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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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| Rodney Crowell, Joe Henry, Jenny Scheinman Bimbo's 365 Club | Fri., November 21, 9:00pm | North Beach/Chinatown | |
 Jenny Scheinman’s latest release is a self-titled album of captivating blues, roots, and haunting folk songs. This seeming shift in direction may surprise fans of the violinist and vocalist’s other work. She was an early member of Charming Hostess, one of the East Bay freak... 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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| El Guincho, Tussle, DJs Disco Shawn & Oro11 The Independent | Fri., November 21, 9:00pm | Haight/Fillmore | |
 When it comes to Barcelona-based musician Pablo Diaz Reixa and his one-man band, El Guincho, your limbs may react before your brain does. His newly released breakthrough album, Alegranza, is a sampledelic, Spanish-language valentine to island rhythms, underground hip-hop, Afrobeat, and... 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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| Grayceon, Worm Ouroboros, Drift of a Curse Bottom of the Hill | Sat., November 22, 9:30pm | Potrero Hill | |
 Grayceon’s tunes are mammoth in scope. Since 2005, the trio — cellist-vocalist Jackie Perez Gratz, guitarist-vocalist Max Doyle, and drummer Zach Farwell — has mixed metal, prog, and postrock influences, with an emphasis on the sprawling and cinematic. They’ve refined this... 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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| In Flames, Gojira, All That Remains, 36 Crazyfists The Warfield | Fri., November 21, 7:00pm | Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |
 France may not be the international hotbed for metal, but the extreme French quartet Gojira has emerged as one of the genre’s leading lights. On the brutal, esoteric The Way of All Flesh, guitarist and vocalist Joe Duplantier and drummer brother Mario shine as metal’s most fearsome... 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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| Of Montreal, Health The Regency Center | Fri., November 21, 8:00pm | Nob Hill/Russian Hill | |
 Kevin Barnes is a centaur. Or, at least, he plays one for a few minutes onstage each night with his polymorphic pop sextet Of Montreal. Dressing as a partly nude stallion is just one way Barnes and his hallucinatory Athens, Ga.-based troupe visually accompany the tour for their ninth album,... More >> |
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| ohGr, American Memory Project Slim's | Fri., November 21, 9:00pm | South of Market | |
 Oooooh ... ohGr? Sounds scary! You say this “Nivek Ogre” feller is the same guy who — as singer for electroterror trio Skinny Puppy — used to drench himself in blood, vivisect stuffed dogs, and simulate ripping out his own intestines onstage? And now he’s portraying a... 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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| Windsurf Amoeba Music | Fri., November 21, 7:00pm | Haight/Fillmore | |
 We’ve had some things to celebrate of late. First, after eight years of our living under a Republican fog, Barack Obama is gonna move into the White House come January. Then a dose of summer heat hit in the middle of November. Literally and metaphorically, sunshine is suddenly poking out... More >> |
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