Good Times at Spindig this Friday

You must check out Butter, it's smooth.

Darondo is the truth.

Thanks to my husband Serg, I finally caught Darondo live last Friday night at The Independent. PLEASE do not miss him live if you get a chance, and check out his music on the Ubiquity Records site. Darondo is a Bay Area soul singer who had not recorded since the early 70s when his 45 singles were released. Ubiquity has rereleased Darondo's singles as well as material that had never been released before. Darondo's rediscovery after over 30 years is an amazing story, which you can read about here, here and here, or Wiki. Big ups to Justin Torres for finding the man so that we can all continue to enjoy his music and the man can be appreciated and get PAID. Listen to the interviews with Justin Torres on studio360.org and on Weekend America (scroll down to the bottom of the page).

Face Down A$$ Up party is back!

This Saturday at 222 Club. Please come early to hear my bass-heavy, ass-shaking set. It's FREE!



Flyer by Shezilla

El-P and Dizzee Rascal in SF 5/21

El-P with Mr. Dibbs, Dizzee Rascal with Aaron LaCrate, Busdriver and Aesop Rock. Cot damn! I hear Dizzee Rascal's new Maths & English is very good.



Check "Free Credit" on Mr. Dibbs' Myspace player.

Spindig! Glitch Mob! Atmosphere!

B.Cause is our special guest tonight.



Then it's on to the Glitch Mob/Lazer Sword/Blingmod show and video shoot.



I caught Atmosphere's Paint San Francisco Gold tour at the Grand last night. Have to get one of the lovely gold vinyl copies of When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold:


image courtesy of Dusty Groove America

I could listen to the beat from "Shoulda Known" all day.

Joe Beats and Maker in SF!

Don't miss our friend from RI, Joey Beats, in a rare San Francisco appearance on Thursday, May 1st. Joe is a sample-based producer and Bully Records artist, and this is the second to last appearance of his US/Canadian tour. He'll be joined by producer/DJ Maker of Galapagos4 fame.

Spindig Happy Hour this Friday

Shane King (Blasthaus/Night Class) and me (no Ryan) DJing. Never a cover. Butter is a blast!

Versus Mag Issue 007 Release Party

Free! This Tuesday.



The long-awaited issue 7 of Versus Magazine is out this week! Check out my interview with Nick Catchdubs.

Devin the Dude and Bun B at Mezzanine tonight

Spindig, Face Down A$$ Up, SXSW

Spindig Happy Hour is tomorow at Butter. I'm loving the venue, it's a blast.



I'm pulling out the Miami bass for Saturday. The bass is gonna hit you hard in the earholes all night.



SXSW was ridiculous. I don't think I could have had a better time. I hung tough with the Canadians this year. Big ups to Matt Sonzala.

Birthday Party Cancelled

I'm still fighting this godawful flu. Getting better though, I am able to stand up today.

Funkside will be rocking on without me though, so do the same and go see Toph One at Nickie's tonight!! Please. For me.

My birthday is on Monday. I plan to eat french fries.

Please come to my birthday party

I'll be playing a fabulous dance-friendly rap collage on vinyl. On Saturday, March 8 at Nickie's.

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.