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ShowlistDC Music Notes: Tuesday 07-17-12

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I’ll be out of the country for the rest of the week, so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to publish Music Notes beyond today. We’ll see!


Today’s New Releases (with locally-penned reviews)

• Baroness: Yellow & Green. Reviewed by Allison Stewart [Washington Post].

• Missy Higgins: the Ol’ Razzle Dazzle. Reviewed by Andrew Leahey [Washington Times].

• JEFF the Brotherhood: Hypnotic Nights. Reviewed by David Malitz [Washington Post].

• Misun: the Sea. Reviewed by Gregory Ayers [DC Music Download].

• Nas: Life Is Good. Reviewed by Sarah Godfrey [Washington Post].

• Old Crow Medicine Show: Carry Me Back. Reviewed by Andrew Leahey [Washington Times].


Articles

• Planning Guides: DC Music Download’s Weekday Hits. the Washington Post Going Out Guide’s Nightlife Agenda.

• There’s a rally planned for Lamb of God‘s Randy Blythe on the steps of the Supreme Court on Sunday [Metal Injection]. Blythe has been in a Czech prison for three weeks on allegations of manslaughter from a 2010 Prague concert; you can read some details here. (How effective will a protest on the steps of the Supreme Court be on a Sunday when the Court isn’t in session?).

• Manuel Roig-Franzia on Barack Obama and Mitt Romney singing on the campaign trail/ads [Washington Post].

• Terence McArdle on the late Kitty Wells [Washington Post].

• the Washington CityPaper’s favorite DMV tracks of 2012 so far (with song streaming!).

• Andre from Chunky Glasses’ top 10 of 2012 so far.

• DC Music Download’s best concert photos of 2012 so far.

• DC Jazz musician or fan? Come to the Howard Theatre this Friday afternoon, where photographer Carlyle Smith is recreating Art Kane‘s “A Great Day in Harlem” [Washington CityPaper].

• Preview: Nancy Dunham on Wilco [Washington Examiner]. Tonight and Wednesday at Wolf Trap.

• The other Lars at NPR reviews an anonymous death metal album.


Listening

• Hometown Sounds DC’s local music video of the day is SOJA, “Not Done Yet”.

• DCist didn’t seem to post a song of the day yesterday(?!)

• Live listening: check out Best Coast at the 9:30 Club [NPR].

• Listen: Javier Starks featuring B. Steady, “Sock It To Me” [DC Music Live].


Live Reviews

• Stephen Brookes on pianist Simone Dinnerstein at the Phillips Collection, 7/15/12 [Washington Post].

• Emily Yahr on Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan at Merriweather Post Pavilion, 7/15/12 [Washington Post].

• Erica Bruce’s photos of Best Coast at the 9:30 Club [Washington CityPaper]. the 9:30 Club posted the band’s set list [930club.tumblr.com].

• Marie Eff on Wynter Gordon at the Rock & Roll Hotel, 7/13/12 [Brightest Young Things].

• Brightest Young Things on Ana Tijoux and Rebel Diaz at the Black Cat.

• Andy Johnson on Roger Waters‘ The Wall at the Verizon Center [Brightest Young Things].


Giveaways

• The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of the English Beat, Keep the Beat: the Very Best of the English Beat on CD(!). Winner must have a North American mailing address (contest ends today).
• The Vinyl District is giving away a signed copy of Japandroids‘ Celebration Rock. Winner must have a North American mailing address (contest ends today).
• The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of Thin Lizzy‘s self-titled debut reissue on vinyl. Winner must have a North American mailing address (contest ends Wednesday 7/18).
• NEW The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of Anywhere‘s self-titled album on vinyl. Winner must have a North America mailing address (contest ends Tuesday 7/24).
• Metal Injection is giving away tickets to the Rockstar Mayhem Fest featuring Slipknot, Slayer, and Motorhead at Jiffy Lube Live on 7/29 (contest ends “randomly” as the concert date approaches).
• DC101 is giving away a pair of tickets to see 311 and Slightly Stoopid at Jiffy Lube Live on 7/28 (contest ends Sunday 7/22).
• DC101 is giving away a pair of tickets to see System of a Down with the Deftones at the Verizon Center on 8/7 (contest ends Sunday 7/29).
• DC101 is giving away a pair of tickets to see OAR at Merriweather Post Pavilion on 8/10 (contest ends Sunday 7/29).
• DC101 is giving away a pair of tickets to see Linkin Park and Mutemath at Jiffy Lube Live on 8/11 (contest ends 8/5).
• DC101 is giving away a pair of tickets to see Gotye at Merriweather Post Pavilion on 9/30 (no indication of when this contest ends).

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ShowlistDC Music Notes: Tuesday 05-01-12

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Today’s New Releases (with local reviews)

• B.o.B.: Strange Clouds – Reviewed by Sarah Godfrey [Washington Post]. At U of Maryland’s Byrd Stadium on 5/4.

• Norah Jones: …Little Broken Hearts – Reviewed by Erin Williams [Washington Post] and by Andrew Leahey (scroll down) [Washington Times]. At Wolf Trap on 6/27.

• Light Asylum: Light Asylum – Reviewed by Zach Kelly [Pitchfork]. At U Street Music Hall on Saturday 5/5.

• Lower Dens: Nootropics – Reviewed by Joe Colly [Pitchfork].

• Santigold: Master of My Make-Believe – Reviewed by Bill Friskics-Warren [Washington Post]. At the 9:30 Club on 6/18 and Rams Head Live! on 6/19.

• Trouble Books: Concatenating Fields – Reviewed by Zach Kelly [Pitchfork].

• Carrie Underwood: Blown Away – Reviewed by Chris Richards [Washington Post] and by Andrew Leahey [Washington Times].


Articles

• Planning guides: DCist’s Weekly Music Agenda. Washington Post Going Out Guide’s best events in DC this week and Nightlife Agenda.

• Chris Richards writes of Young Jeezy, President Obama, and the White House’s complicated relationship with hip-hop [Washington Post]. The zingers were zinging at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, but one seemed to fall a smidge flat: President Obama’s promise to start singing Young Jeezy songs in public if he wins a second term. “In my first term I sang Al Green,” the president said, referencing his off-the-cuff performance of Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” at the Apollo Theatre in January. “In my second term, I’m going with Young Jeezy.”

• Preview: Nancy Dunham on Marilyn Manson [Washington Examiner]. Tonight at the Fillmore Silver Spring.

• Not really a live review, since the writer wasn’t there: Jonathan Fischer on Ian MacKaye‘s surprise 50th birthday party concert at St Stephen’s on Saturday night [Washington CityPaper]. There’s more information over on WTOP.

• What else did you miss this weekend? A$AB Rocky brought out Fat Trel at the 9:30 Club [Washington CityPaper]. You can see Fat Trel headline later this month at Empire (the Springfield club formerly known as Jaxx).

• All Our Noise goes backstage with Perfume Genius at a recent show at IOTA.

• If you’re planning on using the IMP-sponsored Rock & Bus to get to shows at Merriweather Post Pavilion this summer, do your homework first: the service was a disaster at this weekend’s Sweetlife Festival [Washington CityPaper].

• Listen: you can download Black Cobain‘s Cheers [Washington CityPaper].

• Listen/watch: NPR recorded Kishi Bashi at the 9:30 Club on April 3rd.

• Bassist wanted: for local metal outfit Yesterday’s Saints. Check out the ad.


Live Reviews

• Sweetlife Festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion reviewed by Tanya Pai [Washingtonian] and Francis Chung [DCist].

• Stephen Bradley on Kina Grannis at the 9:30 Club [Washington Times].

• Cecelia Porter on Washington Bach Consort at the National Presbyterian Church [Washington Post].

• Joan Reinthaler on Kioi Sinfonietta Tokio at the National Gallery of Art [Washington Post].


Contests

• The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of I Break Horses‘ Hearts on vinyl. Winner must have a North American mailing address (contest ends today).
• ShowlistDC is giving away a pair of tickets to see Rush at Jiffy Lube Live on 9/9 (contest ends Thursday 5/3 at 5 PM).
• The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of Megan Reilly‘s The Wall on vinyl. Winner must have a North American mailing address (contest ends Thursday 5/3).
• NEW The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of 4onthefloor‘s Lion & Lamb on vinyl. Winner must have a North American mailing address (contest ends Friday 5/4).
• DC101 is giving away a pair of tickets to the sold-out Radiohead show at the Verizon Center on 6/3 (contest ends Sunday 5/27).
• DC101 is giving away a pair of tickets to Dave Matthews Band at Jiffy Lube Live on 6/16 (contest ends Sunday 6/3).
• DC101 is giving away a pair of tickets to see 311 and Slightly Stoopid at Jiffy Lube Live on 7/28 (contest ends Sunday 7/22).
• DC101 is giving away a pair of tickets to see OAR at Merriweather Post Pavilion on 8/10 (contest ends Sunday 7/29).

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ShowlistDC Music Notes: Wednesday 02-22-12

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Stuff to read:
• Chris Richards reports on BB King and Mick Jagger at the White House [Washington Post]. Those guys were there celebrating the blues in honor of Black History Month. Also, Obama sang a few lines of “Sweet Home Chicago”: this link has video of Obama singing, plus the setlist from the evening and a photo gallery.

“This music speaks to something universal,” the president said before introducing King. “No one goes through life without both joy and pain, triumph and sorrow. The blues gets all of that.”

• ALERT: DC GETS SNUBBED! Slowcore heros Codeine are doing a reunion tour this spring, but they won’t be playing anywhere close to the District. The reunion tour’s closest stops are Brooklyn (6/29 at the Bell House) or New York City (7/15 at Le Poisson Rouge). Seriously? New York gets two dates and DC/Balt doesn’t get any? Sigh. Check out the tour dates to plan your roadtrip.
• Ken Avis at CapitalBop has a lengthy retrospective on Jazz Samba by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd.
• DCist tells you what to do: This week in hip-hop and the Weekly Music Agenda.
• Preview: Women in Jazz Festival [Washington CityPaper].
• Band Profile: Steve Cooper on Spirit Animal [the Vinyl District] – playing the Black Cat on Monday 2/27.
• Heavy Uber Alles brings you six heavy tunes every Tuesday. This week’s edition features New Orleans bands, in honor of Mardi Gras.
• Would you ever by teeny-tiny records at a teeny-tiny record store? [the Awl]
• DC writer Marc Masters reviews Jim Jarmusch and Jozef Van Wissem‘s Concerning the Entrance Into Eternity for Pitchfork.
• Live Reviews: We Love DC on the Dead Milkmen at the U Street Music Hall.

Audiovisual stuff:
• Loosely DC related: Download the new single from Mynabirds, the new project of ex-Georgie James‘ Laura Burhenn (a former DC resident). [Washington CityPaper]
• Tittsworth points us to a free track from Canadian duo Dooze Jackers.

Stuff to win:
• The Vinyl District is giving away a pair of tickets to Galactic at the 9:30 Club on 2/23 (contest ends Thursday 2/23 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 02-10-12

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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)