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San Francisco Halloween Party Guide 2011
Just because Halloween 2011 lands on a Monday doesn't mean that this year's parties and events are a bust! Dust off that costume and start your party planning as some of the world's hottest acts descend upon the city. From Tiesto to Deadmau5 to Skrillex, San Francisco is bringing it with warehouse massives, beasty all-nighters, costume contest prizes, and tons of top-shelf talent.
The toughest trick will be picking a gameplan… but we're guessing no matter what you choose will be a treat. Here's what San Francisco's offering up for 2011:
Jump to: Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday
Sasha @ Ruby Skye
A forerunner in electronic dance music, Sasha was pivotal in transforming progressive trance and house music in partnership with John Digweed. Topping UK charts with his remixes, Sasha nabbed a Grammy nomination for his remix of Felix da Housecat's "Watching Cars Go By" and remained among the world's top ten DJs in DJMag. Here's your chance to see him yourself.
Raindance Presents the 17th Annual Freakers Ball Halloween Costume Party. 2 nights of mayhem, monsters and massive beats at Public Works. Night one features - GINZ, ILL GATES, Eliot LIPP, LOVE and LIGHT, R/D, Stephan Jacobs, Smasheltooth, and more. 9pm-5am / $20 (or $40 for both nights) / 21+
Start your Halloween weekend with the dark, ambient, psychedelic dubstep sounds of a Salem Dj Set at 103 Harriet for an exclusive FREE show! 10pm / FREE / 21+
Just a year past his debut EP Scary Monster and Nice Sprites, Skrillex has seized the EDM world by storm. Paraded by Deadmau5 (and signed to the Mau5trap label), the 23 year old has blasted to the top of the Beatport charts with dubstep doozies, high profile remixes, and a post-hardcore edge. Catch him on The Mothership Tour with 12th Planet, Two Fresh and Nadastrom.
9pm / SOLD OUT / 16 & Over
Helping to popularize the pimp persona within hip hop, Too $hort has knocked out nearly an album a year since 1983's Don't Stop Rappin'. Now the rapper/actor returns to the Bay for Halloween weekend with Vin Sol and DJ Pony P. Come in costume for a chance to win the night's $1000 costume contest.
21 & Over
Join DJ Solomon for a special four-hour set of Mash-Ups, top 40, classics, hip-hop, and more. The end of the world only comes once!
10am / TBA / 21 & Over
Join Dirty Vegas, Dj Nader, and multiple dance floors of spaced-out cowboys for a night of dancing or chilling inside the VIP spaceship.
10pm / $30 / 21 & Overr
Atlanta indie rockers kick the weekend off alongside White Denim, The Dear Hunter and Little Hurricane.
6:30pm / $18 / All Ages
London, UK DJ brings quirkiness to the dance floor with space age sounds, video game blips, and flamboyant dance jams. Expect odd instruments, glitter cannons, and dancing dinosaurs.
9pm / $15 / 18 & Over
Ghostship returns to Treasure Island for another massive warehouse party over Halloween weekend. Pulling together over 30 of the Bay's DJs and performers, art installations, art cars, Burning Man crews, first time off-Playa interactive stroboscopic zoetrope piece Charon, as well as this year's Ghost Ship - you know this party's gonna be epic.
9pm / $25 - $45 / 21 & Over
Opel Productions is at it again with their 9th Annual Halloween Costume party : Night of the Living Bass! Bringing costumed freaks one of the biggest names in techno right now, get ready to get down to UMEK (Slovenia) plus Syd Gris, Kramer, Alain Octavo, Rooz, Melyss, DJ Hil, and more TBA.
10pm / 21 & Over
Evil finds its playground this Halloween at Infusion Lounge as the venue transforms into a wicked circus complete with evil clowns, exotic beasts, and other devilish spectacles. Take in the elaborate creepy carnival-esque decor, spooky stage shows, and enjoy specialty themed drinks as you dance the night away to the sounds of SF's own J. Espinosa.
10pm / $15 - $35 / 21 & Over
What better way to celebrate Halloween than with the eerie, psybient sounds of Shpongle. Back for a special live performance - get ready to get shpongled!
8pm / $43 / 21 & Over
Raindance Presents the 17th Annual Freakers Ball Halloween Costume Party. 2 nights of mayhem, monsters and massive beats at Public Works. Night two features - FUNGINEERS (Full Live show), Sub Swara, Heyoka, David Starfire, Nanda, The Bounce Brigade with Lafa Taylor and Russ Liquid, MIHKAL, Andrew The Pirate, Question (Camp ?), Jeno, Worthy, Antacid (Live), Galen, Mozaic, Little John, Shawna, Rob Monroy, and Dax. 9pm-6am / $20 (or $40 for both nights) / 21+
Arr right, matees, from the Creator of M.O.A.N.Y. & A nightmare on Van Ness, & for the 1st time ever, come to the Grand Opening of this soon to be annual time of your Halloween life, Black Beard's Ghost at Treasure Island! San Francisco's Top DJs performing the hottest club mix of hip, top 40, and house music to hook you all night long.
9pm-2am / $35 - $95 / 21 & Over
Join DJ Haylow and DJ WOnway Possibul for a day and night of voodoo magic, drinks, and wild sexy costume action.
10am / TBA / 21 & Over
Join DJ Nate D for a night of Gothic champagne sipping and sexy/spooky dancing at Slide.
9pm / $10 / 21 & Over
Join Pearson Sound (formerly Ramadanman), Christian Martin of Dirtybird and Nightslugs, and Manare for night of killer beats, ghoulish sounds, and costumes at this special edition of Lights Down Low.
9:30 pm / $10 / 21 & Over
6 SEPARATE DANCE FLOORS w/ 10 world renowned DJs & 12 Piece Live Salsa Band & More. AMAZING Line Up!!! Join Aykut Events at the Magnificent 'HILTON HOTEL' for a One of a Kind Special Halloween Event! This will be the Premier Halloween celebration in the city again by far!
9pm / $25 - $75 / 21 & Over
Deadmau5 returns to SF for his Meowingtons Hax Tour, which kicked off at this year's Lollapalooza. Voted Artist of the Year by Beatport and ranked as the world's #4 artist by DJ Mag, the Grammy-nominated DJ has skyrocketed to fame with a stage show that's won the world over. Joining him will be Fat Boy Slim, A-Trak, Feed Me, and Tommy Lee & DJ Aero.
5pm / SOLD OUT
For The Damned fans out there - it's your lucky night. Celebrating 35 years, The Damned will be performing Damned Damned Damned and The Black Album in their entirety.
9pm / $30 / All Ages
Sporting Les Claypool as the bassist and the return of the band's original drummer, weirdo prog-rock outfit Primus is back. Blurring genre lines since the late '80s, their edgy sound still goes unmatched. Omar Rodríguez-López (Mars Volta/At The Drive-In) will be the opening act.
7pm / $42.50
Danish EDM producer brings his minimal electro house and eerie cinematic synths to The Fillmore Saturday night.
9pm / $22.50
A Nightmare on Treasure Island feat. Erick Morillo @ Administration Building One
From the creators of Nightmare on Van Ness comes "San Francisco's biggest Thrill this Halloween Weekend." Tucked away on Treasure Island, don't miss SF's hottest House DJs and a headlining performance by Erick Morillo. Upgrade to VIP for an all-night open bar and food from 11pm till midnight.
8pm / $25 - $35 / 18 & Over
One of the world's biggest DJ/producers finally arrives in San Francisco for two nights at Ruby Skye with over $20,000 spent on props and decor. Garnering fans from Coachella to Ibiza, Tiësto has performed for millions of people across six continents. Now it's our turn.
9pm / SOLD OUT / 21 & Over
Championing oddball anthems like "Short Skirt Long Jacket", the Sacramento alt rock band returns for some Sunday Funday. Tinariwen and California Honeydrops will also be performing.
7pm / $40.50 / All Ages
Live 105's 3rd Annual Subsonic Halloween Ball @ The Regency
Spookfest returns for its third year at a brand new location. Split into two rooms - The gRave yaRd and the Local DJ Dungeon - this year's highlights include 2Many DJs, Fake Blood, Bag Raiders, Miami Horror, Classixx, Tenderlions, and Aaron Axelsen.
5:45pm / $45 - $90 / 18 & Over
An-ten-nae and 1015 are throwing down for Halloween night with a bass-heavy lineup that includes MartyParty, LowRIDERz, Paper Diamond, and more TBA!
10pm / $15 - $20 / 21 & Over
Join DJ Slick D for a night of Gothic champagne sipping and sexy/spooky dancing at Slide.
9pm / $10 / 21 & Over
Round #2 of Tiesto kicks off with DJ Ken Loi and $20,000 worth of props and decor to spookify Ruby Skye.
9pm / SOLD OUT / 21 & Over
It's "Part-Time Punks Halloween Night" at the Independent Halloween night with the sinister of The Soft Moon plus Led Er Est, Michael Stock (Part-time Punks LA), and Josh Cheon (Dark Entries Records SF).
8:30pm / $13 / 21 & Over
Go get your womp on for free with the Halloween Edition of Milk Bar's house/electro/dubstep weekly party in the Haight. Drink specials all night long.
7pm / FREE / All Ages
Space Ibiza's resident DJ and Top 100 DJ/Producer by DJ Mag and Resident Advisor arrive at Vessel for a spookified Monday night event.
7pm / FREE / All Ages
The toughest trick will be picking a gameplan… but we're guessing no matter what you choose will be a treat. Here's what San Francisco's offering up for 2011:
Jump to: Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday
Sasha @ Ruby Skye
A forerunner in electronic dance music, Sasha was pivotal in transforming progressive trance and house music in partnership with John Digweed. Topping UK charts with his remixes, Sasha nabbed a Grammy nomination for his remix of Felix da Housecat's "Watching Cars Go By" and remained among the world's top ten DJs in DJMag. Here's your chance to see him yourself.
Raindance Presents the 17th Annual Freakers Ball Halloween Costume Party. 2 nights of mayhem, monsters and massive beats at Public Works. Night one features - GINZ, ILL GATES, Eliot LIPP, LOVE and LIGHT, R/D, Stephan Jacobs, Smasheltooth, and more. 9pm-5am / $20 (or $40 for both nights) / 21+
Start your Halloween weekend with the dark, ambient, psychedelic dubstep sounds of a Salem Dj Set at 103 Harriet for an exclusive FREE show! 10pm / FREE / 21+
Just a year past his debut EP Scary Monster and Nice Sprites, Skrillex has seized the EDM world by storm. Paraded by Deadmau5 (and signed to the Mau5trap label), the 23 year old has blasted to the top of the Beatport charts with dubstep doozies, high profile remixes, and a post-hardcore edge. Catch him on The Mothership Tour with 12th Planet, Two Fresh and Nadastrom.
9pm / SOLD OUT / 16 & Over
Helping to popularize the pimp persona within hip hop, Too $hort has knocked out nearly an album a year since 1983's Don't Stop Rappin'. Now the rapper/actor returns to the Bay for Halloween weekend with Vin Sol and DJ Pony P. Come in costume for a chance to win the night's $1000 costume contest.
21 & Over
Join DJ Solomon for a special four-hour set of Mash-Ups, top 40, classics, hip-hop, and more. The end of the world only comes once!
10am / TBA / 21 & Over
Join Dirty Vegas, Dj Nader, and multiple dance floors of spaced-out cowboys for a night of dancing or chilling inside the VIP spaceship.
10pm / $30 / 21 & Overr
Atlanta indie rockers kick the weekend off alongside White Denim, The Dear Hunter and Little Hurricane.
6:30pm / $18 / All Ages
London, UK DJ brings quirkiness to the dance floor with space age sounds, video game blips, and flamboyant dance jams. Expect odd instruments, glitter cannons, and dancing dinosaurs.
9pm / $15 / 18 & Over
Ghostship returns to Treasure Island for another massive warehouse party over Halloween weekend. Pulling together over 30 of the Bay's DJs and performers, art installations, art cars, Burning Man crews, first time off-Playa interactive stroboscopic zoetrope piece Charon, as well as this year's Ghost Ship - you know this party's gonna be epic.
9pm / $25 - $45 / 21 & Over
Opel Productions is at it again with their 9th Annual Halloween Costume party : Night of the Living Bass! Bringing costumed freaks one of the biggest names in techno right now, get ready to get down to UMEK (Slovenia) plus Syd Gris, Kramer, Alain Octavo, Rooz, Melyss, DJ Hil, and more TBA.
10pm / 21 & Over
Evil finds its playground this Halloween at Infusion Lounge as the venue transforms into a wicked circus complete with evil clowns, exotic beasts, and other devilish spectacles. Take in the elaborate creepy carnival-esque decor, spooky stage shows, and enjoy specialty themed drinks as you dance the night away to the sounds of SF's own J. Espinosa.
10pm / $15 - $35 / 21 & Over
What better way to celebrate Halloween than with the eerie, psybient sounds of Shpongle. Back for a special live performance - get ready to get shpongled!
8pm / $43 / 21 & Over
Raindance Presents the 17th Annual Freakers Ball Halloween Costume Party. 2 nights of mayhem, monsters and massive beats at Public Works. Night two features - FUNGINEERS (Full Live show), Sub Swara, Heyoka, David Starfire, Nanda, The Bounce Brigade with Lafa Taylor and Russ Liquid, MIHKAL, Andrew The Pirate, Question (Camp ?), Jeno, Worthy, Antacid (Live), Galen, Mozaic, Little John, Shawna, Rob Monroy, and Dax. 9pm-6am / $20 (or $40 for both nights) / 21+
Arr right, matees, from the Creator of M.O.A.N.Y. & A nightmare on Van Ness, & for the 1st time ever, come to the Grand Opening of this soon to be annual time of your Halloween life, Black Beard's Ghost at Treasure Island! San Francisco's Top DJs performing the hottest club mix of hip, top 40, and house music to hook you all night long.
9pm-2am / $35 - $95 / 21 & Over
Join DJ Haylow and DJ WOnway Possibul for a day and night of voodoo magic, drinks, and wild sexy costume action.
10am / TBA / 21 & Over
Join DJ Nate D for a night of Gothic champagne sipping and sexy/spooky dancing at Slide.
9pm / $10 / 21 & Over
Join Pearson Sound (formerly Ramadanman), Christian Martin of Dirtybird and Nightslugs, and Manare for night of killer beats, ghoulish sounds, and costumes at this special edition of Lights Down Low.
9:30 pm / $10 / 21 & Over
6 SEPARATE DANCE FLOORS w/ 10 world renowned DJs & 12 Piece Live Salsa Band & More. AMAZING Line Up!!! Join Aykut Events at the Magnificent 'HILTON HOTEL' for a One of a Kind Special Halloween Event! This will be the Premier Halloween celebration in the city again by far!
9pm / $25 - $75 / 21 & Over
Deadmau5 returns to SF for his Meowingtons Hax Tour, which kicked off at this year's Lollapalooza. Voted Artist of the Year by Beatport and ranked as the world's #4 artist by DJ Mag, the Grammy-nominated DJ has skyrocketed to fame with a stage show that's won the world over. Joining him will be Fat Boy Slim, A-Trak, Feed Me, and Tommy Lee & DJ Aero.
5pm / SOLD OUT
For The Damned fans out there - it's your lucky night. Celebrating 35 years, The Damned will be performing Damned Damned Damned and The Black Album in their entirety.
9pm / $30 / All Ages
Sporting Les Claypool as the bassist and the return of the band's original drummer, weirdo prog-rock outfit Primus is back. Blurring genre lines since the late '80s, their edgy sound still goes unmatched. Omar Rodríguez-López (Mars Volta/At The Drive-In) will be the opening act.
7pm / $42.50
Danish EDM producer brings his minimal electro house and eerie cinematic synths to The Fillmore Saturday night.
9pm / $22.50
A Nightmare on Treasure Island feat. Erick Morillo @ Administration Building One
From the creators of Nightmare on Van Ness comes "San Francisco's biggest Thrill this Halloween Weekend." Tucked away on Treasure Island, don't miss SF's hottest House DJs and a headlining performance by Erick Morillo. Upgrade to VIP for an all-night open bar and food from 11pm till midnight.
8pm / $25 - $35 / 18 & Over
One of the world's biggest DJ/producers finally arrives in San Francisco for two nights at Ruby Skye with over $20,000 spent on props and decor. Garnering fans from Coachella to Ibiza, Tiësto has performed for millions of people across six continents. Now it's our turn.
9pm / SOLD OUT / 21 & Over
Championing oddball anthems like "Short Skirt Long Jacket", the Sacramento alt rock band returns for some Sunday Funday. Tinariwen and California Honeydrops will also be performing.
7pm / $40.50 / All Ages
Live 105's 3rd Annual Subsonic Halloween Ball @ The Regency
Spookfest returns for its third year at a brand new location. Split into two rooms - The gRave yaRd and the Local DJ Dungeon - this year's highlights include 2Many DJs, Fake Blood, Bag Raiders, Miami Horror, Classixx, Tenderlions, and Aaron Axelsen.
5:45pm / $45 - $90 / 18 & Over
An-ten-nae and 1015 are throwing down for Halloween night with a bass-heavy lineup that includes MartyParty, LowRIDERz, Paper Diamond, and more TBA!
10pm / $15 - $20 / 21 & Over
Join DJ Slick D for a night of Gothic champagne sipping and sexy/spooky dancing at Slide.
9pm / $10 / 21 & Over
Round #2 of Tiesto kicks off with DJ Ken Loi and $20,000 worth of props and decor to spookify Ruby Skye.
9pm / SOLD OUT / 21 & Over
It's "Part-Time Punks Halloween Night" at the Independent Halloween night with the sinister of The Soft Moon plus Led Er Est, Michael Stock (Part-time Punks LA), and Josh Cheon (Dark Entries Records SF).
8:30pm / $13 / 21 & Over
Go get your womp on for free with the Halloween Edition of Milk Bar's house/electro/dubstep weekly party in the Haight. Drink specials all night long.
7pm / FREE / All Ages
Space Ibiza's resident DJ and Top 100 DJ/Producer by DJ Mag and Resident Advisor arrive at Vessel for a spookified Monday night event.
7pm / FREE / All Ages
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