SEAL OF APPROVAL: (DC) NO SCRUBS/12 LB SOUND @ 9:30 Club – 2/19/10

19 Feb
 
1000 patrons (or “Little miss, little miss”) can’t be wrong in anointing DC stalwarts Will Eastman (of soon to open U Hall and Blisspop fame) and Brian Billion’s quarterly one off, the 90’s themed “No Scrubs” dance party at the 9:30 Club’s Main Room a giant success. Likely moreso than any hipster electro act or Pitchfork favored band, or rap artist of the second, The populist rhythms of the very musically diverse and highly entertaining 1990s appeal to literally everyone, and nobody has a problem shaking it down to tunes that remind everyone of the X, Y or Z Generation of a time where they were likely socially awkward and highly arrhythmic. But it doesn’t matter here. It’s silly, it’s puerile, it’s juvenile and an absurd amount of fun. Add in the underrated importance of a twenty foot tall screen showing Kylos Brannon’s expert visuals (this time of such things as Nirvana‘s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” cheerleaders, or Busta Rhymes’ bugged out eyes on the flow to “Scenario”) and you have a fun and expertly rendered top notch dance party.
Downstairs tonight, two of TGRIOnline.com’s “STAMPED” DJs, Bmore’s James Nasty and DC’s Andrew Jaye are on the wheels at 12 LB Sound, a party that Jaye has assumed control of and is well on the way of retooling and streamlining into yet another quality night on his, and by extension YOUR calendar.

No matter how you cut it, tonight at the 9:30 Club, top DJ’s will show you this:

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