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)"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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)"
