Sun. Feb 07, 2010

Super Saints
Doors: 12:00 PM | Show: 12:30 PM
Ages: all ages

An all day celebration on Super Bowl Sunday in honor of New Orleans and the first Super Bowl appearance of their beloved Saints. Complementary New Orleans cuisine will include Red Beans & Rice, and Ferdi Sandwiches. Hurricanes, Mint Julips and beads will be avaialable. The game will be shown on a 4x6 projection screen. After the game Djs MoPo and Concerned will be throwing down the Nola-flavored party tracks.

Artists: the New Orleans Saints! MoPo, Concerned

Sat. Feb 13, 2010

Nick Thayer & Flying Skulls for the Black Valentine's Masquerade
Doors: 10:00 PM | Show: 10:00 PM
Ages: 21+

WHAT: the Black Valentine’s Masquerade
WHEN: Saturday, February 13, 20010. 10pm-4am
WHERE: Mighty | 119 Utah St San Francisco CA | 415.626.7001
WHO: Nick Thayer (Passenger/Skint – Australia), The Flying Skulls (1320 Records – SF), Motion Potion (www.motionpotion.com), Syd Gris (Opulent Temple), Icon (IllevenEleven), Dutch (Opulent Temple), DrewRop (Opulent Temple), DJ Omar (Club Fake / Popscene)
DÉCOR & FUN: A dark chocolate fountain and other ghoulish delights
COSTUME: Masks, disguises, espionage, assassins, demons, zombies and all manner of dark visitors
GENERAL INFO: www.sunsetpromotions.net www.blasthaus.com
TICKETS: advance available at www.sunsettickets.com or call 415-256-8499
PROMOTIONAL PARTNERS: Sunset Promotions & Opulent Temple
PRESS INFO: Kelly Edwards | bigger_bolder@yahoo.com

DETAILS: Sunset Promotions and Opulent Temple have teamed up to turn Valentine’s upside-down with the darkly delicious Black Valentine’s Masquerade. This midnight garden of evil will feature acclaimed Aussie crunk-breakbeat produeer Nick Thayer and SF’s own electronic skeleton crew, the Flying Skulls. Evil anti-Valentine attire recommended.

For more than 10 years and 4 different labels, Nick Thayer has managed to maintain a distinctly adolescent joy combined with an extremely mature production-aesthetic. The Australian producer has put out dozens of singles on acclaimed UK breabeat labels like Fingerlickin and Passenger, but his best work rarely sees the light of day, except perhaps through a bootlegged live recording. An unabashed master of “Thayerized” bootleg remixes of material ranging as wide as Queen and Tupac, his live sets are two hour dissertations of the past twenty years of eclectic music in remix. A white Australian kid with a yen for East Bay hyphy, gross-out humor and video game themes who also can recite every Muse lyric from memory, Thayer melds his diverse tastes into coherent flows by editing or remixing absolutely everything he drops. The result are some of the most artistic and cohesive, yet flat-out FUN DJ sets in the world. His epic set at the 2009 Shambhala Music Festival was so astounding that it made a list of Jambase’s Top 10 concerts of the year. This will be Thayer’s first SF appearance in more than 2 years.

Check your radar good citizens, that blip you see fast approaching is none other than The Flying Skulls, a nu-school three piece that plays live improvisational dub-step, breaks, and electro! The group brings the future-soundz of the modern dance music studio and interpolates them through the filter of live improv. With an old school jazz ethos The Skulls combine their tightly-honed electronic and hiphop infused sonic orchestra in a most dirty and crunked-out way.

The Flying Skulls first started melting dance floors in April 2008. Originally the brainchild of Lowpro Lounge co-founder Jeff Wareham (J.Tonal) as a way to bring the precision of the recording studio to the dance floor. J.Tonal had been creating music and throwing events in the SF Bay Area for over 7 years, sharing billing with musicians such as DJ Shadow, DJ Krush, Shpongle, Ott, Jack Dangers from Meat Beat Manifesto, and UFO! Growing up in the foothills of Northern California, J.Tonal was forced at an early age to go in search of a different sound. After moving to LA and immersing himself in the Hip Hop and Electronic music scenes, he started producing in a style that crossed between those two genres. In 1999 he moved to SF and met up with James Christopher, founding the Lowpro Lounge, throwing over 200 events all over the world, and starting the innovative record label Lowpro Lounge Recordings. "The Skulls live is all crusher material. You’ve got a totally improv beat over here, and a live bass line over here, and I’m in the middle dropping a lead, and grabbing pieces of the other performances and cutting them up… really giving the listener an experience." J.Tonal’s tracks form the root of the Skulls sound, and by all accounts, they’re getting bigger, badder, and more fun to dance to.

Artists: Nick Thayer, the Flying Skulls (latenight)
Guests: Motion Potion, Syd Gris, DJ Omar, Dutch, Icon, Drew Drop

Sun. Feb 14, 2010

“Noche de Amor”
Doors: 5:00 PM | Show: 7:00 PM
Ages: 21+

Spend a romantic and passionate evening in the heart of North Beach enjoying dinner, wine and world-class flamenco on the most romantic night of the year!

Flamenco Shows 7:00-8:00pm and 8:15-9:00pm
Live Music by The Carlitos follows at 9:30
Full Dinner starting at 6:30pm

Artists: Caminos Flamencos
Guests: The Carlitos
http://www.sunsetpromotions.net

Sat. Feb 20, 2010

BLVD w/Mimosa and Majitope
Doors: 8:30 PM | Show: 8:30 PM
Ages: 21+

BLVD returns home after a winter of hard touring, dropping some science at the Independent. Mimosa and Majitope support. GET YOUR TICKETS - THIS WILL SELL OUT IN ADVANCE. www.independentsf.com or at the Independent Box Office

Artists: BLVD
Guests: Mimosa, DJ Majitope
http://www.independentsf.com

Sat. Feb 27, 2010

Vinyl
Doors: 5:00 PM | Show: 9:00 PM
Ages: 21+

Bay Area's favorite band returns to Mojito

http://www.sunsetpromotions.net

Fri. Mar 05, 2010

EOTO & Heavyweight Dub Champion at 103 Harriet
Doors: 10:00 PM | Show: 10:00 PM
Ages: 21+

Sunset Promotions presents a HEAVY HEAVY double HEAVY bill of original electronic music. EOTO (feat Jason Hann and Michael Travis of String Cheese Incident) storm through with an extended set of all-improvised electronic masterworks. HEAVYWEIGHT DUB CHAMPION will play first, with a reggae-infused journey through the many facets of dubwize culture.

Artists: EOTO, Heavyweight Dub Champion
Guests: Motion Potion and more TBA

Fri. Apr 16, 2010

Mad Professor & DJ Vadim: ANALOGIC
Doors: 10:00 PM | Show: 10:00 PM
Ages: 21+

Sunset presents a rare meeting of two of the greatest electronic producers of the past 25 years. MAD PROFESSOR, the dub legend behind the music of Massive Attack and Lee Scratch Perry will be on the scene mixing 32 channel dubs LIVE. DJ Vadim the NinjaTune hero who has made some of the most delicious trip hop in history will be on hand to do an exclusive DJ set as well.

Local heroes Maneesh the Twister, Daneekah, Lud Dub, and U9Lift support

Artists: Mad Professor & DJ Vadim
Guests: Maneesh the Twister, Daneekah, Lud Dub, U9Lift

Sun. Jul 25, 2010

2010 North Beach Jazz Fest DONATIONS
Doors: 8:00 PM | Show: 9:30 PM
Ages: all ages

Donate here to support the relaunch of North Beach Jazz Fest in 2010. Anything is welcome, donate what you can.