The show runs online at the dctv website the same time as it airs on the public access channel
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 April 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/bestofdc/poll/artsandentertainment/2015/best-local-original-band
Readers pick: Dan Wolff & the Muddy Crows
Readers say: "Talented, engaging, and good looking to boot!"
Never heard of 'em
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 April 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
the City Paper best of reader picks are just social media lobbying contests at this point
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Thursday, 9 April 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
I know that (there are ads I have seen saying vote for us in City Paper readers poll), just observing that I had never noticed this band's name in club listings and at the moment, can't be bothered to go see if they have a website that lists where they play or who they are.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 April 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link
Most people have probably never heard of my critic pick public access show item for the best of issue either.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 April 2015 18:34 (nine years ago) link
http://gp1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/802892/production_public/Artist/1451020/image/1420240654_TheMuddyCrows-12.jpg
If their wardrobe is any indication it's probably better that we haven't heard them.
― skip, Friday, 10 April 2015 00:32 (nine years ago) link
DC's Mumford & Sons it appears.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 11 April 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link
http://www.arlnow.com/2015/04/10/can-a-tech-startup-save-artisphere/
We'll have to wait and see
I'm out of touch. Barely recognized any of the names of bands who were at that Damaged City hardcore thang at St Stephens and elsewhere.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 April 2015 13:11 (nine years ago) link
And the ones I do know, I keep waiting to see if they will eventually get more crossover attention , but it never seems to happen
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 April 2015 13:13 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2015/04/16/go-going-the-distance-how-go-go-is-finding-its-place-in-the-digital-age/
Natalie Hopkinson, go-go book author talking with Nico of go-go radio live. Some interesting stuff.
No mention of Go-go Radio Live's competitor for online attention--Take Me Out to the Go-go or of WKYS Mon to Thurs 9:30pm to 9:55 pm or so go-go programming
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 April 2015 18:28 (nine years ago) link
Finally saw Priests live tonight. Lived up to the hype.
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Friday, 17 April 2015 06:46 (nine years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2015/04/clara_barton_sessions.php
Description of this project sounds interesting
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 April 2015 14:29 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2015/04/17/michelle-blackwell-looks-back-on-15-years-as-go-gos-leading-lady/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 April 2015 14:30 (nine years ago) link
one more thing from CP
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2015/04/20/record-your-own-music-and-eat-a-sandwich-at-songbyrd-record-cafe-now-open-in-adams-morgan/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 April 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
Gonna see Little Margie from old-school dc soulful girlgroup the Jewels tonight from 6 to 9 pm at Westminster Church in SW DC. Then might see reunited '60s psych rock band Godz at Galaxy Hut later
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 April 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
i think an ilxor wrote this about a band my friend is in:http: noisey.vice.com/blog/beauty-pill-describes-things-as-they-are-interview-profile-2015
― Heez, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 02:54 (nine years ago) link
They have 3 Artisphere gigs coming up --Thursday through Saturday nights.
Unreleated:
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/sports/did-the-nationals-dump-chuck-brown.php
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 03:46 (nine years ago) link
When a band gets stamped with the label “DIY,” that usually means it’s got independently released music on Bandcamp and a string of house shows under its belt. In other words, DIY could describe a lot of bands that are just starting out. “It seems like a useless word to me because if you’re doing a band, aren’t you already doing it yourself?” says D.C. punk vocalist Katie Alice Greer, 26. “It’s a word that has totally lost its meaning, except that it’s a marketing term. It’s marketable to people.”
http://bandwidth.wamu.org/even-after-its-10th-release-d-c-punk-label-sister-polygon-is-still-stoked/
versus
Live, it’s clear that the North Country is a product of D.C.’s DIY scene; the band mixes up styles and tempos on the fly, radiating the explosive enthusiasm that’s become a pillar of house shows at spots like Paperhaus and Bathtub Republic, the band’s home base.
guy is talking about a dc folk-rock band in this dc alt-weekly article
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 April 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link
National Park Service is forcing the Smithsonian Folklife Fest to be drastically cut back, as has been previously discussed. While the NPS is installing expensive, special grass on the mall with underground irrigation, this year's Folklife Fest will just have one theme, Peru, and take place near the Museum of the American Indian. There will be only 1 stage, and performances will only take place in the evenings, with no daily shows (gotta protect that grass ).
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 April 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link
so the gf has been in dc for a contract, staying at some woman's airbnb but the woman is kinda terrible and we're looking to have her relocate
anyone know of any good places to live for exactly 2 months?
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 15:33 (nine years ago) link
Maybe Hoos does?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 April 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link
Oh, the Folklife Fest will have daily shows, they just will be on a small stage in an area near the Museum of the American Indian, but not on the main part of the mall.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 April 2015 00:35 (nine years ago) link
― iatee, Tuesday, April 28, 2015 3:33 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i can ask around a few of the places i can think of but be forewarned its mostly hippie houses
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 30 April 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link
After the Funk parade, DC's Eastern High and Brooklyn's Royal Knights marching bands and dancers engaged in a drumline/dancers/horn players battle of the bands on 12th st just above U St.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7sFXSlPspI
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 3 May 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kUZeZxahg8 check out the vieo at the 2 min 47 sec part till near the end. I also saw Junkyard Band earlier, and later soulman Lee Fields before a tiny crowd at the Howard
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 3 May 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link
RIP Derek House Colquitt, bassist of the Junkyard Band who just died Sunday afternoon in a motorcycle accident
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 May 2015 04:29 (nine years ago) link
thx hoos..we actually ended up finding a place in foggy bottom
dc is cool I like dc
― iatee, Monday, 4 May 2015 14:29 (nine years ago) link
are you around much? we should kick it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 4 May 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
An obit with quotes from family and friends
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/junkyard-band-loses-bassist-derek-colquitt-in-motorcycle-crash/2015/05/04/465564f0-f272-11e4-b2f3-af5479e6bbdd_story.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 12:32 (nine years ago) link
yep I'll be around on random weekends for the next two months, I'll hit you up the next time
― iatee, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 13:59 (nine years ago) link
It's go-go drummers and percussionists sitting in week:
Tonight at little Bossa in Adams Morgan, veteran go-go great JuJu House will be playing with Sitali, a kind of middle-eastern folk group. Wonder if he will throw in any go-go rhythms?
On Sunday night at 8 at the Kennedy Center there's a Miles Davis & go-go tribute with NY-based, DC raised jazz pianist (and former gogo keyboardist with Northeast Groovers) Marc Cary adding go-go percussionist Go-Go Mickey and trap drummer Kenny Kwick Gross to his jazz lineup that will be doing Miles Davis songs that Ricky Wellman(who wasa member of Chuck Brown & Miles' bands) had played on.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 May 2015 13:46 (nine years ago) link
don't quite agree with all this, just some of it. I think there's still plenty to do in town without attending the dj events he is dissing (some of which might even be more fun than some local musician events). Also, over the years some have dealt with high city rents, by gasp! living in cheaper burb locales-- go-go musicians, garage rockers, Fugazi members, rappers....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2015/05/08/where-the-wild-things-arent-olivia-neutron-john-crash-lands-in-washington/
excerpt:
How about music scenes? Can they be rewilded? A scene is a cultural ecosystem of sorts — and Washington’s could certainly use some help. Surging rents have exiled too many inventive artists to Baltimore, Brooklyn and beyond. And who’s taking their place? Hordes of young professionals who, speaking broadly, do not appear to be all that interesting or interested. And so our nightlife becomes cluttered with nostalgic ’90s dance parties, tongue-in-cheek tribute bands and uninspired DJs who practice their dark arts with the charisma of a shuffling iPod.
This makes Anna Nasty a wolf. After leaving Arizona in 2013 for a solo tour, the enigmatic 20-something finally landed in Washington last spring as the bassist of two separate punk groups: Neonates and Chain and the Gang. But performing solo as Olivia Neutron-John, Nasty makes music that’s especially fraught, frightening and fantastic.
Somehow, it almost felt like a party. And in a way, it was. When an artist with this much poise, edge and imagination decides to take up residence in the busy-busy blandness of This Town, their arrival should be widely noted and wildly celebrated. Now run for your life.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 May 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link
http://www.forwarddc.com/schedule.html
some interesting stuff as part of this;
and in June a PR Company is sponsoring a fest that is well curated by folks who do not work for that PR firm:
http://ourcityfilmfestival.com/eventstickets/4589113265
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 May 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
But I do get the complaint from a member of Priests that she has to spend more time working a dayjob to pay her (higher) rent, which cuts into practice and gigs time for the band
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 May 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
PeterBug Fest Saturday near Eastern market (E ST SE) with old-school soul and gospel
Hardway Connection is at 2:00 doing a tribute to Don Covay. The Velons at 5:30ish. Awards at 6pm
Baby Washington, Halo, Orioles and others also supposedly performing
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 May 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
Forward Fest going on this week has djs near the mall (Constitution gardens)Saturday too
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 May 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
http://bandwidth.wamu.org/after-10-years-d-c-punk-book-banned-in-d-c-is-coming-back-into-print/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 May 2015 14:03 (nine years ago) link
sweet
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 15 May 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
http://bandwidth.wamu.org/the-story-of-kato-hammond-the-d-c-go-go-scenes-best-news-source/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 May 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link
First Jessica Hopper the other week, now tonight another music critic reading. Banning Eyre will be reading from his book on Zimbabwe's Thomas Mapfumo tonight at the Busboys and Poets in Brookland at 6:30. Eyre is also a guitarist, so he might play some too. Eyre works for afropop.org and previously wrote a book on Malian music.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
14 people there. I enjoyed it. Powerpoint, book reading and guitar playing with an effects pedal.
I think there were even less at a book reading I went to years ago for author Robert Gordon's "I t Came from Memphis" about music from that town and recorded there. He showed awesome video footage of the Cramps with Alex Chilton and other cool stuff for like 8 people.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 03:58 (nine years ago) link
I wanted to go to that Jessica Hopper one but it was over by the time I finished work ;_;
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 06:05 (nine years ago) link
Actually I missed it too.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 12:19 (nine years ago) link
My wife saw Phillip Glass' book reading. NPR's Bob Boilen hosted that one at Sidwell, which got lots of advance press. Bob made a home-made bagel for Glass, as he knew from the book that Glass grew up eating bagels every weekend in Baltimore. They talked about music too.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 14:21 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5M02zuIbbI
Anthony Pirog's surf band the El reys are playing for free from noon to one at the MLK Library in DC
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
on Friday http://pqliving.com/capital-fringe-music-in-the-mlk-library-on-may-22-at-noon/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link
More on Kato Hammond, go-go history, and tmott-go-go
written by Alona Wartofsky who used to write about go-go for the Post and Washington City Paper years agohttp://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2015/05/21/kato-hammond-go-gos-de-facto-historian-remembers-his-roots-and-go-gos-too/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 May 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
Going to the Black Cat (for the first time) to see Death (the awesome proto-punk band from Detroit of A Band Called Death documentary fame) because the band's Philly date was cancelled and my wife adores the band.
It's not all bad: Never been to the venue and Obnox is supporting who I love (and whose drummer Bim I know from when we lived in Columbus, Ohio).
The plan is to get into DC around 4ish tomorrow. Hit the record stores close to the venue (Smash, Crooked Beat, Red Onion and Som Recprds are all walking distance from what I can ascertain), have dinner, catch the show.
Questions:
1) Parking - Should I hit a lot if I plan on having my car in that area from 4 until the show ends? Will I be feeding meters? Is street parking generally shitty there?2) Dinner - We could just eat at the Black Cat - is their food good? Or is there something around there that you locals would recommend? We're omnivores who will eat anything.3) Anyone wanna come out? I always like meeting ILXors.
My email address works if anyone wants to reach out for a hang or to just say hi at the show.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 19:20 (nine years ago) link
1) you're best off just finding a lot so you don't have to worry about the car. The area around there doesn't have parking for that long of a period for non-residents.2) I'd eat elsewhere.
Have fun!
― skip, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 19:54 (nine years ago) link