Depressed Buttons (The Faint DJs // Mad Decent) & Afghan Raiders!

*Depressed Buttons*

Most commonly known as three-fifths of the influential indie synth outfit, The Faint, Clark Baechle, Todd Fink, and Jacob Thiele have begun their journey into the future of sound with their new project Depressed Buttons. With a filthy lust for synthesizers, the band creates all their own tracks leaving listeners entranced and entangled within a web of angular stabs and thick pads. Don’t let the word “depressed” fool you, a button that's depressed isn't sad, it's turned on, which is exactly what their new EP QWERTY does to listeners



http://www.maddecent.com/blog/depressed-buttons-qwerty-ep-out-now



http://soundcloud.com/maddecent/depressed-buttons-mixmeat-mixtape



http://soundcloud.com/maddecent/depressed-buttons-ow





*Afghan Raiders*

The Las Vegas duo known as Afghan Raiders is composed of Mikey Francis and Vincent "Beans" Campillo. Their dark riffs, huge beats, and energetic live performances create a blend of music that bridges the gap between electronic music, house music, grunge and pop music. The Afghan Raiders broke onto the Las Vegas scene in 2008 with their debut EP Future Thinkers / Solid Gold. They release their music on their own label, Badical Beats. The Afghan Raiders' quick rise in popularity has allowed them to play significant shows such as the CMJ Music Marathon in NYC, SXSW in Austin, and the west coast club circuit. Notable events include Dim Mak's Cinespace Tuesdays, Blow Up LA, and Dance Right in Los Angeles, Blow Up SF in San Francisco, and the Filter/Ben Sherman Rock Royalty party and the Filter/SEMA party in Las Vegas. The band has performed with artists such as YACHT, Wallpaper, Classixx, No Age, Handsome Furs, and Metronomy, and have created remixes for bands including Depeche Mode, Neon Indian, The Faint, Phoenix (band), and Black Lips. Their remix of the Black Lips and GZA collaboration track, "The Drop I Hold", won Filter Magazine's Remix Contest in August 2009.



http://www.afghanraiders.com/afghan-raiders/2010/07/m-i-a-steppin-up-afghan-raiders-remix/



plus



Lights Down Low DJs:



Corey Sleazemore and Eli Glad



9 pm – 2 am, $10 pre sale, $15 @ the door
$5 Svedka drinks 9pm-11pm!

Get your tickets here: http://depressedbuttons.eventbrite.com/

BOOTIE NYE 2011 IS SOLD OUT!

BOOTIE NYE 2011 IS SOLD OUT! THANKS EVERYONE! WE CAN'T WAIT TO CELEBRATE THE BEST NYE IN SF WITH YOU! GET REEAAADDYY TO PAR-TAY!

A Skillz @ Mezzanine!

SUNSET PROMOTIONS, THE SPACECOWBOYS & ANTENNAE PRESENT TO YOU:



A-SKILLZ
Making his first SF appearance since 2008!

With:

SLYDE

8Ball

TAMO

MANCUB

KAPT'N KIRK

MOTION POTION

9PM Doors
$15 Advanced Tickets

Adam ‘A.Skillz’ is one of the country’s most funky beatmeisters. His fierce production skills and turntable dexterity has seen him explode onto the scene, collaborating with hip-hop legends and making music for worldwide brands.

February 2004 saw A.Skillz and Krafty Kuts team up on the TrickaTechnology Tour with live MC’s from the album playing shows all over the UK. The duo then went on to DJ together leaving audiences and dance floors astounded with their skills on four decks and four CDJ’s, playing at Glastonbury Festival, Pacha (Ibiza) and a live session for Steve Lamaq on BBC Radio 1.

For Bottle Service Call 415.625.8880

Bootie Bootie!

BOOTIE PRESENTS:

MASH UP YOUR NEW YEAR WITH:

BOOTIE NYE 2011

SMASH-UP DERBY

ADRIAN & MYSTERIOUS D

BRASS TAX DJS

GRANDPAMINI

JOHN!JOHN!

9PM Doors - Late
$20 Earlybird Advanced
$30 General Advanced
$40 at the Door While Supplies Last

Mash up your New Year! For one night only, Bootie moves to Mezzanine to celebrate New Years Eve, mashup-style!

At 11 PM, Smash-Up Derby, Bootie's award-winning house band, takes the stage to say goodbye to 2010 with a special "Greatest Hits" set. Resident DJs Adrian & Mysterious D play out 2010, mashing up the biggest hits from the past year. The band returns at midnight to help ring in 2011 with a pirate balloon drop, champagne toast, video countdown -- and a mashed-up version of "Auld Lang Syne" live!

In the upstairs room, Brass Tax takes over, as DJs Ding Dong, JoeJoe, and Mace spin a dirty combination of breaks, electro, d'n'b, and hip-hop to keep you dancing with balls-to-the-wall bass and beats. Surprise performances will grace the Mezzanine stage throughout the night, including -- direct from Paris -- infamous French rapper Grandpamini, random bizarreness from John!John!, and of course, it wouldn't be 2011 without an appearance from Baby Gaga!

There will be FREE "Best of Bootie 2010" CDs for the first 500 people through the door, and Calibree Photography will on hand with a Photo Booth to capture all your New Years Eve fabulousness!

Get your tickets here!

For Bottle Service Call 415.625.8880

Nostalgia Overload -- in a good way!

What happens when you put nostalgia and a (huge) squirt of lime in a cocktail shaker? This past weekend at Mezzanine! Seriously! It was a weekend of past memories and good times as the weekend came to an end in the wee hours of Sunday morning. It all started off on Thursday evening... Temper Trap, Sleigh Bells, and The Limousines graced our stage for the pre-party to Not So Silent Night's main event in San Jose. Here's a review of the night if you missed out! Friday night soon followed with a performance of "Unknown Pleasures" from Joy Division/New Order's, Peter Hook. The anticipation was so heavy leading up to the sold out event, we could barely contain ourselves! Check out a review of the night from Spinning Platters! Saturday night was the 7th Stevie Wonder tribute event, "Wonderfull" featuring DJ Spinna putting a twist on Stevie Wonder classics. SF Weekly has featured photos and some kind words from the evening on their website here.

Such a great weekend! So happy it's Thursday again! We have Parranda Navidena, Devin The Dude, and Swayzak hittin' up Mezzanine this weekend. Fabulous! We hope to see ya there!

"A brilliant oddball with a spaced-out flow." - NY TIMES

SUPABAD ENTERTAINMENT & DJ PEEDEE PRESENT

DEVIN THE DUDE
LIVE IN CONCERT

ISE LYFE

FRIDAY | DECEMBER 17, 2010 | 9PM DOORS

$25 General Advanced Tickets | $45 VIP Tickets


Devin the Dude is a Houston-area rapper. Though relatively well-known among the underground hip-hop community during the mid-to-late 90’s, Devin did not achieve mainstream success until his appearance on Dr. Dre’s 2001 album. Besides sex, relationships, ridin’ trucks, smokin’ reefer, drinkin’ beer, partying, and conscious or proverbial themes, much of Devin’s work is also light-hearted and comically self-deprecating. The New York Times has called him “A brilliant oddball with a spaced-out flow."

For Bottle Service Call 415.625.8880

YOU ARE THE SUNSHINE OF MY LIFE!

FRESCO, MASSIVE SELECTOR, & KEYSTAR PRESENT

AN ANNUAL TRIBUTE TO THE WONDERS OF STEVE:

WONDER-FULL 7 SF

DJ SPINNA (NYC)

HAKOBO

PROOF

KING MOST

and live painting by Samira Idroos (Third Space) & Black Diamond Shining!

Saturday | December 11th, 2010 | 9PM - 4AM

Mezzanine | 444 Jessie St | San Francisco, CA | 94103

$20 Advanced Tickets


Back in 1999, DJ Spinna and Bobbito were asked to spin at a party which paid tribute to the great Stevie Wonder. The duo quickly realized they had a mutual love for Little Stevie's music and, judging from the atmosphere on the dance floor that night, they knew they had a good thing going. A classic East Coast party was born. Wonder-full falls on the weekend of Stevie's May 13 birthday and features handpicked rare and funky covers from Spinna's and Bobbito's vaults. Today, KeiStar Productions spearheads sole production of the now incontestable and world renown WONDER-Full event. And lucky for us, the time has arrived once again for our West Coast ears to hear some songs in the key of life.
For Bottle Service Call 415.625.8880

Take a listen to this and get ready for SATURDAY NIGHT!!

Yeah, I'm a hustla baby.

SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO (dj set)

with

RYAN POULSEN

TENDERLIONS

MAY 29^th, 2010 | 9PM

Mezzanine | 444 Jessie St | San Francisco, CA | 94103

Summertime 2006, the sun’s ablaze and you’re laying low in the lush landscapes of the lavish Dolores park, Quadrant II. Teacate in one hand, you hear faint melodic buzzes and bangs emitted via ghetto-blaster, owned by a tonal tastemaker stationed a few blankets away. As your ears tune in to tame the tantalizing tempo, you are able to make out the lyrics through a delicately woven web of psycho-sonic synth melodies, “yeah, I’m a hustler baby. That’s what my daddy’s made me”, it beckons. You can’t help but question, “WHO is the courageous culprit that catalyzed this cataclysmically catchy ear-candy into creation to embed its soul into my cerebral cortex?!”… only to discover that Simian Mobile Disco is guilty as charged.

Cut to 2010. Times have changed and those forward-thinking visionaries have adopted a newfound model of creative consciousness through the collective strife for meaning. They’ve undertaken a desire to develop material that captures only the true essence of the self through revelatory innovative reinvention. SMD has done precisely that with their aurally evolved masterfully manifested mountains of sound. Still catchy as ever, their synesthetic aural vision has evolved into one that is all their own- dark and delectable minimal techno disco delicacies, bangin’ bloody bouquets of ballads that invade your eardrums invoking radiant rays of rhythm. These rays have been cautiously captured and packaged up nicely to be served right to your doorstep at your friendly neighborhood nightclub, Mezzanine.

SMD’s astounding abilities are further aided by their astral list of accolades; a FabricLive series comp, tons of BBC Radio 1 airtime, and collaboration with colossal bands such as Florence & the Machine, Air, Arctic Monkeys, Peaches, Klaxons, Yeasayer, Hot Chip, Annie Mac, and many more. What are they working on now, you ask? Aside from an upcoming album that is leaning more towards the techno side of town, Simian Mobile Disco recently announced a new project called “Delicacies”, where every track will “take the name of an exotic, and often bizarre, delicacy from around the world”. Come see what type of Simian MobileDeliciousness they have brewing for us Friday May 29^th, 2010 at Mezzanine.

The hottest event in 1989.

Date: Friday, April 9, 2010 1:26pm
House Arrest Featuring:
Azari & III (Toronto)
with DJs (in no particular order):
Jeno, Conor, Solar, Derrick Love, Black Shag, Ken Vulsion
Venue: Mezzanine | 444 Jessie St | SF | 9PM - LATE | $7 Before 11 | $10 After 11
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A dark, rolling, driving, pulsating, plummeting rhythm takes you deep into a late 80s timewarp while mysterious ethereal whispers seduce you to stay…
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City life. 1989. The sun just went down and you find yourself driving down the cold chromatic city streets. Prowling the desolate dusk-filled avenues emerges a dark decadent vampire-disco vortex. Beaming shards of acidic laser synth-stabs erupt out of analog 303s & 808s and embed themselves into the crevices your cerebellum summoning the memory banks of 1989. Indescribable feelings of nostalgia overtake you and physiologically manifest as goosebumps on your forearms and neck.

Crystalized android gems Azari & III emerge from the time capsule, 303s in hand, emitting cerebral surges of sound in the form of kaleidoscopic avant acid artistry. After looking into the timeless prism of the past, these wistful revivalists mold the sound of the future.
Azari & III exhibit a deep-seated understanding of the oneness that binds 1990 to its baby brother 2010 by brewing mercurial masterpieces of digital meets analog. Their ability to reinterpret acid while nurturing nostalgia with an innovative new school flair causes even the most musically masterminded tastemaker, John Maclean himself, to tweet about how awesome they are.

Amidst a sea of blogs and musical downloads at one's fingertips- in an age where the extent of someone "listening" to a song consists of clicking to 4-6 random spots on an itunes playbar, we often lose sight of quality music. Azari & III will quench your hunger for quality with songs such as “Hungry for the Power”, a jam that eloquently demonstrates their knowledge of the genre without being clouded by the overwhelming decisions of which ableton VST preset to choose. The video for “Hungry for the Power was described as “one of the finest videos anyone could have hoped to see this year, re-imagining the jackhammering narrative to American Psycho as a Paris is Burning inspired gorefest, where shade is deadly and men in sharp suits always get their comeuppance.” -- 20JazzFunkGreats

They will bring the sheer love and passion to revive forgotten acid classics to the dancefloor via: Trax Records, Frankie Knuckles, Jamie Principle, Kevin Saunderson, Juan Atkins, Phuture, and many more.
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The ghost of Chicago acid house will continue to jack the city streets.
It’s next stop: Mezzanine San Francisco, Friday April 9, 2010.

Watch: Azari & III - Hungry for the Power

FAKE BLOOD paints San Francisco

Tickets on sale now at @ blasthaus.com/

Another Award Show performance!

This one comes from the BRIT awards that were taped yesterday. This collaboration was a celebration from two of the winners, Dizzee Rascal and Florence from Florence and the Machine. The pair did a live mashup of Florence's, "you've got the love" and Dizzee's, "Dirtee Cash." It seems that Florence finally is the getting the recognition she deserves and received top honors at the show. It's great to see artist who have played Mezzanine sf doing big things. we look forward to having Florence at Mezzanine in April during Coachella weekend and Tickets are on sale now for Florence and the Machine and Delphic buy tickets here

Night Before Valentines day party: Not just for Lovers

Mezzanine brings you a pre- Valentines Day bash this Saturday with Paradise Lovers Disco. Partying without a date? We're trying to hook you up those dressed to impress and smelling fresh as we invite you to check out our singles dance competition upstairs.

Your favorite disco party starters Honey Soundsystem, Gemini Disco, Beat Electric and Donuts will be on decks and best believe that we're hooking up those early birds who want to fulfill their thirsts. This night is FREE WITH RSVP to the early birds arriving before 11pm and only $5 the rest of the night. Come ready to party hard and dance the night away!

Check It: BROKEN BELLS

Mega Producer Brian Burton better known as Danger Mouse is at it again and this time he's working with indie pop frontman James Mercer of the Shins. Danger Mouse is half of the majorly successful Gnarles Barkley ft. CeeLo and hip hop monster project Danger Doom with M.F. Doom. Mercer was supposed to release a solo album after wrapping the last Shins album when Danger mouse was looking to work on a new project.

It worked out well because the collaboration has received rave reviews, and now we have March 9th 2010 to look forward to for the release of Broken Bells. Itunes released the first single "The High Road" as its free weekly download (available until the 16th of February).




BROKEN BELLS- THE HIGH ROAD : itunes mp3

Stranger than GAGA?

The Knife released a new collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planingtorock this week. Karin Dreijer (the Knife) made headlines last week when she won a major award at the p3 Guld ceremony in Sweden. In typical fashions, Fever Ray sported a head covering that revealed her face was melting off. It gets weirder, instead of a traditional acceptance speech, Fever Ray murmered some frightening words of inspiration. Fever Ray (Karin Dreijer's solo project) is on this years Coachella bill and shes worth checking out and not to be missed live. Check out the video to get the complete story.

Get a Dose of Designer Drugs!!!!

Designer Drugs + Bad Neighbors + LLeGGs

Friday, January 29th at MEZZANINE!