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