DNA TEST FEST II APRIL 24TH&25TH VELVET LOUNGE

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i forgot i'll be at a wedding on saturday and i was hoping i can leave sometime around 10ish and make it for pink reason/kurt, but if it's going to sell out, why even try.

>:( >:( >:( :( :( :(

put it this way…lounge shows rarely sell out…youll get in

i wouldnt worry though

Cool…thanks for the heads up.  Here's hoping I can at least get there in time for Drunkdriver.  Any thoughts on a time they'll be playing?

Epstein wrote:
put it this way…lounge shows rarely sell out…youll get in

11ish

drunkdriver's lp is sickkk. hope they'll have it on sale.

they will…also they will have the 7"

The very last new flesh flesh show ever?
posted by greg of the new flesh
we'll be finishing writing/​recording our new album in May but have no plans to play shows then or in the summer unless it's extremely lucrative or if we deem the show a necessity to play. We may play shows in the fall if our schedules can align.

Saturday will be our final show with many great bands: Twin Stumps are awesome, Drunkdriver is my favorite new band, Kurt Vile's new 12" is awesome & Pink Reason will all be riding the blog-buzz wave on Saturday with our final set for a while in the middle of the show. It is likely to sell-out before we play.

Also make an attempt to make it Friday to see Pfisters because their new album (which is going to be on Fan Death) is awesome and they work really hard and are great live. Pygmy Shrews (formerly Cutter of NYC) are fucking great too.

So you get our final show for a while and a bunch of awesome bands following… the hottest show in DC all year. Hopefully we'll see ya there cuz you may never see us again!

You know the set times for Friday yet?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/music-events/dna-test-fest,1152781.html

Editorial Review

There's basically an entire year's worth of noisy, weird, and really underground music this weekend at the Velvet Lounge for the second DNA Test Fest. It's hard to find one defining sound for the festival, but that's sort of the point. Sure, most of the bands are loud, a few of them ungodly so, but their unifying theme is simply "good, weird stuff." Friday's seven-band lineup is headlined by a pair of local bands making both figurative and literal noise. Screen Vinyl Image released the excellent "Interceptors" earlier this year, an updated take on shoegaze with plenty of screaming guitars and foreboding keyboards and vocals. The addition of a drummer has taken the live performances to the next level. It's taken less than a year for True Womanhood to rise to the top of the town's indie-rock circuit, opening for Times New Viking, Health, Crystal Antlers and more. The rest of Friday's lineup includes the 1930s-style torch songs of Armida and Her Imaginary Band, old-fashioned power pop of the Lampshades and sludge-noise freakouts of Pygmy Shrews.

The main draw on Saturday is on-the-cusp singer-songwriter Kurt Vile who is about to become your favorite bloggers' No. 1 crush. Unless your favorite blogger is David, in which case he already is. His spacey, fingerpicked, acoustic songs are hypnotic. And it will be the lone break your ears get because the rest of Saturday's bands are skull-crushingly loud. Drunkdriver sounds like you'd expect a band with that name to sound; Baltimore's the New Flesh plays hardcore heavy on the distortion and fuzz and Twin Stumps is so brutal it can only occasionally be described as actual music. You will certainly hear something new over the course of the weekend, that's for sure.

SVI have a drummer now? Nice. That I didn't know.

Interview with chris berry and I in the washington post:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/goingoutgurus/2009/04/keeping_it_way_underground_dna.html

Another Interview for the blog a young persons guide to corruption (originally intended for diamond back newspaper, but cut becuse they thought no one would give a shit:

http://corruptionradio.blogspot.com/2009/04/exclusive-live-music-preview-dna-test.html

bump tonight, this is gonna be great

How was last night? I decided to be extremely lame and skip out at the last minute.


Will surely be there tonight, though!

>:(

stupid wedding. the drunkdriver lp hasn't left my car's cd player.

packed very packed

Awesome. Too bad the online stream was down.

weird i'll get on top of it

What a killer night of music! Everything was pretty much perfect and went off without a noticeable hitch (and if there were any hitches, they were covered up pretty damn well. :)). Thanks to Epstein and everyone else involved for putting it on as well as an excellent job doing so. Kurt Vile->Pink Reason was the perfect cool-down after the almost 3-hour noise-rock assault that was Unholy Two through Drunkdriver. And that Drunkdriver set was more than I could've asked for. Holy shit! Turnout was awesome, too. Congrats on such a successful weekend; hopefully we'll have many more like it.