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ShowlistDC Music Notes: Thursday 06-21-12

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Articles

• Planning Guides: TBD’s guide to local shows this weekend. DC Music Download’s Top 5 Free Concerts in DC. DCist’s This Week in Jazz.

• The saga around BYT‘s “Write a suicide note to win Morrissey tickets” continues. Here’s a summary: BYT posted a contest on Monday asking readers to write suicide notes in order to enter a contest to win tickets to Morrissey’s show at Strathmore. I wrote about this in Tuesday’s Music Notes. The Washington CityPaper picked up the story later that day and got some quotes from BYT managing editor Logan Donaldson. On Tuesday night, BYT quietly changed the contest to say “string together a couple of paragraphs using only Morrissey’s lyrics”; I printed the full text of the new contest and a rant from their Assistant Editor Stephanie Breijo in Wednesday’s Music Notes, and DCist picked up the story, getting an additional quote from Donaldson. THEN, BYT took its contest down entirely (if you click on the contest link now, you’re taken to a login page). The Washington CityPaper reported on that, with an additional statement from Donaldson.

• Ryan Little weighs in on the NPR / David Lowrey / Travis Morrison saga about downloading music [Washington CityPaper].

• Ken Avis on the DC Djangofolies Festival [CapitalBop].

• Journey‘s Neal Schon responds to the accusations that he walked out of Silverdocs [Washington Post]. Apparently, he just doesn’t like Q&A’s and says he never agreed to be on a panel discussion in the first place.

• Local band news: Darkest Hour has posted a 19-second teaser for its “Severed Into Separates” music video [OfficialDarkestHour.com].

• Bryce Harper used Justin Bieber as his walk-up music [Washington Post].

• Anne Midgette rounds up reviews of the NSO‘s tour. She also talks to some of the members of the Orchestra about the repertoire [Washington Post].

• Interview: Finch Fulton talks to Kal Traver of Rubblebucket [Brightest Young Things]. Tonight at the Hamilton.


Listening

• Rohan Mahadevan’s song of the day is Cigarette, “Hundred Tears” [DCist].

• Hometown Sounds DC’s local music video of the day is the Pietasters, “Stone Feeling”.

• If you’re wondering how Ian Svenonius’s music sounds nowadays, you can stream the new Chain and the Gang album, In Cool Blood [Impose Magazine].

• Listen: Sam Cooper & the Sleepwalkers, New Typerighter Moon EP [DC Music Download].


Live Reviews

• Stephen Bradley on Keane at Strathmore [Washington Times].

1 More photos of DC Record Fair [The Vinyl District - Part 2].

• Brightest Young Things on Santigold and Theophilus London at the 9:30 Club.


Giveaways

• NEW The Vinyl District is giving away tickets to The Mynabirds at the Black Cat on 6/23 (contest ends Friday 6/22 at noon).
• 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: Wednesday 02-08-12

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Things to read:
• There’s a new performance space in the Madison Terrace Cooperative, reports local neighborhood blog The Brightwoodian. The Back Alley Theater space, located at 1365 Kennedy St NW, has a rich history (dating back to its origins in Mt Pleasant in the 1960s) and a nice starting schedule including its opening performance on February 16th.
• In a band? Want to do some recording? Hays Holladay just might record your song for free, says the Washington CityPaper, before he closes Iguazu Sound (in Arlington) for good. Check the article for details about what Holladay is looking for (and how to get in touch).
• Heavy Uber Alles brings you six heavy tunes every Tuesday.
• Album review: Allison Stewart on Van Halen‘s A Different Kind of Truth (at Verizon Center on March 28) [Washington Post].
• Live reviews: David Malitz on Thurston Moore at the Black Cat [Washington Post]. Sarah Godfrey on Theophilus London at the 9:30 Club [Washington Post]. Leah Henry on Kathleen Edwards and Hannah Georgas at the 9:30 Club [the Vinyl District].

Things to listen to and/or watch:
• NPR brings us Lost in the Trees‘ new video, “Red” from its upcoming album Church That Fits Our Needs, due out March 20th. The band is performing at the Black Cat on April 14th.

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 Friday 2/10 at 4 PM).
• ShowlistDC has tickets to Mos Def at the 9:30 Club on 2/20 (contest ends Friday 2/10 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)

ShowlistDC Music Notes: Tuesday 02-07-12

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Quiet news day, so we’ve included a few of today’s new releases below.

Things to read:
• JUST ANNOUNCED: Madonna at the Verizon Center on Sunday, September 23rd. Tickets go on sale Monday, February 13th at 10 AM.
• DCist’s Weekly Music Agenda.
• Newt Gingrich as president would boost the grindcore scene in DC! Well, maybe not directly, but apparently a grindcore band calle Traumatic Anal Devastation played at a Gingrich rally in Las Vegas.

Apparently the band showed up outside the rally, plugged their instruments in, and generated what Gingrich staffer Terry ‘The Stick’ Foley called “the sound of a tank driving through a minefield.” Police showed up and pulled the plug on the youthful thugs after about 5 minutes (the equivalent of 20 songs, according to estimates from our grindcore research staff).
No reports of hearing loss or more than usual psychological damage from the Gingrich supporters who were present.

• DCist interviewed Theophilus London. (Yes, we know the show was last night, but this interview was published after our Music Notes ran yesterday.)
• RIP WAMU DJ Jerry Gray [Washington CityPaper]. The bluegrass DJ passed away last Thursday at the age of 78.
• Listen Local First (the folks who bring us DC Local Music Day) have started a Kickstarter campaign to bring DC music to SXSW [WLDC].
• Chris Porter on Alan Lomax [Express].
• Talking at shows: it’s not just for indie-rockers, although this patron’s interruption at a KenCen is a bit over the top.
• Live reviews: Mark Jenkins on Red Baraat at U St Music Hall [Washington Post]. Erica Bruce on the Kills and JEFF the Brotherhood at the 9:30 Club [the Vinyl District].

Today’s new releases:
• Air: Le Voyage Dans La Lune [Astralwerks] – an original soundtrack to the 1902 film of the same name; with guests Au Revoir Simone and Victoria Legrand of Beach House.
• Howard U alum Roberta Flack takes on the fab four: Let It Be Roberta – Roberta Flack Sings the Beatles [429 Records]
• Mark Lanegan Band: Blues Funeral [4AD] – Screaming Trees frontman’s first solo record since 2004 after several collaborative records with Belle & Sebastian’s Isobel Campbell.
• Of Montreal: Paralytic Stalks [Polyvinyl] – Remember when everyone in DC (and by everyone, we mean Jenkins, Lewis, and Malitz) ragged on Of Montreal’s 2010 trainwreck of a concert at the 9:30 club?
• Psychroptic: Inherited Repression [Nuclear Blast]
• Twilight Sad: No One Can Ever Know [Fat Cat] – They’re playing the Rock & Roll Hotel at the end of this month, and we recommend that you attend.
• Sharon Van Etten: Tramp [Jagjaguwar] – She’s playing the Black Cat on Saturday (we recommend it), and yesterday we pointed you to the Washington Post‘s interview with SVE.
• Van Halen: A Different Kind of Truth [Interscope] – playing at Verizon Center at the end of March.

Win tickets:
• The Vinyl District has tickets to Feist @ Strathmore on 5/9 (contest ends today at noon).
• 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 Friday 2/10 at 4 PM).
• ShowlistDC has tickets to Mos Def at the 9:30 Club on 2/20 (contest ends Friday 2/10 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)