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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Tonight, Saturday November 21st
Metalocalypse: Dethklok and Mastodon with High on Fire and Converge
San Jose State University @ 6:30 pm
the PRINCE vs MICHAEL experience
Madrone Lounge @ 7:00 pm
Girls, Tamaryn, Dominant Legs
Bottom of the Hill @ 10:00 pm
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Dominant Legs – young at love and life from Ryan Lynch’s Album (2009)
Sunday November 22nd
Fanfarlo, Freelance Whales, the Mumlers, and DJs Miles (Live105/popscene) and Bagel Ted (Bagel Radio)
Rickshaw Stop @ 8:00 pm
Fanfarlo
Amoeba Music SF @ 2:00 pm
Thrice, The Dear Hunter, Polar Bear Club
The Grand at the Regency Center @ 7:30 pm
Friendly Fires, The xx, Holly Miranda
Independent @ 9:00 pm
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Fanfarlo – I’m A Pilot from Reservoir (2009)
Monday November 23rd
Friendly Fires, The xx
Independent @ 8:00 pm
WOLFMOTHER, HEARTLESS BASTARDS, THENEWNO2
Fox Theater Oakland @ 8:00 pm
Tuesday November 24th
Warren G plus Dam-Funk & U-N-I
Independent @ 9:00 pm
Wednesday November 25th
DOMESHOTS plus SAINT VERNON & STOMACHER and THE TENDERLOINS
Time Out @ 8:00 pm
Max Tundra / Deastro / white cloud
Bottom of the Hill @ 10:00 pm
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Stomacher – Heavy On It (HVYR On It Mix) from Heavy On It (HVYR On It Mix) Single (2009)
Next Friday November 27th
Simian Mobile Disco, JDH and Dave P
Mezzanine @ 8:00 pm
The Books
Noe Valley Ministry @ 8:15 pm
Hottub
Mighty @ 9:00 pm
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Hottub – 1-2-3-GO! from ON BLAST! (2009)
Tags: Dominant Legs, Fanfarlo, Girls, Hottub, Metalocalypse, Stomacher, The Books, Warren G
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
I had a nice little trip out to NY, saw family & friends, caught an improv show in the city (Magnet Theater….it was hilarious) and saw Paranormal Activity (It did what it was supposed to…scare the fuck out of me). Now it’s back to business…
No Kuestionnaire today, I just back yesterday and barely had time to piece one together, but I’ll make that up for you this weekend as we will be getting exclusive access to the Treasure Island Festival! So expect some surprises and awesome ‘treasures’ to come your way.
I don’t know what happened this past weekend in the Bay…I’m kind of out of the loop on that. But I am aware that Vampire Weekend will be doing a gig in Lafayette at the Lafayette Town Hall Theatre [weird]. Get tickets as soon as you can and if you haven’t already heard their new tune, Horchata, it’s downloadable from here.
I listened to mostly the new Karen O / Where The Wild Things Are Soundtrack, new Flaming Lips, and the Sunny Day Real Estate re-releases on vacation and all have made my trip all the more relaxing. More on that this week…
And now…your ‘To See’ list…
Today! Sunny Day Fucking Real Estate at The Fillmore! With Jealous Sound nonetheless! I’ve been sneaking a peak at the setlists and they do not disappoint. If you’re missing out one a Kuestionnaire, read our short and informationless Kuestionnaire with lead vocalist Jeremy Enigk from last year. Also happening is Junior Boys at the Mezzanine, The Pogues, DeVotchKa, Zander Schloss and Sean Wheeler at The Warfield, and A Wilhelm Scream, The Riot Before, Living With Lions and Heartsounds at Thee Parkside.
Wednesday, Great Lake Swimmers, Laura Gibson and The Wooden Birds grace The Great American Music Hall and These Arms Are Snakes, dd/mm/yyyy and Glaciers rock out at the Bottom of the Hill.
Thursday, Say Anything, Eisley, Moneen and Moving Mountains play Slim’s, Gogol Bordello and Apostle of Hustle play The Fox Theater, Moby will be at The Warfield, and doom metalers Nadja rock Oakland’s Terminal.
Friday, Brand New do an acoustic set at San Fran’s Rasputin Music at 4pm and then go to the San Jose State Event Center Arena with Manchester Orchestra and The Builders and the Butchers, Butthole Surfers and Melvins play the Grand Regency Ballroom, hardcore terrors HORSE the band take on San Jose’s PBSJ, and Nellie McKay & The Aristocrats do Yoshi’s San Francisco.
Saturday, Treasure Island Festival takes over the night scene as well with Dan Deacon, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Teeth Mountain, Nuclear Power Pants, and DJ Aaron Axelson at the Mezzanine and A Place To Bury Strangers plus These Are Powers, All The Saints, and Geographer at The Independent. More info here.
Also on Saturday, WHY? with Mount Eerie, Au and Serengetti & Polyphonic at The Great American Music Hall and Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, M. Ward, and Jim James (aka Yim Yames) also known as Monsters of Folk do The Fox Theater.
Sunday, stylish synthpoper La Roux plays The Great American Music Hall and Straylight Run does the Rickshaw Stop.
Lots to do if you didn’t get your Treasure Island tickets in time. Have fun!
Sunny Day Real Estate – 
Seven from Diary (2009 Edition)
Laura Gibson – Come By Storm (Hinah Session) from hinah session (2007)
dd/mm/yyyy – White Lines from Are They Masks? (2008)
These Arms Are Snakes – Horse Girl from Easter (2006)
Nadja – One Hundred Years [The Cure Cover] from The Cure’s Pornography (2008)
Tags: Brand New Rasputin, dd/mm/yyyy, Laura Gibson, Nadja, sunny day real estate, These Arms Are Snakes, This Week In Bay Area Live Shows, trea, Treasure Island Music Festival
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
Tonight I’ll be at Fever Ray with Vuk at The Grand Ballroom At the Regency Center, Motorhead, Reverend Horton Heat and Nashville Pussy rocking the fuck out at The Warfield, and the great Billy Bragg at The Great American Music Hall.
Tuesday we have School of Seven Bells at Slim’s, alt-hip hoppers Busdriver and Themselves crash the Bottom of the Hill, and psych-rockers The Cave Singers and Lightning Dust rock The Independent.
Wednesday we have Starfucker at the Bottom of the Hill, Andrew W.K. & Calder Quartet at the Swedish American Hall, and The Rumble San Francisco presents Fitz and The Tantrums and Man / Miracle at Harlot.
Thursday has Teenage Jesus and the Jerks at Slim’s.
Friday finds Mute Math and As Tall as Lions at The Fillmore, The Part Time Punks Mini-Fest featuring The Raincoats, Section 25, For Against, Magic Bullets, NODZZZ, Death Sentence: PANDA!, Grass Widow and Weave, and A Hawk and a Hacksaw at The Independent.
Saturday has Bob Dylan at the Greek Theatre, Metronomy at the Bottom of the Hill, Chromeo will be doing a DJ set at the Mezzanine, the Frisco Freakout featuring Wooden Shjips, Citay, Barn Owl, Sun Araw, Magic Lantern, Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound, Lumerians, Liquorball, Heavy Hills, 3 Leafs and Powell St John at Thee Parkside, Rupa & The April Fishes at the Brava Theater, and The Stone Foxes play at Hotel Utah.
See you out there!
Busdriver – Me-Time (Themselves Remix) from Jhelli Beam Remixes (2009)
Fitz and The Tantrums – Breakin’ The Chains Of Love from Songs For A Break Up-Volume 1 (2009)
Magic Bullets – The Book is Closed from Lives For Romance (2008)
Citay – First Fantasy from Little Kingdom (2007)
Tags: Andrew W.K. & Calder Quartet, As Tall As Lions, Busdriver, Citay, Fever Ray, Fitz and The Tantrums, Frisco Freakout, Magic Bullets, Motorhead, Rupa & The April Fishes, Starfucker, The Cave Singers, The Part Time Punks Mini-Fest, Themselves
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
And you thought Outside Lands Festival was a shitshow for people that live in San Francisco. Wait until all the crazies and hippies descend on Golden Gate Park this weekend (October 2nd – 4th) for what may quite possibly be one of the best free concert festivals in the country. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is exactly how the title suggests, the bluegrass but in the mix you’ll find Nick Lowe, MC Hammer, Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett, Tom Morello, Steve Martin (Yes, THAT Steve Martin), Okkervil River, Old 97’s, Emmylou Harris, Robyn Hitchcock, Billy Bragg, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Neko Case, Dr. Dog, Aimee Mann, Booker T. & the Drive-By Truckers, and many maaaaaany more. I’m going to try my damndest to catch most of the above artists and discover a few at the same time without losing my freakin’ mind with the crowds. See ya there!
I missed yesterday’s post for this week’s best shows, but I don’t recall anything substantial happening (I’m probably wrong, but whatever).
Tonight (Monday) Alice in Chains rocks the The Fillmore with their new lead singer, Dead Meadow and Spindrift play The Great American Music Hall, TV on the Radio singer/guitarist Kyp Malone’s Rain Machine does The Independent, and glam rock group theSTART play UC Davis.
Wednesday we have Ida Maria and Ladyhawke at The Fillmore, Datarock at Slim’s, and stoner rockers Kylesa and Kowloon Walled City at the DNA lounge.
Thursday hosts Abe Vigoda at The Knockout and David Bazan and Say Hi rock The Independent.
Friday, after the chaos of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival 2009, you can see Asobi Seksu, Anna Ternheim and Loney, Dear at Slim’s, Paramore and Paper Route at The Warfield, Experimental Dental School and Clipd Beaks at The Hemlock, hardcore legends T.S.O.L. and Disciples play 924 Gilman in Berkeley, Gil Scott Heron rocks The Grand Ballroom At the Regency Center and our friends at Bay Bridged hosts a killer line-up with Tartufi, Judgement Day and Geographer at Rickshaw Stop.
Saturday, the SF LovEvolution with Deadmau5, Groove Armada, and many more DJ artists play at the Civic Center for those of you not into folk/blues/good music(?), The Horrors rock The Independent, and Miike Snow and Jack Peñate play a sold out Bottom of the Hill.
Rain Machine – Give Blood from Rain Machine (2009)
Geographer – Can’t You Wait from Innocent Ghosts (2008)
Kowloon Walled City – Turk, Taylor and Jones from Turk Street (2009)
Clipd Beaks – Nohorizons from Winterfucking (2008)
Disciples – Rising from Colors of Being (2008)
Tags: Aimee Mann, Billy Bragg, Booker T. & the Drive-By Truckers, Clipd Beaks, Disciples, Dr. Dog, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Emmylou Harris, Geographer, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Kowloon Walled City, Lyle Lovett, MC Hammer, Neko Case, Nick Lowe, Okkervil River, Old 97's, Rain Machine, Robyn Hitchcock, Steve Earle, Steve Martin (Yes, THAT Steve Martin), Tom Morello
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
We’re hosting another show and this time it’s going to HUGE! We have yet to announce our special guest headliner who will blow your mind! Anyway, the line-up alone already is wicked awesome. Oso is a one of a kind math rock/folk act from Santa Barbara with one of the most overlooked albums of 2008, Kuno Esama. Benjamin Henderson is kind of a local South Bay rock hero with bands like Delta Activity and The Good Hustle under his belt and his own solo act which will be featured at the Flux 53 on Oakland at 8pm. Do whatever it takes to come out and OH!…I almost forgot, BYOB! So swing by and rock the fuck out with us. More info about the show will arise during the week. I am very excited about this.
Tonight we have an awesome line-up with The Gaslight Anthem, Murder by Death, and Frank Turner at The Fillmore, and Grouper, Christina Carter, Barn Owl, Ilyas Ahmed, Common Eider, King Eider, Sun Circle and Brendon Murray at Cafe Du Nord.
Monday finds the newly re-united The Get Up Kids, Youth Group and Pretty & Nice at The Fillmore and the face melting line-up with In Flames and Between the Buried and Me rocks The Grand Ballroom At the Regency Center.
Tuesday has the sold out Bon Iver and Megafaun at The Fillmore (busy week for The Fillmore, eh?), Pet Shop Boys at The Warfield, and The Most Serene Republic and Grand Archives at the Bottom of the Hill.
Wednesday we have Rodrigo y Gabriela at Oakland’s The Fox Theater and the amazing Portugal. The Man performs with Drug Rug and Robert Francis at The Independent.
Thursday, Bon Iver and Megafaun do The Fox Theater in Oakland, OM and Lichens soothe The Independent, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Nightman Cometh Live will be at Nob Hill Masonic Center, and Manic Street Preachers does The Fillmore.
Friday we have Kid Koala, Dynomite D, and The Slew at The Independent and Billy Talent and Poison the Well rips up Slim’s. Oh yeah and our show at Flux 53 with Oso and Ben Henderson is going on (GO TO THAT!).
Lastly, Saturday hosts !!! and Indian Jewelry rocking out at The Independent.
See you out there!
Murder by Death – Boy Decide from In Bocca Al Lupo (2006)
Bon Iver – Skinny Love from For Emma, Forever Ago (2008)
Kid Koala – Fender Bender from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (2000)
Indian Jewelry – Hello! Africa from Free Gold (2008)
Oso – The War Years from Kuno Esama (2008)
Drug Rug – Coffee In The Morning from Paint The Fence Invisible (2009)
Tags: !!!, Benjamin Henderson, Bon Iver, Drug Rug, Flux 53, Indian Jewelry, kata rokkar presents, Kid Koala, Megafaun, Murder by Death, Oso, The Fillmore, The Get Up Kids, The Good Hustle
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
Quite a bit going on this week. There’s going to have to be some compromises for some folks out there but hopefully you already made you decision and are ready for a fine week in live music this week…
Tonight, Bay Area synth-poppers Shakes Gown hit up Blondie’s.
Tuesday, garage surfer band Girls do San Fran’s Amoeba Records at 6pm, Bad Brains and P.O.S. do a double nighter (Tuesday and Wednesday) at Slim’s, Mayer Hawthorne soothes the Rickshaw Stop, and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros rock out The Independent.
Wednesday, Arctic Monkeys test out their new sound with The Like at Oakland’s The Fox Theater and James Taylor sings to aging hippies at Mountain Winery in Saratoga.
Thursday, Phoenix and The Soft Pack come to destroy The Warfield, the epic line-up of Chairlift, El Ten Eleven, and Magic Bullets rock the Bottom of the Hill, and one of my favorite bands of the year, Fanfarlo, performs with Red Wire Black Wire plays a free show at Popscene. Also, The Brunettes, Throw Me the Statue, and My First Earthquake are playing the Rickshaw Stop, Thee Oh Sees and Wooden Shjips rock the Eagle Tavern, and Citizen Cope does The Mystic Theatre.
Friday finds The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and the amazing Cymbals Eat Guitars at The Great American Music Hall, prog-rock giants Porcupine Tree and That 1 Guy play The Warfield, The Dodos do a 6pm show at the San Fran Amoeba Records, dredg plays San Jose’s The Blank Club before heading out to Europe, The Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit come to charm The Independent, Sea Wolf plays Bimbo’s 365 Club, and folk legend Pete Seeger performs at Nob Hill Masonic Center.
Saturday parties up with Little Boots at The Independent, Mount Eerie plays at 21 Grand, Entrance and Amazing Baby rock out at the Bottom of the Hill, and The Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit do the Voodoo Lounge in San Jose.
Today is a great night for stand-up comedy in the city.
First you have Patton Oswalt at the Nob Hill Masonic Center, David Cross at The Warfield, Mary Van Note with Special Guests at The Dark Room, Liz Grant will be doing a Live DVD Taping at The Clubhouse along with Naked Comedy later that night, Eddie Griffin at San Jose Improv, Tommy Drake at Rooster T. Feathers, John Pinette at Cobb’s Comedy Club, John Mulaney at Punch Line Comedy Club, and Marga Gomez at The Purple Onion. Laugh it up fuckers!
See you out there!
Shakes Gown – Persona Non Grata from Mirror, Live EP (2009)
El Ten Eleven – Living On Credit Blues from Every Direction Is North (2007)
My First Earthquake – Outta The Band from Downstairs (2009)
Fanfarlo – I’m A Pilot from Reservoir (2009)
Phoenix – 1901 from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)
David Cross – My Wife’s Crazy! from Shut Up, You Fucking Baby! (Disc 2) (2002)
Tags: david cross, El Ten Eleven, Fanfarlo, My First Earthquake, Phoenix, Shakes Gown
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