The Gypsy Lounge

The Gypsy Lounge is a relaxed Second Life venue featuring live music and poetry in an open mic/voice lounge atmosphere. The folks I met there are fun, sociable and really talented!

Let Love In: A Valentine's Day event @ Soundproof this Saturday Feb 8th!

Soundproof invites you to a day of exploration on the subject of love and relationships in all varieties, on Saturday Feb 8th. Kicking off at 12pm noon SLT and going till 10pm SLT, 10 lovesick Djs will each play an hour of their take on a Valentine's Day set, whether full of sweet romantic songs or breakup ballads or twisted/perverse love songs. You'll experience such a range of love that'll make your heart grow (or possibly shrink) 3 sizes!

Come join the love-in, there'll be spin the bottle, truth or dare, fun prizes, cuddle furniture and couples dances to get closer to your partners and your friends.

SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Terre%20Des%20Mortes/96/86/40

Event DJ schedule (SLT):
12-1pm- Enthropy Panache
1-2pm- ByrneDarkly Cazalet
2-3pm- Kookie Hax
3-4pm- Bailey Acanthus
4-5pm- Allison Wiiddershins
5-6pm- Zhoraz Zhora
6-7pm- Frequency Picnic
7-8pm- Paradox Messmer
8-9pm- Janus Planer
9-10pm- Mikel Shilova

Theme Night Thursday: Espionage party @ Soundproof!

 


Theme Night Thursday, Jan 23rd, at Soundproof....dive into danger with a beautiful stranger at Spy Vs. Spy: Espionage party.! It's your chance to be the sexy, charming yet cold and dangerous spy you've dreamed of being after growing up watching too many Avengers episodes (or maybe Alias) and Bond films.

2 undercover DJs will spin top secret tunes from spy films (Bond music rules!) and of a spy theme. Come dressed as your favorite agents, Bond girls, over the top villains, and you can win $500L for best costume.

Schedule/MIssion:
6-8pm SLT: Koi Madzuko
8-10pm SLT: Wiseblood Wisent

Parachute into our party! After all, you only live twice! SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Terre%20Des%20Mortes/98/99/40

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

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

Too much new music to write seperate articles, here are my latest discoveries.

Every so often I find a tap into the primal flow of music and discover so many bands it's like a rennaisance. Now is one of those times and these are the best acts I've discovered this year. They may not be new bands but they are new to me.

1. Geographer

A 3 piece outfit, this band blew me away with their track "Kites" on Animal Shapes. Geographer is what you would get if M83 and Beirut had mad monkey sex, and produced an offspring that has more talent than either. This album has been around since 2010 and received almost no press, to add insult to injury they have several other full length albums which have also been overlooked by the music press. I will spare you colorful euphemisms for what my ears are telling me and leave you with this.

[youtube=http://youtu.be/gxUVNoiVdts]

2. Imagine Dragons

Dubstep basslines in an indie song? Le gasp. Yet I defy you to deny rocking out to their song Radioactive. It's crafted for radio play yet is under the radar, the band has a few youtube videos up to show you who they are, and who they are is weird people. Case in point, view the video to Radioactive below. When I heard this song I imagined a video of a couple teenagers about to have their first kiss in somebodies basement when the windows suddenly get blown out, they run outside to see mushroom clouds on the horizon and suddenly an urban war breaks out all around them and hand in hand they run to the countryside to escape it. Instead we get this oddity. At first I was like "They take themselves a little too seriously, and stop interrupting the song!" and then I was like "Wait" and finally "What?" They definitely don't take themselves too seriously. (Bonus points for white Lou Diamond Phillips)

[youtube=http://youtu.be/ktvTqknDobU]

3. Blood Orange - Champagne Coast

Finding this band, a pseudonym of mr Dev Hynes, is a bit like discovering Prince just before he exploded onto the charts and became a household name. I don't just say this because of his remarkably similar voice, but because of the laid back, one man band, approach and style of the music. You will have to listen to the song to under stand what I'm getting at. I see great things for mr Hynes.

[youtube=http://youtu.be/nO6y1-erVEw]

4. Villagers - Earthly Pleasures

Americana, Indie, beautiful, whimsical, this band reminds me a little of Tom Waits at least in their cantankerous and eccentric natures. I really enjoy the lyrics to this song, which is unusual because I usually listen to lyrics last, after several viewings. I think this song is genius and shows a unique voice in an increasingly crowded music scene. Enjoy.

[youtube=http://youtu.be/3QpXlcGNVz0]

5. Sir Sly - Ghost

I have begun to notice a trend in a lot of new bands towards using bits and pieces of the hardcore, electropop, and dubstep scenes and turning them into something different. Sir Sly manages to incorporate dubstep type bass warbles into a sound that is laid back with vocals as dry as paper. His voice reminds me at times of Wayne Coyne , tempered by the much smaller world of a young mind. I love how stripped back their sound is, there is a lot of air and they have a strong grasp of pacing and those little flourishes that separate an artful track from a demo.

[youtube=http://youtu.be/q1TbI44oRtE]

6. Mr. Little Jeans - The Suburbs

Yes, the same titled Arcade Fire album has been out long enough to inspire cover songs now. This is a deconstructed and more electronic interpretation of the song that evokes memories of Portishead, and early Bjork. I love the atmosphere it adds to the songs message and the images it puts in my head. This is almost a new song

[youtube=http://youtu.be/eFKYHVfD2Zw]

Soundproof's Closing Party/Wrecking Ball this Sunday!

Soundproof is closing on Sunday (Feb 10th) and it will be going out with a bang so loud ARs will be filed to LL. Clothing optional. Obnoxious particle light shows and guns that shoot stupid things allowed. There will be sharks with frickin laser beams on their heads, shrooms to bounce on, monkeys and mayhem. Babylonian Gods of Chaos will be summoned. 11 Djs and it goes to 11! Always dare to be different! Vive le underground!

Where: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bloom%20County/100/140/23

12pm Enthropy Panache
1pm Poppy (Celestine Neutron)
2pm Dammi Quan
3pm Mallory Cerise
4pm Frequency Picnic
5pm Dizzy (Delirium Sol)
6pm Marx Dudek
7pm Morgan Voltaire
8pm Julesette
9pm October Poe
10pm Paradox Messmer

See you there! On Sunday, Feb 10th.
Love and rockets, Dox, Soundproof's Big Giant Head.

About Soundproof, seeking DJs

At Soundproof we endeavor to keep it eclectic, weird, wild, and mix lots of old school, classic alternative along with current, contemporary bands. The focus at Soundproof isn't on the indie hits, the popular bands and songs topping Pitchfork lists and charts or other popular blogs and publications. There's a shift here away from dancey indiepop.

Our motto is dare to be different and make it truly alternative or indie in the sense of indie label bands going back as far as indie started, right up to current day. A history of indie and alternative (including punk, postpunk, new wave, garage rock, alt-folk, goth, psychedelic and much more) of all kinds is what I hope people can find in the sets here. Creativity with sets is strongly encouraged. The only real requirement for playing at Soundproof though is having a real passion and love for alternative music. It's about DJing for the music, not the crowds and tips.

No cliques, no elitism. Uniting the freaks, the outsiders, the music nerds under one roof, to be silly as shit and party on. Wanna DJ here? Contact Paradox Messmer.  All friendly people are welcome. As of now, there are DJs on Tuesdays and Fridays. We are also featured in the Destination Guide! SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bloom%20County/100/140/23

Monastery of Sound

There's a new indie club, and this was the poster for the opening yesterday: