Free Funk Friday 12/28

This Friday night at the Elbo Room it's Vinnie Esparza, B.Cause and me, spinning funky jams and it's FREE! Come through and party like it's 1979.

Radioinactive/Lazer Sword 2nite FREE

Radioinactive will be performing with LA Jae. If you're in San Francisco and you've never seen Lazer Sword live, you should really wake up, you're missing out. Sixtoo loves them.

Element Lounge is at 1028 Geary Street between Van Ness and Polk. Starts at 9 pm.

And Megabusive has been added!

Double Up 11/29::Ladies Free

Come to 222 Club at 222 Hyde at Turk in the TL this Thursday night. It's all chicks spinning for your dancing pleasure. Girls get in free, boys have to pay $5.



Caught the Busdriver/Daedelus/Antimc show at the Great American Music Hall last Saturday night. His RoadKillOvercoat album, produced by Nobody and Boom Bip, is outstanding. It's weird (even for him) yet more accessible, which makes no sense until you hear it for yourself.


Photo by Serg

Great show. Dope cover art by Seripop.

Glue and Hangar 18 are still on tour. Fun shit.

Rap Shows!!

Devin the Dude and the Coughee Brothaz are in town this week, on tour with Del tha Funky Homosapien and the homie BukueOne. Two shows at Slim's, tonight and tomorrow night.



Thursday night at 111 Minna, it's simply and appropriately called Rap Show. Check VinylExchange.com soon for some Junk Science and Iller Than Theirs giveaways.



Big ups to Pretty Titty of Seattle for coming down last week for Drip Drop, one of my fave monthlies. If you're paying attention you'll look for Krames's "Sound of the Police" remix.

Last Spindig of '07 this Friday

Doin' it big with guest DJs Swayzee and Authentic. Next one will be in January. If there IS a next one. It's been an awesome two years.



Had a blast hanging out with the Skratch Bastid this past weekend. He is touring with Buck 65 and the new shit is the shit. Go buy it!

MSTRKRFT Halloween Ball

Tonight! Hard Crack Candy 2

Promises to be even crazier than last year:

DJ Authentic @ Wax/Thuggy Fresh's Birthday

Wednesday, October 24 = Wax Wednesdays with special guest DJ Authentic and residents RasCue and Stef. Every Wednesday at The Milk Bar. Gurp City will be in the house celebrating Thuggy Fresh's birthday.

Fools Gold Tour SF @ Mezzanine 10/19

I'm wearing my new gold shoes.

2 Years of Spindig! Fri. Oct. 12, 2007

It's Spindig's 2 Year anniversary AND I quit my job so let's celebrate:

Wax Wednesdays

Wax Wednesdays goes down every Wednesday (duh!) at Milk:



Oh and don't you know the Wax logo (a tribute to the First Priority Music label) is Milk Dee approved? "Thanks for the love, you flipped it real hot."

A lot has happened since the Can Goods party--Serg's birthday dinner at Popol Vuh, Bomarr CD release party, Thread Show, Catchdubs at SuperFriends, Charlie's Pharmacy cocktail taste test... my boyfriend Serg's blog is the best source for the latest.

Can Goods & Treasure Island Music Festival

Can Goods today, Treasure Island yesterday, Catchdubs Friday night. Crazy weekend! Hope to actually see Bun B perform.



We have been laughing all weekend about the Slap party Friday night, Venue was switched from RX Gallery to Etiquette Lounge which looks nice from the photos, but is quite bizarre in reality (how upscale can you be at Market and 7th?). And not enough etiquette. Anyway, one of the owners apparently enjoys accompanying the DJs on his saxophone.


Catchdubs searches for tracks with sax.


Trackademicks is perplexed.

More of Serg's pics here. (Note the fine homoerotic artwork.)

Pics from SuperFriends with Low Budget here. We left at 1:30 and MIA hadn't shown up, so I doubt she did.

Yesterday at the Treasure Island Music Festival, performances were all good but one of the highlights for me was DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist's "Hard Sell" intro. Check it in five parts, from their Hollywood Bowl show, here:











Search YouTube for "hard sell," "shadow" and "cut chemist" and you'll find more.


By deeeeee on flickr

And there are already lots of great pics up from the festival here. I had a blast.

Spindig Happy Hour tonight

Spindig.net

Wednesday=Wax, Thursday=Hard As Fuck

Ryan Poulsen and I are DJing at Rasco's Birthday Party at Wax Wednesdays this week, playing all '80s and '90s hip-hop (on wax of course). Check out my Wax Wednesdays mix on VE Radio to get a taste.

Thursday, September 6 is the long-awaited Hard As Fuck party with DJs B.Cause, Morse Code, Matthew Africa and Shane King. (Thank you, KULT Radio.) Go Hard or stay home! Volume 3 of the Hard As Fuck mix CD series is available now from Beer and Rap or DJ B.Cause.





Check MadroneLounge.com for their calendar.

Special Ed at Wax Wednesdays 2nite!

SPECIAL ED live performance
with DJs
Victorious Black (Gang Starr Foundation/NYC)
Marc Stretch (75 Degrees)
Malachi (75 Degrees)
resident RasCue

Rascue and The Vinyl Exchange present Wax Wednesdays at the Milk Bar in San Francisco.

Last minute show! Check the Wax Wednesdays blog on MySpace for details.

Krames is coming

Be at Madrone Lounge Thursday night if you know what's good for you.

Myspace.com/djkrames

On Friday night he'll be at 222 Club with Purple Crush for the rave. I mean for Lights Down Low.





Seattle was a lot of fun. Big ups to Rapid Ric, Pretty Titty and Fourcolorzack for killing it at Sing Sing. Got new pink New Balances (on sale!) at Capitol 1524.

Wax Wednesdays at Milk

Every Wednesday night. Tonight's guest is Controller 7. Check VinylExchange.com/wax for the guest DJ schedule.

Good Magazine Block Party

Have fun while supporting a good cause--Good Magazine. (I wish I'd thought of it.)

Awesome '80s Spindig!

Come to Spindig Happy Hour tonight, it's about to be totally awesome!



Every 2nd Friday at 330 Ritch Street in SF.

On the TV screens: The Search for Animal Chin! Ramones Raw! Breakin'!

Clash of the Titans @ Anu Fri. July 6

Just One Entertainment and Versus Magazine SF presents Clash of the Titans, "A Dancetastic Night of Epic Proportions."

Featuring:
Chan Chan (Western Addition Radio)
Mally Jesus (Filthy Fresh)
LL Cool DJ (Lazer Sword)
DJ Stef (Vinyl Exchange)
DJ 4aM (Black Fiction)
DJ Swayzee (Versus Mag)

Giveaways Courtesy Of PUMA

@ Anu Bar
43 Sixth Street between Market and Mission
10pm-2am, 21+, Free

"Don't Believe The Hype, Be The Hype"

Wax Wednesdays jump off July 4th

Every Wednesday at the Milk Bar, DJ RasCue, special guest DJs and I will be bringing it back to the 80s and 90s with VINYL ONLY.

Get in the mood with the Collector Classics mix from VE Radio.

Spindig Happy Hour tonight

It's Spindig Happy Hour time again.

And then, it's Night of the Remix at Milk with special guest DJ Day, celebrating the release of "The Day Before," out now.

May recap coming soon, including highlights from M.O.P. In The Park, El-P and Mr. Dibbs at the Great American Music Hall, Versus Mag release party, and a bunch of other stuff that went down that I can't remember at the moment.

The Pack at Slim's Wednesday!

The Pack AND Go Dav! I am all about the high school raps.

Cheerleader - Go Dav


Vans - The Pack


Lip Gloss - Lil Mama

DJ Shadow at the Fillmore tonight

I can't wait to see if Turf Talk and/or Keak and/or Nump are gonna jump on stage with him.

Read Nick (Catchdubs) Barat's excellent Turf Talk article in The Fader.

Big ups to Fourcolorzack for killing it at Milk last Saturday. Check out his Weekday Warrior Pt 1 mix. Blowing my mind with the Pleasure and Third World tracks.

Do NOT Sleep This Saturday, San Francisco

I have been waiting since my trip to Seattle last summer for Fourcolorzack to make an appearance in the Bay and finally it goes down this Saturday night at Milk, thanks to the army that is SuperFriends.

Peep this clip of my first Fourcolorzack experience at the Puma Store in Bellevue, WA with DJ Supreme:



After this set I thanked Zack for making me feel at home, and he told me he was coming out here in August. Well that didn't happen, and despite constant nagging, Erik at Milk is still nice to me.

I'm still gonna post my SXSW recap, even it's two months late. It's comin'.

And this Sunday night, April 22nd, meet me at the Hemlock Tavern to celebrate Dose One's 30th birthday as well as RE:UP Magazine's Issue #13 release. Dose promises to DJ until he's too drunk to use a headphone cue.

Paul Nice back in SF tonight!

See you at Milk tonight.



I jock Nick Catchdubs's flyer steez. But do you see the typo?

Comic I'm feelin': Finished Brian Wood's Supermarket series TPB, illustrated by Kristian Donaldson, on my flight to Houston (which was supposed to be a flight to Austin, but the plane landed in Houston 4-1/2 hours late) for SXSW. Gonna check out his Channel Zero next. If you know of similar books that I might dig, please hit me up with suggestions.


Supermarket's story and graphics got me geeked.

My personal March Madness recap (which has nothing to do with college basketball) is coming soon. You can get some of it from my honey's blog, but that's only part of my story. In the meantime get a taste of the El-P tour at synthesisradio.net which features a clip from El-P's SXSW performance with Mr. Dibbs and band at the Red Eyed Fly. I was standing next to the camera guy, so it's almost exactly like being me at that show. Drink three tall cans of Lone Star before watching, and it WILL be exactly like being me.

SXSW 2007: Texas, here we come

Been looking forward to this all year and now SXSW 2007 is upon us. Check out some of our pics from last year.

Thanks to Matt SonzalaSoReal, I'm DJing Wednesday night, 3/14 at Karma Lounge, 119 W. 8th Street in Austin. I play from 9:00 to 10:00, followed by Houston DJs Dayta at 10:00 and Witnes at 11:00. Check out this band schedule. It's about to be ridiculous. And these are just the official SXSW showcases, there are tons more parties and shows going on all over town.



I'll be in Austin from Wednesday until Sunday, the 18th. This year I remembered to pack some green for St. Patrick's Day. Green stuff to wear, is what I'm talkin' about. What did you think?

Big thanks to everyone who came out to the 45 party last Friday night, and extra large thanks to all the DJs: Mr. Supreme, B.Cause, Centipede aka Mophono, Morse Code, Neta, Ross Hogg, Matthew Africa, Kingmost, RasCue, Vin Sol and Fernando. It was an epic night and the best birthday party of my life.

Spindig Happy Hour Friday 3/9

Check Spindig.net for the 411.

I'll be cutting out early to get ready for the big 45 party at Milk!