NYE has long been a tradition of turning things around. A fresh start. New beginnings. Whatever. Sometimes I think about how it sucks that people need a certain calendar day to start moving their lives in a positive direction. One thing I don’t question is the need to ring in a new year by means of celebration! Where and how one chooses to celebrate seems to set the tone of the year. House parties. Vegas. Family affairs. Work. It could go so many ways, but we decided to post up in surprisingly sunny San Francisco for Eye Heart SF‘s Wintersalt and Streets of SF NYE spectaculars!

This relatively new production company has been making waves that took nearly three years to reach Southern California. With consistently awesome events, it’s bound to happen at some point. This year they added two nights of a broad range of artists and producers to get the weekenders ready for the Big Bang that was Streets of SF. Artists such as Diplo, Zedd, Dillon Francis, Paper Diamond, Travis Barker and many more took part in these parties. I was very happy to finally see Travis Barker in the flesh, slamming on his drums which seemed to be on the verge of destruction! I missed him play with DJAM (RIP) at Coachella in 2009, but luckily have this recording (that you can download for free here) of that set to feel somewhat a part of it. Plus it was cool to see him pay tribute to a lot of the tracks off that recording as well! Another shoutout I have to give is to Paper Diamond off Pretty Lights Music. It was a nice change of pace to see Chicago’s own drop some bouncy dub and glitch hop jams for us all to jump to.

As far as Streets of SF goes, you’ll have to bear with me because it was an open bar. I have this thing with open bars that involves double fisting. I told myself to keep it easy, one drink at a time, but NOOOOOO! I had to bring 2013 right. By blacking out…I’m being sarcastic of course. In my defense, when they’re serving all-you-can-drink Kettle One and Crown Royal, I’d have been an idiot to not test my limits! My limits tested til 12:30. Got to see A-Trak AND the countdown, so all was not lost. Overall, a very different event on a dock over the waters of San Francisco. Beautiful people everywhere. The only thing that really bugged me was the sound. Maybe it was the walls? Who knows. I was in line getting more drinks anyway. Cheers to 2013!