https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/music/blog/20987092/the-year-in-music-2017
Some City Paper writers (but not me) list their fave rap, jazz, avante, metal, punk records by DC musicians in 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2017-was-the-greatest-year-in-dmv-rap-history-these-25-songs-prove-it/2017/12/21/ffeb2a00-e43f-11e7-833f-155031558ff4_story.html?utm_term=.ba69f4e0d197
Chris Richards fave 25 DC rap songs
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 December 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
No new albums of original DC go-go in 2017; no new Hardway Connection dmv southern soul album; and no new Elikeh dmv Afropop album, but these folks kept busy live. Jim Bennett quietly released a southern soul effort and Chopteeth an Afropop one.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 December 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
Saw on Facebook that go-go dj and manager Terrance Coop Cooper has cancelled the Go-go awards mentioned upthread because the online radio station he was working at, Gogo Radio Live gave him some grief about it.
Someone else is doing a go-go panel Monday
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 January 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
DC go-go panel Monday the 8th 6:30 to 8:30 at the R.I.S.E. Demonstration Center, 2730 MLK Ave. SE w/ Big G, Go-go Mickey, Big Tony, Lil Chris (TOB), Natalie Hopkinson, Ron Moten
http://tmottradio.com/band-tour/gogopanel-jan8/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 6 January 2018 04:56 (six years ago) link
Go-go panel is rescheduled for the 15th at 4 pm I think.
What about Friday, Jan 12?
― El Tomboto, Friday, December 15, 2017 8:48 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Works for me.
― I, Fanbrat (j.lu)
possible coffee fap...
I am going to see Jupiter and Okwess, a Congolese band making their first DC appearance from 6 to 7 at Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, but could possibly drop by after
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 05:08 (six years ago) link
I can't do tomorrow anyway, too behind at work.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 12 January 2018 04:24 (six years ago) link
Another time. I’m gonna still try to head over to Kennedy Center for free 6 pm Jupiter & Okwess Congolese gig.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 January 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/music/article/20989131/motherland-connection-gogo-goes-to-africa
Alona on Team Familiar and BYB trips to Nigeria and Ghana,
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
seeing on Facebook that old-school DC rockabilly,honky-tonk country, and country-swing guitarist/singer Billy Hancock has died.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 January 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
https://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2018-01-24/the-rise-of-dmv-hip-hop
Chris Richards from the Post with DC rappers Ras Nebhu and Sugg Savage on Kojo
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 13:08 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/billy-hancock-rockabilly-performer-with-outrageous-style-dies-at-71/2018/01/23/8eadd05a-004a-11e8-9d31-d72cf78dbeee_story.html?utm_campaign=423934763c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_20&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Editorial%20and%20Events&utm_term=.2408ed5963f1
The emphasis on his weight and crazy onstage behavior doesn’t jibe with my recollection, but otherwise it makes sense.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/01/30/dc-area-record-label-cuneiform-gone-hiatus-may-not-come-back/
Silver Spring jazz and avant-garde rock label isn’t making money streaming
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 00:43 (six years ago) link
Eddie Dean's Washington Post Magazine cover story on Elkton, MD's Zane Campbell, a rough-edged country singer who once had an anti-folk, punky phase where he lived in NYC
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2018/02/01/feature/this-hillbilly-madman-is-country-music-royalty-so-why-havent-you-heard-of-him/?utm_term=.58f7cdaf63eb
Missed this a few years back about him in 2015--
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/music/zane-campbell-brings-a-hard-edge-to-traditional-country-music/2015/10/08/ea06f626-6852-11e5-9223-70cb36460919_story.html?utm_term=.7d14b3617d99
Campbell is also featured in the new book “Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line,” a look at the fertile, underappreciated music scene where Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware meet. Written by three academics — Henry Glassie, Clifford R. Murphy and Douglas Dowling Peach — the lavishly illustrated book of interviews, history and analysis comes with two audio CDs featuring 58 tracks of unadorned but memorable field recordings. Zane sings lead on four tracks, and the others showcase his aunt, uncle, brother and their neighbors
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 February 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
Bohemian Caverns may still be sitting empty on U Street but you can still see jazz in the DMV-- at Sotto, Alice's, Marvin , Mr. Henry's and more
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/dcs-jazz-scene-is-making-a-comeback-but-youll-find-it-in-unexpected-places/2018/01/31/48fab2cc-efdc-11e7-b390-a36dc3fa2842_story.html?utm_term=.fa9d6ec5c128
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 February 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
Zane rules! I bought some of his art from his brother's antique store/woodworking shop in Elkton.
― Heez, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
Wow...
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 05:44 (six years ago) link
http://imsodmv.com/video_listing/potsie-major-f-killa-cal-bossman-scoop-malikdopedrummer-count-doe/
New video for this late 2017 DC rap track that pays some homage to DC go-go & has great percussionist Malik the Dope Drummer on it
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 8 February 2018 03:43 (six years ago) link
reading folks on twitter alleging that 930 club ticketfly service fees have gone up...and are higher than Black Cat's. That doesn't seem to be stopping folks --so many IMP shows at 930, Anthem, UHall etc plus other promoters and clubs and halls...Lotsa $ to do it all
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 February 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/02/08/dmv-artists-list/
Teta Alim in Bandcamp on DC rap & rap hybrid sounds from Sugg Savage, G.U.M.P., NappyNappa, Odd Mojo, Reggie Pr1me
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:31 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/a-sisterhood-of-drummers-80-strong-keeping-time-to-a-brazilian-beat/2018/02/08/b0bd1710-0b7f-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html?utm_term=.18112b265fdc
Batala Washington
Batalá Washington maintains its unique status, says Alison Rodden, the group’s musical director.
“There are over 35 Batalás around the world and here in the U.S. there’s about to be 10,” Rodden says. “We were the first one that was 100 percent women.”
A fixture at city marathons and street fairs, Batalá has played internationally, led both big Women’s Marches in the District and opened for the Rolling Stones in 2012.
“How many people can say, ‘I opened for the Rolling Stones?’ ” says Carol Freitas, one of a handful of Brazilians in Batalá.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 February 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
DC's The Experience Band and Show performs on street corners and now in clubs too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gykyTv7tg-A
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 05:24 (six years ago) link
There was a benefit in Frederick last night for guitarist Dmitri Penny Callas who used to play Benny’s Rebel Room on 14th Street and other long gone joints. I never heard of him till I read this John Kelly from the Washington Post article
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/oh-what-a-night-maryland-musicians-will-raise-money-for-ailing-friend/2018/02/06/969f19e6-0ab7-11e8-8890-372e2047c935_story.html?utm_term=.52ea95c0d445
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link
Hank Dietles bar fundraiser after it got burned down from cigarette butts
https://www.gofundme.com/HankDietlesOFFICIAL
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 February 2018 06:00 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/food/blog/20992656/watch-local-songwriters-perform-a-tribute-to-hank-dieteles-amid-its-ashes
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 February 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
Longtime DC gogo band vocalist and solo singer Michael Muse is joining the old-school soul group the Stylistics and singing with them tonight at DAR Constitution Hall.
Also tonight is Janel Leppin and many more at Black Cat
[/i]An All-Star music and art show for Janel's weavings is happening at the Black Cat on February 16th at 8:00 pm, $10
The Messthetics, Janel and Anthony, Antonia, Low Ways Quartet, Blacks' Myths, Kim Sator, GL Jaguar, Katie Alice Greer and Janel Leppin, Praxis Cat, Knife Wife and more![/i]
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 February 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
An All-Star music and art show for Janel's weavings is happening at the Black Cat on February 16th at 8:00 pm, $10
The Messthetics, Janel and Anthony, Antonia, Low Ways Quartet, Blacks' Myths, Kim Sator, GL Jaguar, Katie Alice Greer and Janel Leppin, Praxis Cat, Knife Wife and more!
Raheem Devaughn has a new band called the Crank Crusaders and they all do a go-go version of Miguel's "Skywalker" that's on DC radio and on Soundcloud
Just recently discovered a new DC Haitian band called Swag Muzik who do konpa, kizomba, and r'n'b. They have a video on Youtube
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
Backyard Band playing in Ghana today! They’re there for 5 days I think
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
https://wamu.org/story/18/03/07/d-c-may-lose-funk-parade-verge-cancellation/
Property developers won’t help fund it as much this year— the Parade needs 60 grand more to hit the $200,000 they need. Gentrification also means less spaces for stages
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
https://www.youcaring.com/funkparade-1121941
Fundraising for Funk Parade
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 March 2018 04:25 (six years ago) link
So now DC is finally suing the Howard Theatre Restoration Board years after they should have looked into the board, developer Ellis, & Blue Note's handling of the theatre
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/district-suit-alleges-mismanagement-at-howard-theatre/2018/03/07/b9619ab4-224d-11e8-badd-7c9f29a55815_story.html?utm_term=.c10deef118a2
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 March 2018 04:35 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/music/blog/20995599/the-scene-report-des-demonas-dupont-brass-and-more
Short blurbs from me on recent releases by Dupont Brass, Des Demonas, Dogo du Togo, and Veronneau
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 March 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
Events DC did not have any go-go bands at the S x SW showcases. The rappers they had were all Md residents.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 March 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
Lots of DC area rap
http://dcmusicdownload.com/2018/03/28/ladies-to-the-front-meet-the-emcees-igniting-d-c-s-hip-hop-scene/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 March 2018 12:40 (six years ago) link
Funk Parade 2018 is back on, thanks in part to $25 thousand from Mayor Bowser and DC government
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 April 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
City Winery opens in the old Love club on Okie Street NE at the end of April. The neighborhood has changed. They'll be narrowly booking mainly acts that appeal to over 50 mainstream white folk-rock fans
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
TroubleFunk recorded a Tiny Desk today.
Meanwhile Events DC told me they didn’t have a go-go band at S x SW this year because the stage they used was too small.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 April 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
https://local.washingtoncitypaper.com/publication/best-of-dc/2018/arts-and-entertainment/best-street-corner-percussionist
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:08 (six years ago) link
That's Malik Dope Drummer Stewart (whom you should follow on Instagram)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:09 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/music/blog/21000633/being-a-woman-in-the-gogo-scene-is-an-uphill-battle
Interesting read
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 April 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
Malik Dope Drummer Stewart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_JZR5hX0Sc&app=desktop
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 April 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_JZR5hX0Sc
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 April 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
Friday the 13th-- Pretty Girls Crank Too (women in go-go event) with Beladona, Ms. Kim, Michelle Blackwell, Pretty Nikki, Lysette, Kee Kee and more at Paradigm Lounge in Upper Marlboro, MD
Messthetics at Black Cat
* Ezko at Songbyrd (rap)
* Backyard Band and TOB at Aqua in DC (go-go and bounce-beat go-go)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 April 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
RE at 4 for free today Saturday at Freedom Plaza Emancipation Day Concert after parade
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 April 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
curmudgeon - sad news about Rory Felton
― as god is my waitress (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 21 April 2018 22:33 (six years ago) link
Sure is. He played sax with RE and Little Benny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/man-fatally-stabbed-early-friday-in-southwest-dc/2018/04/20/c2cd23f8-4489-11e8-ad8f-27a8c409298b_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0e1b9f1895be
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 22 April 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
Betty Green has passed away (after being sick for awhile). She was the self-proclaimed bass-playing Grandmother from r'n'b/funk cover group Mother's Band and Show. For a brief period in the 80s they were managed by Jeff Krulik. The band frequently played gigs for the mentally impaired patients at St. Elizabeth's. There's a Youtube video of an indoor gig there. I went with Jeff to a Mother's Band outdoor on the grounds gig there, once. She was a sweet, nice person.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 April 2018 19:08 (six years ago) link
Tony Java, a DC reggae/ dancehall promoter who did a Reggae Awards event circa 2005, has passed away too.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 April 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
WPFW interim PD K. Stitt just dumped the Saturday 4 pm to 6 pm soul oldies show "Baby Boomer Boogie " , hosted by onetime Roadhouse Oldies clerk Scooter Macgruder and soul music filmmaker Beverly Johnson. No announcement of what will replace the show. Rumors of other changes.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 April 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/music/blog/21003804/rip-rory-dc-felton
Go-go musicians talk to Alona W. about the influence of the recently deceased Rory DC Felton, go-go sax and cowbell player with Rare Essence and Little Benny & the Masters and others. He was recently killed
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 5 May 2018 05:26 (six years ago) link