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"