tonight at Black Cat:Bliss Anniversary Party

Details:
Bliss Dance Party
Special 8 Year Anniversary
Saturday, August 23
Black Cat Mainstage
1811 14th Street (@ S Street)
9:30 pm to 2:00 am
All Ages $10

Visuals by Kylos

Guest DJ Pogo (Panic!/Chicago):
You might remember Pogo as 1/3 of team Panic!. While violating every DC code for capacity, Panic! enjoyed a healthy run at Metro Cafe until the closing of the venue, and Pogo's subsequent excommunication to Chicago. There, Panic! has been living on as a massively successful monthly event, and Pogo has somehow managed to expand on his radio career by weasling his way onto Chicago television. His newest job is on ABC-7, and so far he's been able to avoid their threat of making him get a "nice" haircut. And as long as the good folks of Washington/Baltimore welcome him, he jumps at any opportunity to return to spin!

Special live performance by Wallpaper (Oakland, CA), 10:00 pm:
Wallpaper is the enigmatic onstage existence of Oakland music addict Eric Frederic. The Wallpaper project began in early 2005 as tweaked satire, Frederic funneling his earliest influences (P-Funk, New Jack, East Bay rap) into two EPs of diced, digital beats and lyrics caricaturing the pop vernacular. But as the Hyphy hip-hop movement crested in Frederic's backyard, something changed. "I saw that classic Bay Area sound resurfacing," he says, "that same psychedelic, drippy, care-free, funky approach that reigned from Sly Stone to Digital Underground." He needed to pay tribute, and in a hail of house parties and homemade discs, Wallpaper was reborn as Ricky Reed, Frederic's disco-smashing doppelganger. This glitz 'n' grit champion of the groove has since become a gilded name in the underground, wooing crowds with a computerized croon, live reinventions of R&B classics, and tales of excess in the Information Age. They have blown spots alongside such notables as Subtle, Darondo, LA Riots, Electric Soft Parade, and Nino Moschella.