Welcome to home slice, the residence of all things nice and soon to be your favourite go-to place on the web for the social low-down!

We’ve spent quality drinking time siftin’ through the common cheese, boiling it down into one easy to use package containing only the cream of the month’s upcoming skulduggery.

the short shorts party

Ya Mutha looseness returns with help from the Pimp my t-shirt rooftop party throwers. Short shorts are a must, shorter the better.

All your favourite DJ’s Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak, Sidestep, Jumbo, Kitto, Benny, Junk Yard Dogg, Hands Solo & Kane.

When: Saturday 16th February, 9pm
Where: Rhino Room, Frome rd, city

ValueKing

So you like hip hop, you like Michael Jackson and you’re down with OPP? Well you're gonna dig the latest concept store/gallery to hit the West End. Staying true to the name valueking has damn fresh limited run Tee’s from 50 bucks and Jumpers from 80.

So if you don’t wanna look like every other crank, go check them out.

Where: 83A Hindley st, off clubhouse lane.

Roller derby girls

Full contact all Girl Roller Derby is what its all about.. sporting quad roller skates, the girls battle it out on an oval shaped rink. Teams score points by slapping down, bumpin' and lapping their opposing lady girls.

Sound good? Then check this.. Skate Of Origin 2008 - Australia's first ever interstate roller derby bout.. come support a-delaide's bitch slappin' roller girls.. and catch all the blood on the flat-track.

Where: Jubilee Pavilion, Adelaide Showgrounds

When: Sunday February 24th, doors (and bar) open at 3pm

Less Cool, More Crazy
words by dan.

I follow the music around, or should I say the music follows me. Delving deeply into the art form I find the ultimate release, finding a track or a song that seems to summarise my entire life to this point, or in that moment changes the way I view where I find myself. Kind of like the way a kick ass Adelaide sunset lights up the city streets and the hills, and everything seems to bask in its own glow. It isn’t London or New York, but in that moment it is just right. Satisfaction.

It’s those moments I long for, they are rare. It’s like the cycle of an addiction, sifting through shit to reach that elusive high or pure clarity. And there is a lot of shit.

So this is a call to who will be the new Avant-garde. We know Adelaide needs it. Imagine a world where retro indie never existed, and The Mars Volta were back on some other planet smoking crack where they belong.

Think the insane Powerpop of New Zealand’s The Mint Chicks (let’s face it at the moment that country is coming out with some good stuff) or mysterious Adelaide nerd-core rap posse ‘Robots Kill Children’ who put their gig posters up on their Myspace after they have played the show.

So pull out your toy tazer guns, sample some obscure shit, find an old organ or a glockenspiel, sing through a megaphone to the point of complete distortion and annoyance and most importantly, lose your ‘cool’.

Vampire Weekend
(XL Recordings)

What do you get when you cross Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon and The Strokes? If your answer is a lo-fi mix of sparse African Kwassa kwassa drumming, perfectly clean and jangly guitar riffs, and cheesy piano and organ then you are right.

You get extra mayonnaise if you said the debut album from Vampire Weekend. The latest hype indie band from NYC via the internet blogosphere; rising to prominence in the indie scene through an African music blog and riding on seriously catchy melodies.

“Is your bed made? / Is your sweater on? / Do you want to fuck* / Like you know I do” is the brilliant line on Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa which should prove to be the soundtrack to indie kid missionary positions throughout the scene. Peter Gabriel never made tunes this sexy.

* disclaimer: In the first chorus Ezra sings “Do you want to fuck?”, subsequent choruses it is “Do you wantaaa?”, in a possible cheeky attempt to circumvent censors. Genius.