{CHBP-tastic photo from the Imaginary Flickr Photo Pool by Explosion 5000}

Just waking up after the Capitol Hill Block Party pre-funk last night at The Croc (such nice people) hosted by the awesome people behind the CHBP promotions, having caught excellent sets by the garage-growling Unnatural Helpers and the riff-fluent but near space rock level elastic Obits. (I missed the headliners Holy Fuck due to wanting to get up early to make the CHBP as soon as possible.) A very happy, partying crowd welcomed the free show put on by Dickies and Filter magazine.

Here are lists of the bands that are playing the annual inner city festival this year by, of all things, what they claim to be:

Zoo:

Macklemore (that’s a fish, right?)

Bear In Heaven

Jaguar Love

Fruit Bats

Avi Buffalo

Air 2 A Bird

Steel Tigers of Death

Truckasaurus

Pepper Rabbit

Constant Lovers (should be in a zoo)

 

Bodily Parts, Fluids, and Emissions:

Head Like A Kite

Police Teeth

Black Breath

Hair Vest

Blonde Redhead

The Head and the Heart

Spurm

Blood Red Dancers

 

Drink:

Champagne Champagne

Absolute Monarchs

Fresh Espresso

Wet Paint DMM

 

Where:

Shabazz Palaces

Fences

U.S.F.

Eastern Grip

The Redwood Plan

Atmosphere

Hallways

Cold Lake

Grand Hallway

Harlem

Real Estate

Villagers

Ravenna Woods

Nazca Lines

 

When:

Past Lives

A Million Years Ago

 

Exclamations!:

Yeasayer

Holy Fuck

Helms Alee

!!!

Happy Birthday

Mad Rad

Zola Jesus

My Goodness

Hey Champ

 

Division of Labor:

MGMT

Unnatural Helpers

Feral Children

Blue Scholars

The Maldives

Blitzen Trapper

The Night Marchers

The Young Evils

 

??:

Born Anchors

Flexions

Virgin

 

It’s This And That:

The Head and the Heart

The Horde and the Harem

The Dutches and the Duke

 

Death:

Dead Weather

Obits