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WEDNESDAY 20
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Apopka Darkroom. Bleached Palms Hemlock Tavern. 8:30pm, $6.
Guido vs Jason Marion Johnny Foley’s Dueling Pianos. 9pm, free.
Jesus and the Rabbies, Cello and the Beggers Who Give Boom Boom Room. 8pm, $10.
Keith Crossan Blues Showcase with Tom Lindsay Biscuits and Blues. 8pm, $15.
Leftover Salmon Great American Music Hall. 9pm, $29-$34.
Terry Savastano Johnny Foley’s. 9pm, free.
Shannon and the Clams, Mallard, Blasted Canyons, Swiftumz Brick and Mortar Music Hall. 9pm, $10-$100. Benefit for 23 Street/Capp fire victim Ursula Rodiriguez.
Sir Richard Bishop Independent. 8pm, $15.
Spell, Rosa Grande, Future Space and Time Elbo Room. 9pm, $6.
Spooky Flowers, Standard Poodle, Big Long Now Bottom of the Hill. 9pm, $8.
JAZZ/NEW MUSIC
Dink Dink Dink, Gaucho, Eric Garland’s Jazz Session Amnesia. 7pm, free.
Terry Disley’s Mini-Experience Burritt Room, 417 Stockton, SF; www.mystichotel.com. 6-9pm, free.
Freddie Hughes Royal Cuckoo, 3203 Mission, SF; www.royalcuckoo.com. 7:30-10:30pm, free.
Ricardo Scales Top of the Mark, 999 California, SF; www.topofthemark.com. 6:30pm, $5.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Daniel Seidel Plough and Stars. 9pm.
Timba Dance Party Bissap Baobab, 3372 19th St, SF; www.bissapbaobab.com. 10pm, $5. Timba and salsa cubana with DJ Walt Diggz.
THURSDAY 21
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Meg Baird, Daniel Bachman, Luke Sweeney Hemlock Tavern. 8:30pm, $7.
Steve Bernstein/Sex Mob, Deep Space Quartet, Klaxon Mutant Allstars Brick and Mortar Music Hall. 9pm, $10-$13.
Coheed and Cambria, Between the Buried and Me, Russian Circles Warfield. 8pm, $32.
Robert DeLong, Neighbourhood Rickshaw Stop. 9:30pm, $13-$15.
Doro, Sister Sin, Bottom Thee Parkside. 9pm, $16.
John Lawton Trio Johnny Foley’s. 9pm, free.
Kid Ink, DJ Jack DNA Lounge. 8pm, $20
Lisa Loeb, Satellite Independent. 7:30pm, $25.
Night Marchers, Intelligence, Mrs. Magician Cafe Du Nord. 8:30pm, $12.50-$15.
Pansy Division El Rio. 8:30pm.
Papa Bear’s Birthday Bonanza with Baby Bear, Easy Love, Mowgli’s, Whiskerman, Sufis Great American Music Hall. 8:30pm, $14.
JC Rockit vs Guido Johnny Foley’s Dueling Pianos. 9pm, free.
Salvador Santana, Scribe Project Slim’s. 8pm, $16.
Chris Slebert Royal Cuckoo, 3203 Mission, SF; www.royalcuckoo.com. 7:30-10:30pm, free.
“Stevie Ray Vaughan Tribute” Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $20. With Alan Iglesias and Crossfire.
Our Vinyl Vows, Pounders, Dangermaker Bottom of the Hill. 9pm, $10.
JAZZ/NEW MUSIC
Stompy Jones Top of the Mark, 999 California, SF; www.topofthemark.com. 7:30pm, $10.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Gustaf Sjokvist Chamber Choir Grace Cathedral, 1100 California, SF; www.cityboxoffice.com. 7:30pm, $15-$50.
Gayle Lynn and Her Hired Hands Atlas Cafe, 3049 20th, SF; www.atlascafe.net. 8pm, free.
Tipsy House Plough and Stars. 9pm.
Twang! Honky Tonk Fiddler’s Green, 1330 Columbus, SF; www.twanghonkytonk.com. 5pm. Live country music.
DANCE CLUBS
Afrolicious Elbo Room. 9:30pm, $8. DJs-hosts Pleasuremaker and Senor Oz spin Afrobeat, Tropicália, electro, samba, and funk.
All 80s Thursday Cat Club. 9pm, $6 (free before 9:30pm). The best of ’80s mainstream and underground.
Ritual Temple. 10pm-3am, $5. Two rooms of dubstep, glitch, and trap music.
Tropicana Madrone Art Bar. 9pm, free. Salsa, cumbia, reggaeton, and more.
Twista, King Most, Ant-1 1015 Folsom, SF; www.1015folsom.com. 9pm, free with RSVP.
FRIDAY 22
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
ALO, Diego’s Umbrella Fillmore. 9pm, $22.50.
Dave Alvin and the Guilty Ones, Marshall Crenshaw Great American Music Hall. 8pm, $22.
Back Pages Johnny Foley’s. 9pm, free.
Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys Elbo Room. 9pm, $18.
Jules Broussard Royal Cuckoo, 3203 Mission, SF; www.royalcuckoo.com. 7:30-10:30pm, free.
Con Brio, Justin Ancheta Band Independent. 9pm, $18.
Funk Revival Orchestra Boom Boom Room. 8pm, $15.
Indians, Night Beds, Cat Martino Brick and Mortar Music Hall. 9pm, $12.
Limousines, Doe Eye DNA Lounge. 9pm, $20.
Midtown Social, Sufis Cafe Du Nord. 9:30pm, $10.
Sellassie and Rakim 1015 Folsom, SF. 9pm, $20.
Seshen, Guy Fox, Ash Reiter Rickshaw Stop. 9pm, $10.
Somebody’s Darling, David Luning, Elliot Randall, Andrew Blair Thee Parkside. 9pm, $8.
“Stevie Ray Vaughan Tribute” Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $20. With Alan Iglesias and Crossfire.
Tambo Rays, Sunbeam Rd., Thralls Hemlock Tavern. 9:30pm, $7.
Wallpaper, Con Bro Chill, Jhameel Slim’s. 9pm, $16-$18.
Greg Zema, Jeff V., Jason Marion Johnny Foley’s Dueling Pianos. 9pm, free.
JAZZ/NEW MUSIC
Audium 1616 Bush, SF; www.audium.org. 8:30pm, $20. Theater of sound-sculptured space.
Black Market Jazz Orchestra Top of the Mark, 999 California, SF; www.topofthemark.com. 9pm, $10.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Baxtalo Drom Amnesia. 9pm, $7-$10. Live music, gypsy punk, belly dancing.
Get Offa My Lawn Plough and Stars. 9pm.
Inspector Gadje, Gomorran Social Aid and Pleasure Club, La Dee Da Bottom of the Hill. 9pm, $15.
“One Great City: Alexandra Iranfar and Timothy Sherren” Unitarian Universalist Society of SF Chapel, 1187 Franklin, SF; www.tangentsguitarseries.com. 7:30pm, $10-$15.
Trio Troubadour Bissap Baobab, 3372 19th St, SF; www.bissapbaobab.com. 7pm, free.
DANCE CLUBS
DJ Sneak, Doc Martin, James What Public Works. 9:30pm, $20.
Hegemoney presents Lil Texas, B. Bravo, Swerve, Trill Team 6, Pyramids/Ka$hmir F8, 1192 Folsom, SF. 9pm, $5-$10.
Joe Lookout, 3600 16th St.,SF; www.lookoutsf.com. 9pm. Eight rotating DJs, shirt-off drink specials.
Old School JAMZ El Rio. 9pm. Fruit Stand DJs spinning old school funk, hip-hop, and R&B.
Paris to Dakar Little Baobab, 3388 19th St, SF; (415) 643-3558. 10pm, $5. Afro and world music with rotating DJs.
SATURDAY 23
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
ALO, California Honeydrops Fillmore. 9pm, $22.50.
Blues Ambassadors Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $22.
Burn River Burn, Disastroid, Fortress Thee Parkside. 9pm, $8.
Foxtail Somersault, Tomihira, Astral, United Ghosts Bottom of the Hill. 9pm, $10.
Fusion Johnny Foley’s. 9pm, free.
Hammond Organ Soul Blues Party Royal Cuckoo, 3203 Mission, SF; www.royalcuckoo.com. 7:30-10:30pm, free.
Middle Class Murder, Imperial Pints Thee Parkside. 3pm, free.
Permanent Collection, Cobalt Cranes, Legs Hemlock Tavern. 9:30pm, $7.
Phenomenauts, La Plebe, Dirty Hand Family Band, Bruises Slim’s. 9pm, $15.
Radical Something Brick and Mortar Music Hall. 6:30pm, $12-$30.
Rangda, Blues Control Chapel, 777 Valencia, SF; www.chapelsf.com. 9pm, $18-$22.
Revivalists, Great White Buffalo, Solwave Independent. 9pm, $14.
Spindrift, Gram Rabbit, Matthew Tow, Pow! Brick and Mortar Music Hall. 10pm, $10-$12.
Tracorum and Sean Leahy Boom Boom Room. 9pm, $10.
Jeff V., Jason Marion, Greg Zema Johnny Foley’s Dueling Pianos. 9pm, free.
Tyrone Wells, Graham Colton, Brett Young Great American Music Hall. 8pm, $18.
JAZZ/NEW MUSIC
Audium 1616 Bush, SF; www.audium.org. 8:30pm, $20. Theater of sound-sculptured space.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Culann’s Hounds Plough and Stars. 9pm.
Sex With No Hands Connecticut Yankee. 10pm, $5.
DANCE CLUBS
Bootie SF: Rihanna Mashup Night DNA Lounge. 9pm, $10-$15. With A Plus D, Smash-Up Derby, and more.
120 Minutes Elbo Room. 10pm, $10. With Venus X, resident DJs S4NtA MU3rTE and Chauncey CC.
Paris to Dakar Little Baobab, 3388 19th St, SF; (415) 643-3558. 10pm, $5. Afro and world music with rotating DJs.
Temptation Cat Club. 9:30pm. $5-$8. Indie, electro, new wave video dance party.
SUNDAY 24
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Brickbat, Hank IV, Hot Lunch, Mitchell and Manley Bottom of the Hill. 3pm, $15. Benefit for Scott Jones.
Bex Marshall Biscuits and Blues. 7 and 9pm, $15.
David Crosby, Marty Balin and Friends, MC Country Joe McDonald Great American Music Hall. 8pm, $50. Benefit for Slick Aguilar.
Judgement Day, Satya Sena, Iron Mountain, Armed for Apocalypse Hemlock Tavern. 6pm, $8.
Spencer Moody, Corey Brewer Hemlock Tavern. 10:30pm, $7.
Morrissey Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness, SF. 8pm, $49.50-$89.50.
Grant-Lee Philips, Garrin Benfield Cafe Du Nord. 9pm, $20.
Residents Bimbo’s. 8pm, $35.
Lavay Smith Royal Cuckoo, 3203 Mission, SF; www.royalcuckoo.com. 7:30-10:30pm, free.
Swingin’ Utters, Inciters, Impalers Slim’s. 8pm, $16.
Velvet Acid Christ, Twilight Garden, Vile Augury DNA Lounge. 9pm, $14.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Brazil and Beyond Bissap Baobab, 3372 19th St, SF; www.bissapbaobab.com. 6:30pm, free.
Jack Gilder, Darcy Noonan Plough and Stars. 9pm.
Heel Draggers Amnesia. 8pm, $5-$10.
Twang Sunday Thee Parkside. 4pm, free. With Mad Mama and the Bonafide Few, Rocketship Rocketship.
DANCE CLUBS
Deep Fried Soul Dance Party Boom Boom Room. 8pm, free.
Dub Mission Elbo Room. 9pm, $6. With DJ Sep, Vinnie Esparza, Jah Yzer.
Jock Lookout, 3600 16th St, SF; www.lookoutsf.com. 3pm, $2.
Scraps! DJ Night Chapel, 777 Valencia, SF; www.chapelsf.com. 8:30pm, free.
MONDAY 25
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Roem Baur Osteria, 3277 Sacramento, SF; (415) 771-5030. 7pm, free with RSVP.
Down Dirty Shake, Mean Streets, Han Cholo, Broonies Elbo Room. 9pm.
Surfer Blood, Grand Rapids, Aaron Axelson Brick and Mortar Music Hall. 8pm, $10.53.
Touche, Starskate, Teenage Sweater Cafe Du Nord. 9pm, $7.
DANCE CLUBS
Crazy Mondays Beauty Bar, 2299 Mission, SF; www.thebeautybar.com. 10pm, free. Hip-hop and other stuff.
Death Guild DNA Lounge. 9:30pm, $3-5. Gothic, industrial, and synthpop with Joe Radio, Decay, and Melting Girl.
M.O.M. Madrone Art Bar. 6pm, free. DJs Timoteo Gigante, Gordo Cabeza, and Chris Phlek playing all Motown every Monday.
Soul Cafe John Colins Lounge, 138 Minna, SF; www.johncolins.com. 9pm. R&B, Hip-Hop, Neosoul, reggae, dancehall, and more with DJ Jerry Ross.
Vibes’N’Stuff El Amigo Bar, 3355 Mission, SF; (415) 852-0092. 10pm, free. Conscious jazz and hip-hop with DJs Luce Lucy, Vinnie Esparza, and more.
TUESDAY 26
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Animal Friend, Turn Me on Dead, Treehouse Orchestra Bottom of the Hill. 9pm, $8.
Bobb Saggeth, Killbossa, SFO+H Amnesia. 9pm, $10.
Body/Head, Horsebladder, Burmese, Noel Von Harmonson Rickshaw Stop. 8pm, $15.
Butt Problems, Secret Secretaries, Sweat Lodge Knockout. 9:30pm, $6.
John Garcia Band Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $15.
Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, Jenny-O, Will Sprott Brick and Mortar Music Hall. 8pm, $14.
Philistines, Nomad, Control-R Elbo Room. 9pm, $5.
Qumran Orphics, Eye of Satan Hemlock Tavern. 8:30pm, $6.
Soul Mechanix Boom Boom Room. 8pm, $5.
Stan Erhart Band Johnny Foley’s. 9pm, free.
Stick to Your Guns, Vera Project, Saint Vernon, Murder DNA Lounge. 8pm, $15.
Used, We Came As Romans, Crown the Empire, Mindflow Fillmore. 7pm, $27.50.
JAZZ/NEW MUSIC
Terry Disley’s Mini-Experience Burritt Room, 417 Stockton, SF; www.mystichotel.com. 6-9pm, free.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Brazilian Zouk Bissap Baobab, 3372 19th St, SF; www.bissapbaobab.com. 9:30pm, $5-$12.
Seisiun Plough and Stars. 9pm.
DANCE CLUBS
Stylus John Colins Lounge, 138 Minna, SF; www.johncolins.com. 9pm. Hip-hop, dancehall, and Bay slaps with DJ Left Lane.
Takin’ Back Tuesdays Double Dutch, 3192 16th St,SF; www.thedoubledutch.com. 10pm. Hip-hop from the 1990s.