 Emily Rose & the Rounders + Moonshine Maybelline + Noelle & the Deserters~ $12 ~ 6:30pm - 9:30pm
 CITY BEAT ~ Soul, Disco, Afrobeat, Hip-Hop, Turntablism ~ w/ DJs Centipede (Mophono) + Tom Thump ~ $10 ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am  CLUB SODA
w/ DJ Mikey Tash- A Vinyl Adventure! '60s & '70s Psych, Glam, Funky Soul, MPB, Latin Funk & Rock, Chicha, Groovy Instrumentals ~ FREE ~ 6:00pm - 10:00pm  * ALCATRAZ SOUL CLUB * Soul, Funk & R&B at 45 rpm ~ a rotating cast of Bay Area soul & funk DJs * Third Thursdays * NO COVER * Dancing Satisfaction Guaranteed! * 10:00pm - 2:00am
 Andrew St. James presents
FAST TIMES! LIVE MUSIC w/ MAGGIE GENTLY + WORLD SMASHER ~ $10 ~ 6:30pm - 9:30pm  FRiGO-iNTERNATiONAL DiSCOTHEQUE Cumbia, Thai Funk, Samba, Afro-Beat, Turkish Hip-hop, Salsa, Rai, Electro-Reggae, Afro-Funk, Asian-Psych, Rocksteady, Italo-Disco, Deutsche-Wave & ABBA ! ~ DJ 2shy-shy & DJ melt w/U ~ FREE! 10:00pm - 2:00am  PLEXUSPLAY (San Diego) ~ $10 ~ 7:00pm - 9:30pm
 SLOW JAMS ~ Deep & Sweet 60s Soul & Stuff ~ DJ Primo & friends ~ FREE ~ 9:30pm - 2:00am  JAZZ at the MAKE OUT ROOM! REOTRIO + LEVITATOR TRIO ~ 6pm doors, 7pm show ~ no cover, donations accepted! 6:00pm - 9:30pm This is the concert rescheduling you've been waiting for:
jazz trio Levitator (with bass ace Safa Shokrai + the powerhouse combination of Mark Clifford and Kjell Nordeson) + Reotrio (the august duo of Larry Ochs and Donald Robinson, joined by young disruptor Karl Evangelista). No cover/donations accepted, 6pm door, 7pm show. Details here: Jazz at the Make-Out: Levitator & Reotrio  OWEN ADAIR KELLEY + SAINT SOLITUDE + HORSE MILK ~ $10 ~ 7:00pm - 10:30pm
 El SUPERRITMO! ~ DJ El Kool Kyle y DJ Roger Más ~ Cumbia, Dancehall, Hip-Hop, Reggaeton, Salsa Buena y mas! ~ $10 ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am  WRITERS WITH DRINKS featuring VANESSA HUA w/ host CHARLIE JANE ANDERS $5-20 sliding (all proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA) ~ Doors at 7:00pm ~ 7:30pm - 9:45pm This month, Writers With Drinks features blood magic, raw poetry, music and more! Note: We are strictly requiring proof of vaccination, and audience members must remain masked when they are not actively drinking. Who: Vanessa Hua, Naseem Jamnia, Juba Kalamka and Adele Bertei How much: $5 to $20 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit Shanti Project About the readers/performers: Vanessa Hua is an award-winning columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of the national bestsellers A River of Stars and Forbidden City, as well as Deceit and Other Possibilities, a New York Times Editors Pick. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, as well as awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Asian American Journalists Association, among others. She has filed stories from China, Burma, South Korea, Panama, and Ecuador, and her work appeared publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Atlantic. She has taught, most recently, at the Warren Wilson MFA Program and Sewanee Writers Conference. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family. Naseem Jamnia's novella The Bruising of Qilwa comes out August 9 from Tachyon Publications. Charlie Jane Anders says, "I loved this gorgeous book about blood magic, chosen family, and refugees in a hostile city... You should definitely savor this one." Naseem is a Persian-Chicagoan, former scientist, and fiction MFA graduate from the University of Nevada, Reno. Their work has appeared in The Washington Post, Bitch Media, Cosmopolitan, The Rumpus, The Writer's Chronicle, and other venues. A Lambda Literary, Otherwise, and the inaugural Samuel R. Delany Fellow, Naseem is the managing editor at Sword & Kettle Press. Bisexual artist/activist Juba Kalamka's poetry book Son of Byford was just released by Nomadic Press. Kalamka is most recognized for his work with performance troupes Sins Invalid and Mangos With Chili and as co-founder/producer of the queer hip hop group Deep Dickollective (D/DC). His writing appears in numerous journals and anthologies including The Yale Anthology of Rap (2010),Queer and Trans Artists of Color: The Stories of Some of Our Lives (2014) Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men (2015) and Hustling Verse: An anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry (2019). His first full length poetry anthology,Son of Byford will be published by Nomadic Press in 2022. Adele Bertei is a multi-disciplinary artist—poet, actor, performer, singer, songwriter, director, and author. Her music career began in Cleveland with Pere Ubu’s legendary Peter Laughner and as an original member of The Contortions, produced by Brian Eno on No New York. Her music career includes recording and performing as vocalist with such diverse acts as Thomas Dolby, Tears for Fears, Culture Club, Whitney Houston, Sophie B. Hawkins, Scritti Politti, Sheena Easton, Oleta Adams, Lydia Lunch, Matthew Sweet, Jamaladeen Tacuma, the Pointer Sisters, and John Lurie. Bertei’s acting career includes a lead role in Lizzie Borden’s seminal feminist sci-fi film Born in Flames. Bertei’s reading of her “Ragazzi Manifesto” was acquired by MoMA. She has performed her written work on stages with Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Kathy Acker, and Lucy Sante, among others, and appears in many slide presentations by Nan Goldin. Her books include Peter and the Wolves in 2020, followed by Why Labelle Matters, 2021 by the University of Texas Press, a finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards. Her memoir American Girl will be released by ZE Books in the spring of 2023.
 COOL AS FUCK! Second Friday Happy Hour w/ DJs Kevin, Liam, & Raul ~ guitar-based indie pop gems that sparkle & shine, loudly rip & gently roar ~ FREE! ~ 6:00pm - 10:00pm
 DIVA LOVE dance party - Non-stop female vocals w/ DJ Brain Robber ~ R&B, Disco, World, Pop, Hip-hop ~ No Cover! ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am  See the LEGENDARY and somewhat reclusive Gary Wilson performing LIVE at The Make-Out Room, Thursday, August 11th!
Gary Wilson + Tredici Bacci + Nightshuttle + DJ Hannah Barbarian $10 ~ 6:30pm - 9:30pm Gary Wilson (born October 23, 1953) is an American experimental musician and performance artist best known for his 1977 album You Think You Really Know Me, after, he released 3 more recordings: “Midnight Hour/When I Spoke Of Love” and “Forgotten Lovers EP” (1979) “Invasion Of Privacy” (1980), and “This Is Why I Wear My Wedding Gown” (1983). Shortly after, he promptly retired from recording and kept performing until 1983. He slowly gained a strong cult following during the 1980s and 1990s, and in the early 2000s became active again. As of 2020, he has released fourteen full-length albums. Wilson went to Albert Grossman's Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, New York in 1976, a well-known recording studio that has played host to sessions by Bob Dylan, R.E.M., Patti Smith, The Rolling Stones and many other notable acts. There, Wilson recorded versions of "6.4 = Make Out", "Chromium Bitch", "Groovy Girls", and "I Want To Lose Control". He eventually decided that he would prefer to record at his familiar home studio and finished recording You Think You Really Know Me, his first album, in his parents' basement. In 1991, Cry Baby Records re-released the album, pressing about 1000 copies. His 1970s concert performances were cited as bizarre and outrageous, a "show that included cellophane, duct tape, bed sheets, fake blood, flour, and milk." So outlandish were the shows that often they would have their electricity cut in attempts to get them to leave the stage. Although he did have some supporters (receiving fan-mail during the period from the band The Residents), viable commercial success did not find Wilson. After a 1981 American tour, he retired from the experimental music scene and dropped off the public radar. Wilson then lapsed into obscurity until around 1996, when Beck was heard citing him as an influence in concerts, at award ceremonies, and on his album, Odelay. Beck also name-checked the musician in his hit single "Where It's At": "Passin' the dutchie from coast to coast/like my man Gary Wilson rocks the most." Around the same time, he was cited by the people behind Sub Pop Records as a major influence on their company. In the early 2000s, Motel Records began a search to find the reclusive musician, but were unsuccessful (even after hiring a private detective). He was eventually found through contacting ex-band members. He was nearly 50 years old, working part-time at The Jolar Cinema adult theater, playing keyboard in a weekly jazz act called Donnie Finnell & Company East at the Rancho Bernardino Lounge and living with his girlfriend (an experimental artist who had studied at UCSD in the 1980s) in San Diego. He gave Motel Records his permission to repress You Think You Really Know Me, and also offered to play a handful of shows to promote the re-release. GARY WILSON, TREDICI BACCI, NIGHT SHUTTLE Justin Frahm Jamin Barton www.makeoutroom.com/events  BURN DOWN the DiSCO! presents: GIRLS NIGHT OUT! ~ groove, wave, goth, synth-pop, hip-hop ~ DJ 2shy-shy & DJ melt w/ U ~ FREE ~ 9:30pm - 2:00am  MAWKISH TWADDLE ~
DJ Still or Sparkling (aka Bob N. of KXSF) ~ Sunshine pop, bubblegum, power pop, indie rock, psych pop, post-punk, C86, uneasy listening, twee pop, glam, northern soul, disco, shoegaze, fuzz, & occasional dissonance ~ FREE! ~ 6:00pm - 9:30pm  SLOW JAMS ~ Deep & Sweet 60s Soul & Stuff ~ DJ Paul Costuros w/ dX the funky grandpa ~ FREE ~ 9:30pm - 2:00am  - HAPPY ENDINGS — Because we could all use a happy ending: 5 writers perform new work on a shared theme in a battle for the adulation of an appointed committee. PWYC, Suggested $10 ~ 7:00pm - 9:30pm Happy Endings asks five local writers, poets, and comedians to respond to a monthly theme and maybe sprinkle in a little sunshine.
This month's theme is "Black Holes and Tadpoles." We're thinking about scale again -- from the seeds of life to the vastness of space! Emptiness! Evolution! Frogs! This month's readers: Chelsea Davis Alysia Gonzales Kar Johnson Nelda Kerr Hannah Lamb-Vines Suggested donation: $10 Make-Out Room 7:30-9 PM  CLUTCH the PEARLS: Theme: SHOW ME, DON'T TELL ME ~ Drag Show w/ host Mira ~ A rotating cast of the Bay Area's HOTTEST drag performers strut-their-stuff at the Mission's COOLEST venue on the first Sunday of the month. ~ $10 ~ 7:00pm - 10:00pm clutchthepearlssf See you August 7 at @makeoutroomsf Theme is 🤫SHOW ME, DON’T TELL ME🤫 (No lyrics or lip-syncing allowed) Hosted by @churro_nomi ✨Featuring✨ @glamputee @brucelee___deucelee @analeash.b @itslisafrankenstein @paigeturnersf @missjubeez @shehaslayers @salimatuamabebe & more! With… DJ @lafemmepapi Stage Kitten @theo4pres Lights @demnine |
