Events

monday, august 19

8/19/2019

SAD BASTARDS CLUB ~ songwriter round-robin w/ host Tom Heyman!
Featuring Jonathan Segel (Camper Van Beethoven) + Mayya Feygina + Brad Brooks
~ 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

ELVIS PRESLEY TRIBUTE ~
SF Elvis All Star Band w/ Hank Maninger, Elvis Herselvis, Leigh Crow, Smelley Kelley, Mitch Polzak, Ben Fong-Torres, Lynne Maes, Joe Rosato & Timothy Orr!
DJs Shindog & Cammy with Elvis music all night! ~
$10 ~ 7:00pm - 12:30am

The San Francisco Elvis Presley Tribute
(3nd annual) on Sunday, August 18, 2019, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Presley’s return to live performing, as well as the anniversary of the King’s passing – Elvis died on August 16, 1977. In 2019, the King is dead for as many years as he was alive: 42.

The glamorous Make-Out Room hosts the all-Elvis-all-night party, with the
San Francisco Elvis All Stars live band comprised of Hank Maninger, Joe Rosato, and Timothy Orr, with guest vocalist: world famous drag king Elvis Herselvis (Leigh Crow), master of honky-tonk Smelley Kelley, charismatic roots and country performer Mitch Polzak,
the Bay Area's country sweetheart Lynne Maes, and rock journalist Ben Fong-Torres. More Elvis music spun by DJs Shindog & Cammy.

Celebrate Presley’s return to Vegas concerts with a Vegas theme. Dress ready for the casino back in the sixties! Prize for best retro Vegas outfits.
San Francisco’s West Coast Leathers models present unique fashions inspired by the King of Rock n Roll, created by one of the most sought out leather designers in the world.

Elvis’s indelible image and famous clips chronicling his Vegas history will be projected on screen, DJs will play his unforgettable music, patrons can take pictures with the King in our photo area, and enjoy peanut butter and banana sandwich bites at the Elvis late night snack.

Advance tickets:
* “The King” premium $16 ticket includes poster signed by the band, exclusive lanyard, front of line privilege for one admission to the event, CD of Elvis originals and related tracks, plate of peanut butter & banana sandwich bites
https://elvis-2019-king-premium.eventbrite.com

* General admission $10 (tickets also expected to be available at door night of event)
https://elvis-2019-ga.eventbrite.com

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/445449029349140/

saturday, august 17

8/17/2019

DOTS (Record Release) + DRAMA + PREENING + TOADS ~ $8 ~ 7:00pm - 9:45pm

DOTS (Record Release) +
DRAMA + PREENING + TOADS +
CAMYLLE AND MITCH'S BDAY PARTY!!!
DOTS: LP Release Show (Dirt Cult Records)
https://dirtcultrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dots
DRAMA: SF's Finest Femme Punks
PREENING: East Bay Noise Freaks
https://preening.bandcamp.com
TOADS: FINALLY PLAYING A GAWD DAMN SHOW!! YAY!
7:00 - 9:45
Doors: 6:00
$8.00
www.makeoutroom.com/events

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, august 16

8/16/2019

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

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

thursday, august 15

8/15/2019

PAN AM ~ w/ DJ Krisa Cupcake ~
international grooves, psych, prog and rock n roll ~
FREE ~ 6:00pm - 10:00pm

FESTIVAL '68 ~ Rocksteady, Early Reggae & Ska ~ Resident selector Adam & guests.
NO COVER! 10:00pm - 2:00am

Thursday 8/15/19 - Wake the Town Radio presents:

"Festival '68"

Very Special guest DeeJay:

TOMMY FAR EAST (FAR EAST RECORDS / JAPAN)

http://fareastrecords.shop-pro.jp

Your host & resident selector:

Adam (Wake the Town / KPOO Radio)

wednesday, august 14

8/14/2019

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, honky tonk, disco, shoegaze, fuzz, & occasional dissonance ~
FREE! ~ 6:00pm - 9:30pm

BURN DOWN the DiSCO! presents LEO Birthday Bash + 80s DANCE PARTY! ~
DJ 2shy-shy & DJ melt w/ U ~ groove, wave, goth, synth-pop, hip-hop ~
Reserve a birthday party booth on EventBrite! ~
~ FREE! ~ 9:30pm - 2:00am

Come celebrate LEO (the original LOVE CAT)!

LEO (July 23 - August 22)
Leo is sure to fold you up and twist you like
a pretzel while the two of you tango in bed.
No more boring missionary here.

BURN DOWN the DiSCO! presents:
Last Chance Leo Summer Birthday Dance!
groove, wave, goth, synth-pop, and other underground club favorites ~
DJ 2shy-shy + DJ melt w/U
Special guest DJ Self Disciple aka J.J. Lundy ~
FREE! ~ 9:30pm - 2:00am

tuesday, august 13

8/13/2019

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 wants to
shine a little sun on your soul.
What's gonna happen?
Five writers will come with a piece they've prepared in response to a monthly prompt.
A panel of judges will be selected from
the audience, and that panel will
honor their favorites.
Cover is $10/Pay what you can
and all the endings are happy(ish)!

This month we have:
Vernon Keeve III
Clem Bee
Lauren Traetto
Amy Berkowitz
And double returning champion, John William

This is the happiest we've ever been!

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

monday, august 12

8/12/2019

MELT (Portland, OR) + Casa de Flores ~ $8 ~ 7:00pm - 9:30pm

FRIED ONIONS
w dX The Funky Granpaw & Brother Hiram B.
spinning stomping rhythm & booze,
surf instros, jukebox jazz, oddball toe tappers
& other weird o slabs of vinyl ~
Free! ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am

sunday, august 11

8/11/2019

Maryann Price (formerly of Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, and Asleep at the Wheel)
w/ Joshua Raoul Brody + Mark Holzinger Group (CD release) ~ $15 ~ 7:30pm - 11:00pm

Maryann Price (Dan Hicks, Asleep at the Wheel, the Kinks)will come in from Austin Texas and along with Joshua Raoul Brody will headline the show,and locals the Mark Holzinger Group with Simon Planting on upright bass, Jim Hurley on violin,John Waller on drums, Billy Wilson on steel guitar/baritone ukulele andMark Holzinger on electrical guitar will open the show!

saturday, august 10

8/10/2019

WRITERS WITH DRINKS
w/ host Charlie Jane Anders ~
Namwali Serpell, Vanessa Hua, Lynn Breedlove, Sarah Rose Etter,
Seth Katz, Brandon Melendez ~
$5-20 sliding
(all proceeds benefit
Kehilla Immmigration Committee) ~
Doors at 6:30pm ~ 7:30pm - 9:45pm

August's Writers With Drinks is bursting with visionary talent---including breathtaking stories, brilliant poetry, queer spoken word, and strange revelations. You'd better hold onto your brain!

About the readers/performers:

Namwali Serpell is a Zambian writer and author of the debut novel The Old Drift. Her story “The Sack” won the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing. In 2014, she was chosen as one of the most promising African writers in the Africa39 anthology, a project of the Hay festival. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award in 2011. Her first published story, “Muzungu,” was selected for the Best American Short Stories 2009 and shortlisted for the 2010 Caine Prize for African Writing. She teaches at UC Berkeley and lives in San Francisco.

Vanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association. She has written for the New York Times and Washington Post, among other publications. A Bay Area native, she works and teaches at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.

Lynn Breedlove, author of the novel Godspeed, singer for the band Tribe 8, COMMANDO and The Homobiles, creator of Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show, a comic solo show on gender and the ensuing book, which won the 2010 Lambda Literary Award in the transgender category. He is the founder of Homobiles, the indie non-profit ride service for the LGBTIQ community and its allies, which, along with his creative work, won him the 2012 Harvey Milk LGBT Club Award for Activism. His new poetry book "45 Thought Crimes," out on Manic D Press, is spirituality for skeptics, church at a punk show, a letter to bees, love in a riot, compassionate table flipping.

Brandon Melendez is a Mexican-American poet from California. He is the author of 'Gold That Frames The Mirror' (Write Bloody 2019). He is a National Poetry Slam finalist and two-time Berkeley Grand Slam Champion. A recipient of the 2018 Djanikian Scholarship from the Adroit Journal, the 2018 and 2019 Academy of American Poets Award, his poems are in or forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Muzzle Magazine, Ninth Letter, The Journal, Shenandoah, PANK, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Boston where he received his MFA from Emerson College.

Seth Katz is a trans and queer artist, designer, and writer based in San Francisco. His style and interest in the creative world includes interconnecting design, art, and the power of written word. Experimentalism, intersectionality, and integration of fine art and design are all critical concepts to his work. He writes mainly about gender identity, feminism, politics, and the many places they overlap. He has been published by the Fog City Rose, Awkward Mermaid, Supermaker, + Oatmeal Magazine by Wolfman. His zine Satanic Feminism and the Witchcraft of Fem Resistance was recently published into a chapbook by Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club. You can see more of his work at www.sethkatz.art.

Sarah Rose Etter is the author of The Book of X and Tongue Party (Caketrain Press). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cut, Electric Literature, VICE, Guernica, Philadelphia Weekly, and more. She is the recipient of writing residencies at the Disquiet International Program in Portugal, and the Gullkistan Creative Program in Iceland. She earned her MFA from Rosemont College. She lives in San Francisco.

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, august 9

8/9/2019

MUSHROOM + Victor Krummenacher & David Immerglück ~ $10 ~ 7:00pm - 9:30pm

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, august 8

8/8/2019

Charlie Hunter and Lucy Woodward with drummer Doug Belote ~ $25 ~ 7:00pm - 9:30pm

The remarkable CHARLIE HUNTER with LUCY WOODWARD return to the Make Out Room,
Wednesday August 8th with Drummer, Doug Belote.
Don’t miss two of the most exciting musicians in Jazz/popular music today.
Charlie Hunter & Lucy Woodward are pure magic & not to be missed.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/charlie-hunter-and-lucy-woodward-with-drummer-doug-belote-tickets-66306359105

*** ALCATRAZ SOUL CLUB ***

Alcatraz Soul Club comes early this month,
but as always -- we're ready to party!
What can you expect?
Only the finest 45 selections in:

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

On the decks:

+ KIRK HARPER
(ASC Resident/Sweater Funk, SF)
+ MARIA VICTORIA
(ASC Resident/Black Rhythm Happening, SF)

WHEN: Thursday, August 8th.
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

wednesday, august 7

8/7/2019

DJ LACY LUST! Heavy metal, glam, crotch rock! ~ FREE! ~ 6:00pm - 9:30pm

CHUB-E-FREEZ! ~
DJs BIG NATE, SWIFTUMZ & Special Guests! ~
Old School Hip-Hop, all vinyl! ~
Free! 9:30pm - 2:00am

tuesday, august 6

8/6/2019

ARCHIVE FEVER -
Indie Pop, C86, Punk, New Wave,
Powerpop, Rock n Roll
w/ DJs Andy & Jessica and Guests ~
FREE ~ 6:00pm - 10:00pm

SLOW JAMS ~
Deep & Sweet 60s Soul & Stuff ~
DJ Primo & friends ~
FREE! ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am

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