ShowlistDC Music Notes: Friday 05-25-12



Weekend/Week-Ahead Planner


Planning Guides
• Washingtonian’s Music Picks.
• DC Music Download’s Weekend Hits.
• We Love DC loves weekends.
• DCist’s This Week in Jazz.
• Brightest Young Things’ best weekend bets.
• TBD’s guide to this weekend’s shows at Artomatic.

Maryland DeathFest is the big event this weekend, Friday/Saturday/Sunday at Sonar in Baltimore. Lots and lots and lots of press on this:
• Chris Porter has a preview of the festival [Washington Post Express], with quotes from Metal Chris (DCHeavyMetal.com), Bob Lugowe (Relapse Records), and Chris Moore (Magrudergrind, DOC, and Coke Bust).
• Metal Chris from DCHeavyMetal.com has an excellent and thorough MDF Survival Guide.
• Kim Kelly wants you to know that metalheads are people too [NPR].
• NPR also has this preview with audio samples, titled “It’s Gonna Get Sweaty”.
• Wesley Case profiles the festival and talks to MDF co-creator Evan Harting [Baltimore Sun].
• Baltimore blogger Metallomusikum has been profiling every band playing the festival; you can read those on her blog here. She’s also got some video of Hellbastard, who are her houseguests for the weekend.
• Ian Christe lists 10 Dark Horse Bands to check out at Deathfest [Noisecreep].
• Invisible Oranges has a MDF guide.

Tonight – Friday May 25
• Emily Cary on Garrison Keillor‘s Prairie Home Companion [Washington Examiner]. Tonight at Wolf Trap.
• Article/interview: Marie Gullard talks to Karla Chisholm [Washington Examiner]. Performing at Blues Alley.
• How well do you know Drake‘s twitter account? Washington Post Express has a quiz. Performing at the Verizon Center.
• CD Review: Rocky Votolato: Television of Saints – Reviewed by Geoffrey Himes [Washington Post]. Performing at the Red Palace.

Saturday May 26
• Article/interview: Stephen M Deusner talks to Yann Tiersen [Washington Post Express]. Performing at the 9:30 Club.
• Article/interview: Jason Isbell, interviewed by Rudi Greenberg [Washington Post Express] and by Nancy Dunham [Washington Examiner]. Performing at the Rams Head Tavern at 1 PM.
• Article/interview: Marie Gullard on the BSO and Baltimore Choral Arts Society‘s performance of Beethoven’s Ninth [Washington Examiner]. At Strathmore.

Sunday May 27
• Preview: Marcus J Moore on Afrika Bambaataa [Washington CityPaper]. Moore also interviewed him [Wash CP again]. At the U St Music Hall.
• Article/interview: Jason Isbell, interviewed by Rudi Greenberg [Washington Post Express] and by Nancy Dunham [Washington Examiner]. Performing at the Mansion on O Street [2020 O St NW, WDC].
• CD Review: Jess Klein: Behind a Veil – Reviewed by Catherine P Lewis [Washington Post]. Performing at IOTA.
• CD Review: Great Lake Swimmers: New Wild Everywhere – Reviewed by Dan Miller [Washington Post]. Performing at the Rock & Roll Hotel.

Monday May 28
• Go to Artomatic!

Tuesday May 29
• Interview: Stephanie Williams talks to Western Affairs [DC Music Download]. Performing at the Black Cat (Backstage).

Wednesday May 30
• Article/interview: Geoffrey Himes talks to Fabian Almazan [Washington Post]. Performing at Blues Alley.

Thursday May 31
• CD Review: Erik Deutsch: Demonio Teclado – Reviewed by Mike Joyce [Washington Post]. Performing at Bohemian Caverns on U St.
• CD Review: Simone Felice: Simone Felice – Reviewed by Mark Jenkins [Washington Post]. Performing at the Hamilton.



Articles


Chuck Brown‘s viewing will be on Tuesday at the Howard Theatre (11 AM to 10 PM), with a funeral on Thursday at the Washington Convention Center starting at noon. More from Hamil R Harris [Washington Post], Jonathan L Fischer [Washington CityPaper], and Benjamin Freed [DCist].

• Speaking of Chuck Brown, the godfather of go-go is the cover feature of the Washington CityPaper this week. this page rounds up all the articles.

• We warned you about this article yesterday: Chris Richards on the 2012 summer jam [Washington Post]. If that’s not enough summer jam action for you, the Post also has a gallery of summer jams from the last decade.

• Local listening: Hometown Sounds DC’s local video of the day is America Hearts‘s “A Whole Lotta Love” (not a Led Zeppelin cover!).

• Local listening: Lindsay Zoladz on Teen Mom‘s song “You and Me” [Washington CityPaper].

• We’ve posted these along the way, but Anne Midgette rounds up the classical reviews in the Washington Post.

• The show was last night, but here’s Philip Runco’s interview with Black Dice [Brightest Young Things].



Live Reviews


• We Love DC on Black Hills at the Black Cat on 5/23.

• Erica Bruce’s photos of Garbage at the 9:30 Club [Washington CityPaper].

• Stephen Bradley on James Morrison at the 9:30 Club [Washington Times].

• Farrah Skeiky on the Adicts at the Rock & Roll Hotel [Brightest Young Things].

• Alan Pyke on the Donkeys at the Black Cat [Brightest Young Things].



Giveaways


• SceneTrek is giving away tickets to Yann Tiersen & Piano Chat at the 9:30 Club on 5/26 (contest ends today at 3 PM).
NEW Brightest Young Things is giving away a pair of tickets to see the Dandy Warhols at the 9:30 Club (BYT gives absolutely no indication of when this contest ends).
• 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).
NEW The Vinyl District is giving away tickets to the Dandy Warhols at the 9:30 Club (contest ends Tuesday 5/29 at 9 AM).
NEW The Vinyl District is giving away an autographed copy of the Gossip‘s A Joyful Noise on vinyl. Winner must have a North American mailing address (contest ends Thursday 5/31).
NEW The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of The Choice of Weapon on vinyl. Winner must have a North American mailing address (contest ends Friday 6/1).
• DC101 is giving away a pair of tickets to Dave Matthews Band at Jiffy Lube Live on 6/16 (contest ends Sunday 6/3).
• 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 OAR at Merriweather Post Pavilion on 8/10 (contest ends Sunday 7/29).

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ShowlistDC Music Notes: Tuesday 05-22-12



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

Beach House: Bloom – Reviewed by Andrew Leahey [Washington Times]. This album came out last week, and last week we linked you to reviews by Lindsay Zoladz [Pitchfork] and Chris Richards [Washington Post].

Dope Body: Natural History – Reviewed by Aaron Leitko [Pitchfork].

Grass Widow: Internal Logic – Reviewed by Lindsay Zoladz [Pitchfork].

Kimbra: Vows – Reviewed by Allison Stewart [Washington Post] and by Andrew Leahey [Washington Times].

John Mayer: Born and Raised – Reviewed by Allison Stewart [Washington Post].

Joey Ramone: …Ya Know? – Reviewed by Timothy Bracy [Washington Post].



Articles


Planning Guides: Washington Post Going Out Guide’s best events this week and guide to free events this week and Memorial Day Nightlife Agenda. Brightest Young Things’ Shows to get pumped for this week.

• You missed it: David Malitz reports on the secret The Make-Up reunion show at Comet Ping Pong this weekend [Washington Post].

• Local band news: Magrudergrind was on Veep this weekend! Check out a clip of their performance [Metal Injection] (best description ever? they sound “like being operated on by a chimp with a hard-on and a hacksaw. radical stuff!”) and the Washington CityPaper’s review. And if you’ve forgotten how this all came about, here’s the Washington CityPaper’s interview with the band about how it all came about in the first place.

• Time Machine: Read this 1979 Geoffrey Himes article on disco [Washington Post]. [N]o music since the earliest rock ‘n’ roll has inspired the kind of backlash that disco has suffered. At rock concerts now, it seems every fourth person is wearing a t-shirt with an obscene, anti-disco slogan on it. Meanwhile, backstage the performers are dreaming up new put-downs of disco for interviewers. If one listens to the records, however, disco hardly seems worth all the fuss. It’s simple, harmless dance music that’s unlikely to either ruin or revolutionize popular music. Most of the music is mediocre; the best of it has the irresistible energy of any perfected pop form. The most important pop music of any era, however, is seldom the music that sells the most. Disco is not the music of this era that will last.

• Local girl dates Justin Bieber: OK, not exactly “dates”, but Justin Bieber invited Cady Elmer of Poquosan High School (Hampton Roads area of Virginia) to the Billboard Music Awards [Washington Post].

• Watch: High school filmmaker Hannah Hoffman made a 30-minute documentary on Sockets Records [Washington CityPaper].

• Listen/watch: Yann Tiersen stopped by NPR’s DC office for a Tiny Desk Concert.

• Local listening: Columbia Nights featuring Sarai Abdul-Malik, “In the Glow” [DC Music Live].

• Local listening (and preview): America Hearts‘ “A Whole Lotta Love” (not a Led Zeppelin cover) [DC Music Download]. At the Black Cat on Thursday.

• Local music video of the day: Tabi Bonney‘s “Castle on a Cloud” [Hometown Sounds DC].

• Local venue news: the discrimination lawsuit filed by Enterprise Jazz Club against its owner has been dropped [Washington CityPaper].

• Celebrate Chuck Brown: There’s an online petition seeking Chuck Brown Day and a Go-Go Museum [DCist].

• Anne Midgette on the deaths of Herbert Breslin (Pavarotti’s manager) and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (German singer) [Washington Post].



Live Reviews

• Erica Bruce’s photos of Fishbone at the State Theater [Washington CityPaper].

• Jonathan Fischer’s mini-review alongside Erica Bruce’s photos of The Make-Up at Comet Ping Pong [Washington CityPaper].

• Anne Midgette on Julian Wachner and the Washington Chorus present “The Essential Wagner” at the Kennedy Center [Washington Post].

• Bryan Patton on MeWithoutYou at the Black Cat [Brightest Young Things].

• Jeb Gavin on James Morrison at the 9:30 Club [Brightest Young Things].

• Marie Formica on La Sera and Beach Week at the Red Palace [Brightest Young Things].

• Ross Bonaime on the Black Keys and Arctic Monkeys at Merriweather Post Pavilion [Brightest Young Things].



Giveaways


• The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of Electric Guest‘s Mondo on vinyl. Winner must have a North American mailing address (contest ends Wednesday 5/23).
• 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).
• 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 OAR at Merriweather Post Pavilion on 8/10 (contest ends Sunday 7/29).

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ShowlistDC Music Notes: Wednesday 05-16-12

Wednesdays are typically quiet here in Music Notes land, but there’s a healthy list of articles below that should keep you going all the way through Hump Day….



Articles


• Planning Guides: DCist’s Weekly Music Agenda and This Week in Hip-Hop. Washington Post Going Out Guide’s Nightlife Agenda.

• Preview: Megan Buerger on Sound Bites at the 9:30 Club [Washington Post].

• Preview: Nancy Dunham on James Morrison [Washington Examiner]. Tonight at the 9:30 Club.

• Interview: DC Music Live talks to DJ Diwon.

• Local Download: local metal band Ilsa‘s unreleased song “Deadbeat’s Ballad”, courtesy of A389 Records.

• Local Download: Oddisee‘s “Odd Renditions” [Washington CityPaper].

• Local Download: Logic‘s Young Sinatra: Undeniable [Washington CityPaper].

• Here’s a column by Head-Roc [Washington CityPaper].

• DC soul: Christopher Porter on Numero Group‘s reissue of engineer Robert Jose Williams‘s 1970s recordings, Eccentric Soul: A Red Black Green Production [Express].

• Local venue news: the Atlas Performing Arts Center on H St NE is adding more shows thanks to growing attendance numbers [Washington Post].

• Heavy Uber Alles brings us six heavy tunes every Tuesday.

• Metallomusikum continues her countdown to Maryland DeathFest with profiles of Demonical and Disma and an interview with Mortuary Drape.

• Watch: Lucky Dub‘s video for “Easy” [Washington Post].

• What’s on Ruth Bader Ginsburg‘s iPod? the Supreme Court Justice reveals her favorite classical records to Alex Ross at the New Yorker.

• Do you like Robyn? She’ll be DJing at the U St Music Hall on 7/7, the night before her two-night stint opening for Coldplay at the Verizon Center. The Washington Post has more information.

• Do you like trombones? Catch 500 trombones performing at Nationals Park on June 1 [Washington Post].



Live Reviews

• Megan Petty on Fort Lean at the Black Cat on 5/2 [Fuzzy Logic].

• Megan Petty on White Hills at DC9 on 4/29 [Fuzzy Logic].

• Alan Duckworth on Rusko, Hold On, and Lez Go at Rams Head Live [the Rogers Revue].

• Jeb Gavin on Opeth and Mastodon at the Fillmore Silver Spring on 5/9 [Brightest Young Things]. As seems to be the norm with BYT’s live reviews, this one is full of factual errors, such as the comment that Opeth is both black metal and death metal (actually, Opeth is neither, unless maybe you wanted to say that their growling is reminiscent of death metal) and the comment that “black metal evolved into death metal” (um, what?!). Still, we try to be inclusive with our Music Notes, so we’re including this link here, along with a healthy shaker of salt.

• Ross Bonaime on Star Slinger & The Hood Internet at Sonar [Brightest Young Things].

• Alan Pyke on Esperanza Spalding at the Howard Theatre [Brightest Young Things].



Contests


NEW ShowlistDC is giving away a pair of tickets to see Hot Chip and Sleigh Bells at Merriweather Post Pavilion on 7/22 and a pair of tickets to see Metric at Strathmore on 9/21 (contest ends Thursday 5/17 at 7 PM).
• The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of Keane‘s Strangeland on vinyl. Winner must have a North American mailing address (contest ends Thursday 5/17).
NEW Capital Bop is giving away four pairs of tickets to see Roy Haynes at Blues Alley, two for Thursday 5/17 and two for Sunday 5/20 (don’t know when this one ends!).
• 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: Tuesday 05-15-12



Today’s New Release (with locally-written reviews)

Beach House: Bloom – Reviewed by Lindsay Zoladz [Pitchfork] and by Chris Richards [Washington Post].

Best Coast: The Only Place – Reviewed by David Malitz [the Washington Post]. At the 9:30 Club on 7/14.

Adam Lambert: Tresspassing – Reviewed by Allison Stewart [Washington Post] and by Andrew Leahey [Washington Times].

Motion Sickness of Time Travel: Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Reviewed by Marc Masters [Pitchfork].

Willie Nelson: Heroes – Reviewed by Andrew Leahey [Washington Times].

Roomrunner: Super Vague EP – Reviewed by Aaron Leitko [Pitchfork].

Rye Rye: Go! Pop! Bang! – Reviewed by Sarah Godfrey [Washington Post].



Articles


• Local venue news: We got a press release from the folks at Live Nation about Jiffy Lube Live (formerly Nissan Pavilion) about some of the changes to expect this season:
      – Local food trucks will be stopping by the venue at concerts.
      – There’s apparently a 32-oz fountain soda for sale that comes with free refills.
      – New speakers and upgraded video projectors on the lawn.
      – All day-of-show information (parking lot times, set times, permitted items, etc) will be on JLL’s facebook page, facebook.com/JiffyLubeLive.
      – There’s also a LiveNation iPhone app– we’re not sure exactly how crucial this is, but it might make buying tickets easier. Check it out at this link.
      – Remember that JLL lifted its tailgating ban earlier this year!
ShowlistDC has JLL’s schedule posted here.

• Interview/Preview: Jonathan Druy talks to the BreedersKelley Deal [We Love DC]. Deal’s acoustic project R. Ring plays at DC9 tonight.

• Interview/Preview: Tanya Pai talks to James Morrison [Washingtonian]. At the 9:30 Club on Wednesday.

• Interview/Preview: Stephanie Williams talks to Fire and the Wheel [DC Music Download]. At the Black Cat on Saturday.

• Local band news: Periphery‘s new album now has a release date of July 3rd. Apparently the band had no idea [Metal Injection].

• Metallomusikum continues her countdown to Maryland DeathFest with an interview with Tsjuder‘s drummer Anti-Christian.

Silo Halo‘s Midwestern Tour Diary, Day 5 [DCist].

• Listen: Tabi Bonney‘s “Chop Chop” [Washington CityPaper].

• Video: Maimouna Youssef‘s “I Got a Man” [Hometown Sounds DC].

• Listen Local First is curating a Live Showcase & Panel on Web Streaming on Thursday 5/17.



Live Reviews

• Stephen Bradley on Black Taxi at the Black Cat [Washington Times].



Contests


• The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of Keane‘s Strangeland on vinyl. Winner must have a North American mailing address (contest ends Thursday 5/17).
• 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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