Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

Ex Hex at 11th in the album voting in the Village Voice Music Critics PazznJop Poll

aw, good for them - i love that record

it's been mentioned a bit over in the emo/pop-punk/pizza feelings thread, but the two inch astronaut record is great - total shudder to think vibes, which is a great reference point for dc bands (and bands from elsewhere) in 2014 imo

I heard a Two Inch Astronaut song I liked, but need to hear the whole thing. I dunno, Shudder's prog aspects sometimes scared me off

oh man i got to get on that two inch astronanaut

Sat. 1-17-Max Levine Ensemble, Radiator Hospital, the Rememberables, and Black Sparks - Net Neutrality Benefit at St. Stephens

Sun. 1-18- TroubleFunk and Rare Essence at the Howard Theatre

oh shit i hadn't heard about that benefit thats up my alley as hell

Not sure how they got the word out. Positive Force now has Facebook page that I think anyone can join and I think I saw it there

http://dcist.com/2015/01/review_hemlines_at_rock_and_roll_ho.php#photo-1

This group is at a February St. Stephens benefit show

Howard Theatre was packed Sunday night for Rare Essence & TroubleFunk. Alas, as its a go-go show they did a lengthy security check pat-down beforehand of everyone coming in, with separate female and male lines. Promoter & Howard Theatre (think it was an outside promoter, but not sure) didn't have enough folks working the lines, especially the gals one. Plus the doors opened late. By the time most folks got inside, TroubleFunk had already finished.

separate female and male lines

is this because of the patdowns? Never heard of that before.

they had separate male/female lines at a fillmore show in silver spring recently apparently

no patdowns involved there iirc

Yes because of the patdowns. Women security patting down women, etc.

My wife heard a woman say "most of us here are old and we're not gonna be getting into trouble, why do they have to do this" .

Don't recall such lines at either Chuck Brown tribute show at the Howard that I attended. I think the doors opened earlier at those gigs, and they had more security.

I have seen tweets complaining about go-go promoters who offer "cut lines." Pay a lot extra and they'll let you go right in. No such line at Howard Sunday. Unrelated--promoters did do 1 good thing: All ticketholders at that Trouble & Re Howard U gig got given the new RE 2010 live cd, and a Globe poster style hanging press badge with a code on the back to access a 1979 Rare Essence live show.

Different and older DC related music history can be seen in the showing of Jeff Krulik's "Led Zeppelin Played Here" at the Black Cat tonight (unofficial street team publicity). While its unclear whether Zep did play Wheaton decades ago tonight, you will also footage re Stooges in Falls Church and other such shows

really can't see anyone getting violent at a RE/Trouble Funk show in 2015

Go-go and rap ski trip in February

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1qml7vWHQM&feature=youtu.be#!

Tomorrow at noon Capital Fringe will kick off their "Music in the Library" series with Chain & the Gang, and on Feb. 7th DC Music Download's three year anniversary show will feature Paperhaus, Loud Boyz, Baby Bry Bry and the Apologists, and DJ Ayescold, with proceeds to benefit the DC Punk Archive

Univ. of Md music archives are also putting stuff up online

ayescoooooooooooold

Paperhaus, Loud Boyz, Baby Bry Bry and the Apologists, and DJ Ayescold,

is it just because i live in the neighborhood with most of these people or is there a weird mount pleasant ~scene~ happening

or are they all just getting each other gigs together cause they're bros

Maybe both?

In another hood, wonder if this was at a soca event or something else, as this place has been rented out for non-Caribbean type house and electro club events too

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/18/club-house-northwest-dc-club-shuttered-after-large/

Another benefit gig tonight

Friday: Local bands Alarms & Controls, Laughing Man, Polyon, and Two Inch Astronaut perform at St. Stephen's to raise funds for BlackLivesMatter DMV. Find more details on Facebook. 7 p.m. at 1525 Newton St. NW. $10 suggested donation.

And Bootsy Collins at the Howard...

my housemate put that one together!

Funeral services For Jessie Kittrell SR. owner of the New Vegas Lounge on P. St NW across from Whole Foods
Dr Blues/JET
Tuesday Jan 27th 2015
10-12 public viewing
12:00 noon funeral service
Kellogg Conference Center
800 Florida Ave NE 20002
On the campus of Gallaudet University
Internment Ft Lincoln Cemetery 3401 Bladensburg Rd Brentwood MD 20722

The king of library appearances does another one:

As part of the "Fringe Music in the Library" series, Ian Svenonius presents "ESCAPE-ISM," a narrative performance created using sound effect records, at the Petworth Library. 6 p.m. at 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. Free.

hmmmm

oh boy

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2015/01/30/the-howard-theatre-hosts-its-first-bounce-beat-go-go-show-tomorrow/

talking with members of ABM and AJA Cranknation re the bounce beat and r'n'b matinee at the Howard on Saturday

did not discuss clappa dancing in the piece

http://brightestyoungthings.com/articles/top-25-dmv-artists-to-watch-in-2015.htm

rappers and some rockers mostly

http://dcist.com/2015/01/the_best_dance_clubs_and_nights_in.php

No international other than Tropicalia, no current r'n'b, no Glen Echo

http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/the-untold-history-of-postwar-washingtons-nightlife/

That's an Eddie Dean article (he wrote for the City Paper back in the 90s) about the Quonset Club, a hillbilly turned rock and soul joint from the 40s to the 60s that later became the now closed go-go & r'n'b Legend Nightclub in Temple Hills, MD

lots of good music coming in February and into spring...

Both the Eddie Dean article & my bounce beat one mention strippers. Some things never change I guess

DC folks, on FEb 7th from 6 pm to 2 am there's going to be a weird "audiovisual arts festival" event in Montgomery Co. at the "Pike & Rose" complex. It's free but you have to RSVP online or something? anyway, (self promo alert) Matmos is going to play. So now you know, sort of.

woah thanks, sounds cool.

I'm thinking about going to Joe's Noodle House before it if anyone wants to meet up

http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2015/Pike-Rose-to-Use-Office-Space-to-Host-One-Day-Arts-Festival-Next-Month/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/remembering-innovative-guitarist-bo-diddleys-time-in-washington/2015/01/31/8bad4296-a88c-11e4-a7c2-03d37af98440_story.html

casa ruby benefit at st stephens next friday w/hemlines (!), jail solidarity, crimson waves & stuff

https://www.facebook.com/events/343534385838771/

my lil org gonna be tabling too

Tereu Tereu too

that's Feb. 13th not the 6th btw

http://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2015/02/passings-don-covay-1938-2014.html

Soul singer-songwriter went to school and lived in DC for awhile. The Rolling Stones and many other covered his songs. He was also the uncle of Robert Owens of local group Hardway Connection

Lots of rock benefit shows happening

2-7- *Radio CPR benefit @3:30pm w/ Romantic States, Mattress Financial (mem. Two Inch Astronaut), The Creature People (mem. Pygmy Lush, Big Hush) @ La Casa, 3166 Mt Pleasant St NW;

Paperhaus (album release), Loud Boyz, Baby Bry Bry & the Apologists, and DJ Ayescold @ 9:30 Club (DC Music Download's 3rd Birthday & Benefit for DC Punk Archive - 7 PM show);

2-13- Casa Ruby Homeless Shelter Benefit with Tereu Tereu, Hemlines, Crimson wave, Jail Solidarity, Jack on Fire @ St. Stephen's Church;

i will be at all of those and tabling at the last, ppl should come

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2015/02/12/why-patty-boom-boom-is-closing-and-why-theres-a-silver-lining/

So Eric Thievery Corp & club-owning magnate Hilton is selling Patty Boom Boom (the building) on U Street cuz he can't make money there he says on 99 folks dancing to Irie sounds. He wants to just do it now as a dance night at the 930. Cloak & Dagger, that will take the place of Patty boom Boom is billed as a Gibson-like drinking joint

Oh Clinton Yates weighed in on this too:

When Patty Boom Boom announced that it was closing over the weekend, a very specific feeling came over me. I couldn’t help but get the sense that the very specific brand of entertainment provided there was simply going away. As the most popular U Street outpost for reggae and available late night beef patties, as far as bars/clubs went, it was the most authentic on the strip. Its closing means that the nouveau-urban lounge/speakeasy has officially taken over as the standard style for nightspots along that corridor, not the annoying exception.

But when, two days later, Rhino Bar said they’d be shuttering, a larger realization came over me: The days of the no-frills, regular-folks bars that allow you to dance and have fun are nearly done in D.C. (Somehow, Rumors is still standing.) Everything’s got to be upscale American, or tapas, or whatever. Even though Patty and Rhino had entirely different constituencies and styles, their overall appeal was basically the same.

You knew what you were getting when you walked in. Nothing special. And you could tell neither place was trying to be.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/02/10/rhino-bar-patty-boom-boom-to-close-another-cog-in-wheel-of-d-c-bar-evolution/

I dunno, while all this is kinda true it just means the outliers and the exceptions and the fringes may have to go elsewhere in the region

Did anyone go to that Prava fest w/ Matmos out in Rockville? How was it?

https://www.capitalfringe.org/fringe-music-inthe-library

Wish I coulda gone to today's lunchtime event

And I really wanted to meet Hoos and see the bands at last night's St. Stephen's benefit, but the Stylistics and others at the 70s soul jam at DAR were calling out to me, and I had to hear them hit those falsetto notes.

Next time, really.