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YOUR WEEK IN MUSIC

Cat Power, Cake And Caverns

  • Thursday, Feb. 5: Brightest Young Things is throwing a listening party for “Dark Was the Night,” their latest indie rock compilation. Electrohaters, rejoice; there’s not a sign of synth to be found on the comp, and they’ll be playing music by Cat Power, Blonde Redhead, Spoon, The New Pornographers and Yo La Tengo all night. [Brightest Young Things]
  • Thursday, Feb. 5: Asylum in Adams Morgan is hosting “Cake and Kisses,” a club night featuring hip hop DJs The Five One, G-Five Clive and Nate Greyski. Although you won’t hear “The Distance,” you will get to eat free cake. [Brightest Young Things]
  • Friday, Feb. 6: Punk-and-pianos band Caverns have been defacing DC with their DIY xerox-machine fliers in honor of their show tonight, so just do them a favor and go. 8:30PM at the Rock and Roll Hotel. [Rock and Roll Hotel]
  • Saturday, Feb. 7: DC9’s old school hip hop and R&B night, KIDS, is back. Come late, because the first DJ is a sorority girl in Nike Dunks and a trucker hat. But, there’s free Olde English before 10PM. [DC9]
  • Sunday, Feb. 8: Cat Power, Matador Records’ pride and joy, is playing at the 9:30 Club tonight. Tickets are sold out, so that means they won’t be free (ha, ha). [9:30 Club]
  • Tuesday, Feb. 10: Bohemian Caverns is having an India Arie listening party in promotion of her new project, Testimony: Vol 2, Love & Politics. Her new song, “Chocolate High” is pretty awful, so beware. [Bohemian Caverns]
  • Buy these tickets before they sell out: Mos Def, Feb. 23, 9:30 Club; Ben Kweller and The Watson Twins, Feb. 26, 9:30 Club; Glasvegas, Mar. 26, Black Cat; Ratatat, 9:30 Club, Apr. 16.


2:05 PM on Thu February 5 2009
By Malaka Gharib
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  1. Mr Blifil says at 2:07 pm, February 5th, 2009

    Yo La Tengo? Heh. I played bass in Yo La Tengo for about a month, until their original bass guy wanted back in the band. It put to rest forever my fantasies of being in a rock band.

  2. AnnieGetYourFun says at 2:21 pm, February 5th, 2009

    Brightest Young Things? Is that like Late Night Shots for hipsters?

  3. Deer MALAka why is Ken a Terrible Sexist Racist Ladyman Snarkolophogous? Why Are YOU not on the MASTHEAD?????????? What’s Juli got that you ain’t got????????????????

  4. I saw Cat Power play a set in Baltimore that literally consisted of her playing about a third of every song — some of which were hers, some of which were an awesomely eclectic series of covers — before mumbling semi-coherently and then moving onto the next song segment, all while facing more or less away from the audience. I know that sounds bad, but it was actually pretty phenomenal. I hear she’s all clean and sober and mentally balanced now, so her shows are probably more normal.

  5. Come here a minute says at 2:50 pm, February 5th, 2009

    Equal time for Dog Power.

  6. If I claim I didn’t know The New Pornographers would be on the playlist, can I be paid $10?

  7. Gorillionaire says at 3:12 pm, February 5th, 2009

    I’ve seen literally hundreds and hundreds of gigs, and Cat Power ranks as one of the top five worst at least. It started out well enough on a heavily reverbed piano, and then a guitar that she never bothered to tune to play a decent “House of the Rising Son”. From there is was half assed song fragments, co-dependent weeping to the audience, angry bursts at the sound man, and then a roughly fifteen minute discussion with the audience on why she should just quit playing already and let everyone go home. Her audience loved it apparently.

  8. magic titty says at 3:27 pm, February 5th, 2009

    I’m going to see Cat Power at the Apollo Satursday night. Suck it, lozerzzzz!

  9. amodelcitizen says at 3:38 pm, February 5th, 2009

    Gorillionaire: i don’t get it. love her voice, but for a singer-songwriter, she shows a surprising disdain for both singing (half-assed concerts that end in self-pitying tears appear to be the norm) and song-writing (ever other damn album she releases is a bunch of covers).

    but she does have a natural talent for getting her songs in car commercials, i’ve noticed…

  10. amodelcitizen says at 3:39 pm, February 5th, 2009

    oh, and posing for moody, blurry photos.

  11. magic titty says at 3:53 pm, February 5th, 2009

    Gorillionaire: How long ago was it? I heard she’s cleaned up her act, from the old days. Well, I hope so anyway.

    Also, magic titty: spelling FAIL on ‘Saturday’.

  12. magic titty: Caturday, you mean.

  13. goodluck/badluck says at 4:38 pm, February 5th, 2009

    magic titty: Here’s Chan being interviewed one or two years ago by Ian Svenonius (one of my favoritest DC people, incidentally)… it’s strange at the outset, but it seems to settle in by the end: http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=570322074

  14. goodluck/badluck says at 4:41 pm, February 5th, 2009

    Glasvegas tickles my 90s neurons, also.

  15. Gorillionaire says at 4:53 pm, February 5th, 2009

    magic titty: Summer of 2003 it was. No shit, I just looked this up, this was in the ad for the gig: “Chan Marshall is 12-stepping to greatness, it seems. According to various Pitchfork staff members who have attended recent Cat Power concerts (as well as today’s review), the days of difficult and uncomfortable shows appear to be over. ”
    Uh boy.

  16. Gorillionaire says at 4:56 pm, February 5th, 2009

    Gorillionaire: I wrote 2003, but I meant 2006. Damn Bush era….

  17. districtsleeps says at 6:08 pm, February 5th, 2009

    “Dark Was the Night” isn’t BYT’s, and it isn’t just an “indie rock compilation.” It’s an annual benefit album for Red Hot (international HIV/AIDS awareness) featuring exclusive covers of a lot of great songs by a huge group of the best artists out there. Research fail.

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