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ShowlistDC Music Notes: Friday 02-24-12

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The ShowlistDC offices were attacked by a nasty case of food poisoning (or the norovirus?) last night, so today’s Music Notes are abbreviated– and tardy. Stay healthy this weekend, folks, and remember you can add this blog to your RSS feed using the link http://www.showlistdc.com/more/feed

Press about shows for the week ahead
• Weekend planner: TBD on European bands this weekend.
• Two CD Reviews on the Washington Post for a show tonight at Jammin’ Java: Mark Jenkins on Teitur‘s Let the Dog Drive Home and Moira E McLaughlin on Marit Larsen‘s Spirit.
• Preview: Carl Craig [Washington CityPaper] – at U Street Music Hall tonight.
• Interview: David Malitz chats with Rana Santacruz, who plays Artisphere on Saturday 2/25. [Washington Post]
• CD Review: Catherine Lewis on Leigh Nash‘s new album Hymns and Sacred Songs [Washington Post]. The Sixpence None the Richer singer is at Jammin’ Java on Saturday 2/25.
• CD Review: David Malitz on Police & Thieves‘s Fracturing [Washington Post] – performing at St Stephen’s Church in Columbia Heights on Saturday 2/25.
• Preview: Connaitre Miller [Washington CityPaper] – at Strathmore on Wednesday 2/29.
• CD Review: Mark Jenkins on Max Raabe‘s One Cannot Kiss Alone [Washington Post]. Performing at Strathmore on Thursday 3/1.
• Preview: DC Peace Festival featuring Louder Than Quiet, Gods’Illa, Phil Adé, Skip Mahoney and the Casuals, and host Enoch 7th Prophet [Washington CityPaper] – at DC9 on Thursday 3/1.

Audiovisual stuff:
• the Cranberries stop by NPR’s offices in DC for a Tiny Desk concert. The band is at the 9:30 Club on 5/14.

Stuff to win:
• The Vinyl District is giving away a pair of tickets to Experience Hendrix at Strathmore on 3/6 (contest ends Monday 2/27 at noon)
• The Vinyl District is giving away a signed vinyl copy of All the Details by Doris (featuring Paul Adelstein of Private Practice). Winner must have a North American mailing address. (contest ends Tuesday 2/28)
• DC 50/WDCW is giving away tickets to Jim Jones with Nyemiah Supreme at U Street Music Hall on 3/5 (contest ends 3/1 at noon).

ShowlistDC Music Notes: Friday 02-17-12

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Are you sick of reading the name Sharon Van Etten here and everywhere else in DC’s news this week? Dude, her show was LAST SATURDAY; shouldn’t we have moved on to other things by now?! Thankfully, while there is one more SVE mention below (sorry!), we’ve also got a lengthy roundup of reading about bands coming through town in the next week– plenty of new shows to discover to get your mind off of Ms Van Etten. Thanks for another great week! Have a great weekend, and remember you can add this blog to your RSS feed with http://www.showlistdc.com/more/feed/

Press about shows for the week ahead:
• Washingtonian’s music picks for the next week. TBD on CD release shows this weekend.
• Washington CityPaper’s Guide to the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival. DCist also has a preview, and the Michael J West at the Washington CityPaper interviewed Afro-Blue’s Integriti Reeves, who is performing at the Fest on Sunday. West also reviewed Lena Seikaly‘s new album Lovely Changes.
• Article: Kristen Paige-Kirby on Duke Ellington [Express], for whom the “Discover Ellington” festival is this weekend at Strathmore. Paige-Kirby also interviews Brian Stokes Mitchell, who performs tonight.
• Mike Joyce on Kim Waters‘s album This Heart of Mine [Washington Post] – at Blues Alley Friday through Sunday, 2/17-2/19.
• CD Review: Catherine Lewis on Since Antarctica‘s new EP Aurorae [Washington Post] – at Jammin’ Java on Saturday 2/18.
• Writeup: Mike Paarlberg on Dead Milkmen [Washington CityPaper] – U Street Music Hall on Saturday 2/18.
• Writeup: Steve Kiviat on Homayoun Shajarian [Washington CityPaper] – Lisner on Sunday 2/19.
• Interview: Dave Malitz on Ben Lee [Washington Post]. Lee is at Rams Head Tavern in Annapolis on Monday 2/20.
• CD Review: Geoffrey Himes on Otis Taylor‘s new album Contraband [Washington Post] – at Blues Alley on Wednesday 2/22 and Rams Head Tavern in Annapolis on Thursday 2/23.
• Writeup: Reese Higgins on the Twilight Sad [Washington CityPaper] – Rock & Roll Hotel on Thursday 2/23. Dan Miller does an album review of the group’s new No One Can Ever Know [Washington Post].
• Chris Kompanek on Saul Williams‘s album Volcanic Sunlight [Washington Post] – at the Black Cat on Thursday 2/23.

Other things to read:
• CD Review: David Dunlap Jr on Adam WarRock‘s album You Dare Call That Thing Human?!? [Washington CityPaper].
• Live reviews: Stephen Brookes on the Emerson String Quartet at Strathmore [Washington Post]. Joe Banno on baritone Florian Boesch at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater [Washington Post]. Anne Midgette on Conductor Herbert Blomstedt and the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center [Washington Post] – this program repeats Saturday 2/18 and Sunday 2/19.

Things to listen to and/or watch:
• Joan Soriano stopped by NPR’s DC office for a Tiny Desk concert.
• Video: Sharon Van Etten at the Black Cat [All Our Noise].

Free stuff:
• The Rogers Revue has tickets to Disney On Ice at the Verizon Center on 2/18 (contest ends today).
• the Vinyl District has tickets to Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) at the 9:30 Club on 2/20 (contest ends 2/20 at noon).
• DC 50/WDCW has tickets to Jim Jones with Nyemiah Supreme at U Street Music Hall on 3/5 (contest ends 3/1 at noon).

ShowlistDC Music Notes: Friday 02-10-12

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It’s been a week of these Music Notes. Are you liking the feature? Send me an email (showlistdc@gmail.com) and let me know what you think! Also remember that you can add this blog to your RSS feed with http://www.showlistdc.com/more/feed/ . Have a great weekend!

Things to read:
• Black Tambourine wants to record an EP of Ramones songs, and they’ve set up a Kickstarter to do so. If that’s not enough Black Tambourine in your life, remember that they’re playing the Chickfactor 20th anniversary show in April at Artisphere (buy tickets, if you’re so inclined).
• Geoffrey Himes interviews Ralph Stanley in the Washington Post. Stanley performs this weekend at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas.
• Steve Aoki talks to the Washington Post about his music and also mentions Fugazi. Aoki is in Silver Spring at the Fillmore on Saturday.
• the Vinyl District continues its Gold Leaf Studios retrospective.
• the Washington CityPaper’s Spring Arts Guide.
• What to do this weekend and the following week ahead: The Vinyl District suggests Cate Le Bon and Marian Fahey McLaughlin at DC9 on Sunday, 12 February. Mark Jenkins also reviews Cate Le Bon for the Washington Post. TBD.com tells you about shows at unusual venues. Washingtonian offers picks for the next 7 days.
• Also reviewed in the Washington Post: Jess Righthand on Nicholas Payton‘s album Bitches (tonight at the Kennedy Center). Catherine Lewis on O’Brother‘s album Garden Window (Thursday at DC9). Jess Righthand on the Robert Glasper Experiment album Black Radio (Thursday at Strathmore).
• If you’re not sick of hearing about the sold-out Sharon van Etten show by now, the Washington Post has now reviewed opener Shearwater’s new album, Animal Joy (scroll down below the excellent SVE article).
• If you’re going to place your vote in November based on the candidates’ musical tastes, then you can thank the Washington Post for pointing you to the campaign playlists of Obama and Romney. (Seriously? Slow news day, apparently….)
• Live reviews: George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic at the 9:30 club reviewed by Dulani Wallace [the Vinyl District] and Erica Bruce [Washington CityPaper]. We Love DC on Thurston Moore and Kurt Vile at the Black Cat. Marlene Hall on the Kills at the 9:30 Club [Huffington Post].
• Bonus reading: this is not at all music-related, but we love a good vegan bakery, and Express has a nice interview with Doron Petersan of Sticky Fingers, in advance of her new cookbook Sticky Fingers’ Sweets: 100 Super-Secret Vegan Recipes, which comes out later this month. Petersan is doing a reading/Q&A at 6th & I on March 1st.

Things to listen to and/or watch:
• No tickets to tomorrow’s sold-out Sharon Van Etten show at the Black Cat? NPR brings you her World Cafe performance.
• Local rap duo DTMD released a video for “Raw” [Washington CityPaper]
• Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn did a Tiny Desk Concert at the NPR offices.

Free stuff:
• DCHeavyMetal.com has tickets to Opeth/Mastodon/Ghost (5/9) and Meshuggah/Baroness/Decapitated (5/22), both at the Fillmore in Silver Spring (contest ends today at 4 PM).
• ShowlistDC has tickets to Mos Def at the 9:30 Club on 2/20 (contest ends today at 5 PM).
• Heavy Uber Alles has tickets to Iced Earth at the 9:30 Club on 3/13 (contest ends Monday 2/13 at noon)
• The Vinyl District has a copy of Of Montreal‘s Paralytic Stalks on yellow vinyl. Winner must have a North American mailing address. (contest ends Tuesday 2/14)