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thursday, november 2

11/2/2017

DJ Foodcourt presents: BUFFALO TOOTH + THE TUNNEL (record release) + DOCTOR DEATH ~
$8 ~ Doors 7pm, show 8pm! ~ 7 - 10pm

Enter the dark, welcoming womb of the Make Out Room for a night of sultry sounds...

Buffalo Tooth (punk N' roll)
https://buffalotooth.bandcamp.com/

the Tunnel (record release!)
https://thetunnelsf.bandcamp.com/

Doctor Deaf (members of Owl, Dealer)
https://doctordeaf.bandcamp.com/releases

DJ Foodcourt (Mr. Parker T Gibbs)

DJ CYNDI G ~ rock/pop/punk/soul/crap ~ FREE! ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am

wednesday, November 1

11/1/2017

DJ ALLYSON ~ new wave, glam, + more! ~ NO COVER ~ 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

Halloween ~ tuesday, october 31

10/31/2017

Callin' all Ghouls and Goblins!
Start yer Halloween night at The Make-Out Room with a treat for yer earholes! Starting at 6pm I'll unearth a creepy batch of vintage Halloween tunes and monster sounds. Slated for action are Terry Teene and "The Curse of the Hearse," "Monster Miss" by Miss L.L. Louise Lewis, as well as "The Whip" by The Creeps. As usual, monster growls, ghostly groans, rattling chains, heartbeats (regular and irregular), creaking doors, unworldly shrieks, thunderstorms–and more!–will be interspersed throughout the proceedings.

Graves, you dig?
Tuesday, October 31st
The Make-Out Room
3225 22nd Street (between Mission and Valencia)
6:00 to 9:30 pm
Free Admission

Alright. Happy Halloween,
Mike (aka DJ Tone Arm)

SLOW JAMS Halloween Costume Party ~ Deep & Sweet 60s Soul & Stuff ~ DJ Primo & friends ~ FREE! ~ 9:30pm - 2:00am

monday, Roctober 30

10/30/2017

El Jimador Sugar Skull Painting Party! Come on in and and get your Dia de los Muertos on! ~
w/ DJ Handlebars spinning Rock 'n' Roll stuff ~ FREE! ~ 6:00pm - 9:00pm

DJ Raton Rose & Special Guests- Rock n Roll Halloween Eve Party!! ~ FREE! ~ 9:00pm - 2:00am

sunday, october 29

10/29/2017

ALL YOUR BUDS, ALL THE JAMS - TOM PETTY TRIBUTE! A live tribute and Napa/Sonoma county fire relief fundraiser! Doors at 7:00pm! Show at 8:00pm! ~ 7:00pm - 12:00pm

A live tribute to the greatness of Tom Petty's songs!! AND a benefit for North Bay fire relief efforts! https://www.gofundme.com/napa-sonoma-fires

saturday, october 28

10/28/2017

MUDDY ROSES + The Shut-ins ~ $10 ~ Come visit the Cazadores Taco Truck from 9pm til 11pm ~ drink specials, tequila tasting and free tacos!! ~ 7:00pm - 9:30pm

MUDDY ROSES + SHUT-INS
The Muddy Roses 2nd Annual Halloween Extravaganza!
Come shake your bones on this spooky weekend with The Muddy Roses
The Shut-ins open the show...be afraid...
7:00 - 9;30 ~ $10

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

Come visit the Cazadores Taco Truck from 9pm til 11pm ~ drink specials, tequila tasting and
FREE TACOS with admission!

friday, october 27

10/27/2017

SET PHASERS TO "PARTY"

Warp 11 - Warp 11 is an independent rock band from Sacramento, California, that performs original songs with lyrics entirely about Star Trek. Warp 11 music covers a wide range of styles including alternative, classic rock, punk, country and blues. Their lyrics are humorous and sometimes profane. Warp 11 was interviewed in the Paramount Pictures documentary Trekkies 2. The Warp 11 song "Everything I Do, I Do With William Shatner" was included in the television broadcast of the Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d-ysZwv9qQ

Chaki - Your favorite funk punk from outer space. "Like Prince if he was fat and sucked." - David Fricke, Rolling Stone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeE_bfS9EGc

EARLY SHOW! ~ 6-10pm ~ $7 ~ COSTUMES ENCOURAGED!

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, rocktober 26

10/26/2017

THE KNAST + SWEET CHARIOT ~ $8 ~ 6:30pm - 9:30pm

With an awesome new record in tow, Seattle jangle wranglers the knast make a rare San Francisco appearance with the filthy four of Sweet Chariot! AND it's an early show in the Mission position at our favorite haunt, Make-Out Room!

CHULITA VINYL CLUB ~ Cumbia, Soul, Lowrider Jams, + more! ~ FREE ~ 9:30pm - 2:00am
www.chulitavinylclub.com

wednesday, october 25

10/25/2017

BIG WEDNESDAY hosted by Jeremy Wheat ~ A Comedy show with some Variety! ~ $8 ~ 7pm - 10pm

BOING! It's almost HOWL-oween and Big Wednesday has a stack of so-funny-it's-SCARY comedians, INCLUDING: Valerie Vernale, Jesse Hett, Aviva Siegel, Ben Kolina, Kevin O'Shea, and you-demanded-it headliner Iris Benson. Hip show, host-a-roonied by Jeremy Wheat

Int'l FREAKOUT a-GO-GO! ~ 60s 70s Soul-Funk-Disco-Pop-Psych from around the world! International tunes that take you there! ~ DJs Special Lord B., Ben Bracken + Bobby Ganush! ~ Come hear what's blowing our minds ~ FREE! ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am

International Freakout A Gogo last Wednesdays at the Make Out Room - 10pm-2am - No Cover -
21 and over.

Join us this month to welcome a very special guest from NY,
DURIAN SOUND (Thai Funk Flavor)

With the unusual suspects of monthly rotation de freakout:
SPECIAL LORD B
BEN BRACKEN
BOBBY GANUSH

Come dance with us! We're always spinning complete vinyl sets of rare and classic Cumbia, Afro-Beat, South East Asian Psych, Group Sounds, Ye-Ye, Turkish Funk, International Disco and More!

tuesday, october 24

10/24/2017

Bacchanal '56 ~ 1950s & '60s Trinidad on 45rpm ~ DJs Adam + Zeke ~ No Cover ~ 6:00pm - 9:30pm

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

Monday, October 23

10/23/2017

DJ Cherry Crush Happy Hours- Power Pop, New Wave, Post Punk, Glam, Lo-Fi! FREE! ~ 6:00pm - 9:30pm

AmpLIFIED SOUL! Heavy Soul and The Right-On Get-Down Sound ~ curated by DJ Tone Arm ~ FREE ~ 9:30pm - 2:00am

sunday, october 22

10/22/2017

The Seagulls + The Bogues (Pogues tribute) + Meredith Edgar ~ $8 ~ 7:30pm - 11:00pm

saturday, october 21

10/21/2017

About the readers/performers:

devorah major is the author of an upcoming science fiction novel called Ice Journeys. San Francisco’s third former Poet Laureate, major is a part-time senior adjunct professor at California College of the Arts, and poet-in-residence of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Her first novel, An Open Weave, was awarded the First Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Curbstone Press released her second novel (which includes poetry), Brown Glass Windows to critical acclaim. City Lights Publishing released another book of major’s poetry, where river meets ocean, and Creative Arts Books, Inc. released her third solo book of poetry, with more than tongue. She is the recipient of a 2002 California Arts Council Spoken Word Literary Arts Fellowship. For over twenty years she has been a part of Daughters of Yam (a poetry performance group with Opal Palmer Adisa) which has released one book, two chapbooks, one poetry and jazz cassette and one poetry and jazz CD. major's poems and short stories, and essays have been published in a number of anthologies including: So Long Been Dreaming: Post-Colonial Science Fiction, Mojo: Conjurer Tales, Drum Voices Review, So Much Thing to Say, Heartspeak, Saints of Hysteria, 100 Poets Against the War, So Luminous the Wildflowers, Rites of Passage, Black Silk, Bum Rush the Page: Def Poetry Jam, Girls Like Us, Father Songs, Streetlights: Urban Stories of the Black Experience, Thoughts to Savor, I Hear A Symphony, Poetry Like Bread, and many magazines and journals including ZYZZYVA, Callaloo, and River Styx. She has received Pushcart recognition for her short story/poem, "A Crowded Table". She has also written two “Start to Finish” history books for young people: Rosa Parks: Freedom Fighter and Frederick Douglas: A Hero for All Times (1999).

October's Writers With Drinks has a theme of STRANGE ROMANCE. Featuring mind-opening speculative fiction, robot poetry, almost-human spoken word, and tons more!
When: Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM
Who: devorah major, Celeste Chan, Shawna Kenney, Christopher Brown, Thomas Centolella and Margaret Rhee!
How much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the Center for Sex & Culture
Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA

Shawna Kenney is the author of the award-winning memoir I Was a Teenage Dominatrix, editor of the anthology Book Lovers: Sexy Stories from Under the Covers, co-author of Imposters, and co-author of the new oral history Live at the Safari Club: A History of HarDCore Punk in the Nation’s Capital 1988-1998. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, Playboy, Creative Nonfiction, Vice, The Rumpus, Bust, Narratively, Salon and more. Kenney’s personal essays appear in numerous anthologies and she has shared her words on college campuses and airwaves around the world.

Thomas Centolella is the author of four books of poetry: Terra Firma (1990), Lights & Mysteries (1995), Views from along the Middle Way (2002), and Almost Human (2017). He has received the Lannan Literary Award, the American Book Award, the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, and was selected for publication in the National Poetry Series (selected by Denise Levertov). He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University, and his work has appeared in many periodicals and anthologies and on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac.

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.

Celeste Chan is a Hedgebrook, Lambda, and VONA fellow, and recent Sister Spit alum. Her writing can be found in Ada, AWAY, Citron Review, cream city review’s genrequeer folio, Feminist Wire, Hyphen, Mixed Race/Queer and Feminist, and The Rumpus. She also has work in the anthologies Writing the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBT Voices, and Glitter & Grit: Queer Performance from Heels on Wheels. She co-founded Queer Rebels, a queer and trans people of color arts project, and is a contributing editor for Foglifter, a new literary journal of queer form & content.

Christopher Brown's first novel is Tropic of Kansas. He was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for the anthology Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including MIT Technology Review’s Twelve Tomorrows, The Baffler, and Reckoning.

Margaret Rhee is a poet, artist, and scholar. She is the author of chapbooks Yellow (Tinfish Press, 2011) and Radio Heart; or, How Robots Fall Out of Love (Finishing Line Press, 2015), awarded a 2017 Elgin Award, second place by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Her project The Kimchi Poetry Machine was selected for the Electronic Literature Collection Volume 3. Literary fellowships include Kundiman, Hedgebrook, and the Kathy Acker Fellowship. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in ethnic and new media studies. She is at work completing her monograph, How We Became Human: Race, Robots, and the Asian American Body. Currently, she is a Visiting Scholar at the NYU A/P/A Institute, and a Visiting Assistant Professor at SUNY Buffalo in the Department of Media Study.

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, october 20

10/20/2017

ESCAPE-ISM + THE ECHO OHS (NZ) ~ $8 ~ 7:00pm - 9:30pm

www.mergerecords.com/escape-ism

https://theechoohs.bandcamp.com/

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

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