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.
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