Friday, April 27, 2007

Pink Spys vs Sol Soundsystem

DJ Chronus has a sweet blog goin on. Check it out!
http://www.djchronus.com/blog/

>>> Fri Apr 27
PINK @ Lo Fi
Brett Johnson, J-SUN, Karl K and Packy at Tost

Special Afterhours - see me for details!

>>> Sat Apr 28
Tune into C-89.5 for Scott Binder live 11-12p

Spy vs Spy @ Little Red Studio

NAHA, Jen Woolfe, DJ Venus, DANGER and Beat Hussy shakin the shack from dusk until dawn. Also featured, Psytrance, with Noisemaker, Beau, Sidious, Von Dewey and from PDX, Semblance.
8pm - 5am
1506 E Franklin in Eastlake

Kaskade and Uniting Souls @ LSC
with Sklobot on Sax!!

Scott Binder @ Contour Afterhours

>>> Sun Apr 29 - Adlib @ Tost for Sol Revival

>>> Wed May 2 - LCD Soundsystem @ Showbox

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

NEXT GIG: Sat Apr 28 @ Spy vs Spy

Spy Audio/Visual IV
Lady DJ Showdown

NAHA, Jen Woolfe, DJ Venus, DANGER and Beat Hussy shakin the shack from dusk until dawn. Also featured, Psytrance, with Noisemaker, Beau, Sidious, Von Dewey and from PDX, Semblance.

Performances by the Dubstep original Swervecrisis, house extraordinnaire DJ Sloth and electrolover Lovevirus.

Visual artistry by Poul A. Costinsky and Hadmatter.

Both the gallery and outdoor bar will be open, both studio clubs will be hoppin until 5am and the decks will be open with bonfires to chill by.


Hengst (Little Red) Studio
1506 Franklin Ave. E.
Seattle, WA 98102

Presale on Brown Paper Tix $8
Door $12
Afterhours $5

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

OseaO Show Archived

Check out Leschi Lounge's first OseaO show recorded last Wed.
http://www.oseao.com/show.php?id=38

Friday, April 20, 2007

Fry April 20

Fri Apr 20

Michael Manahan, Osiris, Michael Holden ~ Thrive @ Waids
Garth, J-SUN, Ramiro & Happy Hour w/ Manos @ SeeSound Lounge

Special Afterhours!!!
DJ Slobek, J-SUN, Kadeejah Streets, Packy & Special Guest!!
Electric Tea Garden @ OseaO Studios
1402 E Pike
1:30 - 6am

Sat Apr 21
Aunt Jamamas Big Band Vigilantes @ Egan's Ballard Jam House

Sun Apr 22
Seattle Poetry Grand Slam @ Chop Suey

Tue Apr 24
KJ Sawka @ War Room

Wed Apr 25
Soulwax & Too Many DJ's @ Chop Suey

Thursday, April 19, 2007

The Night the Music Died

SeattleNMA is sponsoring a city-wide awareness event called "The Night the Music Died". This is an effort to better educate patrons on the Mayor's proposed nightlife premises ordinance and to encourage them to get involved. You may have seen the full-page ads in the Stranger and the Weekly (thanks to both papers for providing the space for free) and today, the Seattle PI printed an article about the promotion - see it here! SNMA is expecting this to be a very successful opportunity to raise awareness about this important issue.

Participating venues will stop music and drink service for five minutes to highlight the dangers of the Mayor's proposed ordinance and encourage patrons to get involved by emailing or calling the Seattle City Council and voice concerns about the ordinance. The stoppages will occur at Midnight.

Get involved. Support SNMA.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

NEXT GIG: Wed Apr 18 @ Oseao.com

Tonight begins the NEW Leschi Lounge monthly LIVE internet radio show on Oseao.com.

Head down to the Oseao's Electric Tea Garden where you can watch me do the radio show LIVE!!
Or listen at home over the web at www.oseao.com.

Wed Apr 18 8-10p
on www.Oseao.com


Leschi Lounge began as a monthly after hours House Party devised by Jen Woolfe & Mel Sky to bring together the Burning Man, Queer & Underground House communities. This gesture has cascaded into a plethora of club and party nights that consistently blend the intimate house party vibe with the best of Seattle's local DJ and Live Electronic acts. Tune in 8p-10p the 3rd Wednesday of every month as Jen Woolfe continues to piece together that which connects us all, a love of electronic music. The show includes monthly guests from all corners of these three communities playing Progressive, Electro, Funky, Tech, Downtempo, Dub and Techno. Send us your thoughts at leschilounge @ gmail dot com.

About Oseao


Oseao's Electric Tea Garden is located next to the Artificial Limb in Capital Hill across from Chop Suey.

OseaO Internet Radio. Our main studio in Seattle and our ever growing satelite studios (presently in Brooklyn NY, LA LA land and San Francisco) help us search the planet for the very best in electronic underground music. From the artists that create the tracks to the DJ's that create the sets that create the playlists of the tracks we offer a high fidelity view of the ever changing front line of beat oriented audio. Not sure what dubstep sounds like or where it fits in the history of music? Our Genre section caters to the music Professor in you. For more in depth studies our affiliations with digital download services allow you to own the sounds that you find. Find it, Spin it, Crunch it, Share it. OseaO, the sea between the oceans of sound.

http://www.oseao.com

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Vegas, baby, Vegas - part I

After promoting & DJ'ing at Exposé on Thursday night, I headed home to pack my bags and close my eyes for a quick nap until Liz picked me up at 4am. But I can never sleep when I'm about to travel. There's something horrible and lovely about driving to the airport at 4 in the morning. The pain of exhaustion mixes with the excitement of a new adventure & the anxiety of flight. Shame the bar isn't open at 6am for Bloody's. Those always calm my nerves before take-off.

We arrived in Vegas at 9am and rented a van for the rest of our party (who had arrived the night before) to take a day trip to Zion . The weekend was a birthday celebration for Momo , 26. I had been hoping some friends would be up for a trip to Vegas because of a High School acquaintence that had I found on Myspace that happened to be a DJ at Jet Nightclub in the Mirage Hotel and Casino. We kept in touch and as soon as I had the opportunity, I told FunkyBadChad that I'd be in town. A graduate two years before me, I remember him very little and never spoke to him. He majored in drinking (according to his myspace). At that time, I had never even tasted a sip. Despite my band geek status, he was stoked for me to be in town and offered for me to spin with him during his residency set at Jet (voted recently as the best nightclub in Vegas and also visited recently by Leonardo DiCaprio according the the People Magazine I was reading on the airplane). I thankfully obliged.

As Liz and I rolled the van into the MGM Grand hotel where we stayed, the girls awaited our arrival with hugs and hangovers. Liz, a true Rockstar, accompanied the rest of the party to Zion, happy to sleep in the back of the van. I, however, decided to forgo the breathtaking scenery for the comforts of the hotel room. Nowhere else can you find the thick curtains that allow you to sleep the day away than in a hotel room, especially a Vegas hotel room. I had plans to visit the pools, but never left the luxurious hotel bed complete with 6 pillows and one long body cushion, only a slight representation of Be, who was probably arriving at her own adventure in Chicago at that very moment.

After everyone returned from their desert excursion and rested, we hit the casinos. Liz and I spotted a sushi restaurant in MGM Grand whose Rainbow rolls were de-fish-a-lish. We walked later to Bellagio to catch the water & light show (which of course we missed) but caught the amazing structures and artistic displays of the Bellagio otherwise. There we met up with Mel & Momo as well as a few of the Salt Lake Party Posse, Emily & Deuce. Emily and I watched Momo at the Roulette table, but after loosing $20 and then 7 hands of Black Jack in a row, I decided my luck was only to be found behind the decks, not in front of them. I retired to bed around 5am down $80, but a bunch of good times ahead.

The next day Liz and I found a nice breakfast cafe and then hit the pools. Yes, I say pools, plural, because there are 5 pools, 3 whirlpools a river and waterfalls amidst the complex's 'lush, tropical landscape'. This is why I love Vegas. Its so outrageous. One pool is a lazy river where you can rent innertubes for $16 a day and pretend you are floating downstream on the Yakima. Luckily, we were gifted some tubes from our neighbors and set out on the rafts to be drifted under fountains and in between splashing children. Strangely enough, I ran into a distant cousin that I see once a year at our family reunion (and who coincidentally happened to be Roseann's high school math teacher). This world is far too small.

That night we all met up in Mel & Momo's room to gather for the evening festivities. There we caught up with our other Seattle traveller, Mahogany and Night Queen, who brought all 4 of her recently single Salt Lake City girlfriends for a weekend of big city mahem.

Later that night, a few of us headed to the Grand Theatre to see Cirque Du Soleil's KA , the epic journey for which the entire theatre at the MGM Grand had been rebuilt. We were seated by characters, inhabitants of the village where the story takes place. I can't even explain how this production took my breath away. The scenes themselves were characters, the stage was dynamic and the heights that the actors went to in order to tell this story were incredible.

After being blown away by this bedazling performance, we had a mere 25 minutes to get across 'The Strip' to the Mirage and get into Jet before the guest list closed. While that seems like plenty of time to travel the length of about 2 miles, add such obstacles as two hundred people fresh from the production of KA standing in line for taxis, bumper to bumper traffic on the 8-lane highway itself, a monorail whose enterance can only be located through the jungles of Casinos built to keep you inside and thousands of tourists strolling the sidewalks with cameras in one hand and bottles of beer, cocktail glasses or bong-shaped margaritas in the other. In the end, the only way to get there in time was to run, weaving in and out of the crowds and cars. We made it at 12:08.

A little tip about clubbing in Vegas: It is SO not like Seattle. People actually go to clubs in Vegas. Thousands of people. So many people that you could stand in line for hours and not get in at all. There are three main ways to get into a Vegas club without waiting in line. First, find the short line. Next, you can 1) slip the door person some big bills to let your party in 2) buy table service, otherwise known as 'buying a bottle' (this is the recommended option) or 3) go to high school with the DJ. We chose #2 & #3 but pulled another $20 from the ATM just in case. 'Buying a bottle' means calling in a reservation earlier in the week to purchase a 5th of liquor for $400. To Seattle-ites that scoff at a $10 door fee and complain when there are no drink specials, $400 for a 5th of liquor seems like an outrageous amount of money. However, this includes mixers (not water or red bull -- be careful!), your own server, and -- this is the most important part -- a table. So, to recap: VIP entrance to big club in Vegas $35-$50, buying a bottle $400, having a place to sit down after dancing for 5-8 hours, priceless.

Before the show, we had met a few of our party for dinner at Dan Marino's Steakhouse in the Hooters Casino Hotel (why not?). But I have to admit, I could hardly eat because I was so nervous. Momo kept leaning over her ribs to laugh at me. She's seen me at many many shows and very rarely gets to enjoy how quiet I get when my stomach is all knotted up. 'Its good for you,' she said, giggling. I swallowed my lobster ravioli hard and tried to laugh, but it sounded more like a little choking squeek. But after a 25-minute run to the end of the strip, walking to the front of the line of a few hundred party goers to enter the intimate house room with 21 of my friends all dressed up in their club clothes and warm smiles, my nervousness drifted away, and I was excited for my first opportunity to play at one of the biggest clubs in the city where I was born -- Las Vegas.

stay tuned for part Deuce!

Monday, April 16, 2007

NEXT GIG: Tue Apr 17 @ Vibrator

Jen Woolfe, Luying & DJ Schlagre
and featuring the Tatoo Artist Yushi Takei @ The Eagle for Vibrator

The Eagle
314 E Pike St (Cross Street: Melrose Avenue)
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 621-7591

9pm-2am
No Cover. Yes Leather.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

An 18 and Over Club Night is Finally Here

After being unable for years, the 18+ crowd is invited into the Chop for Broken Disco on Friday.

Thu Apr 12
NovaTron, Ben Shelton, Danger @ Contour
Jacob London @ Nijo
Colin, Blu, Wasabi & Julia @ Mercury (+Afterhours!)

Fri Apr 13
Johnny Monsoon, Scott Keith, Chronus & more @ Little Red Studio
BT, Junkie XL, Eva, Jason LeMaitre & Johnny Fever @ Heavens

BROKEN DISCO @ Chop Suey!
idol stage – 18+
JOHN TEJADA, LUSINE, Jerry Abstract vs. Nordic Soul
Visuals by PIXELFLIP
cozy make-out room – 21+
KOI Vanessa Nova & Noriko Kaji, GREG SKIDMORE, M'CHATEAU, INTROCUT
afterhours – 18+
DJ RECESS, SONNY CHIBA

Sat Apr 14
Head to Portland for NovaTron @ the Fez and Spektrum @ Pi-Rem

Sun Apr 15
Bryian Gorr, DJ Kyler, LadyJane DJ & Austin Payne play Revival @ Level 5 (Formerly Element)
Zen Circus @ Buddha Bar

Tue Apr 17
Jen Woolfe @ The Eagle for Vibrator
DJ Fuel @ Trinity

Thursday, April 05, 2007

In Training

I've been travelling at least once a month since last June. Its fantastic, but it is wearing on me. Some of them are DJ related, some just great opportunities that I can't pass up. Its so great to have friends in different cities that I can call up for a spare couch, to show me around town, or throw me a dj bone. I've been blessed with Be as a travel buddy for most of them.

Lets map it:

2006
June-July: Europe. Berlin - Amsterdam - London - Milan - Cinque Terra Florence - Rome - Ischia - Mykonos - Ibiza (vacation of a lifetime)
Aug-Sept: Burning Man - Black Rock Desert, NV (dj gigs/spiritual growth)
Sept: 30 Miles outside Portland for Earthdance (dj)
Oct: Afterparty for Halloween in Boise, ID (dj)
Nov: Bambudda Lounge - San Francisco (dj)
Dec: Luftansia Holiday Party - Boston (dj) with a brief day in New York.

2007
Jan: Adlib's Bday Bash/Zoe's homecoming in Hawaii (vacation)
Feb: Urban Revival in Portland (dj)
Pi-Rem in Portland (dj)
1 additional weekend in Portland for a 'Romantic Getaway' thanks to Flexcar's member's benefits. (relationship growth)
Mar: Whistler (vacation)
Apr: Jet Nightclub at Mirage Casino in Vegas (dj)
Quincy's in Grand Junction, CO (dj)
May: Perhaps Vancouver. Perhaps not.
June: Esthetic Evolution, Twin Falls ID (dj)
July: Sun Lakes - Eastern Washington (family reunion)
Aug-Sept: Burning Man (dj/spiritual growth)

Sometimes I think the Universe has me 'in training'.

NEXT GIGs: Rebar - Seattle & Jet - Las Vegas

Thur April 5th @ Rebar

DJ Kyler (Sugar/C-89.5)
Wasabi (Cherry)
DJ Fuel (http://www.myspace.com/djfuelusa)
Jen Woolfe (Leschi Lounge)

live performances by Retro Vivas & Rough Riders
live art by Night Queen

$5
1114 Howell St.

Sat April 7 @ Jet in Las Vegas!

FunkyBadChad (JET)
Jen Woolfe (Seattle/Dreemworld)

JET Nightclub
Mirage Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, NV