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.
We’re back from Comic-Con 2009! And holy shit what a journey of epic proportions. I’ll be posting pictures and a day to day “what happened” in the near future (probably tomorrow). But for now lets go over the last week of July and what is the August concert season.
Tonight, Band Of Skulls conquer Café du Nord. I’d love to go to this but I’m suffering from a slight cold. BUT these guys fucking rock. Check’em out.
Monday is Spinnerette (ex-Distillers) at the Great American Music Hall, Glasvegas rocks out at The Regency Ballroom, Mika Miko, Judgement Day and Audacity play the Nickel City Arcade in San Jose, and the New York Night Train’s SAN FRANCISCO SOUL CLAP and Dance Off which is a underground retro dance-off featuring Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles), Cinnamon (Lusty Lady), Kimberly Chun (SF Bay Guardian ), Dave Katznelson (Birdman Records), Jay Howell (Mtn St Mtn), Primo (Oldies Night), Prince$$ Pandora (Lusty Lady), Paul Costuros (Death Sentence Panda, Saturday Soul Party), Jennifer Maerz ( SF Weekly ) and DJ MR. JONATHAN TOUBIN at the Elbo Room at 9pm.
Tuesday has Jarvis Cocker keeping it real at the Fillmore and the Noisettes tearing it up at the Rickshaw Stop.
Wednesday only has Magnolia Electric Co. and The Donkeys at the Bottom of the Hill (which I highly recommend).
Thursday is psychedelic rock act The Warlocks, The Morning After Girls and Gliss at the Bottom of the Hill, Gomez at the Fillmore, and Or, The Whale, El Olio Wolof, Mikael Jorgensen of Wilco at Starry Plough in Oakland.
Friday hosts Portland spazz rock band The Hospitals and the ganglians at Amnesia…and that’s it for Friday….hrm.
However, Saturday has Themselves at the Bottom of the Hill, Stellastarr and Mason Proper at Slim’s, and The Deli Magazine’s DORKFEST 09 hosts the best in Bay Area bands featuring The Heavenly States, 60 watt kid, French Miami, railcars, Anderson Congress and Vitiligo at Café du Nord.
I’ll try to make the Themselves show and the Magnolia Electric Co. show, but it’s a pretty empty week overall. See you out there!
Mason Proper – Lock & Key
French Miami – The God Damn Best (edit: this song is amazing)
I won’t be going, but if I was, these would be my highlights. Now I know it will be impossible to see all of these bands/artists, I know how SXSW works. However, the SXSW website has a plethora of free songs for you to sample to assist you in your decision. If you are not going, go ahead and download them anyway; there’s obviously a reason why these bands were picked to showcase their music this year.
Abe Vigoda – Don’t Lie
AIDS Wolf – Tied-Up In Paper
Black Lips – O Katrina!
Boats – 500%
Cage – Shoot Frank
Cut Off Your Hands – Turn Cold
dredg – The Papal Insignia
Doomtree – FLEX
Fair to Midland – Tall Tales Taste Like Sour Grapes
The Felice Brothers – Frankie’s Gun
Sage Francis – Conspiracy to Riot
Eugene Francis Jnr & The Juniors – Beginners
Laura Gibson – Spirited
Hamell On Trial – When You’re Young
Lisa Hannigan – Lille
HEALTH – Crimewave
Hot Lava – Apple+Option+Fire
Junk Science – Hey (the sequel)
Kraak & Smaak – Squeeze Me
Kylesa – Said And Done
The Mother Hips – Mission in Vain
Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head – Slow Motion Tag Team
Want to find a reason to get out of the rain and into some amazing live events? I give you Noise Pop 09! The Noise Pop Festival, which runs this Tuesday, February 24th through Sunday, March 1st, 2009, is an ambitious iteration of San Francisco’s favorite indie music, arts and film. For their 17th anniversary, Noise Pop 2009 will honor what’s made it the best-loved celebration of indie music and culture since its humble birth in 1993. This years music will feature such indie superstars like Antony and the Johnsons, Martha Wainwright, Stephen Malkmus, Deerhunter, St. Vincent, A.C. Newman, French Kicks, No Age, The Submarines, and Ra Ra Riot, among many many others. Noise Pop also features a long list of artist/photographers whose work is currently being displayed at the Mini Bar at 837 Divisadero St in San Fran. Also, there are some great films being showcased this week including Wilco’s Ashes of American Flags, Andrew van Baal’s Largo (a movie I’ve been waiting to see for months), and independent record store documentary I Need That Record. Of course I’m leaving out a whole bunch more but that’s what I’m looking forward to. I plan on catching one or two films and hopefully see Kool Keith (Dr. Octagon vs. Dr. Dooom) at the Mezzanine. All listed Noise Pop shows will be highlighted in blue; so go grab a badge and have fun this week.
As for non-Noise Pop events; today is quite busy for the Bay Area. You’re got Far (live video below) at Slim’s, Modest Mouse at the Fox Theater, and Michael Zapruder at the Bottom of the Hill tonight. See you out there!
Kata Rokkar is a place where you can download free mp3 from artists and bands that I currently love and listen to. They are only for sampling purposes and to influence you to go out and support these artists by purchasing their records and going to their concerts. If you are a record company or an artist that is displeased with a song being displayed, feel free to contact me and I will remove it ASAP. Thank you and enjoy!
Me-Time (Themselves Remix) from Jhelli Beam Remixes (2009)
Want to find a reason to get out of the rain and into some amazing live events? I give you 
