first petrov apologizes for the lack of better posting. its been over a month. eek! petrov's life schedule and re-found love for the gym at Results have contributed to a poor presence on the interwebs.
June 28th is the day petrov now hates. he committed to going to Montana including the day of june 28th despite the fact that ladytron and datarock were playing at 9.30 club. THEN thievery corporation and tv on the radio join the ticket and the concert moved to MWP. argh. then to top it off datarock decided to move their show to the Rock and Roll Hotel a mere block from petrov's house. pissers on montana. all you bizatches better enjoy the show with out this bunny.
....there are a lot of good concerts coming up. petrov's friends aren't always the most fun :-(
does anyone want to be petrov's date for Justice? petrov can't find anyone to go with. petrov is also very excited about the upcoming shows including: new pornagrahers, nada surf, and vhs or beta. unfortunately none are for at least another month :-(. this winter has been sorta of a dry spell for good shows in dc, but things should get back in full gear (as soon as petrov gets some concert tix).
in a limited number of shows, Vampire Weekend will be playing throughout February with a couple shows in January and March. DC is lucky enough to have them coming to DC for a show at the Rock and Roll Hotel (now only a hop skip and a jump) away from petrov's new abode. woohoo. There a fun little band that petrov suggests you all go see. They seem to lack something in petrov's eye in terms of sounds, it just seems just a little too barebones for his taste, but who is he to judge?
petrov must apologize profusely, its been almost a month since he has posted. where has the time flown these past few weeks? it seems like everyday is filled with something that has to be done. even today, its 12.30am and he is just now thinking oh yeah, what about that blog thing? well where to start on the past two weeks? let us summarize the topics that need to be covered (can you say "us" in the third person? you can say "they" but that doesn't refer to him and you, but instead someone else, petrov is tired, but he's pretty sure there is no way to refer to himself in the the third person and you, the reader, also in the third person in a simple way): (1) Beowulf, (2) Town Danceboutique, (3) New Pornographers, (4) M.I.A., (5) domestic partnerships, and (6) turducken. (1) well against petrov's own better judgment, he went and saw Beowulf in "digital 3-D," which requires the oh so fashionable 3-D glasses. let us first start with what is not told in the trailers.... beowulf fights grendel naked. 2/3rds of the reason petrov saw the movie was because the lesbians wanted to see Angelina naked in 3-d, but the movie ended up being very homoerotic around beowulf. granted he had his little girl tricks, but hey beowulf nearly taking a spear up his woo-ha, repeatedly, doesn't exactly scream "straight." (2) saturday night Town opened, the new gay dance club on 8th and Florida/U St. the music sucked the big one, petrov is glad he didn't go until 3am (doesn't close until 5am). further, though the bar closes before 3am, you are not permitted to be holding a drink after 3am, resulting in guys coming around taking your drink and throwing it in a garbage bucket....classy, real classy. (3)New Pornographers, petrov is still sad he missed the New Pornographers during his Africa trip.... here is the new video. the boy holding the girl's hand looks a little like TR Knight, no? maybe a little? (4)MIA is one week from this friday. she grew up in an Eleam family, as her father is considered the founder of the militant group. coincidentally (???) there have been several times her visa has been denied for the United States. let's hope she makes it to her DC tour date, cuz it is going to be splendiferous, regardless of political views. (5)the lesbians got domestic partner-cated last friday in what is mostly likely the fastest most random and filthy shot gun wedding petrov will ever experience. let's just say petrov had to sit and watch a 4year old blow spit bubbles at him and pretend it was semi-humorous as his mother sat their and sad "isn't that just the cutest thing???? he just isn't going to stop." i considered that a nice brain tumor was appropriate willed into the child's brain (too cruel? insert apologetic phrase here if you like children). (6) turkducken...... WTF? bless their hearts, but what the hell is the matter with southern people?
Despite all evidence to the contrary, amy winehouse, was arrested in Norway for possession of the puff puff. luckily she was snagged in the kingdom of the vikings where the puff puff doesn't get you in too much trouble. seeing that both of the previous sentences provides basically no new knowledge for your eager-beaver brain that it didn't already know..... did you know that dublin was founded by the norwegians in 841AD? and the damn french are responsible for the current spelling because they were to lazy to actually call it Dub-linn. fancy day you can't learn something new.
in related news, winehouse's band, the Budos Band, previous mentioned on CYHFSN (here), just announced they are coming to the blackcat on December 15th. petrov loves the funkitude of their music. they are self described as playing a mix of "afrobeat, ethopian jazz and blues, and american funk and soul from the 1960s and 70s." quite the combination, no wonder they are hitting it with winehouse train(wreck).
fyi, petrov thinks the band deserves a seperate entry from winehouse, as he combined them before too, but it was just coincidence that petrov found out both pieces of news this week. so suck it, petrov is too lazy for two entries.
petrov had an all out 4-day weekend. petrov feels like more energy is exerted on his social life than on his work life. the week will provide him the necessary time to recover from the weekend. the highlight of the weekend was seeing the X. he was in town running a conference and spent his day off with petrov. brunch was obtained from U St followed by an unexpected shopping spree in georgetown and finally finished off with watching "The Host". though korean and about a monster, it provided a mish-mash of a drama movie to a scary movie to a funny movie to a sad movie that muddled altogether to apparently win some number of awards abroad.
but the point to the story was that the X and petrov visited a cute little indie record store on M St. where the aforemnetion movie was purchased The Klaxons new album, "Myths of the Near Future." Upon listening to the first song, petrov immediately recognized the sound and when it finally came to him he said "Bloc Party." The Klaxons though easily categorized with Bloc Party have a slighty more genre bending nature to them. The second song's entrance could easily have come from any mainstream club, but quickly peals back to reveal melody you would be more apt to find at Taint (here). So far petrov likes the album, though several songs that are mediocre on the cd have been attested to being fabulous live according to the X.
who wants that sweater for christmas? The Klaxons - Atlantis to Interzone
fall is fully upon us and petrov loves it. this fall/winter dc will get to experience a new (gei) club called Town, which will be located on the adjacent block to 9.30club. Petrov may have to make the move to the U St corridor, the home to DC's music scene to appreciate both these venues (and Nellies). Town is taking over this old partially rundown warehouse/factory that god only knows what was produced in it. the place will be two floors and have a lounge atmosphere on one. the pictures of the floor looks huge and will apparently be adopted to create a high quality sound system, step #1 in creating the perfect environment. step #2 will be appropriate music on said soundsystem. what the music will be, is yet to be determined, but petrov thinks it will likely entail what it is the kids are listening to these days.... think Rihana (spelling?), petrov doesn't know. all he knows is she is the chick in the britney spears VMA performance that is laughing at the stripper on her dinner table (appropriately so).
anyway, located within the same vicinity is another rundown building that was formerly the Wonderbread Hostess Bakery. anyway, when petrov makes his first million, he's going to buy it up and start a new club that will fall somewhere between 9.30club, Rock and Roll Hotel, and what petrov envisions this Town to look like. The exterior of the bakery will be kept intact, with the exception of the obvious need for better windows/doors etc... Petrov isn't sure if the place should be one floor or two, but there is a possibility of three (two on the left side and one on the right) -- see picture to the left via flickr member stgermh. This would give the abiltiy to have shows on the right side or smaller shows on the left and a full bar area. Petrov has business skills, but he'd rather leave that to someone like the redhead, while lesbian #1 will provide the sweet sound and lights, and lesbian #2 will promote, while the pocket will look pretty and consult on pop culture issues that petrov doesn't follow closely enough. Petrov would be in charge of booking bands, and have a board (said business partners) who will conjointly plan events. Obvious name for the place is Wonderbread, but should copyright issues get in the way... perhaps The Bakery. Petrov thinks the later is a bit bleh, but it might do. Certainly some homage to the building's former self will be required. If anyone out there wants to provide petrov's necessary cash flow for this project, make checks payable to Petrov Cotton LLC.
Colonel K Speaks wrote a little diddy on the downfall of DJing (here) due to "amateur night" at a various assortment of bars throughout DC. So petrov had not really thought about this topic before as he can only think of one instance where he has attended a music-focused bar and heard non-DJs "spinning" aka dropping songs with no djing skills required. Its probably safe to assume that one instance was out of petrov's normal circle of outings, but it was indeed quite a sad experience. Petrov remembers trying to dance...only to find himself having to stop every 4-6minutes and readjust for a new beat (the fading and fading out of two songs simultaneously does not count as mixing).
anywho, petrov could go on, but this is just reason #34 why you should find petrov someone to teach him how to dj.
when two pre-teens can rock as good as you, you should be a little concerned. but that is in fact what Smoosh does. petrov had heard of them, but had little knowledge of them until he saw them open for The Pipettes at blackcat a while back. he was indeed found to following standard DC indie concert protocol for bands one likes -- tapping foot, nodding head, and the optional a) arms folded or b) beer in hand. petrov was guzzling his beer bottle like a bunny on his mum's teet, so yeah petrov approves of smoosh.
at the SF performance they covered the bloc party song "this modern love" and did quite well in petrov's view. despite not being grown men who can actually rock and not make DAR Constitution Hall's, where petrov saw bloc party, acoustics sound as bad as they are, smoosh gives a good playing of the song. they were unable to make it their own, but like a fine cheese, age will cure that.
in a little over a week Petrov will be seeing Polyphonic Spree at the 9:30 Club with some crazy U2 fanatic. Furthermore, the first single off the new PS album is a series of like 70,000 still shots and is taken in DC (notice large marble phallic symbols in background). As such, it would probably be wise for Petrov to play a PS song for all the kiddies who don't know the band small cult that plays happy happy joyous songs. To be honest Petrov doesn't actually know that much about the band, he just has this odd desire to go to concerts that seem appropriate for dancing. If this tune turns your crank, AOL Spinner is streaming the entire album on their website for the week, Petrov believes.
eh, petrov is a liberal northern who prefers snow to heat, so deal with it. so tonight the Austin, TX band, Voxtrot, is gracing the stage of the blackcat, meanwhile several blocks away, my maple syrup loving canadian sweetheart Feist is taking the 9.30 club stage. unfortunately, its a busy school night for petrov so he will be unable to attend either.
the Maple Syrup Princess, already graced a blog entry here a few days ago, so today Petrov is providing one of the slower songs off Voxtrot's first full length album. Petrov had some difficulty picking a song to share with you all because he has pretty much only consumed this album as a single unit, as it is a very digestible carrot album. Petrov just starts listening and next thing he knows its over and when its over it makes petrov very sad. So here is to the the "repeart all button."
what a cliche blog entry title! its made up for in substance though.
Normally Petrov simply informs you kiddies of new/different music, but today is an exception.
what would motivate Petrov to do such a ridiculous thing? Petrov recently had the opportunity to sit down for a fireside chat with the ra-ra rasputin singer, Rozz.
Today Petrov recommends going to see Ra-Ra Rasputin at Wonderland (and not just because Petrov is the white rabbit). Petrov would provide a sample of this funky little band, but alas their music has yet to be graced in 1s and 0s (digitized in case your not keeping up). So why the hell would you want to go to this show then? Let Pretrov set it straight and simple: 1) Petrov has fine musical tastes 2) they sound like the Fall, Talking Heads, New order, Belle & Sebastian, The Rapture, etc... (you will want to dance) 3) Petrov will drink beer with you 4) its at Wonderland, what isn’t there to love about that? 5) its free (more $$$ for #3)
Clap Your Hands for Something New, is a website designed to provide insight into new music for those looking to expand their musical horizons. Almost all music and video links were already publicly available on the internet. If you wish the links to media available via other websites to be removed from CYHfSN please email Petrov. Petrov advocates the purchase of drm-free music when possible (drm-ladeneed when not possible) through websites such as emusic and itunes (and hopefully more to come).
where to find petrov
06.09 - death cab for cutie - mwp
07.06 - dengue fever - blackat
where petrov would like to be
05.16 - devotchka - 9.30c
05.17 - blowoff - 9.30c
05.17 - the long blondes - r'n'r hotel
05.18 - bishop allen - blackcat
05.27 - eyedea & abilities - r'n'r hotel
06.04 - the field - r'n'r hotel
06.06 - rilo kiley - 9.30c
06.28 - datarock r'n'r hotel
06.28 - thievery corp, ladytron, tv on the radio - mwp
