Mission Mission

It’s all about music on Mission Mission today. This particular party is tonight at Rock Bar and it sounds awesome! One of the DJs explains it thusly: “We play romantic ballads in spanish, cumbias and some psych rock, also in spanish.” Here’s the rundown for tonight’s edition:

<<<<<<< NOCHE DE ROMANTICAS>>>>>>

COME JOIN US FOR ANOTHER NIGHT OF ROMANTIC BALLADS FROM JOSE Y JOSE. ITS A LONG WEEKED FOR SOME OF US AND A GOOD EXCUSE TO PRE-GAME FOR WHAT WE ARE THANKFUL THIS YEAR!

COME DANCE, DRINK, PLAY POOL AND MOST IMPORTANTLY SAY HELLO.

FEATURING A FEW FILMS AND A VERY SPECIAL SURPRISE GUEST WILL BE JOINING US…

FREE

BRING YOUR FRIENDS!!

8pm-???????

RSVP!

Speaking of soul, renowned local DJ Wam Bam Ashleyanne just debuted a project long in the works, a 24/7 streaming channel for NPR Music devoted to a very specific kind of soul, northern soul:

It’s been 40 years since the first all-night R&B party at the Wigan Casino nightclub outside Manchester, England. The doors didn’t open until 2 a.m., and its 1,200-capacity ballroom was packed until dawn with dance-crazy (possibly amphetamine-fueled) soul fans. They called the uptempo vibe Northern Soul, after the region of England that fell in love with rare ’60s R&B.

To mark the anniversary, public radio’s KALW and a handful of San Francisco DJs curated a 24/7 music channel devoted to the best R&B songs you’ve likely never heard. For every Marvin Gaye or Wilson Pickett song in the mix, there’s another 50 incredible jams by artists who never quite made a name for themselves.

Read on for more history and Ashleyanne’s Top 5, and then listen in.

[Photo by Ping Pong Nite]

A wild jam by Jackson Sandland, a BFF.fm DJ who will also be DJing tonight’s BFF.fm launch party at Bottom of the Hill:

If by Sunday you’re finally out of turkey, or over it, consider it an opportunity to check out this new weekly brunch party: MOM DJs + special guests + brunch and bottomless mimosas every Sunday!

Airs noon-2pm today on BFF.fm!

Listen in, and then meet the entire crew tonight at the BFF.fm Launch Party!

With the future of Pop’s uncertain (be sure to read Broke-Ass Stuart’s heartfelt remembrance), rumors abound. A reader wrote in last night with a query:

I am a frequent reader of missionmission (clap clap- I love the site) and I heard a rumor I thought you might know something about- is the (awesome) pops bar on 24th street turning into a freakin’ birite? I heard some buzz about it and figured you had your ear to the ground on these sorts of things.

Well, cool, thanks!

I said, “Where’d you hear this rumor?”

A few friends who are pretty plugged in to the anti-gentrification underground were buzzing about it the other day over drinks. I don’t expect that they’d be open to telling me where they heard it- they are pretty private about that stuff- but it definitely got my wheels turning so figured I’d ask.

Shrug. Thanks, anyway.

Sounds pretty solid.

UPDATE (Monday, December 2, 2013): Bi-Rite wrote in to tell us that this rumor is false.

[Photos by Google Maps]

BFF.fm, the Mission-based radio station all your friends seem to be DJs at, has been broadcasting for a couple months now, and the programming is getting stronger and stronger every day!

Here’s founder Cosmic Amanda talking about her grand plans for BFF, from a Q&A we did a few weeks back:

Our main focus is supporting emerging and underground artists, and we’ll do that not only by spinning their tunes, but by reaching out into the local music scene and forging partnerships with bands and labels. I want us to become a go-to resource for spreading the word about awesome new music.

My goal in creating this station is to build a professional-quality studio in an amazing space that inspires DJs to put forth their very best content. This has been a labor of love for me, taking up all of my free time and money, but even in just the short amount of time we’ve been around the response has been amazingly positive and I can’t wait to see where we can take this.

Read on for lots more Q&A, and then RSVP and invite your friends!

Basically it tells you a bunch of ways you can live your life, and shows a lot of cool scenes around the Mission, and some mockups of what the complex will look like:

Watch:

[via Curbed SF]

Obviously, the best way to recover from the turducken gorge-fest that will be taking place this Thanksgiving is by dancing your socks off to a bunch of rad bands the day after!  But where to do such a thing???  Fortunately, the Chapel has got you covered with a record release show for Polyvinyl Records‘ new garage rock compilation curated by Sonny Smith (of Sonny & The Sunsets) featuring a ton of SF bands!

Annnnd the best part is that we’re giving away a pair of FREE tickets!  For a chance to win, all you need to do is write about your funniest Thanksgiving memory in the comments.  Bonus points if you can include some San Francisco flavor in there, too!  The contest ends at 12pm noon on Thanksgiving day, so get cracking!  Be sure to include your REAL first name and REAL email when you comment so I can email you back if you win (and I know what name to put on the list)!  Don’t worry, emails will NOT be used in any other way.

I Need You Bad – The Live Show!

Feat. Little Wings / Chris Cohen / The Memories / Fronds

DJ sets by Sonny Smith

Friday, November 29 – doors 7pm, show 8pm

$12 adv / $15 doors, all ages

The Chapel @ 777 Valencia

“This place is FUCKED!” It’s a classic Rancid lyric… Angry and joyous at the same time, aimed at the Bay Area, and fun to yell: a classic!

Anyway, you love Rancid, I love Rancid — but we’d love to know more and more and more about the time and place and scene from whence Rancid came. We’d love to dig deeper! Rancid got big fast and moved to Hollywood or something….. but what was happening here in the early days, and how’d it all go down, and what happened later on?? Maybe there was Green Day, maybe Operation Ivy had something to do with it, and maybe Chris Appelgren (of the Bold Italic) ran something called Lookout Records. In any case, we wanna know all about it!

Well, we’re in luck: DJ Trigger Cut is here to help us out. With his exhaustive knowledge of Bay Area punk rock, and his even more exhaustive record collection, DJ Trigger Cut (on the last Tuesday of every month) will educate us and excite us and make us wanna dance a drink and partY!

THIS PLACE IS FUCKED! RSVP and invite your friends! (And hope he plays some Groovie Ghoulies this time!)