https://www.bear-family.com/tribble-t.n.t.-vol.-2-red-hot-boogie.html
Read on FB that he died. There was an awesome 1989 Jay Bruder article on Tribble's role in DC r'n'b history, that I have as a pdf but I can't find it online
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 April 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link
Obit from a DC angle on guitarist who played here, and later moved to Texas
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/music/blog/20856873/revered-dc-guitarist-evan-johns-has-died
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 April 2017 17:40 (seven years ago) link
http://legacy.washingtoncitypaper.com/bestofdc/artsandentertainment/2017/best-ethiopian-guitarist-legend-guests-in-a-small-space
http://legacy.washingtoncitypaper.com/bestofdc/2017
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 April 2017 16:18 (seven years ago) link
Did not see any of Damaged City fest (hardcore punk) but saw a short video clip of fest participants The Marked Men, that looked intriguing. I kinda like Flasher too, who are a bit more post-punk than hardcore
I saw Malian singer Salif Keita and band Sunday; plus jazz singer Cecile Mclorin Salvant on Saturday.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 April 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link
Discovered late last night that Rhizome DC, a small co-op type place that usually just has experimental music (and doesn't have a budget to publicize their calendar that is at least now on a website) is having Ian Nagoski talk tonight about Arabic, Armenian, Turk, and Kurd records released in the US from 1893 to 1950, as a benefit for the International Rescue Committee. Alas, already have other plans
http://www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 April 2017 14:32 (seven years ago) link
bounce beat bands gonna have to play elsewhere because of a few knuckleheads
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/food/article/20857826/its-not-the-last-call-for-uniontown-bar-grill
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 April 2017 14:36 (seven years ago) link
New videos out from Resurrecting Queenz; Reesa Renee; singer of Elikeh
new Spinrilla single out from the Reaction Band
new GoldLink album pays homage to PG and DC lyrically, but I don't think he uses any DC beatmakers or go-go musicians (despite his praise for go-go in interviews)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 April 2017 15:17 (seven years ago) link
x-post--Its security plan also prohibits patrons from wearing white T-shirts, sunglasses, backpacks, flip flops, or hoodies.
The ban on flip flops should solve all their problems, I'm sure.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 April 2017 17:54 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/goldlinks-at-what-cost-documents-a-dc-thats-disappearing-heres-how-the-album-came-together/2017/04/20/517d5778-23a0-11e7-b503-9d616bd5a305_story.html?utm_term=.f229628c401c
Rapper Goldlink has DC rappers and r'n'b singers from multiple generations on his new album. Alas no go-go says me here, but rapper Ciscero in the article contests : I think it represents the DMV well. I think what it really represents is the essence. He didn’t have a go-go song playing throughout to be like “look, this album’s about the city.” He’s got the essence of the people in it, which is really what go-go is. Go-go was just a reflection of the people, and that’s what the album sounds like
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 April 2017 17:14 (seven years ago) link
Jazz and more musician Luke Stewart photo exhibit through April 30th, but I don't see hours for this place listed
http://www.metromicrogallery.com/current-exhibit.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 April 2017 18:05 (seven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/music/blog/20858947/oddisee-on-the-iceberg-dc-and-his-great-aunt-mary
WCP: Your show in D.C. is coming up. Who do you hit up when you’re back in town, and do you still see yourself as part of the scene there?
O: I see family, I ride my bike, I get some injera and I do my rounds, but I’m pretty low-key. I go back for a reset button. But I don’t really feel connected to any scene. NYC and D.C. are doing fantastic jobs of eradicating safe spaces for art and creativity, I don’t know where open mics are in D.C., where MCs—like what I came up doing—freestyle for one another and play demos and beats and learn how to perform.
WCP: But you still see D.C. shows as a homecoming.
O: Yeah, they definitely feel like a homecoming. It’ll be the best show on the tour. D.C. is that place where, without a doubt, every single day, people are like, “Welcome back, welcome home, good to see you.”
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 April 2017 18:10 (seven years ago) link
x-post -- there's a go-go inspired song near the beginning of the Goldlink record but all the music tracks for the album were put together by folks from outside DC I believe
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 18:17 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/howard-theatre-moves-to-terminate-contract-with-operator-as-debts-mount/2017/04/26/2d3038d4-2a00-11e7-a616-d7c8a68c1a66_story.html?utm_term=.c4ae9a0b04cc
Ohhhh, what a sad, complicated mess.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 April 2017 13:50 (seven years ago) link
x-post-Goldlink did record the album in a Falls Church, VA studio with DC engineers and a DC executive producers but Kaytranada (who has worked with Goldlink before) and some of the other music makers for the album are from elsewhere
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 April 2017 13:52 (seven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/music/blog/20859820/rare-essence-backyard-band-come-together-to-crank
Song didn't wow me on first quick listen, but I will give it another chance or 3
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 May 2017 19:31 (seven years ago) link
Well I guess they finally let all the kids and their parents inside for the Jacob Sartorius show at the 930.
(a line was already there when we went to the Guardians of the Galaxy matinee at 1:30 or so. It went around the block while we watched the movie. Now we're at the burger place chilling out. I had no idea who Jacob Sartorius is. I still don't, really.)
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Friday, 5 May 2017 21:37 (seven years ago) link
I am stumped as well
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 7 May 2017 17:32 (seven years ago) link
I assume he was grown in a lab
― “Yeah. Huh, thanks.” (los blue jeans), Sunday, 7 May 2017 20:32 (seven years ago) link
I think so. I decided to google him:
At the age of 8, Jacob started taking acting lessons and began pursuing roles in community theater year-round.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 May 2017 13:48 (seven years ago) link
so many musical bubbles, and we haven't kept in touch with that one
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 May 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
Saw the Messthetics Saturday night at Comet. That's the new instrumental rock band with Fugazi's drummer Brendan Canty and bassist Joe Lally; plus guitarist Anthony Pirog. Some tunes were loud and fast while others were slow soundtrack contemplative ones. Pirog adds a bit of psychedelia to all with his quick finger action and effects pedals.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 May 2017 14:50 (seven years ago) link
Rapper Logic got panned in Pitchfork but his NPR interview this morning was a bit more friendly.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 May 2017 14:51 (seven years ago) link
Fort Reno Demos are accepted until Friday, May 26. Ft. Reno is also still looking for donations
http://www.fortreno.com/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 May 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link
5 years ago today, May 16, 2012, the Godfather of go-go Chuck Brown passed on
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 13:24 (seven years ago) link
Like who knew Gaithersburg rapper Logic was popular enough to have the #1 selling album in the country. Not old me...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 15:57 (seven years ago) link
The neighborhood is changing department-- Love Nightclub, which has been closed for awhile, will become City Winery according to Washington biz journal
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 May 2017 14:13 (seven years ago) link
http://dcmusicdownload.com/2017/05/03/pearl-street-warehouse-hires-former-930-club-booker-lisa-white/
This will be in the Wharf. She was last booking bands at Gypsy Sally's. Hope this will be a clever mix of roots and Americana and not just jam bands and the same ol same ol paleface Americana acts
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 May 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link
Meanwhile was reading on FB some folks grumbling that cutting edge rock and experimental acts all get booked in Baltimore but can't get DC gigs. Allegedly, the booker at RnR Hotel & DC9 isn't interested, and Black Cat's small room gets booked way ahead of time by others.
My fave southern soul acts don't get bookings here, and international rooted local acts seem to only get booked at Bossa. Bounce beat gogo takes place mostly down in Waldorf with a just a few Hyattsville or DC shows. Old-school go-go bands have a few DC and Md clubs (plus Crystal City Hotels) that they work.
Caribbean and Afrobeats/afropop djs seem content to just spin in the Md burbs and never are heard at Flash or U Hall.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 May 2017 15:14 (seven years ago) link
http://www.complex.com/music/2017/05/how-dc-killed-go-go-and-why-goldlink-created-its-memorial
The article is more interesting than its misleading title. But its kinda flawed too.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 May 2017 18:59 (seven years ago) link
Ariana Grande's drummer is DC raised Aaron Spears who is also known for his Pentecostal church gospel drumming.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 14:09 (seven years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2017/05/lord_protect_us_from_gentrification.php
Not really addressed in this article about the St. Elizabeth's arena that DC taxpayers are largely paying for (65 million!), is that other than for Mystics games and Wizards practices, it is likely to sit empty. I just don't see this 4,200 seater competing with the new IMP/930 owned hall Anthem in the Wharf, or with the National Harbor Hall or even DAR or the George Mason Arena or Echostage...
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― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 May 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link
IMP also expanding at MPP in MD--Baltimore City paper article
http://www.citypaper.com/music/music-features/bcp-051717-feature-merriweather-20170516-story.html
Currently, Merriweather is undergoing a five-year, $55 million renovation that includes a new backstage complex, rotating stage, new concessions, a green-tiled band shell called the Chrysalis Amphitheater, and more.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 May 2017 15:10 (seven years ago) link
hmmmm, maybe
Punk Out Phillips after 5
July 6, 2017, 5–8:30 PM
Inspired by Germany’s punk scene, experience all things punk at the Phillips! Enjoy a silent disco featuring punk, David Bowie, and even some classical music.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 June 2017 14:08 (seven years ago) link
$12
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 June 2017 14:09 (seven years ago) link
I need to figure out who's doing that go-go bouncebeat version of Migos "T-shirt"
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 June 2017 16:25 (seven years ago) link
It gets played on WKYS 9:30 pm to 9:50 pm Mon. to Thurs. night go-go crank session
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 June 2017 16:26 (seven years ago) link
Why did Broccoli Fest folks book '90s cover band White Ford Bronco for this weekend's Smile Fest thang at RFK?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 June 2017 15:31 (seven years ago) link
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/go-go-music-wants-go-mainstream-can/
Article wonders whether go-go bands will start touring the south. I don't think they will (maybe a few gigs here and there, but bandmembers have dayjobs and family here and are not likely to want to hop in a van for any extensive gigging without promise of sufficient payday)
Meanwhile just saw on Instagram that Rare Essence recorded a Tiny Desk gig Friday for NPR radio
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 June 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link
http://www.mtv.com/news/3019154/go-go-forever/
Another history of go-go article but with cool old videos
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 June 2017 03:22 (seven years ago) link
http://www.thefader.com/2017/05/05/mary-timony-helium-dc-rock-guide
Mary Timony's guide to DC rock bands
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 June 2017 03:28 (seven years ago) link
Now I gotta figure out who's doing that bounce beat cover of Bruno Mars I heard on WKYS. Guess I gotta call the station. ....
Yep, the new mural at Ben's Chili Bowl ain't bad, but it turns Chuck Brown into a left-handed guitarist.
Oh, the Chuck Brown Band is playing for free at the Smithsonian Folklife Fest at 5:30pm Fri. June 30th
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 18:33 (seven years ago) link
So Brendan Canty has another band-- Penguin, in which he plays bass, Devin Ocampo is on guitar and there's a drummer whose name I forget
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 June 2017 14:30 (seven years ago) link
Schedule is up. Shows from July 6 to the end of the month. Mondays and Thursdays. Way back when, Fort Reno used to do June and August gigs as well , but Amanda says the gigs are more meaningful if schedule is kept to just July.
TK Echo is a new band with Chris Richards, Aaron Leitko, an Orthrelm member and an Eat At It member
No Dead Monsters is hardcore band
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 June 2017 14:46 (seven years ago) link
Fort Dupont didn't start till July 30th last year. It also started in June in years past. No 2017 schedule yet. Carter Barron is closed till they raise money to rebuild the stage. Will be years.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 June 2017 14:48 (seven years ago) link
That is a sadness. Will try to cart kiddos out to Fort Reno - for anything - just because.
― space chipmunk (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 30 June 2017 16:20 (seven years ago) link
If they have any Fort Dupont gigs you should consider carting the kiddos there too (if its convenient transportation-wise, music-interest-wise, etc.). Although I don't think I ever took my kid when he was young there. Just to Carter Barron and Fort Reno.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 July 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link
I have still never been to mostly experimental music hang Rhizome or formerly secret late night techno party at various locations Roam, or Latin music club Rio Cantina in Sterling, VA. I wanna go to Rhizome sometime (when it's less experimental) and Rio Cantina though. Techno's not my thing.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 July 2017 15:26 (seven years ago) link
National Gallery of Art is honoring Canada's 150th anniversary with its film program July 1st through 8th, so that means on the afternoon of the 4th of July they are showing a 1965 doc on Leonard Cohen!
July 4 at 1:00 East Building Auditorium
Four classic shorts from the National Film Board of Canada begin with Norman McLaren’s legendary animation Begone Dull Care (1949, 8 minutes) and his famous pixilation Neighbours (1952, 8 minutes). Next is City of Gold (Colin Low and Wolf Koenig, 1957, 22 minutes), a groundbreaking compilation of archival and contemporary photography depicting author Pierre Berton’s childhood in Dawson City and his father’s involvement in the Klondike Gold Rush. Finally, Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Mr. Leonard Cohen — the first documentary portrait of the famous poet and songwriter, released two years before his first album — captures Cohen’s imagination and candor during live performance and casual interaction (Don Owen and Donald Brittain, 1965, 44 minutes). (Total running time 82 minutes)
https://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/calendar/film-programs/canada/cohen.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, July 3, 2017 6:31 PM (0
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 July 2017 18:32 (seven years ago) link
Hip-hop photo exhibit http://dcist.com/2017/07/global_hiphop_connections.php?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20DCist%20Daily%20Pence%20Casts%20Tie-Breaking%20Vote%20To%20Confirm%20Betsy%20DeVos%20As%20Secretary%20of%20Education&utm_content=Daily%20DCist%20Daily%20Pence%20Casts%20Tie-Breaking%20Vote%20To%20Confirm%20Betsy%20DeVos%20As%20Secretary%20of%20Education+CID_a045e18b0417e34335a78ab19eaa5238&utm_source=CM&utm_term=Magee%20McIlvaines%20Photos%20Capture%20The%20Universal%20Language%20Of%20Hip-Hop
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 22:59 (seven years ago) link
For those near Rouse land
[/I]Clyde’s Restaurant Group will look to build on the success it's had with downtown D.C. music venue The Hamilton with a second live entertainment outlet, this one in Columbia.
The restaurant group is transforming its Tomato Palace restaurant in downtown Columbia into a yet-to-be-named venue and restaurant, according to Clyde’s President Tom Meyer. The transformation will begin immediately; Tomato Palace served its last plate of pasta Tuesday.[I] http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2017/07/05/clyde-s-to-open-another-hamilton-esque-music.html
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 July 2017 14:52 (seven years ago) link