Your guide for music events in the bay area.

Mayby Next Time

@ Shoreline Amphitheatre

I've always had a strong policy of truth, so hopefully you'll excuse this. Despite knowing the wonderful things that Depeche Mode has done ...

@ Shoreline Amphitheatre

Hey, UK and US songwriters, take note:  the Swedes are making better pop music than you are.  Bands like The Shout Out Louds, The Tough ...

@ Rickshaw Stop

I’m not going to pretend to know exactly where the “sic” in Sic Alps comes from.  This fuzzy, lo-fi, garage-rock duo is too good ...

@ Shoreline Amphitheatre

Sage Francis is the type of lyricist/underground hip hop rapper/metaphorical genius/intellectualist that has been attacking American values, culture, and how our relationships ...

@ The Independent

What happens when all the Black Metal enthusiasts need to relax and put on some reading music?  Sun O))) happens, that's what.  Thirty years ...

@ Potrero del Sol Park

Local experimental band Thee Oh Sees produce music that seems as if it was made in an echo chamber.  They're champions of heavy, lo-fi ...

@ Rickshaw Stop

Since joining forces with scene-making aficionados DFA, Jona Bechtolt's YACHT project has taken a turn for the disco.  Though always rooted deep in pop ...

@ Fillmore

Jarvis Cocker has aged extremely well.  Whatever you may have thought of the somewhat overcooked Pulp, Jarvis seems to have emerged from his previous career ...

@ Parkside

@ Parkside

This stuff is rough. In a good way. I imagine when Ty Segall records, he just walks into the studio, presses record, plays some songs ...

WOLF PARADE

Catalyst

8:30pm/9pm

THE FRESH & ONL...

The Knockout

9 pm

BART DAVENPORT

Rickshaw Stop

8pm

THE MANTLES

The Knockout

9 pm

AFGHAN RAIDERS

Milk Bar

8pm

CORMORANT

Thee Parkside

9 pm

CORMORANT

Parkside

9pm