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, February 8th, 2009
The Mae She @ House of Nostromos (Oakland, CA)
I’m going to keep this short due to the fact that it’s late and need to get some sleep. It’s a few more weeks until the Noise Pop Festival. Bands like Deerhunter (who will be doing a free show), Kool Keith, Antony and the Johnsons, Cut Off Your Hands, From Monument to Masses, N.A.S.A., No Age, among many many other awesome acts will be performing in about 2 weeks. So I’ll have more to report on that as it comes closer. For me it’s Lykke Li at the Fillmore at the end of the week. I was surprised it wasn’t sold out when I bought tickets the other day. So there still might be time if you haven’t already jumped on that. Anyway here’s what’s going on. See you out there!
Sunday – 8th:
Two Gallants / Trash Talk
Gilman St Project
924 Gilman Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
Fucked Up / Mika Miko
The Independent
628 Divisadero Street
San Francisco CA 94117
Monday – 9th:
P.O.S. / Sims / hand over fist
Bottom of the Hill
1233 17th Street
San Francisco CA 94107
The Bird and the Bee / Obi Best
The Independent
628 Divisadero Street
San Francisco CA 94117
10th – Tuesday:
NOFX / Smoke or Fire / The Kegels
Slim’s
333 11th Street
San Francisco CA 94103
11th – Wednesday:
An Evening with Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan
The Independent
628 Divisadero Street
San Francisco CA 94117
Or, The Whale / Band of Annuals / Leslie & The Badgers
Hotel Utah
San Francisco, CA
12th – Thursday:
Todd Snider
Sebastopol Community Center
Sebastopol, CA
13th – Friday:
The Airborne Toxic Event / Rademacher
Bottom of the Hill
1233 17th Street
San Francisco CA 94107
14th – Saturday (Valentine’s Day):
The Appleseed Cast / The Union Trade / Audio Out Send
Bottom of the Hill
1233 17th Street
San Francisco CA 94107
Two Gallants – Despite What You’ve Been Told
SIMS – 15 Blocks
The Appleseed Cast – Hello Dearest Love
Tags: bay area live shows, Fucked Up, Greg Dulli, Mark Lanegan, NOFX, Noise Pop Festival, p.o.s., SIMS, The Airborne Toxic Event, The Appleseed Cast, The Bird and the Bee, Todd Snider, Two Gallants
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