I'VE BEEN LISTENING to a lot of scary music lately – Cylob and classic '95 jungle by Remarc on Rephlex, death metal, U.K. grime by artists with cartoon names like Plasticman, Wizzbit, and Geeneus. It's helping me get my mojo back after a hard month filled with breakups, hectic deadlines, missed flights, and sleepless nights.

Conventional wisdom seems to have it that you should try to listen to things that will cheer you up when you're in a bad mood. And it's true that wallowing in sad music doesn't help matters. I tried listening to the Cure's brooding, majestic masterpiece Pornography on the drive back to San Francisco from the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and I was close to crying. (But maybe that was a mix of PMS, hangover, and recalling the band's lackluster performance at Coachella.)

Sad music sucks, but angry music is so much better for bad moods than positive music. Drink a few Maker's Mark shots and then listen to Bingo Beats Volume 3, a new compilation on U.K. label Bingo. It's all dark beats and dirty samples – it sounds like Sepultura redone as techno on a PlayStation and has vocals from MCs Dizzee Rascal, Crazy D, and D Double E. It makes you want to fight or fuck, and boy does that feel good. Shit is dark these days, what with U.S. foreign policy, conservatives squashing culture everywhere, being broke as hell, and people getting shot left and right in the Lower Haight. And so I suggest that if we can't be united by love, there are a couple other suspects in the house: fear ... and music.

Our house I can't talk everyone into my scary music. So if uplifting house makes you feel good, then you roll with it, baby. There are a few more good places to hear it these days too. Sunday night's Bionic is one of the bangingest house parties around, and it's recently moved to a new club, Pink. Four-to-the-floor veterans Solar and Joshua (Iz) host the party, always bringing in big-name guests and making sure the music gives you a stiffy. (No cocktail-party house wankery here.) Pink is also a beautiful club, done in pink and white with drapery, chandeliers, and a candy-sweet feel – both your Marc Jacobs heels and your Steve Madden pumps will fit in here.

And speaking of house veterans, Wicked's Jenö and Garth are starting a new monthly called Echo Beach at the Bambuddha Lounge (the bar adjacent to the Phoenix Hotel). It will be a Sunday poolside affair, and these lifetime record collectors will be playing whatever they feel like: funk, old disco, dub, new wave, and, you can expect, some of the S.F. house they've helped make famous. The next one is June 20 – start exfoliating now.

Hello, good-bye, hello And finally, a "rest in peace" goes out to Jamaican soundsystem pioneer and Studio One head Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, who passed away May 4. Additional R.I.P.s to Wednesday night's Crucial party at Nickie's BBQ and Sunday night's long-running D&B rinse-out Compression at 1751 socialclub (at Mighty for the final night), both of which went out with a bang two weeks ago. In their stead, check out house-D&B Urban Montage at Cloud 9 on Thursday night (not on Wednesday, as mentioned in error in the last Plus One) and Fletcher and Shaida's Thursday-night electro-rock fantasyland, called ID, at new spot the Rickshaw Stop.

Bionic. Sundays, 9 p.m., Pink, 2925 16th St., S.F. $5. www.pinksf.com.

Echo Beach. June 20, 4 p.m.-midnight, Bambuddha Lounge, 601 Eddy, S.F. $10, $5 members. (415) 885-5088.

ID. Thursdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell, S.F. $5. (415) 861-2011.

Dub Mission's Memorial Day Weekend, with J Boogie's Dubtronic Science and DJ Sep. May 30, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., Elbo Room, 647 Valencia, S.F. $6. (415) 552-7788.

Old Skool Jungle Night, with Abstract, Star Eyes, and For Real. May 28, 10 p.m.-2 a.m., AsiaSF, 201 Ninth St., S.F. $10. (415) 255-2742.

RJD2, Diverse, Romanowski, Azeem, and DJ Zeph perform Sat/22, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., Club Q, 61 Golden Gate, S.F. $20. (415) 551-2328.