Making friends/party with strangers

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I'm going to a chill small college party where I know one person really well but only know a few people as "friends" but in the more superficial "we're not acquaintances but I don't have your number or hang out with you specifically, you might invite me to a bigger birthday party" (I haven't kept up with them, they're friends from my dorm) way. The girl I'm close to will probably hang out with them when I'm there but I also haven't hung out with her in a while so we might catch up a bit. I do not know the host of the party, it's supposed to be a mixer of a few different wierd social circles in our city.

Of the 20 people going on Facebook I know 4, of the additional 30 "interested" I know 7.

I'm moving out of the state next summer to live with my boyfriend and I won't know anyone there so he says this is good practice to making friends out there and I agree.

How do I do this /adv/? How do I do small talk with strangers in a not weird way? How do you make new friends? I get very awkward and feel socially isolated when people all already know each other. I don't do much besides work right now so I'm worried I'll be weird and talk about only tv. I'm not autistic or anything I'm just socially anxious sometimes and this is a cool basement show type music crowd.