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The 13th Annual Mission Creek Music Festival 2009

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

The 13th Annual Mission Creek Music Festival kicks off today in San Francisco with some pretty exciting names. Having a long standing record at breaking new and exciting acts over the years, MCM Fest is still delivering some of the best in the Bay and International acts.

Today we have The Aerosols with Dream Date, My First Earthquake, and Sonny & The Sunsets at Knockout, Collosal Yes with The Love Dimension , 123 Picnic , and Nick Jaina at El Rio, darwinsbitch with 0th , NIM , Hora Flora , and DJ Koloni at The Lab, and The Double U with Top Critters , The Jen Weisberg Experience , and The Why Because at Argus.

Thursday features the wonderful Thee Oh Sees with Fresh and Onlys , Meth Teeth , Buzzer , and Ty Segall at Eagle, The Lumerians with Graveyard , and Citadelle at Cafe Du Nord, Ryder Cooley with MAG , Christine Shields , and DJ Koloni at The Lab, Brandon Nickell with Al Qaeda , Horseflesh , and Weird Habit at Argus, and Carola Zertuche at Pena Pachamama.

Friday rocks out with goth rockers Evangelista with Oaxacan , Limosine , Art Lessing and the Flower Vato at Eagle, Ann Magnuson with Dynasty Handbag , Curly Lou , and DJ Koloni at The Lab, Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble at the ATA, Casy and Brian with Unicorn Basement , Kitten Forever , and Elle Nino at Kimo’s, and the AlterLatino Rock Showcase features Ink Blots with Dezu , Con of Man , Los Valenberg , Sagval , Qodice , and Tierra y Fuego at the Oakland Metro Opera House.

Saturday, marks the free McLaren Park show with Dead Meadow, Kelley Stoltz , Persephone’s Bees , The Rubies , Bart Davenport , Xoel Lopez , Leopold & His Fiction , The Moore Brothers , Birds & Batteries , and Coatsie & Mellows at 4:00 pm. Also, we have Zachary Watkins with Gerritt Wittmer and Paul Knowles , Jim Haynes , and The Toilet at The Lab, and the Benefit for Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival with Juan Son, Nacotheque , Pop Noir , and DJ Fancy Guey at Blue Macaw.

Sunday is the Performer Magazine Showcase with Fauna Valetta, Branden Daniel , Old Stoic , and Mode at Kimo’s, string metal sensation Judgement Day with Triclops! , and The Definite Articles at the Bottom of the Hill, the Mission Creek Meet & Greet Poolside Party with Xoel Lopez and Craig Ventresco at the Bambuddha Lounge.

Monday just has Miranda Lee Richards with Emily Jane White , Helene Renaut , and Chloe Makes Music at the Cafe Du Nord.

Tuesday features Inca Ore with Ora Cogan , Black Bow , and The Sarees at Argus, Brian Glaze and the Night Shift with Sam Flax & Higher Color , Seam Smith & the Present Moment , Greg Ashley , and Chris Lacey at Cafe Du Nord and Hot Lunch with Paula Frazer , Casual Fog , and Jeff Ramuno at Knockout.

Wednesday, rocks out with 3 Leafs, Long Legged Woman , Jaws , Sex Worker , and DJ Tristes Tropiques at El Rio, Warpaint with Xoel Lopez , White Music , Moonrats at Knockout, The Mantles with Honey , and The Sandwitches at Hotel Utah, and Arachnid Arcade with Shygrape , Kwisp , and HansHeadGrŸselBoggle at Argus.

Thursday features the Awesome Vistas Showcase with Sic Alps, Linda Hagood , Tom Greenwood , and Dragging an Ox Through Water at the Hemlock Tavern, EAMB with Jessie Evans , Bronze , and The Something Experience at Eagle, the ever-so awesome Botticellis play with Gravid Wives , Family Trea , Danny James and PEAR at Knockout, The Downer Party with Mister Loveless , and Tinkture play the Rickshaw Stop, Railcars with Raised By Robots , and Elba at Hotel Utah, Bay Area favorites Geographer rocks out with The Old-Fashioned Way , White Cloud , and 100 Swans at Cafe Du Nord, kkn with Jason Grier , and Kid Alice at Argus and the Latin Surf Party features Cuban Cowboys with Graves Brother Deluxe , and Carne Cruda at Blue Macaw.

Friday, has Thorny Brocky with Reverent Sisters , Ramon and Jessica , and Poor Sweet Creatures at the Socha Cafe, Hard Place with Harry Merry , Agent Ribbons , and Franklin’s Mint at Knockout, Shimomitsu with Softserv at Adobe, The Drums with Wendy Farina , Improv Trio: William Wnany, Weasel Walter, Moe Staiano , and Jason Gonzales at Argus, and finally Hunx and his Punx rocks out with Icy Lytes , and Myles at the El Rio.

Saturday featues the “Awesome Bands Names Showcase” (I made that up) with T.I.T.S., KIT , The Amazements , White Pee , and Wiggwaum at Bay Area 51.

For more show info including show times, age limits, venue info, and more click here.

Whew…I’ll be at the Judgement Day and Botticellis shows and hopefully a few others. What are you looking forward to?

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This Week In Bay Area Live Shows: July 13th -18th

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Monday edition! Okay yeah I’m late on the Bay Area post but if you saw how my weekend went you’d understand. Anyway, if you made it out to the Laura Stevenson show last night, consider yourself lucky, she’s a special gal. Keep an eye on her. Okay, lets get started!

Tonight Coldplay heads over to the Shoreline Amphitheatre to entertain the white people, post rock heroes Tortoise and Pit Er Pat are leaving the The Great American Music Hall in awe, folk metal band Wolves in the Throne Room hit up Slim’s, Tori Amos plays the Paramount Theatre in Oakland and the San Jose Center For The Performing Arts on Tuesday, also Summer Cats and Magic Bullets perform at The Knockout tonight, New Zealand rockers The Veils and indie pop act Foreign Born crash the Bottom of the Hill.

Tuesday features Blonde Redhead at The Independent for two nights, the beautifully reunited Azure Ray play Nickel City Arcade in San Jose, Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head rocks Café du Nord,…oh yeah and some website called Kata Rokkar presents post rockers Gifts From Enola with Winfred E. Eye and Glaciers. That should be fucking awesome!

Wednesday we have the lovely Laura Veirs at Café du Nord, instrumental group Pink Mountain play San Francisco’s Amoeba Records at 6pm, and Tears for Fears stop by the Mountain Winery in Saratoga.

The Mission Creek Music Festival featuring Judgement Day, Evangelista, Ann Magnuson, Jessie Evans, Shogun Kuntoki, William Winant, Weasle Walter, Moe!, Staiano Trio, Pop Noir, Ink Blots, Nacotheque, Juan Son, Curly Lou, Clara Gustavson, Dead Meadow, Xoel Lopez, Mranda Lee Richards, the Extra Action Marching Band and many many others will be pretty much all over the city from the 15th to the 22nd of July. More on that later on in the week.

Also going on this week is the The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival with Amanda Palmer, Lucero, Poor Man’s Whiskey, Loco Bloco, etc. I had no idea what this was until just now. It looks wild. The event will take place In Oakland right off the West Grand Avenue exit, between at the Oakland Army Base and the East Bay MUD Facility, at the corner of Wake Avenue and Engineer Road.

Thursday will have me visiting the Great American Music Hall to see Azure Ray and Cursive’s Tim Kasher. It wil a nice evening of calm heartfelt music on O’Farrell Street. Psychedelic rocks Thee Oh Sees with Meth Teeth (best band name?) at The Eagle Tavern, and indie punkers Girl in a Coma play the Bottom of the Hill.

Friday, Brand New returns with Dios at Slim’s, Infected Mushroom plays at The Grand Ballroom At the Regency Center, thrash rocks Sabertooth Zombie rip-up 924 Gilman St., indie hip-hoppers Cage and Yak Ballz come to destroy The Great American Music Hall, THE VERY BEST (Radioclit & Esau Mwamwaya) come to party it up at Mighty, noise rockers Pterodactyl perform at the Hemlock Tavern, and the Great Northern and Eulogies show at Mezzanine is canceled.

Saturday, progressive art rocks Water & Bodies and Ambiance play the Hotel Utah, lounge DJ Bonobo will be at Mighty, and Three Mile Pilot crashes at the Bottom of the Hill.

Oh and hang out with Nobuo Uematsu and Arnie Roth at the San Francisco Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY concert on July 18th at Davies Symphony Hall.

Lots going on. See you out there!

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