Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

Van Dyke Parks is playing a free show at the Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center on Monday night (April 9) at 6 pm -- does anyone know how packed the free shows get there?

depends on the show - I'm sure this one will get pretty crowded and there aren't many seats, but that hall stretches waaaay back

yeah, that stage is kind of like watching a show in a really big hallway. Apparently he's playing the Hamilton (where the Borders used to be downtown) later on Monday, too.

If you can get to the K. Ctr. early do so, as lots of the seats get grabbed by tourists touring the building and area senior citizens. Really. Sometimes they end up leaving if they don't like the music though. The show will start promptly at 6 and end at 7, and be streamed and archived at their website.

The Hamilton gig costs $22.50 for a general admission ticket and $38.00 for a seated ticket.

Chickfactor and Windian label gigs this weekend

Plus on Saturday the go-go Bounce Beat Teen Awards 2012 3 to 9pm at the Scene on Adams Road with TOB, ABM, XIB and more

i'm gonna go to the windian thing tonight - i'd be a poor son of syracuse if i didn't see the penetrators

I only know the old Dc band Penetrators not the Syracuse ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsNkLET6BGg

here's the syracuse penetrators' "shopping bag" video (rejected by mtv in 1982!)

swami put out a great comp a few years ago that's on spotify - "teenage lifestyle" and "number 1 band in town" (chorus: "we're the penetrators/we don't fuck around/we're the ________") are near-classics

woww

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/2012/04/06/gIQAEsNg0S_story.html

Bounce beat article got moved to the Saturday Washington Post newsprint front page

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2012/04/09/parades-off-caribbean-day-short-on-cash-forced-to-cancel/

The comments threads in both of these 2 articles I posted are something else. A few good ones but lots of others, well you know

How was the Windian thing GYA?

i had a good time (i only went to night one) - suns of guns were really fun, penetrators were way louder and sloppier (in a good way) than i expected, and i liked foul swoops a million times more than the other times i've seen them, which was no small feat given their first-out-of-five slot and the fact that there were about ten people there

i dunno about montserrat house as a space for that kind of show, although i guess there are worse places in the city they could have had it

and i for one am SHOCKED that an article on the caribbean parade attracted a bunch of weird crypto-racist fruitflies

I missed the first two bands but the Penetrators were great

http://thehowardtheatre.com/show/2012/04/21/bad-brains-second-show-added-by-popular-demand/

Second Bad Brains/GZA show added next weekend, on sale Friday

lumen8acostia festival saturday with music and art stuff saturday including big/bright + volta bureau

http://www.lumen8anacostia.com/performance-schedule/

yah i'm p excited about that

for some reason i thought it was in may, already have plans for the Occupy Gala poetry/spoken/music/art/etc thing saturday night

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2012/04/12/why-gala-hispanic-theatre-is-getting-occupied/

that should be a lotta fun, some friends of mine gonna be rockin the stilts

I saw Bad Brains last year and it was pretty fun. Kinda state fair or whatever, but they play all hits and the vibe is really nice.

Maracuyeah dj collective anniversary event at Judy's tonight and this free thing in College Park:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/04/13/prince-georges-county-the-rock-n-roll-years/

Seeing old-school bailey's x roads guys Scream at the St. Stephens benefit could be fun, but I do not know any of the other acts.

I missed the below event on Thursday (was seeing Vieux Farke Toure at the overpriced swanky Hamilton) but am curious (this is from the Post Going Out Gurus)

“Ratchet” is the au courant term for anything lacking couth, gentility and propriety. For those that like slackness in their dancehall, the grimiest rap, and pretty much anything else that you wouldn’t admit enjoying in polite company (or when you’re sober), DJ Afro Boy serves up Ratchet Thursdays at Zeba Bar.

Free show and lecture by Morton Subotnick, "accompanied by a lighting and projection landscape created in real time by visual/projection/lighting designer Lillevan" this Wednesday night at UMD (lecture starts at 6:30, concert at 8):

http://claricesmithcenter.umd.edu/2010/c/performances/performance?rowid=13735

That looks interesting. Although I have always heard more about his Silver Apples of the Moon, than I have actually heard it.

Ian Mackaye and I both celebrate birthdays this week. Awesome.

HBDWEEK. heh i've got the most watched ian mackaye clip on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TFNXUsr7gM

the fanboy etc comments haven't stopped in five years

fuck jim graham

Oh, this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/all-opinions-are-local/post/jim-grahams-concerns-about-later-dc-bar-hours/2012/03/29/gIQA1ZCFjS_blog.html

I mean just in terms of pretty much everything relating to him and the nightlife industry at all ever

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-gurus/post/eleanor-friedberger-alex-winston-and-forward-festival-this-weeks-nightlife-agenda/2012/04/16/gIQAszyMMT_blog.htm

So the Caribbean sound like a mellow Fountains of Wayne to me and I can't decide what Deleted Scenes sound like (and I haven't listened enough to decide whether I like 'em). But some think these are two DC's best indie rock bands. Maybe (or maybe not).

two of D.C.'s best

might as well see the real Fountains of Wayne tomorrow night at 9:30.

Oh yeah, I forgot

record store day at joint-custody-below-the-pharmacy-bar-which-i've-never-heard-of this saturday
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s720x720/556073_3186903111234_1225470080_32365841_1880172277_n.jpg

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/04/18/no-age-high-places-to-perform-at-song-1-happening-at-the-hirshhorn/#more-70610

$25 to see rock bands at Pitchfork sponsored event. I do like No Age.

Busy weekend w/ electronic dance, indie-rock, Rare Essence mixtape release, and more including various Latin genre gigs

88's forward festival starts wednesday, it's a pretty big event for (future) bass music, which dc is generally behind the times on

http://www.forwarddc.com/

Ouch, lots of negative comments about HR (but not the rest of the Bad Brains) live in NY on the 80s hardcore DC scene kids group on Facebook.

yeah he's not the awesomest live frontman lately ime

heard he was in pretty poor shape last night, people worrying about his health

yeah, i didn't go but a good friend of mine who's a major bad brains fan said, "All the shit people talk about HR being a weirdo space cadet is true. The rest of Bad Brains is on their 1982 game, though."

so i mean yeesh

Chairlift was amazing on Saturday.

When I saw Bad Brains a couple of years ago in London, HR was walking around outside the venue with a big bag of sliced bread, handing pieces out to people along with religious blessings. He was definitely pretty kooky.

I've heard it said that HR needs to be on medication (bi-polar and more) but does not necessarily do so. Sad.

x-post-the W. Post had a Chairlift review (with 80s Human League and Fleedwood Mac comparisons.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/concert-review-chairlift-at-u-street-music-hall/2012/04/22/gIQALdrYaT_story.html

I saw (and danced to) old-school Cubans Sierra Maestra on Friday at Artisphere, and sat and watched flamboyant funky New Orleans pianist & organ player Davell Crawford (with a bassist & drummer) at his Saturday night late show at Bohemian Caverns.

pretty lazy summation of their sound but I suppose if you have 1 paragraph's worth of space to describe their music to a mainstream audience it's justifiable...

I hope Chuck Brown's gonna be ok. He had a Facebook post over the weekend thanking folks for well wishes. He's currently hospitalized but there are no details.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2012/04/23/no-more-pho-dogs-at-u-street-music-hall/

Awww man.