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No SOMETHING this week...or ever?

2008-06-29T01:43:03Z

All good SOMETHINGS must come to an end. Looks like I'm going to put SOMETHING to rest (at least for now).

The Cat Club indicated that they might have room for it, but that didn't work out. I'm just feeling a little burned-out lately and I would like to go out on a high note, since our last event was the biggest one ever.

Thanks to everyone who supported SOMETHING for the year and three months of events.

Special thanks to:
Kate, Danny, Mary, Cameron and Jess
Carrie & Four
Chrissy
Paul & Patricia
Tony

and to all the DJ's:
Andy T
Dangerous Dan
Tomas Diablo
DJ6
Donimo
John
Low-Life
Melting Girl
Miz Margo
Prince Charming
Brian Raffi
Shindog
Daniel Skellington
Starr
Danny White

Thanks!
Skip

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Top-10 Worst Ways To Behave At Concerts!

2008-06-21T15:47:39Z

Top-10 Worst Ways To Behave At Concerts: How You're Ruining It For Everyone!
From muchmusic.com

10. Waiting till the band plays their radio hit and then leaving.

9. Standing at a seated venue.

8. Holding up a sign or flag for the duration of the show.

7. Spastic dancing and general disregard for personal space.

6. Being an unruly lout.

5. Continually crowd surfing or slam dancing even though it's not that kind of show.

4. Being over 6'4 and choosing to stand in front of the shortest person in the crowd.

3. Talking throughout the entire show.

2. Waiting until the show has started to secure your spot in the front row.

1. Recording the show or incessantly taking photos with your cell phone.

My biggest pet peeves are 3 and 1. I had to deal with a hyperactive talker next to me at the Laura Veirs show last week at BotH. I'm sure Dina will have a lot of input about this list since she attends or works at so many shows. Anyone else?

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Did you hear SOMETHING? Set lists from 5.16.08

2008-05-21T05:42:50Z

NOTE: Since there seemed to be some objection over the wording of my previous post, I have re-written the intro here.

Friday, May 16th, 2008
SOMETHING
IN THE BACK ROOM:
SOMETHING
Dancing to the best Indie, New Wave, Electro with resident DJ Skip (New Wave City)
and guest DJ Danny White (Indie Slash)
The Cat Club

Great night! Best one so far for SOMETHING at the Cat Club! Guest DJ Danny White was awesome and the back room was packed- that's P...A...C...K...E...D, all night with happy, dancing people. We've been crowded before but not like that. Wow! Really fun. Danny may be unique now-a-days as he spins current Indie and Electro on vinyl only. Yes, that's right, I said vinyl only. No CD's or a laptop for him. Cool! We gave away tickets to see The Presets at Mezzanine this Wednesday. You going? I am. Hope to see you there.

Unfortunately prior to this night the Cat Club had already decided to cancel our third Friday slot due to SOMETHING and Shark Attack not pulling in enough people to consistently fill the club. I will be looking for a new venue. Any suggestions? Stay tuned for news on when and where.

And the night went SOMETHING like this:

9:30-10:30pm
DJ Skip
http://www.myspace.com/djskip_nwc

Rinôçerôse - Bitch
The Glass - Come Alive (Rinôçerôse Remix)
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
Greenland - Shipwreck on the Watery Eye
Les Savy Fav - What Would Wolves Do
Tegan & Sara - Back in Your Head (Tyler Fedchuk's 1/2ALIVE disco remix)
IAMX - Spit It Out
Cut Copy - Going Nowhere
Depeche Mode - It's No Good (DVD Video)
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye (Jason Bentley Remix)
Kate Nash - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
the cure - The Blood
New Order - Temptation (DVD live 1981 version)
M83 - Graveyard Girl
T.Rex - Get it On

10:30-11:30pm
Guest DJ Danny White
http://www.myspace.com/djdannywhite

The B-52s - 52 Girls
Phoenix - No Consolation Prizes
Van She - Sex City
Mercy Arms - Kept Low (Cut Copy Remix)
M83 - Couleurs
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (Dance Mix)
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Bell X1 - Flame (Chicken Lips)
Naked Eyes - Voices In My Head
Out Hud - It¹s For You
Of Montreal - Gronlandic Edit
New Young Pony Club - The Get Go
The Presets - Kicking and Screaming
Digitalism - Digitalism In Cairo

11:30-12:30am
DJ Skip

Client - Lights Go Out
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch (R)
She Wants Revenge - Tear You Apart (R)
The Killers - Shadowplay
the cure - A Forest (DVD video)
New Order - Ceremony
The Human League - Love Action (I Believe in Love) (DVD video)
Erasure - Chains of Love
Depeche Mode - Halo (video)
Madonna - Into the Groove
George Michael - Faith (video)
Goldfrapp - Ooh La La (Phones Re-edit)
Rinôçerôse - Lost Love (R)
The Killers - Mr. Brightside

12:30-02:00am
DJ Danny White

Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating
Wide Boy Awake - Slang Teacher
Holy Ghost! - Hold On
Alex Gopher - Aurora (Riot In Belgium & Knightlife Remix)
Cut Copy - Lights & Music
Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (Twelves Remix)
The Presets - Yippyo-ay
Depeche Mode - Strangelove (Hijack Remix)
Black Strobe - Innerstrings
The Knife - Like A Pen
Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler
The Black Ghosts - Anyway You Choose To Give It (Boy 8-Bit Remix)
Klaxons - Gravity¹s Rainbow (Soulwax Remix)
New Order - Perfect Kiss
MIA - XR2
Yelle - Je Veux Te Voir (Club Mix)
Chromeo - Needy Girl (Lifelike Remix)
Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor (Extended)
Tiga - You Gonna Want Me
Linus Loves - Stand Back (Instrumental)
The Presets - I Go Hard I Go Home
Snowden - Black Eyes (Le Castle Vania Remix)

02:00-02:30am
DJ Skip

Bloc Party - Banquet (Phones Disco Edit)
Vampire Weekend - A Punk
Blaqk Audio - Stiff Kittens
Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have to Leave It
the cure - The Only One (Mix 13)

Catch DJ Danny White on last Fridays at
The Attic
3336 24th Street
No cover / 10pm-2am
http://www.myspace.com/djdannywhite

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SOMETHING - Cat Club - Fri May 16th

2008-05-14T20:13:58Z

DJ Skip presents...
SOMETHING
Something Old, Something New - 80s, 90s & Now!!!
Indie, New Wave, Electro, Britpop & Whatever We Want!

Now 2 clubs in 1 - Only 1 cover charge!
3rd Fridays at
The Cat Club
1190 Folsom Street
San Francisco
http://www.catclubsf.com

Friday, May 16th, 2008

http://tribes.tribe.net/clubsomething/photos/7b01e02e-9c10-4b88-b30a-22fb639ea206

IN THE BACK ROOM:
SOMETHING
Dancing to the best Indie, New Wave, Electro, and Britpop music
with resident DJ Skip (New Wave City)
and guest DJ Danny White (Indie Slash)

Win Something! Tickets to see:
The Presets
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
MEZZANINE

http://tribes.tribe.net/clubsomething/photos/b8ebc9ce-e65b-4fee-8265-22139b36290e

IN THE FRONT ROOM:
Shark Attack
Dark-Indie-Electro-Pop
with DJ's Starr, Orko, Josh Zero & guests.
http://myspace.com/clubsharkattack

Get SOMETHING for Nothing!
FREE before 10PM - $5 After
2 Clubs / 6 DJ's / 1 Cover Charge

9:30PM-3AM
21+ with valid ID
FREE cookies!

Join the SOMETHING Tribe-
http://tribes.tribe.net/clubSOMETHING

There is SOMETHING on MySpace too:
http://myspace.com/clubsomething

http://www.myspace.com/djdannywhite

http://www.newwavecity.com

If it's not SOMETHING, then it's nothing!

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What I’m listening to this week...5.13.08

2008-05-13T20:05:03Z

What I’m listening to this week - Top-2
May 13, 2008

SOMETHING old and SOMETHING new.

Prefab Sprout - When Love Breaks Down

A band that never received the recognition or the success that they deserved. This song, from the Thomas Dolby-produced Steve McQueen, (released in America as Two Wheels Good), is excellent and one of my all-time faves. The album was remastered and released in a 2 CD package last year. If you see it, buy it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEvxkWBDTiI

The Presets - This Boy's in Love

Really, really like the new Presets release Apocalypso. This is the single and it has a very New Order-ish sound. I could easily get away with playing this one at NWC and no one would realize that it was a new song. DJ Omar turned me on to this one back in March when we DJ'ed the Gilbert & George event at the de Young. Excited about seeing the Presets next week at Mezzanine. I'll be giving away tickets for that show at SOMETHING on Friday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNgOuXepPsA

More info:
http://www.myspace.com/thepresets

You'll definitely hear these two songs along with the best Indie, New Wave, & Electro dance music and more this Friday night with guest DJ Danny White.

2 rooms, 2 parties, and 2 X the fun for only $5. Hope to see you all at The Cat Club!

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Did you hear SOMETHING? Set lists 4/18/08

2008-04-23T04:30:36Z

Friday, April 18th, 2008
SOMETHING
3rd Fridays at...
The Cat Club
1190 Folsom St, SF

Fun night! Although the late arriving crowd made me a little nervous. It's not unusual for the event after a big anniversary party to be lightly attended, but in the end we did just fine. From 11:30 on the back room was full of happy, dancing people. A woman made my night when she requested "Shadowland" from Youth Group and said that she first heard the song on my "What I'm Listening to..." post and she loves the song. Cool! Special thanks to Melting Girl who is always a pleasure to work with, and I really enjoyed dancing to her sets too.
There is SOMETHING happening again on the third Friday in May.

And the night went SOMETHING like this:

9:30-10:15pm
DJ Melting Girl
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=17424724&MyToken=cf3c5d23-e8ff-4a6b-958e-0bbd6a3f9c8a

Azam Ali - Endless Reverie
Bel Canto - Spiderdust
This Mortal Coil - Strength of Strings
Cocteau Twins - Violaine
the cure - Bananafishbones
Element - The Sound of Angels
Monica Richards - In Answer
Switchblade Symphony - Mine Eyes
Parallel Project - Motive

10:15-11:00pm
DJ Skip
http://www.myspace.com/djskip_nwc

Killing Joke - Follow the Leader
Blondie - Detroit 442 (DVD video)
Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps
Gang of 4 - I Found that Essence Rare
The Clash - White Riot (DVD video) (R)
Black Lips - Dirty Hands
The Kooks - All That She Wants
The Cribs - Men's Needs (CSS Remix)
Mystery Jets - Young Love
Matt and Kim - Yea Yeah
Duffy - Mercy

11:00-11:45pm
DJ Melting Girl

The Kills - Cheap & Cheerful
Soho Dolls - Prince Harry
Dangerous Muse - Break Up
Knights - Limousine
Client - Der Ambrose
The Human League - All I Ever Wanted
Bjork - Army of Me
Fluke - Atom Bomb
Mighty Six Ninety - Regardless
She Wants Revenge - Out of Control
Magnetic Fields - I Thought You Were MY Boyfriend
Goldfrapp - Slide In

11:45-12:30am
DJ Skip

Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling (DVD video)
Depeche Mode - A Pain That I'm Used To (Jacques Lu Cont Remix)
Fisherspooner - Emerge (DVD video) (R)
Zombie Girl - We Are The Ones
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date with the Night (DVD video - live at The Fillmore)
Youth Group - Shadowland (R)
Foals - Hummer
Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire
The Presets - This Boy's in Love
Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
Thrill Kill Cult - Sex on Wheels
Morningwood - Nth Degree (R)

12:30-1:15am
DJ Melting Girl

Funker Vogt - Black Market Dealers
Neurotic Fish - Velocity
The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion (R)
Wolfsheim - Once in a Lifetime (R)
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (R)
PIL - Order of Death (R)
VNV Nation - The Furthest Star
Covenant - I Am
Suicide Commando - Bleed for Us All

1:15-close
DJ Skip

The Chemical Brothers & The Flaming Lips - The Golden Path
Duran Duran - Planet Earth (DVD video) (R)
the cure - Just Like Heaven (R)
Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have to Leave It (DVD video)
The Smiths - Panic (R)
INXS - New Sensation (DVD video) (R)
The Killers - Shadowplay (R)
The White Stripes - Let's Build a Home/Going Back to Memphis (Live video from Conan O'Brien)
The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
The Teenagers - Fuck Nicole (Detect Remix)
MGMT - Time to Pretend
The Kooks - Always Where I Need To Be
Cut Copy - Out There On the Ice

If it's not SOMETHING, then it's nothing!

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SOMETHING - Cat Club - Fri April 18th

2008-04-18T18:24:20Z

DJ Skip presents...
SOMETHING
Something Old, Something New - 80s, 90s & Now!!!
Indie, New Wave, Electro, Britpop & Whatever We Want!

Now 2 clubs in 1 - Only 1 cover charge!
3rd Fridays at
The Cat Club
1190 Folsom Street
San Francisco
http://www.catclubsf.com

Friday, April 18th, 2008

http://tribes.tribe.net/clubsomething/photos/068bbdf0-99db-4913-a89f-ac93c1adca2a

IN THE FRONT ROOM:
SOMETHING
Dancing to the best Indie, New Wave, Electro, and Britpop music
with resident DJ Skip (New Wave City)
and guest DJ Melting Girl (Death Guild)

Win Something! Cut /// Copy - "In Ghost Colours"
The brand spankin' new CD from Cut Copy is four years in the making and went #1 on the charts last week in their native Australia. From Modular Recordings, home of Wolfmother, The Presets and New Young Pony Club. You can listen to the whole album here:
http://www.myspace.com/cutcopy

http://tribes.tribe.net/clubsomething/photos/3721b91f-d811-4064-a9a2-26f3c94fb023

IN THE BACK ROOM:
Shark Attack
Dark-Indie-Electro-Pop
with DJ's Starr, Orko, Rubyacht, & Macro
http://myspace.com/clubsharkattack

Get SOMETHING for Nothing!
FREE before 10PM - $5 After
2 Clubs / 6 DJ's / 1 Cover Charge

9:30PM-3AM
21+ with valid ID
FREE cookies!

Join the SOMETHING Tribe-
http://tribes.tribe.net/clubSOMETHING

There is SOMETHING on MySpace too:
http://myspace.com/clubsomething

http://www.newwavecity.com
http://www.deathguild.com

It’s always SOMETHING!

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What I’m listening to this week...4.16.08

2008-04-16T20:06:36Z

What I’m listening to this week - Top-2
April 16, 2008

I've received a lot of feedback that people really like this "What I’m listening to" post, but that they really don't have the time to actually listen to five songs. So, in order to appease my ADD readers/listeners, I'm going to simplify and only feature two songs- SOMETHING old and SOMETHING new.

Youth Group - "Shadowland"

This first one actually fits both criteria. It's old (November 2003), but new to me and I would guess, new to a lot of you, too. I ran across this band whilst checking the Australian charts to see how the new release from Cut Copy, "In Ghost Colours", (which we are giving away on Friday!) was doing. I wanted to see what else the Aussies were listening to, so I checked out this band with a really bad name- Youth Group. They had a #1 hit in Australia in 2006 with a cover of Alphaville's "Forever Young". This song, "Shadowland", answers the musical question- who sounds more like New Order than New Order? Very 80's sound and feel to it. I really, really like it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7BpDDtPw5A
While you're there, you might as well watch the "Forever Young" vid too (although that will make it three songs and may be too much for you). Very cool 1975 skateboard comp footage.

And more info:
http://www.myspace.com/youthgroupmusic

The Kooks - "Always Where I Need To Be"

Very, very new is the new album Konk from The Kooks. Released on Monday, sounds every bit as good as their 2006 debut record, Inside In/Inside Out. The Kooks, along with The Foals, two English indie rock bands from Brighton and Oxford respectively, are two of my favorite new bands.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln_qHyGD9zo

You'll definitely hear those songs along with the best Indie, New Wave, Electro dance music and more this Friday with guest DJ The Melting Girl. 2 rooms, 2 clubs, and a whole lotta fun for only $5. Hope to see you all at The Cat Club!

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Who is greatest Rock ’n’ Roll band EVER?

2008-04-11T21:05:07Z

NME is asking people to vote on who you think is the greatest rock ’n’ roll band ever. The list changes pretty quickly, at least so far.

Here is the current Top-20 as of March 25:

1. Oasis - Current Rating: 8.87

2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Current Rating: 7.85

3. The Beatles - Current Rating: 7.78

4. The Rolling Stones - Current Rating: 6.58

5. The Who - Current Rating: 6.55

6. The Clash - Current Rating: 6.55

7. Led Zeppelin - Current Rating: 6.39

8. Manic Street Preachers - Current Rating: 6.33

9. Nirvana - Current Rating: 6.13

10. The Smiths - Current Rating: 6.09

11. The Sex Pistols - Current Rating: 5.96

12. The Stone Roses - Current Rating: 5.92

13. Pink Floyd - Current Rating: 5.90

14. Radiohead - Current Rating: 5.72

15. The Libertines - Current Rating: 5.66

16. The Doors - Current Rating: 5.66

17. Joy Division - Current Rating: 5.59

18. The Jam - Current Rating: 5.59

19. The Verve - Current Rating: 5.55

20. The Ramones - Current Rating: 5.55

You can vote here

http://www.nme.com/index.php?class=rate&ratename=greatestbandever

and rank bands on a 1 (worst) to 10 (greatest) scale. I did it until is started to repeat.

Who do you think should be on the list, but isn't?

My choices (if we're sticking to the somewhat lose interpretation of "Rock ’n’ Roll" band): U2, The Alarm, New Order.

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Did you hear SOMETHING? Set lists 3/21/08

2008-03-24T18:44:40Z

Friday, March 21st, 2008
SOMETHING
1-Year Anniversary Party!
The Cat Club
1190 Folsom St, SF

Wow! Our biggest crowd so far- and not coincidently, Shark Attack's biggest, too! Thanks to everyone for coming out to support our Friday night parties. It has been a great year and it is extremely gratifying to watch the attendance grow with each event. It was fun to host the back room this time with a chance to show some of the more recent video releases. Two lucky winners walked away with the deluxe edition of the new Goldfrapp CD/DVD "Seventh Tree". Special thanks to guest DJ's Shindog and Melting Girl.
See you on the third Friday in April!

9:00-9:30pm
DJ Skip
http://www.myspace.com/djskip_nwc

Get Cape Wear Cape Fly - Waiting for the Monster to Drown (Shoes Remix)
FM Belfast - Tropical
Heads We Dance - Love In The Digital Age
David Bowie - Be My Wife (DVD video)
The Teenagers - Homecoming
Kate Nash - Men's Needs (Live)
Hedwig & the Angry Inch - Tear Me Down (DVD video)
Black Kites - All Wrong

9:30-10:00pm
DJ Melting Girl
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=17424724&MyToken=cf3c5d23-e8ff-4a6b-958e-0bbd6a3f9c8a

The Kills - Cheap & Cheerful
Praga Kahn - Breakfast in Vegas
Brothers Martin - The Missionary
Placebo - Post Blue
Depeche Mode - Little 15 (Remix)
Schiller Mit Heppner - Dream of You
Kosheen - Wish You Were Here
The Faint - Southern Bells in London Sing

10:00-10:30pm
DJ Shindog
http://people.tribe.net/f8535cf8-2b48-419d-9e3b-243d3bc432a6

Rialto - Untouchable
Secret Machines - Nowhere Again
The Strokes - Take It or Leave It
Rancid - Roots Radical
Morrissey - National Front Disco
She Wants Revenge - I Don't Want to Fall in Love
Pulp - Disco 2000
The Pixies - Dig for Fire

10:30-11:00pm
DJ Skip

Green Day - Longview
New Order - Crystal (DVD video)
Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
Foals - Balloons
The Killers - Shadowplay (R)
Depeche Mode - World in My Eyes (R)
the cure - Mint Car (DVD video)
The Human League - Love Action (I Believe in Love) (DVD video)

11:00-11:30pm
DJ Melting Girl

The Smiths - Ask
Dangerous Muse - The Rejection
De/Vision - Obey Your Heart
Goldfrapp - Lovely to See You
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Happy House
Soho Dolls - My Vampire
Fisherspooner - Never Win
Tears For Fears - Mad World
Formatic - State of Play

11:30-12:00am
DJ Shindog

Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disko
Le Tigre - Deceptacon
Elastica - Connection
Joan Jett - Do You Wanna Touch Me?
Lush - Ladykillers
Suede - Beautiful Ones
Bjork - Big Time Sensuality
Apoptygma Berzerk - Suffer in Silence

12:30-1:00am
DJ Skip

She Wants Revenge - Tear You Apart (R)
NIN - Sin
The Sisters of Mercy - Dominion / Mother Russia
Siouxsie - Into a Swan (DVD video)
The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye (Jason Bentley Remix)
The Ting Tings - Great DJ (Calvin Harris Remix)

1:00-1:30am
DJ Melting Girl

Cranes - Beautiful Friend (R)
Curve - Horror Head
VNV Nation - Epicenter (R)
Rottersand - Exterminate, Annihilate, Destroy
Depeche Mode - Happiest Girl
The Stone Roses - Fools Gold (R)
The Faint - Glass Danse

1:30-2:00am
DJ Shindog

Praga Khan - Love
The Lightning Seeds - Pure
Lords of the New Church - Dance with Me
Postal Service - Such Great Heights
Wolfsheim - Once in a Lifetime
Toni / BT - Blue Skies

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What I’m listening to this week…03/19/08

2008-03-22T22:54:28Z

What I’m listening to this week - Top-5
March 19, 2008

Getting ready for the big 1-Year Anniversary Party this Friday. Picking out some new tunes and some old ones and whatever you want to hear. Let me know.

5. Vampire Weekend - A-Punk

An indie rock band from New York City, this first one is pretty much unavoidable lately- from Letterman to SNL to two local shows coming up. Not sure what I think of them yet, but I do like this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XC2mqcMMGQ

4. The B-52's - Funplex

Old is new and new is old, again, and the B-52's are back- or as they're now known, The B-52s. The new album, "Funplex" (their first original album in sixteen years!) is set to drop on Tuesday. I'm liking this one a lot. Bring on the summer and take me to the Funplex!

A nice homemade video for the new single-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHsdhIf_0VI

3. The Killers - Shadowplay

More old is new. Am I the only one who likes this version? Now, admittedly, if you had told me that you had found a new cover you liked of a Joy Division song, I would have said, "Why?" But I really like this cover!!! I think it captures the power and intensity of the original and updates it- in a good way. And all that from a little Pop band! Wow, who knew?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQI5Tv2sC9w

2. Beth Orton - Central Reservation

Back to the 90's for one of my all-time favorites. This CD still manages to find its way into my player at least once a month. Going to see her on Monday. Really excited about that as I've never been to one of her shows- or to the Cowell Theater at Fort Mason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHqB8xuNfB8

1. Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps

And I'll end it this week with a classic. Always liked this song, but I had never seen the video before today. Captures that stripped-down but highly danceable element of New Wave and makes you remember why you fell in love with this genre in the first place!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmn-P4qbIwo

And what are you listening to?

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1-Year Anniversary Party! - Friday March 21st - Cat Club

2008-03-21T18:01:22Z

DJ Skip presents...
SOMETHING
Something Old, Something New - 80s, 90s & Now!!!
Indie, New Wave, Electro, Britpop & Whatever We Want!

Friday, March 21st, 2008
1-Year Anniversary Party!

NEW LOCATION!
3rd Fridays at The Cat Club
1190 Folsom Street
San Francisco
http://www.catclubsf.com

Now 2 clubs in 1 - Only 1 cover charge!

http://tribes.tribe.net/clubsomething/photos/f1e87e9b-827f-4346-abbf-bcff84756f28

IN THE FRONT ROOM:
SOMETHING 1-Year Anniversary Party!
Dancing to the best in Indie, New Wave, Electo, and Britpop
with resident DJ Skip (New Wave City)
and guest DJ's Shindog (New Wave City, Ballroom Blitz)
& The Melting Girl (Death Guild)

http://tribes.tribe.net/clubsomething/photos/d667a984-c358-4020-a44c-245e7c4939f4

WIN! The new Goldfrapp CD / DVD deluxe edition "Seventh Tree"
The deluxe edition features: lyric book, fold out poster & postcards
DVD:
Goldfrapp documentary
A&E video
Alison & Will Q & A

IN THE BACK ROOM:
Shark Attack
Dark-Indie-Electro-Pop with DJ's Starr, Orko, & Rubyacht
http://myspace.com/clubsharkattack

Get SOMETHING for Nothing!
FREE before 10PM - $5 After
2 clubs / 1 cover charge

9PM-2AM
21+ with valid ID
FREE cookies!

Join the SOMETHING Tribe-
http://tribes.tribe.net/clubSOMETHING

There is SOMETHING on MySpace too:
http://myspace.com/clubsomething

http://www.newwavecity.com
http://www.deathguild.com

It’s always SOMETHING!

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What I’m listening to this week…03/12/08

2008-03-17T04:55:18Z

What I’m listening to this week - Top-5
March 12, 2008

Had to take a little break from WILTTW to catch up on the mountainous pile of "to listen to" CD's on my desk that was about to tip over like some out of control game of Jenga. A ton of good music has been released recently and I've made some great finds of stuff that slipped through the cracks when it came out over the busy holiday season.

The obvious choice for new stuff is the CD that we're giving away at the next SOMETHING- the new one from Goldfrapp. "Seventh Tree" is their forth album and was almost two years in the making. It's very different from anything they've done previously. "Seventh Tree" entered the UK album chart at number two upon its release on Feb. 25th, 2008. I really like it. Quiet and quite, beautiful.

Goldfrapp - A&E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VPyso87fZU

This next one went into my multi-CD player and hasn't come out yet. Bell X1 is an Irish band that have been around in one form or another for quite awhile- with Damien Rice once a member even. Their album "Flock" was originally released in 2005, and much like The Postal Service's "Give Up", it has taken a few years to catch on. I can't for the life of me figure out why. Great CD from start to finish. Soft and pretty, but with a definite edge to it. I don't know if they're the next Bloc Party or the next Matchbox 20- hopefully closer to Snow Patrol, who I feel are highly underrated. As with any "new" band, the question for me is always, can they "bring it" live? YouTube offers up a number of live tracks that deliver a resounding, Yes!, as the answer. This one is from some Brit show and judging from the intro, the average age of the audience appears to be about eighty. An excellent stripped-down version, so as not to scare the old folks.

Bell X1 - Bad Skin Day (Live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovDG3OsstvI

BTW- Bell X1 is playing at, of all places, the tiny Cafe Du Nord on March 26th. Get your tix now! Go! You can thank me later.
http://www.cafedunord.com/

And now for something completely different- a little more raw, a little more fun, with an even-I-can-sing-this-one Kinks-ish chorus from Black Lips. Can't see a damn thing in the video, but it's looks like that were having a great time.

Black Lips - Dirty Hands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wWWuaaAV6Q&feature=related

Been waiting, ever so patiently, for something new from Aussie lads Cut Copy ever since their totally awesome debut album, "Bright Like Neon Love" in 2004. Finally! The new CD, "In Ghost Colours", drops on March 22nd. Here's a new track to hold us over until then. Sounds great. Can't wait!

Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5BvK-HzO9Y

And finally, SOMETHING classic from the 80's- with Frank Tovey looking like an escapee from that Goldfrapp video.

Fad Gadget- Collapsing New People
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGXBjwifubI

Hear all of these and much more at SOMETHING’s 1-Year Anniversary Party on Friday, March 21st.

And what are you listening to?

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The first great concert of 2008!

2008-03-11T22:59:06Z

Last night - March 10th. Rickshaw Stop. The Ting Tings.

The Ting Tings are Jules De Martino on drums & vocals, and Katie White on guitar & vocals. They've been writing and performing in their native England, releasing only two singles so far with a third, "Great DJ", out only last week (available on iTunes). Their debut album is set to drop in May.

Try to imagine the voice of Annabella Lwin from Bow Wow Wow in the body of a modern day Debbie Harry mixed with equal parts Indie and Electro and then stripped down to a duo. Got it? Now take that little toy and wind it up as tight as you can and then set it down and watch it go. Awesome show! They totally ripped it up! I can put this one in my "Top-10 for 2008" already and guarantee that it will stay there.

Playing with an uncommon fury for a two piece, albeit subtly aided by some backing tracks which were virtually unnoticeable unless you were really paying attention- like, oh yeah, there's a bass line to go with that slashing guitar and the frenetic drumming, they managed to sound much larger than the sum of their parts. Oh course on the show stopper, "That's Not My Name", the backing vocals were obvious. Other a than an ill advised slow song about three songs in, this was a great set- a little short, maybe. Judging by the throng of people leaving along with me afterward, I'm guessing I wasn't the only one there just to see them (they weren't the headliner).

The Ting Tings are on tour now, but with no plans as of yet for another Bay Area show. If and when they do return, don't miss them. I'll be there for sure.

http://www.myspace.com/thetingtings

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Top-10 Concerts of 2007

2008-03-04T06:24:03Z

Since I only have one more concert to go to this year (The Furs on the 29th), I think I can do
my "Top-10 Concerts of 2007" list. I was going to do a Top-5, but there were too many to narrow
it down that far. Just a great year for live shows. Most of these would have been #1’s in any other year.

Top-10 Concerts - 2007

10.
The Bird & the Bee
The Independent
April

9.
Morrissey
The Fillmore
September

8.
The Psychedelic Furs / The Alarm / The Fixx
Mezzanine
July

7.
Bat For Lashes
Slims
October

6.
Stars / Lloyd Cole
Bimbo’s 365 Club
November

5.
Laura Veirs and Saltbreakers
Cafe Du Nord
June

4.
Peter Bjorn & John / Fujiya & Miyagi
Bimbo’s
May

3.
Bitter:Sweet
The Independent
March

2.
Hall & Oates
The Palace of Fine Arts
July

1.
Annie Lennox
Nob Hill Masonic
October

HM- Pearl Harbour - MVFF - October, The Go Go’s - The Independent - October, Patrick Wolf / No Bra - Café Du Nord - May, The Agent Deadlies - Slim’s - March

Best cancelled concert- Amy Winehouse, Warfield, September.

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Concert survey

2008-03-03T06:01:41Z

Here are my answers. What are yours?

1. What was your first concert?
Neil Young

2. What was the last concert you attended?
Interpol

3. Who is the best band to see live?
The Alarm, The Beat, The Blue Nile, Bowie, The Chameleons, Duran Duran, The Hives, Annie Lennox, Necropolis of Love, Special Beat

4. What was your LIFE CHANGING concert you attended?
None really life changing.

5. Have you ever gotten something from the band? (ex. the guitarist's pick)
Lots of things- picks, set lists, buttons, bandannas. The best one was at a concert by The Baby’s at the San Jose Civic. I was front and center against the stage. When they came out for the encore, John Waite had a bottle of Courvoisier. He handed it to me. I took a drink and gave one to my friend Deirdre. They played a couple of songs and then went off and came back on again. I handed the bottle back to John, he took another drink and gave it back to me and said to keep it. Sounds pretty simple, but there were a sea of hands trying to grab that bottle. I put a cork in it and kept it for about twenty years. Finally drank the rest of it and tossed the bottle.

6. What genre is the best to see live?
Depends on the band.

7. Who was the worst band to see live?
Jesus & Mary Chain and Violent Femmes

8. Have you met any band or band members in any concert experience?
Too many to name. Became good friends with the guys from The Alarm.

9. How long was the longest concert you've attended?
Saw a few three-hour-plus shows by Bruce.

10. How short was the shortest concert you've attended?
Don’t know. I think Morrissey could have played a lot longer.

11. What is the worst thing to buy at a concert?
An eight-dollar beer.

12. Have you ever worn a band shirt to the same band your seeing live?
No. Only dorks do that.

13. What is the best venue you've ever been to?
Top 5
1. The Kabuki - SF.
2. The Ritz - NYC.
3. The Melkweg - Amsterdam.
4. GAMH - SF.
5. The Old Waldorf - SF

14. What is the worst venue you've ever been to?
Shoreline or The Gift Center - SF

15. How long was the longest drive to a concert you attended?
Drove from SF to LA to see The Beat (not the English Beat)

16. How short was the shortest drive to a concert you attended?
Five minutes- from my place in the Haight to the Warfield on my Vespa with P’lito screaming on the back, to see Special Beat.

17. Do you like seats or the pit better?
Depends on the band

18. Do you go to the front close to the band or just the pit or in the middle?
Can’t deal with the front anymore. Hot, sweaty, smelly bodies all pressed up against me for hours? No thanks.

19. Do you go crazy at concerts?
No. But I have fun.

20. What is the most annoying thing at a concert?
The crowd. At a show by the Hives a couple years ago, it was driving me crazy because everyone was just standing there watching. I wanted to jump around. They were great.

21. Indoor or Outdoor concerts?
Indoor. Maybe a show at the Greek. Otherwise outdoor shows are for Hippies.

22. Day or Night concerts?
Night

23. Small shows or Big shows?
Small

24. What is the best season for a concert?
Season? What are you, nuts?

25. Do you frame your ticket stubs?
No, but I should.

26. Where do you buy your concert tickets?
At the venue if I can, other wise Ticketbastards

27. How many concerts have you been to?
I would guess over 500. No, that isn’t a typo.

28. How old were you when you went to your first concert?
13

29. If you've met a band member, who was it?
Too many to name. But my favorite was Terri Nunn.

30. What is the closest you've been to a band?
This close.

31. What is the farthest you've been to a band?
Day on the Green - third deck.

32. Have you ever stage-dived?
No.

33. Have you ever moshed?
Before they called it moshing

34. Have you ever crowd surfed?
Nope

35. Still have all your ticket stubs?
Not all, but lots.

36. Have you ever sneaked into a concert?
Yep

37. and if so... How?
Forged a hand stamp, under or over a fence, through a back door- whatever it took.

38. Have you ever stolen anything at a concert?
Yep.

39. If so... What and How?
Beers backstage- but that’s not really stealing.

40. What concert do you really want to go to?
Joy Division. Got a time machine?

41. What concert(s) are you planning to go to?
NYPC, Stars & Lloyd Cole, Jonathan Richmond

42. Name 4 bands that you would like to see tour together?

New Wave- the cure, New Order, The Chameleons, Talk Talk

Soft rock - The Blue Nile, Laura Veirs & Saltbreakers, Bat For Lashes, Amy Winehouse

Indie- Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, The Hives, The Subways

Fantasy- Joy Division, The Smiths, Sex Pistols, The Ramones

43. Would you drive 5 or more hours just to go to that concert?
Yeah, that last one.

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Did you hear SOMETHING? Set lists 2/15/08

2008-02-19T00:36:10Z

DJ Skip presents...
SOMETHING
Something Old, Something New - 80s, 90s & Now!!!
3rd Fridays
The Cat Club
1190 Folsom Street, San Francisco
http://www.catclubsf.com

Friday, February 15th, 2008
"Kill Your Valentine!"
Dance music for the disenchanted!

The debut of SOMETHING at our new home, The Cat Club, was a raging sucess. What a fun evening! Loved the new venue, the real DJ booth, the spacious dance floor, and the variety of having a different club (Shark Attack) in the second room. Great job, as always, by guest DJ’s The Melting Girl and Daniel Skellington. Thanks also to host Tony B. who covered for me while I zipped over to Hubba Hubba for a guest DJ gig (gotta check the calendar a little better next time!). Thanks to everyone who came out and supported us. See you on the third Friday in March for the SOMETHING 1-Year Anniversary Party!

The set list:

9-10pm
DJ Skip
http://www.myspace.com/djskip_nwc

Feist - Inside And Out (The Audience Honey Remix)
Cause & Effect - Into the Light
Cut Copy - Time Stands Still
Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor
The Bird & the Bee - Again & Again
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Over & Over Again (Lost and Found)
Bat For Lashes - Sweet Dreams (Live @ BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge)
Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good / Rehab (Live @ Grammy Awards)
Propaganda - Frozen Faces
Saint Etienne - Nothing Can Stop Us
Sally Shapiro - I'll Be By Your Side
Marsheaux - Dream of a Disco
Metric - Dead Disco (Kylie Kills Mix) (R)
Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You out of My Head
Planetakis - Pogo in the Shoes of Kylie Minogue
Cassette Electrik - Smartest Bomb

10-11pm
DJ Skip

Bloc Party. - I Still Remember (R)
Morningwood - Nth Degree
Interpol - Obstacle #1
LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk is Playing at My House
Robyn - Be Mine (Verschwende Deine Jugend Remix)
Tegan and Sara - Back in Your Head (Tyler Fedchuk's 1/2ALIVE disco remix)
Hard-Fi - Can't Get Along (Without You)
James - Laid (R)
Pulp - Disco 2000
Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have to Leave It
Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong - Lonely Buoy
the cure - A Forest (Tree Mix) (R)
The Killers - Shadowplay
She Wants Revenge - Tear You Apart (R)
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel (Soulwax Club Mix)
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch (R)
The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
The Teenagers - Fuck Nicole
Blood Red Shoes - It's Getting Boring by the Sea (Blamma Blamma Remix)

11-2am

DJ Daniel Skellington
http://www.danielskellington.blogspot.com

And One - Military Fashion Show
Client - Lights Go Out
Dragonette - I Get Around
The Junkies - Ask for More
Devision - Flavour of the Week

DJ The Melting Girl
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=17424724&MyToken=cf3c5d23-e8ff-4a6b-958e-0bbd6a3f9c8a

Elephant - Lolita
Curve - Black Delilah
Wolfsheim - Find Your Game
The Smiths - Girlfriend in a Coma
Magnetic Fields - Thought You Were My Boyfriend
Depeche Mode - It's No Good
Apoptygma Berzerk - Kathy's Song
Placebo - Every You, Every Me
Assemblage 23 - Sometimes I Wish I Was Dead

DJ Daniel Skellington

Marsheaux - What a Lovely Surprise
Sohodolls - My Vampire
I Am World Trade Center - No Expectations
The Human League - Don't You Want Me
Erasure - Love to Hate You
Yazoo - Don't Go
Kosheen - Chances
Matinee Club - Tokyo Girls
Tone Loc / Peaches - Wild Thing

DJ The Melting Girl

Madonna - Push
Kosheen - Wish You Were Here
NIN - Head Like a Hole (R)
Neurotic Fish - The Bomb
Mechanical Cab - See Her Smile
Depeche Mode - Strangelove (R)
The Raconteurs - Steady as She Goes

DJ Daniel Skellington

Bat For Lashes - What's a Girl to Do?
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Arabian Knights
the cure - Other Voices
Cyberaktif - Nothing Stays
A Flock of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) (R)
Book of Love - I Touch Roses
Placebo - Pure Morning
Bjork - Army of Me
Zombie Girl - We Are the Ones
Goldfrapp - Train
NIN - Meet Your Master (The Faint Remix)
Nitzer Ebb - Hearts & Minds
Ministry - Revenge
Contagion - Scratch
Patrick Wolf - Tristan

(R) = Request

Next event:
Friday, March 21st
1-Year Anniversary Party
The Cat Club

Join the SOMETHING Tribe-
http://tribes.tribe.net/clubSOMETHING

There is SOMETHING on MySpace too:
http://myspace.com/clubsomething

It’s always SOMETHING!

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Top-5 songs you'll hear for sure this Friday night - 2/15/08

2008-02-15T01:30:33Z

Top-5 songs you'll hear for sure this Friday night, February 15th, at SOMETHING-

First, something for today:

Kylie Minogue - Two Hearts
"I'm in love. Whoo!!!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyFU0UdmOXs&feature=related

And then a couple tunes from two of my new fave bands:

Blood Red Shoes - It's Getting Boring By The Sea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap2oXTQBSfk&feature=related

and cover-of-the-flyer band,

The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
http://www.myspace.com/thetingtings

Been playing this one again lately. Perfect 90s Britpop.

Pulp - Disco 2000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdmE4LQoZhw

And finally an 80s band that I missed the first time around but love them now:

Propaganda - Duel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w_q58CFfAo

Hope to see everyone at the Cat Club this Friday for the debut of SOMETHING in our new home.
Next month: SOMETHING's 1-Year Anniversary Party!

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"Kill Your Valentine" - Fri Feb 15 - New Location!

2008-02-07T23:13:28Z

SOMETHING has a new home and it's infested with Sharks!

Club SOMETHING has outgrown the ReTox Lounge and is moving to a bigger venue with a lot more dancing room and it's a little easier to get to...
The Cat Club!!!

DJ Skip presents...
SOMETHING
Something Old, Something New - 80s, 90s & Now!!!
Indie, New Wave, Electro, Britpop & Whatever We Want!

Friday, February 15th, 2008
"Kill Your Valentine!"
Bite me, fight me, eat me, beat me,
but baby don't you treat me,
like no effing Valentine!
Dance music for the disenchanted!

Now 2 clubs in 1 - Only 1 cover charge!

IN THE FRONT ROOM: SOMETHING
Dancing to the best in Indie, New Wave, Electo, and Britpop music
with resident DJ Skip (New Wave City),
and guest DJ's The Melting Girl (Death Guild) and Daniel Skellington.
Your host for the evening: Tony B.

IN THE BACK ROOM:
Shark Attack
Dark-Indie-Electro-Pop with DJ's Starr, Orko, & Rubyacht
http://myspace.com/clubsharkattack

3rd Fridays
The Cat Club
1190 Folsom Street
San Francisco
http://www.catclubsf.com

Get SOMETHING for Nothing!
FREE before 10PM - $5 After
2 clubs / 1 cover charge

9PM-2AM
21+ with valid ID
FREE cookies!

Join the SOMETHING Tribe-
http://tribes.tribe.net/clubSOMETHING

There is SOMETHING on MySpace too:
http://myspace.com/clubsomething

http://www.newwavecity.com
http://www.deathguild.com
http://www.danielskellington.blogspot.com

It’s always SOMETHING!

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Did you hear SOMETHING? Set lists from 12/15/07

2007-12-17T19:50:48Z

Another excellent night at the ReTox Lounge.
Thanks to everyone who came out on this busy holiday-party weekend. Special thanks to DJ Donimo,
for spinning his usual set of the most danceable tunes, and to drop-in-DJ, Andy T, for an awesome set
of Glam. And thanks to DJ John for bringing Re-Flexx to the second room with guest DJ Prince Charming.
Happy holidays to everyone!

9:00pm - 10:00pm
DJ Skip (New Wave City)

The Moldy Peaches - Anyone Else But You
Tegan and Sara - Back in Your Head (Tyler Fedchuk's 1/2ALIVE disco remix)
Robyn - Be Mine (Verschwende Deine Jugend Remix)
The Teenagers - Fuck Nicole (Detect Remix)
Planetakis - Pogo in the Shoes of Kylie Minogue
Cassette Electrik - The Smartest Bomb
Foals - Hummer
Duran Duran - Falling Down (R)
Sally Shapiro - I'll be by Your Side
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
Republica - Ready to Go (R)
VHS Or BETA - Can't Believe a Single Word
the cure - A Night Like This (R)
The Chameleons - As High as You Can Go
Echo & the Bunnymen - Read it in Books
The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck

10:00pm - 11:00pm
DJ Skip

The Lyres - I Want to Help You Ann
The Pretenders - Message of Love
Iggy Pop - Pumping for Jill
XTC - Making Plans for Nigel (R)
Romeo Void - White Sweater
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Joan of Arc
Soft Cell - What?
The Human League - The Things that Dreams are Made Of
The English Beat - Save it for Later
Rhoda with The Special AKA - The Boiler
Gun Club - Sex Beat
The Psychedelic Furs - All that Money Wants
Ian Hunter - All the Young Dudes
The Cribs - Men's Needs
The Sounds - Rock 'n Roll (R)
The Killers - Shadowplay

11:00pm - 12:00am
DJ Skip

The Wombats - Let's Dance to Joy Division
She Wants Revenge - I Don't Want to Fall in Love (R)
Client - Lights Go Out
Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) (R)
Wire - 3 Girl Rhumba
ESG - You're no Good
the cure - A Forest (R)
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Israel
The Chameleons - Swamp Thing
The B-52's - Mesopotamia
Berlin - The Metro
Depeche Mode - New Life
New Order - Ceremony
A Flock of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song
Yazoo - Don't Go

12:00am - 1:00am
DJ Donimo (Lucky Pierre, Heat!)

The Sisters of Mercy - Dominion / Mother Russia
Camouflage - The Great Commandment
New Order - Everything's Gone Green
Dangerous Muse - The Rejection
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me 'Round (Like a Record)
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Success
Blondie - Heart of Glass
the cure - The Walk
Siouxsie - Into a Swan
NIN - Only
Von Südenfed - Fledermaus Can't Get It
Client - It's Not Over
Archigram - Doggystyle

1:00am - 2:00am
Drop in DJ-
Andy T

David Bowie - Golden Years
T-Rex - 20th Century Boy
Gary Glitter - Do You Want to Touch Me?
Sweet - Fox on the Run
KISS - Rock 'n Roll All Night
Alice Cooper - No More Mister Nice Guy
Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times
T-Rex - Bang a Gong
Lou Reed - Sweet Jane
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Elton John - Saturday Night's Alright
Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
Slade - Cum on Feel the Noise
? & the Mysterians - 96 Tears
Gary Glitter - Rock 'n Roll (Part 2)

(R) = Request

http://www.myspace.com/djdonimo
http://re-flexx.tribe.net
http://tribes.tribe.net/thepleasureprinciple

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"BLACK CHRISTMAS" - Saturday December 15th

2007-12-14T21:57:06Z

DJ Skip presents...
SOMETHING
Something Old, Something New - 80s, 90s & Now!!!
Indie, New Wave, Electro, Britpop & Whatever We Want!

"I've got my red dress on
And my high heels, too
A pleasure that's forbidden
I save it just for you"

"Lights Go Out...BLACK CHRISTMAS!"
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Now 2 clubs in 1 - Only 1 cover charge!
Blow off those boring holiday parties and come dance to the dark side
of Indie, New Wave, Electro, Britpop and more!

"No mercy, no pleasure, no sin
I stand guilty, loving you again"

IN THE MAIN BAR:
Dancing to the best in dark Indie, New Wave, Electo, and Britpop music
with resident DJ Skip (New Wave City), guest DJ Donimo (Lucky Pierre, Heat!)
and special guest DJ’s dropping in all night!

IN THE SECOND DANCE ROOM:
"Re-Flexx" - All 80’s - All Night!
Resident DJ John and guest DJ Prince Charming (Pleasure Principle) spin the best
dark 80’s dance music: Bauhaus, cure, Depeche Mode, Furs, Joy Division, Siouxsie,
Sisters, Wire, Wolfshein & more, more, more!

RETOX Lounge
http://retoxsf.com/
628 20th Street @ 3rd Street
In up and coming "Dogpatch" area, San Francisco
Lots of free parking in a safe neighborhood
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&country=US&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&addtohistory=&cat=&address=628+20th+Street&city=San+Francisco&state=ca&zipcode=94107

9PM-2AM
21+
Get SOMETHING for Nothing!
FREE before 10PM - $5 After
2 clubs / 1 cover charge

Join the SOMETHING Tribe-
http://tribes.tribe.net/clubSOMETHING

There is SOMETHING on MySpace too:
http://myspace.com/clubsomething

http://www.newwavecity.com
http://www.myspace.com/djdonimo
http://re-flexx.tribe.net
http://tribes.tribe.net/thepleasureprinciple

Don’t end up standing around at some boring party (again!) wishing for
one decent song so you could dance! It’s always SOMETHING!

"No mercy, no pleasure, no sin
Lights go out... HERE I GO AGAIN"

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What in the hell is America listening to?

2007-11-28T03:53:15Z

It's not like I didn't know this already, but the current Billboard Top-10 singles chart makes it very clear that I am completely out of touch with what the rest of America is listening to. With the exception of Barry Manilow, I can't even name a single song by any of these artists- and I suspect that Barry and I would have a very different opinion as to what were the greatest songs of the seventies.

1. Reba McEntire - Reba Duets
2. Kanye West - Graduation
3. 50 Cent- Curtis
4. Barry Manilow - The Greatest Songs Of The Seventies
5. Kenny Chesney - Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates
6. Soundtrack - High School Musical 2
7. James Blunt - All The Lost Souls
8. Chamillionaire - Ultimate Victory
9. KT Tunstall - Drastic Fantastic
10. Twista - Adrenaline Rush 2007

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What I’m listening to this week…10/19/07

2007-11-23T22:20:36Z

Top-5 I'm listening to now - 10/19/07

Lately I feel like I just woke up from a coma. There are so many good songs that I’m finding for the first time, from bands that have been around for quite awhile (like Clinic from last post), that I wonder how I’ve never even heard of them. Well this band, Stars, is another one. I just picked up their forth release, In Our Bedroom After the War. How have they managed to stay below my radar? Or apparently, everyone’s radar. Why isn’t this band famous? I’ve found at least ten achingly beautiful songs from them and I haven’t even tried very hard. Here’s what Wikipedia had to say about them- "Stars is a Canadian indie pop band. Their music has been described as "beautiful, eloquent indie pop", characterized by lush instrumentation, nimble production and mixing, narrative lyrics, and soft but nuanced vocals." That’s pretty accurate. Let’s start with this one, Your Ex-lover is Dead, from 2004’s album, Set Yourself on Fire. Pretty, pretty song with a video that seems to have been obviously influenced by the frozen-lake scene in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. This song would have fit perfectly into that soundtrack. In fact, I had to check to see that it wasn’t on there.

Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2yJSFHTrgM

Alright, enough of that soft pretty shit. Let’s rock! Indie rock, to be exact. Four hot chicks playing Indie rock and singing in French? Yes, please!

The Plastiscines - Loser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkexlb0UtIU

Guillemots. Yet another band that I’d never heard of until I found this song. I don’t feel so bad though because they only have one album and three EP’s so far. They don’t really remind me of anyone, which is pretty rare for a new band. Kinda old-school British pub rock, at least on this song. One of the problems nowadays with new music is the cost of a new CD. Do you want to shell out $14 for one song from a band you don’t really know? I don’t. But what’s great about MySpace (the only redeeming quality IMO other than as a place to promote) is that if you find a new band’s page, you can listen to three or four songs all the way through, and then decide whether to buy the single off iTunes or get the CD. I totally scored by walking up to Amoeba after hearing this song and finding the EP, From the Cliffs, for $4. Deal!

Guillemots - Trains To Brazil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_aHlHc_Vb4&mode=related&search=

Back in the first year of MTV, when they used to play actual videos, they didn’t have many to choose from- especially in the first few months. I can remember images from certain videos, but I have no idea what song or band they were from. I wish MTV would make a year by year DVD collection of the videos they played. This video got a lot of airtime. It is an exception to my rule of not really liking "quirky" singers. This is pretty quirky, but having a hot blonde with long legs in your video never hurts. It’s a song that definitely has a New Wave synthy influence. I bought the album at the time and this song stuck with me over the years.

Ph.D. - I Won't Let You Down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5prT2qiiWY

A classic New Wave song. And again, quirky, but with a hot chick in the video. In this case it’s Kate Garner (who went on to have a successful photographic career- most notably shooting the cover of Sinéad O'Connor’s debut, The Lion and the Cobra). Two different versions for you. The first is unique because no one, and I mean NO ONE, lip-syncs to a 12" version of a song. And the second vid is the normal version. I include it here just for the chance to look at Kate’s eyes at the beginning (totally worth it!) and for that outfit she’s wearing 40 seconds in. Makes me want to play touch football with her. She’d be my center and we’d practice hiking the ball for about an hour, if you know what I mean. Enjoy!

Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny 12"... (Flashdance Comp,1983)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g7kCoqWQr4

Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjsnkIP4ddo&mode=related&search=

Hear all of these and much more at SOMETHING’s Halloween Dance Party on Saturday, October 27th.

And what are you listening to?

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Did you hear SOMETHING? Set lists 11/09/07

2007-11-12T17:40:33Z

DJ Skip presents...
SOMETHING
Something Old, Something New - 80s, 90s & Now!!!
Indie, New Wave, Electro, Britpop & Whatever We Want!

"Dave Gahan Record Release Party!"
Friday, November 9th, 2007
RETOX Lounge

Cool! What a fun night! It was great to be able to play a lot of the new Dave Gahan record.
It’s very dark and moody and I really like it. And since at the end of the night at every SOMETHING
event I usually have about fifty more songs that I wanted to play, I DJ’d this event solo- except for
a little break from Tomas. Thanks to everyone who came out, and especially that group of friends
who pretty much danced the whole night. Next SOMETHING is Saturday, December 15th.
-Skip

9pm-10pm
DJ Skip

Dave Gahan - Saw SOMETHING
Martin L. Gore - In a Manner of Speaking
Depeche Mode - Sea of Sin (Tonal Mix)
Here Here - Poor Sailor
The Smiths - A Rush & A Push & The Land Is Ours
Yaz - Nobody’s Diary
The Clash - Bankrobber
Camper Van Beeethoven - Take the Skinheads Bowling
Gun Club - Sex Beat
Echo & the Bunnymen - A Promise
Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses
Spoons - Nove Heart ( Redanka Plugged Mix)
The Psychedelic Furs - Until She Comes
A Brief Smile - Vicious
Guillemots - Trains to Brazil
Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
Dave Gahan - Use You (R)

10pm-11pm
DJ Skip

The Otherside - Hey You
Clinic - Lee Shan
Stars - Take Me to the Riot
Heads We Dance - My Heart Is Set On You
Depeche Mode - Shake the Disease
Husky Rescue - Nightless Night
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel (Soulwax Club Mix)
Siouxsie and The Banshees - Kiss Them for Me (Kathak, No. 2 Mix)
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
Goldfrapp - Ooh La La (Phones Re-edit) (R)
David Gahan - Deeper + Deeper (R)
Joy Division - She's Lost Control (12" mix)
Secession - The Magician (Pecky Plus mix)
Japan - Life in Toyko (12" version)
Shriekback - Nemesis
Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
Anything Box - Living In Oblivion (Chicago Haus Edit)

11pm-12:15am
DJ Skip

Robyn - Be Mine (Verschwende Deine Jugend Remix)
Client - Lights Go Out
Metric - Dead Disco (Kylie Kills Mix)
New Young Pony Club - Get Dancey
Juvelen - Watch Your Step (Krazy Fiesta remix)
Marsheaux - Dream of a Disco
Depeche Mode - Dangerous (Sensual Mix) (R)
Röyksopp - What Else Is There? (Thin White Duke Mix)
Shiny Toy Guns - Stripped
Gary Numan - Cars (R)
Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done to Deserve This? (R)
Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have to Leave It
Dave Gahan - Kingdom (Digitalism Remix) (R)
Róisín Murphy - ModernTiming
Tegan & Sara - Back in Your Head (Tyler Fedchuk's 1/2ALIVE disco remix)
The Human League - Love Action (I Believe in Love)
New Order - Temptation (R)

12:15-12:45am
DJ Tomas Diablo (Strangelove)

Tomas Diablo
Goose - British Mode
T. Raumschmiere - The Game is Not Over
Ade Fenton - Healing
Client - Lights Go Out (Spetsnaz mix)
Simian Mobile Disco - It's the Beat
Union of Killers - Operated On

12:45-2am
DJ Skip

Ultraviolet - Hot Hot Riot
Glass Candy - Computer Love
The Kooks - All That She Wants
Bat for Lashes - Sarah
Cut Copy - Going Nowhere
Envelopes - Sister In Love
VHS or Beta - Night On Fire (Cut Copy Remix)
Interpol - No I In Threesome (R)
Bloc Party - I Still Remember
The Killers - Shadowplay
No Bra - In Your Jeans
Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always (R)
Killing Joke - Follow the Leaders
Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You (R)
Link Wray - Rumble
Gang of Four - I Love a Man In Uniform (Yeah Yeah Yeahs Remix)
Depeche Mode - A Pain That I'm Used To (Jacques Lu Cont Remix)
Grauzone - Eisbær
the cure - Charlotte Sometimes (R)
Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone (Jason Nevins Rock da Club Edit)
Dave Gahan - Down

It's always SOMETHING!

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"Dave Gahan Record Release Party!" - Friday November 9th

2007-11-12T15:41:50Z

DJ Skip presents...
SOMETHING
Something Old, Something New - 80s, 90s & Now!!!
Indie, New Wave, Electro, Britpop & Whatever We Want!

"Dave Gahan Record Release Party!"
Friday, November 9th, 2007
Now 2 clubs in 1 - Only 1 cover charge!

IN THE MAIN BAR:
Hear the new Dave Gahan release "Hourglass" in its entirety throughout the night, and the best Indie,
New Wave, & Electo dance music with resident DJ Skip (New Wave City).

IN THE SECOND DANCE ROOM:
"SOMETHING ELSE" - All 80’s - All Night!
Special guest DJ’s: Tomas Diablo (Strangelove) & FACT 50 (Less Than Zero).

RETOX Lounge
http://retoxsf.com/
628 20th Street @ 3rd Street
In up and coming "Dogpatch" area, San Francisco
Lots of free parking in a safe neighborhood
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&country=US&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&addtohistory=&cat=&address=628+20th+Street&city=San+Francisco&state=ca&zipcode=94107

9PM-2AM
21+
Get SOMETHING for Nothing!
FREE before 10PM - $5 After
2 clubs / 1 cover charge

Join the SOMETHING Tribe-
http://tribes.tribe.net/clubSOMETHING

There is SOMETHING on MySpace too:
http://myspace.com/clubsomething

http://www.newwavecity.com
http://strangelove.tribe.net

It’s always SOMETHING!

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Did you hear SOMETHING? Set lists from 10/27/07

2007-10-31T04:39:29Z

DJ Skip presents...
SOMETHING
Something Old, Something New - 80s, 90s & Now!!!
Indie, New Wave, Electro, Britpop & Whatever We Want!

Saturday, October 27th, 2007
"There is SOMETHING in My House"
Halloween Dance Party!
DJ’s: Donimo (Lucky Pierre, Heat), DJ6 (Lucky Pierre)
and resident DJ Skip (New Wave City)

What a fun night! It was great to see so many people dressed in costumes. The boys downstairs had everyone dancing with the long awaited return of Re-Flexx. And the "girls" upstairs (Donimo, 6, and I dressed as a dead-but-breathing version of our own Von Südenfed video) ripped it up all night. Thanks to everyone for coming out and we’ll see you again on Friday, November 9th.

RETOX Lounge
http://retoxsf.com/

9:00-9:45
DJ6
http://www.myspace.com/dj6sf

Thom Yorke - The Eraser (XXXChange Mix)
Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control (Playgroup Remix)
Kelly - Let Me Borrow That Top
Futon - I Wanna be Your Dog
Danielle Dax - Big Hollow Man
Erlend Øye- Sudden Rush (The Twelves Rmx)
ABC - How to be a Millionaire (Bond St. Mix)
Roxy Music - Editors of You (Phones Mix)
Mark Ronson - Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before (Kissy Sell Out’s True Romance)

9:45-10:30
DJ Donimo
http://www.myspace.com/djdonimo

Section 25 - Looking From a Hilltop
LCD Soundsystem - Time to Get Away
The Human League - Things That Dreams Are Made Of
Whitey - Wrap it Up
Erasure - Chains of Love
Hot Chip - Over and Over
Pete Burns / Pet Shop Boys - Jack & Jill Party
Ladytron - Playgirl

10:30-11:15
DJ Skip

INXS - Devil Inside (R)
Echo & the Bunneymen - Never Stop (R)
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Bullock Bros. - Horror Movies
Bat for Lashes - What’s a Girl to Do?
Pulp - Disco 2000
Interpol - No I in Threesome
Peter Bjorn & John vs. Amy Winehouse Young Folks in Rehab (DJ Top Cat mix)
The Cribs - Men’s Needs (CSS Remix)
Siouxsie and The Banshees - Kiss Them for Me (Kathak, No. 2 Mix)

11:15-12:00
DJ6

Kasabian - Me Plus One (Jacques Lu Cont Mix)
Nirvana - Rape Me (Slimline Remix)
Soft Cell - Memorabilia (Extended)
Missing Persons - Give
Pete Shelley - Telephone Operator
Prince - Dirty Mind
Blaqk Audio - Stiff Kittens (Morel's Pink Noise Mix)

12:00-12:45
Donimo

Britney Spears - Gimme More
Fad Gadget - Lady Shave
Ministry - (Everyday is) Halloween
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Kylie Minogue - Two Hearts
Gang of Four - I Love a Man in a Uniform
New Order - Touched by the Hand of God
Visage - Fade to Grey
Gang of Four - I Love a Man in a Uniform
Prinzhorn Dance School - You Are the Space Invaders

12:45-1:30
Skip

The Wombats - Let's Dance To Joy Division
Joy Division - She's Lost Control (12" mix)
Bobby "Boris" Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers - Monster Mash
Teagan & Sara - Walking with a Ghost
Metric - Dead Disco (Kylie Kills Mix) (R)
The Sounds - Rock ‘n’ Roll
Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
the cure - A Forest (Tree Mix) (R)
Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up (R)
Robert Seidler - Christian Boy

1:30-2:00am
alternating DJ’s

Donimo
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Halloween

DJ6
Kelly - (can’t read writing)

Skip
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary

Donimo
The Sisters of Mercy - Dominion

DJ6
Camouflage - The Great Commandment

Donimo
New Young Pony Club - Get Lucky (MSTRKRFT Remix)

DJ6
Dragonette - The Boys (Touched by the hand of DJ6)

(R) = request

Check out SOMETHING on MySpace-
http://www.myspace.com/clubsomething

Join the SOMETHING Tribe-
http://tribes.tribe.net/clubSOMETHING

http://www.newwavecity.com

It’s always SOMETHING!

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"There is SOMETHING in My House" Halloween Party - 10/27

2007-10-24T15:14:50Z

DJ Skip presents...
SOMETHING
Something Old, Something New - 80s, 90s & Now!!!
Indie, New Wave, Electro, Britpop & Whatever We Want!

"There is SOMETHING in My House"
Halloween Dance Party!
Saturday, October 27th (note special date)
Now 2 clubs in 1 - Only 1 cover charge!

IN THE MAIN BAR: AKA "THE LABORATORY"
"Dead Disco, Dead Funk, Dead Rock and Roll..."
Dance to the best in Indie, New Wave, Electro, & Britpop Halloweeney favorites from the likes of, Dead or Alive, Smashing Pumpkins, The Killers, Tears For Fears, The Horrors, The Knife, Bat for Lashes, Zombie Girl, She Wants Revenge, Killing Joke, & more!
With resident DJ Skip (New Wave City) + guest DJ’s: Donimo (Lucky Pierre, Heat) & DJ6 (Lucky Pierre, Bender)

IN THE SECOND DANCE ROOM: AKA "THE DUNGEON"
"There is something in my house - my house,
It's just a ghost of the long long dead affair"
The return of...Re-Flexx! All ‘80s, All Night!
DJ’s Low-Life & John spin your 80’s favorites like: The Ghost in You, Dead Man’s Party, Love Like Blood, Bela Lugosi's Dead, Masquerade & more.
http://re-flexx.tribe.net

Prizes and surprises for best costumes!
Halloween treats for everyone!
Dress up, dance & drink, and have fun (without the idiots who only come out for actual Halloween).

RETOX Lounge
http://retoxsf.com/
628 20th Street @ 3rd Street
In up and coming "Dogpatch" area, San Francisco
Lots of free parking in a safe neighborhood
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&country=US&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&addtohistory=&cat=&address=628+20th+Street&city=San+Francisco&state=ca&zipcode=94107

9PM-2AM
21+
Get SOMETHING for Nothing!
FREE before 10PM - $5 After
2 clubs / 1 cover charge
NOTE: There will not be a SOMETING on the second Friday, October 12th.

"I really gotta say it to ya,
Ya showed me a good time,
But for every minute that you spent laughin',
There were hours that I cried,
And I think about what might have been,
If I'd never met that wicked queen,
That my heart broke into pieces
that midnight on Halloween!"

Join the SOMETHING Tribe-
http://tribes.tribe.net/clubSOMETHING

There is SOMETHING on MySpace too:
http://myspace.com/clubsomething

http://www.newwavecity.com
http://www.myspace.com/clubluckypierre

It’s always SOMETHING!

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Trick...or treat?

2007-10-15T20:18:06Z

Well! I see the new (very cool) SOMETHING flyer lists Oingo Boingo. And then imagine my further surprise when I visited the MySpace page and heard "Dead Man's Party" playing! Very nice!

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Q Awards 2007: The Winners

2007-10-10T21:53:07Z

Q Magazine
Q Awards 2007: The Winners

Best Track nominees:
Manic Street Preachers - ‘Your Love Alone is not Enough’
Kaiser Chiefs - ‘Ruby’
Hard-Fi - ‘Suburban Knights’
Athlete - ‘Hurricane’
Muse - ‘Knights Of Cydonia’

Winner:
Manic Street Preachers - 'Your Love...'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pttv0jqYSo&mode=related&search=

Best Album nominees:
Arctic Monkeys - ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’
Amy Winehouse - ‘Back To Black’
Kaiser Chiefs - ‘Yours Truly, Angry Mob’
Arcade Fire - ‘Neon Bible’
Manic Street Preachers - ‘Send Away The Tigers’

Winner:
Amy Winehouse - ‘Back To Black’

Best Live Act nominees:
Arcade Fire
Muse
The Killers
Arctic Monkeys
Kasabian

Winner:
Muse

Best Act In The World Today nominees:
The Killers
Arctic Monkeys
Foo Fighters
Muse
U2

Winner:
Arctic Monkeys

Best New Act nominees:
The Enemy
Klaxons
Cherry Ghost
The Pigeon Detectives
The View

Winner:
The Enemy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgdktPr95u0

Breakthrough Artist: Kate Nash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orACIBjHuI4

Best Video: Kaiser Chiefs - 'Ruby'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMDcOViViNY

The Q Legend: Ian Brown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDRz3H30NmY

Q Classic Songwriter: Billy Bragg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqH_xqh0eVw

The Q Inspiration Award: Damon Albarn

The Q Idol: Kylie

Q Lifetime Achievement: Johnny Marr

The Q Hero: Anthony H. Wilson

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What I’m listening to this week…10/02/07

2007-10-10T18:45:15Z

Top-5 I'm listening to now - 10/02/07

It’s crankers week- songs that just sound great when they’re played at max vol.

1. A Brief Smile - Vicious

No effing idea where I got this one because I’ve found so much new music lately. I stuffed forty-one new songs into a folder on my iPod, commenced to working on the new flyer for the Halloween SOMETHING event, and then hit, play. When this song came up, the very first time I had heard it, I listened to it about fifteen times in a row and I think I turned it up louder each time. It’s 7:27 long so you know I really, really, dug it. Has a weird two-minute feedback-laced ending that I can’t decide if I like or not, but the first five-min rips!

http://www.myspace.com/abriefsmile

2. Clinic - Lee Shan

It’s kinda disappointing when you think you’ve discovered a new band, only to find out they’ve been around for a while. The only thing worse is when you mention the band to your musically-impaired friend and they go, "Ahhh, yeah. I know them." Apparently this band has been around for ten years! Who knew? Not me. You? Well this song definitely hit me with a very different, yet familiar sound. And it’s another one where you can’t help but turn it up.

http://www.myspace.com/clinicvoot

3. The Cribs - Men's Needs (CSS Remix)

Loved loved loved this one from the get-go. Fun video, too- although it’s a tad distracting from the song. Anyone know the girl? I need her to dance around just like that in my DJ booth- minus the dismemberment and projectile vomiting, of course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCNTYi9fHuo

4. Envelopes - Sister in Love

The single version I have is only 2:05 long, which is pure. But this longer video version is really fun. A definite hummer, stick-in-your-head type song. Try it. You’ll like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw7iKr215xo

5. Bat for Lashes - Sarah

This one isn’t quite so obvious as a turn-it-up tune. Another grower, in the mesmerizing layered way of some of the old Mazzy Star songs. You can download it for free here on their website-

http://www.batforlashes.co.uk/audio/

I’m really excited to see them at Slim’s next week on the 11th. Wanna go?

And what are you listening to?

NOTE: There will not be a SOMETHING event on the usual second Friday. Instead we’ll have a special Halloween Party on Saturday, October 27th.

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Did you hear SOMETHING? Set lists from 9/14/07

2007-09-24T23:11:46Z

DJ Skip presents...
SOMETHING
Something Old, Something New - 80s, 90s & Now!!!
Indie, New Wave, Electro, Britpop & Whatever We Want!

Friday September 14th
A Tribute to Tony Wilson
With Fac 51 Haçienda DJ’s:
Donimo (Lucky Pierre, Substance), DJ6 (Lucky Pierre, Now Hear This!) and resident DJ Skip (New Wave City)

RETOX Lounge
http://retoxsf.com/

An awesome evening of Manchester and Factory Records bands in support of our Tony Wilson Tribute took place at ReTox on Friday night. DJ6 and Donimo really did their homework as they came prepared to rock the place with some great dance music. And in the second room, the debut of a new club, "Something Wicked This Way Comes". Special thanks to DJ Daniel Skellington, as he had to man the turntables all night because DJ Melting Girl was unable to attend.
This was an especially fun evening with lots of dancing, happy, 24-hour party people. Once again we had to kick people out the door at 2am as everyone wanted to keep on dancing. I think ReTox needs to apply for an after-hours permit!

9:00-9:45
DJ6
http://www.myspace.com/dj6sf

808 State - Oops
Happy Mondays - Wrote for Luck (Vince Clark Mix)
Trent Reznor & Peter Murphy - Warm Leatherette
Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria (Razormaid Mix)
Duran Duran - Nightrunner
The Charlatans - The Only One I Know
Morrissey - November Spawned a Monster
New Order - State of the Nation
Pop Will Eat Itself - Def Con One
ESG - Moody (Spaced Out)
Revenge - Slave (US Remix)

9:45-10:30
DJ Donimo
http://www.myspace.com/djdonimo

Inspiral Carpets - Commercial Rain
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Locomotion
New Order - Run
Kylie Minogue - Can’t Get Blue Monday Out of My Head
Ladytron - 17
The Smiths - Panic
Joy Division - Dead Souls
Cabaret Voltaire - Yashar
Knife - Heartbeats
Bloc Party - She’s Hearing Voices
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

10:30-11:15
DJ Skip

Gabriel & Dresden - Dangerous Power (Cicada Radio Edit)
Boogaloo Stu - Just Want You to Know
Goldfrapp - Strict Machine (R)
Dragonette - The Boys
808 State - Cubik
New Order - Confusion (R)
The Chameleons - Up the Down Escalator
The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Electricity
The Names - Nightshift
The Smiths - There is a Light that Never Goes Out (R)

11:15-12:00
DJ6

Electronic - Getting Away with It
The Other Two - Tasty Fish
Von Südenfed - Flooded
Editors - An End Has a Start (Jacknife Lee Remix)
Pete Shelley - Telephone Operator
New Order - Fine Time (‘97 Razormaid Remix)
Dragonette - The Boys (Touched by the hand of DJ6)
Client - Zerox Machine (Johnny Slut - Atomizer Remix)
Magazine - The Light Pours Out of Me
The Presets - Are You the One (Van She Mix)
Digitalism - Pogo (Maximized by Punks Jump Up)

12:00-12:45
Donimo

Britney Spears - Gimme More
Daft Punk - Da Funk
Gang of Four - I Love a Man in a Uniform
New Order - Touched by the Hand of God
The Sisters of Mercy - Dominion
Camouflage - The Great Commandment
Nitzer Ebb - Control I’m Here
Happy Mondays - 24-Hour Party People
A Certain Ratio - Shook Up

12:45-1:30
Skip

The Wombats - Let's Dance To Joy Division
Joy Division - Transmission (R)
Gang of Four - Damaged Goods
The Chameleons - Don’t Fall
the cure - Jumping Someone Else’s Train
1990s - You Made Me Like It
The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger
Metric - Dead Disco (Kylie Kills Mix)
Zombie Girl with Sebastian Komor - We Are the Ones
Client - Lights Go Out
She Wants Revenge - Tear You Apart (R)
Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust (R)
Wire - 3 Girl Rumba
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Rockers to Swallow
The Killers - Mr. Brightside (R)

1:30-2:00am
alternating DJ’s

DJ6
Underworld - Underneath the Radar (12" Remix)

Donimo
Joy Division - Shadowplay

Skip
Gun Club - Sex Beat

DJ6
Bloc Party - Helicopter (Whitey Remix)

Donimo
Basement Jaxx - Get Me Off

(R) = request

Check out SOMETHING on MySpace-
http://www.myspace.com/clubsomething

Join the SOMETHING Tribe-
http://tribes.tribe.net/clubSOMETHING

http://www.newwavecity.com
http://www.deathguild.com
http://www.danielskellington.blogspot.com

It’s always SOMETHING!

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DJ Skip spins at the final Shadowplay this Friday - 9/21

2007-09-22T20:43:23Z

Friday, September 21 is the Closing Party for Shadowplay at the Stud.

Five and a half years after starting at 26 Mix, and after a 2 1/2 year run at the Stud, and after 100 (+/-) Shadowplays, they are wrapping it up! Guest DJ Skip (New Wave City) joins DJ Donimo (Lucky Pierre, Heat, Substance) for one last blow out, spinning the latest indie electro remixes plus classic new wave.

Come celebrate with us the end of an era! Dancers Ben and Annie, and the Stud's stiff cheap drinks will keep you dancing. You can pretty much count on the DJ's getting drunk and happy and playing whatever you want. Any requests?

So come on out and have a closing night drink with us and dance to some great music.

It's free until 10:30 pm,
11:30pm by joining at:
http://shadowplaysf.com/list.html
or the Shadowplay tribe:
http://shadowplay.tribe.net
by 5pm Friday.

Otherwise, it's $5
10pm-3am
399 9th St at Harrison

Shadowplay will live on with their 6th annual stage at the SF Pride Festival in June, 2008.
See http://shadowplaysf.com for details.

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What I’m listening to this week…9/21/07

2007-09-21T21:46:02Z

Top-5 I'm listening to now - 9/21/07:

1. Hello Saferide (feat Firefox AK) - Long Lost Penpal

So, we are going back to Scandinavia again for these first two tunes. Remember a couple weeks ago when I was listening to Montt Mardié and the song Pretenders they did with Hello Saferide? I meant to champion Hello Saferide the following week, but I got sidetracked by a Pop attack- and we all know how painful that can be. Hello Saferide are a Swedish Indie-Pop group with radio presenter Annika Norlin on lead vocals. Much like MM, you can’t dance to their music but it is achingly beautiful. Kind of a storytelling style, with songs like, Long Lost Penpal or Highschool Stalker, that sound great when you’re cooking, in the shower, or just in the mood for a soft and soothing atmosphere. Best line: "Damn, I wish I was a lesbian, so I could fall in love with you."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZOiZ6bZ_KM

Currently on tour in Brazil (of all places!) with former band member Maia Hirasawa, who has a great single, And I Found this Boy.

In fact, let’s just go ahead and make that song #2 for a Scandinavian trifecta.

2. Maia Hirasawa - And I Found this Boy

Watch the vid and don’t be distracted by the rat playing the drums in the beginning. Give it a chance- really, watch it till the end and then try to tell me you didn’t like it. We’re talkin’ glorious Pop here.
Ahh oh, I said the P word again!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRIyb8Sqol8&mode=related&search=

3. Husky Rescue - Nightless Night

Okay, so the album, Ghost is Not Real, has been out long enough to have a baby, but I still like it. I’ve had it in my CD book for months, intending to play it at almost every event I’ve spun at, but keep forgetting. I think the name Husky Rescue just doesn’t catch my eye when I’m fishing for the next song to play- it sounds like some sorta manly drain-cleaner or something. But unlike their northern brethren, this Finish fivesome are very danceable, and lead singer Reeta-Leena Korhola is pretty easy on the eyes.
Note to self: Next summer- Finland, Sweden, vaycay action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgekz8aFA_8&mode=related&search=

4. Róisín Murphy - ModernTiming

Formerly half of the duo Moloko, you may have heard her doing lead vocals for Boris Dlugosch’s hit single, "Never Enough," from this past spring, or from the song "Ruby Blue" that was on the Grey's Anatomy soundtrack. ModernTiming is a download-only single that is somehow not on the upcoming release (October) of her second album, Overpowered. Don’t know where I found it or I would tell you.

http://www.myspace.com/roisinmurphy

5. theStart - Fix

Getting ready for my guest DJ gig tonight at Shadowplay, and man, I just wanna dance. Need to dance, is more like it. Still reeling from all the stress of last week. This song dropped in June and I’m looking forward to seeing the band at the Folsom Street Fair next week. Meanwhile, put it on, turn it up, and make room for me on the dancefloor.

http://www.myspace.com/thestartwhore

And what are you listening to?

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Favorite Manchester band?

2007-09-20T00:27:01Z

Tough call for me between The Smiths and The Chameleons and Joy Division and New Order. I've seen the Smiths, Chameleons and NO live and they were all awesome. Never saw Joy Division. I wish.

I have to go with New Order, just slightly over The Chameleons. NO just have too many great songs. Ceremony, Regret, Temptation, Dreams Never End, Run, Age of Consent, Everything's Gone Green, and more. The other three bands just didn't put out that much music.

But if Ian Curtis hadn't committed suicide...

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Tony Wilson Tribute & New Club - 9/14

2007-09-15T01:52:22Z

DJ Skip presents...
SOMETHING
Something Old, Something New - 80s, 90s & Now!!!
Indie, New Wave, Electro, Britpop & Whatever We Want!

"Radio, live transmission
Radio, live transmission..."

Friday September 14th (second Friday of the month)
Now two clubs in 1!
2 Dance Rooms / 5 DJ’s

"We would have a fine time living in the night..."
"And we could dance..."

IN THE MAIN BAR:
A Tribute to Tony Wilson
Featuring Factory Records artists and Manchester bands like: Buzzcocks, Chameleons, Happy Mondays, James, Joy Division, New Order, Oasis, OMD, Smiths, Stone Roses, The Verve & more.
Fac 51 Haçienda DJ’s: Donimo (Lucky Pierre, Substance), DJ6 (Lucky Pierre, Now Hear This!) and resident DJ Skip (New Wave City)

Video: 24-Hour Party People, New Order Story, Here Are the Young Men

"To synchronize love to the beat of the show...."

IN THE SECOND DANCE ROOM:
DJ’s Melting Girl (Death Guild, Substance) & Daniel Skellington (aka D.O.M.G. from Retro Active) bring you the debut of:
'Something Wicked This Way Comes'
An evening in the crypt with Gothic, Industrial, dark & spooky music all night long. Halloween is just around the corner. Join us for a night of music, drinks and dancing that will bring out your spooky side. Lots of classic gothic and industrial songs as well as some freshly created monsters right off of the slab!

RETOX Lounge
http://retoxsf.com/
628 20th Street @ 3rd Street
In up and coming "Dogpatch" area, San Francisco
Lots of free parking in a safe neighborhood
http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result.php?q1=628+20th+Street%2C+san+francisco

9PM-2AM
21+
Get SOMETHING for Nothing
FREE before 10PM - $5 After
2 clubs / 1 cover charge

Check out SOMETHING on MySpace-
http://www.myspace.com/clubsomething

Join the SOMETHING Tribe-
http://tribes.tribe.net/clubSOMETHING

http://www.newwavecity.com
http://www.deathguild.com
http://www.danielskellington.blogspot.com

"Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio.
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio..."

It’s always SOMETHING!

Joy Division
Album: Still
Year: 1981
Title: Transmission
Written by Joy Division (Curtis/Hook/Morris/Sumner)

Radio, live transmission.
Radio, live transmission.

Listen to the silence, let it ring on
Eyes, dark grey lenses frightened of the sun
We would have a fine time living in the night,
Left to blind destruction,
Waiting for our sight.

And we would go on as though nothing was wrong
And hide from these days we remained all alone
Staying in the same place, just staying out the time
Touching from a distance,
Further all the time.

Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio.
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio...

Well I could call out when the going gets tough
The things that we've learnt are no longer enough
No language, just sound, that's all we need know,
To synchronise love to the beat of the show.

And we could dance.

Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio.
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio...

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