By its own count, DC9 hasn’t had any trouble attracting musicians since Ali Ahmed Mohammed died feet from the 9th Street NW venue one year ago. “Hundreds, if not thousands, of bands have played since that time,” says Steve Lambert, who books acts at DC9 and other venues in the District. “DC9’s been booking full storm [...]
It’s 7 p.m. on a Thursday, and a short round woman in a floral skirt is wheeling two battered suitcases along H Street NE. She stops beneath a painting of a happy dog and heaves a deep sigh. Then she pushes through the double doors of the Palace of Wonders and says hi to Brad, [...]
An occasional feature in which esteemed D.C. rapper Head-Roc shares what’s on his mind.
It’s been a good few weeks now since I called out certain venues for using a practice called polling—in which patrons are asked which artists they've come to see, and those numbers are sometimes used to determine payouts at the end of the [...]
The bar and concert venue that will arise from the merger of the H Street NE venues the Red and the Black and Palace of Wonders lends itself, pretty obviously, to a new name: the Red and Black Palace. That's what nightlife mogul Joe Englert, an owner of the Red and the Black, wants to [...]
One could say that thematically, a thin membrane separates Palace of Wonders, H Street NE's freakshow-themed burlesque bar, and the Red and the Black, the gumbo-serving, New Orleans-style rock club next door. As for the literal wall dividing them: That's about to come down.
There's no date set, but the two spaces plan to merge, the [...]
When Steve Lambert heard about the opening of U Street Music Hall, he knew that the popular Nouveau Riche dance night was not long for his club.
He was right: WaPo's GOG Blog reports today that the DJs behind Nouveau Riche are moving from DC9 to the new U Street Street Music Hall, a 300-capacity space [...]
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For a moment, on the first night he worked the door at the Velvet Lounge, Andrew Bucket thought he was staring death in the face. Her name was Allison Wolfe.
"I was excited to meet her, let alone work the show at all," he says of the Partyline singer, who helped found the riot-grrrl movement [...]
When it comes to polling—a practice by which music venues ask concertgoers which band they've come to see perform, and sometimes pay artists according to how many people they've drawn—D.C. rapper Head-Roc doesn't mince words: "Flat out, this is some bullshit," he wrote yesterday in a post on Arts Desk, where he is an occasional [...]
A note from Steve Lambert, booking manager for the Rock & Roll Hotel, on his biggest shows, his favorite shows, and some cool developments in the Atlas district.
Biggest shows:
O.A.R. (Dec.08)
Vampire Weekend (Feb.08)
Ben Kweller (Oct.08)
Black Mountain and Bon Iver (Feb.08)
Mark Kozelek [Red House Paints / Sun Kil Moon) (Nov.08)
Mudhoney (June.08)
Glasvegas (Oct.08)
Z-Trip (Nov.08)
Liam Finn (Sept.08)
Ohgr [Skinny [...]
