Possessed by Paul James

"what Possessed by Paul James brings to the table is pure, unchecked passion. Every song gets every ounce of energy, attention, love, and dedication that Possessed possesses, leaving nothing behind. Blind, rabid, berserk, eyes rolling up in the back of the head, stampeding buffalo herd passion."  The Triggerman, Saving Country Music

Possessed by Paul James - Hurricane

The Republic of Wolves

I'm really loving these guys! They manage to mix the post-rock guitar sound, with gorgeous vocals. The Republic of Wolves have a recent EP which features an acoustic version of 'Spare Keys', that I highly recommend;

The Republic of Wolves - Spare Keys

Soundproof's Office Xmas Party this Saturday!

Soundproof is having its Christmas event this Saturday Dec 21st with the theme of being an office xmas party, with the cliches of the workplace like a Secret Santa gift exchange between the Djs and (likely drunken) karaoke at the end of the party.

Wear your ugliest festive sweaters and (optionally) if you want to get in on the fun of the Secret Santa exchange bring a boxed transfer item and set it for 0L under the tree for anyone to grab!

7 Djs will be playing their best mixes of alternative Christmas tunes to get you in the holiday spirit while we dance, get eggnoggy, and play a few rounds of a little interactive game we have called "Destroy the Xmas Tree"! It doesn't falsely advertise! The club will also have ice so you can skate if you want. Festive prizes handed out every hour!

Best of all 8-10 your host Dox will be hosting holiday karaoke, come sing your Xmas favs old and new and make an ass of yourself for all our amusement!

Schedule of the day's holiday hijinx:

12-1pm- Pope Dagostino
1-2pm- Paradox Messmer
2-3pm- Kookie Hax
3-4pm- Janus Planer
4-5pm- Frequency Picnic
5-6pm- Ophelia Balczo
6-7pm- Moby Tenenbaum
7-8pm- Paradox Messmer
8-10pm SLT- Holiday Karaoke hosted by Dox

SLURL:  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Terre%20Des%20Mortes/112/108/51

add to the songs of the year thread

I loved hearing everyone's songs.

my two for the year are,

Lavenderlight by Lovers (alliteration!)

https://play.spotify.com/album/04AGkBRdeAH5coyV2rkY9U

and Calm down by the Love Language

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj45XbqsnAw

Happy Christmas soon!

Enthropy Panache

Soviet Soviet - Hidden [Fate]

I never really understood what was all the fuss with this post-punk revival thing. All I know is that when my neighbour Gerald the hipster starts talking about it, it’s already lost to me. The Italian trio Soviet Soviet is one of those bands who have nothing to do with the mainstream hype cycles or media publicity. Releasing their debut full-length after six years of existence tells me these guys know that good things come when good things feel like coming, no matter what’s hot this week or what decade it happens to be. They also know how to make catchy post-punk hooks - oh my goddess do they know! And forget about all the usual doom and gloom issues here - if this stuff doesn’t get you running towards the dance floor then you’d better check you aren’t dead!



Chelsea Wolfe - Feral Love [Pain Is Beauty]

After first being exposed to the searing guitars on her ‘Apocalypsis’ album, I knew there were great things to expect from Chelsea Wolfe. I just didn’t expect it to happen so soon and with such a quantity. I mean - how many commercially successful singer-songwriters out there would be able to fuse Indie Pop with Doom and Dark Metal, Dark Ambient, Folk, Goth, Electronica and Björk while making it all sound very fresh and completely their own? How many would dare to make a tribute album to Rudimentary Peni? Even without this kind of backing evidence it is clear that ‘Pain Is Beauty’ deserves our most sincere nods of approval and applauses with hands clad in black velvet. Hell, I don’t want to limit the admiration of this album to the average goth only. For all I care you could be a construction worker or a skate park brat - give it a listen and you’ll surely hear this music is not a laughing matter. ‘Pain Is Beauty’ is sore like a fresh bruise and I wouldn’t be surprised if playing it alone in an old house in the midst of the woods would get you in touch with the beyond. I’m still trying to get back to normal myself.

No Age — C'mon Stimmung

Sometimes it takes half a year to find it, sometimes it takes a lifetime. Here's tonight's spoil, published August this year:

Silly figure skating costume party tomorrow @ Soundproof!

Live out the "magical" world of pro figure skating with Soundproof's Theme Night Thursday: Blades of Glory tomorrow, December 12th!

Wear your most ridiculously gaudy and glittery costumes, get on your skates and hit the ice rink at Soundproof while DJs Dox and Brodie from 6-10pm play winter themed indie tunes for your interpretive skating moves (or just dancing). $500L for best/most outlandish/tacky costume!  Free skates will be provided if you don't have your own. Skating poseballs will also be set out.

Schedule: 6-8pm SLT Paradox Messmer  and 8-10pm SLT Brodie Oleander.
SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Terre Des Mortes/90/101/39

Oblee

Cloud

A live looped original song showcasing just how this live looping madness happens.

The Party
https://soundcloud.com/oblee/the-party
A studio version of the song from Oblee's upcoming album.  It features various special guests including P-Funk All Star Kim Manning on backing vocals.

Oblee consists of a man and his looper and a room full of instruments.  Eric Kiefer has played drums for various bands over the years including Colorado's Aftergrass.  In 2008 he began using a loop machine to perform live playing multiple instruments.  Using a Piano, Guitar, Organ, Drumset, Djembes, Bells, Whistles and sometimes literally the kitchen sink, he performs original songs and some unique covers.   Find out more at http://www.obleemusic.com

Kookie Hax

With so many wonderful tunes to pick from, across genres and moods, my Best Of choices seem to shift from day to day. But in the end I've opted for a couple of songs which give me a great rush every time I hear them, despite hundreds of plays.

First up, Sonny and the Sunsets. I always love the quirky, romantic sound of Sonny Smith and particularly the call and response approach of some of his tunes like 'Lovin on an Older Gal' (2009) and this selection from Antenna to the Afterworld (2013), the sweetly sad 'Green Blood'.



My second selection is from the wonderful Australian band The Drones. Clever lyrics, spat out over amazing gee-tar fuzz....this song epitomises everything I love about this band. From their wonderful 2013 album I See Seaweed, I offer 'A Moat You Can Stand In'.

Iain Lordhunter

Arcade Fire - Reflektor

Arcade Fire and LCD Soundsystem are both strong contenders for my favourite band of the last decade, so when I heard James Murphy was producing the new Arcade Fire album I was very excited.  I was also very nervous that it wouldn't work, as I found the UNKLE collaborations often sounded like 2 separate very good things shoved unsuccessfully together.  But as soon as I heard this, I loved it.  It's got driving indie rock bits! It's got plinky dancey bits!  it's got bits sung in French! And then, if that wasn't enough, ...David Bowie turns up!  Nearly 8 minutes in length but never outstaying its welcome, it even features an Anton Corbijn-directed video full of intrigue, glitter balls and papier mache heads.  Song of the year.

The Uncluded - Delicate Cycle

My second choice is another coming together of 2 great artist(e)s: the rapper Aesop Rock and singer-songwriter Kimya Dawson of The Moldy Peaches.  Aesop delivers, over an acoustic guitar backing, a potentially psychopathic rap about sending people body parts in the mail, while Kimya sings a touching tale about growing up in a laundromat.  Perhaps these are even two halves of the same story, who knows. Then the two come together on the chorus and it manages to sound both sweet and sinister at the same time.  It possibly shouldn't work at all, but it really, really does.


Iain Lordhunter
DJ @ AAi, and pub landlord at The Bannister & Shamrock.

Moby Tenenbaum's Two Top Picks

I guess the most important criterion for picking my two tops songs would be the frequency with which I've played them at my gigs. There are a number of tunes that I've repeated a lot, but I'm going to with two that are quite similar in emotional tone: "Thames Soup," by The Phoenix Foundation, and "Starlings Over Brighton Pier," by Bell X1. To me, they're both achingly beautiful, contemplative tunes and I'm sure I'll be playing them a lot for years to come. I DJ every Sunday from 2 to 4 SL time at the venerable old alt7.

Uglyana Jones

2013 was a year of great transition for me.  I took a big risk and stepped out of a situation where I had been dependent upon others to care for me directly into a situation where someone was dependent upon me for care.  It was terrifying and difficult in ways I didn't expect.  But taking on this challenge has allowed me to finally begin to discover parts of myself I had lost or forgotten and build myself into someone I can almost recognize.

The two songs I've chosen for 2013 both reflect this journey, the almost euphoric relief of waking from a nightmare while the affect slowly dissolves.

1.  Wild Creatures from Neko Case's 2013 album 'The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You'

Neko Case - Wild Creatures

2.  Girl Called Alex from Kurt Vile's 2013 album 'Walkin on a Pretty Daze'

Kurt Vile - Girl Called Alex

I DJ at the Velvet Tuesdays 3 pm to 5 pm SLT and specialize in conceptual sets.

Tamikrest

I love the joy and celebration-of-life-despite-everything in this video :)

Tamikrest have a fresh album out called 'Chatma'.

Tamikrest - Aratan N Tinariwen

Sam Shecter

Tegan and Sara - Closer

I picked this song because I just love Tegan and Sara. They have been one of my favorite bands for a long time, also because this song talks about how love can be such a unique thing, how it can fill your mind completely, even if you are gay or straight or a pony, It's love and love is for everyone.

Chvrches - Recover

About this song and Band, there reason I selected this song and band is because they were introduced to me by a great friend of mine, so it has a special meaning. Second Reason is Because the lyrics on this song really move me as well.

Hello ^-^

My name is Sam Shecter, I started Djing not very long ago, if I am correct, just in the beginning of this precise year. It has been quite a rush, I've always loved Djing since I was a little kid. I'm almost 2 years and 7 Months old on SL and I love what I do here, I love sharing music on my sets, I think it is amazing how we can connect With music, It's not only me that shares a part of who I am but the persons that listen also teach me a lot of things, and that is what I love about all of it.

Ferdynand Straaf

It was not easy to find 2 songs. 2013 was not realy a year with highlights. My two favorite singers (Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen) released both a new album "recently" but both were at the end of 2012. So they don't count.

I ran through my collection and found some others, but more then 2. I had to make a decision. I chose for the first, a new Folk-Rock band and a collaboration of 2 musicians who  have been making music for a long time.

To start with the new band:

American Aquarium - Burn, Flicker, Die

A perfect song, great beat, a text that tells something, enough variation to prevent you getting bored, a singer with a voice which I as dutch can understand without have to think "what's he singing about". So in short; A perfect song.

My second choice is from the album "Black Pudding"

Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood - Cold Molly

I became a fan of Lanegan's music when i heard him Sing "In the Pines". I don't know who Duke Garwood is but this was in the description by the YT video:
"For those who are unfamiliar with Garwood, he has been described in the UK press as Lanegan's 'spiritual cousin across the Atlantic waters'".

This is music in the tradition of the great (post) punk singers. Great arrangements, also a perfect song. Everything fits. No highlights just good music. I'm so happy it's still made these days.

Sean Rowe - Acoustic version of Jonathan

Very rich music..sometimes you hear Dylan then Cohen or Sprinsteen, also a understandable voice, and a great guitar player.

Soko - I'll kill her

My latest discovery, a female singer but coming with something so pure and direct, a relief after all the Adele's, Gaga, Lorde's etc. etc. Okay, a last one with a haunting video (warning!):

Soko - We might be dead by Tomorrow

Lobito Brando

1) Woodkid - I Love You

This music is super wonderful, full of rhythm. I went to a woodkid gig the energy and presence on the stage are quiet amazing. Definitely one of the best for 2013.

2) Beijing - Sequin

This is like the "best new artist for 2013" for me. It is a brand new surprise and what a great one. I went passionate about this track right on the first time I heard it.