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WEDNESDAY 27
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Boom Boom Satellites Independent. 8pm, $15.
Bring Me the Horizon, August Burns Red, Emarosa, Polar Bear Club, This is Hell Regency Ballroom. 6:30pm, $20.
Castles in Spain, Sea of Sorrow, Gun and Doll Show, Pollux, Ol’ Cheeky Bastards, Katie Garibaldi Bottom of the Hill. 8:30pm, $8.
Decry, Snake Mountain, Ruleta Rusa Hemlock Tavern. 9:30pm, $7.
Fun., Steel Train, Jarrod Gorbel Great American Music Hall. 8pm, $16.
Future Night, Blackbird Blackbird Knockout. 9pm, $6.
Get Offs, Blowie! Hemlock Tavern. 6pm, $5-7.
Hawksley Workman, Ian Fays, Red Verse Hotel Utah. 8pm, $10.
Insomniacs Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $15.
Midnight Strangers, Red Yellow Blue, Nectarine Pie Red Devil Lounge. 8pm, $6.
Misisipi Mike’s Honky Tonk Night Time Band, Grand Nationals, Jeanie and Chuck’s Country Roundup El Rio, 8pm, $5.
Poor Bailey, Foxtails Brigade, Il Gato Café Du Nord. 8:30pm, $12.
Star Fucking Hipsters, Monster Squad, Static Thought Thee Parkside. 8pm, $8.
DANCE CLUBS
Booty Call Q-Bar, 456 Castro, SF; www.bootycallwednesdays.com. 9pm. Juanita Moore hosts this dance party, featuring DJ Robot Hustle.
Club Shutter Elbo Room. 10pm, $5. Goth with DJs Nako, Omar, and Justin.
Hands Down! Bar on Church. 9pm, free. With DJs Claksaarb, Mykill, and guests spinning indie, electro, house, and bangers.
Jam Fresh Wednesdays Vessel, 85 Campton, SF; (415) 433-8585. 9:30pm, free. With DJs Slick D, Chris Clouse, Rich Era, Don Lynch, and more spinning top40, mashups, hip hop, and remixes.
Mary-Go-Round Lookout, 3600 16th St, SF; (415) 431-0306. 10pm, $5. A weekly drag show with hosts Cookie Dough, Pollo Del Mar, and Suppositori Spelling.
RedWine Social Dalva. 9pm-2am, free. DJ TophOne and guests spin outernational funk and get drunk.
Respect Wednesdays End Up. 10pm, $5. Rotating DJs Daddy Rolo, Young Fyah, Irie Dole, I-Vier, Sake One, Serg, and more spinning reggae, dancehall, roots, lovers rock, and mash ups.
Synchronize Il Pirata, 2007 16th St, SF; (415) 626-2626. 10pm, free. Psychedelic dance music with DJs Helios, Gatto Matto, Psy Lotus, Intergalactoid, and guests.
THURSDAY 28
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Big Eagle, Caleb Coy, D. Lee Hemlock Tavern. 9pm, $6.
“Blues at the Grammys” Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $15.
Isobel Campbell Ameoba, 1855 Haight, SF; www.amoeba.com. 7pm, free.
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, Willy Mason Great American Music Hall. 9pm, $19.
Dirty Filthy Mugs, Death Valley High, FlexXBronco, Box Squad, Rock Fight Thee Parkside. 9pm, $8.
Henry Clay People, Dig, Hundred Days Bottom of the Hill. 9pm, $10.
Jeffrey Jerusalem, Brainstorm, Safe Milk. 8pm, $5.
K’Naan, Paper Tongues Fillmore. 8pm, $25.
Liberation Institute, Annie Bacon and Her O-Shen, Terese Taylor, Seedy Naturalists El Rio. 9pm, $8.
UNKLE, Sleepy Sun Regency Ballroom. 8pm, $28.
VersaEmerge, Anarbor, Dangerous Summer, Conditions Café Du Nord. 7pm, $12.
Zinc Finger, Bigelows Treehouse, Emily Zisman Hotel Utah. 8pm, $7.
DANCE CLUBS
Afrolicious Elbo Room. 9:30pm, $10. DJs Pleasuremaker and Señor Oz spin Afrobeat, tropicália, electro, samba, and funk.
Caribbean Connection Little Baobab, 3388 19th St, SF; (415) 643-3558. 10pm, $3. DJ Stevie B and guests spin reggae, soca, zouk, reggaetón, and more.
Dirty Dishes 009 Lookout, 3600 16th St, SF; www.dirtydishesdjs.com. 9pm, $3. With Gordon Gartress, DJ Diagnosis, and Jive.
Drop the Pressure Underground SF. 6-10pm, free. Electro, house, and datafunk highlight this weekly happy hour.
Gigantic Beauty Bar. 9pm, free. With DJs Eli Glad, Greg J, and White Mike spinning indie, rock, disco, and soul.
Good Foot Som., 2925 16th St, SF; (415) 558-8521. 10pm, free. With DJs spinning R&B, Hip hop, classics, and soul.
Jivin’ Dirty Disco Butter, 354 11th St., SF; (415) 863-5964. 8pm, free. With DJs spinning disco, funk, and classics.
Koko Puffs Koko Cocktails, 1060 Geary, SF; (415) 885-4788. 10pm, free. Dubby roots reggae and Jamaican funk from rotating DJs.
Mestiza Bollywood Café, 3376 19th St, SF; (415) 970-0362. 10pm, free. Showcasing progressive Latin and global beats with DJ Juan Data.
Peaches Skylark, 10pm, free. With an all female DJ line up featuring Deeandroid, Lady Fingaz, That Girl, and Umami spinning hip hop.
SFSU International Halloween Party DNA Lounge. 7:30pm, $20. With Fans of Jimmy Century, Glass Feather, and Nervous Factor.
FRIDAY 29
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Boy in the Bubble, Ready! Ricochet, Poor Sweet Creatures Hotel Utah. 9pm, $8.
Built to Spill, Revolt Revolt, Finn Riggins Fillmore. 8pm, $25.
Grady Champion Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $20.
Death Hymn #9, Midnite Snaxx Hemlock Tavern. 6pm, $5.
Deerhunter, Real Estate, Casino vs. Japan Great American Music Hall. 9pm, $17.
Elle Nino, Hold Me Luke Allen, Club Crashers El Rio, 9pm, $3-5.
Foreverland Yoshi’s San Francisco. 10:30pm, $35.
Free Energy, Foxy Shazam, Hollerado Slim’s. 9pm, $15.
Grass Widow, Bar Feeders, Lou Lou and the Guitarfish Thee Parkside. 9:30pm, $8. Book release party for Heart Transplant by Andrew Vachss.
Kindness and Lies, Leathers, Monbon, Mic Danja Rock-It Room. 9pm, $10. Also with Craft, DJ Madd Hatter with Rey Resurreccion, Paulie Rhyme, and Nero.
Lotus, Mux Mool Independent. 9pm, $20.
Of Montreal, Janelle Monae Warfield. 9pm, $32.
Joe Pug, Nik Freitas, Two Sheds Bottom of the Hill. 9pm, $10.
“SF Zombie Prom” Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa, SF; www.zombiepromsf.com. 8pm, $15. With Stompy Jones and the Hi-Rhythm Hustlers.
Super Diamond, Pop Rocks Bimbo’s 365 Club. 9pm, $22.
*Thrones, Acid King, Christian Mistress Hemlock Tavern. 9:30pm, $10.
JAZZ/NEW MUSIC
Bitches Brew Revisited Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon, SF; www.sfjazz.org. 8pm, $25-65.
Dave Mihaly’s Shimmering Leaves Ensemble, Cylinder Community Music Center, 544 Capp, SF; www.davemihaly.com. 8pm, $10.
8 Legged Monster Coda. 10pm, $10.
Leo Kottke Yoshi’s San Francisco. 8pm, $32.
Kronos Quartet Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard, SF; www.ybca.org. 8pm, $30.
Savanna Jazz Trio Savanna Jazz. 7:30pm, $5.
DANCE CLUBS
All Hallow’s Eve DNA Lounge. 9pm, $13. Halloween party with Decay, BaconMonkey, Joe Radio, and more.
Club Dragon Club Eight, 1151 Folsom, SF; www.eightsf.com. 9pm, $8. A gay Asian paradise. Featuring two dance floors playing dance and hip hop, smoking patio, and 2 for 1 drinks before 10pm.
Exhale, Fridays Project One Gallery, 251 Rhode Island, SF; (415) 465-2129. 5pm, $5. Happy hour with art, fine food, and music with Vin Sol, King Most, DJ Centipede, and Shane King.
Fake Blood, Huoratron Mezzanine. 9pm.
Fat Stack Fridays Koko Cocktails, 1060 Geary, SF; (415) 885-4788. 10pm, free. With rotating DJs B-Cause, Vinnie Esparza, Mr. Robinson, Toph One, and Slopoke.
Fubar Fridays Butter, 354 11th St., SF; (415) 863-5964. 6pm, $5. With DJs spinning retro mashup remixes.
Good Life Fridays Apartment 24, 440 Broadway, SF; (415) 989-3434. 10pm, $10. With DJ Brian spinning hip hop, mashups, and top 40.
Hot Chocolate Milk. 9pm, $5. With DJs Big Fat Frog, Chardmo, DuseRock, and more spinning old and new school funk.
Icee Hot featuring L-Vis 1990, Low Limit, Ghosts on Tape, Disco Shawn, Rollie Fingers Elbo Room. 10pm. Electro.
Live 105’s Subsonic Spookfest Cow Palace, 2600 Geneva, SF; www.livenation.com. 6pm, $50. With Underworld, Moby, MSTRKRFT, DJ Shadow, Booka Shade, and more.
Rockabilly Fridays Jay N Bee Club, 2736 20th St, SF; (415) 824-4190. 9pm, free. With DJs Rockin’ Raul, Oakie Oran, Sergio Iglesias, and Tanoa “Samoa Boy” spinning 50s and 60s Doo Wop, Rockabilly, Bop, Jive, and more.
Some Thing The Stud. 10pm, $7. VivvyAnne Forevermore, Glamamore, and DJ Down-E give you fierce drag shows and afterhours dancing.
Teenage Dance Craze Halloween Monster Party Knockout. 10pm, $4. Twist, surf, and garage with DJ Sergio Iglesias, Russell Quann, and dX the Funky Gran Paw, plus a live performance by Girlfriends.
SATURDAY 30
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Apples in Stereo, Fol Chen Independent. 9pm, $15.
*Cattle Decapitation, Devourment, Knights of the Abyss, Burning the Masses, Son of Aurelius, Slaughterbox Thee Parkside. 8:15pm, $12-15.
Dead Souls, Spellbound, Lisa Dewey and the Lotus Life Elbo Room. 10pm, $8-10.
Deerhunter, Real Estate, Casino vs. Japan Slim’s. 9pm, $17.
Fucking Buckaroos, Jesse Morris and the Man Cougars, Thee Heartbeats El Rio. 10pm, $7.
Love is Chemicals, HIJK, Donts, Jake Mann and the Upper Hand, ’86 Mets Hemlock Tavern. 9pm, $8.
Nellie McKay Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission, SF; www.sfjazz.org. 8pm, $30.
Kate Nash, Peggy Sue Warfield. 9pm, $25.
Super Diamond, Erasure-esque Bimbo’s 365 Club. 9pm, $22.
Earl Thomas and the Blues Ambassadors Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $22.
Tiny Television, Ferocious Few, Steve Pile Band Bottom of the Hill. 10pm, $12.
JAZZ/NEW MUSIC
Justin Hellman Coda. 7pm, $7.
Omara Portuondo Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness, SF; www.sfjazz.org. 8pm, $30-75.
Primavera Latin Jazz Band Savanna Jazz. 7:30pm, $8.
Arturo Sandoval Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness, SF; www.sfjazz.org. 8pm, $30-75.
DANCE CLUBS
Bar on Church 9pm. Rotating DJs Foxxee, Joseph Lee, Zhaldee, Mark Andrus, and Nuxx.
Big Top Hallo-Weenie Party Club Eight, 1151 Folsom, SF; www.joshuajpresents.com. 9pm, $5-10. With Kidd Sysko and DJ Jinks.
Blow Up SF: Halloween Special Edition Kelly’s Mission Rock, 817 Terry Francois, SF; www.blowupsf.com. 9pm, $10-20. Jeffrey Paradise and Ava Berlin host a Haunted Mansion party.
Bootie DNA Lounge. 9pm, $10-20. Halloween mash-ups with Adrian and Mysterious D.
Cramps Night Knockout. 9pm, $3. Halloween jams with Djs Sergio Iglesias, Okie Oren, and Lisa.
Go Bang! Deco Lounge, 510 Larkin, SF; www.sanfrancisco.going.com/gobang. 9pm, $5. Atomic dancefloor disco costume party with Andre Lucero, Glenn Rivera, and more.
Hov-O-Ween Medici Lounge, 299 Ninth St, SF; www.medicisf.com. 10pm, $5. Gloom, doom, and boom with DJs Voodoo, Purgatory, and Unit77.
HYP Club Eight, 1151 Folsom, SF; www.eightsf.com. 10pm, free. Gay and lesbian hip hop party, featuring DJs spinning the newest in the top 40s hip hop and hyphy.
Rock City Butter, 354 11th St., SF; (415) 863-5964. 6pm, $5 after 10pm. With DJs spinning party rock.
Spirit Fingers Sessions 330 Ritch. 9pm, free. With DJ Morse Code and live guest performances.
SUNDAY 31
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Burned Out Basements, Trainwreck Riders, Velveteen Habit, Dead Westerns, Beet the Meatles, Human Condition Bottom of the Hill. 6:30pm, $10.
Lucha VaVoom Fillmore. 8pm, $32.50.
Mig 21 with Jiri Machacek, DJ Che Café Du Nord. 8pm, $25.
Nobunny, Uzi Rash, Apache, Monster Maus, Tumor Boys Thee Parkside. 8pm, $12.
Parties, Lotus Moons Hemlock Tavern. 8pm, $6.
JAZZ/NEW MUSIC
“Ghosts and Jazz” Yoshi’s San Francisco. 7pm, $5-20. With Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu.
Valeriana Quevado, Larry Vuckovich, Buca Necak, Sanna Craig Bliss Bar, 4026 24th St, SF; (415) 826-6200. 4:30pm, $10.
Trumpetsupergroup Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, SF; www.theintersection.org. 2pm, free.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Albino!, Rito Reinoso y su Ritmo y Armonia, DJ Specific Independent. 8pm, $17.
Back 40, Carburetors Thee Parkside. 4pm, free.
Danilo El Rio. 4pm, $8.
La Mission Band Roccapulco, 3140 Mission, SF; www.roccapulco.com. 3pm, $20.
DANCE CLUBS
DiscoFunk Mashups Cat Club. 10pm, free. House and 70’s music.
Dub Mission Halloween Elbo Room. 9pm, $6. Dub, dubstep, roots, and dancehall with DJ Sep, Maneesh the Twister, and guests Spit Brothers with Bakir and Dubsworth.
45 Club Halloween Party Knockout. 10pm, free. Funky soul with dX the Funky Gran Paw, Dirty Dishes, and English Steve.
Gloss Sundays Trigger, 2344 Market, SF; (415) 551-CLUB. 7pm. With DJ Hawthorne spinning house, funk, soul, retro, and disco.
Honey Soundsystem Paradise Lounge. 8pm-2am. “Dance floor for dancers – sound system for lovers.” Got that?
Kick It Bar on Church. 9pm. Hip-hop with DJ Zax.
Pachanga Coda. 5pm, $10. Salsa with DJs Fab Fred and Antonio with Los Compas.
Religion Bar on Church. 3pm. With DJ Nikita.
Swing Out Sundays Rock-It Room. 7pm, free (dance lessons $15). DJ BeBop Burnie spins 20s through 50s swing, jive, and more.
Trannyshack: Halloween DNA Lounge. 9:30pm, $20. With special guest Julie Brown and hosts Peaches Christ and Heklina.
MONDAY 1
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Asteroid 4, Lovetones, Fauna Valetta, Spyrals Elbo Room. 9pm, $7.
Enter Shikari, Haste the Day, Sleeping With Sirens, Ms. White Slim’s. 7pm, $16.
Ingrid Michaelson, Guggenheim Grotto Fillmore. 8pm, $22.50.
Stone Temple Pilots Warfield. 8pm, $52.50-65.
White Denim, Zodiac Death Valley Independent. 8pm, $15.
DANCE CLUBS
Black Gold Koko Cocktails, 1060 Geary, SF; (415) 885-4788. 10pm-2am, free. Senator Soul spins Detroit soul, Motown, New Orleans R&B, and more — all on 45!
Death Guild: Day of the Dead Guild DNA Lounge. 9:30pm, $3-5. Gothic, industrial, and synthpop with DJs Decay, Joe Radio, and Melting Girl.
Krazy Mondays Beauty Bar. 10pm, free. With DJs Ant-1, $ir-Tipp, Ruby Red I, Lo, and Gelo spinning hip hop.
M.O.M. Madrone Art Bar. 6pm, free. With DJ Gordo Cabeza and guests playing all Motown every Monday.
Manic Mondays Bar on Church. 9pm. Drink 80-cent cosmos with Djs Mark Andrus and Dangerous Dan.
Musik for Your Teeth Revolution Café, 3248 22nd St., SF; (415) 642-0474. 5pm, free. Soul cookin’ happy hour tunes with DJ Antonino Musco.
Network Mondays Azul Lounge, One Tillman Pl, SF; www.inhousetalent.com. 9pm, $5. Hip-hop, R&B, and spoken word open mic, plus featured performers.
Skylarking Skylark. 10pm, free. With resident DJs I & I Vibration, Beatnok, and Mr. Lucky and weekly guest DJs.
TUESDAY 2
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Aural Logic Sound System/Back Beat Coda. 9pm, $5.
Bloody Beetroots DeathCrew 77 Mezzanine. 8pm, $25.
Robbie Fitzsimmons, Emily Greene Hotel Utah. 9pm, $10.
Ian Fays, Calorifer is Very Hot Hemlock Tavern. 9pm, $6.
Gary Numan Fillmore. 8pm, $27.50.
Tokeson, Candelaria Elbo Room. 9pm, $7-10. Dia de los Muertos celebration.
Laura Veir and the Hall of Flames, Leslie Stevens and the Badgers Independent. 8pm, $15.
DANCE CLUBS
Eclectic Company Skylark, 9pm, free. DJs Tones and Jaybee spin old school hip hop, bass, dub, glitch, and electro.
Rock Out Karaoke! Amnesia. 7:30pm. With Glenny Kravitz.
Share the Love Trigger, 2344 Market, SF; (415) 551-CLUB. 5pm, free. With DJ Pam Hubbuck spinning house.
Womanizer Bar on Church. 9pm. With DJ Nuxx.