Popular San Francisco Blog House Era All-Ages Party BLOW UP SF is dead.

Published on Sunday 3/7/2010 @ 4:16 PM by the ALT REPORT Robot

BLOW UP SF was one of the most popular bloghouse + electro era parties in the entire world. Capitalizing on the dense electro teen + bro demographic in California, it became a ‘hot spot’ in San Francisco, even to the point where there was a ‘backlash’ when it was ‘too mainstream.’ The party booked the most relevant acts of the electro / blog house era, helping to ‘take the international scene’ 2 a new level. Does n e 1 know if this party shut down because it got ‘too big/popular’? Will there be a ‘rebranding’? Did 2 of the promoters get in some sort of legal battle over who deserves what? Were ‘the cops’ going to shut down this party [via fire hazzards]?

The video embedded above seems like a meaningful tribute, using old clips + pictures, trying to preserve the brand forever. However, the true essence of the party brand can be appreciated in this video of Steve Aoki + Uffie performing at their party.

Will the world be a sadder place without BLOWUP SF, or was it just another place where tweens went to do drugs and do a lil bit of underaged drinking?

Are electro weekly/monthly parties still relevant, or are the an ironic/vintage event of the past?
Do yall still get tons of FB invitations from local regional party promoters?
Do yall miss electro, or will there be a ‘revival’ in the next 3-10 years?

Tags: blog house, BLOW UP SF, party retirement, San Francisco

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21 comments to “Popular San Francisco Blog House Era All-Ages Party BLOW UP SF is dead.”

1000freeipods
March 7th, 2010 at 4:23 pm

standing here w/ these picies of u

got one thousand ipods, would u like one? no purchase neccesary just wanna spyware u
spy on u all the time
just miss u so much
picies of u

dude
March 7th, 2010 at 4:25 pm

first

//////////Reply by krimbo
//////////Posted March 7th, 2010 at 4:29 pm

@dude, u sure are

Alice Glass
March 7th, 2010 at 4:29 pm

so what happend to blow up LA?

cheevus christ
March 7th, 2010 at 5:09 pm

first! …oh wait. I’m a complete fucking loser.

white blipster
March 7th, 2010 at 5:11 pm

revival in 20 blog years. so like, maybe summer 2k11

sf bro
March 7th, 2010 at 5:19 pm

the party got shut down because there was a ‘homo-thug’ party at the club that turned into a riot and now the cops are cracking down on the venue

//////////Reply by eggs
//////////Posted March 7th, 2010 at 5:30 pm

@sf bro, narcissism riot. So it finally fucking blew up.

//////////Reply by Spandrell
//////////Posted March 7th, 2010 at 5:52 pm

@eggs, “narcissism riot”, haha, that’s genius

//////////Reply by hootie
//////////Posted March 7th, 2010 at 5:38 pm

@sf bro, was it some sort of mixer for homos and thugs? that seems like a bad idea u’d want to ‘nip in the bud’.

james
March 7th, 2010 at 5:59 pm

HRO never covered motherfucker

chong
March 7th, 2010 at 7:14 pm

just an excuse to watch videos of hot sweaty tweenalts

chris
March 7th, 2010 at 9:21 pm

miss u blow up. dont know where to go to ‘get my grind on’/'make out’ with entry level girls ne more

jju
March 8th, 2010 at 1:56 am

Well here is the inside story. BlowUp was insanely popular with the 18+ age group. It used to be a once a month party and then it turned into a weekly thing. They made good cover on the door, besides the occasional fights, drug issue or passed out kid everything was well.

Rickshaw Stop has a lot of other parties/nights/concerts and owing to BlowUp it was developing a reputation of being a club for kids. Thus cannibalizing their more lucrative events (21+ over). Plus they were tired of dealing with underage drinking.

It wasn’t the fire marshall.

//////////Reply by jjgay
//////////Posted March 8th, 2010 at 4:02 am

@jju, YO I WZ THERE, it was crazzzzzE!!! so many fucking cops, all this fighting out in the street, BOOTY yo iz my favorite favorite parteee, I wz sooo00 fukking pissed.

kevbro
March 8th, 2010 at 2:34 pm

lolelectro is s0 d34d

Anonyourmom.
March 8th, 2010 at 3:06 pm

Also, Rickshaw doesn’t serve food, which is a requisite of 18+ clubs in SF.

//////////Reply by Alpha
//////////Posted March 8th, 2010 at 5:13 pm

@Anonyourmom., They do serve food.

From the website: “We are a nightclub, bar and restaurant in Hayes Valley, San Francisco.
We are open Wednesday thru Saturday plus other special days.”