Help by passing a bill with $ I mean
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:02 (three years ago) link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/501345/city-lights-jam-to-kino-musicas-ep-ifaan/
Kino Musica are a strong DC band led by 2 Ethiopians ( one who grew up in Texas)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 November 2020 15:03 (three years ago) link
There was a Moechella bouncebeat gogo thing early Saturday at McPherson Square with TOB and CCB & Eleanor Holmes Norton spoke. Another one with TOB later in the day in SE. The go-go flatbed truck also briefly made it to BLM Plaza where thousands were there .
I heard WPFW DJ Lance Reynolds say he was going to be spinning music from 3 to 7 on Sunday At BLM plaza
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 8 November 2020 03:41 (three years ago) link
Too many DC , DMV, Baltimore rappers for an old guy like me with limited time to keep up on. Writers Chris Richards and Lawrence Burney are trying though
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
Rip Andrew White dc based , Hu grad saxophone player who transcribed Coltrane solos, played dc space, toured with Stevie Wonder . And wrote wild books
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 November 2020 04:34 (three years ago) link
RIP to a devoted jazz fan who also listened to Youssou N’Dour and other artists he discovered on his own or via me—my Dad who died suddenly Saturday November 21 after a heart attack at 90. Dad hung out at jazz clubs in NYC in the late 40s & 50s before moving down here with my Mom and family. We saw music together and talked about and I am so sad he’s gone.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=victor-kiviat&pid=197155285&fhid=2205
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 November 2020 04:09 (three years ago) link
I’m really sorry, curmudgeon.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 26 November 2020 04:21 (three years ago) link
:(my condolences
― yes m!ch!gan - the feeling's forever (morrisp), Thursday, 26 November 2020 04:57 (three years ago) link
Sounds like a cool dude, curm. Very sorry for you and your family
― Heez, Thursday, 26 November 2020 13:07 (three years ago) link
Condolences, curmudgeon
― gabbnebulous (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 26 November 2020 15:22 (three years ago) link
Thanks all of you
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 28 November 2020 05:35 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owsImzOm0Wo
Crazy Legz & Noodlez , DC beat ya feet dancers doing their thangs and being interviewed in Ben’s Chili Bowl
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 02:42 (three years ago) link
Doc about go-go and politics airs at 7 pm tonight. Free if you register - Go-go City is made by a guy has previously made political films from a liberal perspective and who played guitar as a hobby and began seeing EU at some point after moving to dc
https://dcist.com/story/20/12/01/documentary-gogo-music-black-lives-matter-gentrification-samuel-george-displacement-protest/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
I have now missed 2 zoom screenings of Go-go City. Maybe they’ll eventually just put it on YouTube or make it available for streaming.
On to a different music style- the hiphop jazz funk instrumental sounds of Aquatic Gardener aka Jamal Gray of Nag Champa Art Ensemble. His parents worked at WPFW and his late dad Jimmy Gray started the Black Fire label whose reissues were recently highlighted in The NY Timeshttps://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/504543/city-lights-listen-to-aquatic-gardeners-godspeed/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 19 December 2020 02:29 (three years ago) link
RIP Bobby Ferrando, at age 75, who owned Food for Thought vegetarian restaurant , hangout, and occasional music club. His son Dante owns Black Cat. Dante's grandfather once owned a NYC place called Black Cat.
Seeing elsewhere on Facebook & Instagram sad news that Bobby Ferrando who owned Food for Thought restaurant has passed at around age 75. Food for Thought at its original 1973 opened Connecticut Avenue NW location was a low-key not fancy vegetarian hangout with a bulletin board covered , pre-internet, with flyers for protests, music, and apartments wanted. It is where I first ate hummus. It had folk and blues gigs and in the 80s held some DC hardcore punk matinee gigs that I attended (it held more in the 90s and some jazz too). Around 1999 it moved into the Black Cat where it lasted until 2019 I think, owned by Bobby’s son Dante. The below slightly snide 1999 article refers to the location as The Hippies Last Stand. I never met or knew Bobby Ferrando, but I admired what he did. He’s gone too soon. My condolences to the family.
1999 article
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/02/02/the-hippies-last-stand/9a6d503d-62de-4996-8736-1b6097296e14/?fbclid=IwAR3zuQba9GEBLezSANNIQjTPbqUX4ctoJiiCRUOix3xoV0v-nGaVTrGLLy0
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 04:49 (three years ago) link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/504543/city-lights-listen-to-aquatic-gardeners-godspeed/
emailing with Jamal Gray aka Aquatic Gardner for this little piece on his instrumental hiphop and more release was great. He gave me so much info on his listening habits -- Eno, Dilla, Soft Machine, and many more
His parents met at WPFW and his late dad Jimmy Gray founded the 1970s lbel Black Fire whose releases were recently reissued and hailed in the NY Times
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 04:57 (three years ago) link
I also talked to rapper Lightshow for this little piece -
Here's part of it: Rapper Lightshow moved to Atlanta from D.C. two years ago, but his Instagram handle is still @lightshow10thpl—a reference to 10th Place SE, where he grew up—and his latest album, Heart Still in the Trenches, was recorded locally during the pandemic at Connected DC studio in Oxon Hill. The lyrics were inspired by life in the Congress Heights neighborhood where he grew up, he says. Lightshow says he even slept on his grandmother’s couch in Southeast during the period he was here recording. The album cover shows the Holiday Market convenience store on Wheeler Road SE where Lightshow sometimes bought snacks; it’s also marked by the shooting deaths that occurred outside it, including the murder of 15-year-old Somerset Prep student Maurice Scott in 2019. Lightshow says the cover documents both the pain of the murders and his fond memories of his neighborhood.
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/504927/city-lights-lightshow-heart-is-still-in-the-trenches/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 04:59 (three years ago) link
This was the most challenging time I’ve ever had putting together a local year-end list and that’s because of how much amazing shit came out the Baltimore/DMV urrea in 2020. Presenting the top 60 tracks from the region this year. 🦀🙏🏿🏛. Art by @reemunknown pic.twitter.com/5QcEKwN4oU— Lawrence Burney (@TrueLaurels) December 30, 2020
Baltimore & DC area rap and r'n'b top tracks list
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 3 January 2021 02:11 (three years ago) link
Some blogger list of fave 2020 DC music that includes DC Ethiopian led band Kino Musica & a link to my article
http://worthwhiler.com/the-51-best-songs-to-come-out-of-the-51st-state-in-the-past-365-days/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link
List has a Spotify playlist with it
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 14:55 (three years ago) link
Re mob insurrectionists ease at getting into US Capitol building
It’s harder to get into an RE or Backyard Go-Go.— Bobbie Westmoreland (@Miss_Bobbiedoll) January 7, 2021
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 January 2021 05:34 (three years ago) link
https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-queens-fight
Queen P , DC beat ya feet choreographer and dancer has cancer. There’s a go fund me to help her
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 January 2021 05:35 (three years ago) link
I think dancer Queen P may have moved to Atlanta.
In other news I think the deadline for DC venues to apply for the latest dc government financial aid program was yesterday. There’s still time to apply for US government one.
Moechella promoter and activist Yaddiya has released a mixtape where on one song he raps with Killa Cal, rapper in go-go band Rare Essence
I think the end of January is the deadline for Wammies nominations. I am not a fan of the organization and I bet lots of quality DC artists are not nominated.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/506198/city-lights-royal-height-says-trump-aint-gotta-go-home-just-gotta-git-the-hell-up-outta-here/
I spoke with DC r’n’b singer Royal Height, nephew of late dc activist Dorothy Height about his latest political song that bluntly told Trump where to go
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 15:15 (three years ago) link
So I decided to be nice and just submitted some last minute Wammies DC nominations. No one had nominated Hailu Mergia, Bacchae, Kino Musica, Shalom Dubas, Nappy Nappa, Sir Eu, Selamino, Royal Height , No Savage so I did.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 05:27 (three years ago) link
Added some more. But may do an experiment next year and not nominate anyone.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link
The @TheMusicianShip @wammiesdc finalists were announced. Carly Harvey is nominated for best blues artist, best folk artist, best pop artist, best soul song, best pop song . But Bad Moves, Coriky, Bartees Strange & numerous acclaimed rappers didn’t make the finals. ...It’s a dumb system where The Wammies DC pick for the finals whatever 7 nominations in each category get the most people to register & vote for them. So C. Harvey can get in countless categories & encourage votes .
During the last week of the Wammies DC nominations period, I made 23 nominations but didn’t vote. Congrats to Selamino, Kino Musica, Hailu Mergia, Bacchae album, Anthony Pirog-Pocket Poem album, that made the finals. Some of my nominations didn’t make it.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:12 (three years ago) link
Our interview w/ @HowardWuelfing is out now! Forced Exposure, Creem, Meltzer/Bangs, DC scene, integrity in PR. For perspective, dude played in Half Japanese & was reviewing Can records in '73! Available everywhere. @JimDeRogatis @ByronColey1 @robtned https://t.co/aXc3FnX6Jx— Rock Writ (@rockwritpod) February 13, 2021
Howard Wuelfing was in Slickee Boys, Nurses, Underheaven, and did zines like Dcenes , Discords, and wrote also for Village Voice, Washington Post, & other zines
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 04:35 (three years ago) link
https://www.nbcwashington.com/entertainment/the-scene/iconic-dc-jazz-club-blues-alley-looking-for-new-location/2574801/
Blues Alley , that has been in Georgetown since 1965, may have to move. 124 seat place often had high cover prices, plus food/drink minimum, but if you splurged you could often see a great show in that small place
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 05:59 (three years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/events/good-hope/go-go-dc-official-music-celebration/272030267691207/
Celebrating go-go’s 1 year anniversary as DC official music with a 2 to 7 Friday online event with a panel plus Junkyard Band, Sirius Company, Ccb, big g, Weensey
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 February 2021 05:57 (three years ago) link
Mary Timony video stream filmed by Brendan Canty March 4 for here reissued album Mountains.
On her Bandcamp
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 February 2021 14:22 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSnj-kY5Mcs
Awesome 1985 Junkyard Band in Georgetown footage. Wearing short shorts & playing actual junkyard paint buckets and such
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 21 February 2021 02:00 (three years ago) link
Jeff Heavy Metal Parking Lot Krulik's latest film is not a music one, it's about suburbia in Bowie, Maryland and references racial covenants and civil rights protests, plus has some funny footage from a German company made in 1967
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/bowie-maryland-documentaries/2021/02/16/686511b0-7072-11eb-b8a9-b9467510f0fe_story.html
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 21 February 2021 05:42 (three years ago) link
Wpfw radio turns 44 today
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 28 February 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
https://dcist.com/story/19/01/14/after-uproar-from-musicians-d-c-council-revisits-its-quest-to-limit-noise-in-the-city/
Here they go again, 3 DC Councilmembers introduce bill to limit amplified outdoor music ( upscale condo owners who have moved to entertainment zone areas like gallery place and 14th & U complaining)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link
Mary Timony and band doing her Mountains solo album live is still available on Bandcamp till Friday March 5 at 9:30 pm et I think
The ABM bouncebeat go-go stream is on the long live go-go YouTube page
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 March 2021 05:34 (three years ago) link
my god i just stumbled into that "19th & M" video
― Heez, Saturday, 6 March 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link
Pretty awesome footage of young Junkyard Band
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 6 March 2021 18:24 (three years ago) link
Not exactly a music focused doc, but 17 Blocks covers 20 years in the life of a DC family starting in a sometimes rough hood 17 blocks from the US Capitol building https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/510215/city-lights-17-blocks-paints-d-c-life-over-20-years/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 March 2021 13:10 (three years ago) link
More re Tales of Belair at Bowie md doc available for free on pbs website
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/510438/city-lights-tales-of-belair-at-bowie-takes-aim-at-60s-maryland-suburbia/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 March 2021 13:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.capitalbop.com/dc-council-amplified-noise-bill/
New re amplified noise bill. Article up thread is 2019 Dcist one
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 March 2021 13:17 (three years ago) link
Sirius Company new song “She Ready “ has a bit of a bouncebeat flavor
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 March 2021 04:53 (three years ago) link
Sirius song has a TikTok dance contest going too.
Other new dc stuff - 93 years old gospel singer Spencer Taylor has an autobiography out ( co-written with 2 others). Spencer & the Highway QCs have a new single out too
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 March 2021 04:56 (three years ago) link
https://giftofdoubt.medium.com/eddies-blues-d3ae9820b5f1
Fascinating and a bit bittersweet story about the time in 1985 that DC punk scene kid with a guitar got approached by a guy named Eddie who asked if he wanted to jam. Eddie also said he had played with Funkadelic
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link
https://dcist.com/story/21/03/16/mobile-music-studio-artists-outlet-during-pandemic/
It’s a mobile DC studio
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 March 2021 12:49 (three years ago) link
WHUT public tv will also be showing the hand dance doc @ 1 am Tuesday morning & The Jewels , dc r’n’b group doc @ 1:30 ( dvr it or watch it then night owls)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 01:40 (three years ago) link
"Leave the Door Open" a movie doc about when the teenaged Ertegun sons of the Turkish Ambassador (who later started Atlantic records) set up jazz jam sessions in their fancy Embassy residence (and at the DC JCC) despite DC being segregated, will show online to APril 8; & @ Arlington Cinema Drafthouse Sunday April 4 @ 4 pm | DC Independent Film Festival 2021
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 4 April 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/513681/city-lights-leave-the-door-open-dciff/?fbclid=IwAR1VNw1muHailG1h5Ju44vQo0NRqnittyUNeUpv4wFGwNxGorlLFDOftthI
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 8 April 2021 18:52 (three years ago) link
https://rettman.substack.com/p/interview-chris-thomson-pt-i?fbclid=IwAR0MrXgd8Pok1iIPfsCFc4TzbXYoE-gwAMtsBIJZFbPklugm-fAXhtHNdkc
Chris Thomson interview pt 1 re how he discovered punk, met Dischord band folks etc
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 8 April 2021 19:05 (three years ago) link
https://www.pbs.org/video/fatboy-the-billy-stewart-doc-hvdpjt/
Billy Stewart doc
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 10 April 2021 19:54 (three years ago) link