Just Announced

[Jesse]

RJD2
Happy Chichester

Sat 1/9
9:30 Club
8:00 pm

[ggw]

Mark Andersen & Mark Jenkins - Dance Of Days
November 14, 2009 - 3:00pm
First published in 2003, this classic look at D.C.?s underground punk scene of the 1980s and ?90s charted the careers of artists like Bad Brains, Henry Rollins, Minor Threat, Rites of Spring, Fugazi, and Bikini Kill. This updated edition widens the scope of the original survey and includes fresh material on the artists and their work.

Location:
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

[redsock]

Mark Andersen & Mark Jenkins - Dance Of Days
November 14, 2009 - 3:00pm
First published in 2003, this classic look at D.C.?s underground punk scene of the 1980s and ?90s charted the careers of artists like Bad Brains, Henry Rollins, Minor Threat, Rites of Spring, Fugazi, and Bikini Kill. This updated edition widens the scope of the original survey and includes fresh material on the artists and their work.

Location:
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

So, I'm in a bad mood and feel the need to complain about something, so...

I own Dance of Days, great book. But does it -- and really do we -- need more on the same bands? DC has such a romanticism on its musical past. How bout doing something interesting now? Anything? Nothing against the authors here, we all need to make a living and both of these guys have contributed a lot to this city, but why is it so little has come out to talk about over the last 15 to 20 years? Was Fugazi's The Argument really it? I mean, is anyone in this city doing anything worth talking about, much less write a book about?

Well, neither am I anymore. So who am i to be bitching. Stupid soapbox...

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Thievery Corporation (DJ Set)
Eighteenth Street Lounge
Sat 12/12 ($15)

[Yada]

I think that's where I'll be, too. Pretty sure I'm done with RNRH for good now.

What's the issue with the R+R Hotel? Other than having drinks there, I haven't been to a show there since basically it opened, is it an awful place to see a show or what?

[azaghal1981]

My main gripe is the sound which is doomed to be piss-poor forever.

It's run by a group of idiots who refuse to invest any money into making it a decent venue.


They've also been known to have shorted artists in the past.

[MonkeyPants]

this is totally off topic - perhaps we should have an RnR Hotel gripe thread?  I have plenty!  The bar upstairs is one of my favorite bars in the city, but as a music venue it is one of my least favorites anywhere.

[sweetcell]

- horrible sound, always too loud & distorted
- stage is too low
- it's a long narrow room
- join the previous two together = poor sight-lines unless you're at the very, very front (less than 20% of the crowd will have a decent view)
- lack of ventilation, gets hotter than hell

[Yada]

- horrible sound, always too loud & distorted
- stage is too low
- it's a long narrow room
- join the previous two together = poor sight-lines unless you're at the very, very front (less than 20% of the crowd will have a decent view)
- lack of ventilation, gets hotter than hell

The poor sound I'm sure depends on the performer as well. I feel like a louder/heavier band would sound awful there. I guess I'll find out this week!

[walkonby]

r and r or dar as the worst?

[killsaly]

I guess im in the minority as a fan of the venue. 

[ggw]

r and r or dar as the worst?

DAR

[hutch]

r and r or dar as the worst?

DAR.

[azaghal1981]

DAR isn't too bad when you're attending an event in which electric guitars are not used.

[BookerT]

DAR isn't too bad when you're attending an event in which electric guitars are not used.

yeah i always have a blast when i go there for shecky's girls night out