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5 stories and growing

A microphone surrounded by music discovery, event planning, and shareable song book interface elements

DJWS Is Becoming a Music Planning System

DJWS has grown from theme lists into a searchable music planning system with hosted song books, shareable event pages, artist discovery, and tools built for...

  • DJWS
  • Event Planning
  • Hosted Song Books
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Building a Karaoke Database for Alison “MetalBabe” Cohen’s 29 Again Party

For Alison “MetalBabe” Cohen’s 29 Again party, DJ Wonder Sean is expanding the karaoke and themes database. The documented project now covers at least 70...

  • 29 Again
  • Alison MetalBabe Cohen
  • DJ Wonder Sean
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Rock stage where citrus drums, a pizza guitar, and pepper bass create a playful food-themed band

Bands with Food in their Names

Build a karaoke round around artists whose names sound good enough to eat, with food-themed band names that make discovery playful and memorable.

  • Bands
  • Food
  • Karaoke
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Vintage microphone on a Halloween rock stage with violet fog, pumpkins, guitars, and a crescent moon

Songs for Halloween

A Halloween karaoke theme with spooky titles, theatrical favorites, monster songs, and crowd-pleasing singalongs for a costume-night set.

  • Halloween
  • Songs
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Songs with Colors

Create a colorful karaoke round using songs with colors in their titles, from red and blue to black, gold, green, and every shade between.

  • Colors
  • Songs
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Built from the working side of the room

DJWS is built by a DJ, KJ, band performer, and karaoke singer.

Sean Arenas, known as DJ Wonder Sean, has been selecting music for audiences since the 1980s. His path includes mixtapes and mix CDs, DJ work, two bands, eight years as a KJ, and more than 1,200 songs on his karaoke list.

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What should DJ Wonder Sean add next?

Suggest music or a theme that deserves to be represented, and tell me what you are planning.