Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

No idea. I only hear by word of mouth but the hyattsville wire Twitter should cover it

thanks

Oh yeah, Hyattsville Wire is good for some coverage of rock and blues events in that area, but not so good for Latin, African, and African-American

Curious about Tunnel, vocaist Natasha Janfaza (from Taciturn) band with Brendan Canty on drums, former Flasher bassist D Saperstein, and and dc bands producer musician Owen Wuerker. Album is out on Friday. They played The Crown in Baltimore last night and are Comet on Friday.

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/564189/moechella-organizers-applied-for-a-trademark-coachellas-lawyers-want-to-block-it/

plus Moe World Order show at Fillmore tonight cancelled

Fort Reno concerts start tonight. Also Janel Leppin is at Rhizome with her Volcanic Ash , avante-jazzy-rock-folky group, and David Cole is leading a band at Westminster church blues Mondays 6 to 9

Fort Dupont's 50th year starts Saturday with a big go-go bill-Be'la Dona , Sirius Company, Soul Searchers , DJ Rico @ 7 @ Fort Dupont Park

While the days of Fort Dupont having a budget to book national old school soul and jazz acts seems to be gone, at least they're booking some good locals. August acts not yet announced

Fort Dupont go-go triple bill was alright -- good not great. Tonight my wife and I went to the rain-cursed Fort Reno. Spring Silver played and Weird Babies did most of their set and then the rain came. So no Bad Moves whom I want to see.

Seeing on Facebook that I am not the only one annoyed at how the Musicianship have now handled the Funk Parade since being given it by Listen Local DC. No more parade and their fest on Saturday had 1 go-go band , and one Annapolis brass band, but no DC brass bands - no Crush Funk, no Dupont Brass, no Experience Brass Band . Just a bunch of obscure local rap and r'n'b musicians

Went to the final Fort Reno of the summer. The Owners had an ok casual punk sound . Vocals sometimes worked and not other times.

Ted Leo did a melodramatic Blondie cover - Union City Blues plus Ramones "Bonzo goes to Bitburg"

x-post- the guy who booked the obscure local r'n'b and rap musicians is defending Funk Parade and Musicianship.

Momentarily forgot the name of other band at Fort Reno that had a more shoegaze dreampop sound.

A little while back saw Spring Silver at Fort Reno and liked them live more than I did the album.

Saturday August 20 is Chuck Brown Day at Chuck Brown Park w/ Rare Essence, Doug e Fresh, Chuck Brown Band, Uncalled 4 Band and more. Also August 20 at rfk parking lot is world reggae day with Beres Hammond, Beenie Man, Tiwa Savage and more.

local sounds

https://aramsinnreich.wixsite.com/outofourshells

https://districtfray.com/articles/making-sound-waves-august-2022-dc/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms8hHKEv4WI

Cinema Hearts - "Your Ideal" produced by Bartees Strange & he added guitar. Lyrics by Caroline Weinroth
Music by Caroline Weinroth and Erich Weinroth

Hey curmudgeon, just to follow up - I saw Don Z. on Tuesday (he came to my open mic at Ballston Local) and I asked him about the big console. I think he said it's at Atomic in Beltsville. But he's happily recording at home. We even got to jam together a little. We played "Overkill."

Oh nice.

Friday August 26

DC Black Broadway presents: The Stage Play Grease with a Side of Mumbo Sauce @ Bethesda Blues (through the 28th) (go-go musicians acting in this adaptation)

Moe World Order w/ TCB, TOB, Reaction & Yaddiya & guests @ Howard Theatre

* A Tribute to Jazz in DC, a prelude to the DC Jazz Festival , w/ DC jazz vocalist Ayo & the Bohemian Caverns Orchestra @ 7:30pm. @ All Souls Unitarian Church honoring DC legends such as Shirley Horn, Blanche Calloway, Ruth Brown, Charlie Byrd, and Duke Ellington. Orchestra arrangements created by Elijah Jamal Balbed, Free but registration required @ a tribute to jazz in dc . com

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/572678/bossa-bistro-celebrates-20-years-of-global-music/

My article for City Paper Fall Arts preview on 20 years of Bossa Bistro in Adams Morgan

“Coltun is adamant that he is not offering contrived “world music” for Anglos or others to gawk at. “These are communities, and if you’re an outsider, you need to introduce yourself, become a part of it, and show your appreciation,” he says”

I also spoke with musicians Cheick Hamala Diabate, Alfredo Mojica, and Dior Ashley Brown who all play there every month

http://stevekiviat.blogspot.com/2022/09/dc-baltimore-dmv-global-music-and-more.html

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/572430/2022-fall-arts-guide/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/music/2022/09/09/fall-pop-concerts-in-washington-dc/

Chr*s Richards fall picks include Rosalia tonight at Anthem

Lawrence Bradford Hand dance instructor and Joe Bussard 78 record collector RIP

Never did get a Pavement @ Warner theatre ticket for tonight and resale ones are pricey. Great locally based Ethiopian singer Munit Mesfin is at little Mr Henry's tonight . I have family responsibilities tonight and won't be at any gigs

Howard U homecoming Yardfest friday at 12 noon. Homecoming step show at Burr gym at night

Blues Alley had a fire in area between 2nd floor ceiling and roof. Plus some damage from all the water and smoke

Sad news — DC soul and gospel singer Eddie Jones has died. He mainly sang covers but had a gorgeous voice and was a friendly great guy. I saw him with band the Young Bucks, with the Legendary Orioles, and also saw he and his siblings sing in their church a few times.

Joe Lee of Joe’s Record Paradise recorded an album of Eddie and the Young Bucks and for some reason it never got released. His voice can be heard on a Legendary Orioles album. I saw the Young Bucks at a number of DC area clubs - Faces , Gwen’s Majestic, the Chateau and more . In recent years they just played once a year at blues Monday night at Westminster Church Sw. Eddie also did some multi act soul tribute events at Bethesda Blues and Birchmere . RIP

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/12/02/eddie-jones-singer-guitarist-dc-soul-dead/

https://dcist.com/story/22/12/02/carter-barron-amphitheatre-rock-creek-park-renovation-alliance/

Carter Barron architectural design to be done by spring or summer 2023 they say and rebuild to be done by 2026 if they raise 20 million! Place was shut down in 2017 due to structural issues

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/582427/prince-georges-pride-is-the-anthem-pg-county-deserves/

“Prince George’s Pride”...Alona for WCP talks to Shorty Corleone, Brian Yeldell, Lil Chris , Malik Dope & others who participated in this song

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/583679/problems-at-city-winery-went-beyond-the-neighborhood/

Earlier articles seemed to just feature Dorf of City Winery blaming "the neighborhood" and violence. In his interview with me , he awkwardly defended himself re racism and then proceeded to blame "potentially violent homeless" people. City Winery in Ivy City issues are complicated. I asked DC BLM & Empower DC for thoughts also. I found that Dorf never spoke to homeless shelter director or DC DHS that works w/ shelters. His staff spoke only "several" times w/ office of DC government Nightlife director.

I also spoke with Empower DC and BLM DC and the local ANC who had different takes on the situation. Plus I quoted a tweet about how the Chills would have done better at Black Cat and that City Winery did a poor marketing job

Wow Dorf sounds like a real asshole.

Never puts the word “person” after homeless

“Attacked by some homeless”

“Potentially violent homeless”

Fuuuuuuck you

Never puts the word “person” after homeless

“Attacked by some homeless”

“Potentially violent homeless”

Fuuuuuuck you

Thanks.

Updated article with Douglas developer comment. DC government agencies promised me responses that have not come.

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/585210/eddie-jones-gave-d-c-a-musical-history-lesson/

My long co/write obit of DC soul and gospel singer Eddie Jones

The late Eddie Jones' sister and family still need financial assistance to pay for the funeral related expenses they incurred

https://www.gofundme.com/f/celebrating-the-life-of-eddie-jones

Not sure if this will be mostly stuff already on YouTube but: https://silver.afi.com/Browsing/Movies/Details/f-0100003805

first 2 Fugazi shows sold out quick. I got tickets to first. They added a 3rd on Wed Feb 15. I think they're trying to have stuff not already on Youtube. My buddy Jeff Heavy Metal Parking Lot Krulik is involved with this

Fugazi movie shows that is.

Tonight I did 1980s DC rockabilly nostalgia -- saw Tex Rubinowitz & the Bad Boys at the Birchmere. Pricy ticket but fun show. Great band. I previewed it for City Paper

Chris R*chards is going big on hardcore nostalgia rather than rockabilly, with a big feature article on circa 1985 Annapolis band The Hated.

Other news:

Joe Lally has openings for bass guitar lessons that he teaches

Dc government is going to move dc government workers out of Reeves Bldg at 14th & U and have developers make it mixed use. One proposal would have a Songbyrd club in it; the other would have a Dave Chappelle comedy club. Both plans would have some housing ( no word on how affordable). Dcist and Axios have articles about this

I also saw Hardway Connection down at Lamont’s. Nice set of southern soul plus they have a conga player as well now.

Posted in Fugazi thread about seeing the live clips doc at AFI Silver

May go on the 19th to AFI silver for shorts on dc music with a thing called Fugazi’s barber ; one on the 60s garage rock band the Hangmen; something on Cynthia Connolly got added

Went to short doc thing and was wowed by Director Gama films on dc muralist Miss Chelove. The muralist is from Java Indonesia and came to DC young and got into dc punk, & later graffiti, hiphop, club dance , go-go while retaining her home country roots. Her Mom played gamelan music and worked at VOA and was a Renaissance single mom to 4 kids. Sadly this century, her Mom got hit by a drunk driver in DC & killed. Miss Chelove has done a Bill Warrell DC Space tribute mural in Blagden Alley , and more throughout the area.

Also enjoyed the other shorts. The barber from the gone since the mid 90s Connecticut Ave location was at the screening with his granddaughter director and others.

Hangmen short was cool and interesting. Ones on Cynthia Connolly and Jim Saah were good too ( maybe even if you are bored with early dc punk or know nothing about it). Jeff also showed punk & tomatoes episodes about DC punks going to see Fear on Saturday Night Live in 1981

Beverly Lindsay-Johnson’s “Fat Boy: the Billy Stewart story “ doc about the DC soul singer is showing for Free tonight at 6:30 at Francis Gregory Library in SE. the director will be there . I saw it on local pbs channel and recommend it

More docs on d school dC . I forget the names of the directors for Black Fire, about the 1970s black owned funk and jazz and proto-go-go label , but you can now see it free online https://www.pbs.org/video/black-fire-wzywcz/

Saturday Feb. 25 --DJ Red Mole on WOWD 94.3 & online @ 9 am hosts a discussion of Black owned DC label from 50s & 60s Shrine Records and Bo Diddley's 60s DC studio with guests Beverly Lindsay-Johnson, Grover Massenburg, Richard Harrington, Sandra Bears (of the Jewels)

I previewed upcoming gigs by Sandra Bears( the Jewels) ; Ohio Players; Monobloco; & Arooj Aftab w/ Iyer, & Ismaily for
@wcp
Spring Arts Guide https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/592786/2023-spring-arts-guide/

DC Punk Archives seeking bands to play rooftop

RIP Lou Stovall who made some of the coolest DC protest posters and jazz gig posters in the late 1960s and 1970s some with them Dc based jazz musician artist Lloyd McNeil