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ShowlistDC Music Notes: Friday 08-31-12

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Weekend/Week-Ahead Planner

Planning Guides
• Washingtonian’s music picks.
• We Love DC loves weekends.
• Washington CityPaper’s Jazz Setlist.
• DCist’s This Week in Jazz.
• DCist’s This Week in Hip-Hop.
• DC Music Download’s Weekend Hits.
• ShowlistDC.com’s list of recently-added and updated shows.

Today – Friday 31 August
• Interview: Stephanie Williams’ Q&A with the Young Rapids [DC Music Download]. At the Dunes in Columbia Heights.
• Interview/preview: Marie Gullard on Annie and the Beekeepers [Washington Examiner]. At the Kennedy Center‘s Millennium Stage.

Saturday, 1 September
• CD Review: Gesaffelstein, Rise of Depravity. Reviewed by Megan Buerger [Washington Post]. At the U Street Music Hall.
• Preview/Interview: Christopher Porter on Zongo Junction [Washington Post Express]. at the Bayou.

Sunday, 2 September
• Article/interview: Jess Righthand on the Mynabirds [Washington Post]. At the Rock & Roll Hotel.
• Preview: Joe Warminsky on Anthony Pirog Trio [Washington CityPaper]. At Twins Jazz.

Monday, 3 September
n/a

Tuesday, 4 September
• Preview: Mike Paarlberg on the John Cage Centennial Festival [Washington CityPaper]. Events all week listed at johncage2012.com and on ShowlistDC.

Wednesday, 5 September
• CD Review: Kreator, Phantom Antichrist. Reviewed by Catherine P Lewis [Washington Post]. At the Howard Theatre.
• CD Review: Holograms, Holograms. Reviewed by Mark Jenkins [Washington Post]. At the Red Palace.
• CD Review: Patrick Watson, Adventures in Your Own Backyard. Reviewed by Mike Joyce [Washington Post]. At the 9:30 Club.

Thursday, 6 September
• CD Review: the Ana Egge Band, Bad Blood. Reviewed by Mark Jenkins [Washington Post]. At the Hamilton.


Articles

• New local venue: Rams Head Center Stage is opening at Maryland Live! Casino in Arundel Mills Mall [Washington Post]. We’ve got their schedule listed here.

• Red Onion Books and Records is not closing! [Washington CityPaper].

• Spotted on TV: local photographer Metal Chris (from DCHeavyMetal.com)’s photos of Cannibal Corpse at the 9:30 Club appeared on the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC. Photos are at the 4:52 mark.

• Interview: Sriram Gopal talks to drummer Mike Smirnoff [DCist].

• Interview: David Hintz talks to Dave Cousins of Strawbs [DC Rock Live].

• Interview: Metallomusikum talks to Baltimore death metal band Alhazred.

• Interview: Arielle Hixson talks to Owen Danoff [DC Music Live].

• DC Musicians are recording a track for a Pussy Riot tribute [DCist].

• CD Review: Harry Pussy: Let’s Build a Pussy. Reviewed by Marc Masters [Pitchfork].

• CD Review: OMBRE: Believe You Me. Reviewed by Lindsay Zoladz [Pitchfork].

• You can still earn a ticket to Virgin Mobile FreeFest [WashingtonCityPaper].


Listening

• Here’s a roundup of Hometown Sounds DC’s local music videos of the day:
      – Maduro, “There Is No Forever” (8/29)
      – Uptown XO, “Occupy DC” (8/28)

• Here’s a roundup of DCist’s music videos of the day:
      – Julia Holter, “Goddess Eyes I” (8/30)
      – METZ, “Headache” (8/29)
      – Wild Nothing, “Shadow” (8/28)

• Listen: Reesa Renee‘s “Got Me Loose” [Washington CityPaper].

• Listen: Harmony Muzik, “Hiyaku” [Washington CityPaper].

• Listen: Yusef, “Flip Side” [Washington CityPaper].

• Listen: Tangie the Great, “Why” [Washington CityPaper].


Live Reviews

• Calvin Johnson at Meeps, 8/11/12. Video from AllOurNoise.

• Dead Can Dance at Wolf Trap, 8/27/12. Reviewed by David Hintz [DC Rock Live].

• Ms Mr at the 9:30 Club, 8/14/12 (opening for Marina and the Diamonds). Reviewed by Stephen Bradley [Washington Times].

• O.A.R. at Merriweather Post Pavilion, 8/10/12. Reviewed by Sara Spangler [DC Music Live].

• Frankie Valli at Wolf Trap, 8/23/12. Reviewed by the Rogers Revue.


Giveaways

• Local band Cassandra Syndrome has a contest that includes T-Shirts and tickets to their concerts on 9/1 (with Cybergeist and Death Maschine at the Recher Theatre) and 9/14 (with Kamelot, A Sound of Thunder, and Fallen Martyr at Empire).
• DC101 is giving away front row tickets to DC101′s Kerfuffle with the Offspring, Sublime, Rome, Garbage, etc., at Jiffy Lube Live on 9/15 (contest ends 9/3).
• NEW The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of Stars‘ The North on gold vinyl (contest ends Tuesday 9/4).
• NEW The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of Stealing Sheep‘s Genevieve 7″ (contest ends Tuesday 9/4).
• NEW The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of Luna‘s Bewitched on vinyl (contest ends 9/6).
• NEW Nuclear Blast is giving away tickets to see While Heaven Wept (performing with Primordial) at Empire on 9/12.
• 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: Wednesday 06-20-12

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Articles

• Planning Guides: DCist’s Weekly Music Agenda and This Week in Hip-Hop. Washington Post Going Out Guide rounds up rounds up outdoor music and movies this week.

• NPR intern Emily White never owned any music to begin with [NPR]. This sparked a huge discussion. Then David Lowery from Cracker responded to Emily’s article [The Trichordist]. Then the Dismemberment Plan‘s Travis Morrison responded to Lowery’s letter saying that music piracy is nothing new [Huffington Post].

• Former Capitol Records/EMI present Joe Smith has donated ~238 hours of artist interviews– including Ella Fitzgerald, Paul Simon, BB King, Bob Dylan, and Paul McCartney– to the Library of Congress [Rolling Stone]. The LoC has digitized the recordings and will make them available in the reading room.

• Interview/preview: We Love DC talks to Eli Maiman of Walk the Moon. Performing on Friday night at the Black Cat.

• Preview: David Malitz on Banding Together [Washington Post], a law firm battle-of-the-bands at the Black Cat tomorrow night.

• CD Review: Fiona Apple: Idler Wheel. Reviewed by Allison Stewart [Washington Post].

• CD Review: Neneh Cherry and the Thing: the Cherry Thing. Reviewed by Lindsay Zoladz [Pitchfork]. (Yesterday we pointed you to a review written by Sarah Godfrey at the Washington Post).

• Interview: Philip Runco talks to Santigold [Brightest Young Things].

• Neal Schon flaked out on the Silverdocs panel he was supposed to be on after the Journey documentary screening [DCist]. Oh, and Michaele Salahi.

• The Washington CityPaper picked up the commentary I wrote yesterday about BYT’s ridiculous “write a suicide note to win Morrissey tickets” and talked to BYT managing editor Logan Donaldson. Donaldson’s response is fair, but it’s somewhat negated by this response on the initial BYT post, from Assistant Editor Stephanie Breijo. I’m not going to repost the link, but I will copy/paste her text:

Hi, all–

In defense of this post and with full disclosure I’m writing to say that I, a BYT staffer fully in support of this giveaway prompt, have lost two people–with whom I was very close–because they committed suicide. One of my closest friends in high school OD’d in Los Angeles after a fight with her boyfriend. One of the first boys I ever kissed joined the Air Force and after a long tour in Iraq hanged himself over the side of a boat (in a very public place, no less).

Suicide is very real and it is TERRIBLE. I have experienced suicides first-hand but I’m writing to say that this does not place me above humor. Is it morbid? Entirely. So is Morrissey.

I have a newsflash for all of you: You are going to die. Everyone you love is going to die. Everyone you have ever met or interacted with is going to die, and this includes myself, the author of this post, and all its contestants. The fact that others choose to bow out before their time is sad but it is their decision. Sometimes all you can do is laugh, no matter how shitty the circumstances may be.

A quick google search will show you we are not, in fact, the only online publication discussing suicide in this fashion, in this week alone:

http://www.vice.com/en_se/read/question-of-the-day-whats-your-suicide-song

To Catherine Lewis of Showlist DC–I am truly sorry if we have offended you. But if you cannot see the humor in this, you probably shouldn’t be reading our site or, quite honestly, caring what we write about. It is our site. If you don’t like it, don’t read it. No one is pressing a gun to any reader’s head (perhaps more suitable for a Nirvana giveaway of some sort?). No one is being forced to read, nor are they being forced to participate.

That being said, we appreciate your input nonetheless.

Wishing everyone the best for the remainder of your days (however many you may have left),

Stephanie Breijo
Assistant Editor

So, to summarize, (1) it’s OK because Vice did it first. Also, (2) it’s OK because someone at BYT knows someone who committed suicide. And finally, (3) BYT apparently has more than one person on staff with the title of “Editor”. Who knew there was any actual editing going on at BYT?!

Anyway – BYT has changed the text of the contest. It’s no longer “write a suicide note to win tickets”; it’s now this:

TO WIN: Since there is no longer any truth to there being a light that never goes out (oh, song title puns!), and Morrissey has (has not? whatever) announced he’ll be retiring in 2014, why not string together a couple of paragraphs using only Morrissey’s lyrics. Okay, you can use The Smiths too. If you must.

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Listening

• Rohan Mahadevan’s song of the day is the Hundred in the Hands, “Keep It Low” [DCist].

• Hometown Sounds DC’s local music video of the day is Deleted Scenes, “Bedbedbedbedbed”.

• DC Music Live points us to a new Owen Danoff song, “Never Trust a Man”.

• Listen to Lorelei, “Hammer Meet Tongs” [Washington CityPaper].

• Listen to Tittsworth, Rez, and Des McMahon‘s Juicy Jorts EP [Washington CityPaper].

• Listen to “Higher Bodies” by Heavy Breathing [DC Music Download].


Live Reviews

• Megan Buerger on Santigold at the 9:30 Club [Washington Post].

• Metal Chris recaps all the bands he saw at Maryland DeathFest, with his own photographs and videos [DCHeavyMetal.com]. (That link is to the main post; you can also go directly to his writeups on the festival’s Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday lineups).

• Liz Gorman on Destroyer at the 9:30 Club on 6/16 [the Vinyl District].

• Photos of the DC Record Fair at the Fillmore on 6/17: from the Vinyl District and Bethesda Magazine.

• Anne Midgette on violinist Hilary Hahn and pianist Hauschka at the Birchmere on 6/18 [Washington Post].

• Fuzzy Logic on the Dandy Warhols at the 9:30 Club on 5/29.

• Alan Pyke on Raul Midon at the Howard Theatre [Brightest Young Things].

• Brightest Young Things on Ramona Falls at the Red Palace.

• Marie Eff on Keane and the Mystery Jets at Strathmore [Brightest Young Things].

• Josh Stewart on JEFF the Brotherhood at the Red Palace [Brightest Young Things].


Giveaways

• Brightest Young Things is giving away tickets and a meet-and-greet with Childish Gambino at Pier Six Pavilion in Baltimore on 6/23 (contest ends today).
• DC101 is giving away a pair of tickets to The Great American Festival featuring Eve 6, Ozomatli, and more, at the National Harbor on 6/30 (no indication of when this contest ends).
• DC101 is giving away tickets to see Everclear, Sugar Ray, the Gin Blossoms, Lit, and Marcy Playground at Wolf Trap on 7/25 (no indication of when this contest ends).
• 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).

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ShowlistDC Music Notes: Monday 05-21-12

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Articles

• Planning Guides: DC Music Download’s Weekday Hits. Steve Kiviat’s Global/Soul events for the rest of May 2012. DC Music Live’s Weekly Show Roundup. Washington Post Going Out Guide’s 40 Things You Must Do This Summer.

• Artomatic opened this weekend! Check out John Anderson’s first impressions [Washington CityPaper]. Michael O’Sullivan also weighs in [Washington Post]. We’ve also listed all of the music performances at this year’s Artomatic.

• Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb died on Sunday, and Chris Richard finds this 1979 article by Geoffrey Himes in the Washington Post archives.

• Interview/Preview: Gioanni Russonello talks to Michael Bowie [Capital Bop], whose Sine Qua Non performs at U Street’s Bohemian Caverns every Tuesday this month.

• Interview/Preview: Nancy Dunham talks to Chuck Prophet [Washington Examiner], who performs tonight at the Rams Head Tavern in Annapolis and Friday at IOTA.

• Local musician interview: Stephanie Williams talks to Naseem Khuri, who’s now in Boston’s Kingsley Flood [DC Music Download].

• Local listening: Check out Tabi Bonney‘s The Endless Summer [Washington CityPaper].

• Local listening: Hometown Sounds DC’s two local music videos of the day: Vandaveer and SOJA.

• Local listening: DC Music Download’s Local Listening Booth for this week.

• Metallomusikum continues her countdown to Maryland DeathFest with profiles of Yob, Morgoth, Suffocation, Saint Vitus, and Electric Wizard, as well as an interview with guitarist Anton Reisenegger from Pentagram (Chile).


Live Reviews

• Chris Klimek on Lucinda Williams and the Drive-By Truckers at Merriweather Post Pavilion [Washington Post].

• Anne Midgette on pianist Jeremy Denk at the 6th & I Synagogue [Washington Post].

• Charles T Downey on the National Philharmonic‘s performance of Debussy‘s “Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien” at Strathmore [Washington Post].

• Joe Banno on pianist Peter Serkin and the Shanghai Quartet at the Freer Gallery [Washington Post].

• Allison Lantero on Owen Danoff at the Mansion at Strathmore [DC Music Live].

• Stephen Bradley on M. Ward at the 9:30 Club [Washington Times].


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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