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ShowlistDC Music Notes: Friday 08-31-12

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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: Friday 06-01-12

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Planning guides
• CapitalBop’s guide to the DC Jazz Festival.
• DCist’s This Week in Jazz (a preview of the DC Jazz Festival 2012).
• WJLA also previews the DC Jazz Festival (with video).
• Washington CityPaper’s Jazz Setlist.
• Washingtonian’s Music Picks.
• We Love DC loves weekends.
• Brightest Young Thing’s Best Weekend Bets.
• DC Music Download’s Weekend Hits.
• Washington Post Going Out Guide’s Best Summer Concerts in DC.
• DC Music Download’s Summer Music Guide.
• TBD’s guide to outdoor shows this weekend.

Tonight – Friday, 1 June
• Dawes: Interviewed by Julyssa Lopez [Washingtonian] and Rudi Greenberg [Washington Post Express] and Nancy Dunham [Washington Examiner] and Brightest Young Things. Performing at the 9:30 Club.
• Interview (video): Bass clarinet player Todd Marcus [CapitalBop], who plays the Dunes in Columbia Heights tonight as part of CapitalBop’s Jazz Loft Series at the DC Jazz Festival.
• Preview: Emily Cary on Christoph Eschenbach and the National Symphony Orchestra performing Beethoven’s Symphony 7 [Washington Examiner]. At the Kennedy Center tonight and Saturday.
• Afrojack: Previewed Ally Schweitzer [Washington CityPaper] and by Mike Riggs [Washington Times]. At the Fillmore Silver Spring.

Saturday, 2 June
• Interview: Chris Porter talks to J.S. Adams, member of BLK w/BEAR and curator for the Queering Sound series [Washington Post Express]. Queering Sound is at the Atlas on H St NE.
• Joe Pug: the Great Despiser. Reviewed by Geoffrey Himes [Washington Post]. At the 9:30 Club.
• Marianne Solivan: Prisoner of Love. Reviewed by Geoffrey Himes [Washington Post]. At the Phillips Collection.

Sunday, 3 June
• Preview: Rudi Greenberg on Radiohead [Washington Post Express]. At the Verizon Center.

Monday, 4 June
• Preview: Michael J West on “Jazz Meets the Classics” [Washington CityPaper]. At the Kennedy Center.
• Rhett Miller: the Dreamer. Reviewed by Catherine Lewis [Washington Post]. At Jammin’ Java.

Tuesday, 5 June
n/a

Wednesday, 6 June
n/a

Thursday, 7 June
• Preview: Jonathan L Fischer on the Clean [Washington CityPaper]. At the Rock & Roll Hotel.
• the Cribs: the Belly of the Brazen Bull. Reviewed by Moira E McLaughlan [Washington Post]. At the Black Cat.
• Janel & Anthony: Where Is Home. Reviewed by Catherine P Lewis [Washington Post]. At IOTA.


Articles

On Chuck Brown:
        – Live-blogging yesterday’s memorial service: Jonathan L Fischer [Washington CityPaper] and Ben Freed [DCist].
        – Marc Fisher and Hamil R Harris write about the service (plus a photo gallery) [Washington Post].
        – Another article on the ceremony, by Andrea Noble [Washington Times].
        – Photo galleries from the memorial service: Darrow Montgomery [Washington CityPaper] and WJLA.
        – Chuck Brown Tributes: Mayor Vince Gray promises a park named after Gray; DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced legislation to designate August 22 (Brown’s birthday) as “National Chuck Brown Day; DC Council Chair Kwame Brown wants a Go-Go Hall of Fame. Read the reports by DCist and the Washington CityPaper.

• Cheer up, emo dude: pop music keeps getting sadder and sadder [Washington Post].

• CD Reviews: Chain & the Gang: In Cool Blood and Travis Morrison Hellfighters: Cruisin’ (All Night Long) – Reviewed by Lindsay Zoladz [Washington CityPaper]. Chain & the Gang is at Comet Ping Pong on Saturday.

• Portraits of an American Metal Festival: NPR’s Lars Gotrich talks to Maryland DeathFest attendees last weekend. Read the interviews on NPR.


Listening

• Rohan Mahadevan’s Song of the Day is Ugly Purple Sweater‘s “Ba Ba Ba” [DCist].

• Hometown Sounds DC’s local music video of the day: Typefighter, “You When You’re Older”.

• Patrick Watson stopped by NPR’s DC office for a Tiny Desk Concert.

• Marcus J Moore writes about The Other Guys‘ “Fearless” [Washington CityPaper].

• Russell Malone Trio at the Kennedy Center [NPR].

• NPR’s Lars Gotrich presents 17 songs about being 17.


Live Reviews

• We Love DC on the Dandy Warhols at the 9:30 Club on 5/29.

• Anne Midgette on Christophe Eschenbach and the NSO‘s program at the Kennedy Center [Washington Post].

• Dave McKenna on Simone Dinnerstein and Tift Merritt at the National Museum of Women in the Arts [Washington Post].

• Kevin Hulse on Thrice at the Howard Theatre [Brightest Young Things].

• Kara Capelli on Great Lake Swimmers with Cold Specks at the Rock & Roll Hotel [Brightest Young Things].

• Farrah Skeiky on Yann Tiersen with Piano Chat at the 9:30 Club [Brightest Young Things].


Giveaways

• 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 today).
• DC101 is giving away a pair of tickets to Dave Matthews Band at Jiffy Lube Live on 6/16 (contest ends Sunday 6/3).
• The Vinyl District is giving away a copy of 2:54‘s S/T on vinyl (contest ends Tuesday 6/5).
• NEW Brightest Young Things is giving away a pair of tickets to see Monty Alexander at the Hamilton on 6/9 (contest ends Wednesday 6/6).
• Scene Trek is giving away a pair of tickets to The Cribs at the Black Cat on 6/7 (contest ends at 3 PM on Wednesday 6/6).
• NEW Brightest Young Things is giving away a pair of tickets to see Gotye at Merriweather Post Pavilion on 9/30 (contest ends Thursday 6/7).
• 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: Friday 05-11-12

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Planning Guides
• Washingtonian’s Music Picks.
• DC Music Download’s Weekend Hits.
• We Love DC loves weekends.
• Washington CityPaper’s Jazz Setlist.
• TBD points you to shows you could take your mother to.
• Free drinks at the Ottobar if you’re attending M3 or Rob Zombie/Megadeath at Merriweather Post Pavilion.

Tonight – Friday, 11 May
• CD Review: Horse Feathers: Cynic’s New Year – reviewed by Dan Miller [Washington Post]. At the Black Cat.
• Interview/preview: Nancy Dunham on Avett Brothers [Washington Examiner]. At the Patriot Center.
• Interview/preview: Marie Gullard on the Philadelphia Orchestra and violinist James Ehnes [Washington Examiner]. At Strathmore.
• Preview: Jonathan L Fisher on Song 1 at the Hirshhorn [Washington CityPaper].

Saturday, 12 May
• Feature/interview: Brian Porter of Imperial China and Ross Hurt of Black Clouds chat with each other [the Vinyl District]. At the Rock & Roll Hotel tomorrow night. Also note that TVD is giving tickets away to the show at that link.
• Interview/preview: Emily Cary talks to Esperanza Spalding [Washington Examiner]. At the Howard Theatre.
• Preview: Joe Warminsky on Funk Ark [Washington CityPaper]. Also a review of their new album High Noon written by Mark Jenkins [Washington Post]. At the Hamilton.
• CD Review: the Wandering: Go On Now, You Can’t Stay Here: Mississippi Folk Music Volume III – reviewed by Catherine P Lewis [Washington Post]. At IOTA.

Sunday, 13 May
• CD Review: Dar Williams: In the Time of Gods – reviewed by Geoffrey Himes [Washington Post]. At the Rams Head Tavern in Annapolis.

Monday, 14 May
• CD Review: Here We Go Magic: A Different Ship – reviewed by Benjamin Opipari [Washington Post]. At the Black Cat.

Tuesday, 15 May
• Interview/preview: David Malitz talks with the reunited Cardinal [Washington Post]. At the Velvet Lounge.


Articles

• The Washington CityPaper has published its Summer Music Guide. See listings in classical, jazz, hip-hop, indie-rock, and EDM an Electropop.

• Jonathan L Fisher rounds up six go-go hits and the songs that sampled them [Washington CityPaper]. Also today in go-go news: David Simon (the Wire, Treme) is a go-go fan.

• CD Review: Last Tide: Lost to Memory – Reviewed by Clay Conger [DC Music Download]. At the Black Cat on 5/19.

• CD Review: David Daniell / Douglas McCombs: Versions – Reviewed by Marc Masters [Pitchfork].

• CD Review: Alabama Shakes: Boys & Girls – Reviewed by Ashli Jean Cooper [Sweet Tea Pumpkin Pie].

• Silo Halo‘s Midwestern Tour Diary: Day 4 [DCist].

• Metallomusikum continues her countdown to Maryland DeathFest with a profile of Rwake and an interview with Ulcerate.

• Interview: Metallomusikum talks to Maryland doom rockers Iron Man.

• Watch (and read the behind-the-scenes): Justin Jones‘s video for “Miracles” [NPR].

• Listen: Kishi Bashi stopped by NPR’s DC office for a Tiny Desk Concert.


Live Reviews

• Megan Buerger on Feist at Strathmore on 5/9 [Washington Post].

• Mark Jenkins on We Are Serenades at the Black Cat [Washington Post].

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

• Catherine Lewis (yup, that’s me) on Opeth, Mastodon, and Ghost at the Fillmore Silver Spring on 5/9 [DCist].

• We Love DC on Patrick Watson at the 9:30 Club on 5/8.


Contests

• DCHeavyMetal.com is giving away a pair of tickets to see Rob Zombie and Megadeth at the Merriweather Post Pavilion on 5/13 (contest ends today at 5 PM).
• The Vinyl District is giving away a pair of tickets to see Black Clouds, Tone, and Imperial China at the Rock & Roll Hotel on 5/12(contest ends today at noon).
• Baltimore SoundStage is giving away a pair of tickets to see The Machine performs Pink Floyd on 5/12 plus a $20 bar tab and dinner (contest ends today).
• 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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