Bonus points if there’s a funk tune in your head after reading this post’s title.
The Underground is where my office’s holiday party will take place. It’s the latest, most hippest club in the country… or maybe not.
It’s where Shia LaBeouf partied (and got a little tipsy) before getting arrested at Walgreens – oh, but wait, the case was tossed out yesterday because Walgreens “lost interest” in pursuing it. [America hasn’t lost interest in Shia, though. We’ll see him in the 2008 Indiana Jones installment, Eagle Eye with Rosario Dawson, and Transformers: The Game. I’d like to add that I knew it! After seeing a few episodes of Nickelodeon’s Even Stevens back in 2003, I had a strong feeling that the charismatic kid would go far in Hollywood.]
Back to the issue at hand.
For our holiday party at The Underground, the dress code is “club attire“.
Directly afterwards, the release party for Duran Duran’s Red Carpet Massacre will be held at the same venue. Doors for that party open at the same time our party is supposed to end.
• Are me and my coworkers hip enough to be allowed to stay for the Duran Duran party?
• A better question: If we are allowed to stay, will we be the youngest ones there?
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Neo-Retro: Consider it "coined"
I’ve been thinking about this term for so many months, wanting desperately to coin it. (I don’t even know what the process behind “coining” is, but blogging should do the trick in our modern times.)
Neo-Retro: a genre of music originating in the mid-2000s, consisting of new musical material created by young bands and artists of the time. The genre is characterized by utilization of the playing/singing techniques, orchestration/arrangement approaches or production methods from the 60s, 70s, or 80s. The result is new music that has an “old” or nostalgic sound. It should be noted that the bands and artists creating the trend most successfully arrive at the sound authentically, with no sense of irony.
Examples (listed w/the decade they sound like): The Rosewood Thieves (60s); The Mood Elevator (60s); A Band of Bees (60s, 70s); Jamie Lidell (60s, 70s, 80s); Little Barrie (60s, 70s); Kudu (80s); VHS or Beta (80s); Cut Copy (80s)
In case you were wondering, I love this sound.
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