It’s a fun summer jam, too. Watch:

[via The Bay Bridged]

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Like for real: it’s an *actual* musical chairs party. What?

The concept is no different than the childhood game of yore (and the most popular game in prison!). Round & round she goes, where she stops, nobody knows! It’s terror on 4 legs — but it ain’t a dog!

What? Anyway: great DJs, fun new concept, cold drinks, etc. RSVP and invite your friends!

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But you have to enter the ticket lottery.

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Happy birthday, Ty!

[From a Vine by Lindsey]

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“The best show of all time” might be hyperbole, since Thee Oh Sees get better and better every time I see them, but at the time it was definitely the best show of all time, the KUSF benefit they played mere days before the Eagle was shuttered forever. (One good samaritan posted a video of the show in its entirety and it is a GOOD video.)

Anyway, they reopened the Eagle, and tonight, in a few short hours, Thee Oh Sees return. I’m gonna go line up *right now*.

P.S. Petey and Ginger, the documentary about Petey from Thee Oh Sees, which was real good fun, screens again next Thursday at the Roxie. With a great short about Brute Force called Brute Force. Not sure if Petey will be on hand (or as awesomely wasted) for the second screening, but one can hope.

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You know how you go to see Daft Punk at the Greek Theater and you’re way up on the hill and all you see is a couple of robot heads nodding atop a big pyramid? Or you see Justice at Treasure Island and you’re way out in the crowd and all you see is a couple of French dudes rocking out atop a little podium?

At Haçeteria, you get to see — up close and personal, in an intimate setting right here in the Mission — up-and-coming electronic talent making music on real-live hardware right before your eyes. Tonight you’ll see Leech from LA, turning knobs and pushing buttons and making you dance. Plus there’s guest DJ Myles (of Gonna Find Boyfriends Today fame), and all the great resident Haç DJs spinning the classics. Oh and lots of fog and lasers.

RSVP and invite your friends!

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It only happens four times a year, but when the night is right and you can taste the evil in the air, you know it’s time to drink a bunch of whiskey and dance away to the Smiths and the Misfits, over and over again.  Check it out here.

And if a 10-ton truck…

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When my parents lived in the Mission back in the 1970s, they liked to go dancing at a place called Dance Your Ass Off. They’d tell me about this as a kid and I’d be all Disco? Seriously? And what kind of a name is that? Now that I’m an adult, I, rightly, wish there were a straight-up ’70s-style disco with a dumb name around here somewhere.

Tonight, our good pal Cosmic Amanda, of the popular Mutiny Radio program Radioculars and the popular American Tripps disco spinoff I Like Love, is fulfilling my dreams, kind of, by taking the DJ reins at Asiento (just a block off the New 20th Street Corridor). She promises hours of disco and hours of fun. And she’ll be all decked out, like a proper Studio 54 regular. I think the party might be called “Dance Turnoffs,” which is awesomely dumb, but the Facebook invite isn’t totally clear.

RSVP and invite your friends!

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They were mostly drummers, but there was other great instrumentation as well. They sounded sometimes like the Black Orpheus soundtrack and sometimes like Basement Jaxx. I tried looking them up, but the Carnaval website didn’t have a listing for the 19th and Harrison stage.

Also good was the the ad hoc tertiary percussion section energetically drumming along off to the side:

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Balkan Brass & Eastern Groove is a siiick dance party. Sooo much incredible music from a wide variety of places and styles, but it all fits together perfectly thanks to the efforts of DJ Baron von East-Infection. We’ll interview him in a second, but hit play on this jam (my favorite discovery from last month’s party) first:

Where’d you get your name?
Baron von East-Infection just fit. Friends in Kyiv, Ukraine suggested my DJ moniker be my last name with the word baron, as my last name sounded similar to a Dutch military officer. The east’s music is infectious, the music has a fury, Baron von East-Infection is chief officer spreading the infection!

How did you become interested in Balkan Brass and Eastern European music?
I used to be really into punk and at some point of growing more normal and listening to new things, Balkan Brass intrigued me. It has an energy, intensity and soul that is like nothing else. I liken the intensity to punk, it translated over seamlessly. In 2008, I was traveling in Eastern Europe and found myself at a music festival in Hungary where I saw Leningrad, Goran Bregovic and Kocani Orkestar. I was converted. The music was so deeply authentic, it had a romance that was contagious, infectious. In 2010 I moved to Ukraine to seek out this romanticism I had acquired, not to say that I found what I thought I was looking for, but I was wholly not disappointed.

What was your experience there like?
It was incredible. I got hit on by this punk-looking guy during my first week there, I didn’t know anyone, within five minutes we had bonded over Black Sabbath, Slavoj Zizek and Ukrainian Girls. I moved in with him the next day for $125 a month and we shared a his flat for six months. I dated a super hot model and got a job teaching English. I got really lucky when I tapped into the underground scene there. It’s nuts, they party harder than anyone else I’ve ever seen. There’s a kind of nihilism towards the new democracy, it’s super corrupt, everything’s sort of fucked “so lets just drink a lot of vodka; пей, даваи!”  I fell in love.

And what brought you back to San Francisco?
After two years of living the dream, my liver and lungs felt broken, I craved stability and security; cops that would yell at me in a language I understood. I was always broke, there were visa issues, once I got kicked out. In short: superficial bullshit.

How do you pitch your show to the uninitiated?
The best part of every show is when someone approaches me and says “This shit is incredible! And I’ve never heard any of it.” Expect to hear exotic sounds that will move you. Get super drunk on a weeknight, lower you inhibitions and let the music guide you on an far-out journey of an evening. People, mostly commonly white people don’t have much know-how in how to groove to this stuff so they usually pogo and flail their arms like apes, that behavior is welcome folks! Just drink a bunch and have a good time is all we request.

Your flyers are always awesome. Can you tell us more about this month’s?
The flyer for the show at the Elbo Room is one of my favorites. It’s a collage of a bunch of pictures I took while traveling in Eastern Europe and some others I gathered. There’s some dirty things written in russian like “first time, you’re not a faggot…” There’s a pair of tits pasted on a teenage boy, and his friends dancing, a photo I took in Baia Mare, Romania. There’s a man on a haystack on a horse, a picture I took while hitch hiking in Transylvania, Romania. There’s some Romanian villagers near a horse, a babushka drinking vodka, an insistent russian man telling you to drink. We love all people in all forms, it’s a celebration of life, “c’mon to dance, baby!”

The show is called “Balkan Brass & Eastern Groove.” The first part seems self-explanatory but what exactly do you mean by Eastern Groove?
The first part covers the main theme, but I didn’t want to just play high-energy Brass music from the Balkans. The Eastern Groove allows for an eclectic mix of weird ‘eastern’ stuff that includes but is not limited to: Soviet new-wave, Turkish Psyche & Disko, Bollywood jazz & funk, Eastern European Rap & Hip Hop, Russian Ska, Blatnaya Pesnya, Punk & a bunch of weird music from the former Yugoslavia and Soviet Union.  Hell, I might even just play a Wu Tang song for fun.

Thanks! See you Tuesday!
Yes, come say hi/ привет, если ты можете! I’ll be the one with the flamboyant dance moves in the tracksuit, slaying the Balkan fury and DJing. If you like it, I’d like to meet you, see you there!

RSVP and invite your friends!

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And tonight’s show at Cafe du Nord features a rare appearance by one of my favorite bands to dance to ever, Still Flyin’!!!

They’re playing along with Sea Lions, Permanent Collection, Colleen Green, and Burnt Palms, so be sure to check it out after you ace your song and win a round at Singin’ and Pingin’ beforehand!  Check out all the details for the rest of the weekend below:

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Read the rest of SF Popfest takes over Memorial Day weekend tonight!

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Some motorbike cops rolled up at one point, one of the organizers ran up and shook their hands and had a chat, and they left. The crowd wasn’t huge, but they were having a blast. And there was a dancing robot.

Now let’s rock:

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I’d probably go to a watching-paint-dry party as long as it was held at Z Space, but dude, this party sounds even better:

You’ve demanded it for nearly a year now! This month, SINGIN’ & PINGIN’ makes a triumphant return to its original venue, Z Space, the grand performing arts theater in the heart of the northeastern Mission!

DJ PURPLE (http://djpurple.com/) has gained notoriety and momentum since last we appeared here, so the DANCE KARAOKE show will be even tighter and more awesome than ever. And there will be FOUR TABLES for maximum BERLIN-STYLE PING PONG ACTION!

Full bar and lots of dance floor! And FREE BEER and FREE HARD CIDER for the first hour! Plus, for some reason, “The Endless Slope” indoor snowboarding machine, courtesy of Adventurous Sports (http://adventurous.com/).

Can’t wait! RSVP and invite your friends!

Photos from last year’s event here.

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Here’s some more info, courtesy of The Eagle on Facebook:

Enter Torche, the four-pronged Floridian Riff Colossus that has steamrolled its way across the international underground. Led by vocalist/guitarist Steve Brooks (formerly of doom dropouts Floor) and featuring the myriad talents of drummer Rick Smith, bassist Jonathan Nuñez and guitarist Juan Montoya, Torche unfurled their self-titled debut in 2005 via Richmond, Virginia’s Robotic Empire. The glorious half-hour of blissed-out power-grooves, triumphant vocal harmonies and cosmic resonance within was variously hailed as “stoner pop,” “thunder rock,” and “doom pop,” but a consensus was quickly reached within the Fourth Estate: Both the underground and mainstream press had their hands halfway down their pants just thinking about listening to Torche. The band was immediately lauded as giants among men, leaders among sheep, and powerbrokers of a deadly new sonic idiom founded upon Brooks’ signature “bomb-string” detonation-detune.

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