Hey there,
Just wanted to give a "shout-out" to all the indie fans on this board that are into obscure post-punk, shoegaze and weird electronic stuff. My friend Brandon & I will be spinning tonight at the Marx Cafe (3203 Mt. Pleasant St NW Washington DC) for another round of our "We Fought the Big One" event. No Cover but you must be 21. We'll be spinning from 10pm till 3am. If you haven't been to Marx before, it's a cool little place in Mt. Pleasant, kinda behind Adams Morgan.
I realize there are a shitload of other alternative music events in the city, but a lot of them play a predictable selection of songs music fans have heard thousands of times before. We just wanted to offer an alternative to that, hopefully even turning some people onto new bands. Here's what we played last month...
10:30 - 11:30 Rick
Auburn Lull - "Stockard Drive"
Slowdive - "Celia's Dream"
The Cure - "A Chain of Flowers"
Cocteau Twins - "Spooning Good Singing Gum"
Lush - "Thoughtforms" (Robin Guthrie mix)
Moose - "Won't Look for Love"
Felt - "Something Sends Me to Sleep"
Josef K - "Fun N' Frenzy"
The Wedding Present - "Shatner"
Close Lobsters - "Just Too Bloody Stupid"
House of Love - "Salome"
Joy Division - "Interzone"
Section 25 - "Friendly Fires"
Dykehouse - "Signal Crossing"
Radio Dept. - "Why Won't You Talk About It?"
Singapore Sling - "Nuthin' Ain't Bad"
Secret Shine - "Temporal"
My Bloody Valentine - "Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside)"
11:30 - 12:30 Brandon
Rhythm of Life - "Uncle Sam"
The Go-Betweens - "I Need Two Heads"
23 Skidoo - "Another Baby's Face"
The Homosexuals - "You're Not Moving the Way You're Supposed To (Part 1)"
Drowning Craze - "Storage Case"
400 Blows - "Return of the Dog"
Biting Tongues - "Compressor"
Marine - "Life in Reverse"
Simple Minds - "Premonition"
Steve Diggle - "50 Years"
Cabaret Voltaire - "Nag Nag Nag"
Essential Logic - "Quality Crayon Wax O.K."
John Cooper Clark - "Suspended Sentence"
U2 - "Touch"
Swell Maps - "Let's Build A Car"
Bleach - "Bethesda"
12:30 - 1:30 Rick
The Organ - "Brother"
The Siddeleys - "My Favorite Wet Wednesday Afternoon"
The Chills - "Singing in My Sleep"
The Go-Betweens - "Streets of Your Town"
The Field Mice - "Sensitive"
The Wake - "The Drill"
Breathless - "I Never Know Where You Are"
Kitchens of Distinction - "Margaret's Injection"
Sad Lovers & Giants - "Man of Straw"
Echo & the Bunnymen - "The Puppet"
The Chameleons U.K. - "Don't Fall"
Astral - "Barreling"
The Opposition - "Paddy Fields"
Wire - "On Returning"
Modern English - "Gathering Dust"
1:30 - 2:30 Brandon
The Modernist - "Protest Song"
Malaria! - "Your Turn to Run"
Shiney Two Shiney - "Waiting for Us"
Depeche Mode - "Photographic"(demo)
A Popular History of Signs - "Justice Not Vengance"
Rheingold - "Fan Fan Fanatic"
Blitz - "Solar"
Metrotone - "Kiss Me Awake"
The Stranglers - "Nice and Sleazy"
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - "Happy"
Selecter - "Celebrate the Bullet"
Jeff & Jane Howard - "Small World"
Tuxedomoon - "No Tears"
The Fall - "Cyber Insekt"
Members - "Offshore Banking Business"
Savage Republic - "Film Noir"
2:30 - 3:00 Rick vs. Brandon
Disco Inferno - "It's a Kid's World" (Rick)
Medium Medium - "Hungry So Angry" (Brandon)
TV on the Radio - "Staring at the Sun" (Rick)
Antena - "The Boy from Ipanema" (Brandon)
The Curtain Society - "Swamp Thing" (Rick)
The Names - "In Other Rooms" (Brandon)
Stockholm Monsters - "Life's Two Faces" (Rick)