Events

friday, march 22

3/22/2019

SOUL FINGER ~
Moody, Organ-driven Soul,
Followed by Raw & Wild '60s R&B, Soul and Funk! Presented by DJ Tonearm ~
FREE! ~ 6:00pm - 10:00pm
RIGHT ON, GET DOWN SOUNDS!
EVERY 4th FRIDAY!
Alright. Dig it.

SOUL! Powered ~

DJ 2shy-shy + DJ melt w/U
spin a dance party highlighting some of
the best soul music of the last 50 years! ~
funk, soul, disco, groove, hip-hop,
afrobeat, reggae ~

$5 before 11pm, $10 after ~

10:00pm - 2:00am

thursday, march 21

3/21/2019

DJ KC - rock n roll, all vinyl happy hours!! ~ FREE! ~ 6:00pm - 10:00pm

*** ALCATRAZ SOUL CLUB ***
Time MARCHES on,
and so does the party on Alcatraz!
As always, you will enjoy
the finest 45 selections in:

RAZOR-SHARP SOUL + RAW FUNK + GRITTY R&B +
+ CROSSOVER + MODERN SOUL + LATIN GROOVES

On the decks:
MILES AKE
(ASC Resident, Three and One Records, SF)
VAGABUNDA
(Latin sounds sorceress, SF)
JEFF BLAGGARD
(Bump City Soul Club, Left of the Dial, Oakland)

WHEN: Thursday, March 21st. Needle drops at 10:00, stayin' rowdy til' 2:00.

WHAT: Alcatraz Soul Club is a collective of the Bay Area's rare soul and funk DJs focused on quality, sophistication and thinking outside the box. The tunes will be killer - feet will move - booties will shake. Your satisfaction is guaranteed!

SEE YOU ON THE DANCEFLOOR!

* 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

Wednesday, march20

3/20/2019

CALYPSO BACCHANAL
~ 1950s & '60s Trinidad
at 45rpm ~
DJs Adam + Zeke ~
FREE! 6:00pm - 9:30pm
https://www.mixcloud.com/lesmainsnoires/073-carnival-bacchanal-calypso-jazz-rom-trinidad-tobago-selected-by-kimi-and-shota/?fbclid=IwAR15O25QBC6DotaxM5qxZP1Y-wEHk46zCXmEWqrVO0cHF98Okig6BH7lnR8

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, march 19

3/19/2019

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, march 18

3/18/2019

SAD BASTARDS CLUB ~ songwriter round-robin w/ host Tom Heyman!,
Featured this month, Ira Marlowe, Jeffrey Halford & Maurice Tani! ~
FREE! ~ 7:30pm - 10:00pm

WHISKEY RIVER ~
Booze-fueled, hard-livin', heart-breakin', foot-stompin', pot-smokin',
VINTAGE COUNTRY! ~ w/ DJs Brian Pritchard & Pretty Ricky ~
FREE! ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am

sunday, march i7

3/17/2019

HAM-HOCKS and SHAMROCKS
w/ The Boars + Bushrods + Carnaby 4 +
DJ dX (the funky grandpa)
spinning post show ~
$8 ~ 7:00pm - 10:30pm

saturday, march 16

3/16/2019

Pre - St. Paddy's Day Bash ~
The Bogues (Pogues tribute) + Penny Opry ~
$10 ~ 7:00pm - 9:30pm

The BOGUES
return to the scene of the crime with a special
Pre-St Paddy's Pogues celebration.
Opening the evening are mighty like a rose,
Penny Opry.

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, march 15

3/15/2019

ROCK N' ROLL WORKSHOP ~
Friday Night Dance Party!
w/ DJs Galine MoDemoiselle, Jodie Artichoke
& Special Guest! ~
FREE ~ 6:00pm - 10:00pm

The Workshop is back with very special guest
DJ Eugene de Tiger joining
Galine Modemoiselle (seablite)
and Jodie Artichoke!!!
We spin nothing but our best 60s & 70s psych, garage, glam & good ol' rock n' roll 45s
just for you ❤❤❤

LOOSE JOINTS! ~
Soul, Disco, Afrobeat, Hip-Hop, more! ~
w/ DJs Damon Bell, & Tom Thump ~
$5 before 11pm, $10 after ~
10:00pm - 2:00am

thursday, march 14

3/14/2019

DUB RIOT! ~
70s Dub Reggae & Beyond! ~
w/ Thee Vexed One &
DJ Dartajax ~
FREE! 6:00pm - 10:00pm

Dub Riot features live mixed dub inspired by
Jamaican Dub of the '70s
DJs Vexer and DartAjax (Members of Titan Ups/1906). Come early and enjoy
Dub Riot before Festival '68 -
this is a FREE event.

Thursday 3/14/19 - Wake the Town Radio presents:

"Festival '68" ~ Very special guest selector:
Making his Festival '68 debut... Longtime dj, collector/selector, Visual & Music Artist:

Roman Pierre Federico aka ROMANOWSKI
https://romanowski.bandcamp.com/music
https://shop.111minnagallery.com/collections/romanowski?fbclid=IwAR2ETk66M4q6hiwk8Qwdeg_eQT0HsKsCPoiWxV-Pj0ZlbzM9CRsJpYZMxl8

+ Your host & resident selector: Adam (Wake the Town / KPOO Radio)

wednesday, march13

3/13/2019

MAWKISH TWADDLE ~
DJ Still or Sparkling? (aka Bob N. of KXSF) ~ Sunshine pop, bubblegum, power pop, indie rock, psych pop, post-punk, chamber pop, C86,
easy listening, twee pop, glam, northern soul, honky tonk, disco, shoegaze, fuzz,
& occasional dissonance ~
FREE! ~ 6:00pm - 9:30pm

This month's Mawkish Twaddle
is going to be the best one in at least a month! Stop by for a few minutes or all three hours and listen to selections from the wondrous stack of records handpicked and hand-played by
DJ Still or Sparkling (you know him as Bob N., host of Mawkish Twaddle, heard every Saturday night on KXSF 102.5 FM). It's free!

BURN DOWN the DiSCO! ~ 80s DANCE PARTY!
groove, wave, goth, synth-pop, hip-hop ~
DJ 2shy-shy & DJ melt w/ U ~
FREE! ~ 9:30pm - 2:00am

BURN DOWN the DiSCO!
presents: Such a Shame! ~
With the sudden passing of Mark Hollis we present a special tribute to his spirit and the band he co founded and fronted for 5 albums -
TALK TALK
(along with our usual array of groove, wave, synth pop, goth, and other underground club favorites) ~
This event will also be a birthday celebration for Mr. Donald Ord.
So please come prepared for an evening of serious dancing and serious celebrating!

tuesday, march 12

3/12/2019

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

HAPPY ENDINGS
is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and offers a little sunshine for your soul.

What's gonna happen?
Five writers will come with a piece they've prepared in response to a single prompt.
("Happy Endings" is a loooose directive for each writer to do with what they will.)
A panel of judges will be selected from the audience, and the panel will pick a winner!

$10/Pay what you can

This month's prompt:
Bad Advice and Lucky Breaks

This month's participating writers:
Jelal Huyler, Maddy Raskulinecz, Kitty Striker, Emily Pinkerton, Spencer Tierney

SLOW JAMS ~
Deep & Sweet 60s Soul & Stuff ~
DJ Paul Costuros
w/ dX the funky grandpa ~
FREE! ~ 9:30pm - 2:00am

SLOW JAMS TUESDAY : The Original Sweet Soul Slow Dance Smooth Soul Lowrider Record Hop! Slow Jams, Beat Ballads, Lowriders and Lost Soul B-Sides With your hosts and selectors:
Paul Paul & dX the Funky Granpaw
& very special guests :
Tuff & Aware (Suavecitio Souldies)
Anyone Who Knows What Love Is Will Understand #slowjamssf #makeoutroomsf #sweetsoul #danceparty #dx100000 —
with Rene Lopez, Paul Costuros

monday, march 11

3/11/2019

KARAOKE MAKEOUT
with your host Cole! (Featuring KJ Paul Karaoke) bringing THOUSANDS of songs from KJ Paul’s library, plus fog/lighting effects to YOU! ~
FREE ~ 9:00pm - 2:00am

sunday, march 10

3/10/2019

The Rubinoos + Harold Ray and East Side Dynamite ~ $20 ~ 7:00pm - 11:00pm

The original lineup of The Rubinoos
will unleash a slew of power pop gems at
The Make-Out Room.
Harold Ray And East Side Dynamite
get asses shaking on the dance floor at 7:00.

Get tix here: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4077695

saturdy, march 9

3/9/2019

About the readers/performers:

Josiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Pocho spanglish speaking poet from La Area Bahia who learned to write poetry in the kitchen of his Mama’s Mexican restaurant. He was a founding member of San Francisco's outspoken word troupe The Molotov Mouths. He is also a radio insurgente whose stories have appeared on KALW’s “Crosscurrents" and whose show “The Spanglish Power Hour” aired on KPFA. He curates and hosts the Latinx reading series SPEAKING AXOLOTL in Oakland which happens every third Thursday of the month at Nomadic Press Studios.

Isaac Fellman is an archivist in Northern California. He writes sharp, painterly science fiction and fantasy about his various preoccupations: art history, extreme survival, toxic love, queer identity, and terrible moral choices. Most of his protagonists are great at exactly one thing and are continually prevented from doing it. Isaac is transgender, and initially published The Breath of the Sun as Rachel. He does not climb mountains.

Maurisa Thompson was born and raised in San Francisco, and is a proud alum of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People. A poet and educator, she is a graduate of UC Riverside’s MFA program and is currently teaching English at John O’Connell High School in San Francisco. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Pedestal Magazine, The Black Scholar, La Bloga, Cosmonauts Avenue, the anthologies A Feather Floating on the Water: Poems for Our Children and En Vuelo: In Celebration of el Tecolote, and The Haight-Ashbury Journal, which nominated her for a Pushcart Prize. She has worked with arts organizations including Richmond's RAW Talent and the Gluck Fellowship program at UC Riverside. She is currently working on her first poetry manuscript that combines history and folklore with her grandparents’ stories from Louisiana and San Francisco, and a middle-grade novel exploring police brutality, which won the support of a Walter Grant from We Need Diverse Books.

SPECIAL GUEST HOST: Elena Rose rode stories out of rural Oregon and never looked back. A sweet-talking monster at the microphone, she has performed with the Fresh Meat Festival, Queer Rebels, Mangos With Chili, Girl Talk, and many others, and tours nationwide as a speaker and educator. Her political, theological, and creative writing has been featured everywhere from bathroom mirrors to protest marches, most recently in the acclaimed Queer and Trans Artists of Color, Vol. 2, which she co-edited with Nia King, and she was a founding member of the Speak! Radical Women of Color Media Collective. As an ordained minister and community organizer, Elena stays busy building love for people at the edges everywhere, and draws her hope from the strangeness of the world.

WRITERS WITH DRINKS w/ host Charlie Jane Anders! $5-20 sliding ~ 6:30 door / 7:30pm - 9:45pm

February's Writers With Drinks is a special fundraiser for the Trans Lifeline, featuring mind-blowing poetry, brilliant speculative fiction, gay memoir, and an inside view of the tech industry. Hosted by the utterly brilliant Elena Rose!

Who: Josiah Luis Alderete, SevanKelee Boult, Isaac R. Fellman, Kyle Thomas Smith, Maurisa Thompson, Leslie Miley, PLUS special guest host Elena Rose!
How much: $5 to $20 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the Trans Lifeline

SevanKelee Boult (bka Lucky 7) is a well known Bay Area poet. She has been seen on HBO Real Sex since 2000. She has represented several Bay Area slam teams over the past 10 years. In 2014, she became the only person in the Bay to win the honored title Grand Slam Champion of 4 different Bay teams (SF, Berkeley,Oakland and Palo Alto). She has performed all across the country. Gracing such places as The De Young Museum in San Francisco as well as Yerba Buena, and the Marsh Theater. A UC Berkeley graduate with a minor in Theatre Arts, SevanKelee has been crafting her spoken word performance.

Leslie Miley is the director of engineering at Slack, and has been an advocate for diversity in tech. His blog is "The Musings of a Black Man in Tech," at Shaft.co. In 2015, Miley was the only black engineer at Twitter in a leadership position, and he wrote a widely circulated article about his experiences. Miley formerly worked in leadership roles at Apple and Google and serves as an adviser to several startups founded by women and minorities. He is an investor in a fund dedicated to diverse entrepreneurs.

Kyle Thomas Smith is the author of the multi-award-winning novel, 85A (Bascom Hill, 2010). He recently relocated from Brooklyn to San Francisco, where he lives with his husband Julius and his cats, Giuseppe and Giacomo. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from City University of New York-Queens College. His cross-genre memoir, Cockloft: Scenes from a Gay Marriage, was released on September 17, 2018. The Kirkus Review recently said of Cockloft that: “The storytelling is lighter on its feet than that of David Sedaris but just as funny...A playful and often hilarious book full of New York stories, domestic hijinks, and madcap journeys.”

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

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