Capital Rock & Roll \m/
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, casting a dark cloud over live music performances. The sirens were silenced, concerts hibernated... but did the music die? No! The sirens longed to sing! Fans longed to hear their song!
Born in August of that year was a radical idea: punk rock, outdoors, in a socially distanced parking lot setting. 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.
Punk Rock Parking Lot was revived in 2023, rotating through some of the finest parking lots and (parking lot adjacent) venues in DC, Virginia, and Maryland. The rebirth has been a tremendous success, once again highlighting some of the DC area's premere acts of today as well as the bands of tomorrow everyone will soon be talking about.
Events!
Coming Soon:
More shows? Yes! Stay tuned for updates about:
Kalypso Blue (Lake Anne, Reston):
No cover!
- September 27: Flowers for the Dead, Terrain, Celebration Summer
- October 11
- October 25
- November 15
Punk Rock Parking Lot:
No cover!
- September 28 (Clear Skies Meadery)
- November 2 (Clear Skies Meadery)
- November 23 (Simple Bar & Grill)
- December 23 (Pie Shop)
... and more! Careful curations of venues and lineups for 2024 and 2025 are in progress, featuring the music you want to hear today with a big spotlight on the music everyone will be talking about tomorrow. Stay tuned!
2024 Highlights (so far...):
Kalypso Blue
- January: Modest Goddess, Fake Radio, Avery & Ella
- April: Ammonite, Sheila, Avery & Ella
- April: Fake Radio, Holiday Death Tribute, Buko Buko
- May: R-NØT, Exeter
- June: LYNSY, the Orange Slices
- July: Shagwüf
- August: Ammonite, Ouncez, Molldyer
Pocket Rock
- June: Sheila, Raspberry Pie, Lud Roes
Punk Rock Parking Lot
- January (Fat's Fairfax): All the Smoke, Lindsay Collete, E.O.E., #guitarsofdc featuring Kay Blank
- March (Vanguard Arts): Peter Le × Depth Charge, The Glares, Skomucon
- April (Artomatic): The Meer, XK Scenario, Endlings, Fantazma, #guitarsofdc featuring Ian Mabley
- April (DC Brau): The Mostly Dead, Soji, Wanted Man, #guitarsofdc featuring Jay Hutchinson
- June (Songbyrd): Fantazma, Mantagonist
- July (Pie Shop): Lud Roes, Tula Vera, Ragdollz, Tired all the Time, #guitarsofdc featuring Ian Mabley
- July (Vanguard Arts): Amoeba Ray, Terrible with Names
- August (Iris Garden Bar): Lunatic High, Fantazma, Worm Wagon, Company Calls
2023 Highlights:
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
- October (McLean VFW): Eyecatcher, L'Amour, Curse Words, Rise My Dead Ones, #guitarsofdc featuring Rob Mays
- October (Fat's Fairfax): Old Knife, Some Kind of Nightmare, Avery & Ella, #guitarsofdc featuring Paul Makarov
- November (Iris Garden Bar): An Awful Panic, Avery & Ella, #guitarsofdc featuring Joe Jordan
- December (Pie Shop): Kinda Evil, Shagwüf, Heinous Crime, Buko Buko, #guitarsofdc featuring Karen Culi
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
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
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
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
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...!
#dcrocks
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!
Important: roXplosion™ is not available for hire as a videographer, computer geek, butcher, baker, or candlestick maker. Seriously— no candles. No Windows 10. No weddings. No kidding.
For concert photography, however, roXplosion is available for hire. Big stages, small stages, indoors, outdoors, dive bars, posh venues, and promo shots. To contact roXplosion, please use Facebook or good 'ol email. Please do not send private messages on Instagram or Twitter (or Tinder), these are rarely checked.