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| AC/DC Oracle Arena | Tue., December 2, 8:00pm | East Oakland | |
 Reliability. It’s underrated. Who even thinks about a car that starts every time? Until the one time it doesn’t. AC/DC is like that. The band rocks. And that’s all it does. The music isn’t complicated. It’s Phil Rudd’s simple drumming. It’s Cliff... More >> |
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| AC/DC Oracle Arena | Thu., December 4, 8:00pm | East Oakland | |
 Reliability. It’s underrated. Who even thinks about a car that starts every time? Until the one time it doesn’t. AC/DC is like that. The band rocks. And that’s all it does. The music isn’t complicated. It’s Phil Rudd’s simple drumming. It’s Cliff... More >> |
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| "Baghdad by the Bay December Showcase" Red Devil Lounge | Tue., December 2, 8:00pm | Nob Hill/Russian Hill | |
 Pirate Cat Radio must be the most visible underground radio station in the country. Transmitting unlicensed from its bright, shiny corner cafe in the Mission, the studio is observable to all who pass by, and cheeky DJs entice their audiences to come down and join the live studio landscape. In... More >> |
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| Blitzen Trapper, The Parson Red Heads, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band The Independent | Tue., December 2, 8:00pm | Haight/Fillmore | |
 Let’s set the record straight. Despite a long list of rock writers claiming the contrary, Blitzen Trapper is not an Americana band. Sure, the band tinkers with roots rock: a little Creedence twang here, some Crazy Horse crunch there. But beyond the pedal-steel–led ballad “Stolen... More >> |
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| "Cream of Beat: 2008 Reunion Party, Part Two" Mighty | Thu., November 27, 10:00pm | South of Market | |
 The only things more frustrating (and/or more likely to trigger a sudden psychosomatic rash) than high school reunions are holiday family reunions — at least, that is, when you could be hanging out with the old neighborhood buddies instead. That’s what the Cream of Beat Reunion is all... More >> |
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| Deerhunter, Times New Viking, Common Eider King Eider Great American Music Hall | Mon., November 24, 8:00pm | Nob Hill/Russian Hill | |
 Bradford Cox’ oversize persona threatens to overwhelm almost anything his band Deerhunter does. In concert, the singer-songwriter — who has Marfan syndrome and is shockingly thin — sometimes bloodies himself and otherwise makes people uncomfortable. On his group’s blog, he... More >> |
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| Dir en grey The Warfield | Sun., November 30, 8:00pm | Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |
 Japanese underground sensation Dir en grey hits the Warfield on its second U.S. headlining tour. The experimental group just released its strongest album in years, Uroboros, a collection of melodic, goth-influenced metal with technically tricky rhythms that’s slowly picking up radio play.... More >> |
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| The Entrance Band, Rodriguez, Sleepy Sun, Matt Baldwin Electric Band Great American Music Hall | Sun., November 23, 8:00pm | Nob Hill/Russian Hill | |
 When Light in the Attic label head Matt Sullivan picked up the crate-digging David Holmes–mixed compilation Come Get It, I Got It in 2002, he had no idea he was embarking on a six-year journey to resurrect a folk-psych masterpiece. The remixes of underground gems included Sixto Diaz... More >> |
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| Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, Sassy!!!, Delaney Davidson Bottom of the Hill | Fri., November 28, 10:00pm | Potrero Hill | |
 Accompanied by the Brokeoffs — actually Texan multi-instrumentalist Lawyer Dave — Holly Golightly draws upon pre-rock-’n’-roll–era blues. On her latest release, Dirt Don’t Hurt, she specifically hits the nexus where blues was transitioning from acoustic to electric... More >> |
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| The Herbaliser, DJ Shortkut The Independent | Sun., November 30, 9:00pm | Haight/Fillmore | |
 The Herbaliser has long been a force in U.K. hip-hop. Led by Jake Wherry and Ollie Teeba, the group — which now includes vocalist Jessica Darling — explores its jazz-funk roots more prominently on its seventh studio album, Same as It Never Was. The result is a more organic-sounding... More >> |
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| Indigenous Wisdom Block Party Capp (between 24th and 25th sts.) | Sat., November 29, 10:00am | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
 You wouldn't think the U.N.'s "International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls" would be partytime, but it is. Well, some of it is, anyway. The Indigenous Wisdom Block Party is the final event of a three days' worth of observances, including prayer circles, film... More >> |
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| "Meat Is Murder: Popscene’s Ninth Annual Thanksgiving Tribute to the Smiths" 330 Ritch | Thu., November 27, 10:00pm | South of Market | |
 It’s not that Morrissey hates you, per se. He just thinks you’re morally misguided. And his righteous indignation is the inspiration for this ninth annual installment of Popscene’s “Meat Is Murder” Thanksgiving party, at which DJs Aaron and Nako spin all manner of... More >> |
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| New Riders of the Purple Sage Great American Music Hall | Fri., November 28, 9:00pm | Nob Hill/Russian Hill | |
 Every once in a while, a side project becomes more. So it was with the New Riders of the Purple Sage. In 1969, pals John “Marmaduke” Dawson (vocals & guitar) and Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead (pedal steel guitar) wanted to play Bakersfield-style country music. Joined by guitarist... More >> |
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| "Pink Slip: All You Can Eat" The Stud | Tue., November 25, 11:00pm | South of Market | |
 For over a decade, Trannyshack and hostess Heklina wooed us with shocking drag shows and celebrity appearances. But there’s a new sheriff in town and her name is Virginia Suicide. Her variety show, Pink Slip, consists of 10 (more or less) acts of drag queens singing (not lip syncing) and... More >> |
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| Portugal. The Man, Earl Greyhound, Wintersleep Slim's | Mon., November 24, 8:00pm | South of Market | |
 Portugal. The Man's signature is a rare falsetto on lead singer John Gourley, but a lot of this band's bite comes from the fact that it sounds like two of them are playing in the forest and the other two guys are reverbed by church walls. Sweeping down from Sarah Palin's hometown by way of... More >> |
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| The Skygreen Leopards, Palms U.S.A., Dame Satan Café Du Nord | Sat., November 29, 9:30pm | Castro/Noe Valley | |
| We wonder if Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs doesn't hear some of the same BS criticisms Joni Mitchell's heard during her career. A male music critic wrote about Riggs' former and widely adored band the Finches that its acoustic guitar work "seldom strays from a beginner's chord book," for example,... More >> | |||
| Spetsnaz, Obscenity Trial, DJ Decay, Unit_77, Joe Radio DNA Lounge | Sun., November 23, 7:00pm | South of Market | |
 If music were a computer system, the industrial subgenre called E.B.M. (Electronic Body Music) would be verging on the dreaded “blue screen of death,” i.e., total debilitating freeze-up. That’s why groups like Spetsnaz are rebooting their machines to revive the genre’s... More >> |
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| "Tribal Funk: 15-Year Family Reunion" Mezzanine | Sat., November 29, 9:00pm | South of Market | |
 The “Tribal Funk 15-Year Family Reunion” aims to re-create the electric vibe of the early-’90s San Frandisco rave scene that birthed it. And while glow sticks, giant Mickey Mouse gloves, and baggy pants are now scare sights outside of Halloween (and Justice shows), many of the... More >> |
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| "Tutu Tuesday" Vessel | Second Tuesday of every month, 9:00pm | North Beach/Chinatown | |
 Big secret about tutus: If you're wearing one, you can't rest your hands at your sides – not if you're wearing a real, starched, horizontal ballerina tutu. Wear any kind of tutu you want at Tutu Tuesday, floppy or erect. If you don't own a tutu, or if you forgot yours at home, make or buy... More >> |
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| Wu-Tang Clan The Regency Center | Wed., December 3, 8:00pm | Nob Hill/Russian Hill | |
 Products of Staten Island’s notorious Park Hill projects, the nine-member Wu-Tang Clan surfaced in the ’90s to forge a unique roughneck New York hip-hop style. Their music absorbed obsessions with technology, kung fu and gangster flicks, and the street-level Islamic faction Five... More >> |
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| "Black Gold" KoKo Cocktails | Every week Monday, 10:00pm | Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |
 You may want your retro-soul weekend parties to be packed, sweaty blasts full of vintage grinders. But on Monday nights, the smooth, sugar-melting tones of ’60s soul music work as relaxing tonics to calm party-frazzled nerves — and that’s where Black Gold comes in. Hosted by... More >> |
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| Classical Revolution Revolution Cafe | Every week Sunday, 8:00pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
 Armed with stringed instruments and intense training from the likes of Juilliard and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Classical Revolution is on a mission to change the way classical music is perceived and performed in this city. Conceived in late 2006, the collective’s intent has... More >> |
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| Classical Revolution SoCha | Every week Wednesday, 8:00pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
 Armed with stringed instruments and intense training from the likes of Juilliard and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Classical Revolution is on a mission to change the way classical music is perceived and performed in this city. Conceived in late 2006, the collective’s intent has... More >> |
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| Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young de Young Museum | Every week Friday, 6:30pm | Richmond (Inner) | |
 The de Young Museum launches its 2008 Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young program in style, teaming up with Intersection for the Arts to present an ambitious showcase for eight commissioned compositions from an impressive range of local jazz band leaders. First appearing last... More >> |
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| The Execution of Precious Memories Project Artaud Theater |
Daily from Wed., November 19 until Sat., November 22, 8:00pm more dates/times |
Mission/Bernal Heights | |
 Since the earliest incarnation of Einstürzende Neubauten, when Blixa Bargeld and scrap-metal maestro N.U. Unruh appeared partly clothed and playing in a hole under the Berlin autobahn, Bargeld has reached beyond the synthesis of traditional art forms to externalize emotional states of... More >> |
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