Rock and Roll is Alive and Well and Living in D.C.

Please excuse the embryonic state of this effort to document the D.C. rock and roll scene. Currently, the Facebook page is kept much more up to date, as is the Instagram page if you dig squares. Just getting started on the Mastodon.

Concert promotion? For years the finest DC area venues have hosted live shows curated by roXplosion, with lineups drawn from the best of DC, the surrounding area, and many distant lands. Full list: a roXplosion Presents!

Punk Rock Parking Lot

The year was 2020. A pandemic ravaged the earth, music and many other performing arts did what was responsible and hibernated. Yet— the sirens longed to be heard! Music fans longed to hear!

Thus, in August of that year was born a radical idea: punk rock bands, playing outdoors, in a socially distanced environment. By necessity, this was in a parking lot. Punk Rock Parking Lot emerged and became part of the global reawakening of live music! Punk Rock Parking Lot continued into 2021, featuring some of the finest music acts to ever appear on or near a parking lot.

Alas— as with many venues, this one did not survive the storm. But the idea— the concept— the legacy— did not die! Punk Rock Parking Lot was revived in 2023, alternating between two locations on either side of Washington DC: Fairfax and Burtonsville. Fans can now enjoy free shows, once a month, at Fat's Fairfax and the Iris Garden Bar. The rebirth has been a tremendous success, once again highlighting some of the DC area's premere acts as well as the bands everyone will soon be talking about.

Punk Rock Parking Lot will be coming to D.C. soon, stay tuned!

Events!

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Coming Soon:

More shows? Yes! Stay tuned for updates about:

• October 20: PRPL 16 (TBD)
• October 22: PRPL 17 (Fat's Fairfax)
• ... and more!

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2023 Highlights (so far):

 

Kalypso Blue

• September: Modest Goddess, East Coast Offense

π Day

• March: BLKVAPOR, Ladygod, Sheila

Punk Rock Parking Lot

• April (Iris Garden Bar): JJX, New Order of Existence, Blunda
• May (Fat's Fairfax): Fake Bodies, R-NØT, the Sebastions
• June (Iris Garden Bar): R-NØT, Sex Faces, Fixed Bias
• July (Fat's Fairfax): Buko Buko, Thaylobleu, Tula Vera
• August (Fat's Fairfax): New Order of Existence, Rise My Dead Ones, Soji

Quarry Rock

• April: Kulfi Girls, Endlings, Ammonite

Savory Sessions

• March: Trivial Difference, Killing Dayzies, Kavlick

This Could Go Boom! Showcase

• July: the Meer, Eliza & the Organix, Ski Queen

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2022 Highlights:

 

Kalypso Blue:

• May: Wanted Man
• September: Wanted Man

Lake Anne Live:

• July: Shakin' Woods
• July: Crush Funk Brass
• July: the Mostly Bad Virus

Runaway Rox:

• August: Dirt Eater, Railgun, Tomason, #guitarsofdc featuring Selena Benally

Savory Sessions:

• May: the Meer, Fake Bodies, Mid, Druid Stone, #guitarsofdc featuring Monica Smith
• June: the Kerosene, Fuzz Voyage, Grady, #guitarsofdc featuring Herschel Hoover
• July: Company Calls, Eliza & the Organix, Liability, #guitarsofdc featuring Ryan Plummer
• November: Unsullied, Sister Ex, Peter Le × Depth Charge

This Could Go roXplosion

• May: Sheila, Monte, More AM Than FM, Winter Wolf, #guitarsofdc featuring Evan O'Neal

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2021 Highlights:

 

A roXplosion Presents:

• December: Kromanauts, BOAYT, Railgun, Herschel Hoover, #guitarsofdc featuring Julie O

Kalypso Blue:

• May: Turtle Recall
• July: the Jones
• August: Shagwüf
• September: Sam Gunderson & the Cactus Groove, Chris Timbers

Punk Rock Parking Lot (Epicure Cafe):

• April: Space Koi, the Kerosene
• May: Public Figures, Company Calls, Tired all the Time
• June: Outerloop, Trajectories, Railgun, Suzi Moon
• August: Rise Defy, Sister Ex, Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, BOAYT

Savory Sessions (Pie Shop DC)

• September: Eat the Cake, More AM Than FM, Celebration Summer, the Bobby Lees
• October: Julie Outrage, New Order of Existence, Flooded
• November: High-Brid Band, Full Bush, Blkvapor, #guitarsofdc featuring Kenny Pirog

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2020 Highlights:

 

Dangerous Sessions (Pie Shop DC):

• January: Lightmare, North by North, Fake Bodies
• February: the Bobbie Lees, More AM Than FM, Teen Mortgage
• March: Some Kind of Nightmare, Thaylobleu, NOE

Punk Rock Parking Lot (Epicure Cafe):

• August: Sheila, A Shrewdness of Apes
• August: Company Calls, Venray
• September: The Kerosene, Lindsay Collette, NOE
• October: BOAYT, Teen Cobra, Weird Babies

Reston Skate Punk (Lake Fairfax Skate Park):

• October: Sheila, Celebration Summer, Teen Mortgage, Ain't no Mountian High Enough

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There must be some kind of way outta here? There is. Put another dime in the jukebox, wash your hands, and please stay tuned. Baby.

...home brew from a wooden cup

A photographic chronicle of the D.C. rock and roll scene... with a bit of flare and a little flair and pixels to spare like we just don't care.

• No #$%¶ing filters!
• No flash!
• No b/w!
• No foolin'.

Coming soon:

• Live streaming!
• Blogs?
• Photography tips (make your own roXplosion™?)
• Extensive indexing— performers, venues, related organizations, apertures, palettes?
• Coffee mugs? (probably not)
• Koozies... yup!
• More photos...!

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Please explore more of the roXplosion™ on the FaceBook and the Instagram. All the posts have the venues and the performers tagged... search for your favorites!

Still in the works: TikTok, Pinterest, Flickr, Google+, Bebo, CafeMom, MySpace, Friendster, Foursquare, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Meetup, Tumblr, and of course... Tinder.

There are strange things happening every day!