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San Francisco Promoter Permit Legislation Headed for Defeat
2 April, 2008 | 1.35PM
A month ago San Francisco Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, acting on the behalf of Mayor Gavin Newsom, introduced new legislation that would require any person or entity promoting more than two events per year to obtain a promoter’s permit. This would include paying an unspecified fee, obtaining a million dollars worth of liability insurance, and going before a hearing of the Entertainment Commission and the police. Immediately a group of activists consisting of nightlife promoters, venue operators, and community activists rose up in opposition to it, arguing that this legislation would kill San Francisco nightlife by making it financially impossible for small, independent promoters to meet the permit requirements. In a meeting of the Entertainment Commission on Tuesday, strong, unanimous opposition to it from both the public and members of the Entertainment Commission made it seem likely that this legislation will soon be withdrawn or defeated.
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Dirtybird 3rd Anniversary Party at Mighty in San Francisco
11 March, 2008 | 8.03PM
This past Saturday San Francisco’s Dirtybird label celebrated their 3rd anniversary at Mighty with DJ sets from Justin Martin, Worthy, Christian Martin, and Claude von Stroke that showed how much musical range the label’s core producers have, but the beginning of Christian Martin’s set reminded me of what I don’t like about aspects of the Dirtybird sound.
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom proposes nightlife legislation
4 March, 2008 | 10.24PM
Today San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, with support from Supervisor Sophie Maxwell (District 10), introduced new legislation to regulate The City’s nightlife with the aim of curbing violent crime. Two of the four proposals are seen by those involved in the industry as being necessary amendments to existing legislation concerning after-hours clubs and the ability of the Entertainment Commission to deal with club-related issues, while two others, concerning loitering and the permitting of all promoters, are already generating controversy.
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Claude vonStroke at Kontrol
3 March, 2008 | 3.46PM
This past Saturday Claude Von Stroke headlined for San Francisco’s leading monthly techno party, Kontrol, and demonstrated that he is a man who can still keep us guessing about what he’s up to and where he’s helping to take the sound of San Francisco techno.
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The End of Fag Fridays
3 March, 2008 | 2.21PMOn February 29, an appropriately odd day out, Fag Fridays, the longest running weekly house music event in San Francisco’s gay scene, a night that launched a thousand intimate encounters and kept the faith in the power of house music for twelve years, came to an end with a packed dancefloor of groovers from across the spectrum of sexuality, a set of soulful vocal house with a modern techy edge from resident David Harness, and a surprise visit from Frankie Knuckles.
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San Francisco’s disco revival
15 February, 2008 | 11.49AM
It’s questionable whether disco ever really died in San Francisco, but looking out over the club scene these days it’s remarkable how alive it is and how much light is thrown off from its rhinestone-bejeweled gear. From dive bars in the Tenderloin to the basement of 1015, crowds turn out to groove along to classic hand-claps and walking basslines, horn sections and vocals that exhort us to “dance, dance, dance” and love a little too. In this revival you can feel people reaching back to an idea that moves them as much as the music, attempting to re-connect with something that, in hindsight at least, represents an ideal era of positive vibes and open sexuality.
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Electrofying San Francisco’s Gay Dance Scene
6 February, 2008 | 8.46PM
Gay fans of electronic dance music often have a hard time finding a good venue for getting their groove on here in San Francisco; most of the Castro clubs play a serviceable yet largely uninspiring mix of top 40 hip-hop, remixed diva dance anthems, and house, while Tenderloin and South of Market club nights tend toward retro-disco or straight-up rock. For those looking for harder electronic beats, the crew behind Lucky Pierre, Heat, and Bender provide thrice-monthly excursions into disco punk and electro that draw in clubbers from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality.
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Results of Nitevibe Magazine’s “San Francisco DJ Dream Team” Reader’s Poll
2 February, 2008 | 7.19PM
The San Francisco scene mag Nitevibe recently released their annual reader’s poll of The City’s top DJs, and it’s a pretty interesting glimpse into the tastes of mainstream San Francisco clubbing. Breaks and house dominate the list, with a few trance DJs thrown in for variety. Even more interesting, in a city known for being a gay mecca, only one DJ in the entire list, David Harness, is associated with a gay night (Fag Fridays). Looking over the full list of top 100 DJs, there’s a lot left out, genre-wise; no ambient, downtempo, techno, hip-hop, dancehall, or even psy-trance DJs, though the city has DJs for those genres in abundance. All of the guys (and DJing still seems to be largely a man’s game here) in the Top 10 are worth going out to hear, but the sound of the San Francisco scene is much more diverse than this list might lead you to believe.
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The Return of San Francisco’s How Weird Street Faire
30 January, 2008 | 10.28PM
This past Thursday San Francisco’s Interdepartmental Staff Committee on Traffic and Transportation issued street closure permits for the How Weird Street Faire, bringing back one of the most important electronic music events in the city after the same committee last year refused their permit request.
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San Francisco’s Club 1015 Becoming a Rock Club?
29 January, 2008 | 8.48PM
For years 1015 (named for the address on Folsom Street where it’s located) has been one of the major venues for electronic artists and DJs like Paul van Dyk, Infected Mushroom, John Acquaviva, and Paul Oakenfold. Now comes the news from local alternative newspaper SFWeekly that 1015 is about to undergo a name change, add a marquee to its blank concrete exterior, and focus on booking rock bands.
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