Sunday, July 19th, 2009
Lake Tahoe is in the Bay Area right? Sure it is…I don’t know I’ve only lived here for a year. It’s relivent enough to mention though. Wanderlust Festival is this weekend (July 24-26th) up in Lake Tahoe. The line-up includes Andrew Bird, Broken Social Scene, Spoon, Rogue Wave, Mates of State, Girl Talk, Kaki King, Gillian Welch, Jenny Lewis, Michael Franti & Spearhead (eww), Amanda Palmer, Spearhead, Jai Uttal, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, The Mutaytor, The Honey Brothers, and The London Souls. The pictures of people doing Yoga are kind of freaking me out, but it looks fun nonetheless. Anywho, here’s this week’s schedule…
Today has veteran shoegaze act Trespassers William and Robert Gomez with The Theatre Fire at the Hemlock Tavern, sfSoundSeries presents avant-garde masters Milton Babbitt, Alvin Lucier, Olga Neuwirth, Matt Ingalls, and Hans Thomalla at the ODC Theater, and the mighty Judgement Day, TRICLOPS! and The Definite Articles rock out at the Bottom of the Hill.
Monday features Blue Öyster Cult at Slim’s and hip hop acts Awol One, Factor, and Ceschi at the Element Lounge.
Tuesday will be pretty packed with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Girls, and The Champagne Socialists performing the Rickshaw Stop, electro-act Casiotone for the Painfully Alone will be at the Bottom of the Hill, and the ever-so amazing hip hop group Doomtree featuring Sims, Cecil Otter, Paper Tiger, Dessa, Mike Mictlan & Lazerbeak, Mike Mictlan and Lazerbeak will be playing the Elbo Room.
Wednesday has synth-pop sweetie La Roux with io echo at Café du Nord, the Fake Problems show at the Bottom of the Hill is canceled, and experimental pop group Micachu & The Shapes keep it real at the Rickshaw Stop.
Thursday, The Weakerthans play The Great American Music Hall, hip-hop legends De La Soul hit up The Fillmore, and singer-songwriter iaWillm Fitzsimmons soothes The Independent.
Friday has of Montreal and Jon Brion at the Fox Theater in Oakland and reggae acts The Lions, Bedouin Soundclash and Rootbeer featuring Pigeon John hits up Slim’s.
Saturday has the reunited No Doubt, Paramore, and The Sounds at the Shoreline Amphitheatre and local indie pop act maus haus plays with Rainbow Arabia at the Bottom of the Hill.
I’ll be at ComicCon a majority of this week, but those are your recommendations for this week. Have fun!
Olga Neuwirth – 
Lost Highway
Trespassers William – Sparrow
Ceschi – Frank Purpose
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Kurt Cobain’s Cardigan
SIMS – Muziektes
Paper Tiger – 1995
De La Soul – Big Mouf (Clean)
The Lions – Salam Hadji
Tags: Alvin Lucier, Amanda Palmer, andrew bird, Awol One, Bedouin Soundclash, broken social scene, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Cecil Otter, Ceschi, De La Soul, Dessa, Factor, Gillian Welch, girl talk, Girls, Jai Uttal, Jenny Lewis, Judgement Day, Kaki King, mates of state, Matt Ingalls, Michael Franti & Spearhead (eww), Mike Mictlan, Mike Mictlan & Lazerbeak, Milton Babbitt, No Doubt, Olga Neuwirth, Paper Tiger, Paramore, Rogue Wave, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, SIMS, Spearhead, spoon, The Honey Brothers, The Lions, The London Souls, The Mutaytor, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Triclops!, Wanderlust Festival
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Yet another busy week in the Bay Area. Well, I take that back, usually the week is pretty slow when it comes to shows and the weekend is chock full of awesomeness. However this week is wall to wall greatness all around. Particularly this coming weekend. If you are keeping track of the SF Sketchfest, then you know that Tim Meadows, Andy Richter, Bob Odenkirk, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Paul F. Tompkins, and Zach Galifianakis will be in town. Hopefully I’ll see some of you out at the Album Leaf show at the Bottom of the Hill this Wednesday. Have fun this week people!
25th – Sunday:
Department of Eagles / The Cave Singers
Café du Nord
2170 Market Street
San Francisco CA 94114
Amebix / Annihilation Time / Hellshock
The Great American Music Hall
859 O’Farrell Street
San Francisco CA 94109
Jay Reatard / Nobunny / Bare Wires
The Independent
628 Divisadero Street
San Francisco CA 94117
26th – Monday:
Calvin Johnson
Artists’ for Television Access (ATA)
992 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Tera Melos / TRICLOPS! / them hills
Bottom of the Hill
1233 17th Street
San Francisco CA 94107
27th – Tuesday:
City and Colour / William Elliott Whitmore
Slim’s
333 11th Street
San Francisco CA 94103
28th – Wednesday:
The Album Leaf / Black Mamba / Anomie Belle
Bottom of the Hill
1233 17th Street
San Francisco CA 94107
Talking Music 2008 | Neko Case
Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco CA
Katy Perry / Alphabeat
The Fillmore
1805 Geary Boulevard
San Francisco, CA 94115
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings / Ivan Milev Band
The Warfield
982 Market Street
San Francisco CA 94103
29th – Thursday:
Adele
The Fillmore
1805 Geary Boulevard
San Francisco CA 94115
Hercules and Love Affair / Tal M. Klein / Andy Butler / Pat Mahoney (of LCD Soundsystem)
Mighty
119 Utah Street
San Francisco CA 94103
Kaki King
Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center
1317 San Pablo Ave
Berkeley, CA 94702
30th – Friday:
John Vanderslice and special guest DJ Aesop Rock
The Great American Music Hall
859 O’Farrell Street
San Francisco CA 94109
DeVotchKa / Crooked Fingers
The Fillmore
1805 Geary Boulevard
San Francisco CA 94115
Fruit Bats / Sera Cahoone / ScareCrow
Bottom of the Hill
1233 17th Street
San Francisco CA 94107
Amon Tobin / Mophono / JK47
2-DAY SHOW!
The Independent
628 Divisadero Street
San Francisco CA CA 94117
31st – Saturday:
Blu & Exile / Wale / UCB
Mezzanine
444 Jessie Street @ Mint
San Francisco CA 94103
Lindstrøm
Paradise Lounge
1501 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
John Vanderslice – White Dove
Tera Melos – Blast Off!
Hercules and Love Affair – You Belong
Wale – The Kramer
Tags: Adele, Amebix, amon tobin, bay area shows, Calvin Johnson, City and Colour, department of eagles, DeVotchka, Fruit Bats, Hercules and Love Affair, Jay Reatard, john vanderslice, Kaki King, Katy Perry, Lindstrøm, Neko Case, sf sketchfest, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Tera Melos, the album leaf, Wale
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