FRIDAY

Pub date August 9, 2006

Aug. 11

Music

Oranger

The fog shrouding San Francisco for much of the year is clearly conducive to pop music, as Oranger have had what the Fine Young Cannibals would call a “good thing” going for more than a few years now. It’s music to hop on the trampoline to: they take the softie approach occasionally, but it’s the swirl of their latter-period-Beatles-styled guitar pop that’s truly incredible. Last year’s New Comes and Goes (Eenie Meenie) had some of the crunchiest, most clever hooks and choruses ever committed to CD. (Michael Harkin)

With Unwed Sailor and Moonlight Towers
9 p.m.
$8
Hotel Utah Saloon
500 Fourth St., SF
(415) 546-6300
www.thehotelutahsaloon.com