DCist rightfully snarked on Gawker's snarking about how D.C. is not cool. The Gawker rant, "Cheer Up, DC Will Never Bo Cool," just isn't serious enough to merit much attention.
But this point was sorta dead on:
"Sure, 30 years ago DC had Bad Brains and Minor Threat, and today it still has, uh, Ian Svenonius (the [...]
Wonkette labels Galaxy Hut a "dive bar." Really? The post comes in the politics site's new "Wonkabout" section presumably to attempt to takeover our turf! Wonkette writes:
"This tiny bar offers 20 taps of craft and imported beer, and more than 30 kinds of bottled beer. They don’t serve any hard liquor, so don’t ask. There’s [...]
It is 12:34 a.m. This blog will be posted later. But right now, I am trying to get my head around the dullest news possible breaking out of the inaugural festivities. WTOP is reporting that at the Neighborhood Ball, Beyonce will be singing the first song that Barack and Michelle Obama will dance to. Beyonce [...]
This week, Rolling Stone fronts a totally definitive list of the 100 greatest singers of all time. (Previous totally definitive lists include the 100 greatest guitarists of all time, the 500 greatest songs of all time, and THE 100 IMMORTALS. But that's just scratching the surface.)
Besides the inherent arbitrariness of the exercise and [...]
The New York Times ran a story last Thursday about a service that ranks in societal importance next to dog psychiatrists and fish pedicures.
...it is just in the last five years that a handful of music consultants, mostly in New York and London, have begun to specialize in creating custom domestic soundtracks. From Aspen lodges [...]
Via Wonkette:
So my generation's Exile gets an unnecessary reissue with only a few bonus tracks and a needless DVD. Sweet. Perhaps the only person who needed this product more than Liz Phair was Liz Phair's kid. The rest of us should prepare to shovel through the new-and-improved Liz Phair profile and the revisiting of all her [...]
Harp magazine is back. Kinda. The Silver Spring-based music magazine, which ended its run in March, has relaunched as an online-only publication, Blurt, that includes a "digizine"—a digital magazine that includes all the contents of a typical music magazine. Accessing new content is easy! If you want to read EIC Scott Crawford's editor's note about [...]
Dear People at the Next Table at HR-57 on Saturday Night:
I understand the perception that jazz is background music. In some places, that's quite true. A jazz club, however, is not one of those places. At a jazz club, jazz is what you might call the whole fucking point.
One would think that you knew that, [...]
Postie Tom Sietsema, in a Sunday magazine feature, vents about the decibel levels at various restaurants. Early on, he checks his handy decibel counter and sees that the noise level is equal to a lawn mower. I have to say the piece resonated with me.
I am no fan of the loud restaurant. A few [...]
