Originally from Mississippi, DJ Ayres is famous for being the founding father of The Rub, the Brooklyn monthly party that swiftly gained a reputation for being “The Best Party in NYC” (New York Press) back in 2002 and to this day remains one of the staples of NYC nightlife. Combining everything from 80’s pop and disco to house, reggae and hip-hop, The Rub provides “something for everyone, no matter what you’re into,” (resident Cosmo Baker) and in the process helped launch DJ Ayres into worldwide consciousness as one of the best mixtape-making, party dj’s around. Further cementing his status as a key player in American club culture is the fact that Ayres has released over 20 remixes, both on his own T&A label plus Money Studies, GAMM, ESL, Scion A/V and more.

Support from Rock It Sciences founder Eric Sharp and of course our very own Shane King.

SOM is the new “go-to” spot in the heart of the bustling, ultra-hip Mission district. In Portuguese, SOM means not only ’sound’, but also the feeling that resonates within a person when they connect with an experience. SOM recently won best new club in both of the Bay Area’s most well-read periodicals, the SFWeekly and the Bay Guardian.

2925 16th St at Mission. (map)

$10 at the door - 10pm-3am.

You can stream the entire album Black Noise on the Rough Trade website!

Support comes from The Sight Below a shoegaze/techno act out of Seattle. All of The Sight Below’s songs are performed live: The artist runs E-bowed, slide, and lightly picked guitars through a series of loopers, 12-bit reverb boxes, and delay units, kneading and distending the notes until they drone like bees in a tunnel or keen like an orchestra of singing saws.

Tickets are still available from either The Independent Box Office (with no service charge) or online at Ticketweb.

The Independent — 21+ — 9pm-1am — 628 Divisadero Street

The Detroit based electronic music producer signed to Warp Records is finally making his way to the Bay. His new album ‘XXX’ just came out on K7 records and he’s embarking on a world tour to support it. His music is described as a blend of jazz, funk, techno and house and despite being 25, he’s a veteran of the electronic music scene. He played his first raves when he was 15 in warehouses in Detroit, and was signed by Warp Records at just 18. Safe to say the guy knows how to throw down a party.

Check out the lead single from the record called ‘Hot, Raw Sex’

Tickets are available for $10 now from the Rickshaw Stop website

Support from ‘San Francisco’s best kept secret’ Loose Shus, and Boyz IV Men.

Four decks, one mixer, and a TR 909, of course. No bangers, strictly house music.

DJ Mehdi from Paris and the UK’s Riton recently teamed up to form a supergroup of house music called Carte Blanche.  Busy P heard the results and immediately signed the group to Ed Banger records, for a 5-track EP called Black Billionaires out on May 31st.

Mehdi has spent the last 4 years touring the world with Justice and A-Trak, and remixing the likes of Santigold and Busta Rhymes, all while producing his own tracks and releasing an album on Ed Banger.

Riton is a veteran Newcastle DJ with the Radio Soulwax family, who has  remixed LCD Soundsystem and Crookers, and took the number one spot in the Kraut Rock charts in 2008 with his Eine Kleine Nacht Musik project on Modular Records.

Together they are Carte Blanche - Think of them as Europe’s answer to Duck Sauce.  All house music, all night long! Support from White Girl Lust LIVE (Solid Bump) and Shane King (Hacksaw).

Download a mix featuring music from all the performers for free at Soundcloud (mixed by White Girl Lust & Shane King)

DJ Mehdi - http://djmehdi.coolcats.fr
Riton - www.myspace.com/ritontime
White Girl Lust – www.solidbump.com
Mezzanine - www.mezzaninesf.com

Mezzanine · 21+ · 9:00PM doors · 21+
Get your limited $12 presale tickets here. · $15 adv. · $17 door.

Jack Beats - The brainchild of Beni G (Mixologists) and Plus One (Scratch Perverts). Jack Beats represent part of the new wave of British house music. Wobbly basslines, big breakdowns and edgy accapella’s are cut, copied and pasted together to create a floor-filling brand of house. This time we have both Beni G & Plus One playing together for the first time in San Francisco - should crush doubly as last time, when Beni G murdered the dance floor solo!

Support from MoPo, Shane King, and Fringe DJs.
Get your tickets here.
And check out Nor Cal Scionify, rounding up and presenting great music, art, and culture.

Telephoned was created when New Yorkers Sammy Bananas and Maggie Horn decided to recreate their own version of T-Pain’s “Can’t Believe It.” Neither a cover or a remix, the recording took subtle elements of the original and tweaked it into something entirely new, a track that shone in both on the dance floor and the radio (LA’s Power 106 for example). The hybrid sound is “Bottle service electro meets Triplets Of Belleville!”, as Maggie Horn puts it. ”Can’t Believe It” was such a success the duo went on to create an entire album of songs entitled “Off the Hook”, as well as an additional Telephoned EP on the forward thinking Fool’s Gold Records.

But don’t take our word for it. With the thousands of acts in Austin this year, Pitchfork’s Amy Phillip’s described Telephone’s performance at SXSW as “the most fun thing I’ve seen at SXSW so far.”

Download the entire “Off the Hook Mixtape” at RCRD LBL. Enjoy!

Sammy Bananas will be playing special DJ set as well. Additional support from White Girl Lust (Solid Bump Records) and Shane King (Hacksaw).

Oh, did we mention this event is FREE and there will be lots of FREE VODKA until 10?
RSVP required at http://www.metrowize.com/004 for free entry and free booze!
Harlot ·  46 Minna St. between 1st & 2nd  ·  Doors at 7:00pm  ·  21+

Javelin’s self-released LP, entitled Jamz n Jemz, is but one element of Tom van Buskirk and George Langford’s DIY approach to art and performance. The first label release, featuring silkscreened thrift store sleeves, the live performance often assisted be a twenty boom-box ’soundsystem’ to help transmit strange frequencies, and the layered, intricate, sample-based tracks, are all testament to Javelin’s commitment to quality and detail. The finely crafted collection of lost rhythms and eccentric bits of crate-dug sounds remind the listener of nostalgic nights toying with the radio dial, while warmly assuring us that the art of sampling is very much alive and well.

Support from O.K. Hole DJs.

Rickshaw Stop ·  ALL AGES!  ·  8:00pm  ·  $12 door
$9.99 pre-sale ticket available here.
More information here.

Hacksaw Entertainment and Another Planet Entertainment proudly present the return of Chicago’s infamous DJ duo, FLOSSTRADAMUS.

Consisting of J2K (Josh Young) and DJ Autobot (Curt Cameruci), this renowned DJ tag-team (3 turntables, 2 mixers) have excited dance-floors the world over, gracing the stages of nearly every major US festival, such as Pitchfork, Rothbury, SXSW, WMC, Monolith (and a slew of European one’s you’ve never heard of).

After making URB’s “Next 100″ list, the duo’s career took off, helping to launch fellow Chicago talent Kid Sister and The Cool Kids along the way.

Bringing together a unique blend of club, hip-hop, house, obscure remixes, juke, and a bunch of genres you’ll discover in about four months, these extremely talented DJs are not to be missed!

Support from Sleazemore (Lights Down Low) and Shane King (Hacksaw Entertainment).

21+ / Doors at 8:30PM / Show at 9:00PM / $20

Check out Big Bills at Green Label Sound, Flosstradamus’ MySpace for tour info, and the duo’s website for anything else you may be looking for.

Get your tickets to the show, and check out all the other great shows APE has coming up.

DEATHFACE (formerly Guns-n-Bombs • Trouble & Bass • NYC)
SLEAZEMORE (Lights Down Low)
SHANE KING (Hacksaw Ent)

hosted by MELANIE WONG

222 Hyde (at Turk) • 21+ • $7

100% of ALL door proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross for the Earthquake Victims in Haiti

Live Show by:
HotTub

With DJ sets by:
Bad Neighbors
Eric Sharp
Disco Shawn
Jeffrey Paradise
Nisus
Omar
Richie Panic
Shane King
Sleazemore
Sticky K
Tenderlions (DJ set)
White Girl Lust

Hosted by Trackademiks & Wallpaper
Photos by Parker Day