Posts Tagged ‘house music’
FLOOPLAN 23.02.24
March 11, 2024
FLOORPLAN 23.02.24
March 10, 2024Time to Holy Ghost Stomp!
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“DO YOUR PARENTS KNOW YOU SMOKE?”
Everyone standing in line can’t help but to overhear.
“I’M INDIAN. He continues, “YES.”
Why must their voices yell directly into your ear? From behind you a queue stands twenty deep.
“AT LEAST, THE LINE MOVES QUICKLY,” Agrees the guy who must be heard above all else. His accent hurls across the frigid air on a balmy Friday. Underneath dancing stars, in the warehouse district of Langdon, Washington, your ID is checked and your body patted from bottom to top. Twice! (more…)
ROCK THE PARK DC WKNDR. 21.10.23
December 9, 2023
ROCK THE PARK DC WKNDR Pt I. 21.10.23
December 8, 2023
Day 2
Exit the McPherson Square Metro Station, at the corner of I and 14th Streets. Watch out! Carefully, look both ways before crossing the bustling intersection. Turn right onto the walkway. That leads to the fountain, the epicenter of the greenspace named after a Founding Father. Forward north is the performance stage. A steel beam structure with canopy top protects the music equipment from torrential elements. Rain? Not today. The sky appears as a glass ocean. Cloudless. Without celestial disturbance. However, the wind gusts at 30 miles per hour. Today, the temperature is chillier than twenty-four hours earlier at this exact location. The sun’s rays are challenged to warm the family of five picnicking on the grassy knoll. Their jackets and hoods blow in the air as screaming children run to the play area. (more…)
ROCK THE PARK DC WKNDR Pt II 22.10.23
November 20, 2023Day 2
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“Oh, I did aight.” Kenny Dixon Jr jokes with you the following afternoon. He walks arm and arm showing off his lady around Franklin Park. You marvel, he appears refreshed, his skin polished in the glowing sun.
Later that evening, Hostess Reesa Renee reminds the people. “Give it up for Moodymann last night,” with microphone in hand as if she is ready to spit bars. The Maryland born singer/songwriter proceeds to read the bio of the upcoming headliner who the people came to see. (more…)
CHAKA KHAN HACIENDA 16.07.23
July 23, 2023Chaka Khan Hacienda
Grows Up
Ree De La Vega ain’t new to this. The Chaka Khan Hacienda curator has been at it for years, close to two decades. There is no time for the celebrated planner to party. She commands attention. Her signature black bangs, shoulder length mane, black stunners, red jersey dress and legs for days, struts across the hardwood to surprise someone with a heartfelt hug. Earlier, the avid vinyl collector distributed wristbands at the entry gate of her own event. The sometimes model is a force to be reckoned. She knows how to throw the best get downs. A lesson many promoters dare to finesse from her playbook. (more…)
JIMPSTER 08.07.23
July 16, 2023ROCK STEADY SOUND SYSTEM BLOCK PARTY 03.07.23
July 12, 2023The Sun. The Rain. The Super Moon.
“Put em’ up. Put em’ up. Put em’ up.” The host yells into the microphone. There is not one but two of em yelling into microphones. Their mumblings about someone later giving hugs and then that someone giving two hugs after dark. All the while the deejay appears perplexed. Confused at the vocal back and forth between the two. Against the soundtrack of snaps and hiss on Mary Mary’s “Walking.” (more…)
THE TRILOGY Acts 5 & 8: NYC: LOUIE VEGA, DEON COLE & KENNY DOPE
July 11, 2023
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LOUIE VEGA & KAI ALCE PT 1 23.04.23
May 1, 2023OPEN AIR AND INTIMATE
Part I
Yeah, you are at the right place. As the car door closes, you overhear faint thumps where you are parked adjacent a curb monitored by vagrants. Walk a block pass the open air parking structure as the ontz expands in the atmosphere. Juxtaposed against the skyline of high rises, onward forward lies the destination. A folding table and portable fence where your mobile ticket is scanned. Grab a smiley face wristband. Say hi to security. Enter. Tents. Vendors. Lounge chaises. Restrooms? Behold the center piece of the event. That is not the surrounding professional lighting towers, nor the arena-sized sound gear but an aerodynamic aluminum mobile trailer titled Rock The Disco Soundsystem. Coachella eat your fucking heart out. (more…)