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The Top Five Parties in San Francisco This Weekend

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The Top Five Parties in San Francisco This Weekend

Let's just get right down to it and face facts: this coming weekend doesn't offer too many reasons to hit the pavement and start partying--there's no Cinco De Mayo, outdoor street festival, or other miscellaneous excuse. Instead, this time around you're just going to have to rely on the music and go ... More >>

The Top Five Parties in San Francisco This Weekend

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The Top Five Parties in San Francisco this Weekend

St. Patrick's Day looms, but that doesn't mean you need to put on green clothing to party this weekend. In fact, the draw of South by Southwest in Austin. means that an unusually high number of big touring acts will be stopping in the City by the Bay. Somewhat oddly, this week the focus is on the sl ... More >>

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Niki & the Dove Thrill the Independent, 1/26/13

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The Top Five Parties in San Francisco this Weekend

Happy New Year! Hopefully your Monday night festivities were as fun as ours were. But just in case they weren't, you'll have ample opportunity to make up for lost time and start 2013 on a high note. Yes, things are a little mellower than usual, but that doesn't mean there aren't some serious party o ... More >>

The Top Five Parties in San Francisco This Week

A small public service announcement to everyone who thought the world would end yesterday: the apocalypse was always scheduled for Dec. 21, not Dec. 12. That said, we've got a little over a week left before the big day, so let's try to have fun, alright? It shouldn't be very hard to do when things a ... More >>

The Top Five Parties in San Francisco This Weekend

Last weekend was all about sports and Halloween, and this weekend is all about celebrating politics. San Francisco, being a progressive city, has a lot to be happy about with Tuesday's election results, and we imagine some of you will be riding on a week-long high now that Obama is back in the White ... More >>

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From Detroit to Ibiza, Seth Troxler is one of the most in-demand DJs in the world. It's not too hard to understand why, given that his style is a party-friendly blend that leans heavily on the new school of tech-house, with crowd-pleasing rubbery basslines and '80s production techniques. He's headed ... More >>

Top 5 Parties in SF This Weekend: Das Racist, Shit Robot, SBTRKT, and More

A couple weeks ago, Decibal's arrival in Seattle made me question why the Bay Area doesn't have some big electronic dance music festival of its own. I'm still wondering as we ease our way out of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and towards the Treasure Island Music Festival. And while last week's festiviti ... More >>

The Top Five Parties in S.F. This Weekend: Icee Hot Starts a Label, Miracles Club at Public Works, and More

Sadomasochism, bondage, leather, public kinkiness, etc. It's time, once again, for the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco. Easily one of the city's largest outdoor events, you might think that everything else would get drowned out in the excitement leading up to Sunday. However, from we're standing ... More >>

The Top Five Parties This Weekend: Warm Leatherette, 120 Minutes, New York Night Train, and More

That's it folks, it's over. Burning Man 2012 came and went much the way it has every year. Life, however, goes on. This might be easy to forget while you lose yourself un-glueing things from the hood of your Toyota. But since research suggests that such activity has the potential to permanently hypn ... More >>

S.F.'s Justin Martin on Remixing Goldie, His 'Tough and Tender' Sound, and Dirtybird in the Park

With the release of his first full-length album, Ghettos and Gardens, and the accompanying world tour (his first -- with stops in Ibiza and London), Dirtybird's Justin Martin is having quite the year. Warmly received by critics, Ghettos and Gardens has garnered accolades from high-profile outlets s ... More >>

Weekend Parties: A-Trak, Suzanne Kraft and SFV Acid, Robert James, and More

Another week, another crop of parties. As usual, that means another paragraph of meaningless boilerplate. That's right, instead of talking about the weather, or incidental details, we've decided to go meta. Well, for two sentences at least. Anyway, this weekend has got quite a few exciting parties t ... More >>

Weekend Parties: Tenderlions at Temple, Dabrye at 1015 Folsom, and More

It's almost the weekend, and you know what that means. Yes, it's time for another roundup of recommended nightlife events. This week we've spread our net wide to show off a broad picture of what San Francisco has to offer. From old-school '00s electro bangers to Ibiza veterans, we've got you covere ... More >>

Pop Etc: Could the Morning Benders Have Chosen a Worse New Name?

Our sympathies to the members of the Morning Benders, who recently chose -- but were basically forced -- to change their band name. In a note posted to their old website over the weekend, the members explained that since "bender" is a widely used derogatory slang term for "homosexual" in the U.K. an ... More >>

Live Review, 1/19/12: Katy B Soars Over the Bass at Her First S.F. Show

Katy B Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 Rickshaw Stop Better than: The club music bandwagon. For all the pop singers building hits out of electronic dance music these days -- which is pretty much everyone under the age of 30 who isn't Adele -- the marriage often seems a little contrived. "We Found Love" so ... More >>

Weekend Party Preview: Omar S and Jackmaster at Icee Hot, Sasha at Ruby Skye, and a Lot of '90s Nostalgia

Omar S. ​ Hey, what do you know? Monday is Halloween! Yes, Halloween -- that strange time of the year in San Francisco, rivaled only by New Years, when the streets flood with people, the cars seem to swerve more, and all the taxis mysteriously vanish. Do yourself a favor and avoid Halloween th ... More >>

Your Week in Parties: Sososoon, Teengirl Fantasy, DJ Sneak, and More

Teengirl Fantasy is at Public Works on Thursday.​ The weekend before us is one of the craziest out of the year. It's a time when two of the Bay Area's most popular outdoor festivals collide: LovEvolution and the Folsom Street Fair. I've already written up a recommendation for what to do after ... More >>

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Eight Great Foodies from the Bay Area Music Scene

DJ Pam the Funkstress: Cajun food queen​The Bay Area's devotion to its homegrown music and food is steadfast. The culinary creativity here is as infectious as our sonic imagination, so it should come as little surprise that there is a crossover between the two local scenes. But did you know that D ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A w/ SF ex-pat Andy Caldwell

​Andy Caldwell is a skilled pianist and trumpeter, but his classical training takes a back seat to his rep in the clubs. The Om Records staple and Uno Recordings owner has spent the past decade and a half touring the world (hitting all the big dance meccas: Ibiza, Berlin, Australia) with his turnt ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: DJ Pee Play

​DJ Pee Play possesses the sort of mentality that keeps San Francisco's club--and cultural--scene vital. When he saw a nightlife void, instead of bitching about it, he went after filling it. And when one bar told him no, he started up a whole collective of likeminded DJs to do forward-thinking eve ... More >>

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Viva La Oakey: Paul Oakenfold10. In the late '70s, at the age of 21, Paul Oakenfold snuck into Studio 54 and met Cher and Donald Trump. 9. While living in New York, he was influenced by house music pioneer Larry Levan at the Paradise Garage. 8. In the '80s, he served as A&R for the UK's Champion ... More >>

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