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After today, I’m Maryland DeathFest-bound! I do hope to post tomorrow’s Music Notes (with your Weekend Planner!), but it all depends on my internet access in Charm City. Stay tuned….

Articles

• Planning Guides: DCist’s This Week in Jazz. DC Music Download’s Weekend Hits.

• Chuck Brown news: The viewing for the Godfather of Go-Go is rumored to be at the Howard Theatre on Tuesday 5/29, with a funeral likely to follow later in the week. Reports by Mike DeBonis [Washington Post], Jonathan L Fischer [Washington CityPaper], and Martin Austermuhle [DCist]. We’ll let you know more details when they’re firm.

• More press on the additions to the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry by Benjamin R Freed [DCist].

• Hey, do you hate the concept of the summer jam (and the endless arguing about which track will earn that title) as much as I do? The Washington Post’s Arts Post blog previews Chris Richards’s Sunday Style article about this year’s summer jam. Spoiler: there’s lots of talk about Carly Rae Jepsen‘s “Call Me Maybe”.

• Chris Porter on America Hearts and the singles club [Express].

• Local Listening: Hometown Sounds DC’s local video of the day is All Good Funk Alliance‘s “Slingshot Boogie”.

• Local Listening: Ugly Purple Sweater and Typefighter have covered each other’s songs [DC Music Download]. The two bands play at the Black Cat next Thursday 5/30.

• Not local music but still cool: local playwright Richard Byrne has gotten Jon Langford to compose music for his play Nero/Pseudo [Washington CityPaper]. You can hear a track at that link, and you can attend a reading of the play at Artisphere on 5/30.

• Music documentaries: The Rogers Revue reports on Music Docs at Silverdocs.

Live Reviews

• The Vinyl District on M3 Rock Festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion 5/10-11.

• Brightest Young Things on the Barr Brothers and Kishi Bashi at the Hamilton.

• Marie Formica on Damien Jurado at the Black Cat [Brightest Young Things].

Giveaways

• NEW Brightest Young Things is giving away a pair of tickets to Wallpaper and the Dance Party at U-Hall on 5/25 (contest ends Friday morning).
• NEW Brightest Young Things is giving away a pair of tickets to Janes Addiction at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore on 8/14 (contest ends Friday at 9 AM).
• SceneTrek is giving away tickets to Yann Tiersen & Piano Chat at the 9:30 Club on 5/26 (contest ends Friday 5/25 at 3 PM).
• 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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Articles

• Planning guides: DCist’s Weekly Music Agenda and This Week in Hip-Hop. BYT’s summer events.

• Most readers of this blog probably aren’t really into opera, but I still urge you to read Anne Midgette’s thoughtful column Peter and the Press [Washington Post], about how Peter Gelb, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, deals with negative press: namely, bullying radio station WQXR to remove a blog post containing a negative review and pressuring Opera News to stop reviewing the Met. Fascinating food for thought about criticism in the modern era (when internet postings can just disappear on a whim) and censorship in general.

• Preview: Brian Ossip on Thrice [DC Music Live]. Performing tonight at the Howard Theatre. All Things Go also previews the show and has a profile on opening band O’Brother.

• Heads Up: Robyn has added a second U-Hall DJ show [Washington Post].

• Preserve this: Chris Richards on the 25 recordings being added to the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry [Washington Post]. This year’s additions include Parliament’s 1975 album Mothership Connection, a collection of news reports from Edward R. Murrow, Leonard Bernstein’s debut performance with the New York Philharmonic, Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love”, and hip-hop Magna Carta “Rapper’s Delight” by Sugarhill Gang.

• Heading to Maryland DeathFest this weekend? Even if you’re not, NPR’s DeathFest Preview will give you plenty of new metal tunes to check out.

• Speaking of DeathFest, Metallomusikum has an interview with MDF organizer Evan Harting. A few weeks back, we pointed you to DCHeavyMetal.com’s interview with Harting as well.

• Metallomusikum also interviewed Bryan Giles of Red Fang, who will be playing at Sonar on 6/21 with The Sword.

• Local listening: Hometown Sounds DC’s local video of the day is Lenorable‘s “Ligeia”.

• Local band news: Remember how we keep telling you that local power metal band Division is adding old members back into its lineup? Well, their recently reinstated vocalist Scott Stewart recently checked in on the band’s blog.

• The show was last night, but you still might be interested in reading an article/interview with Crystal Fighters [DCist].

Live Reviews

• Scott Galupo on Lady Antebellum at Merriweather Post Pavilion [Washington Post].

• We Love DC on Penguin Prison at the Rock & Roll Hotel on 5/19. Farrah Skeiky reviewed the same show [Brightest Young Things].

• We Love DC on Sound Bites at the 9:30 Club.

• Kara Capelli on Spirit Animal at the Red Palace [Brightest Young Things].

• Robert Winship on Astra Via at the Black Cat [Brightest Young Things].

• Ross Bonaime on Father John Misty at the Rock & Roll Hotel [Brightest Young Things].

• Jeb Gavin on Drive-By Truckers and Lucinda Williams 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 today).
• NEW SceneTrek is giving away tickets to Yann Tiersen & Piano Chat at the 9:30 Club on 5/26 (contest ends Friday 5/25 at 3 PM).
• 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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