Fishbone is red hot!

Fishbone at the Independent! I think this will probably be my 15th time seeing them, but the first 14 were all in the '80s and very early '90s. "Play it, boy wonder!"

Mr. Dibbs this Wednesday SF!!

Dibbs didn't tell me about this, Serg happened to see it. What a jerk. See you at 222 on Wednesday though, fah sho.

Rapid Ric is coming!

Night Class presents Hard As Fuck @ Madrone Lounge on Thursday, February 7 with special guest DJ Rapid Ric from Austin, Texas!






Rapid Ric

Thank you, Shane.

Matthew Africa is working on Hard As Fuck Vol. 4. Cross your fingers for promo CDs at the party.

Cool Kids Thursday 1/17

The Cool Kids are back in San Francisco this Thursday, January 17 at The Independent. Mr. Roboto presents The Cool Kids with Freebass 808, HOTTUB and DJ Vin Sol. Here are a couple of clips from their Cafe Du Nord appearance last June, shot by Serg. (You can hear him yelling near the end of the 2nd one.):





And on the same night, their DJ, Patrick Jake, will be at Night Class, the Thursday night weekly at Madrone Lounge with residents Shane King and Swayzee.

The Night Class crew is bringing out the one and only Rapid Ric from Austin, Texas, on Thursday, February 7th for the second Hard As Fuck party, presented by Beer and Rap. (Click to see flyer.) Special guest DJ Matthew Africa is working on the Hard As Fuck 4 mix as you read this. "It's goin' dine."

Happy New Year! Spindig 1/11/08

See you at the first Spindig Happy Hour party of the year. Just announced! Special guest DJ is local rap star Conceit!



Happy New Year! What did everyone do on New Year's Eve? We wanted to have dinner at Weird Fish or Regalito, but both were closed. Yum Yum was cool, cheap and not busy, and just up the street a bit at Casanova Lounge was the Booty Bassment NYE party.


DJ Ryan Poulsen of Booty Bassment

Then we headed to the Hotel Utah for the Pish Posh New Years Eve party. Lineup included Futuristic Prince, Lazer Sword/Swizzle, Ghosts on Tape and Buddy Leroy/Lizzle. The evening was fun, cheap and low key. Muni was free but going home there was NO bus so we walked the two miles home.


We missed Buddy's performance.


Hotel Utah's party room is kinda like someone's basement.


Lazer Sword


Futuristic Prince

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.