Tag Archives: Washington DC

Galaxy Hut Sucks (at Informing People)

Galaxy Hut has been unable to properly market itself for a long time. The biggest annoyance, though, is that you can’t see the music venue’s calendar unless you are a fan (or whatever they are calling it these days) on Facebook. Sure, this is easy/lazy for the booker, but it screws people looking to quickly check or for people who don’t participate in Facebook (dudes, the ‘net is about being open, not about giving away your private data).

Galaxy Hut isn’t the only music venue with silly calendar practices. For example, Rock ‘n’ Roll‘s calendar page used to note that its calendar is not a reliable source of upcoming shows.

And the problems don’t stop there. Other music venues fail basic spelling tests (Red and Black) or mobile technology (HR57), just to name a few current quibbles. None of these issues are much of a problem given the “quality” bands/groups these venues book, with the exception of HR57 (although it does feature a rather stale rotation). Plus, the vast majority of sites use a splash screen for some reason.

Just to prove I’m not a total hater, Black Cat is always a reliable and informative site, as is Velvet Lounge, which I consider to be the best basic DC-area music-venue site.

And to demonstrate I can criticize the things I still–because I’ve moved on from these scenes–I consider the Kennedy Center‘s page to be nearly unusable.

Fort Reno Archives: 2000 Schedule

This is part of my effort to archive information about Fort Reno and eventually create a comprehensive Web site.

Here is the 2000 Fort Reno schedule, courtesy of the Internet Archive:

thursday
june 22, 2000 the sorts | dame fate | qui vicino

monday
june 26, 2000 the rondelles | dead meadow | the apes

thursday
june 29, 2000 saturday people | barcelona | sarah kenny

monday
july 3, 2000 chiaroscuro | so much | manual

thursday
july 6, 2000 phaser | resistance | so much

monday
july 10, 2000 alice despard | cry, baby, cry | signs point to yes

thursday
july 13, 2000 the no-go’s | roto | epson energy

monday
july 17, 2000 the capitol city dusters | scaramouche | the long goodbye

thursday
july 20, 2000 the dismemberment plan | oswego | maginot line

monday
july 24, 2000 vita bruno | sonna

thursday
july 27, 2000 durian | metropolitan | bahzena

monday
july 31, 2000 hot pursuit | the still

thursday
august 3, 2000 trans am | el guapo | aerialist

monday
august 7, 2000 fugazi | the vertebrates

thursday
august 10, 2000 no lie relaxer | edie sedgewick | 30 cent thieves

monday
august 14, 2000 the all scars | q and not u | calibos