Hot summer weekends all but demand a drive to the beach, but Sundays offer a good reason to stick around: a solid schedule of day parties. Whether it’s live music or DJ, here’s a sampling of ways to wile away the summer days.

The Social Brunch Series @ Sp2
Sp2’s outdoor set-up—a massive patio with wood, brick and succulents—stands on its own. Every Sunday guests can do brunch or drinks on the patio and catch live music.  “The Social” features a rotating lineup of bands like Nesta, Hot Pockets, and No Water After Midnight playing R&B, funk, jazz and reggae.

Last Call @ Motif Lounge
With no music boundaries and no dress code, Last Call at the Motif Lounge is all up to what the DJ picks. A standing party for the last five years, Last Call has hosted guest DJs from the Bay Area and beyond. Rotating DJs Eni, Aj Orbit, Two Tons, and Eternal keep the party going Sundays, 4:30-9:30pm, playing just anything on the bpm gamut: trap, hip-hop, house, drum & bass. It’s the kind of party for anyone who loves to get down on the dance floor or who doesn’t mind a few sonic surprises.

Sunday Sessions @ Myth Taverna & Lounge
Every first and third Sunday on the newly renovated patio at Myth Taverna & Lounge, Sunday Sessions brings together fans of R&B, hip-hop and soul. Talents such as the legendary DJ Jazzy Jeff have come to rock the crowd, assisted by a rotating lineup of DJs: Goldenchyld, Wen Davis, Cutso, Remedy and Rated R. Sunday Sessions runs 2-10pm, but has been known to reach maximum capacity by 5pm, so an early arrival is suggested.

Detox Sundays @ The Fairmont Hotel
In its seventh season, Detox Sundays at the Fairmont Hotel will kick off June 22 with L.A. and Las Vegas DJs David Garcia, JJ Flores, and Fabian. Patrons enjoy the rooftop pool, with access to both a full bar and poolside bottle service, with house beats rocking from midday to sunset.

A special Labor Day Weekend edition of Detox Sunday took over the rooftop pool at the Fairmont in downtown San Jose over the weekend with DJs and a crowd that was ready to party.

Photos by CJ Storm.

The party went poolside yesterday for Detox Sundays, the popular Silicon Valley summer party series that returned for just one scheduled event this year.

Photos by Metro photographer C.J.

Silicon Valley’s buff, bronzed, beautiful and bikini’ed get one more chance to party by the pool with the one and only scheduled Detox Sundays pool party this summer.

The party returns July 28 with DJs Amy Robbins, Playboi, DJ Weapon, Jose Melendez and Adam Cova pumping out beats for poolside party people at Silicon Valley Athletic Club. Here’s a collection of photo highlights from year’s past taken by Metro photographers.

Following in the footsteps of Music in the Park, after ending its five-year run in 2012, Silicon Valley’s most popular pool party, Detox Sundays, returns on July 28 for one day only this year at the Silicon Valley Athletic Club.

When it started in 2008, despite a full-blown recession, it was an instant success. The idea was to bring the poolside, daytime club atmosphere of Rehab—the popular Vegas Party—to San Jose. Nothing like it had existed in the South Bay before, at least not in any consistent way.

In addition to its first ever non-hotel location, there’ll be a change in the music format. Prior events had mostly soulful house. At this event, the DJs will be also spinning pop, top 40 and a little bit of hip-hop.

These factors won’t change the popular Detox brand, which from 2008-2012 drew up to 1,000 people during the summer months. There will still be lots of music, food, booze, shirtless men and bikini-clad women—the perfect environment for dancing, swimming, or just lounging around nursing a hangover (or creating one).

The new location has some great perks: there’s a very nice outdoor pool, but most importantly it will be back in downtown San Jose—its home during the early years at Doubletree Hotel, as opposed to the last couple of years at the Beverly Heritage Hotel in Milpitas.

“When we found the opportunity to get it back in the heart of where it started, that was really the big driver as to why we moved it to the Athletic Club,” says Stephen Bradley, of the promoter behind the return of Detox.

Detox Sundays starts at noon and continues until 8pm with DJs Amy Robbins, Playboi, DJ Weapon, Jose Melendez and Adam Cova. Tickets are $25.

Detox Sunday Returns
Silicon Valley Athletic Club, San Jose
July 28, noon, $25

It’s with great sadness that we share our final collection of photos from Detox Sunday, the summer party series that ended last weekend with hundreds of scantily clad partiers. After five years of hosting the pool party at Beverly Heritage Hotel in Milpitas, organizers are throwing in the towel and moving on to new ideas.

For now, we can only remember the good times and hope that someone fills the void soon with more poolside fun.

Soak ‘em up while you can, this is the second to last time we’ll post photos from Detox Sunday, the seasonal pool party that has attracted hot bods from throughout the Bay Area to Beverly Heritage Hotel in Milpitas for the last five years.

The summer party, modeled after the notorious Sunday Rehab bash in Las Vegas, returns for one last time on July 22 before organizers move on to try something new.