late Bloomer” and The Late Bloomer Band (DJs: Fort Knox Five)Solly’s: Flashband Project - Flashband Funk PartyDC9 Nightclub: Elikeh Afropop, Black Masala (DJs: Sol Power All-Stars)Patty Boom Boom: Lucky Dub, Kickoman – OfficialLiv Nightclub DC: Clones of FunkThe Brixton: Aztec Sun, Beyond ModernJojo Restaurant: The Good ThingBusboys and Poets: A Special Edition of Live! From Busboys: Women of FunkTwins Jazz Club: Tony MartucciWork It! Studio by WandaWoman – Funk Dance Party featuring “The Root of Funk” with drum sensation Tiacoh Sadia 7pm – 9pm
And an after-party!
Ben’s Next Door: “THE SOUL OF FUNK” Wes Felton World and Sol Zahran All Star Jam Session After-party. Starting at 10pm
This looks fun. Glad Ballou High is involved, I encouraged the organizers to include them.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
That's this Saturday May 3 with the parade from 5 to 7 and a fair earlier in the day from 1 to 5
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 16:37 (ten years ago) link
the flash mop kind of made me put my head in my hands a little i must say
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
Oh missed that. Uh yeah.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/04/30/casa-fiesta-hosts-its-last-show-tonight/
RIP tiny tiny space with big loud bands
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 1 May 2014 14:24 (ten years ago) link
Too bad
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 May 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
The Ballou High marching band and majorettes are awesome, and as always the Batala drummers are pretty fun too. Saw 'em all Saturday, while eating tacos from Tacos El Chilango
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 May 2014 14:24 (ten years ago) link
http://bandwidth.wamu.org/the-heyday-of-blue-note-records-captured-in-photographs/
This Goethe Institute exhibit has the worst hours-- Mon. to Thurs. 9 to 5, Fri. 9 to 3
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
yeugh
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
They are having some special evening events (6:30 starting time) in association with the exhibit there (and more gigs at the K. Ctr.)--I wonder if there would be time to see the photos sa when they've having a nighttime panel discussion?
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 10 May 2014 16:53 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2014/05/08/how-the-sassiest-boy-in-america-became-the-most-interesting-man-in-rock-and-roll/
Discussed on another thread
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 10 May 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
o lord
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 12 May 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
That was largely my reaction but not most of the others
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 May 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link
idk i like NoU but i find dude p tedious
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 12 May 2014 15:41 (ten years ago) link
thought it was a really good interview - spiv's got some good thoughts but they're usually so buried by character that's it's nice to see a straightforward discussion
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Monday, 12 May 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
Saturday at 3:30 at the Gala Hispanic Theatre is the DC premiere of "Looking For Johnny, The Legend of Johnny Thunders!" Directed by Danny Garcia ("The Rise & Fall of The Clash") who will be present for post-film Q&A3:30-5:30pm, Saturday, May 17thGala Theatre, 3333 14th Street NW(1 1/2 blocks from Columbia Heights metro) "Looking For Johnny" is the definitive documentary on New York legendary guitar player Johnny Thunders. In 90 minutes, this film covers Johnny Thunders' career from his beginning in the early 70's with the proto-punk New York Dolls, his troubles with drugs and alcohol to his demise in New Orleans, where he died under mysterious circumstances in 1991.
Admission is $5-10, sliding scale
The show will help support the work of The Gala Theatre as well as Samaritan Inns, a local non-profit combating addiction and homelessness, while rebuilding lives.
Sponsored by Positive Force DC
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 May 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
Just quoting the press release there. There was a previous Thunders doc that is now unavailable, and I 've seen neither, so it could be better.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 May 2014 18:01 (ten years ago) link
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same day as my sister's wedding in texas
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 17 May 2014 03:34 (ten years ago) link
I saw Thunders play in my neighborhood about a month before he died
almost went to see Titus Andronicus tnite at Black Cat but lol doing that on vacation from Brooklyn
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 17 May 2014 03:40 (ten years ago) link
no fuckin shit you saw thunders
envious
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 17 May 2014 04:19 (ten years ago) link
titus is badass live, recommend when you got the time
http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/05/12/eli_meir_kaplan_photographs_soul_and_funk_musicians_in_washington_d_c_in.html
Have mentioned this guy before. Great photos of great Dc soul musicians.
He took some of his posed shots in the Panorama Room in Anacostia. Years ago I saw a WPFW benefit show there with Ruth Brown singing. An aptly named place, with a great view across the water of the rest of D.C.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 14:38 (ten years ago) link
http://www.examiner.com/article/music-promoters-hit-prince-george-s-county-with-10-million-class-action-lawsuit
Some of this I don't understand. Somehow, big Latin clubs in Prince George's are still open. Maybe it really is aimed solely at go-go.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 May 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link
No Baltimore deathmetal fest for me this weekend, I'm going to this:
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/45804/biker-festival-at-american-legion-post-170-sunday-may-25/
Southern soul Biker Fest
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 May 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
oh sweet
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 23 May 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
hey, does anyone happen to know of a decent semi-secluded campground within an hours drive of DC (toward the Baltimore side)? I know it's probably going to be impossible to find one this late in the day but I thought I'd check.
― go to evangelical agonizing eternal hell (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 May 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link
Have you been to Cunningham falls or Ole Mink Farm in Thurmont, MD.?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 May 2014 17:26 (ten years ago) link
cunningham falls is booked (as are all MD state parks) and ole mink farm only allows 2-day minimum reservations.
this is going to be difficult if not impossible. i just heard about the possibility of an awesome meteor shower late tonight and wanted to get out of the city to watch it.
― go to evangelical agonizing eternal hell (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 May 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
Yep, read about the meteors in the W. Post
With clear skies, sky gazers may see meteor activity late Friday night – at about 10:30 p.m. – according to Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. Astronomers predict the peak will occur from 2 to 4 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time, on Saturday morning, but Cooke believes gazers can catch shooting stars all the way through dawn, when the sunrise washes them out.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 May 2014 18:04 (ten years ago) link
ugh, i've spent 3 hours straight searching, no luck. it's so sad how difficult it is to try to escape light pollution, even when you have access to a car and are willing to go anywhere in the state
― go to evangelical agonizing eternal hell (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 May 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
So between 2 and 2:30 am I looked for meteors but did not see any. Gave up and went to sleep.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 24 May 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/05/24/camelopardalids-meteor-shower-a-bust-but-not-a-surprise/?hpid=z3
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 24 May 2014 15:27 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i watched from the front porch until about 2 am then went to bed, saw nothing. glad i didn't go across the state to try to camp!
― go to evangelical agonizing eternal hell (Karl Malone), Saturday, 24 May 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
The Black Biker Fest was fun. Just about 300 to 400 people there, most of them were not bikers. Just fans of southern soul--Mel Waiters, Ms. Jody and Hardway Connection. I had previously seen a southern soul show at the Showplace Arena in Upper Marlboro that attracted around 4,000. It was advertised on WHUR 96.3 radio, this one was not.I'm sure deathfest and Cass Mccombs were nice too.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 03:41 (ten years ago) link
If you're curious about demographics, me and my fiance and 2 others were the only non-African-American folks there in the audience.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 03:42 (ten years ago) link
Giving nightclubs and go-go and the Distict's ABC board a bad name:
the ABC Board issued an order allowing XII to operate under an expired liquor license while it files a third application for renewal, after the first two were dismissed for XII’s failure to attend required hearings."
http://dcist.com/2014/05/anc_wants_h_street_ne_club_temporar.php
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 May 2014 20:51 (ten years ago) link
District's
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 May 2014 20:52 (ten years ago) link