Bootie

Speaking of dance bashes, we finally got our butt out to Bootie LA at The Echo late last Saturday, and though we missed punk legend Howie Pyro's new project The Illuminoids (sample monster mash-up on their MySpace: "Lugosi's Mongoloid," a blending of Beck, Devo and Bauhaus), we still had a blast. DJ Paul V had the very mixed crowd (rockers and ravers in everything from corsets to conch belts to crochet) completely spastic, especially during the electro and rock smashers...

There's no denying that club Bootie is the biggest and most successful mashup club in the world. From humble beginnings, Ohio-born ex-glam rocker Adrian and Dallas club-kid Mysterious D have created a club event that has grown from a monthly night on Wednesdays to regular nights all over the globe. In it's short 4-year life span, Bootie has regularly been voted the "Best Dance Club" by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, been featured as one of "America's Wildest...

What do you get when you combine Run DMC, Metallica, a couple of hundred pairs of fishnet stockings, and a few heavy-handed bartenders? One hell of a morning after. Blame it on Bootie. The monthly mashup club loves to blur the lines - between Modest Mouse and Grandmaster Flash, say, or Devo and Destiny's Child - and our readers love it. DNA Lounge, 375 11th St., SF. (415) 626-1409, www.bootiesf.com

You’d be forgiven to think that the once wildly popular “mashup” musical trend is no longer in vogue. Big in the years 2002 to 2004 and personified by such mixes as 2 Many DJs’ Nirvana vs. Destiny’s Child hybrid “Smells Like Booty” and Danger Mouse’s Beatles-meets-Jay Z album-length mastermix The Grey Album, you probably assumed the craze to have passed its peak. Just don’t mention that to the producers behind Bootie NYC—the new mashup monthly at Element.

Around the 15th of every month in San Fransisco, the most musically interesting show in town is Bootie SF, a mash-up bootleg party. Since 2003, DJs Adrian and the Mysterious D have been hosting this DJ-extravaganza in which different songs are mashed together to form new songs. Complex Magazine named it best mash-up party in the US not only because of the diverse, racious crowd but because the DJs sample from an eclectic range of music from soul to classic rock to new wave to hip hop. While the...