Events

thursday, december 19

12/19/2019

GIBBSMO ANNUAL HOLIDAY CRAPTACULAR!
with Marc and the Casuals and more!
$20 and a non perishable food item -
GET ADVANCE TIX HERE: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4473213
6:30pm - 1:00am

Mark & the Casuals - featuring Bart Davenport, Tom Ayres, Pete Strauss, Michael Urbane
Mark Eitzel ~ So High and the Uppers ~ The Barneys w/ Spike Slawson ~ Chaki ~ Bob Reed ~
Jason Morgan ~ Lydia Walker ~ Brad Brooks ~ Thunderbleed aka Blind Vengeance ~
Joy (to the world) Division ~ Doug & Caroleen ~ Tom & Dierdre ~ Paula Frazer ~ Corey Allen Porter ~ Chris Gutheridge's Holiday Meltdown ~ Sweet Felony ~ Eric Moffat's Slay Ride

wednesday, december 18

12/18/2019

CALYPSO BACCHANAL ~
1950s & '60s Trinidad at 45rpm ~
DJs Adam + Zeke ~
FREE! 6:00pm - 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 & MORE! ~
DJ 2shy-shy & DJ melt w/U ~
FREE! 10:00pm - 2:00am

tuesday, december 17

12/17/2019

DJ Paisley Happy Hours! -
rock n roll, 60s psych, surf, 70s funk and punk, new wave, disco... ~
FREE ~ 6:00pm - 9:30pm

SLOW JAMS ~
Deep & Sweet 60s Soul & Stuff ~
DJ Primo and Guest ~
FREE! ~ 9:30pm - 2:00am

monday, december 16

12/16/2019

SAD BASTARDS CLUB ~
songwriter round-robin w/ host Tom Heyman! Benefit for the SF Tenants Union,
w/ Patrick Winningham (Tender Mercies) Dan Vickrey (Counting Crows, Tender Mercies)
& Kurt Stevenson (Tender Mercies, Neighborly Deeds) ~
$10 Donation ~ 7:30pm - 10:00pm

Its that time of year again...time for the 6th Annual Sad Bastard Club benefit for the SF Tenants Union. The Tenants Union is vital resource for the folks who pay rent in San Francisco. They are an all volunteer organization that helps tenants stay in their homes, as "market forces" try and get them out. Come on down and help us raise some money for them. We have a great line-up this year with Patrick Winningham, Dan Vickrey and Kurt Stevenson. Patrick and Kurt are returning Sad Bastards, and this will be Dan's 1st time out. All three folks are powerful singer songwriters and players with long histories in the SF music community. Kurt is a multi instrumentalist who has played with The Old Joe Clarks, Jesse DeNatale, and many others. You may know Dan from his day job as lead guitarist in The Counting Crows, and Patrick has been plying his trade leading his own band in the bay area for more than 30 years, and fronts The Tender Mercies which coincidentally, features Dan and Kurt. The Sad Bastard Club is free every month of the year except for December...this one cost a mere $10, so if you break it down and you are a regular, that means that it costs about 85 cents a show for the the year, which is a bargain no matter how you slice it. In the spirit of the the season bring a friend to see some great music and give to a great cause!!

WHISKEY RIVER ~
Booze-fueled, hard-livin', heart-breakin',
foot-stompin', pot-smokin', VINTAGE COUNTRY! ~
w/ DJs Brian Pritchard & Pretty Ricky ~ FREE!
10pm - 2am

sunday, december 15

12/15/2019

Macerator +
The Goat Family
(record release party) +
Neighborly Deeds ~
$10 ~ 7:00pm - 10:30pm

Macerator
Country music, sort of.
San Francisco music: 100%.
A five piece band that is sometimes more than five pieces, but always a little surprised we are playing something fun. We are also always happy to kick your ass (musically speaking).

The Goat Family frees the animals with their fifth release Excelsior!

The Goats are a San Francisco jug band and have been playing together since 2003. Their new album pulls inspiration from Dionysius in the joyful Supernova, to the Old Testament fire and brimstone of Old Isaiah, to the stadium jug anthem Wheels Roll.

While they've expanded the scope of the songwriting on their latest album, their jug band origins remain at the center of the sound with a washtub bass and a homemade percussion kit (known as the Rhythmwalker) keeping them rooted in America’s musical sweet spot. Excelsior! revels in old-timely exuberance and infectious, butt-shaking singalongs.

Neighborly Deeds

https://www.reverbnation.com/theneighborlydeeds/playlist/-4

https://open.spotify.com/artist/30mS31bEpkmNxfVqBRSIAo

saturday, december 14

12/14/2019

About the readers/performers:
Meg Elison is a science fiction author and feminist essayist. Her series, The Road to Nowhere, won the 2014 Philip K. Dick award. She was a James A. Tiptree Award Honoree in 2018. She has been published in McSweeney’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fangoria, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. Find her online, where she writes like she’s running out of time.

Amanda Rosenberg is a British comedy writer whose work has been featured in McSweeney's, Vox, Salon, and Funny or Die. Her first book "That's Mental: Painfully Funny Things That Drive Me Crazy About Being Mentally Ill" is available now! And while everyone has been telling her the book has cured their depression — she only wrote it for the fame and the money.

Alvin Orloff began writing in 1977, while still a teenager, by penning lyrics for The Blowdryers, an early San Francisco punk band. He spent the 1980s working as a telemarketer and exotic dancer while concurrently attending U.C. Berkeley and performing with The Popstitutes, a somewhat absurd performance art troupe/homocore band. In 1990 he and his bandmates founded Klubstitute, a floating queer cabaret devoted to the ideal of cultural democracy that featured spoken word, theater, drag, and musical acts. In 1995 the club, whose staff and patrons had been ravaged by AIDS epidemic, closed its doors and Orloff suddenly remembered that all he'd ever wanted to be was a writer. He subsequently published three rather whimsical novels, I Married an Earthling, Gutter Boys, and Why Aren't You Smiling? before producing Disasterama! his memoir of life in the queer underground during the height of the AIDS crisis. Orloff currently lives in San Francisco and works as the manager of Dog Eared Books, a literary hot-spot in the heart of the Castro District.

SPECIAL GUEST HOST Maggie Tokuda-Hall has an MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco and a tendency to spill things. She is the author of Also An Octopus, illustrated by Benji Davies. You can read her work for adults on Catapult, The Rumpus, The Columbia Journey of Art and LIterature and Boing Boing. The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea is her young adult fiction debut and is available for preorder now.

San Francisco's longest running spoken word series features mind-blowing science fiction, literary fiction, queer memoir, and tons more! Featuring amazing guest host Maggie Tokuda-Hall!

When: Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 7 PM
Who: Meg Elison, Megan O'Keefe, Zoe Young, Alvin Orloff, Olga Zilberbourg, Amanda Rosenberg, and guest host Maggie Tokuda-Hall!
How much: $5 to $20 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA

Megan E. O'Keefe was raised amongst journalists, and as soon as she was able joined them by crafting a newsletter which chronicled the daily adventures of the local cat population. She has worked in both arts management and graphic design, and has won Writers of the Future and the Gemmell Morningstar Award. Megan lives in the Bay Area of California.

Olga Zilberbourg is the author of LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES (WTAW Press, 2019) and three Russian-language collections of stories. Her criticism has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Common, and Electric Literature. She serves as a co-facilitator of the San Francisco Writers Workshop that meets at Alley Cat Books on Tuesday nights.

Zoe Young is a writer living in San Francisco. She has an MFA from California College of the Arts, she just finished a goddamn novel, and she used to be the Word of the Day girl for Dictionary.com. You can find her work in McSweeney's Quarterly: Issue 53 and on multiple bathroom walls. She now has a 9-5 writing for nature, but the views reflected in her work tonight are entirely her own and do not belong to nature.

About Writers With Drinks:

Writers With Drinks has won numerous "Best ofs" from local newspapers, and has been mentioned in 7x7, Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City novels. The spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money for local causes. The award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format.

El SUPERRITMO! ~
DJ El Kool Kyle y DJ Roger Más ~
Cumbia, Dancehall, Hip-Hop,
Reggaeton, Salsa Buena y mas! ~
$5 before 11pm, $10 after ~
10:00pm - 2:00am

Friday, december 13

12/13/2019

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

CLUB COLLISION ~

'80s Boogie - Disco Funk - New Wave -
Italo Disco - Laser Music ~

DJ Primo (Club Lonely, Slow Jams) & friends -

$5 before 11, $10 after ~
10:00pm - 2:00am

thursday, december 12

12/12/2019

LATITUDE + TRIP WIRE + The BUSHRODS ~ $10 ~ 6:30pm - 10:00pm

https://latitude.bandcamp.com/
https://tripwire1.bandcamp.com/
https://thebushrods.bandcamp.com/

FESTIVAL '68 ~
Rocksteady, Early Reggae & Ska ~
Resident selector Adam & guests.
NO COVER! 10:00pm

wednesday, december 11

12/11/2019

CLUTCH THE PEARLS: Unwrapped
San Francisco’s monthly Drag Cabaret in the Mission,
comes to you this month with a holiday twist.
Hosted by Mira
Music: DJ Frida
Instagram: @clutchthepearlssf
Event: 7:30 pm- 9:30 pm
Show: 8:00 pm
Cover: $10

BURN DOWN the DiSCO! presents:
SAGITTARIUS Birthday Bash +
80s DANCE PARTY! ~

Reserve a birthday party booth on EventBrite! ~
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sexy-sagittarius-birthday-bash-80s-dance-party-tickets-85473309971

groove, wave, goth, synth-pop, hip-hop ~

DJ 2shy-shy & DJ melt w/ U ~
FREE! ~ 10pm - 2:00am

tuesday, december 10

12/10/2019

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

SLOW JAMS ~
Deep & Sweet 60s Soul & Stuff
DJs dX the funky grandpa + Jon Sweaterfunk (Sweater Funk Crew)
FREE! ~ 9:30pm - 2:00am

TONIGHT! SLOW JAMS TUESDAY : Slow Jams, Beat Ballads, Lowriders and Lost Soul B-Sides with resident DJ dX the Funky Granpaw & very special guest Jon Sweaterfunk (Sweater Funk Crew) TONIGHT! ~ 10pm No Cover! ~ You Are Invited! • Anyone Who Knows What Love Is Will Understand #slowjamssf #sweetsoul #danceparty #choosevinyl #makeoutroomsf #drinksandrecords #dx100000

monday, december 9

12/9/2019

Tokyo Beatniks ~
Happy Hour w/ DJ Marty Hard ~
All Japanese Rock & Roll, Beat, Pop, Shibuya-Kei & Group Sounds.
"Tokyo Beatniks" is 1960s Japan in the heart of the Mission! ~
FREE ~ 7:00pm - 10:00pm

#LindaYamamoto #山本リンダ #恋のバンバン #1969
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#TokyoBeatniks #東京ビートニクス
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#japanese #GS #カルトGS #japaneserocknroll #japanrockandroll #djnightsanfrancisco #japanesepop #japan1960s #sixtiesjapan #girlgroups #sanfrancisco #djnight #djset #happyhour

FRIED ONIONS
w/ dX The Funky Granpaw
& guest Brother Hiram ~
Juke Box Jazz -
Vintage Rhythm & Blooze -
Swinging Vegas Grind -
Loud Surf Instros -
Mixed Up Tittyshakers -
All on scratchy 7 inch slabs of hot wax! ~
Free ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am

sunday, december 8

12/8/2019

MAN PIG + DESTINY'S UNCLE + IT THING REMAINS ~ $10 ~ 7:00pm - 11:00pm

Come out old friends for a night of music at the dimly lit oasis that is the Make-Out Room.
Fire up a colortini, sit back, relax and listen to the musical pictures as they fly through the air.

saturday, december 7

12/7/2019

GOLDEN SHOULDERS + AARON ROSS + BRETT SHADY ~ $10 ~ 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Nevada City, California's Golden Shoulders of Nevada City, California FINALLY return to San Francisco's Make Out Room, where they will most likely play some songs.

They're bringing with them two of Nevada City's finest songwriters, Aaron Ross and Brett Shady. This is a special show. Don't be late, please.

http://www.goldenshoulders.com
Aaron Ross
Brett Shady

El SUPERRITMO! ~
DJ El Kool Kyle y DJ Roger Más ~

Cumbia, Dancehall, Hip-Hop,
Reggaeton, Salsa Buena y mas! ~

$5 before 11pm, $10 after ~
10:00pm - 2:00am

friday, december 6

12/6/2019

"ABOUT LAST NIGHT:
A One Night Stand Story Telling Series" ~
real people sharing real stories about
horrifying one night stands, awkward hookups,
& regrettable romps ~
$15 adv. / $20 door ~
7:00pm doors / 8:00pm showtime! ~
7:00pm - 9:30pm

BOOM! Shak-a Lak-a ~
Friday Night Dance Party ~

DJ 2shy-shy, DJ melt w/U ~
funk, soul, hip-hop, synth-pop, int'l ~

$5 before 11pm, $10 after ~
10:00pm - 2:00am

TIX: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boom-shak-a-lak-a-friday-night-dance-party-tickets-85196257299

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