The last song at Underground last night was “Favourite” by Fontaines D.C. and, when I saw people singing along, I thought finally. Romance has been out for over a year now. It was my favorite album of 2024. It was a lot of people’s favorite album of last year. Both Larry and I have been playing multiple tracks off the album since it came out, and we were both playing Fontaines D.C. before Romance, but it wasn’t until this past summer that I really started to see the band hit with the indie club crowd here in L.A. Back in the pre-algorithm days, that would have been really unusual, but now it’s kind of normal. A band can meet all the metrics by which it would be considered successful, like award nominations and sold-out shows, and people still don’t know who they are because their “personalized” feeds are really just regurgitating nostalgia content based on basic demographic info and passive likes, served with a dollop of hot takes on Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter to make you feel like you know what’s happening in the world.
What I’m saying is that the internet is making us sad and uncool, so go out to a real club and dance to the music that real people put together into sets that would baffle Spotify. Dance to the new stuff. If you don’t know it this week, you’ll know it next week.
Anyhow, here’s last night’s set list, which includes new music The New Eves, Gorillaz (with Sparks), Alice Glass and more, plus a few oldies that I haven’t played in a really long time, like “Cupid Boy” from Kylie Minogue’s best album, the Scissor Sisters/Mylo mashup and probably some other tunes. All 2025 releases are in bold and link back to other references here on the blog.
Oh, before we get to the set list, be sure to pick up tickets for Halloween at Club Underground. Both floors of Grand Star Jazz Club will be open on Friday, October 31, and there will be a costume contest.
Depeche Mode – Lilian
Chromatics – Closer to Grey
Broadcast – America’s Boy
Pulp – Razzmatazz
Wet Leg – Ur Mum
Le Tigre – Hot Topic
ESG – Dance
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Christine
Gang of Four – Damaged Goods
Franz Ferdinand – Michael
The Strokes – The End Has No End
Iggy Pop – The Passenger
Gorillaz, Sparks – The Happy Dictator
New Order – Love Vigilantes
Interpol – Obstacle 1
Depeche Mode – Strangelove (request)
The Horrors – Something to Remember Me By
Hercules & Love Affair – Blind
Boy Harsher – Machina
Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
Yaz – Don’t Go
Ladytron – Playgirl
CSS – Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death from Above
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Happy House (request)
The Smiths – Boy with the Thorn in His Side
Hot Chip- Ready for the Floor
Phoenix – 1901
Daft Punk- Around the World
Scissor Sisters/Mylo – Drop the Numb
Rapture- House of Jealous Lovers
Le Tigre – Deceptacon
Wet Leg – Chaise Longue
Tones on Tail – Go
Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
Postal Service – Such Great Heights
Future Islands – For Sure
New Order – Blue Monday
LCD Soundsystem – Daft Punk Is Playing at My House
The Killers – Mr. Brightside
Depeche Mode – But Not Tonight (request)
The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again
Blur – Girls and Boys
DJ Spiller, Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Groovejet
Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get Blue Monday Out of My Head
Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams
Purple Disco Machine, Kano – It’s a War
Daft Punk – Technologic
Justice, Simian – We Are Your Friends
Peaches – Fuck the Pain Away
Nine Inch Nails – Closer
Fontaines D.C. – Starburster
Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
Chumbawamba – Tubthumping
Daft Punk – Da Funk
New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle
Kylie Minogue – Cupid Boy (request)
Robyn. – Dancing on My Own
Pulp – Common People
The Cure – Just Like Heaven
The Smiths – There Is a Light
Soft Cell – Tainted Love
Human League – Sound of the Crowd
Alice Glass – Catch and Release
Sextile – Women Respond to Bass
Kittin and the Hacker – Frank Sinatra
Interpol – PDA (request)
Q Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses
Gorillaz – On Melancholy Hill
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