Just Another Night of Genius

Another awesome Monday at the Velvet!

1. Woolfy "Odyssey"
2. A.M. Architect "Next of Kin"
3. Kleerup f/ Robyn "With Every Heartbeat"
4. Love Grenades "Tigers In the Fire"
5. Holy Ghost! "I Will Come Back (Classixx Alcapulco Nights Version)" [free download]
6. The Raveonettes "Suicide" [free download]
7. Memory Cassettes "Last One Awake (CFCF Version)"
8. Felix Da Housecat "We All Wanna Be Prince" [free download]
9. Prince "I Would Die 4 U"
10. Bat for Lashes "Sleep Alone"
11. Fever Ray "Triangle Walks"
12. Miles Fisher "This Must Be the Place"
13. Islands "No You Don't" [free download]
14. Pulp "Lipgloss"
15. The Vanish "Hold On"
16. Kumisolo "I Know What Boys Like"
17. Desire "Dans Mes Reves"
18. CSS "Move (Cut Copy Remix)"
19. James Yuill "This Sweet Love"
20. Princeton "Calypso Gold" [free download]
21. Liam Finn and Eliza-Jane "Long Way to Go"
22. Cibo Matto "Clouds"
23. Emily Rodgers "Hurricane"
24. Silk Flowers "Sand"
25. Clint Mansell "We're Going Home"
26. The Antlers "Cold War"
27. Washed Out "Get Up"
28. Portland Cello Project f/ Thao "Beat (Health, Life and Fire)" [free download]
29. Deerhoof "Numina O"
30. Apse "7 Tropica"
31. Chromatics "I'm On Fire"

Astrud is a Winnah!

Awesome news: yours truly was one of the winners of the Starlust Photo contest! My photo, embedded here for your viewing pleasure, was chosen to represent the excellent shopping sim Bill. I was kind of hoping my dinosaur picture would win, just between you and I, but I'm excited to have won Bill with any photo as it was the sim with the prizes I was most, most, most excited about! Thanks to everyone for the amazing prizes they contributed, I now have enough free stuff to dress my avatar for the next six months. And you'll soon be able to see my photo as a billboard all over Bill!

If you're interested you can view my other photo entries as a set on my Flickr stream. The credits for items in the winning photo are:

skirt: ::Sugarcube frothy tiered skirt (khaki)
shirt: Chikka Design sunday top light blue
shoes: Chikka Design sunday flat light blue
hair: [Raspberry Aristocrat] Adora Hair in Brown Cocoa

Tuesdays With Astrud

Tuesdays are a great day to read to a dying person from a book and have a meaningful life experience. They're also a fantastic day to listen to some new music at the Velvet. I took the latter route on Tuesday July 8 when doing a fill-in set. Um, the black hulk was there? And some dude walked on his hands? And there was an in-depth discussion of the Rolling Stones, although no Rolling Stones were played.

1. The Jam "The Butterfly Collector"
2. Crystal Moustache "Zombie Heart" [download free]
3. The Walkmen "Postcards from Tiny Islands"
4. Golden Isles "Can't Take It" [download free]
5. Celebration "Open Your Heart" [download free]
6. Ice Palace "Pirate by Thirty"
7. Spiral Stairs "Maltese T" [download free]
8. Broken Social Scene "Complications"
9. warpaint "elephants"
10. Noah and the Whale "The First Days of Spring" [download free]
11. Nico "Fairest of the Seasons"
12. Neon Indian "Terminally Chill" [download free]
13. Decoder Ring "Beat the Twilight"
14. Brendan Benson "Feel Like Taking You Home" [download free]
15. Apostle of Hustle "Soul Unwind"
16. Cale Parks "One at a Time"
17. Little Joy "Unattainable"
18. Yaw "Where Would You Be"
19. Neutral Milk Hotel "Holland, 1945"
20. Handsome Furs "Radio Kilingrad"
21. Julian Plenti "Fun That We Have" [download free]
22. Spoon "Got Nuffin"
23. Dream Academy "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want"
24. Dirty Projectors "Two Doves"
25. Malcom Middleton "My Delirium"
26. Modest Mouse "Autumn Beds"
27. Fishboy "Bricks Part 1" [download free]
28. King Charles "Time of Eternity"
29. Wolf Gang "Pieces of You"
30. The Fiery Furnaces "The End Is Near"
31. Paul McCartney "Picasso's Last Words (Drink To Me)"

Francophile

You know how some days you're like, "ok I'm just gonna throw some French tunes into a playlist and it'll be nice to listen to" and then the next thing you know you're on last.fm researching French artists and making it into a set? That's what happened here. Then Clarke showed up with 20 naked people, which was very French. We partied unusually hard for a Monday at the Velvet.

1. Yelle "Qui Est Cette Fille"
2. Sebastien Tellier "Sexual Sportswear (Donovan remix)"
3. Justice "DVNO"
4. Kumisolo f/ Momus "Confiance Absolue"
5. Air "Do The Joy"
6. Tahiti 80 "Changes"
7. Stereo Total "LA, CA, USA"
8. M83 "Graveyard Girl"
9. Jordy "Dur Dur D'être Bébé! (It's Tough To Be A Baby)"
10. Télépopmusik "Brighton Beach"
11. Emilie Simon "Fleur De Saison"
12. Phoenix "If I Ever Feel Better"
13. Nouvelle Vague "Shack Up"
14. Cocosuma "Charlotte's On Fire"
15. Charlotte Gainsbourg "Little Monsters"
16. The Teenagers "Homecoming"
17. Coralie Clément "Indecise"
18. Barth "Doggy Fight"
19. Couer de Pirate "Comme Des Enfants"
20. Stereolab "Nous Vous Demandons Pardon"
21. Kumisolo "I Know What Boys Like"
22. April March "Cet Air-La"
23. James Iha & Kazu Makino "The Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde"
24. Jane Birkin "Je T'aime Moi Non Plus"
25. Serge Gainsbourg "Melody"
26. Brigitte Bardot "Oh! Qu'il Est Vilain"
27. Françoise Hardy "Il Vaut Mieux Une Petite Maison Dans La Main Qu'un Grand Château Dans Les Nuage"
28. SoKo "I'll Kill Her"
29. Annie Defresne "Mélodie Pour Cœur Brisé"
30. Christie Laume "Agathe ou Christie"
31. Air "How Does It Make You Feel? (edit)"

4th of July Fireworks

It's very rare that I get to DJ back to back with SL's best DJ, Niko Lyle. However, we backed it up on Saturday the 4th of July. For America. At the Velvet. This set was named "oh, it's on." Cos I kicked his music ass. With love! <2

Click the links to find free downloads of some of the songs!

1. Richard Swift "The Atlantic Ocean"
2. La Roux "In For the Kill (Lifelike remix)"
3. Prince "Uptown"
4. Phoenix "1901 (The 'Garage Band' Teenagers remix)"
5. Kumisolo "I Know What Boys Like"
6. Pulp "Razzmatazz"
7. Cicada "Metropolis (the Twelves remix)"
8. Hot Chip & Peter Gabriel "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"
9. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone "Lonesome New Mexico Nights"
10. Chrome "Meet You in the Subway"
11. Mew "Repeaterbeater"
12. Crystal Fighters "Xtatic Truth"
13. Psychic Powers "Frozen"
14. Joy Division "New Dawn Fades"
15. Peter Bjorn & John "It Don't Move Me (The Knocks remix)"
16. WhoMadeWho "Keep Me In My Plane (Modernaire remix)"
17. Passion Pit "Let Your Love Grow Tall"
18. Rainbow Arabia "Haunted Hall"
19. Lykke Li "Dance Dance Dance (Buraka Som Sistema remix)"
20. Jogger "Nice Tights (Nosaj Thing remix)"
21. Souvenir "De sang froid"
22. The Blow "Eat Your Heart Up"
23. Golden Isles "Jane"
24. Grand Archives "Silver Among the Gold"
25. Shout Out Louds "Time Left for Love"
26. Your Twenties "Billionaires"
27. Black Moth Super Rainbow "Twin of Myself (Go! Team remix)"
28. The XX "Teardrops"
29. Magic Wands "Teenage Love"
30. The Rifles "The Great Escape"
31. NightWaves "Never Thought I'd Have to Let You Go"
32. Little Boots "Mathematics"
33. Discorockets "Warmer"
34. Franz Ferdinand "No You Girls (Trentemoller remix)"

wake 'n bake

I have to tell you, I love playing early sets cos it gives me a chance to pull out some of my slow, pretty songs and dance around in circles to them. So I put together a wake 'n bake set for the Velvet on June 27th and it went a little something like this.

1. Air France "GBG Belongs To Us"
2. Nightmares on Wax "Les Nuits"
3. Air "All I Need"
4. School of Seven Bells "Half Asleep"
5. Bjork "All Is Full of Love"
6. Santigold "Lights Out"
7. The Golden Filter "Favourite Things"
8. TV on the Radio "Family Tree"
9. Dirty Three "Cinders"
10. Mazzy Star "Into Dust"
11. Sigur Ros "Góðan Daginn"
12. Art of Noise "Moments in Love"
13. M83 "You, Appearing"
14. Ratatat "Brulee"
15. Stars "Undertow"
16. Explosions In The Sky "So Long, Lonesome"
17. Animal Collective "My Girls"
18. Grizzly Bear "Ready, Able"
19. Sleepy Sun "Lord"
20. The National "Green Gloves"
21. AU "The Waltz"
22. Telepathe "So Fine (Chairlift remix)"
23. R.E.M. "Perfect Circle"
24. Portishead "The Rip"
25. Isobel Campbell "Are You Going To Leave Me?"
26. Kings of Convenience "Homesick"
27. Bon Iver "Flume"
28. Spoon "I Summon You"
29. The Raveonettes "Last Dance"
30. Massive Attack "Teardrop"

things to love

Wow, it's been a minute since I posted a setlist! So here's my June 18 set from the Velvet along with some links to download the tracks for free. See a few more pictures from the night on my Flickr.

Starting next week you can catch me at the Velvet on Mondays from 9-11PM SLT!

1. L'Trimm "Cars That Go Boom"
2. Yelle "Qui est cette fille" [download free]
3. Royksopp "Happy Up Here"
4. Eurythmics "Would I Lie To You?"
5. Blacklist "Flight of the Demoiselles" [download free]
6. Name the Pet "Sunshine"
7. Sally Shapiro "Save Your Love"
8. Classixx f/ Frankmusik "Wake Up"
9. Dunproofin' "Lily vs. the Robot"
10. Hercules and Love Affair "Iris"
11. Kylie Minogue "2 Hearts"
12. Annie "Two of Hearts"
13. Esser "Headlock" [download free]
14. VEGA "Kyoto Gardens"
15. Of Montreal "An Eluardian Instance (Styrofoam Remix)"
16. Telepathe "Chrome's On It (Gold Panda Remix)"
17. The Gossip "Heavy Cross"
18. Invisible "Ok"
19. MEN "Simultaneously"
20. Radiohead "I Might Be Wrong"
21. We & Lisa "Independence (Doc Ron Remix)" [download free]
22. Bat for Lashes "Pearl's Dream"
23. Memory Tapes "Bicycle" [download free]
24. Seu Jeorge "Life On Mars?"
25. Ted & Francis "Erlend"
26. The Faunts "Explain (Cassettes Won't Listen remix)" [download free remix EP]
27. The Names "Life By the Sea"
28. Magic Wands "Teenage Love" [download free]
29. Echo & the Bunnymen "Do It Clean"

Indie Rock for RFL

If you didn't hear already (or got directed here by my Twitter and aren't entirely sure what this Second Life stuff is exactly), this week is the Indie Rock for Relay for Life carnival in Second Life. Last year we did pretty good raising money for Relay for Life, which is an arm of the American Cancer Society. So if you like indie rock and hate cancer, you can't go wrong by coming to this lovely festival of fun!

The fun starts today, Wednesday March 13 at 11AM PST/SLT on the Indie Rock for RFL carnival island.

I'm DJing Saturday night from 9-11PM PST/SLT - come by and donate your hard earned monies to Relay for Life. I won't even make fun of your requests (in public).

Pixies Night

Tuesday night at the Velvet I did a Pixies night - their music, covers, the bands they loved and bands who loved them + many lectures on mic and in text. Music nerd style!

1. Pixies "River Euphrates"
2. Nirvana "Heart-Shaped Box"
3. Emmy the Great "Where Is My Mind?"
4. Pixies "Hey"
5. Lerkruka "Here Comes Your Man"
6. David Bowie "Rebel, Rebel"
7. Husker Du "Pink Turns To Blue"
8. Pixies "La La Love You"
9. Les Savy Fav "Debaser (live)"
10. Pixies "Monkey Gone to Heaven"
11. The Beatles "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"
12. Rhett Miller "Wave of Mutilation"
13. Pixies "I Bleed"
14. Pixies "In Heaven" (thanks Woody!)"
15. Buddy Holly "Think It Over"
16. Frank Black "Headache"
17. Throwing Muses "Counting Backwards"
18. Pixies "Gigantic"
19. The Breeders "Divine Hammer"
20. The Amps "Pacer"
21. Tanya Donelly "Pretty Deep"
22. The Breeders "Drivin' On 9"
23. Pixies "Dig For Fire"
24. Talking Heads "Burning Down the House"
25. Pixies "Tromp Le Monde"
26. Weezer "Velouria"
27. Pixies "U-Mass (live)"
28. Jesus & Mary Chain "Head On"
29. Pixies "Alec Eiffel"
30. Iggy & the Stooges "Search & Destroy"
31. Pixies "Planet of Sound (live)"
32. The Cars "Dangerous Type"
33. Radiohead "We Suck Young Blood (Your Time Is Up)"
34. Frank Back & the Catholics "Smoke Up"
35. The Breeders "Pinnacle Hollow"
36. Pixies "Bam Thwok"

I rocked your world on 4/30/09

The only possible way you didn't love my set at the Velvet last night is if you weren't there.

1. Holy Fuck "Jungles" [download here]
2. Pavement "Here"
3. Crocodiles "I Wanna Kill"
4. Sufjan Stevens "The One I Love"
5. Tiny Masters of Today "Skeletons"
6. White Denim "Mirrored and Reverse" [download here]
7. Jarvis Cocker "Angela" [download here]
8. Sonic Youth "The Eternal" [download here]
9. Here We Go Magic "Only Pieces"
10. The Radical Sons "I'm So Sick of the 21st Century"
11. Deerhoof "Numina O"
12. Daniel Eaton "Just Like Honey"
13. Santogold "Your Voice" [download here]
14. Dirty Projectors "No Intention"
15. Modest Mouse "Trailer Trash"
16. Sleepy Sun "Golden Artifact"
17. Built to Spill "Strange"
18. Little Boots "Rich Boys (Reprise de The Virgins)"
19. Royksopp "What Else Is There (Ministry of Sound remix)"
20. Passion Pit "Moth's Wings"
21. Lykke Li "Little Bit (Villians remix)"
22. Discovery "Osaka Loop Line"
23. Radiohead "Skttrbrain (Four Tet remix)"
24. Desire "Introduction/Montre Moi Ton Visage"
25. Jane Birkin "Je T'Aime Mon Non Plus"
26. Violens "Already Oslo "Lilys vs. Rod Coles remix)" [download here]
27. Kate Bush "Running Up That Hill (Datassette remix)"
28. Faunts "Feel.Love.Thinking.Of" [download here]
29. Evan Voytas "I Still Remember"
30. The Whitest Boy Alive "Intentions"
31. Beck "Think I'm In Love"

sleepy sexy somnolent subdued serene tunes

It's well known that I'm a lazy blogger. I didn't take any photos at today's evening room set but the fact that I'm posting a setlist at all is amazing! Go me!

1. Air France "Collapsing At Your Doorstep"
2. Kings of Convenience "Singing Softly to Me"
3. Royksopp f/ Lykke Li "Miss It So Much"
4. Hot Chip "The Warning'
5. The Whitest Boy Alive "Intentions"
6. Air "All I Need"
7. Cibo Matto "Moonchild"
8. Mercury Rev "Goddess On A Hiway"
9. The Asteroid No. 4 "My Love"
10. Midlake "Van Occupanther"
11. Grizzly Bear "Cheerleader"
12. The 6ths "Give Me Back My Dreams"
13. Sleepy Sun "Duet with the Northern Sky"
14. Cat Power "Evolution"
15. Gonzalez "One Evening (Gonzalez Solo Piano)"
16. Beck "Pink Moon"
17. Mimicking Birds "A Perfunctory Clockwork Yawn"
18. Belle & Sebastian "Slow Graffiti"
19. God Help the Girl "Come Monday Night"
20. Dirty Projectors "No Intention"
21. TV on the Radio "Province"
22. The Autumn Defense "The World (Will Soon Turn Our Way)"
23. Clues "Let's Get Strong"
24. Ryan Adams "When The Stars Go Blue"
25. Seeland "Call the Incredible"
26. Jenny Lewis "Melt Your Heart"
27. Don't Be A Stranger "Love"
28. The Connells "74-75"
29. The Understudies "Flicknives"
30. Elliott Smith "I Better Be Quiet Now"
31. Hanne Hukkelberg "No Mascara Tears"
32. Spoon "The Ghost of You Lingers"

What I Wanted to Hear at Worship

It was a Worship weekend, so I played a set on Friday 4/10. The faithful came and devoted themselves. Oh yeah, I guess it was my debut there. Neat.

1. Bat for Lashes "Two Planets"
2. The Tough Alliance "Hung Up on a Dream"
3. Ratatat "Wildcat"
4. Gang of Four "I Love A Man in Uniform"
5. France Has the Bomb "Invisible Angle"
6. Broken Social Scene "Almost Crimes"
7. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts "Crimson and Clover"
8. The Birthday Massacre "I Think We're Alone Now"
9. Deastro "Parallelogram"
10. Chin Chin "GG and the Boys"
11. Ice Palace "Thoughts/Facts"
12. The Streets "On the Edge of a Cliff"
13. Beck "Send a Message to Her"
14. The Teenagers "Love No"
15. Au Revoir Simone "Stars (Disco Pusher mix)"
16. Dan Black "U + Me"
17. La Roux "Quicksand"
18. Erasure "Heavenly Action"
19. bis "Action and Drama"
20. The Whitest Boy Alive "Intentions"
21. James Yuill "No Pins Allowed"
22. Morrissey "You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side"
23. Passion Pit "The Reeling"
24. Siouxsie & the Banshees "The Wheel's On Fire"
25. The Invisible "London Girl"
26. Phoenix "1901 (Alan Wilkis remix)"
27. Arthur Russell "Don't Forget About Me"
28. Guided by Voices "Teenage FBI"
29. Kristin Hersh "Your Ghost"
30. Beach House "D.A.R.L.I.N.G."
31. The Notwist "Pick Up the Phone"
32. My Teenage Stride "To Love and Die in the Airport Lounge"
33. Emiliana Torrini "Big Jumps"

30 Degrees of Seperation

Filled in for someone or other last Sunday 4/5 at the Velvet and played 30-some songs with 30 degrees of separation. It's like the Kevin Bacon game for indie music.

1. Sleater-Kinney "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone"
into a song by Joey Ramone's band...

2. The Ramones "Judy Is A Punk"
which was on "The Royal Tennenbaums" soundtrack along with...

3. Elliott Smith "Needle in the Hay"
Autumn deWilde wrote a book about Elliott Smith as well as took many of his most famous photos. She also photographed...

4. The Bird & the Bee "Again & Again"
who went on tour with...

5. Lily Allen "Not Fair"
who is label mates on Parlophone Records in the UK with...

6. Blur "For Tomorrow"
Blur's Damon Alburn has several side projects, including...

7. The Good, The Bad & The Queen "Behind the Sun"
which also features Paul Simonon of...

8. The Clash "The Guns of Brixton"
who were a band from London. My current favorite London band is...

9. La Roux "In For the Kill"
who are a male/female duo just like...

10. Yaz "Situation"
and Vince Clark of Yaz started out as the songwriter in...

11. Depeche Mode "Master and Servant"
who are on Mute Records in the UK along with...

12. Fever Ray "Grow Up"
which is the new side project from Karin of...

13. The Knife "Like A Pen"
who had a song covered by fellow Sweede...

14. Jose Gonzalez "Heartbeats"
who also does an amazing cover of...

15. Joy Division "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
who were on Factory Records (briefly) with...

16. OMD "Enola Gay"
which was featured in "Pretty In Pink" along with...

17. The Rave-Ups "Positively Lost Me"
whose lead singer Jimmer Podrasky formed a band called the Lovin' Miserys with Harry Rushakoff of...

18. Concrete Blonde "Jesus Forgive Me (For The Things I'm About to Say)"
and another great song with Jesus in the title is...

19. St. Vincent "Jesus Saves, I Spend"
who was in the Polyphonic Spree, a band started by Tim DeLaughter of...

20. Tripping Daisy "Sonic Bloom"
also in the Polyphonic Spree was Ben Curtis, who went on to form a band with his brother called...

21. Secret Machines "Lights On"
whose members were in a Dallas band called Captain Audio, who split up and later formed...

22. The Happy Bullets "The Vice & Virtue Ministry"
which Entertainment Weekly compared to the literary prowess of...

23. The Decemberists "The Rake's Song"
whose album was produced by Chris Walla of...

24. Death Cab for Cutie "Passenger Seat"
and whose singer Ben Gibbard has a side project...

25. The Postal Service "Brand New Colony"
who recreated the album's female vocal parts on tour with help from Jenny Lewis of...

26. Rilo Kiley "Breakin' Up"
who recorded a solo album with some back-up singing help from...

27. The Watson Twins "Just Like Heaven"
who recorded that lovely cover of a song by...

28. The Cure "Six Different Ways"
who were a semi-goth band in the early 80s who went pop, just like...

29. Flesh for Lulu "I Go Crazy"
who were signed to Beggars Banquet in the UK just like current semi-goth band...

30. The Horrors "Primary Colours"
who had a controversial NME cover upon the release of their first record, but that was nothing compared to the reaction when NME made Beth Ditto covergirl...

31. The Gossip "Listen Up (live)"
who are one of the most outspoken, openly gay bands out today and they idolized queencore band...

32. Pansy Division "Breaking the Law"
who were on Lookout! Records alongside...

33. The Mr. T Experience "Leave the Thinking to the Smart People"
who were also labelmates, before Lookout! went under with...

34. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists "Me and Mia"
who did a dubby remix of...

35. Spoon "Don't You Evah (Ted Leo's I Want it Hotter mix)"
whose lead singer, Britt Daniel, used to date Eleanor Friedberger of...

36. The Fiery Furnaces "I'm Gonna Run"
and she then started Alex Kapranos of...

37. Franz Ferdinand "Eleanor Put Your Boots On"
who wrote that song for her.

Covers @ the Evening Room

You know what's great about Saturdays? Hijacking the stream at the evening room. On Saturday 4/4 I did just that for a set of covers. As you can tell by the photo, I murdered blonde Niko. :D

1. Inga/Hollywood Mon Amour "Take My Breath Away"
2. The National "Pretty In Pink"
3. The Morning Benders "I Won't Share You"
4. St. Vincent "These Days"
5. James Iha & Kazu Makino "The Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde"
6. Adele "Last Nite"
7. Franz Ferdinand "All My Friends"
8. Ruby Isle "Skinny Love"
9. We Have Band "West End Girls"
10. Sons & Daughters "Killer"
11. The Last Shadow Puppets "S.O.S."
12. Mates of State "Starman"
13. LCD Soundsystem "No Love Lost"
14. CSS "Knife"
15. The Rolling Stones "Not Fade Away"
16. Violent Femmes "Crazy"
17. Aimee Mann & Michael Penn "Two of Us"
18. Asobi Seksu "Then He Kissed Me"
19. Peter Mulvey "The Whole of the Moon"
20. Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'"
21. Holy Fuck "Balloons"
22. Annie "Two of Hearts"
23. Hot Chip "Sensual Seduction"
24. Lily Allen "Straight to Hell"
25. The Specials "A Message to You Rudy"
26. Amy Winehouse & Mark Ronson "Valerie"
27. Pavement "The Killing Moon"
28. Setting Sun "You Got Lucky"
29. Friendly Fires "I"m Good, I'm Gone"
30. Stanton-Maria "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
31. Rogue Wave "Maps"
32. Bat for Lashes "Sweet Dreams"
33. Foals "Super Inuit"
34. Chromatics "Running Up That Hill"
35. Ruby Isle "White Winter Hymnal"
36. Cibo Matto "Black Hole Sun"
37. Young Love "1979"
38. The Antlers "Apple Orchard"
39. Noel Gallagher "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out"
40. Feist "Secret Heart"
41. Florence and the Machine "Postcards From Italy"
42. Vampire Weekend "Exit Music (For A Film)"

New Stuffs Thursday @ The Velvet

Due to poor and lazy blogging, I am guessing this is my playlist from 3/25 at The Velvet. Belated blogging FTW!

1. Ladytron "Tomorrow (WOW remix)"
2. Fan Death "Veronica's Veil"
3. TV on the Radio "Dancing Choose"
4. Placebo "Battle for the Sun"
5. Silversun Pickups "Panic Switch"
6. The Darcys "The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead"
7. Elvis Costello "Less Than Zero"
8. Kirsty MacColl "A New England"
9. The Only Ones "Another Girl, Another Planet"
10. Cartridge "The Woods"
11. The Homosexuals "Pentecost 2016"
12. Phoenix "Armistice"
13. Catherine Wheel "I Want To Touch You"
14. CSS "Move (Cut Copy Remix)"
15. Franz Ferdinand "Kiss Me (Dances with White Girls Remix)"
16. The B-52's "53 Miles West of Venus"
17. Passion Pit "The Reeling"
18. Madonna "Angel"
19. Baby Dayliner "The Way You Look Tonight"
20. Saint Etienne "You're In A Bad Way"
21. Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers "Dancin Late at Night"
22. Bishop Allen "Dimmer"
23. The Flirts "Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime)"
24. Winter Gloves "Let Me Drive"
25. LCD Soundsystem "No Love Lost"
26. Glass Candy "The Chameleon (Johan Agebjorn Remix)"
27. Datrock "Give It Up (Fan Death Remix)"
28. Annie "Anthonio (Designer Drugs Remix)"
29. You, You're Awesome "I'm Deaf and You're Boring"
30. Circlesquare "Dancers"
31. Seabear "Teenage Kicks"
32. Viva Voce "Devotion"
33. Cat Power "He War"

Soulful Sunday at Mixtape

Following up the reggae was a soul/funk/Motown Sunday set on 3/15 at Mixtape. Grimtooth Kohime suggested I abandon indie music (or, as he called it, "that crap you usually play") for reggae and soul. I'm entertaining the thought.

1. Otis Redding "A Change Is Gonna Come"
2. Al Green "Love and Happiness"
3. Lulu "Feelin' Alright"
4. James Brown "It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World (unedited vers)"
5. Cold Grits "It's Your Thing"
6. Martha Reeves & the Vandelles "(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave"
7. The Temptations "I Wish It Would Rain"
8. Sam Cooke "You Send Me"
9. Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band "Express Yourself (alt vers)"
10. Curtis Mayfield "(Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going to Go"
11. Irma Thomas "Time Is On My Side"
12. The Bar-Kays "Soul Finger"
13. Bill Withers "Use Me"
14. The Ikettes "I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song)"
15. Sly & the Family Stone "Everyday People"
16. Diana Ross & the Supremes and the Temptations "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
17. The Mystic Moods "Cosmic Sea"
18. Aretha Franklin "Rock Steady (alt mix)"
19. The Temptations "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)"
20. Brenda Holloway "Every Little Bit Hurts"
21. Ananda Shankar "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
22. Stevie Wonder "Maybe Your Baby"
23. Artie Christopher "Stoned Soul"
24. Doris Troy "Just One Look"
25. Otis Redding "Tramp"
26. Little Richard "Nuki Suki"
27. Johnny Tolbert & De Thangs "Take It Off (Part 2)"
28. Kim Weston & Marvin Gaye "It Takes Two"
29. The Unemployed "Funky Thing (Part 1)"
30. Smokey Robinson "You've Really Got A Hold On Me"
31. Earl-Jean "I'm Into Something Good"
32. Eddie Hazel "California Dreamin'"
33. The Marvelettes "I'll Keep Holding On"

Reggae Mon

I filled in for the lovely Lux Yao at her Vevlet set on Saturday 3/14 and rolled out the reggae set I've been sitting on for a bit. Everyone looooooved it and wanted to marry it. Yay! This set was largely inspired by and contained many songs from the Jonny Greenwood Is the Controller album - if you'd like a nice, curated intro to reggae from one of the dudes in Radiohead then I highly recommend it.

1. Linval Thompson "Dread Are the Controller"
2. Charmers "Rasta Never Fails"
3. Pioneers "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone"
4. Desmond Dekker & The Aces "Beautiful and Dangerous"
5. Dandy Livingstone "Rudy, A Message To You"
6. Phyllis Dillon "Woman of the Ghetto"
7. Marica Aitken "I'm Still In Love (12" mix)"
8. Peter Tosh "I'm The Toughest"
9. King Tubby "King at the Controls"
10. Derrick Harriott "Let Me Down Easy"
11. The Paragons "The Tide is High"
12. The Heptones "Cool Rasta"
13. The Chosen Few "Don't Break Your Promise"
14. Gregory Isaacs "Never Be Ungrateful (12" mix)"
15. Torjan "It Comes and Goes"
16. The Mighty Diamonds "Pass the Kouchie"
17. The Maytals "54-46 That's My Number"
18. Johnny Clarke & The Aggrovators "A Ruffer Version"
19. Freddie and Jenny "Too Long Will Be Too Late"
20. Marcia Griffiths "Gypsy Man"
21. Prince Fatty "Milk and Honey"
22. Junior Byles "Fever"
23. Scotty "Draw Your Brakes"
24. Sugar Minott "Half a Love"
25. Rita Marley & The Soulettes "A Deh Pon Dem"
26. Delroy Wilson "This Life Makes Me Wonder"
27. Rupie Edwards "Ire Feelings"
28. Scientist "Your Teeth In My Neck"
29. Junior Marvin "Police & Thieves"
30. Toots & the Maytals "It Must Be True Love"
31. The Slickers "Johnny Too Bad"
32. Black Uhuru "Happiness"

The evening room Opening Night

Lux Yao's long anticipated new club, the evening room, opened on 3/20. I spun. This photo is courtesy of her Flickr. I left early to get lucky. Not too early though, that would be obvious. Go visit it, they'll make you feel at home.

1. Le Tigre "Deceptacon"
2. The Rolling Stones "Let's Spend the Night Together"
3. CSS "Alala"
4. The Virgins "Rich Girls (Hemingway Remix)"
5. L'Trimm "Cars That Go Boom"
6. Empire of the Sun "Walking on a Dream"
7. Crystal Castles vs. Health "Crimewave"
8. Morrissey "Let the Right One Slip In"
9. Iggy Pop "The Passenger"
10. Atmosphere "You"
11. Ida Maria "Oh My God"
12. Marissa Nadler "River of Dirt"
13. Placebo "Battle for the Sun"
14. Telepathe "In Your Line"
15. Echo & the Bunnymen "Rescue"
16. Fan Death "Veronica's Veil"
17. Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Zero"
18. Pulp "Lipgloss"
19. Lily Allen "Fuck You"
20. Dri "You Know I Tried"
21. Animal Collective "My Girls"
22. Lykke Li "Little Bit (Aether remix)"
23. Hot Chip "Ready for the Floor (Soulwax Dub)"
24. Rex "They-Say Vision"
25. Fever Ray "Grow Up"
26. David Bowie "John, I'm Only Dancing"
27. The Strokes "Trying Your Luck"
28. PJ Harvey "Black Hearted Love"
29. The Thermals "How We Fade"
30. Gonzalez f/ Feist "Lovertits"
31. Blur "Charmless Man"

I Love New Music

Ok, harken back to Thursday 3/12 with me at the Velvet. These are the lovely new as new can be songs I played and the old songs I loved and thus played. It ended up being kind of an etherial sounding night.

1. Passion Pit "Sleepyhead (Emil & Friends Reworking)"
2. Fever Ray "I'm Not Done"
3. Yonlu "I Know What It's Like"
4. Bat for Lashes "Daniel"
5. The Dandy Warhols "The Last High"
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Heads Will Roll"
7. The Takeover UK "Ah La La"
8. Leelou "Don't You (Forget About Me)"
9. Air "All I Need"
10. Final Fantasy "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead"
11. The Boy Least Likely To "Saddle Up"
12. The Decemberists "Hazards of Love 1"
13. Holy Fuck "Happy Up Here (Royksopp cover)"
14. Elvis Perkins in Dearland "Shampoo"
15. Dri "Meet Me In 3"
16. The Dead Weather "Hang You From the Heavens"
17. PJ Harvey "Black Hearted Love"
18. Vampire Weekend "Exit Music (For A Film)"
19. School of Seven Bells "Half Asleep"
20. Maximo Park "Wraithlike"
21. Bob Mould "The Silence Between Us"
22. It Hugs Back "Now + Again"
23. The Baptist Generals "Going Back Song"
24. The Pretenders "Don't Get Me Wrong"
25. Pete Doherty "New Love Grows on Trees"
26. The Strokes "Barely Legal"
27. Gil Mantera's Party Dream "Dreamlovers"
28. Chin Chin "GG and the Boys"
29. Hot Chip "Sensual Seduction"
30. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone "Old Panda Days"
31. Calvin Harris "I'm Not Alone"
32. My Brightest Diamond "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey"
33. Cursive "From the Hips"
34. Phoenix "1901"
35. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah "Statues"

How Music Gets You Laid

From 3/8 at Mixtape - a playlist of songs that are guaranteed to get you laid. Yes, guaranteed. Put them on a mix for someone and see if I'm right. An hour for the girls and an hour for the boys.

FROM GIRLS TO BOYS
1. The Happy Bullets "If You Were Mine"
2. PJ Harvey "This Is Love"
3. Luscious Jackson "Under Your Skin"
4. Lykke Li "Little Bit"
5. Nico "I'm Not Saying"
6. Sleater-Kinney "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone"
7. The Rosebuds "Push It"
8. The Knife "Heartbeats"
9. Patti Smith "Because the Night"
10. Nina Simone "Since I Fell For You"
11. New Buffalo "I'm the Drunk and You're the Star"
12. Rilo Kiley "Portions for Foxes"
13. The Bangles "Hazy Shade of Winter"
14. Cat Power "The Moon"
15. Sinead O'Connor "I Want Your (Hands on Me)"
16. Dot Allison "Colour Me"

FROM BOYS TO GIRLS
17. Peter Gabriel "In Your Eyes"
18. The La's "There She Goes"
19. Bryan Ferry "Slave to Love"
20. The White Stripes "I'm Finding It Harder To Be A Gentleman"
21. The Rolling Stones "Miss You"
22. Tommy James & The Shondelles "Crimson and Clover"
23. New Order "Thieves Like Us"
24. Prince "Delirious"
25. Ra Ra Riot "Can You Tell"
26. Spiritualized "Soul on Fire"
27. Gonzalez f/ Feist "Lovertits"
28. XTC "The Mayor of Simpleton"
29. The Lemonheads "Into Your Arms"
30. Bob Dylan "Lay Lady Lay"
31. Weezer "Only In Dreams"

Velvet 3/5/09

Catching up on old playlists time! This is from approximately March 5 at the Velvet. It was very "new" and "happening" that night.

1. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah "Statues"
2. Kind of Like Spitting "Passionate"
3. The Decemberists "Hazards of Love 1"
4. Bat for Lashes "Sweet Dreams (live)"
5. Late of the Pier "Focker"
6. Nite Jewel "Lover"
7. Doves "Kingdom of Rust"
8. Jenny Wilson "The Wooden Chair"
9. Nickel Eye "Dying Star"
10. Death Cab for Cutie "405"
11. Bruce Peninsula "Crabapples"
12. Fanfarlo "Luna"
13. Obits "Two-Headed Coin"
14. Bob Mould "The Silence Between Us"
15. Art Brut "Just Desserts"
16. Veils "Killed By the Boom"
17. Phoenix "1901"
18. Dri/Joc Max/John Brewer "You Know I Tried (remix)"
19. The Police "So Lonely"
20. Dandy Livingstone "Rudy, A Message To You"
21. Vivian Girls "Tell the World"
22. Popup "What's The Matter Now?"
23. The Black Keys "Strange Times"
24. The Boxing Lesson "Dark Side of the Moog"
25. Stevie Wonder "Maybe Your Baby"
26. Bell "Magic Tape"
27. Nick Cave "Stagger Lee"
28. Surf City "Dickshakers Union"
29. Charlie Ash "Come Back Lover"
30. Foals "Super Inuit"
31. T. Rex "Children of the Revolution"

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

This Sunday's Mixtape set went a little artier. Like, Cubist artier. I put together a set based abstractly on Picasso's Les Demoislles d'Avignon. It ended up going in cycles - from what the aesthetics of this bizarre brothel might have felt like to a social commentary on prostitution to what may have lead the male viewer of the painting there to how everyone might have felt after the moment in the picture.

1. The National "Daughters of the Soho Riots"
2. The Raveonettes "You Want the Candy"
3. TV on the Radio "Dirtywhirl"
4. Air "Don't Be Light"
5. Xiu Xiu "In Lust You Can Hear the Axe Fall"
6. Bloc Party "Blue Light"
7. The Smiths "Wonderful Woman"
8. The Sundays "Skin & Bones"
9. X "Sex and Dying in High Society"
10. The Velvet Teen "Naked Girl"
11. Depeche Mode "Strangelove"
12. Neon Neon f/ Kate Le Bon "I Lust U"
13. The Jesus & Mary Chain "Teenage Lust"
14. Rilo Kiley "The Moneymaker"
15. Death From Above 1979 "Sexy Results "MSTRKRFT Edition)"
16. Sparks "All You Ever Think About Is Sex"
17. The Faint "Worked Up So Sexual"
18. The 6ths "The Sailor In Love With the Sea"
19. Leonard Cohen "Everybody Knows"
20. The Auteurs "Married to a Lazy Lover"
21. Nadeah "When Doves Cry"
22. Clinic "Come Into Our Room"
23. John Lennon "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night"
24. Elvis Costello "Party Girl"
25. Idlewild "Actually It's Darkness"
26. Liz Phair "Girls! Girls! Girls!"
27. Jens Lekman "Pocketful of Money"
28. Gonzalez f/ Feist "Lovertits"
29. Ol' Dirty Bastard "Got Your Money"
30. Pixies "Debaser"
31. Billy Idol "Flesh for Fantasy"

A Tribute to Lee Hazelwood

There was some sort of week-long hacker attack on Time Warner Internet last week, so my usual Thursday set at the Velvet didn't get started until 9:30SLT. If you were asleep during my tribute to Lee Hazelwood, I won't blame you. However, it was totally amazing. A lot of these songs were taken from the fantastic Astralwerks comp Total Lee! The Songs of Lee Hazelwood. Do check it out.

1. The Last Shadow Puppets "Paris Summer"
2. The Trashmen "Baja"
3. Nancy Sinatra "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
4. Lambchop "I'm Glad I Never"
5. Madrugada f/ Neil McNasty "Come On Home to Me"
6. The Webb Brothers "Some Velvet Morning"
7. Sweet "Rebel Rouser"
8. Dino, Desi & Billy "I'm A Fool"
9. Calexico "Sundown, Sundown"
10. Jonny Down "Sleep In the Grass"
11. Holly Golightly "Sand"
12. Dean Martin "Houston"
13. International Submarine Band "Strong Boy"
14. Saint Etienne F/ Nathan Bennet "Got It Together Again"
15. St. Thomas "The Railroad"
16. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds "The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane"
17. Jarvis Cocker & Richard Hawley "The Cheat"
18. Erlend Oye "No Train to Stockholm"
19. Sanford Clark "The Fool"
20. The Amazing Pilots "Soul's Island"
21. Kathryn Williams "Easy & Me"
22. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood "Some Velvet Morning"
23. Gram Parsons "California Cotton Fields"
24. Tindersticks "My Autumn's Done Come"
25. Stephen Jones and Luke Scott "We All Make the Little Flowers Grow"
26. The Coconutz "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
27. Calvin Johnson and Mark Pickerel "Sand"
28. Dolly Parton "Down From Dover"
29. Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"
30. Duane Eddy "Peter Gunn"
31. The Fall "Loop #41/Houston"
32. Brooke, Sabrina/Evan Dando "Summer Wine"
33. Kid Lolo f/ Tim Keegan "If It's Monday Morning"
34. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood "Did You Ever"
35. Frank & Nancy Sinatra "Somethin' Stupid (live in Vegas)"

Have you ever been in a feud with someone so long that you forgot what you were mad at them for? And then had them invite you to DJ at their club? And then had them cam in on your avatar and suggest you get a new skin first? Last Sunday was my first week in a new residency at Mixtape and so my particular mixtape theme was Beautiful Girls: Love Letters and Cautionary Tales. You can catch me there every Sunday at 6PM SLT. This was the only week I wore my zombie skin though.

1. Death Cab for Cutie "The Face That Launched 1000 Shits" [buy MP3]
2. The Magnetic Fields "A Pretty Girl is Like..." [buy album]
3. Little Joy "Unattainable" [buy MP3]
4. Tom Petty "Here Comes My Girl" [buy MP3]
5. Blondie "Rip Her to Shreds" [buy MP3]
6. Spoon "All the Pretty Girls Go to the City" [buy MP3]
7. Elastica "Stutter" [buy MP3]
8. Elvis Costello "This Year's Girl" [buy album]
9. The Cars "You Are the Girl" [buy MP3]
10. Hole "Reasons to Be Beautiful" [buy MP3]
11. Coralie Clement "Bye Bye Beaute" [buy album]
12. Blur "She's So High" [buy MP3]
13. Ra Ra Riot "Can You Tell" [buy MP3]
14. The Beatles "Sexy Sadie" [buy album]
15. Jesus & Mary Chain "Head On" [buy MP3]
16. The Smiths "Pretty Girls Make Graves (Troy Tate Version)" [buy MP3]
17. Bat for Lashes "What's A Girl To Do?" [buy MP3]
18. Prince "Little Red Corvette" [buy MP3]
19. Call and Response "I Know You Want Me" [buy MP3]
20. Cibo Matto "Sugar Water" [buy MP3]
21. Roxy Music "Virginia Plain" [buy MP3]
22. The Stranglers "Peaches" [buy MP3]
23. The Cardigans "My Favourite Game" [buy MP3]
24. Ryan Adams "Do Miss America" [buy MP3]
25. Some Girls "The Prettiest Girl" [buy MP3]
26. Devo "Girl U Want" [buy MP3]
27. Irving "She's Not Shy" [buy MP3]
28. The Replacements "Waitress in the Sky" [buy MP3]
29. The Dutchess and the Duke "Mary" [buy MP3]
30. Weezer "No One Else" [buy MP3]
31. The Velvet Underground "Femme Fatale" [buy MP3]
32. Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Y Control" [buy MP3]

I've been obsessively reading Rolling Stones bios lately so I diverged into Marianne Faithfull's autobiography, Faithfull. Wow, did she sleep with some bizarre people and tell her own fantastic version of some Stones folk lore. So on Friday night at the Velvet I played songs from 64-69 and heard by Marianne, with brief breaks to read some of the more entertaining exerpts from her book.

1. The Rolling Stones "Not Fade Away" [buy album]
2. Marianne Faithfull "As Tears Go By" [buy album]
3. Francoise Hardy "Suzanne" [buy album]
4. Dusty Springfield "Wishin' and Hopin'" [buy album]
5. The Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand (live in '64)"
6. The Supremes "You Can't Hurry Love" [buy album]
7. Chad & Jeremy "A Summer Song" [buy album]
8. Gene Pitney "Only Love Can Break A Heart" [buy box set]
9. Jackie DeShannon "Should I Cry (Alternate Take)" [buy box set]
10. Roy Orbison "Oh, Pretty Woman" [buy album]
11. The Hollies "I'm Alive" [buy album]
12. The Animals "Sky Pilot" [buy album]
13. The Kinks "You Really Got Me" [buy album]
14. Bob Dylan "Like a Rolling Stone" [buy album]
15. Marianne Faithfull "Visions of Johanna" [buy album]
16. Joan Baez "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word" [buy album]
17. Donovan "Season of the Witch" [buy album]
18. The Beatles "Think for Yourself" [buy album]
19. The Zombies "Time of the Season" [buy album]
20. Aretha Franklin "I Never Loved a Man" [buy album]
21. Ike & Tina Turner "River Deep - Mountain High" [buy album]
22. The Rolling Stones "Under My Thumb" [buy album]
23. The Rolling Stones "Let's Spend the Night Together" [buy album]
24. Steppenwolf "Magic Carpet Ride" [buy album]
25. Ravi Shankar "Romance to Holocaust" [buy album]
26. The Beatles "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" [buy album]
27. Jimi Hendrix "Fire" [buy album]
28. Small Faces "Whatcha Gonna Do Bout It" [buy album]
29. The Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter" [buy album]
30. The Velvet Underground "I'm Waiting for the Man" [buy album]
31. Nico "I'm Not Saying" [buy album]
32. Marianne Faithfull "Sister Morphine" [buy album]
33. The Rolling Stones "Wild Horses" [buy album]

My Return

Yup, I've returned to the wild world of Second Life DJing. First time back: sweaty palms, totally effed it up in the beginning because I forgot how to use Nicecast and inputted the wrong stream URL. Eventually I got my sea legs and all went not to shabbily. Thanks to the kind audience at the Velvet for hanging out with me!

1. Wolfman f/ Pete Doherty "Back From the Dead" [buy MP3]
2. Sandie Shaw "Sympathy for the Devil"
3. Morrissey "The Loop" [buy MP3]
4. Dan Auerbach "The Prowl" [buy MP3]
5. Silversun Pickups "Booksmart Devil" [buy MP3]
6. Cibelle "Footloose" [buy album]
7. Flosstradamus/Caroline Polachek "Big Bills" [download free]
8. Home Video "I Can Make You Feel It" [download free]
9. Los Campesinos! "How I Taught Myself to Scream" [download free]
10. The Specials "Little Bitch" [buy MP3]
11. Jeremy Jay "Love Everlasting" [buy MP3]
12. Ruby Isle "White Winter Hymnal (FF cover)" [download free]
13. Lily Allen "Fag Hag" [download free]
14. Prince "Money Don't Mater 2 Night" [buy MP3]
15. Xylos "This House We Built" [download free]
16. Metric "Help, I'm Alive"
17. The Music Lovers "A Word From Your Fashion Editor" [buy MP3]
18. AC Newman "Submarines of Stockholm" [download free]
19. The Zombies "She's Not There" [buy MP3]
20. Viva L'American Death Ray Music "Getting Better"
21. Animal Collective "My Girls" [buy MP3]
22. Vivian Girls "Where Do You Run To" [buy MP3]
23. Still Flyin' "Rope Burn" [buy MP3]
24. My Morning Jacket "El Caporal" [pre-order album]
25. Team Turnip "Writing on the Walls"
26. Ra Ra Riot "Can You Tell" [buy MP3]
27. Telepathe "In Your Line"
28. Au Revoir Simone "Stars (Disco Pusher mix)" [buy MP3]
29. Lightning Love "Everyone I Know"
30. Marissa Nadler "River of Dirt" [download free]
31. Bat for Lashes "Glass" [download free]
32. Dead Man's Bones "In the Room Where You Sleep"