Folk-artist and performer Lonnie Holley will be backed by Lee Bains from Alabama Joe Lally, and Brendan Canty at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage tonight from 6 to 7 pm Eastern US time. The show is free but ticketed. It will also be streamed on the Millennium Stage Youtube & Facebook page
https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/millennium-stage/2024/february/lonnie-holley/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 February 2024 18:38 (seven months ago) link
https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2024-02-16/one-of-a-kind-poet-dj-and-jazz-scholar-reuben-jackson-dies-at-67
Damn , this hurts. RIP Reuben Jackson. I will cherish that long phone call we had where you told me about going to Greg and Brian Tate’s house as a teenager where they had jazz records at one end of a room and punk records at the other. You told me about the poetry scene then and the early days at dc space and so much more about your DC and how self-proclaimed awkward Black nerds like yourself fit in.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 17 February 2024 06:53 (seven months ago) link
Rare Essence streaming from K Ctr tonight
https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/millennium-stage/2024/february/rare-essence/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 17 February 2024 23:11 (seven months ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/02/21/j-robbins-concert-dc/
I want to love the new J Robbins album ( he’s best known from being in Jawbox and Government Issue), and like how he mentions steps he takes to keep his new album and live show fresh, but on first listen it’s to me just good and not innovative enough
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 23:16 (seven months ago) link
The Wammies voters again did not nominate any of the Capital Bop top jazz albums for Wammies awards. Washington Post Chris R&chards fave dc rapper Wifi Gawd had one of his top 2023 albums of the year, but no Wammy nomination. Some guy named Ethan Spalding got nominated for best rock artist and best rap artist at Wammies. Anybody know his music?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:43 (seven months ago) link
Spalding calls his sound traprock
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:45 (seven months ago) link
WAMU just suddenly shut down DCist
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 February 2024 15:00 (seven months ago) link
They’re even blocking insult to the site. Fuckers.
― Chris L, Friday, 23 February 2024 15:15 (seven months ago) link
https://dcist.com/story/20/04/30/two-local-ethiopian-jazz-greats-have-new-albums/
Blocking access to my 2020 freelancer article for them on Hailu Mergia and Selam Woldemariam
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 February 2024 16:07 (seven months ago) link
https://www.ninaprotocol.com/articles/no-ones-moving-to-dc-to-get-famous-maybe-thats-why-the-music-is-so-good
interesting article on dc high bpm techno dance club music, dc experimental rap, and dc rhizome experimental jazz , but I wish article could have also mentioned Green Zone middle eastern djs, Adobo DMV, Ethiopian live music & dj scene ; dc Caribbean DJ scene. Article acknowledges dc go-go and dc punk as historic & still alive
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 18:50 (seven months ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/02/28/new-thing-exhibit-american-university-museum/
Early 70s DC in exhibit
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 18:08 (seven months ago) link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/681410/when-the-music-stopped-remembering-reuben-jackson/
ALona in City Paper re Reuben Jackson
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 19:31 (seven months ago) link
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning doc plus a doc short on great current photographer Dee Dwyer who is best known for her SE DC photos and is a go-go fan; Sat March 2 from 2 to 4:30 @ngadc . See the great Lange exhibit too
https://www.nga.gov/calendar/film-programs/art-films-special-screenings/dorothea-lange-grab-hunk-lightning.html/2024/03/02/1400
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 February 2024 22:25 (seven months ago) link
https://theforeigncorrespondentsdc.bandcamp.com/album/lovin-you-aint-easy
The Foreign Correspondents is a power pop band with Brendan Canty , and former DCers Ted Leo, Michael Hampton, and Sohrob Habion
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 March 2024 20:03 (seven months ago) link
Sounds interesting! Ted Leo was, of course, in Chisel with my former colleague John Dugan. Next time I saw him he was out with Aimee Mann and Liz Phair. Brendan has been around forever. I confess I don't know the other two.
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 1 March 2024 22:50 (seven months ago) link
Michael Hampton was in DC hardcore band Faith , and then in some other bands . Lives in NY now I think
Sohrob was in dc postpunk band Edsel, and I think is now in postpunk band Savak. He lives in NY or Jersey now too.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 3 March 2024 15:26 (seven months ago) link
DJ RBI mix of classic old and obscure new hiphop on Saturday nights 9 to 12 midnight last night on WpFw was so good.
I listened for a bit in the car as my wife and I were coming back from Baltimore where we saw the Ethiopian art at the Walters Museum and heard dc Ethiopian Ras Band there with guest vocalists. They had free tej Ethiopian honey wine samples and food too. We ate a full Ethiopian meal at Tabor afterwards.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 3 March 2024 15:31 (seven months ago) link
https://wtop.com/music/2024/03/michael-reidy-dynamic-front-man-of-revered-dc-rock-band-razz-dies-at-73/
Michael Reidy was a great, charismatic front man for rock/ proto-punk band (the) Razz in late 70s/80s in DC. He was also a clever artist /painter who had art exhibits in local galleries, and designed cool flyers and zine ads for the band.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 19:05 (six months ago) link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/682485/2024-spring-arts-guide/
I previewed late 70s early 80s Urban Verbs rock band talk ; Orquesta Akokan; Amaarae; Ms Kim; Arushi Mudgal dane & music ; & George Pelecanos for City Paper Spring Arts 2024. The Pelecanos one is under “books” but that Palisades Backstage event will have music too. Details in the preview DC rock fans. Also, the new Pelecanos book is kind of wacky -- written from the perspective of a dog who gre up in a public housing project, and later lived with a drunk, and then a drug dealer among others
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 March 2024 18:48 (six months ago) link
If you pluck my name from there and enter in blogspot as well, you can find my March 2024 DMV calendar with some gigs by touring acts in various genres plus local bands and djs I am interested in from such genres as Ethiopian music, go-go, Latino genres, rock, r& b, rap, South Asian, old-school and new school African genres. A bit of jazz and experimental but not as comprehensive for jazz as the Capital Bop list
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:52 (six months ago) link
Love your monthly list
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 7 March 2024 22:39 (six months ago) link
Thanks.
Typo above, should read - Arushi Mudgal dance and music (her sister is 1 of 2 vocalists for that event)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 March 2024 00:30 (six months ago) link
Saw the crappy 9 and 53 Washington Wizards win a basketball game last night @ Capital One & then we stuck around of course for Northeast Groovers and Backyard Band go-go . we had bought 2 tickets for $25 total via a special deal. Huge turnout for the go-go.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 9 March 2024 16:22 (six months ago) link
https://www.washingtonian.com/2024/03/08/a-dc-indie-rock-musician-is-now-ceo-of-amtrak/
Member of 90s art pop groups Lorelei and Chessie is now head of Amtrak
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 9 March 2024 19:49 (six months ago) link
Me on Michael Reidy of late 70s DC rock band Razz and his provocative visual art for galleries, Razz ads in the Unicorn Times , Razz record sleeves, Washington City Paper , and punk fanzines
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/685208/remembering-michael-reidy-musician-and-visual-artist/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 16:51 (six months ago) link
Dear Rhizome community,
An UPDATE, and an INVITATION…
1. We have NO NEWS on when/if we are ever going to actually get kicked out of everyone's favorite house on Maple Street. We're still there, and still going strong.
2. We have YES NEWS on a potential "forever home" for Rhizome, and we want to share it with you.
VERY BRIEFLY: We have an opportunity to purchase a building nearby with the help of a big grant from the DC Arts Commission.
We will be hosting a TOWN HALL on TUESDAY March 26 at 7pm to share information about the building and how YOU can make it happen. (Yes, we need HELP!)
To attend meeting by zoom you need to register on their google doc. Look for a link in their social media or on their website
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 March 2024 16:05 (six months ago) link
Very interested to see what Rhizome figures out. Hopefully they end up in a great spot and can keep things rolling along.
― grandavis, Friday, 22 March 2024 16:33 (six months ago) link
The Urban Verbs nostalgia talk at Palisades yesterday/Sunday was the same time as the WPFW jazz dj, poet, archivist , writer Reuben Jackson memorial poetry tribute service at Josephine Butler Center, so I chose the latter. Very emotional and touching. Poets read Jackson poems and then read their own work about Jackson. Plus they showed an Ellie Walton 6 minute video interview with Jackson. Some of those Jackson poets hit hard .
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 March 2024 15:36 (six months ago) link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/686524/washington-women-in-jazz-festival-city-lights-for-march-28-to-april-3/
Some of these events are a bity pricey, but once a year DC's Washington Women in Jazz fest happens with a range of styles
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 March 2024 14:48 (six months ago) link
Leonsis just did a make nice tweet to Ron Moten of Dont Mute DC, while simultaneously I am seeing this:
Axios -What we're watching: Another Leonsis lament, noisy street buskers, are also included in the terms. Monumental proposes creating an 'Entertainment District' around the arena with rules against vending, loitering, and noise
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 March 2024 16:55 (six months ago) link
January W Post article on the buskers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/18/ted-leonsis-street-musician-noise-gallery-place/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 March 2024 17:22 (six months ago) link
https://www.capitalbop.com/rhizome-dc-community-investment/
Rhizome is gonna try to buy a building on Alaska Ave off of Georgia Ave in DC. They got a $350,000 grant from DC Arts , and the hard part is going to be raising 400, 000 more via loans and donations. I think if they raise 200 grand , they then get a bit more time before having to come up with remaining 200 grand
I listened to the Zoom. New location is not near a Metro station, just near Metro bus routes. They seem more optimistic about raising the bucks than I would be
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 March 2024 22:25 (six months ago) link
I’d be willing to donate, but the document I saw is that they are going to crowdsource loans of a minimum of $2,500.
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 30 March 2024 00:17 (six months ago) link
They are supposed to based on my listening to the zoom have a separate donation link to a go fund me . But yeah for the loan they want more - 2500 . Which they say they will pay back in 10 to 15 years
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 March 2024 01:00 (six months ago) link
https://givebutter.com/rhizomedc
Link for Rhizome donations
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 March 2024 23:39 (six months ago) link
Thanks! If they haven’t used their email list yet to blast the link, they should.
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 31 March 2024 01:58 (six months ago) link
https://www.washingtonian.com/2024/03/29/rhizome-dcs-diy-mecca-is-trying-to-buy-a-permanent-home/
Washingtonian with more details re current rhizome landlord; and some stuff re the move
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 April 2024 19:29 (six months ago) link
My April concert calendar is posted, and my City Paper preview of the DC history conference is also online . The conference has presentations on big serious items with race, class, and gender aspects as well as looks at the beginning of the 930 Club on F Street; go-go and politics; U street and Howard Theatre history; a guy who painted pics of Rock Creek Park in the 1800s. If I was in town this weekend I would go to see Digable Planets and Sun Ra for free at Franklin Park
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/687813/curtis-sittenfeld-district-dreamers-film-fest-city-lights-for-april-4-to-10/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 April 2024 14:44 (six months ago) link
April 12 deadline to submit for consideration to Amanda M for Fort Reno summer concerts
https://www.fortreno.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 April 2024 14:28 (five months ago) link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/listings/items/orquesta-akokan-april-10/
My City Paper Spring Arts preview of Wed April 10 Orquesta Akokan at Hamilton live
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 00:34 (five months ago) link
My City Paper preview of Sunday April 14 gig by Ethiopian music band Qwanqwa is included in the link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/689557/new-worlds-atmosphere-and-more-city-lights-for-april-11-17/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 April 2024 21:22 (five months ago) link
DC punk band Ekko Astral got an 8.0 from Pitchfork
reunited Dc punk bands Scream and Soulside are about to tour UK
DC's Mark Cisneros is touring Australia as part of Kid Congo's band . Mick Harvey from Bad Seeds and others is playing bass on this tour
Dreamcast Moe ep getting lots of attention
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 April 2024 20:45 (five months ago) link
https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/iota-club-cafe-arlington-va/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMQABHXmKZ1kaMQL3PoyqmPRqvh0JKWSD14S_vEoiTTOYCOqSYrw8VccerBDvUg_aem_AWd4xFbAjbQaDnFY_iW0rsAwpyfWE-bm7fygp0FBHUZqJ8uTddzCPkvxRK4EAxvZfEo
Folks who loved Americana music and more club Iota in Arlington that was open from 1994 to 2017 reminisce
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 14:36 (five months ago) link
Rhizome still has a way to go to raise the money they need to buy their own place
https://www.rhizomedc.org/future
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 April 2024 20:21 (five months ago) link
They look close, 235k out of a goal of 250. I have some more though. I wish I could go more often Takoma is kind of a haul from my end of the DMV.
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 27 April 2024 17:35 (five months ago) link
I *gave* more.
Nice.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 28 April 2024 15:18 (five months ago) link
An update by Rhizome:
N UPDATE!
As of this morning, we have the funds necessary to proceed with the purchase of 7733 Alaska Ave NW as a permanent home for Rhizome. The outpouring of support has been so inspiring! We have raised over $250,000 in donations and loans from community members in one month. If you haven't contributed, and you'd still like to and have the means, don't worry, you are not too late to help! We still need $150k more over the next 4-5 months, in combined donations, loans, and grants, to pay for new HVAC, roof, accessible bathrooms, and other needed renovations. You can find out more and make a contribution HERE. What an amazing community!!!!
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:21 (five months ago) link
Great news!
― Heez, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:50 (five months ago) link
Yay
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 4 May 2024 15:01 (five months ago) link