>> For those of you who prefer your music pantomimed, tonight’s Air Guitar Competition at the 9:30 Club. should be right up your alley. Just because the guitars are made of air, doesn’t mean they don’t rock! And who knows? The winner of tonight’s competition may very well end up in the winner’s circle at the Air Guitar World Championship in Finland. You can say you saw them before they sold out to the…
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…
Review and photos by DCist contributor Paul Ghosh-Roy They don’t speak English. Their sound system consists of PA style loud speakers draped with mics. They play thumb pianos. The guy who formed the band was born in 1933. They also have a track produced by Timbaland on Bjork’s new album. Oh yeah, and they played the Black Cat on Friday night. What to make of all this, you ask? Well, it’s Konono No. 1, son,…
Co-written by DCist Contributor Paul Ghosh-Roy Get together a bunch of artists, a bunch of bands, a cool venue, and a great time is had by all. On Saturday night, DCist ventured into the land of perfectly disheveled hair and meticulously scuffed jeans to see if the theory worked in practice as The Rock and Roll Hotel hosted the Big Art Show . The event is organized by a collective of artists and volunteers based…
By DCist contributor Paul Ghosh-Roy Is it a burlesque band? Gypsy rock? Electronic klezmer? Mediterranean dub? Carnival musicians in the off season’s? It’s difficult to categorize Balkan Beat Box’s sound, but you can call it good. On Saturday night, six members of Balkan Beat Box donned their pig masks and came to Rosslyn to bring the Balkan dance party. Pig masks? Yes, this show started with the pig mask-bedecked band wandering through the aisles of…
By DCist Contributor Paul Ghosh-Roy Northern Virginia heard madness and murder this weekend, as jazz met Japan in Rosslyn. Billy Fox’s Kaidan Suite, as performed by improvising chamber group the Kitsune Ensemble, explored themes of Japanese ghost-story telling, jazz and tonal music, from light to dark, at the Rosslyn Spectrum. On Saturday night the Kitsune Ensemble took the stage at the Rosslyn Spectrum to debut Kaidan Suite. Composer/director Billy Fox deftly guided the improvising…
Written by DCist contributor Paul Ghosh-Roy. The aboriginal culture of Australia is said to date back 50,000 years — the longest continuous culture of any people on earth. Dreaming Their Way, an exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, celebrates this tradition and the contributions that contemporary female aboriginal artists have made to the various styles of aboriginal painting. Among this variety of styles, the “dot style” depicts both figures and abstract…
