Chris Richards has the dc hardcore punk scene covered. New article on band Hologram who are at Slash Run on the 13th. I don't know 'em
https://www.washingtonpost.com/music/2022/05/11/hologram-interview/
This is profoundly lonely, hyper-percussive hardcore punk delivered at varying neural speeds, all of it composed and performed by one brain — D.C. vocalist-guitarist-bassist-drummer Brendan Reichhardt, formerly of Kombat and Closet Christ, among other groups
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 May 2022 12:53 (two years ago) link
RE was great At MGM. 40 some years of music covering their early soul and funk stuff plus later rap and trap influenced sound. So many folks onstage plus nice video tribute to members of the Rare Essence family who have passed over the years
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 May 2022 01:38 (two years ago) link
CNN Sunday night 10 pm travel and food and culture show Nomad did an episode on DC. I dvr'd it but haven't seen it yet.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 May 2022 16:19 (two years ago) link
Local area vocalist Juanita Williams was powerfully singing soul, blues, and jazz last night @ Westminster Church SW Blue Monday Blues (6 to 9 pm). Trumpeter /vocalist Curtis Pope backed her. Pope used to play with Wilson Pickett back in the day. Just a small crowd there, right after that 5 pm rain and wind storm
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 11:50 (two years ago) link
Sometimes Model Home is too avant for me, and sometimes they sound just right
New Album streaming via UK mag The Wire
https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/album-premiere-model-home-s-saturn-in-the-basement
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 15:36 (two years ago) link
3rd anniversary of Moechella being celebrated Saturday night with an indoor show w/ 3 bouncebeat go-go bands @ Howard Theatre- TCB, TOB, New Impressionz
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 May 2022 12:38 (two years ago) link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/556571/voices-of-zion-bring-back-black-georgetown/
This gospel opera and drama production about historic Black Georgetown that occurs (depending on the weather) at cemeteries in Georgetown and Dumbarton Church is happening Friday and Saturday night; and Memorial Day Monday afternoon. Looks worth seeing and hearing
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 May 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/294469177243809/posts/5398852716805404/?d=n
Dischord/Minor Threat’s Jeff Nelson has been over in Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, and Croatia screening and talking about Punk the Capital doc and his own experiences over there
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 22 May 2022 13:26 (two years ago) link
Oh, James Schneider and Jeff Nelson also did Nordic countries and all over Europe as part of the April and May showings for Punk the Capital
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 22 May 2022 13:33 (two years ago) link
Ukrainian refugee benefits included at a few stops
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 22 May 2022 13:34 (two years ago) link
Not seeing a Melvin Gibbs thread (he was in Rollins Band and various jazz groups and more) or a DC band Messthetics one
had a meeting of the minds w Joe Lally (ex Fugazi bassist) over the weekend. We went over some ideas for the @htub03 Harriet Tubman/Messthetics double trio record we're cutting next month— melvin gibbs (@melvingibbs) May 23, 2022
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 May 2022 21:15 (two years ago) link
Funk Parade was postponed on a rainy May 7, with a pledge to reschedule but that hasn't happened yet.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:24 (two years ago) link
https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/05/19/first-look-sandlot-anacostia-opens-soon-with-go-go-and-good-eats/
Opens in June
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:39 (two years ago) link
The online only now Washington City Paper now has just 5 “City Lights” previews a week instead of 7, plus they just post them all only once a week- Thursday usually
I previewed today’s 11 am to 9 pm free tribute to late DC house music DJ Sam the Man Burns at Fort Reno
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/557248/city-lights-dc-black-pride-and-other-best-art-bets-for-may-26-june-1/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 28 May 2022 16:40 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG8USqMUAfI
Doc on Trouble Funk in England in 1986
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 June 2022 19:19 (two years ago) link
yea the punk archive gig on the 8th on the roof of mlk will be pretty cool, but so will these underpublicized Sunday June 5 events
Sunday June 5 daytime events - *Faaji day party-- afrobeats vs amapiano" dj event @ Gee's Lounge (Nigerian and South African dance music) in Hyattsville* The Mayor's Office on Latino Affairs presents 2022 DC Afro Latino Fest from 2 to 9 @ Malcolm X Park w/ Yissy Garcia, Dayme Arocena, Aurelio Martinez, Yasser Tejeda
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 June 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link
Afro Latin thing was disorganized and music was uneven and there weren't enough nearby food trucks, but still a good time
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 June 2022 21:13 (two years ago) link
Saw an advance zoom screening of Black Fire Records 1/2 hour doc last night . It's being shown Saturday at the home rule fest. Real interesting but left me wanting to know more-- Did label get any dc press attention then-- from W Post, Unicorn Times, City Paper which started in 81, local tv news?
Plunky said mid 70s WHUR gave him airplay. Did they then have decent record sales? Where did they gig?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 June 2022 16:49 (two years ago) link
Doug Carn & band's Love Supreme homage, David Murray and band's alternately out there and wistfully melodic jazz. TCB's uh out there bouncebeat go-go, and Plunky's afro-funky go-go & rap at Home Rules free Fest at the grass lawn naturl amphitheatre of the old Walter Reed was my kinda DC fest. Not packed but a sizeable crowd. Record fair there too.My kind of music nerds in attendance - Dr Thomas Stanley, Kevin Coombe, Soul Called Paul and more.
Show was not packed as my theories: 1. Billed by some editors as only a jazz fest -- some don't like jazz, some jazz listeners only like posh nice seats of Kennedy Center; 2. no rock or pop; 3. Folks don't know of Plunky
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 12 June 2022 16:37 (two years ago) link
event finished with Black Fire 1/2 movie doc too.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 12 June 2022 16:38 (two years ago) link
1/2 hour
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 12 June 2022 16:39 (two years ago) link
Would have likes to have gone to the festival if I didn’t have a weekend-long headache and probably would have gone to the rally downtown first.
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 12 June 2022 23:58 (two years ago) link
Sorry about that. I shoulda gone to the rally too. Went to the last one.
Meanwhile I missed and am gonna miss some flicks in this DC Caribbean Film Fest I would like to see-- next Sat. June 18 at 6 one called Rebel Dread about Don Letts= dj/filmmaker , colleague of the Clash and Johnny Rotten and once part of Big Audio Dynamite. But, a family commitment that night. I missed a doc about a studio in Kingston upstairs from randy's Records already
https://silver.afi.com/Browsing/EventsAndExperiences/EventDetails/0000000048
City Paper covered the Spain film fest but not the above one
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 June 2022 20:07 (two years ago) link
New Flasher album coming out (one member from 1st album has left the group). Family stuff means I can't go to album release Friday at Comet. Am curious what they sound like now. Were enjoyable some time back at Fort Reno
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 June 2022 04:55 (two years ago) link
NY-based jazz pianist Marc Cary used to play in dc go-go bands. He's in DC Sat. 3pm Columbia Hts Day w/ Indigenous Arkestra – go-go jazz combo w/: Cary, Tarus Mateen, Casey Benjamin, Brandon Woody, Lil Mickey, BJ /“The Future,” YML, Jrok, Michelle Blackwell, Kacey, Killa_Cal
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 June 2022 20:11 (two years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/20/us/dc-shooting-moechella.html
terrible that kid is dead. Also bad that they are going to blame Moechella promoter for for not having a permit when there were lots of police there (who didn't identify the suspect, catch the suspect, or outline a plan to stop illegal weapons from getting into the city. Plus, 2017 Las Vegas country music concert was permitted and guy still shot lots of people. There had been no violence at Moechella street events for years.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 June 2022 17:38 (two years ago) link
https://www.fortreno.com/
According to Amanda M., the schedule is still in development but there will be Fort Reno concerts this year, beginning Monday, July 18.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 13:39 (two years ago) link
Thanks. There's a DC Blues Society Summer solstice blues show at Fort Reno tonight 6 to 9 with Clarence Bluesman Turner
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 15:44 (two years ago) link
Dubai band Noon @ 6:30 @ Smithsonian Folklife Fest followed by EU w/ Sugar Bear at 7:30 . Free. Also streamed via Smithsonian Folklife
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 June 2022 21:45 (two years ago) link
So is the Folklife Festival now some small thing? Not too long ago it was a huge deal, now it feels a little rinky-dink, like your local shopping mall’s Chinese New Year or Oktoberfest.
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 23 June 2022 22:34 (two years ago) link
Between the National Park Service restricting space, Smithsonian budget cuts, the pandemic, it is not what it once was in prestige or coverage.
They had to take funding from human rights violators UAE this year plus corporate donations from Ford and United Airlines
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 June 2022 00:37 (two years ago) link
addressed issues here in City Paper link to various events. Plus they didn't gt the word out publicity wise and its a cloudy night and some white folks might be scared
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/560922/a-cats-movie-party-rone-and-more-best-bets-for-june-23-29/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 June 2022 00:46 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYxsRcPT7Aw
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 June 2022 00:47 (two years ago) link
Frederick Douglass Bridge shut down due to protest activity
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 June 2022 16:23 (two years ago) link
Was helping elderly Mom out in burbs most of the weekend so didn’t make it by the SC or to the Folklife Fest. I know some who did. I Doomscrolled and later watched some of the Puerto Rican plena Saturday night event on the mall on YouTube later. Most of the evening programs are there.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 June 2022 13:01 (two years ago) link
Mark Cisneros is out on tour in Europe with the Bellrays. Playing bass I think. He's a multi-instrumentalist.
His significant other, Baby Alcatraz is doing her Friday Save Your Soul lst Friday of the month soul vinyl dj thing at Lithuanian Hall in Baltimore . Some 1st Friday I would like to try that. Although I usually prefer to just see old-school r'n'b musicians themselves rather than go to clubs and hear the records.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 12:56 (two years ago) link
if you're looking for hyattsville music you should check for events at "the spot." jerry busher and some other bands played there last friday
― Heez, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 13:06 (two years ago) link
Thanks
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 July 2022 15:52 (two years ago) link
Fort reno shows now posted.
Also there’s an MLK library punk archive show Wednesday July 13 w/ Cinema Hearts and Continuals
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 July 2022 15:54 (two years ago) link
x-post - are bands at the Spot in Hyattsville only announced on the South Hyattsville Co-op Facebook page ?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 July 2022 16:21 (two years ago) link
saw Busher's band POA in Mt Pleasant once. Dub punk with bassist Dug Birdzell from Beefeater and vocalist Shawn Brown
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 July 2022 16:28 (two years ago) link
No idea. I only hear by word of mouth but the hyattsville wire Twitter should cover it
― Heez, Monday, 11 July 2022 21:05 (two years ago) link
thanks
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 12:52 (two years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 13:25 (two years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 July 2022 19:56 (two years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 July 2022 15:23 (two years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 July 2022 13:02 (two years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 04:22 (two years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 August 2022 02:07 (two years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 7 August 2022 23:13 (two years ago) link