The Washington native turns D.W. Griffith’s 1915 silent film Birth of a Nation into a critique of race relations.

By DCist contributor Paul Ghosh-Roy Artist? Junglist? Selector? Hip-Hop DJ extraordinaire? DCist cannot answer this question. Maybe the best title, should DJ Spooky choose to pass out a DC style business card, would simply read, “Paul D. Miller, Turntablist.” Because, if a turntablist uses the tables to create new music and improvise, and not just play records, then Washington, D.C.’s native son Paul D.Miller (nom de disc, “DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid”) claims the title…

Halloween is Tuesday, which means this weekend was really the time for all of the –ists to celebrate. And whether they’re designing super-spooky costumes or talking about the super-spooky upcoming elections, we’d say that they’re doing a fine job of it. Austinist knows that few things in life are scarier than zombies, people with way too much money, and politicians who try too hard to be funny. Slightly less scary, depending on whom you…

Continuing what we started yesterday, here’s a little glimpse into some of this weekend’s DAM Fest bands. Plan your schedule with the help of these handy dandy sample tracks and pertinent info from our crack music staff. Bleeder Resistor Featuring buzzsaw guitars, hoarse-voiced catchy shout-alongs and a mandate of faster and louder, Bleeder Resistor are out to keep the capital “DC” in HarDCore. At a time when most bands are trying to emphasize the “post”…

As a rather fervent concert goer, I’ve been watching my October Outlook calendar with alternating excitement and dread as my concert calendar gets more and more crowded. This all came to a head yesterday as I started putting in the DAMfest schedule and noticed a whole bunch of scheduling conflicts in the making. Area indie rock fans are going to have some tough choices to make the last full week of October. Thursday, Oct….

If you weren’t able to snag a ticket to the official Democratic, Republican, third-party-of-choice Election Night parties, there are plenty of election-related activities this evening. The Post has a complete round-up here, but DCist wants to highlight a few events. >> Want to know what the results are, but also want to dance? Go to the Black Cat where the “finest media collage artists in the world, including DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, will converge…