Events

Stop by Bambuddha Lounge to party in support of a great, great cause – the one and only San Francisco Lovefest, that annual explosion and celebration of love, peace and, of course, music that features the biggest names and the best shows. Tonight's fundraiser will get you going months before the actual event with tunes from DJs DRC, Scott Binder, Eric Sharp, and Amit Shohan Now people, that's a lot of love right there. (EK)

 This Thursday, FEB 16TH The Velvet Shop proudly presents:

Front Room: Housin'

DAVID HARNESS (Loveslap Recordings/SF)
M3 (GreenGorillaLounge.com)
MJ GAMEZ (Velvet Shop/mjgamez.com)

BACK ROOM: FUNKIN' - Midtempo/Reggae/Broken/DiscoPunk

ANTONIO (GreenGorillaLounge/Tweekin.com) HAPPY B-DAY!
JEFF JAGGED (SJ)

Free if on Guest List till 10:30PM.
To get on the GUEST LIST please send email to velvetshop@mjgamez.com

Cheap Drinks!

Check out The Velvet Shop every Thursday at Sofa Lounge on 372 South First Street in Downtown San Jose. 8pm - 2am.
Table Reservation and Bottle Service is Available. For reservations email reservations@mjgamez.com. www.velvetshop.com
To all you loyal supporters who have kept The Velvet Shop going for over 12 Years... Thank You..We bring it for You.

www.velvetshop.com
www.mjgamez.com

Originally posted by DJ: http://SFDJs.org/MJGamez

 BIG Crew reporesents Grime City at Anu Bar

Grime, UKG, dubstep and lyrics!

Celebrate Mega's b-day with Run The Road Vol. 2 (Vice Recordings) CD giveaways!

DJs spinning grime and UKG like
Jamin, The ONE, Subtec, Megatron, Munk
Emcees Child and more...

Guest DJ Tomas (Voltage Music,Umoja Soundsystem)
special dubstep set

21w/ID, free, 10PM-2AM

Originally posted by DJ: http://SFDJs.org/DJTomas

A Soulful Blend of San Francisco Deep House with a Taste of Modern Abstract Flavor...

DJs:
 OLIVIER DESMET (1+1 Album release tour,Apt,Amenti Music)
 Joseph Rego (Non Stop, Rusty Hook - Boston)
 Dev E, aka Funkyard Dog (Non Stop,Rusty Hook,)

Art Exhibition by Johnny Chavez (love affair studio)
Sound provided by: HR Sound

Originally posted by DJ: http://SFDJs.org/DevE

  At Digital Bliss, you will experience a musical journey
everytime, with each party being unique in some way. The Music will
always be Fresh, and you can count on hearing mixes youve never heard
before, as we bring to you the Best " Scratch live Dj's " each Month.
This Month....Discover Resident DJ Shabadoo will join me and well be
spinning a collection of fresh new House and Breaks, with many brand
new tracks direct from Miami and Brasil. At Digital Bliss, each party
will have a unique Tasty Drink special as well.......and I'll be
working on bringing you other delights for your taste buds in the
future.

    SO come on down, enjoy the art , enjoy the friends, enjoy the
vibe, and dance it up....burn off that Easter sunday meal before it
even reaches you ;)

Hope to see you soon!

Digital Bliss....Always FREE!! 9pm-2am

Originally posted by DJ: http://SFDJs.org/acetatsu

SF State & DJ Nica invite you to an expectacular FREE concert featuring: "Mouth to Mouth", "Humboldt Squid", & "Karet High School" Come enjoy the pure sound of rock 'n' roll while mingleling with a nice college crowd. Don't forget to invite your friends and spread the word out!

More info: www.djnica.com

Originally posted by DJ: http://SFDJs.org/djnica

Its Official! The next Alibi party will happen on Saturday April 29th. After the terrific turnout at our last party back in December we're very excited to announce that next month's party will be held at Paradise Lounge, a bigger and better venue dedicated to afterhours clubbing.

We're getting ready..........are you?

- Kelly, Lea, Shawn, Handan, Ismael, Nancy, and Ted
http://www.alibisf.com

3 rooms of Bangin Bass Heavy Breaks, Bhangra, D’n’B, S. Asian Folk & Classical, plus live Tabla & MC!

Dark Room
Special guest
Cheb i Sabbah (Six Degrees)
Mitch Hyare (Dhol Champion)

Maneesh the Twister & Kush Arora (live laptop/dj set)
Surya Vault
World Bass, Beats and Breaks
Janaka Selekta & Maneesh the Twister
Guest DJ Jimmy Little (Non Stop Bhangra)
Samba Guisse on the Mic
Video DJs Skip Intro and El Diablo
Shabi & Ferhan on Tabla

Azaad lounge
Live South Asian Classical & Folk Music
Riffat Sultana & party
featuring Shiraz Ali Khan (guitar)
and Ferhan (tabla)

Fine Art by NYoMI
Design by Kai-wen

Advance tix available at www.virtuous.com

Our quarterly unpretentious dance party returns for a Spring Fling, complete with fun party tunes, drink specials, nutty visuals, plus a live performance by one of the Bay Area's sweetest bands. Dress shagadelic, get your photo taken! Arrive early and get a free CD of cool, hand-picked tunes by the DJs.

THREE KINDS OF STUPID
"Three Kinds of Stupid has grown into one of the funnest and friendliest nights out on the San Francisco calendar. The Stupid DJs -- Caldridge, Brother Grimm, and BAS -- spin everything fun: radio hits, electrokitsch, French go-go, '80s throwbacks, novelty rap, and anything else that makes you wave your hands in the air. People drink, people dance, people occasionally hook up in the bathroom, and the whole thing goes down with a total absence of attitude. The cheap drinks, nifty props, and candy colors of the Rickshaw Stop set the mood; giveaways and prizes, most with high sugar content, keep the buzz going." -- Bay Guardian
www.threekindsofstupid.com

HAROLD RAY: LIVE IN CONCERT
The East Bay's very own crazy man garage-soul dance band. "Totally jukin' n' boppin' n' rockin' good-times "blue-eyed" soul meets party-hearty R&B. Motown moves to San Francisco and gets the joint a hoppin'." -- In Music We Trust
www.haroldray.com

NK7 Productions and R-Squared are throwing an underground afterhours party this Saturday, April 29th! Great lineup, intimate setting...

Get there early.... we could hit capacity on this place fairly quickly...hope to see you there!

Awwwww yeah!
GHETTODISCO T.DANCE @ END UP
we're givin you ghetto all afternoon on Sunday with Nikita @ 1pm and Hawthorne from 5pm til 8pm
with guest host PARRIS HARRIS
ain't nothin wrong with it.

April 30th marks the beginning of the first Coldcut North American Tour since 2000 with their showcase at the Coachella Valley Music Festival. It's been a while since they've had the chance to wow audiences on this side of the ocean (if you don't count their headlining show at M3 in Miami, which was awesome by the way) with their audio/visual spectacle, which has been heavily updated to represent the new material from Sound Mirrors. Coldcut are bringing along Juice Aleem (from Big Dada's New Flesh) to hold down microphone duties, with assorted members of the Ninja family joining the show for select dates. The opening slot for the entire tour (Coachella excluded) will be held down by Blockhead with DJ Signify.

http://blasthaus.com/
http://www.ninjatune.net/
http://www.coldcut.net/

O'Shea presents:
SOUL FO'REAL
Live Jazz, Neo-soul, R&B, & Open Mike Spoken Word.

Featuring
DJs:
Cense (Goodness Prod.)
JPRO (Chewygomez.com)
Supreme (Original DJs)

$2 cover drinks

Open mic registration:
Chizz (415) 414-0229

Alcheme Salon & NK7 Productions present an exciting event featuring brilliant hair design collections, models decked out in cutting edge couture, fire performances, live art, sizzling Bar Area Djs and dancing - all to raise funds for Students Rising Above, KRON TV's scholarship fund dedicated to sending low income youth to college.

Show Starts at 9pm

Hair Design Collections by Alcheme Salon (www.alchemesalon.com)
Cutting edge couture by ColleenQuen (www.colleenquen.com), Archive, Metier & Saks Fifth Avenue
Makeup by Christian Dior
Sizzling fire arts performance by LSD Fuego (www.LSDfuego.com)
Music by top DJs Helicopter, DJ Seven (www.nk7productions.com), Ben Seagren (www.sensesf.com) and Dean Samaras (www.sensesf.com)
Sexy hoop dancing by Klara Lova
Live ev! ent art by Greg Kalamar (www.gregkalamar.com) and live painting by Jennifer Porreca (http://www.myspace.com/jennporreca)
Tensioned fabric work by Mandarin
Hosted By: NK7 Productions, Sense, Flirty Flirty (www.flirtyflirty.com), Helicopter, Don Davis, John Zane, Christian Pineiro and Marshall Alexander

Media Sponsors: KRON Channel 4 (http://www.kron.com/), 7x7 Magazine (http://www.7x7mag.com/), SF Weekly (http://www.sfweekly.com/), SFStation (www.sfstation.com), Nitevibe.com (www.nitevibe.com), SF Social (www.sfsocial.com) , Ovahere.com (www.ovahere.com)

Beneficiary: Students Rising Above (www.studentsrisingabove.org)

Sunset Promotions and the Fringe, the team that has brought you such epic parties as “Freaksgiving” and the “Icebreakers Ball” team up again for a twisted take on the annual Mexican holiday – it’s “FREQO DE MAYO”. Featuring an all-star cast of future world breaks, latin, house and hip hop including Bassnectar (DJ Lorin), and some of the local future-world music crop including Soulsalaam (Future Juju), Vanka (Misturada), DJ Sep (Dubmission), and Jaio & Kevin Wardell (Space Cowboys). The more modern funky breakbeats will be provided by underground legends, El Papa Chango (El Circo), Mozaic (Moon Tribe) plus Fringe residents Motion Potion, Mycho, Cocoa, Victor Vega and Billete. Plus visuals by Kaia.

For the last decade, Lorin Ashton has helped develop the North American underground dance music scene. From touring full time as a DJ (an average of 125 shows per year), to his production & remixing under the alias Bassnectar, he has ammassed a dedicated fan base, crossing over from hip hop to electronica to breakbeat to ragga/dub to the jam band scene and the greater Burningman Scene. In January, Bassnectar was voted the #1 DJ in the Bay Area in the prestigious “Nitevibe Dreamteam” poll (www.nitevibe.com).

DJ, producer and percussionist, Soulsalaam (soulsalaam.com) has thrilled audiences from the Bay to Brazil with his future-world breaks, and live conga beats. Able to create, play the freshest African, Brazillian and Latin styles, then augment them with

This Friday May 5, 2006 feat. a Soulful House Collective in Celebration of Cinco De May w/ Durben, Jayvi Velasco, Brian Salazar, Paolo Dava & Joey Webb.

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo in style as Remedy brings together a collective of soulful house DJs to fill the air with the beats that keep you moving. Durben leads the way with years of experience aboveground and underground in SF, while Jayvi Velasco has been ripping it up since the early '90s and even sports a degree in Recording Arts.

REMEDY located at Ruby Skye featuring the best of deep, soulful House music for listening and dancing pleasure. Remedy brings you the best of San Francisco Night Life featuring 2 rooms, 2 dance floors, Smoking Lounge, and plenty of comfortable lounge space throughout.

On the Main Room floor Remedy proudly features rotating residents David Harness, Julius Papp, Ruben Mancias, Patrick Wilson, Trevor Mijares, Brian Salazar & Paolo Dava spinning deep, soulful house well into the morning hours.

In the upstairs lounge, DJs Add 1 & Rasta Q-tip take to the decks spinning atmospheric soul, & old-school hip hop. Specialized visuals, live percussionists and Go Go Freestylers by Go Go Pro .

Electric Productions brings Remedy to San Francisco every Friday night from 9 pm until 4 am. Remedy delivers what San Franciscans want to hear, see and dance to every week: 3 top caliber house music DJs/producers from SF and abroad, excellent costumed dancers, a team of professional live drummers and be

Residents Sharon Buck and Mike Cashen bring you the very best in Deep, Funky, Tech House from the bay area and beyond 1st Saturdays Monthly. Featuring local and out of town guest DJ’s, free giveaways and drink specials. This is one party not to be missed.
With Special Opening Night Guest:

Peter Christianson - LawnChair Generals

[ LowDown Recordings, Aroma Records, Amenti Music, Apt, Seattle ]

Supporting the inaugural LP release "Lost and Found” on LawnChair Generals Music. The LCG blend is a unique fusion of West coast and classic Chicago-style House with touches of electro, soul, and freestyle-era pop flavor. His performances further cement the strong impression left by the music they create.

 

Sphere is the long awaited alternative to the oversaturated, mega commercial, cold, club scene in San Francisco. Sphere will feature some of the best local new talent, as well as new and well established international talent. With every artist that comes through the Sphere we hope to strengthen and re-establish San Francisco as one of the main spots in the planet for good quality dance music.

Styles ranging from Soulful House to Trance and Techno will be present at Sphere, with an emphasis on Tech-House, but generally all things energetic and quality music that can be danced to. The crowd at Sphere is a reflection of the world and the international club scene. People at Sphere come from all walks of life, race, age, and sexual orientation, and unite once a week to listen to great music and have fun, in a hassle free, judgment free environment where it is all about the music.

Originally posted by DJ: http://SFDJs.org/DIA

Thursday, May 11th The Velvet Shop proudly presents: EL OTRO MUNDO'S 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!..

PAUL LEATH (El Otro Mundo)
CHRISTOPHER LEATH (El Otro Mundo)
STEVIAN (El Otro Mundo)

Free, if on guestlist till 10:30PM.
To get on the GUEST LIST please send email to velvetshop@mjgamez.com

GUEST LIST good till 10:30PM.

Cheap Drinks!

Check out The Velvet Shop every Thursday at Sofa Lounge on 372 South First Street in Downtown San Jose. 8pm - 2am.

Table Reservation and Bottle Service is Available. For reservations email reservations@mjgamez.com. www.velvetshop.com

To all you loyal supporters who have kept The Velvet Shop going for over 12 Years... Thank You..We bring it for You.

www.velvetshop.com
www.mjgamez.com