This Week In Bay Area Live Shows: June 14th – 20th
Sunday, June 14th, 2009
From the looks of things, the Bay will be a little slow in regards to shows. That doesn’t mean there isn’t anything going on, just not as much as usual.
First off, tonight A Camp plays The Independent and the Haight Street Fair features We Be the Echo at the Stanyan Stage.
Monday will have British indie rocks Art Brut at the San Francisco Amoeba Records at 6pm and at The Independent with LoveLikeFire at 8pm.
Tuesday features lo-fi rocker That Ghost at The Knockout. Hey I told you it was a slow week.
Anyway, post-punk heroes Shellac rocks The Great American Music Hall both Wednesday and Thursday. Everyone’s favorite indie sweetheart Ben Kweller hits up Slim’s on Wednesday as well as Oakland songbird and solo uke-slinger Tippy Canoe at the Hemlock Tavern.
Thursday brings the NINJATUNE Party with Daedelus & Ghislain Poirer at Mighty and Viva Voce with Cut Off Your Hands at the Bottom of the Hill. Also, The Phoenix in Petaluma will be hosting ONELOVEFORCHI, a benefit for bassist Chi Cheng of The Deftones, who fell into a coma after a vicious car accident a few months ago. All door proceeds will go to www.oneloveforchi.com to help Chi & Cheng Family with medical bills. Live music from post-hardcore legends Will Haven as well as Snipers, Un-ID, An Archaic Smile and Simoom.
Friday has PJ Harvey & John Parish making sweet tunes at The Warfield and Nouvelle Vague drops by the Grand Regency Ballroom.
Saturday wraps up the week with Les Claypool at The Warfield, White Rabbits promoting their ever-so-awesome new album “It’s Frightening” at The Independent, and award winning Nigerian musician Femi Kuti at The Fillmore.
See you out there!
Will Haven – Dallass Drake
White Rabbits - Percussion Gun
That Ghost – Never Have Fun
Tippy Canoe – Mass Transmissions
LA rock outfit Eulogies kicked off their 20-date US tour with The Dears last night with a show in New York at the Bell House. The band has recently released their new album, Here Anonymous and have been getting some rave reviews with their unique brand of emotional indie pop. The band will be swinging by here May 24, at the Independent in San Francisco with The Dears and Great Northern.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have kicked off their US tour in case you didn’t know. However the only Bay Area swing they’ll be doing is the 
I felt obligated to find out who A Camp was after reading some decent reviews. So I listen to Stronger Than Jesus a few times and was kind of impressed. I’m sure I’ll end up looking into them a bit more but currently I’ve been listening the balls of the new Jeremy Enigk (woops, did it leak?) album to really care about anything else. But anyways, their new album, Colonia came out last Tuesday and so far so good in my opinion. Crocodiles’ buzzy but kind of shitty Summer of Hate came out and commercial theme indie pop band Great Northern released Remind Me Where The Light Is. Quite a ‘meh’ week for releases.
