Grant Medeiros, the San Francisco DJ and promoter known as DJ Skip, whose long-running New Wave City dance party became a fixture of the city’s nightlife, has died after a long illness.
Steve Indig, his longtime collaborator and fellow co-founder, announced Medeiros’ death in a post to the New Wave City community on Friday, April 10, saying Medeiros died that morning in Portland where he had lived for more than a decade.
“We last saw him at New Wave City in March 2025, playing some of his favorite New Wave tracks for the dance floor, as he had done for 33 years,” Indig wrote. “He revealed before that visit that he had been dealing with a rare blood cancer, for what is now 9 years ago. Even a year ago, the disease and its treatment was taking their toll on him, but he was happy to be in the midst of the people and environment he loved.”…