Events

saturday, july 20

7/20/2019

Russ Tolman Band + Barbara Manning + Dan Janisch (solo) ~ $12 ~ 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Americana singer/songwriter Russ Tolman, founder of original Paisley Underground band True West brings his LA band to SF to celebrate the release of his new album GOODBYE EL DORADO.
Co-headlining is SF's favorite indie queen Barbara Manning.
Opening at 7:45pm is LA singer/songwriter Dan Janisch.
$12 at the door.

https://www.facebook.com/RussTolmanBand/?eid=ARBsyFqg8L89WnF2Zn62IOvlcJlniaKz6DuuE6uNxvusNw7PoRRpIdwfjaHipAHDeFvuxd4qV-otwwi8

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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, july 19

7/19/2019

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

thursday, july 18

7/18/2019

PAULA FRAZER & TARNATION + LELAND & THE SILVER WELLS + TABERNACLE ~
$8 ~ 7:00pm - 9:45pm

Queso Fresco Presents:
A Very Special Night of Classic Electric Folk

Paula Frazer & Tarnation
Leland & The Silver Wells (Los Angeles)
Tabernacle

Paula Frazer-
https://www.facebook.com/paulafrazerandtarnation/
Not many American singers with a country twang are actually from the Deep South, but such is the case for Paula. She moved to San Francisco in the 1980s and began Tarnation in the 1991. Paula released 2 albums on 4AD, 1 on Reprise and four albums on Birdman Records and toured Europe and the US with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Moore Brothers, The Tindersticks and others. She has also appeared on recordings with artists including Cornershop, Jonathan Richman, Mark Eitzel, Sean Lennon, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Tindersticks, and the Czars. Paula’s songs have appeared on soundtracks like GI Jane, The Break Up, Joyride, Nevada, Gambling and has appeared on other movies and commercials.

Leland Ettinger and the Silver Wells-
https://lelandandthesilverwells.com/
On her album Leland and the Silver Wells, singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Leland Ettinger creates songs that are expansive yet intimate, offering artfully layered arrangments that transport the listener while driving home the vividly personal lyrics of such intoxicating tunes as "We Dissolve," "Was a Prisoner," "Give Up the Gun," "Lost My Way" and the epic, Joan Didion-inspired "Play It As It Lays" (Didion's namesake novel also inspired the "Silver Wells" moniker). The album's lovingly textured arrangements incorporate strings, brass and woodwinds along with conventional rock instrumentation to create a stirring musical statement that abounds with warmth and humanity.
https://www.facebook.com/lelandandthesilverwells/

Tabernacle -
https://www.facebook.com/tabernaclesanfrancisco/
Traditional ballads of the British Isles, some hundreds of years old, played as loud and heavy as we know how. While at times also, a stained glass Mass, marigolden ballads Sunday-sung through a gossamer spun upon the rings of kings and the dreams of queens.

* 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

WHERE: The Make-Out Room (3225 22nd Street), in the heart of SF's Mission.

WHEN: Thursday, July 19th.
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 ***
Where you will enjoy the finest 45 selections in:

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

On deck this month:
+ MICHAEL SARETSKY (ASC, SF)
+ MATT STOUT
(TNT/Silver & Black Soul Club, Oakland)
+ MARTHA REYNA
(TNT/Bat City Soul Club, Oakland)

wednesday, july 17

7/17/2019

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, july 16

7/16/2019

LITQUAKE 20TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY!
Can Literature Save San Francisco? ~
FREE! ~ 7:00pm - 10:00pm
https://litquakeyearround2019.sched.com/event/QnC6#_=_

Help the Bay Area literary community celebrate two decades (to the day)
of the world-famous festival known as Litquake.
Founded in a dive bar 20 years ago, Litquake returns to its roots
to host this action-packed literary bash. Hear highlights for the upcoming 20th anniversary festival. Mingle with the word nerds. Hear readings and stories from LQ veterans.
Slake your thirst on discounted specials from Fort Point Beer Company.
Watch in amazement as five author bands take the stage in a Battle Royale to the death.

Litquake Veterans:
Tamim Ansary
Devorah Major
Merle Kessler
Alan Black
April Sinclair

Author Bands:
Vata & the Vine (Evan Karp and Maw Shein Win)
Heather Bourbeau & Raman Osman
Tongo Eisen-Martin & Steven Gray
Delco (A Delaware Corporation)
The Deadliners

More info: https://sched.co/QnC6

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

monday, july 15

7/15/2019

SAD BASTARDS CLUB & GIBBSMO present: ~ Tribute to ROKY ERICKSON ~
featuring Tom Heyman, Isaiah Mitchell, Eric Moffat, Brad Brooks, Banquet, & more! ~
$10 ~ 7:00pm - 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, July 14

7/14/2019

RED MEAT MATINEE SHOW + TOM HEYMAN ~ $10 ~ 4:00pm - 6:30pm

Catch an early Sunday show at our all-time favorite club the Make Out Room in SF CA!
Doors at 4pm,
Tom Heyman at 4:30pm,
Red Meat at 5:30pm.

CHINA + TROUBLE IN THE WIND + JOE BOURDET ~ $8 ~ 7:30pm - 2:00am

CHINA
https://chinatheband.bandcamp.com/

And Then Nothing Happened is the new album from Bay Area folk-rock band China. Working on the same vintage MCI console from Muscle Shoals that Paul Simon, Willie Nelson, and Cat Stevens used, producer David Glasebrook recorded the band live-in-the-studio to analog tape in order to capture the natural chemistry of the group. The band was encouraged to experiment and use auxiliary instrumentation to bring their new songs to life with distinctive character—‘Bitter Sailor’ paints its refrain with mandolins like some lost sea shanty, ‘Carnations’ is buoyed by a horn section straight outta Memphis, and Side B opens with a psychedelic swirl of sound.

Once again, the collection of songs revolves around the cinematic songwriting that has become the band’s trademark. This time the characters are a bunch of beautiful losers caught in a freeze frame hovering somewhere between mundanity and epiphany like something out of a Raymond Carver story. In the album’s opening track ’Marnie’ the narrator looks back at a love that’s gone but not forgotten, wondering if it’s really all over for good; on the title track ‘And Then Nothing Happened’ the narrator comes to terms with his broken dreams and the reality of a life where there’s nothing left for him after last call.

After each listen, the takeaway slowly sinks in, like a starry eyed revelation on an all night drive. These songs are about all of us, our uncertainty and doubt, our successes and failures, our struggle to find meaning in a world that’s often meaningless. And there’s something beautiful to that, like carnations springing up from a cracked concrete sidewalk or a couple of friends staggering home from the local bar.

TROUBLE IN THE WIND
https://troubleinthewind.bandcamp.com/

Trouble in the Wind has been labeled as folk, Americana, alternative, country, surf rock …etc but the Southern California quartet likes to call themselves “rock and roll”.

The band’s stripped-down organic sound is a multi-instrumental collective fronted by songwriter Robby Gira, whose staggering powerful voice creates the center of attention of their songs. The group’s instrumentation of accordion, upright bass, brushes, banjo and guitars color the emotional songs which blend and range from ballads to surf folk to soulful rockers.

JOE BOURDET
https://joebourdet.bandcamp.com/

Musician Joe Bourdet is operating somewhere within the definition of a California singer-songwriter and one gets the impression that it’s comfortable territory for the Golden State native. The music of his debut release reveal first loping, then driving acoustic guitars, delicate harmony vocals cascading into intertwining slide guitar lines, and all laid out in a bed of tastefully executed rhythms and textures (The sublime George Sluppick of Memphis TN is on drum duties here). Lyrical themes involve pastoral imagery, betraying a love for California’s Sierra Nevada range. They also contain a subtle existential subtext, as if the music presented is that of a seeker, one perceiving beauty, reaching for something that can't be fully articulated or understood, and that that’s OK.

Also a producer and engineer, Joe Bourdet is responsible for much of the production duties on his records supplemented by long time collaborator engineer/guitarist Jason Soda.

Joe Bourdet is from Nevada City CA. He currently resides in Los Angeles CA.

Credits include two full-length albums with the band Whispering Pines, an album with the band Painted Hills led by the late great Josh Schwartz, and an early stint as guitarist for artist/producer Jonathan Wilson. His works as a composer include the musical soundtracks for the films 'Patagonia Trips #Yuki_Surf' and 'Fishing for Unicorns.' Additionally, his music has appeared in the TV series 'Dusk Till Dawn,' 'Damages,' 'Franklin and Bash,' and a documentary about the legendary venue ‘Pappy and Harriet’s’ near Joshua Tree National Park called 'The Pioneertown Palace.'

saturday, July 13

7/13/2019

About the readers/performers:

Gabby Rivera is the author of AMERICA, the debut solo series for America Chavez, Marvel's first queer Latina superhero. Rivera’s critically acclaimed debut novel Juliet Takes a Breath was called “f*cking outstanding” by Roxane Gay and will be published in hardcover for the first time in fall 2019. When not writing, Gabby speaks on her experiences as a queer Puerto Rican from the Bronx, being an LGBTQ advocate and the importance of centering joy in narratives as Latinx people and people of color.

Hugo award winner Sarah Gailey is an internationally published writer of fiction and nonfiction. Their nonfiction has been published by Mashable and the Boston Globe, and they are a regular contributor for Tor.com and Barnes & Noble. Their most recent fiction credits include Fireside Fiction, Tor.com, and The Atlantic. Their debut novella, River of Teeth, was published in 2017 via Tor.com and was a 2018 Hugo and Nebula award finalist. Their adult novel debut, Magic For Liars, will be published by Tor Books in June 2019. Their Young Adult novel debut, When We Were Magic, will be published by Simon Pulse in Spring 2020.

Grace Lavery is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at UC Berkeley, where she is also affiliated with the Programs in Critical Theory, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, and with the Center for Japanese Studies. Her first book, Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan, will be published by Princeton University Press in May 2019. She she is beginning work on a second project, currently titled "Getting Better: Realism, Repetition, and the Rhetoric of Technique," that concerns the expansion and consolidation of new modes of self-improvement between the mid nineteenth and mid twentieth centuries. Her essays have appeared in modernism/modernity, ELH, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Comparative Literature Studies, and she has essays on trans issues, psychoanalysis, and literary history forthcoming in Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Critical Inquiry. She writes publicly on trans issues and related themes, and publishes a regular newsletter entitled THE STAGE MIRROR via Substack.

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. Hosted by author Charlie Jane Anders.

July's Writers With Drinks is on fire with literary brilliance. Six authors and poets bring you breathtaking queer storytelling, mind-blowing poetry, wonderfully bizarre worlds and Victorian aesthetics. If you only get to one Writers With Drinks this year, make it this one.

When: Saturday, July 13, 2019 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 7 PM
Who: Gabby Rivera, Helen Phillips, Sarah Gailey, Troy Jollimore, Natasha Dennerstein and Grace Lavery!
How much: $5 to $20 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit a local nonprofit TBA

Helen Phillips is the author of five books, including, most recently, the novel The Need. Her collection Some Possible Solutions received the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat, a New York Times Notable Book of 2015, was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award and the L.A. Times Book Prize. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and the Italo Calvino Prize. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, the New York Times, and Tin House, and on Selected Shorts. She is an associate professor at Brooklyn College.

Troy Jollimore’s most recent book of poetry, Syllabus of Errors, was chosen by the New York Times as one of the best poetry collections of 2015. His previous poetry books are At Lake Scugog (2011) and Tom Thomson in Purgatory, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry for 2006. He is also the author of two philosophical works, Love’s Vision and On Loyalty, and has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Stanford Humanities Center, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

Natasha Dennerstein's new book is Turn And Face the Strange. She's the author of two previous poetry collections, Triptych Caliform and Anatomize. Dennerstein has had poetry published in Fourth Floor, Landfall, Snorkel, JAAM, Takahe, Bloom, Transfer and Red Light Lit, Foglifter, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Sparkle+Blink. She's currently on the editorial team of Nomadic Press in Oakland.

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, july 11

7/11/2019

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

COOL AS FUCK! Happy Hour
New and Classic Indie, Shoegaze, Britpop, Rock and Roll

with your hosts
Liam, Raul and Kevin
plus special guests

Second Fridays 6-10pm
At the Make Out Room
3225 22nd St. SF

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, july 11

7/11/2019

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 and dub cuts from vinyl
with DJs Vexer and DartAjax (Members of Titan Ups and 1906).
Come early and enjoy Dub Riot before Festival '68 - this is a free event, $5 rum punch!

FESTIVAL '68 ~ Rocksteady, Early Reggae & Ska ~ Resident selector Adam & guests. FREE! 10:00pm

Wake the Town Radio presents:
"Festival '68"

Very special guest selector:
Michael Turner
aka Dr. Sappatoo (Roots Knotty Roots)

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

wednesday, july 10

7/10/2019

The Charities (Hermosa Beach) + Mae Powell ~ $8 ~ 7:00pm - 9:30pm

The Charities are a soul, funk based band from
Hermosa Beach California. Their music draws influence from genres such as vintage jazz, old Motown soul, funk, and even disco and R&B.

Mae Powell was raised by wolves and writes music for the moon. She sings jazz around the city every week, and plays shows in her bedroom
for friends and her cat Salt. Her and her partner Felix Talkin are on a mission to spread love
and magic across all dimensions.

BOOM! Shak-a Lak-a
(SPECIAL Humpday EDITION) presents:
CANCER Birthday-Bash !~ funk/soul/groove/synth-pop/hip-hop/int'l ~ Reserve a birthday party booth on EventBrite! ~ groove, wave, goth, synth-pop, hip-hop ~
DJ 2shy-shy & DJ melt w/ U ~
FREE! ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am

Cancer: The Love Maker
Cancers are highly emotional signs,
which means that sex is not merely
a mechanical physical undertaking;
rather it is expected to be a poetic act of beauty and love and all that good stuff.
If you’re going to get naked with a Cancer, prepare yourself for an intense ride.
And perhaps some post-coital crying.

tuesday, july 9

7/9/2019

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 pick a winner!
$10/Pay what you can
This month's prompt:
Sand! Witches! Sandwiches!

This month's writers are:
Mk Chavez
Melinda Noack
Jyoti Arvey
and June's returning champ
John Talaga

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

monday, july 8

7/8/2019

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

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 tonight
at Make-Out Room
10pm Absolutely Free! Fall In & Get Lost! #choosevinyl #45rpm #makeoutroomsf #drinksandrecords

sunday, july 7

7/7/2019

CLUTCH the PEARLS; For which they stand ~
Drag Show w/ hosts Mira + Churro Nomi ~
$10 ~ 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Clutch the Pearls is back with its regularly scheduled programming!
Come party with a gaggle of queers that are here
to remind you what America actually looks like.

Jams by:
DJ La Frida

Your hosts:
Mira (Kevin Lopez)
And Churro Nomi

With performances by:
Buka Kay
Shane Thomas
Hennessy Williams
Ana Leash (Amanda Vigil)
Vanity (Louie Ochoa)
Kenya Knott (Troy Clinton)
Daisy Nukes (Jules Fa'sette)

And special guests
Pulp Dance Company

Door: 7:30pm
Show: 8:00pm
Cover: $10

See you soon!!!

DIMENSIONS w/ DJs Justin & Kurt ~
Technicolor Sounds: Soft Vinyl Soul 10pm ~
FREE! ~
10:00pm - 2:00am

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