https://digdc.dclibrary.org/islandora/object/dcplislandora%3A305086
Lots of Chip Py go-go photos here
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/528332/go-go-musicians-remember-and-mourn-producer-chucky-thompson/
Chucky Thompson go-go history
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
Final Fort Reno gig of summer 2021 tonight Monday. Mark Cisneros & DJ Baby Alcatraz will be spinning records in between bands Interstate Rivals and Grumbler
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 August 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
August 28 is March on Washington and a Moechella
Washington Women in Jazz hosting events at K Center next Thursday through Saturday plus Spacycloud Djs
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 August 2021 18:22 (three years ago) link
http://stevekiviat.blogspot.com/2021/09/dc-baltimore-dmv-global-music-and-more.html
Did my first DMV DC Baltimore concert calendar gig list since March 2020. Lots of fall events including many many today:
Ethiopian New Year
End of Summer Soul Fest w/ JR Walker Allstars Band & Show, Stylistics Revue feat. Van Field, Might Mighty Dells Revue, Dr Salaam Love honoring Smokey Robinson, Hardway Connection, Kevin Langford Band @ Drury Ballpark, 1139 Smith Ln., Lothian, MD
CultureFest DMV (Caribbean music) @ 1 @ National Harbor
Free Kennedy Center outdoor event--Dupont Brass (5-6pm), DC Legendary Musicians Gospel (6:15-7:15pm), Ragamala Dance Co on Kennedy Center Lower lawn 7:30 to 9pm
Proper Utensils, 4 Life Project, X Factor, Pump Blenders, West Mob 12 noon to 7 pm 2 Fort Circle Park/Fort Totten (Between Galloway St. & Gallatin St. NE DC)
Ambition Band (go-go) for free @ 6 pm @ Moechella Gallery in Eastern Market
Fiesta DC 11am to 7 pm on Pennsylvania Ave w/ Mala Fe & Orquestra; Optimo;
Long Branch Festival with Cheick Hamala Diabate @ 6 pm & La Colombopercutivo @ 7 pm in Long Branch, MD
CCB go-go band at halftime of 7:30 pm Howard U. at U of MD football game
Black Cat 28th Anniversary party w/ Algiers; Ted Leo; The Owners; Teen Cobra; Anna Connolly (w/ Hannah Burris) @ Black Cat
Raheen DeVaughan @ City Winery
Kush: Sitali w/ Eliot Seppa @ Bossa @ 7:30 (afro-folk); Latin Night w/ Tumbao @ 9 @ Bossa
Dave Chappell Band @ Hank Dietle’s
Embassies of embassy row tour @ 12 noon
Crown Vic’s Weird World Dance Party at the Green Zone @ 10 pm
BYB & New Impressionz @ Hard Rock Café
Rare Essence @ Aqua
TOB @ 4 pm @ Marvin Gaye Park
Still Familiar @ Masonic Temple on U St NW
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 11 September 2021 15:20 (three years ago) link
Thanks!!!
― Derek and Clive Get the Horn Street (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 11 September 2021 15:30 (three years ago) link
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/inner-ear-studio-label-profile
Inner Ear Studio history article with lots of Ian Mackaye quotes about the place and Don Zientara. The Arlington location is closing but Don says he will reopen elsewhere. He had a studio in his home basement before Inner Ear.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 03:12 (three years ago) link
Don will be playing music himself at Epicure Cafe in Fairfax on October 2. I am adding that to my concert calendar along with a bunch of other gigs I have noticed
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 03:14 (three years ago) link
Yay
― Richard Marxist (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 10:11 (three years ago) link
Looking ahead —September 25 has that cool jazz meets go-go event in Malcolm X Park and late that several nice Art all Night events
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link
Broccoli Fest cancelled this year
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 19 September 2021 05:10 (three years ago) link
RIP 91-year old blues guitarist Warner Williams whose duo group Little Bit of Blues used to play around in the 1990s. Williams was known for his Piedmont blues styleBlues Here’s an old article about him. Saw on FB that he passed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/music/brace14.htm
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 September 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/08/30/think-you-know-dc-music-a-huge-new-compilation-reveals-treasures-from-a-bygone-era/
German Bear Family label releases 16 cd plus huge book in a box of 1940 to 1960 DC r’n’b
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 03:33 (three years ago) link
RIP Melvin Deal at 75, leader of the DC based African Heritage Dancers and Drummers
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 13:52 (three years ago) link
thanks curm for that blogspot you posted with local shows. bookmarked
― Heez, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link
I keep updating it too.
Some ones that interest me—Cameroon’s Petit Pays Friday night in Burtonsville; Next Fest jazz & go-go w/ specific times listed for Saturday, some Saturday Art all Night events; Erykah Badu; Sept 30- 75 Dollar Bill opening for Mac M at DC 9
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 September 2021 15:21 (three years ago) link
yeah gonna take the family out for nextfest
― Heez, Thursday, 23 September 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/randb-in-dc-box-set-washington/2021/09/21/1ca21e2c-1aee-11ec-a99a-5fea2b2da34b_story.html
Chris Richards re the $200 16 cds plus huge coffee table book of 1940-1960 dc r & b
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 September 2021 14:29 (three years ago) link
An Amazon reviewer savaged the remastering as flat but I may buy this anyway.
― Porking level G4 (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 24 September 2021 14:37 (three years ago) link
Some tracks are from 78s and some from tape and yeah some of it does sound muffled and flawed . But I am just going to deal with that .
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link
If like most people, you've been jonesing to read the origin story of the music biz in DC, and hear its first sixteen volumes, we got you!Now in stock, hand delivery citywide, free delivery on #capitolhill .https://t.co/tTAxLi0FHq— Spin Time Records (@SpinTimeRecords) September 13, 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/music/don-zientara-inner-ear-closing/2021/09/29/672c1e46-1c7b-11ec-a99a-5fea2b2da34b_story.html
Chris Richards on Don Zientara and Inner Ear studio.
At the end it notes Zientara is doing a free gig himself Friday at 6 at a brewery and one Saturday night in Fairfax
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 15:39 (three years ago) link
Oh no. Singer Julia Nixon has died of Covid. She used her soulful voice and theatrical power in DC music clubs and onstage in Dreamgirls and other shows on and off from the 80s. She used to play little Mr Henry''s a lot. Then moved back to her native North Carolina in early 2000s
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 October 2021 04:39 (two years ago) link
Hey DC locals, I am trying to talk my teenage son to seeing an All Ages show with my wife and myself at the Black Cat and he asked me if there was a place to sit. I told him I was dubious since it's a club but I would ask the locals.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 1 October 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
There are a few tables and seats in the back of the room, yes.
― Chris L, Friday, 1 October 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
Now a City Paper writer on Inner Ear Studio
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/534537/end-of-an-ear-a-the-legendary-inner-ear-studios-closes-a-chapter/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 October 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
There are a few tables and seats in the back of the room, yes.― Chris L, Friday, October 1, 2021 1:21 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Chris L, Friday, October 1, 2021 1:21 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
And benches and stools on the side of the room opposite the bar.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 7 October 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link
La Marvela and Leo Rua, dc based acts from Colombia are part of the free Down in the Reeds fest Saturday at the old Walter Reed Medical Center ( now the Parks at Walter Reed)
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/534443/city-lights-feel-good-feel-great-at-down-in-the-reeds/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 October 2021 19:16 (two years ago) link
There’s also Saturday in the Parks event at the reopened Franklin Square park ( now with less trees) with club dance music and jazz.
This Saturdays in Franklin Park DC dance music & more series is impressive. OCTOBER 9thAfrofuturism Meets JazzRon Trent (Music and Power, Chicago)Live Performance & DJ Set ByBrad Linde’s Tribute To Sun Ra / Adrian Lovinghttps://www.downtowndc.org/event/rocktheparkdc/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 October 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
https://www.arlnow.com/2021/10/13/county-to-ask-public-what-arts-programming-should-replace-inner-ear-studios/
After Inner Ear studio is demolished they might build an outdoor stage and name it after Inner Ear ( or maybe not).
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 20:26 (two years ago) link
Outer Ear
― juristic person (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 20:41 (two years ago) link
Zientaraweather Post Pavilion
― Extinct Namibian shrub genus: Var. (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
All great names!
so there's a new (academic?) book coming out about 1978 to 1983 DC hardcore punk
Politics as Sound: The Washington, DC, Hardcore Scene, 1978-1983 (Music in American Life) Paperback – October 19, 2021by Shayna Maskell (Author)
She has an American Studies degree from U of Md and now teaches at George Mason U I see online.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 October 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Sound-Washington-Hardcore-1978-1983/dp/0252086228
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 October 2021 18:00 (two years ago) link
Due allegedly to complaints about noise from Ellington condo building residents , the Bin 1301 wine bar did not have its lease renewed in September and is out. I started following that place on IG awhile back because awesome drummer Trae Crudup ( who plays with Luke Stewart and has dc gospel, marching band, gogo roots) was playing along with musicians and hiphop djs together at same time . The IG stories from there were great. They had a Monday night live music series more recently. But now place is closed. Boo.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 October 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
Bin 1301 wine bar was on U Street btw
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 October 2021 15:42 (two years ago) link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/best-of-dc-2021/
My Dc R & B 1940 to 1960 box item
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 October 2021 11:49 (two years ago) link
That link is not leading quite there, o curmudgeonly one
(and I speak as a CP member in good standing)
― mothersbaugh of invention (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 25 October 2021 13:19 (two years ago) link
Thanks. Alas CP has done a less than amazing job on links for this issue . You have to get to Arts & Entertainment editor’s picks and it appears in there somewhere. Plus annoying intro often appears first and you have to arrow down from that.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 October 2021 13:53 (two years ago) link
Ah, got it. the ultimate url was https://washingtoncitypaper.com/best-of-dc-2021/#/gallery/306796231?group=400855
But as you say, one must click on Arts & Entertainment and scroll.
― mothersbaugh of invention (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link
Missed due to family responsibilities the Des Demonas, and 2 others Lamont Park Mt Pleasant library sponsored gig Saturday plus subsequent Lost Origins gallery Jim Saah punk photos opening w/ J Robbins performing. Also Bacchae at Pie Shop later. Saw some IG stories video clips of Des Demonas to address some of my fomo
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 October 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
X-post — yes that r’n’b in dc 1940- 1960 box set with book is expensive. $200 plus
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 October 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
I also wrote a best of item on the wacky Wednesday DJ night that rapper Sir EU hosts at Spacycloud in Adams Morgan which sells Russian & Eastern European beer and wine plus veggie food from those locales as well as skateboards. They also do skateboard clinics out back
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 October 2021 15:22 (two years ago) link
There’s a DontMute Black Women rally w/ Pure Elegance and TOB from 5 to 8 Monday Nov 1 ( today) at 14th & U in support of Howard U professor Natalie Hopkinson and Cora Masters Barry who DC Council chair Mendelson is trying to evict from their volunteer positions as DC Commission of the Arts members . Hopkinson has written a Medium post in response to the Proposed action and has been busy on social media about this and her efforts to provide equity in arts funding. Hopkinson successfully required Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre and others to have to apply for arts grants like everyone else this year, rather than getting automatic funding. This apparently riled Mendelson.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 November 2021 16:01 (two years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/31/mayor-bowsers-nominees-dc-arts-commission-deserve-consideration/
Colbert King column
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 November 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
12-1 vote keeps Professor Hopkinson and Masters Barry on DC Arts Commission. Now Commission just needs to do a better job of letting dc musicians /artists in all wards know that they can get grants
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link
Which Maryland and DC Ethiopian restaurants have live music? Trying to find out without having to call all of the ones that show up in yelp, IG, FB, and internet. I have found ads for live Ethiopian music in Northern VA places - Hashtag Lounge, and others, but not currently seeing ones for rest of dmv.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 November 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
I vaguely remember Meskerem maybe?
As you note, some Northern Va places host open mics at least.
― popcornoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 18 November 2021 17:29 (two years ago) link
I think Abyssinia in Silver Spring does music late night
― Heez, Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:43 (two years ago) link
or maybe it was Langano. same block
― Heez, Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link