Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

st ex has chimay, stella and delerium and a few more that i cant remember on draft. really nice people there. the barback, by mistake, bussed my last cigarette and matches when i went up to the bar to get another beer. when i mentioned this to the bartender, he gave me matches, a regular hooked me up with a cigarette, and a woman who was with the DJ said she was going out a cigarette run, and asked me what i wanted. i was actually confused by kindess.

My attempts to get the DC Arts Commisssion to add more indie-rock, Latin, African, go-go and hiphop to the upcoming June 20th Free Music Fete seem to have run into bureacratical walls and lack of money. Oh well, I tried.

didnt mix, just having some fun. am going to see Ken Mcintyre of AACM fame tonight I think.

6/11 is Richie Hawtin and Magda at Cubik

here's the day-by-day linup for the once.twice festival in Baltimore...

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avant hip-hop + twisted rhythms
THURSDAY APRIL 15TH
2549 N Howard Street
www.theottobar.com
All ages / Doors open @ 9pm / ADMISSION $10

DABRYE [ DETROIT - Ghostly International ]
GHISLAIN POIRIER [ MONTREAL - 12k / Chocolate Industries ]
JIMMY EDGAR [ DETROIT - Warp / M3rck / Audio.NL ]
NAUTICAL ALMANAC [ BALTIMORE - Heresee ]
MARC LUSSIER [ BALTIMORE ]

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PERLON LABEL FOCUS
FRIDAY APRIL 16th
THE SUPREME IMPERIAL
223 Pearl STREET
http://www.thehush.net/supreme.htm
All ages / Doors open @ 9pm / ADMISSION $10

AKUFEN [ MONTREAL - Perlon / Force-Inc / Musique Risquee ]
DIMBIMAN aka ZIP [ BERLIN - Perlon ]
MATTHEW DEAR aka JABBERJAW [ DETROIT - Perlon / Plus8 / Ghostly ]
SOMEONE ELSE [ PHILADELPHIA - Foundsound / Musik Krause ]
BEN PARRIS dj set [ Baltimore - Once.Twice / Foundsound ]
MISKATE dj set [ PHILADELPHIA - Foundsound ]

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SATURDAY APRIL 17th JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
MATTIN CENTER ROSS JONES BUILDING, SDS ROOM
3400 N CHARLES ST,BALTIMORE MD
All ages / Doors open @ 8pm / ADMISSION $10

AGF [ BERLIN - Orthlorng Musork / Kitty Yo ]
+ SUE.C [ SAN FRANCISCO - Orthlorng Musork ]
CHRISTOHPER WILLITS [ SAN FRANCISCO - 12k / Fallt ]
+SCOTT PAGANO [ SAN FRANCISCO - Reline ]
MYLENA BERGERON [ MONTREAL - Oral ]
+ CAROLINE HAYEUR [ MONTREAL ]
LOADBANG [ BALTIMORE ]

I've been really pleased with the ridiculous amount of good music available to us in the last month or so. Bummed about missing TV on the Radio, but Xiu Xiu were great, and the prospect of seeing Sunburned Hand of the Man + Four Tet (again, in Baltimore, Tuesday the 20th) = more excitement. Add CocoRosie on to that, and I'll be near broke.

resident DJ's Milo & Daedau

every Friday starting tonight

at Saveur
2218 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Glover Park, DC
10ish-2ish
NO COVER CHARGE

What's happening this summer? I don't think the Fort Reno schedule has been announced yet. I'm excited about the D.C. Caribbean Carnival and the related shows happening in a few weeks. Also, the Smithsonian Folklife Fest is gonna be featuring Latin and Haitian music. Anything new folks to tell me about dancehall, electronica, hiphop and go-go wise?

I'm excited about a few DC-area shows coming up in the month of June. MF Doom w/Talib Kweli at the 9:30 Club, Sunday June 13. Madvillain has finally clicked for me, you have to listen to it as a series of vignettes ... looking forward to the show. I've seen Decembrists and Neko Case before, so I'll probably skip their shows the next two nights in order to check out Acid Mothers Temple at the Ottobar in Baltimore, Thursday the 17th. Two good acoustic shows at Iota in Virginia the next week: Iron & Wine, Tuesday the 22nd, and Devendra Banhart Thursday the 24th. I'm from Florida orig., and really looking forward to hearing Sam Beam(Iron & Wine)'s voice live.

the fall
early superchunk
unrest
the wedding present (fast strummy guitar)
pavement
the strokes

and theyre all TOTALLY nice awesome kids. and this hardcore band, kudzu wish is opening.

ALL FOR $5!!!

so, if you wanna party like its 1995, come to the black cat backstage tonight.

bubblecrunk, grime, ragga, favela funk, 2step, neukÖln, soca, ardkore jungle, lover's rock +

Also, anyone been out to the Crossroads or other joints that feature dancehall?

I've listened to that latest Q and Not U cd and imho their punk-funk w/ falsetto vocals pales compared to the circa '81 stuff, and even to the best DFA singles.

At my night at Saint-Ex, SALT (1st Wednesdays monthly), I generally play a fair amount of grime, dancehall, crunk, and german goodness. But that's only around half the playlist, and we vary quite a bit month to month. We've going to have another grime focus night coming up (our 4th!), this summer Dizzee and Wonder were there after their DC show.

Matthew Dear was very disappointing. Tracky techno with little personality, and the bass was a little overwhelming (and not in a good way). It had nothing on the Jake Fairley live set at Andalu a couple of months ago.

I'm pretty happy with the new Q & Not U, but I haven't heard The Medications yet.

And in case anyone doesn't know, Kingpin burned down. It's maybe the only place in the city I'd ever been where you knew anyone could have a great time anytime. There were a lot of good DJs that played there, too, though not as recently.

Thanks for the other stuff.

There are a couple other D.C. threads floating around right now.

washington dc record stores?

Please get in touch with me before Monday. I need to talk to you about a City Paper thing...-Steve

much luv dc massiv

DC is small, but I like it - and there's a ton of folks who go to shows and do nifty stuff that aren't part of the scene per se. It could use some fuckin record stores though - we've got some sorta OK ones but seriously, for a city of this size it's ridiculous. Luckily the gf lives in Bmore so I'm there all the time, powering the capitalistic engine that drives this great country.

Zack:

What do "Fake Accents" sound like?

Aaron:

I listened to Raheen DeVaughn's finally released cd in Tower and was impressed. I wonder if he'll get any national r'n'b exposure.

I haven't made it to Fort Reno this summer. What have been some fave shows?

I did make it to Fort Dupont for the first time in ages. I saw old-school soul act the Dramatics.

Has anyone been to any of those dance clubs opening up on NY Avenue--'Avenue' and I forget the name of the other ones. The "Going Out Gurus" on Washington Post.com write about such places...

I don't worry about appearances like I used to, but I worry about encountering bad attitudes and bad vibes when I move back to DC. I am going to try hard to keep an open mind, though. Also to see different kinds of shows, not just whoever's at Black Cat, Fort Reno, etc.

The most complete go-go listings are at the Take Me Out to the Go-go website. Uh, various go-go clubs have have had violence take place in or near them, and the shows start real real late at night. Sometimes go-go bands play at non-go-go clubs. Chuck Brown has done shows at the Warner Theatre and he's playing a birthday party for himself at the 930 Club on Aug. 27th.

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It's maybe the only place in the city I'd ever been where you knew anyone could have a great time anytime

yes. has it reopened?

Dischord News and DC band and label updates:

We'd like to express our appreciation and gratitude to the many
people who have written us to express their support and outrage over
Nike's misappropriation of the Minor Threat Imagery for their
skateboarding demo. We would also like to acknowledge the people at
Nike skateboarding for their apology and prompt removal of all
offending posters and web-ads. The members of Minor Threat continue
to work on a creative resolution to this matter and will have more to
say when an agreement is finalized.

French Toast have returned home from a very successful European tour
in support of their debut album, "In A Cave."
Medications are heading to Europe in November. The Evens are headed to Japan to play shows in September and will
head to Europe in October.

Kingpin, which caught fire on Christmas Day, remains closed while its owners deal with insurance issues. In the meantime, members of the Kingpin staff are taking over the top floor of Wonderland in Columbia Heights on Sunday nights and resurrecting a bit of the old Kingpin vibe.

(And in answer to steve-k's question, the Franchise is mostly geeky rock with an 80s flavor, more They Might Be Giants than Gang of Four. For more information than you could really ever want, see http://www.listentothefranchise.com or http://www.cdbaby.com/thefranchise.)

"HIS LOVE IS REAL BUT HE ISN'T!! HIS LOVE IS REAL BUT HE ISN'T!!" I couldn't name a high-concept act that I genuinely like.

This year at Fort Reno I saw the Evens and Q and Not U. There's a note on my calendar for Mary Timony and Medications on the 15th, but we'll see if I make the effort to actually go there.

What do "Fake Accents" sound like?

you should listen to a madonna interview, that oughta give you a pretty good idea.

bandwise though, people have told me at various points that we reminded them of the fall, unrest, archers of loaf, pavement, the pixies, the stones, polvo, superchunk, the stooges and the velvet underground. i agree with some of those more than others, but overall i would say that i tend to write spiky, strummy, distorted pop songs, and dave usually goes for rocking fall/velvets-worshipping one riff wonders. thanks for asking, by the way.

in any case, as pete noted, if you're interested you should come see us at the warehouse the 22nd. if you can't, we're also gonna be at the black cat sept 9. if you make it to either, please say hi, it'd be rad to meet some dc-area ilxors. i'd actually been debating proposing a dc-area FAP, but you know, apathy and all that, so this'd be an acceptable substitute.

"HIS LOVE IS REAL BUT HE ISN'T!! HIS LOVE IS REAL BUT HE ISN'T!!" I couldn't name a high-concept act that I genuinely like.

I saw these guys at a basement show back in my college days. They're quite worth seeing. I remember during that song ("HIS LOVE IS REAL BUT HE IS NOT!") I turned to my friend and said, without irony, "Is this supposed to be about Jesus?"

anyone going to bmore to see zombi?