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Debaser's Details
Status:
Single
Zodiac Sign:
Aquarius
Debaser ain't nuthin but a g thang Posted at 3:16 AM Feb 25, 2008 view more
WITH DJS:
JAMIE JAMS (AVERY ISLAND)
EMDEE (CLUB NEON)
JESSICA (ALL FALL DOWN)
720 MINUTES
90s VIDEO MONTAGE BY TOSH
PHOTOS BY CHRIS BRENNAN
$5, 21+
FREE WITH FLANNEL BEFORE 11PM
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OUR FIRST REVIEW
I Feel So Debaser
by Kimberley Chun
Yes, shake yourself, wake yourself, shiver ye timbers, and don ye olde kinderwhore frock. There's a newish club in town, courtesy of those Neon kids: Debaser, a '90s alternative dance party that has yet to find its firm monthly footing but will nonetheless shake the rafters at the Knockout Saturday, Feb. 9.
Tomorrow's Valentine’s special showcases DJs Jamie Jams (Avery Island), EmDee (Club Neon), and Jessica (Club Lovely); bearer of the best Courtney Love-style baby doll dress gets a gift certificate to Thrift Town. Sorry, no lurid imagery available yet: Jams confesses that lame ole 2D pics fail to convey the "sheer mania" going down. Last month, he says, "We seriously had 300 people in flannels moshing to records and screaming all the words to the Cranberries." Scary! But fun at the same time, no? And never fear, Breeder babies, if you miss this month's, you can always get your Kurt on at the next party on March 1.
Debaser
Saturday, Feb. 9; 10 p.m : free with flannel before 11 p.m., afterward $5
Knockout, 3223 Mission, SF
Debaser
The Knockout
July 4, 2008
Review and Photos by Crystal Akins
Better than: The millennium.
Punctuated by balloons, stiff drinks and your favorite 90s songs, Debaser at The Knockout is a place for Millennials to re-live their youth via Nirvana, Beck and Luscious Jackson.
“I swear to god, it’s the only legitimate 90’s party in the world,” said Jamie Jams, Debaser's resident DJ.
Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: DJ Jamie Jams Fri Jul 11, 2008 at 07:00:10 AM
(photo by Chris Brennan)
This week's Friday DJ Q&A is with Jamie Jams, a dude who loves his '90s icons, from Nirvana to the Pixies and R.E.M. What with Sub Pop turning 20, and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" showing up on DJ playlists again, there's a big old flannel flashback going down. Crystal Akins interviews Jamie, who rock 'n' rolls all night and fights the power every day.
DJs dig into '90s nostalgia
By Jennifer Maerz Published on September 24, 2008
Smell the '90s spirit at Debaser.
It was one of those balmy September weekends when San Franciscans can actually go sleeveless after 10 p.m. And yet in the line snaking outside Mission bar the Knockout for the club night Debaser, partiers were bundled in flannels. One dude kept a nest of dark hair tucked under a black ski cap. Were we in the same climate zone here? Yup. These folks weren't dressing for the weather; they were working an era. This particular Saturday night was all about the '90s, so no matter what the thermometer displayed, the look required plaid Pendletons — or, I should say, the admission discount required it. If you show up at Debaser before 11 p.m. in flannel or a babydoll dress, you bypass the $5 cover.
Superblastered Blasthaus hits lucky 13 with Matthew Dear, Dubclash Volume II steps out, Diamond Daggers hoe down
By Marke B. Wednesday December 10, 2008
SUPER EGO Blue! Red! Yellow! Green! Indigo Girls! (Ew.) This column is on a serious '90s flashback trip lately — as is the city's nightlife: witness delightfully grungeful monthly Debaser's climb to the top of the club charts (www.myspace.com/debaser90s) — dipping its toes into the perilous VH-1 waves of Clintonia. But hardly that icky! My last installment caught up with primal ravers Tribal Funk, and this time around I'm jumping with joy in my silk-tasseled plaid bolero jacket for the 13th anniversary celebration of protean party promoters Blasthaus at Mighty, with techno heartthrob headliners Matthew Dear and Ryan Elliot, a supporting cast of stellar local talent including my DJ crush of the mo' Nikola Baytala (call me!) a bouncy castle, a sushi bar, and a foot-washer.
Wooo! Wooooo! No, I'm not a giant faggotty owl. I'm the ghost of recent San Francisco underground dance floors past — equally faggotty — and I controool you. Or at least I did, until that brazen neon bitch from American Apparel showed up on the 2k8 guest list, with his matte lamé leggings, Adderall diet, Marvel comics mask, baile funk BFF, and Ableton plug-ins.
Gurl, I got caught with my ZOMGs down, and it was total fap fap fap.
2008's top parties
By Crystal Akins Published on December 29th, 2008
Nothing sucks more than paying an overpriced cover, only to be greeted by beer Pong or frat bros — especially since the recession is making everyone save those extra pennies for stronger cocktails. So after risking cirrhosis and DUIs to deliver regular club reviews to SF Weekly's All Shook Down blog, I've whittled down the city's nightlife options to the champion parties of 2008.
Club Night: Debaser Location: The Knockout Style of Music: The best of the '90s How often: First Saturday of the month Crowd: Kurt and Courtney protégés Details: Tucked away at the Knockout in the outer Mission, Debaser hosts the only legitimate '90s party in the city. Relive the birth of the Alternative Nation as DJs spin tracks by Luscious Jackson, Nirvana, and Hole while revelers mosh in front of the turntables. Bonus tip: If you show up wearing flannel, you dodge the cover charge. During my last visit to Debaser, I witnessed an Irish woman flash her tits every five minutes. These '80s babies know how to have fun.
Fair game Heads up! It's a new year in nightlife, and everything's on the tables
By Marke B. Wednesday January 14, 2008
Wins: New regular rip-roarers that freaked me included the cumbia-rific Tormenta Tropical, outrageously draggy Tiara Sensation, free-for-alls Honey Sundays (gayish, discoish), and Infatuation (straightish, electroish), roving furry dress-up party Beast, the Hole-y '90s-worshipping Debaser, slinky Gemini Disco, crazy Look Out Weekend, and the hyperenergetic Work. Gone but not forgotten: Trans Am, Fag Fridays, Tits, Sucker Punch, Stiletto, Monster Show, Drift, and, ...
Debaser Loves Riot Grrrl
By Jennifer Maerz Published on January 29, 2009
San Francisco's dedicated '90s club night, Debaser, is feeling the love this Valentine's Day. Courtney Love, that is. The patron saint of baby doll dresses will reign over the next edition of the Knockout party on Saturday, Feb. 7. Guest DJ Vice Cooler (aka Hawnay Troof) will spin everything from Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, and Babes in Toyland to Team Dresch as the club's heart gets pinned to the sleeve of nostalgia once again. Show up in a flannel before 11 p.m. and you get in free; show up in a baby doll dress and you're free all night--and you get entered to win a Hole 7".
OUR ELEVENTH REVIEW!
Our weekly picks What to do Feb. 4-10, 2009
By GUARDIAN STAFF
Debaser's Riot Grrrl Valentine's Party
"Why are all these spoiled white people whining so loudly at me?" was my basic reaction to 1990s alternative rock. The Clinton years should have had everyone shooting sunshine tattoos out the ass-end of a keening guitar. Instead, we were treated to a bunch of heads like a hole wanting the most cake while fussing over their purple-teddy-bear-devoted fanzines. Oh, the manufactured drama. Nobody loved them! And then, Rwanda. Oddly, nostalgia has made this self-centered situation fun — and by narrowing its '90s focus to rock, Debaser has become the most successful monthly attempt to resurrect that ill-starred decade in clubland. (We still await, on glittered tenterhooks, a glorious all-boy band tribute night to come slouching from some Epcot Gomorrah.) Debaser's annual pre-Valentine's hoot features flannel hearts, riot grrrl lust, and an appearance by super-spaz Vice Cooler. The best babydoll dress wins a Hole 12-inch — paradoxically, kind of the opposite of riot grrrl. Courtney Love it or leave it, losers. (Marke B.)
Boner at Beauty Bar
Last Seen: March 25, 2009
Recurring Club Night? Every Wednesday
Notes and Photos by Crystal Akins
Better Than: Taking Viagra or watching porn.
Former Frisco Disco DJ Richie Panic has a new trick up his sleeve: free weenies (the hot dog variety), rumored whip-its, 90's jams and more every Wednesday at Beauty Bar -- free of charge...
Random Detail: If you love Debaser and hate waiting until the first Saturday of every month, this party will hold you over.
By the Way: Special guests are planned to DJ in the future weeks, but until then, Richie Panic is DJing stag. Also in attendance and supporting the 90's revival were Jamie Jams and Jeffrey Paradise.
Eating in with Debaser DJs from San Fransisco's hottest '90s party take the cake
By Lisa Hix
Summer 2009
OUR FIFTEENTH REVIEW!
Best of the Bay 2009
Best Flannel Revival
In this age of continual retro, it comes as a surprise that listening to mainstream '90s alternative rock can give you, under the right inebriated circumstances, the kind of pleasure not experienced since heroin went out of vogue. Debaser at the Knockout has become one of the best monthly parties in San Francisco, largely because it gives '80s babies, who were stuck playing Oregon Trail in computer class while Courtney Love and Kat Bjelland were rocking it out in Portland, the chance to live out their Nirvana-era dreams. Debaser promoter Jamie Jams is the only DJ in San Francisco who will spin the Cranberries after a Pavement song, and his inspired mixology is empirically proven to induce moshing en masse until last call, an enticingly dangerous sport now that lead-footed Doc Martens are back in style. Sporting flannel gets you comped, so for those still hung up over Jordan Catalano and the way he leans, Debaser is rife with contemporary, albeit less angsty, equivalents. First Saturdays, 9 p.m., Knockout, 3223 Mission, SF. (415) 550-6994, www.myspace.com/debaser90s
OUR SIXTEENTH REVIEW!
10 Things to Do This Weekend for Under $10
By Jennifer Maerz Friday, Jul. 31 2009
Retro Dance Nights @ The Knockout (Friday and Saturday)
If you like DJs who move backward in time, this weekend you can choose your era for Knockout kicks. On Friday night, the bar gets its '60s fix with Teenage Dance Craze Party, featuring DJs Sergio Iglesias, Russell Quan, and DX the Funky Gran Pa (10 p.m., $3). On Saturday, things time travel forward three decades from Dance Craze into the '90s for Debaser, a club that celebrates the decade when college rock first became king and loggers had a hard time shopping for flannels in thirft stores. (Doors at 9 p.m. Free entry w/ flannel before 11; otherwise $5)
The Shakedown FALL ARTS PREVIEW: Fall clubbing equals tubas, pagers, vogueing, punks, more
By Marke B. Wednesday August 26, 2009
If you think you can handle more massive autumn debauchery than Oct. 3's gargantuan Lovevolution (www.sflovevolution.org) parade and festival, which showcases every electronic continent-shaker on the local scene, or the Treasure Island Music Festival (www.treasureislandfestival.com) Oct. 17-18 with its onslaught of dance music NAMES, then you may want to jet to the below. Child, I've seen your plate — and it's never full.
HIP-HOP DEBASER
Launch your fall-forward blackout in old-school shelltoes, as the primo Debaser party veers from its grunge-revival template with classic rap chestnuts, St. Ides drink specials, and a sneaker contest (prizes: an eighth, a forty, a pager.) Sat/29, 9 p.m., $5. The Knockout, 3223 Mission, SF.
YES! I do too, but I can't breathe, I can't sleep and my head is throbbing....I went to the Pharmacy last night and she hooked me up, so I hope with these meds I can get to feeling better. I am not coming in this afternoon to work. We might actually do that. Send a text my way and remind me, if you don't mind. I'd love to do that! We are SOOO loving our vacation time and love being around people too. the extra money we made from taking those paid surveys online helped out so much!! you should really do them too; i mean, hey, the extra money comes in handy, right? i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is:
www.blingforwork.com
anyways, so, I will see you next Tuesday. Have a great day!
Thanks for the 7 inch dudes. Tre Cool. I think I won by default but am giving the record to my boy Shaun in lieu of his epic crowd surfing photos and the rad black eye he got at Debaser. Entertain Us. Yea.
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