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thursday, september 14

9/13/2017

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

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

This Thursday night September 14th 10PM at Make-Out Room in SF. Deep sounds of 1960s & '70s Jamaica on original 45 rpm for your listening and dancing experience with very special guest selectors: Susan & Dixie of Crucial Riddims (eBay sellers: recordlikedirt). Festival '68 is happening this Thursday night at The Make-Out Room 10PM. Run come celebrate.

wednesday, september 13

9/13/2017

Mawkish Twaddle w/ DJ Still or Sparkling (Bob N. of Community Radio) ~ 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! ~ 6:30pm - 9:30pm

It's another Mawkish Twaddle at the Make-Out -- this Wednesday night, September 13, from 6:30 to 9:30! Mellow punk, harsh EZ listening, and various subgenres in between will be blasting from the speakers while you sip a cold drink or two. You might even dance or engage in lively conversation (or whatever people do in friendly neighborhood cocktail bars these days)!

If the last-minute nature of this invitation is catching you flat-footed and flummoxed, tune in and view the proceedings on Periscope. The frequency is https://www.pscp.tv/newaveclub.

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! ~ 80s DANCE PARTY! presents: Local Wave! Join us for a grand celebration of local bands from the San Francisco Bay Area during the 80s and late 70s ~ Romeo Void, TRANSLATOR, Flipper, Voice Farm, The Nuns, The Call, Leila and the Snakes, The Humans, Wire Train, CHROME DINETTE, The Tubes, Pearl Harbor and the Explosions, The Units, Tuxedomoon, Avengers, American Music Club, Flying Color, Chris von Sneidern ~ (along with our usual array of groove, wave, synth pop, goth, and other underground club favorites) ~ DJ 2shy-shy & DJ melt w/U ~ FREE! ~ 9:30 pm

tuesday, september 12

9/12/2017

Josh Pollock/Gabe Wheeler Birthday Bash-- feat. "NEVER MIND THE POLLOCKS!": one-time-only Sex-Pistols tribute band (feat. Jon Ginoli of Pansy Division!) ~ NO COVER ~ 7:00pm - 10:00pm

The Sex Pistols get no respect. I mean, do you respect them? I doubt it. They're barely even considered a band anymore, so much as four lunkheads who happened to be in the right place at the right time to become synonymous with a cultural sea change, the repercussions of which are still being felt today, no thanks to them. The music itself has been utterly obscured by their (yawn) "historical significance" and fairly abysmal post-Pistols track record.
And that just ain't right.
Because to listen to The Sex Pistols is to hear the potential of rock music being realized to the nth degree.
And to see them, as I did on their reunion tour 20 years ago, was to see not four cash-poor has-beens squinting in the spotlight, but four muthafuckin' Superstars, with charisma to burn, absolutely slaying it on a majesterial level.
The song-craft is rock solid, the arrangements ninja-perfect, the singing an unprecedented molotov cocktail of volcanic passion and Brechtian remove, with gravitas for days, the guitar tones to die for, and, unlike almost any 'punk rock' since, it swings like a motherfucker. And you can only swing if you know what you're doing.
And:
they were KIDS. Even if you think I'm piling on the hyperbole, I dare you to say that their album pales in comparison to whatever you did when you were 20. I sure cant.
At the end of the day, whatever it is that makes shit hold up, they got. In spades.
This music deserves to be heard shorn of it's distracting, superfluous cultural baggage. In a small venue, that serves beer.

Early-bird birthday party for Josh and Gabe, feat. one-time-only SEX PISTOLS TRIBUTE "Never Mind The Pollocks" (JON GINOLI--vocals, JOSH POLLOCK--guitar, REED PALMER--bass, DOUG HILSINGER--drums)

SLOW JAMS ~ Deep & Sweet 60s Soul & Stuff ~ DJ Paul Costuros w/ DX n Guest, FREE! ~10pm - 2am

monday, september 11

9/11/2017

Dusty Mirror's Melancholy Monday ~ Drag Show w/ Connor Tracy ~ an evening of sad songs ~ 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Do you like drag? Do you like live music?
I do both at the same time.

Join me for Dusty Mirror's Melancholy Monday at The Make Out Room the second Monday of this month! I'll be playing a two hour set chalkfull of sad songs. With covers of Stevie Nicks to Dolly Parton to Amy Winehouse, along with some originals as well.

Doors at 7:30pm
Show at 8pm

5+ donation at door

ALL PROCEEDS WILL BE GOING TO GHCF's HURRICANE HARVEY RELIEF FUND!

Invite friends!

DJ KevinZen ~ Rare Groove, Makeout Music and Breakdance classics ~ FREE ~ 9:30pm - 2:30am

sunday, september 10

9/10/2017

BuMP CITY SOUL w/ DJ CYNDI G! Soul, RnB from '68 to '74! Heavy on the Tower of Power and inner city grooves! ~ FREE! ~ 6:00pm - 10:00pm

DIMENSION w/ DJs Justin & Kurt ~ Technicolor Sounds: Soft Vinyl Soul ~ FREE! ~ 10:00pm - 4:30am

saturday, september 9

9/9/2017

September's Writers With Drinks is packed with clockwork dynasties, hella queer poetry, beautiful wartime stories, heartbreakingly funny gay memoirs, and much more!

When: Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM
Who: Daniel H. Wilson, Juba Kalamka, Meredith May, Natasha Dennerstein and Alvin Orloff!
How much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the Center for Sex & Culture

Variety is more than just having sex dressed as Alien Greenspan every once in a while. It's more than occasionally cosplaying as Yeoman Ayn Rand instead of Slave Leeloo. It's also a Literary Imperative! Which is why Writers With Drinks combines erotica with literature, stand-up comedy with science fiction, and poetry with essays. Plus mystery, romance, memoir, rants and "other."

About the readers/performers:

Natasha Dennerstein is the author of two 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.

Bisexual artist/activist Juba Kalamka is the author of a forthcoming poetry collection, Son of Byford, and also plans to release a new solo album, Jig School Confidential. He been recognized for his more recent work with queer POC performance troupes Sins Invalid and Mangos with Chili, as a member of “homohop” group Rainbow Flava, as co-founder/producer of Deep Dickollective (D/DC) and creator of the micro-label @Sugartruck Recordings. He has written and for Kitchen Sink, Anything That Moves and Carnal Nation, and served six years as a music columnist, book reviewer and feature writer for Colorlines Magazine. He received a 2005 Creating Change Conference award from the National LGBTQ Task Force for his activist work in queer music community. He was one of 30 activists selected to attend the White House Bisexual Community Briefing on Public Policy in September 2015.

Daniel H. Wilson's latest book is The Clockwork Dynasty. A Cherokee citizen, Wilson is the author of the New York Times bestselling Robopocalypse and its sequel Robogenesis, as well as seven other books, including How to Survive a Robot Uprising, A Boy and His Bot, and Amped. He earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Masters degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.

Meredith May is an award-winning journalist and the author of I, Who Did Not Die, which tells the true story of a 13-year-old Iranian child soldier who secretly nursed an enemy fighter back to life during the brutal Iran-Iraq War. May teaches podcasting at Mills College in Oakland, and is a fifth-generation beekeeper. She spent 16 years as a feature writer at the San Francisco Chronicle. Her 2004 newspaper series about a war-wounded Iraqi boy won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism and the Pulitzer Prize for photography; and her 2006 sex trafficking investigation earned first place feature writing awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Associated Press, and was turned into a graphic novel by Stanford University. Her writing is included in the book, Best Newspaper Writing 2005, published by the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

Alvin Orloff began his literary career in 1977, penning lyrics for The Blowdryers, a slightly forgotten San Francisco Punk band. Since then he’s written three whimsical queer novels: I Married an Earthling, Gutter Boys, and Why Aren’t You Smiling? Despite royalties totaling literally hundreds of dollars, he continues to humbly work his day job: managing Dog Eared Books Castro, a quaint neighborhood bookstore. His current project is a memoir about nutty, slutty queer club kids, punks, and hustlers during the height of the AIDS crisis. He is frequently bored and psychically perturbed, so if you invite him to do something the answer will likely be “yes.”

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, september 8

9/8/2017

COOL AS FUCK! Second Friday Happy Hour w/ DJs Kevin, Brian, Liam, & Raul ~ guitar-based indie pop gems that sparkle & shine, loudly rip & gently roar ~ FREE! ~ 6:00pm - 10:00pm

COOL AS FUCK! Happy Hour
Indie, Shoegaze, Brit, Psych, Rock n' Roll

See ya there!
Kevin, Raul, and Liam

Second Fridays 6-10pm
Arrive before 10pm to get in to LAST NITE - A 2000s Dance Party with no cover.

LAST NITE | 2000s Indie Dance Party w/ DJs Jamie Jams & Rocky ~ $10 door, $5 adv. ~
Tickets: http://www.lastnite00s.com ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am

DJs Jamie Jams and Rocky bring you all the hits from a time when punks suddenly remembered how to dance. It's like we ate Pitchfork, stole your iPod and then rode off on your track bike.
$10, $5 adv.
http://ticketf.ly/2kvqkBa
Be our friend!
http://www.facebook.com/lastnite00s

"Well, folks, the snake has officially reached its tail. The crew behind the '90s-themed Debaser party has gotten together to create "Last Nite," a brand new event that, much like its parent, is dedicated to reviving a specific moment in time. In this case, it's all about that brief period in the early-'00s when garage rock, dance punk, and electroclash all emerged and combined to form the soundtrack to the-then nascent hipster lifestyle. Resident DJs Jamie Jams and EmDee will be on hand to take you back to the days when "deck" was almost an adjective." - Derek Opperman, SF Weekly

"Oh gawd it's here: let the retro-00s (retr00s?) commence! Jamie Jams and Emdee, the fiendish minds behind seminal '90s revival party Debaser, kick it into the Interpol-Shins-Strokes-White Stripes era and take you slightly back to "a time when punks suddenly remembered how to dance" — you could still hear guitars on the radio." - Marke B., SF Bay Guardian

For more info:
http://www.lastnite00s.com/

thursday, september 7

9/7/2017

DJ FOODCOURT Presents: Cam Avery (Tame Impala), David and Joanna ~ $10 adv (Brown Paper Tickets), $12 at door! 7:00pm - 10:00pm

DJ FOODCOURT Presents: Cam Avery of Tame Impala in a very special solo show. David and Joanna open. Doors at 7pm. Support at 9. This show is partially seated.

Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3044025

DJ FOODCOURT & his pals ~ rock/pop/soul/crap ~ FREE! ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am

wednesday, september 6

9/6/2017

DJ BALLS2DeWALL - glam, power pop, punk ~ FREE! ~ 6:00pm - 9:30pm

CHUB-E-FREEZ! ~ DJs SWIFTUMZ + FRESH FITZ ~ Old School Hip-Hop, all vinyl, period attire highly encouraged! ~ Free! 9:30pm - 2:00am

Digging deep once again this month and playing a wide variety of great Hip Hop tracks from the '80s and '90s. All Vinyl!

tuesday, september 5

9/5/2017

ARCHIVE FEVER - Indie Pop, C86, Punk, New Wave, Powerpop, Rock n Roll w/ DJ Andy & Guests ~ FREE ~ 6:00pm - 9:30pm

Slow Jams ~ Deep & Sweet 60s Soul & Stuff ~ DJ Primo & friends ~ FREE! ~ 9:30pm - 2:00am

monday, september 4

9/4/2017

The MONDAY MAKE-OUT ~ The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz & improvised music ~ duoB + Aaron Novik's Berlin Suite + EGW Trio ~ FREE! ~ 7:30pm - 11:00pm

The Monday Make-Out
The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz and improvised music--

Monday, September 4, 8pm (8:30pm start)
No Cover/Donations Accepted

Set #1: duoB (dazzling bass/drum duets)
Lisa Mezzcappa-bass
Jason Levis-drums
http://www.lisamezzacappa.com/duo_home.html

Set #2: EGW Trio (free jazz/improvisation)
Karl Evangelista-guitar
Jordan Glenn-drums
Francis Wong-saxophone
http://www.franciswong.net/

Set #3: Aaron Novik's Berlin Suite (modern jazz/contemporary composition)
Aaron Novik-reeds
Kyle Bruckman-oboe
Crystal Pascucci-cello
Lisa Mezzacappa-bass
Jordan Glenn-drums
http://www.aaronnovik.com/

sunday, September 3

9/3/2017

saturday, September 2

9/2/2017

The Morning Line + Ray Vaughn ~ $8 ~ 7:30pm - 9:30pm

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. september 1

9/1/2017

"ABOUT LAST NIGHT: A One Night Stand Story Telling Series" ~ $10 ~ 7pm doors / 8pm showtime! ~ 7:00pm - 9:30pm

BOOM! Shak-a-lak-a ~ funk, soul, disco, wave, synth-pop, hip-hop, groove, international ~
DJ 2shy-shy & DJ melt w/U ~ $5 before 11pm, $10 after ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am

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