Saturday's Set List

It was a good one. I gotta say. Woooooo lord, what a good night. Thank you to the hordes of whores and bitches (we say that lovingly) who made it out on Saturday. It was a blast! Thanks for celebrating the Salem Bitch Trials with us!

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Romantic Rights (Jesper Dahlback remix) - Death From Above 1979

In For The Kill (Le Castle Vania remix) - La Roux

Somebody Told Me (Josh Harris remix) - The Killers

Dog Days Are Over (MAJR edit) - Florence + The Machine

Hands (Retro/Grade remix) - The Ting Tings

Back Up In This - Designer Drugs

Don't You Want Me (Computer Club remix) - Human League

Heavy Cross (Fred Falke remix) - The Gossip

Indestructible (A-Trak remix) - Robyn

My People - The Presets

All The Lovers (WAWA & MMB remix) - Kylie Minogue

Take It Off (DJ Kue remix) - Kesha

Restless (Fake Blood remix) - UNKLE

Dancing On My Own / Get Myself Together - Robyn

Fire In Your New Shoes (MAJR mashmix) - Kaskade ft. Dragonette

4th of July - Kelis

Dynamite (Mixin Marc remix) - Taio Cruz

I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs

Untouched - The Veronicas

Our Summer - Dragonette

Gold Digger - Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx

Creep - TLC

My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It) - En Vogue

Teeth - Lady Gaga

Closer - Nine Inch Nails

The Sign - Ace Of Base

Ghetto Superstar - Mya ft. Pras & O.D.B.

New In Town - Little Boots

No You Girls - Franz Ferdinand

Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet

Fembot - Robyn

Waiting For Bulletproof Love - Gwen vs. Kylie vs. La Roux

Clap Your Hands (Fred Falke remix) - Sia

Any Which Way (Keljet remix) - Scissor Sisters

Hash Pipe - Weezer

Hot N Fun (Boys Noize remix) - N.E.R.D.

Je Veux Te Voir (Club-Club remix) - Yelle

Remedy (Buffetlibre vs. Sidechains remix) - Little Boots

Time Machine - Robyn

Just Like Heaven - The Cure

Take On Me (The Twelves remix) - A-Ha

Konichiwa Bitches - Robyn

All My Friends (Franz Ferdinand version) - LCD Soundsystem

3 tracks - for which i'm thankful

I'm not a big Thanksgiving person. Perhaps, if nothing else, because a lack of tradition has been the norm in my life on such a traditional holiday. That, and I hate feeling like a fatass after overeating and extended family gatherings make me want to drown myself in an olympic pool full of green bean casserole. Maybe I'm bitter, maybe I'm completely joking, ...who cares? Anyway, as I ate my breakfast pupusa today from Pollo McHairyUpperLip's in Adams Morgan, I was thinking about for what I am actually thankful. The first thing that popped into my head (after soy milk, of course) was that I am thankful for the bittersweet moments in life where we realize that no one's perfect, we all fuck up, and the day constantly starts anew. Here are three songs that celebrate that and make me happy to be alive, even if sometimes the contents of my living appear to be complete shit. Now, run with me through rows of speeding cars, dream on, and remember if you don't have a date, celebrate; go out and sit on the lawn and do nothing. 'Cause it's just what you must do, and nobody does it anymore.

Speeding Cars - Imogen Heap

Waltz (Better Than Fine) - Fiona Apple

Dream On - Robyn

new Kylie, Robyn, Rihanna

Time for another pop vomit afternoon! Hooray! OK, so I do love Kylie and Robyn, and I lovingly tolerate Rihanna. I'm excited to share these tracks with you guys, as they have been populating my playlists lately. [Apologies ahead of time for not having a downloadable A-Trak remix of Robyn, but they seem to have a hammerlock on that.] The Kylie remix is brand spankin' new and by Monarchy, the artists formerly known as Milke +1. It's a little boring, but mixable, and I'll play with it and make it work. The Robyn remix is pretty fantastic, I gotta say, and the Rihanna track is my favorite off her brand new album Loud (released last week). I'm sure I will hate this song in no time, but for now it's a hell of a ballad.

Indestructible (A-Trak radio edit) by Robyn

Better Than Today (Monarchy remix) - Kylie Minogue

California King Bed - Rihanna

remix monday: time to get nasty

So, here's a nice flashback to a few years ago... I love this remix of Death From Above 1979, and I think you should too. If you're a fan of hard, nasty electro-dance that makes you want to jump around like a lunatic, this is for you! Hooray!

Romantic Rights (Jesper Dahlback remix) - Death From Above 1979

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Yelle favorites... for TOMORROW!

Maison @ Napoleon

Tomorrow (Thursday Nov 18)

9:00 pm - 2:00 am

$4 Beers All Night

$5 Champagne until 11!

I'm co-DJing a French music night called Maison tomorrow at Napoleon in Adams Morgan, here in DC. For you locals, it's on Columbia just south of 18th/Columbia intersection. Some highlights include a night dedicated to Yelle, who is one of the best electropop artists in France, a celebration of the new Beaujolais Nouveau, and a great DJ trade-off of me and DJ TMY! It should be a hoot. To get you ready, here are my two favorite remixes/tracks from Yelle! (click the down arrow to download)

Je Veux Te Voir (Club-Club Version) - Yelle

Ce Jeu (The Twelves Remix) - Yelle

remix monday: chewy coco

I discovered this Chew Fu remix of I Blame Coco a few weeks ago, and it has slowly grown on me to the extent that I find it worth sharing. Like a non-communicable fungus, this song has a nice organic feel to it, lyrically and musically, and has really stuck with me today. It was just what I needed when I woke up this morning. I'm exhausted, and it was downtempo yet upbeat enough to get me moving. Enjoy!

Self Machine (Chew Fu remix) - I Blame Coco

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SIREN - TONIGHT!

Our November edition of SIREN is sure to be one for the ages... haha. Well, the fake ages. Fages, if you will. SIREN: Fall Fauxliage - A Celebration of Fake is an event that will not only have great music, but will have cheap drinks and a fantastic performance at 1:00am. Do it!

$3 Vodka until 12

Burlesque Backroom (ALL-Xtina & Cher all night!)

3 tracks: THE LAST 3 ROBYN SONGS!

Thanks to my friend Yusef (LOVE YOU!), I have acquired the last 3 tracks (granted I'm not crazy about the quality... but I'll deal) from the final Robyn album of 2010. God I love this woman. I won't say much about it review-wise yet... let's just appreciate how revolutionary it is for an artist to do what she's done this year. The best piece of pop work in years. From the fantastic Fembot and Dancing On My Own from part 1, to Hang With Me and Criminal Intent in part 2, and finally to the final installment... Fucking wow.

I just can't wait until the album pops next week and I can acquire the HQ tracks. Excited.

Call Your Girlfriend - Robyn

Get Myself Together - Robyn

Stars 4-Ever - Robyn

more NEW Robyn - time machine

Oh yes. NEW Robyn. Thanks to my lovely scout, Wess, I received this track moments ago. Now, dive into Robyn at her most pop. This is catchy without being vapid, and that's one of the many talents of Robyn that make me love her.

Time Machine - Robyn

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essentials: the strokes

You know whose sound can suck my sack? Well their name rhymes with Crampire Peekend and they're possibly the most overrated rock band on the planet. Whenever I hear them I can't help but think back to my days in college when "Is This It?" by The Strokes broke onto the college airwaves (circa August 2001) and created a big frenzy within the music/art kid community of which I was immersed. We would later go on to be called hipsters by popular media... a term I despise, honestly. Some of us took our piercings out, stopped dying our hair (or just shaved it off - haha), started eating meat again for the sake of balance... and mostly just stopped taking ourselves too seriously. I guess the latter is why we often look at the generation a mere 3 or 4 years after us and wonder why they're so terribly underwhelming and overstated. Alas, I withdraw...

Despite all that glorious stigma, a lot of us who were born in the early 1980's sucked up the amazing tunes of the early 2000's, and now look back fondly on some of the albums that came out during that time. One band still around 9+ years and three albums later is The Strokes. So, before you go idolizing into some Williamsburg-based, granola-eating, tattoo-aspiring, melodic vortex with a trust fund and a recording contract with the Twilight soundtrack, let's reflect on five FANTASTIC tracks from one of the bands that inspired them to make music. Here are my essential Strokes. Take a wack at'em!

Also, check out the amazing video (above) for Juicebox from 2006. Love. It. How often does an indie/completely hip rock band show a homosexual scene (in a non-mocking manner) at the height of its popularity? Plus the song really is pretty f*cking orgasmic.

In other nonsensical banter, I know this entry makes little sense, but follow what you can... I DO WHAT I WANT!

The Modern Age - The Strokes

Last Nite - The Strokes

What Ever Happened? - The Strokes

I Can't Win - The Strokes

Juicebox - The Strokes

my favorite LA ROUX remixes

To get you all ready for Wednesday's YEAR-LONG anticipated show, here are my favorite remixes of La Roux! Now, I know I can put down here the remixes that I have posted before of her two biggest hits, Bulletproof and In For The Kill... but these three are HONESTLY my favorites. So, deal.

No, don't deal, enjoy.. because these three are fucking great. Click the down arrow to download.

Colourless Colour (The Subs Popup remix) - La Roux

Quicksand (Beni's Sinking At 1.56 remix) - La Roux

I'm Not Your Toy (datA remix) - La Roux