Gay Best Weekend Bets

BYGaysDecember 6, 2018

LGBTQ 09 min read

Hi, Ponies! Chanukah is here, which means we can truly announce that the holiday season has arrived. Take a look at this weekend’s queer DC offerings, and celebrate the Jewish festival of lights.

It’s finally December. Have Your Best December.
We asked some of our favorite chefs about the cookbook that made them want to be a chef.
You may not realized it, but regardless of your age, ethnicity, gender or sexuality, you want to bone down with a Property Brother.
Gift giving season is upon us. Consult part 1 of our annual gift guide.
RADIORADIORADIO: Listen to BYT radio! Hosted by Brandon Wetherbee, it streams every Thursday at noon. Listen live. Subscribe in iTunes.
SOCIAL MEDIA BONUS: tag all your Instagram stuff #BYThings (@brightestyoungthings) and get a chance to shine on OUR Instagram feed too.

Sleaze: Fruitcakes is at Wonderland.
ZooLights is at the National Zoo.
GLOW DC is in Georgetown.
Oh Gaydel, Gaydel, Gaydel! Queer Chanukah Happy Hour is at Pitchers.
Reel Affirmations XTRA Presents: Buddies at HRC.
Thursday Otter Happy Hour w/ Dvonne is at TRADE.
Speed Friending – A Queer Womxn Edition is at XX+.
Helena Deland plays DC9.
TLC Drawing Night is at REWILD.
Roosevelt plays U Street Music Hall.
Kimbra plays 6th and I.

Don’t miss Miss Pixie’s 6th Annual Holiday Market!
The DC Queer Theater Festival is at the DC Arts Center.
RuPaul’s HoliSLAY Viewing Party is at TRADE, but you can also go to Nellie’s to view it with Brooklyn Heights and Iyana Deschanel (meet and greet opportunities available).
Bear Happy Hour is at UPROAR.

The DC Queer Theater Festival is at the DC Arts Center.
The Garden Ball: Level Up is at the Moxy.
Bye bye bye 2018: Retrospective Collaging is at 8th & Upshur Streets NW.
Eighties Mayhem – ’80s Holiday Extravaganza Dance Party is at Black Cat.
VAMP at XX+: An Exclusive Event for Her.
The Coven is at Ten Tigers.
Betcha Bucks is at DC9.
Bernice play Songbyrd.

Don’t miss the Unruly Brunch: Don Tito’s Drag Show.
BenDeLaCreme & Jinkx Monsoon: To Jesus, Thanks for Everything! -Jinkx & DeLa is sold out at 9:30 Club.
Ladies Tea with DJ KB is at Grand Central Club Baltimore.
DC’s Different Drummers presents Home for the Holidays at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation.

Get more D.C. queer nightlife info by connecting with us on Twitter at @BYGays.

21jan8:00 pm10:00 pmFree Weekly Bar Bingo w/ Kingfisher DC8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Kingfisher DC

23jan7:00 pm9:00 pmFree Weekly Bar Bingo w/ Maddy's Bar7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Maddy's Bar

23jan8:00 pm10:00 pmTake Flight: Whisky Tasting at The Watergate Hotel8:00 pm - 10:00 pm The Watergate Hotel

24jan6:30 pmKacey Musgraves - Oh, What A World: Tourw/ Natalie Prass6:30 pm The Anthem

24jan7:00 pmSuper Diamond7:00 pm 9:30 Club

24jan7:00 pmWindhand9:30 Presents ... 7:00 pm U Street Music Hall

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Event Details

w/ Genocide Pact.

For a band who traffic in measured, unhurried riffage, Richmond’s WINDHAND have moved awfully quickly over the last few years. Founded in 2009, the VA quintet have been making waves since the release of their 2010 practice space demo, a two-track CD that garnered the band comparisons to artists like Electric Wizard, The Devil’s Blood, and Black Sabbath. That auspicious start was further realized in March 2012 when the band released their self-titled debut, which quickly became an underground hit and sold out of multiple vinyl presses in a matter of months.
A year later, the band officially signed to Relapse Records. After a steady touring schedule, the band collaborated with Richmond brethren Cough on a split entitled Reflection of the Negative, which was released on Relapse in April 2013. Pitchfork deemed the split WINDHAND’s “best music to date,” and the record’s positive critical reception helped pave the way for WINDHAND to release the highly anticipated album Soma in September 2013. Stereogum, Spin, and the LA Weekly featured Soma prominently on their overall best-of lists. The album was heavily represented in countless metal publications including Revolver, Invisible Oranges, MetalSucks, and Metal Injection. Rolling Stone, NPR, and Pitchfork all took note of Soma as well; the former considered the album the third-best metal release of 2013.
Soma was no flash-in-the-pan internet phenomenon. In 2013 and 2014, the band embarked on a series of support and headlining tours across North America, Europe, and Australia, sharing the stage with the likes of Sleep, High on Fire, Dead Meadow and Kvelertak. In addition, Windhand appeared at major festivals including Roadburn, SXSW, Scion Rock Fest, Day of the Shred and Maryland Deathfest. Windhand also took the time in October 2014 to follow up Soma with a brief two-track Halloween split alongside Swedish doomsters Salem’s Pot (released on Riding Easy Records). Noisey liked the record so much that they declared the band “must have definitely sold their souls for their new split.”
WINDHAND returned in 2015 with their third full-length, Grief’s Infernal Flower, a multifaceted slab of thundering stoner doom that Noisey has called “doom metal’s most anticipated album of the year.” Produced by Jack Endino (Nirvana, High On Fire, Soundgarden, etc), Grief’s Infernal Flower is massive, heavy, and personal, a modern testament to the power of doom and stoner metal’s legacies. One sees the urgency the band have displayed over their career reflected in their music – long-canonized tropes are reimagined and reinvented, Windhand convey an irrepressible sense of motion even within the slowest of songs. Front woman Dorthia Cottrell firmly establishes herself as one of the best vocalists of the genre by perfectly balancing beauty with enormous power, and the twin-guitar attack of Garrett Morris and Asechiah Bogdan weaves together nine songs of perfect riffs and fuzzed-out bliss. That often-delicate splendor is all tempered by the colossal rhythmic mastery of bassist Parker Chandler and drummer Ryan Wolfe, whose lower-register expertise serves as the backbone of the new record. Though the first two WINDHAND albums were underground classics, Grief’s Infernal Flower stands to see WINDHAND cementing themselves as one of the premier metal bands of our time.

Time

(Thursday) 7:00 pm

Location

U Street Music Hall

1115 U Street NW Washington, DC, 20009

Cost

$15

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