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Snoop Dogg Hotboxes Twitter HQ

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Apparently the entire staff was forced to tweeted it out. (pic by RNO)

Getting a job at a tech company sounds like a quick way to make your life boring, but Twitter apparently held it down today.  Troy Holden reports that “The entire @twoffice smells like sticky-icky bubonic chronic. @SnoopDogg is smoking Tweets!”  He also posted a photo of Snoop Dogg smoking a blunt in their DJ booth, which he already deleted (I can't imagine why).  Another employee, @manuel, claims he was “burning a joint” and also snapped a photo of the action, although you can't see him hotboxing the place in his pic.

I'm sure this is some sort of viral recruiting campaign for Twitter since smoking weed with rappers sounds way more fun than writing Ruby.  Besides, the only other jobs in which you can hotbox your place of employment is either being self-employed or working as a bike mechanic, and neither of those pay nearly as well as being an engineer.  Well played, Twitter.

Rock Against Reagan in Dolores Park

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Cranky Old Mission Guy just uploaded a scan of the flyer for the Rock Against Reagan concert that happened way back in the days before Whoopi Goldberg ever starred in a movie, Tom Ammiano was a supervisor, Will Durst had a radio show with “Da Mayor”, or anyone ever went to Dolores Park for anything other than heroin.

No doubt this was one gnarly concert, although it seems like it went largely unnoticed at the time.  The searching the SFPL “eLibrary” doesn't turn up any old newspaper articles on the show and, unfortunately, not too many videos or photos from the event are floating around the internet.  All I could dig up was a snap of the Dead Kennedy's on stage by Tom Erickson:

And this short video of MDC and people going nuts in the crowd (originally posted by Sanjiban Films):

Now, I'm pretty sure there haven't been any awesome concert in Dolores since Fugazi played a couple of times in the early 2000's. Maybe it's about time someone steps up and changes that so future generations can reminisce about the time they put Elmer's in their hair and threw themselves into a sea of people?

Previously on Uptown Almanac: 

KUSF TO GO OLD TIMEY RADIO

— By Serg |

For those of you who still listen to radio it was announced today that KUSF is going online only and that the FCC license for 90.3 will be sold to some socal station so they can play classical music instead. I don't really listen to radio anymore anyways but when I did college radio was really the only shit I would bother with as commercial radio is largely irrelevant. If they can stream their stuff to my phone I'd probably make more use of it, or at least start letting me subscribe to shows so I can download them. Either way this kind of sucks, yeah radio is for dinosaurs but it was nice that it was still there. Hopefully now they just say fuck it and never play radio friendly versions of songs ever again.

Update: Oh cute, according to twitter this was some back room midnight deal USF pulled which is pretty dickish of them. They walked in during the middle of a show and just shut the whole thing down according to SF Weekly.

Clarion Alley Covered In Sewage

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Street art god SEWAGE recently upstaged every muralist on Clarion Alley with his montage of back-in-the-day punk show flyers.  While most of the flyers are from SoCal (boo, hiss!), including a wicked drawing of E.T. riding a skateboard with his tongue hanging out yelling “E.T. rad balls, dude!”, there are a few gems from the Mission.  One such 94110 poster describes 16th Street's Victoria Theater as a refuge from high prices, crappy bouncers and baloney.  Yes.

Go check it out before HYPE! gets a chance to fuck this piece of gold up.

Public Works Knows How to Throw a Party

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

If you can get past this crappy photo, you can see there was a lot of action going on at the Sailor Jerry-sponsored Black Lips and Thee Oh Sees show on Saturday.  Now, I hadn't been to a good punk show in quite some time, but this one was exactly how I remembered it: about 150 empty cans around the block from the venue.  A crappy stage only a foot and a half off the ground.  No security barrier and only a few security guards, whose heads towered over the band, to keep moshing fans from crashing into the band.  Fans charging the stage as security was distracted by pulling fans off the rafters.  A girl crying in the bathroom with two wasted friends trying to comfort her.  A fist fight that had to be broken up by a five-foot tall skinny girl from Michigan.  And, of course, no night would be complete without two stumbling girls covered in tattoos and tattered clothing debating whether or not they were too drunk to ride their bikes home.

Public Works, you may serve shitty, watered-down drinks at club prices, but you know how to throw a goddamn party.

Previously on Uptown Almanac: 

NOISE POOP 2k11 LINEUP

— By Zach Perkins |

The 2011 schedule for Noise Pop has been announced, and includes a lineup that buzzband fanboys nutted so hard over that 'Early Bird Badges' have already sold out. 

SF Weekly in particular has been drooling over Pitchfork's latest flavor of the week, How To Dress Well.  I'm not crazy about the record but if they're anything like the video above than they sound like Elliott Smith covering R Kelly live CORRECTION: they actually are covering R Kelly's 'I Wish'. How To Dress Well FTW!
 
Also prominently featured are Best Coast and Wavves, 2k10's Beniffer of the blogosphere (I mean does anyone still care about Ben & Zooey after they 'went mainstream' via Major League Baseball ?) and are in my less-than-humble opinion about as over hyped and untalented as musicians as Affleck and JLo were as actors. 
 
Schedule and tickets found here.
 

World's Most Awkward Bass Performance to Occur at Cafe Du Nord Tonight; Old Indie Musicians Will Accompany

— By Zach Perkins |

Somewhat disappointed that Cera's first band wasn't called Kissing Kousins.

Arrested Development stalkers rejoice!  Michael Cera is in SF to perform with Man Man/Islands/Modest-Mouse supergroup Mister Heavenly tonight at Cafe Du Nord.  He'll be playing bass, which is apparently what he also did in the recent, questionably lame Scott Pilgrim movie.  At least that's what the screen cap above tells me, fuck if I know.

The event page for Cafe Du Nord is here, and SHOCKER; tickets are sold out.  They'll probably have some at the doors though, which open at 8pm.  

TONIGHT AT THE FUCKING PARKSIDE

— By Serg |

yeah in like an hour and a half or whenever the fuck they go on Black Cobra is playing at Thee Parkside and I'm gonna go there to hear it.

Free Black Lips & Thee Oh Sees Show Courtesy of Mediocre Booze

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Sailor Jerry Rum may be embarrassingly desperate is in its attempt to spin its Jersey Shore image into a hipster/punk one, but you have to at least give them credit for bringing a rad show to the Mezzanine of the Mission.  That's right, the show isn't at the fictitious “SF Works” that the flyer mentions but rather at Public Works, the extremely fun venue on the northern end of the Mission that supposedly doubles as an art space during the day (although the surprisingly boring interior would suggest that an artist has never set foot in there).

Anyway, if you want to see this show, you have to sign up for Sailor Jerry's email list.  So, there's your catch.

(Thanks Meghan!)

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