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HELL YEAH 2!! - A Rock & Roll Dance Party

Peter Johns and Chris Strouth present HELL YEAH 2!! - A Rock & Roll Dance Party ft. DJ Mary Lucia with DJ Shane Kramer (of Transmission), DJ Johnnie Johnson and Monica LaPlante HELL YEAH! A Rock & Roll Dance Party (03 May 2024) Previously Friday May 3, 2024 Turf Club Peter Johns & Container Arts presents HELL YEAH! A Rock & Roll Dance Party ft. DJ Mary Lucia with DJ ESP Woody McBride and DJ Johnnie Johnson Read More Monica LaPlante Local musician Monica LaPlante opened up the show, fifteen minutes fashionably late. The band was in the Halloween spirit, dressing up as a reverse Robert Palmer and his voluptuous band. ... The Current Local radio station The Current is celebrating their 20th Anniversary on air. They’re asking to celebrate with them with Frank Black (singer and songwriter of The Pixies) to celebrate his 30th Anniversary of . .... Radio K This is the fourth, and final, Radio K’s Short Circuit Residency show at the 7th Street Entry. The kickoff event is this January 9th. The radio station wrote: Happy New Year from your friends at Radio K!! …

      In May 2024, there was “Hell Yeah - A Rock & Roll Dance Party”, featuring a group of local DJ’s at the Turf Club. Here in the depths of winter in January 2025, was Part 2 (also at Turf), this time with a band interspersed between the DJ sets. It was a clever physical arrangement, as the DJ “booth” (a table, really), was set up in the middle of the venue, which made the transitions between DJ and band an easy one. Though a schedule was printed, it was blown from the start. That didn’t seem to matter too much to anyone, as it was a happy set of performers and audience, who mostly seemed to know one another. The DJs slowly got going, but before they got too far, Monica Laplante and band took the stage.

     Laplante has been a staple of the local music scene since the release of her first album, Noir, in 2016. Like many artists, she had a major creative burst during the pandemic, releasing the aptly named Quarantine in 2020. As they took the stage for the first of their three sets, the quartet was raring to go. They rocked through their four songs, with the last one, Friday, a particular banger. This was high energy rock & roll.

     Mary Lucia was the next DJ to take over. Lucia is well known to Twin Cities music fans, particularly for her presence on the radio. She started at Rev 105, spent many years at The Current, and is currently program advisor at Radio K, as well as hosting the Thursday afternoon 3-5 session.

     DJ Lucia took over the booth, starting with a version of Fantastic Voyage. She spent as much time looking at the photos on the Turf wall and interacting or dancing with audience members as she did DJ’ing, as she had a well prepared set ready long before this evening arrived. She transitioned into What You Need INXS, and as she moved the set along, you could see the radio jockey’s professionalism; seamless transitions, songs you know or songs you ought to know, and a great danceable beat underneath l. Moving from Spoon’s I Turn My Camera On to a later set entry of Jesse’s Girl, kept the audience dancing the entire time.

     Laplante and band were back on stage, playing a quick three songs, before handing it back off to the DJs. I had the opportunity to talk with Laplante between the band’s second and third set downstairs in the Clown Lounge. When I asked her thoughts on the arrangement of shifting between DJs and her band, she said they had been intrigued and excited to do something a bit different. Laplante said it was weird in a positive way, but that she had made herself a little nervous (32 ounces of coffee that evening!), and felt a little like being in a middle school play. The band has felt like they have played a lot of shows in the last few years that it was time to focus on the next steps. But this opportunity was too interesting and unique to pass up.

     Laplante mentioned there will be a new album coming out, but that they are currently in the trenches with it. You could see the excitement on her face as she talked about the creative process, discussing that the overarching theme of the album is still working its way to the top. There’s an energy that Laplante has as she talked about the band and the music, and it carries through in the on stage performance as well.

     Back upstairs, another DJ was finishing up and then Laplante was back on stage for their third and final set. All in all, they played about ten songs across the evening and handed it off to DJ Shane Kramer to finish off the evening. And it certainly was winding down, as many audience members were starting to head out into the bitter chill. All in all, it was a successful evening of music and cheer as we start 2025.

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Monica LaPlante at Turf Club (03 Jan 2025)

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W♥M231: Santa in the Ghetto

W♥M231: Santa in the Ghetto (54 mins) Read More Run-DMC It St. Patrick's Day tomorrow, and in the spirit of the season I'm posting up this mash up of Run-DMC's It's Tricky and The Dubliner's Whiskey in the Jar. The Pogues's version is involved also, as MacGowan's slurring gets a feature. .…

The Christmas episode with Cristina and Vu.

Christmas 2014:

Band Aid 30 recorded the new 2014 version of "Do They Know It's Christmas" to fight Ebola.

The Godfather of Soul, James Brown's "Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto" from the holiday album A Soulful Christmas (1968).

They Might Be Giants' "Santa's Beard", a song about a cheating wife with Santa Clause from Lincoln (1988), but later collected on EP Holidayland in 2001.

Run D.M.C.'s "Christmas in Hollis" single from the compilation album A Very Special Christmas (1987)

The samples from "Christmas in Hollis" was taken from Clarence Carter's "Back Door Santa", the song was taken from the compilation album Soul Christmas (1968).

BONUS:

She Wants Revenge is a darkwave band.

Placebo's Brian Molko got compared to Suede's Richard Oaks.

Cristina's new favorite band is Turkey's She Past Away (should that be 'she passed away'?). The band's only album is 2012's Belirdi Gece.

Much Music, MTV, Palladia, telephone services.

Vu has seen the Selena (1997) movie.

Cristina has seen the INXS Never Tear Us Apart: The Untold Story of INXS 2014 movie.

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W♥M230: Best of 2014 Albums (20 December 2014) Vu + Emily W♥M229: Hating You For Christmas (15 December 2014) Vu + Emily W♥M228: Christmas Will Be Magic (08 December 2014) Vu + John W♥M227: Reissues Reissues Reissues (25 November 2014) Vu + Emily W♥M226: Riot Grrrls 2014 (23 November 2014) Vu + Emily W♥M225: Party Line (16 November 2014) Vu + Sally

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Donnie Darko

Videos [2001] Donnie Darko [2004] Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut [2006] Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut (Boxset) Soundtrack [2002] Donnie Darko (Score) [2004] Donnie Darko Soundtrack & Score [2004] Mad World Single Trivia The trailer for the game "Gears of War" uses Gary Jules and Michael Andrews's version of "Mad World". Although both game and song are great by itself, putting them together was uncalled for.

Gary Jules & Michael Andrews - Mad World Michael Andrews Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon Echo & the Bunnymen

The first time I saw Donnie Darko, it blew me away. I absolutely loved the movie, especially the 80s soundtrack. The best song on the soundtrack, has got to be "Mad World" by Gary Jules.

Now, the first time I heard it, I didn't even know it was a cover of a Tears for Fears! The Jules song is completely stripped down and different than the 'Fears version, although I believe much of the credit is due to Michael Andrews who provided much of the haunting score for the film.

Since the film wasn't so successful on its first launch in 2001, the score soundtrack wasn't available until 2002 (due to demands from the growing cult fans of the film). The entire soundtrack was orchestra, except for the "Mad World" featuring Gary Jules on vocals.

In 2004, coinciding with the re-release of the film as a "Director's Cut", the soundtrack was re-issued with a 2-disc set. The first disc includes all the 80s pop songs featured in the film, while the second disc is the original 2002 score. Unfortunately, I believe the new soundtrack was only released in the UK.

Since I bought bought both DVDs (original cut and Director's Cut), I have to say that I prefer the original much better than the Director's version. Although there is an additional 20-30 minutes in the new version, I honestly didn't need those extra details. Part of what made the movie really fascinating to me was that I started making up things (filling in the gaps with my imagination) in the missing parts. I didn't need to see the time-travel or explanations.

I guess I have a real appreciate for the film editors, Sam Bauer & Eric Strand, who did an amazing job putting the film together and getting rid of the unnecessary parts - but still made it a watchable film.

My biggest complaint was the opening bicycling riding sequence which dropped the original "The Killing Moon" by Echo and the Bunnymen, in favor of INXS's "Never Tear Us Apart" song.

See for yourself and let me know which one you prefer:

Donnie Darko - The Killing Moon (Echo and the Bunnymen)

Donnie Darko - Never Tear us Apart (INXS)

I understand that INXS was originally intended for this scene (probably due to copyright issues, it was dropped for Echo and the Bunnymen). Well this caused some problems because suddenly the scene with the wonderful Church's song, "Under the Milky Way", is now replaced with "The Killing Moon" in the Director's cut.

Although these are just little gripes that I have, both version of the film is still worth checking out.

If you're thinking of buying the DVD, I do suggest picking up the Director's Cut DVD because it comes with a bonus DVD with special features. For collectors, there is an oversized Tin Box (with Frank on the cover) covering the Director's Cut and a bonus Frank the Bunny pewter necklace.

Tip: I used DVDFab to import chapter 1 of both DVDs into an AVI file. Then I used the free Windows Movie Maker to edit the chapter to just the section I wanted to talk about. I love DVDFab, and about last year, they added a feature to let you import movies into iPod and PSP. You can try out the full software for 30 days to see if it works for you.

 11/25/2007 00:02:30  vu my♥posts www.donniedarkofilm.com

05 Manipulated Living

Mark wrote: Nov 25, 2007 3:22 PM

My favorite song on the soundtrack is "Manipulated Living", which has that real machine-like sound. It makes me think of Bjork, Tricky, the soundtrack to Dark City, and Marilyn Manson all at the same time.