Today Johnny and Tim talk about the bill that the Democrats are using to fight back against Republican nonsense — and why the GOP is all about scaring white people. You can listen after the break.
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SFBG Radio: In praise of sluts
Today, Johnny and Tim talk about all the fuss that the Guardian’s cover on hot sluts has stirred up — and Johnny goes off in praise of sluts, sex, and nice asses. You can listen after the jump.
SFBG Radio: Whitman and death
Today we ask some questions: With Whitman behind in the polls, is there any chance she could win? And why did the state just spend more than $800,000 building a new death chamber? Listen after the jump.
Music listings
Music listings are compiled by Paula Connelly and Cheryl Eddy. Since club life is unpredictable, it’s a good idea to call ahead to confirm bookings and hours. Prices are listed when provided to us. Submit items for the listings at listings@sfbg.com.
WEDNESDAY 22
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Blue October, Parlotones Regency Ballroom. 8pm, $32.
"Chinese White Bicycles" Swedish American Hall (upstairs from Café Du Nord). 8pm, $25.
Rick Estrin and the Nightcats Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $18.
Golden Gate, Genne and Jesse, Talmaya Hotel Utah. 8pm, $6.
Local Natives, Love Language Fillmore. 8pm, $20.
Murkins, No Captains, Dead Westerns Bottom of the Hill. 9pm, $8.
Ninth Moon Black, Rye Wolves, Burial Tide, DJ Rob Metal Kimo’s. 9pm, $7.
Julie Plug, Skyflakes, Sugarspun Milk Bar. 9pm, $8.
Silent Comedy, Bears! Bears! Bears!, Shauna Regan Knockout. 9pm, $6.
Tank Attack, Zig Zags, Arms N Legs Hemlock Tavern. 9pm, $5.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
*Rupa and the April Fishes, MWE, Brass Menazeri Rickshaw Stop. 8:30pm, $12-20.
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 23
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Atriarch, Alaric, Worm Ourboboros Knockout. 9:30pm, $6.
Badmammal, Good Luck at the Gunfight, Bonsoir George El Rio. 8pm, $3-5.
*Big Boi Regency Ballroom. 8pm, $35.
Jason Falkner Amoeba, 1855 Haight, SF; www.amoeba.com. 6pm, free.
Jason Falkner, 88, Ferocious Few Slim’s. 8pm, $13.
Alan Iglesias Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $16. Stevie Ray Vaughn tribute.
Kelly Mcfarling, Sioux City Kid and the Revolutionary Ramblers, Arann Harris and the
Kina Grannis, Ry Cuming, Imaginary Friend Great American Music Hall. 8pm, $17.
Greenstring Farm Band Café Du Nord. 8pm, $12.
*Midnight Bombers, Get Dead, Psychology of Genocide, New Hope for the Dead Thee Parkside. 9pm, $6.
Mighty Slim Pickins, Clair, Sit Kitty Sit Bottom of the Hill. 9pm, $8.
Tamika Nicole Coda. 9pm, $10.
Sasha and the Shamrocks, Spidermeow, Rabbles Hotel Utah. 9pm, $7.
UB40 Fillmore. 8pm, $49.50.
Water Boarders, Bestial Mouths, Group Rhoda Hemlock Tavern. 9pm, $6.
JAZZ/NEW MUSIC
"Full Moon Concert Series: Harvest Moon" Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market, SF; www.luggagestoregallery.org. 8pm, $6-10. With Dan Plonsey, Steve Horowitz, and more.
Sam Grobe-Heinze and Tomoko Funaki Trio Savanna Jazz. 7:30pm, $5.
McCoy Tyner All-Stars Yoshi’s San Francisco. 8 and 10pm, $25-35.
Swing With Stan Rite Spot, 2099 Folsom, SF; www.ritespotcafe.net. 9pm, free.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Kardash Enrico, 504 Broadway, SF; (415) 982-6223. 7:30pm.
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 The LookOut, 3600 16th St., SF; (415) 431-0306. 9pm, $3. With food carts and DJs B-Haul, Gordon Gartrell, and guests spinning indie electro, dirty house, and future bass.
Drop the Pressure Underground SF. 6-10pm, free. Electro, house, and datafunk highlight this weekly happy hour.
Full Moon Contest The Edge, 4149 18th St., SF; (415) 863-4027. 8pm, $8. A PBR benefit beer bust.
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.
Gymnasium Matador, 10 Sixth St, SF; (415) 863-4629. 9pm, free. With DJ Violent Vickie and guests spinning electro, hip hop, and disco.
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.
Meat DNA Lounge. 9:30pm, $2-5. Industrial with BaconMonkey, Netik, Mitch, and Ritter Gluck.
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.
Popscene 330 Rich. 10pm, $10. Rotating DJs spinning indie, Britpop, electro, new wave, and post-punk.
Solid Thursdays Club Six. 9pm, free. With DJs Daddy Rolo and Tesfa spinning roots, reggae, dancehall, soca, and mashups.
FRIDAY 24
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Agent Orange, Daikdaiju, Deadbeats Red Devil Lounge. 8pm, $10.
Bacon, Howdy! Connecticut Yankee, 100 Connecticut, SF; www.theyankee.com. 10pm, $5.
Beautiful Girls, Giant Panda Guerrilla Dub Squad, Kinetix Independent. 9pm, $15.
Big Tree, Brass Bed, Idle Cedars, Grand Lake Hotel Utah. 9pm, $8.
Black Milk, Elzhi, DJ House Shoes, Gary Copp Mighty. 10pm.
Damage Inc, Paradise City, Powerage, Strangers in the Night Slim’s. 9pm, $13.
Shane Dwight Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $20.
JJ Grey and Mofro Fillmore. 8:30pm, $25.
Katatonia, Swallow the Sun, Orphaned Land Thee Parkside. 9pm, $18-45.
Tommy Keene, Bye Bye Blackbirds, Paul and John Hemlock Tavern. 9:30pm, $10.
Lee Vilenski Trio Rite Spot, 2099 Folsom, SF; www.ritespotcafe.net. 9pm, free.
New Moon, Rajiv Parikh, Tracorum Great American Music Hall. 9pm, $20.
"The Other Side of the Sidewalk: Concert Tribute to the Songs of Shel Silverstein" Make-Out Room. 7pm, $7. With Misisipi Mike Wolf and friends.
*Rykarda Parasol, Mister Loveless, Spyrals Bottom of the Hill. 10pm, $12.
Pro Leisure, Lowfat Handshake, Hoovers Café Du Nord. 8pm, $10.
Rayband Orchestra Coda. 10pm, $10.
Sick of Sarah, City Light, Here Come the Saviours Rickshaw Stop. 8:30pm, $12.
JAZZ/NEW MUSIC
Chris Braun and Group Savanna Jazz. 7:30pm, $5.
Kinhoua and Eneidi-Golia Quartet Community Music Center, 544 Capp, SF; www.sfcmc.org. 8pm, $12.
McCoy Tyner All-Stars Yoshi’s San Francisco. 8 and 10pm, $30-40.
Olodum Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon, SF; www.sfjazz.org. 8pm, $25-65.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Meredith Axelrod and Craig Ventresco Amnesia. 6-9pm.
Baxtalo Drom Amnesia. 9pm, $10.
Sharon Hazel Township Dolores Park Café. 7pm, $5.
DANCE CLUBS
*Albino!, J. Boogie Elbo Room. 10pm, $10.
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.
*Duniya Dancehall Blue Macaw, 2565 Mission, SF; (415) 920-0577. 10pm, $10. With live performances by Duniya Drum and Dance Co. and DJs dub Snakr and Juan Data spinning bhangra, bollywood, dancehall, African, and more.
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.
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.
Flying Lotus, Caspa Mezzanine. 9pm, $20.
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.
House of Voodoo Medici Lounge, 299 9th St., SF; (415) 863-6334. 9pm. With DJs voodoo and Purgatory spinning goth, industrial, deathrock, eighties, and more.
Psychedelic Radio Club Six. 9pm, $7. With DJs Kial, Tom No Thing, Megalodon, and Zapruderpedro spinning dubstep, reggae, and electro.
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 Party Knockout. 10pm, $3. Twist, surf, and garage with DJs Sergio Iglesias, Russell Quann, and dX the Funky Gran Paw.
Trannyshack Lady Gaga Tribute DNA Lounge. 10pm, $15. Don’t forget your disco stick!
SATURDAY 25
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Barney Cauldron, Grains, Midnite Snackers Li Po Lounge, 916 Grant, SF; (415) 982-0072. 9pm, $5.
Christmas, MOR, Pandiscordion Necrogenesis, Statutory Apes Amnesia. 9pm, $5.
Covered in Butter, Treehouse, Expostwave, Tremor Low El Rioncon. 9pm, $5.
Dirty Projectors Fillmore. 9pm, $25.
Disastroid, Tender, Lost Puppy Thee Parkside. 3pm, free.
Freezepop, Ming and Ping, Aerodrone Elbo Room. 10pm, $13.
Kyro, Kate Burkart, Melissa Phillips Hotel Utah. 9pm, $8.
Monophonics, Grillade Independent. 9pm, $14.
Mucca Pazza, Rube Waddell Bottom of the Hill. 10pm, $12.
Paul Collins’ Beat, Pleasure Kills, Sharp Objects Hemlock Tavern. 9:30pm, $10.
*"Polk Street Blues Festival" Polk between Pacific and Union, SF; www.sresproductions.com. 10am-6pm, free.
Roy G. Biv and the Mneumonic Devices, Katie Garibaldi, Karney, Amanda Abizaid Union Room at Biscuits and Blues. 8pm, $10.
Earl Thomas and the Blues Ambassadors Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $22.
"West Coast Zoner Jam IV" Jerry Garcia Amphitheater, McLaren Park, 45 Shelley, SF; www.zonerjam.com. Noonn-6pm, free. With Lost Ticket, Left Coasting, Dedicated Maniacs, and more.
JAZZ/NEW MUSIC
Chris Potter Underground Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission, SF; www.sfjazz.org. 8pm, $30-50.
Giovenco Project Coda. 7 and 10pm, $7-10.
"Infrasound 25" Southern Exposure, 3030 20th St, SF; www.soex.org. 7:30pm, free. With Scott Arford, Randy Yau, and Michael Gendreau.
McCoy Tyner All-Stars Yoshi’s San Francisco. 8 and 10pm, $40.
Karen Segal and Group Savanna Jazz. 7:30pm, $8.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Barbary Ghosts, Salty Walt and the Rattlin’ Ratlines On the ship Balcutha, Hyde Street Pier, Hyde at Jefferson, SF; (415) 447-5000. 8pm, $14.
*Toshio Hirano Rite Spot, 2099 Folsom, SF; www.ritespotcafe.net. 9pm, free.
Orquesta America The Ramp, 855 Terry Francois, SF; (415) 621-2378. 5:15pm, $5.
Teslim Seventh Avenue Performances, 1329 7th Ave., SF; (415) 664-2543. 7:30pm, $20. Turkish and Sephardic music.
Craig Ventresco and Meredith Axelrod Atlas Café. 4pm, free.
DANCE CLUBS
AIDS Emergency Fund Benefit DNA Lounge. 12:30-6pm, $10. Dance to house music, mingle with Folsom friends, and donate to a good cause at this annual event.
Bar on Church 9pm. Rotating DJs Foxxee, Joseph Lee, Zhaldee, Mark Andrus, and Nuxx.
Barracuda 111 Minna. 9pm, $10. Eclectic 80s music with DJs Damon and Phillie Ocean plus 80s cult video projections, a laser light show, prom balloons, and 80s inspired fashion.
Bay Area All Star Series Club Six. 9pm, $5. With live performances by Hav Knots, Micah Tron, Kaveman, The Freshmen, and Z-Man.
Blowoff Slim’s. 10pm, $15. With DJs Bob Mould and Rich Morel.
Bootie DNA Lounge. 9pm, $6-12. Bootie Berlin’s resident DJ, Mashup-Germany, guests with residents Adrian and Mysterious D.
Cockblock Rickshaw Stop. 10pm, $5-7. Queer dance party with DJ Nuxx and friends.
Go Bang! Deco Lounge, 510 Larkin, SF; (415) 346 – 2025. 9pm, $5. Recreating the diversity and freedom of the 70’s/ 80’s disco nightlife with DJs Adrian Santos, Steve Fabus, Tres Lingerie, Sergio, and more.
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.
Marcus Schossow, Second Sun 1015 Folsom. 10pm, $15.
Reggae Gold Club Six. 9pm, $15. With DJs Daddy Rolo, Polo Mo’qz, and Veyn spinning dancehall, reggae, and soca.
Roc Raida Tribute Som. 10pm, $5. With MCs Rakaa and DJs Rob Swift, Platurn, Blaqwest, Mr. E, and Umami spinning hip hop.
Rock City Butter, 354 11th St., SF; (415) 863-5964. 6pm, $5 after 10pm. With DJs spinning party rock.
*Ships in the Night and Sissy Strut Underground SF. 10pm, $5. Two queer dance parties come together to raise money for Teachers for Social Justice with DJs Black, Durt, and guests spinning soul, motown, R&B, doo wop, hip hop, and booty jams.
Spirit Fingers Sessions 330 Ritch. 9pm, free. With DJ Morse Code and live guest performances.
Temptation Cat Club. 9:30pm, $7. A femme fatales night with DJs Melting Girl, Daniel Skellington, Skip, Dangerous Dan, and more spinning new wave, goth, electro, and more in preparation for the Folsom Street Fair.
SUNDAY 26
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Bone Cootes, Two Sheds Rite Spot, 2099 Folsom, SF; www.ritespotcafe.net. 9pm, free.
Corruptors, Mensclub, Hot Fog, Sassy!!! Bottom of the Hill. 3pm, $8.
Trevor Garrod Café Du Nord. 8pm, $12.
*Git Some, Pins of Light, Hazzard’s Cure Knockout. 7:30pm, $6.
Nevermore, Warbringer, Mutiny Within, Hatesphere Slim’s. 8pm, $23.
*"Polk Street Blues Festival" Polk between Pacific and Union, SF; www.sresproductions.com. 10am-6pm, free.
Riot Before, Young Livers, Big Kids, Tigon Thee Parkside. 8pm, $7.
Social Studies, Jared Mees and the Grown Children, Monarques Hemlock Tavern. 8pm, $8.
Y La Bamba, Typhoon, Kacey Johansing Amnesia. 9pm, $7.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
John Calloway and Diaspora Coda. 7pm, $10.
Famous Thee Parkside. 4pm, free.
Forro Brazuca The Ramp, 855 Terry Francois, SF; (415) 621-2378. 5:15pm, $5.
Andre Thierry and Zydeco Magic Knockout. 2-6pm, $10.
DANCE CLUBS
DiscoFunk Mashups Cat Club. 10pm, free. House and 70’s music.
Dub Mission Elbo Room. 9pm, $6. DJ Sep, Vinnie Esparza, and Lud Dub spin dub, roots, and classic dancehall.
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?
Jock! Lookout, 3600 16th St, SF; (415) 431-0306. 3pm, $2. This high-energy party raises money for LGBT sports teams.
Kick It Bar on Church. 9pm. Hip-hop with DJ Zax.
Lowbrow Sunday Delirium. 1pm, free. DJ Roost Uno and guests spinning club hip hop, indie, and top 40s.
Religion Bar on Church. 3pm. With DJ Nikita.
Stag AsiaSF. 6pm, $5. Gay bachelor parties are the target demo of this weekly erotic tea dance.
Superbad Sundays Koko Cocktails, 1060 Geary, SF; (415) 885-4788. 10pm, free. With DJs Slopoke, Booker D, and guests spinning blues, oldies, southern soul, and funky 45s.
Swing Out Sundays Rock-It Room. 7pm, free (dance lessons $15). DJ BeBop Burnie spins 20s through 50s swing, jive, and more.
MONDAY 27
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Lotus Moons, These Hills of Gold, Skystone Knockout. 9pm, $7.
Orchestra Antlers, Threadspinner, Westwood and Willow Elbo Room. 9pm, $6.
Perfume Genius, Winfred E. Eye, Mist and Mast Bottom of the Hill. 9pm, $12.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Natalia Lafourcade Slim’s. 8pm, $21.
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 DNA Lounge. 9:30pm, $3-5. Gothic, industrial, and synthpop with 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 28
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Fat Tuesday Band Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $15.
*Fennesz, Odd Nosdam Swedish American Hall (upstairs from Café Du Nord). 8pm, $20.
Sarah Harmer, Bahamas Independent. 8pm, $20.
Hold Me Luke Allen, AJ Rivlin El Rio. 9pm, free.
Like, Hounds Below, Myonics Rickshaw Stop. 8pm, $12.
Ryat, Dominique Leone, Religious Girls Elbo Room. 9pm, $5.
Semi Precious Weapons, DJ Lady Starlight Slim’s. 8:30pm, $18.
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.
Rusko, Michipet, Neptune Mezzanine. 9pm, $18.
Share the Love Trigger, 2344 Market, SF; (415) 551-CLUB. 5pm, free. With DJ Pam Hubbuck spinning house.
Stump the Wizard Argus Lounge. 9pm, free. Punk, hardcore, metal, country, and more with DJ What’s His Fuck and DJ the Wizard.
Womanizer Bar on Church. 9pm. With DJ Nuxx.
PG&E’s secret pipeline map
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>>CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL-SIZE PG&E SECRET PIPELINE MAP (PDF)
It’s been nearly two weeks since the pipeline in San Bruno exploded and killed four people, injuring many more and destroying 37 homes. And it’s left a lot of people in San Francisco wondering: could it happen here?
Of course it could. PG&E has more than 200 miles of major gas pipelines under the city streets that are scheduled to be replaced — and that means they’re reaching the end of their useful life. Just like the pipe that blew up in San Bruno.
Are any running under your home or business? PG&E isn’t going to tell you.
That’s bad. “The public has a right to this information,” City Attorney Dennis Herrera told us. And Sup. Ross Mirkarimi has introduced a resolution calling on PG&E to make the locations of its pipelines, electric lines, and other potentially parts of the company’s infrastructure public.
But here’s what worse: even the city’s public safety departments — the ones that would have to respond to a catastrophic event involving a gas main break — don’t know where those lines are.
“I’m still looking for that map myself,” said Lt. Mindy Talmadge, a spokesperson for the Fire Department.
The city’s Public Utilities Commission, which, among other things, digs its own trenches to install and repair water pipes, doesn’t have the PG&E map. Neither does the the California PUC, which regulates PG&E.
It might also make sense for the City Planning Department to have the map; after all, zoning an area for the future development of dense housing that sits on top of an explosive gas main might be an issue. “People need to start holding PG&E accountable,” Planning Commission member Christina Olague told us. “Why shouldn’t PG&E release [the map] given the recent tragedy?”
PG&E insists that the exact location of the gas mains should remain secret because someone might want to use the information for a terrorist attack. But if the San Francisco Fire Department and Department of Emergency Services can’t get the map of the pipelines, something is very wrong. Even Sup. Sean Elsbernd, who has been allied with PG&E against public power issues, agreed that “the public safety agencies should certainly have that information.”
The Mirkarimi resolution urges PG&E “to cooperate with the city’s request for infrastructure information.” Mayor Gavin Newsom has already appointed the fire chief and city administrator to conduct a utility infrastructure safety review that would evaluate the location, age, and maintenance history of every pipeline underneath city streets.
Not every state allows utilities to keep this information secret. In both Washington and Texas, maps of underground pipelines are easily accessible, said Carl Weimer, executive director of the Bellingham, Washington-based nonprofit Pipeline Safety Trust. Texas even has an online system, he said.
But in California, PG&E keeps even essential safety agencies in the dark. If a fire came near where a PG&E pipeline was buried — or if an earthquake fractured some of the lines and gas started to leak — Talmadge said the San Francisco Fire Department wouldn’t be able to do anything about the explosive gas except call PG&E. Only the private utility can shut off the gas, which is under high pressure in the main lines.
“We radio to our dispatch center and request PG&E to respond … They would contact PG&E and have them respond,” she explained.
The department doesn’t prepare specifically for that sort of event. “We do not have a specific gas leak training … it would be more of a hazardous material training,” Talmadge said.
The remarkable thing is that much of the data the city doesn’t have — and PG&E won’t give up — can be pulled together from publicly accessible data. The major news media, particularly The Bay Citizen, have been pursuing the story and have run pieces of the map. Several newspapers and websites have published rough maps outlining where the major underground pipes are.
But as far as we know, nobody’s done a full-scale look at what the existing public records show.
Using information that the U.S. Department of Transportation has put on the Web, we’ve managed to put together a pretty good approximation of the secret map PG&E doesn’t want you to see.
We took a map from the DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and layered it over a map of San Francisco. The maps of the southeast part of the city are more accurate; the information on gas mains going through the north and west side of town are sketchier. But the lines appear to run parallel to major streets, and we’ve put together a guide that at the very least can tell you if there’s a potentially explosive gas line in your neighborhood — and maybe even under your street.
Obviously, every house or business that has natural gas service — and that’s most of San Francisco — is hooked up to a gas pipe, and those feeder pipes run under almost every street. But the gas in those lines is under much lower pressure than the gas in the 30-inch main lines shown on this map, where pressure can reach 200 pounds per square inch. It was a main pipe that blew up under San Bruno.
It’s not surprising that the southeast — traditionally the dumping ground for dangerous and toxic materials — would have the most gas mains, and the most running through residential areas. One line, for example, snakes up Ray Street and jogs over to Delta Street on the edge of McLaren Park and near a playground. It continues under Hamilton and Felton streets, under the Highway 280 and onto Thornton Street before heading into the more industrial areas near Evans Avenue.
Another main line goes under the south side of Bernal Heights, running below Banks Street, around the park, then down Alabama Street to Precita Street, where it connects with 25th Street. That line then heads to Potrero Hill, where it follows Rhode Island Street to 20th Street.
Research assistance by Nichole Dial.
SFBG Radio: The recession’s not over
Today Johnny and Tim talk about the fact that only 5 percent of the people who lost their jobs in the recession have found new jobs. The receession’s over? My ass. Listen after the jump.
sfbgradio9/21/2010 by endorsements2010SFBG Radio: Poverty rising and the price of despair
Today we talk about the new data that shows one in seven Americans now live in poverty — and why the rich ought to be willing to pay more taxes. You can listen after the jump.
sfbgradio9.17.2010 by endorsements2010SFBG Radio: The $119 million question
In today’s episode, Johnny and Tim ask the $119 million question: How come after Meg Whitman has spent a fortune on advertising, she still isn’t ahead? And nobody knows who exactly is going to vote in November, either. Listen after the jump.
sfbgradio9162010 by endorsements2010Nobunny unmasked!
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MUSIC The morning of our scheduled interview, he sends me a text message, asking me to push things back a bit. Because he says he’s been up until 5:30 a.m., I figured he’s spent the previous night out being a bad bunny. But my assumptions are incorrect: the self-professed early bird known as Nobunny has stayed up late getting work done. The masked man, who now lives in Oakland, is out and about in San Francisco. I remain patient, knowing that he has plenty on his plate, including the release of his new album and an imminent European tour.
Nobunny’s First Blood (Goner Records) is more polished in production than previous efforts, including Love Visions (1-2-3-4 Go! Records), his breakthrough from 2008. He’s been at it for nearly 10 years now, but our hometown hero’s ascent to garage-rock stardom hasn’t come easy. Before getting off the phone with me, he speaks of darker days in Chicago, where he went from two-time Bozo Show visitor to “lying and stealing heroin addict,” only to be saved by a heartbroken sister and a pre-Hunx and His Punx member of the now-defunct Gravy Train. And by the time I finish interviewing him, he shares some information that I didn’t expect him to delve into, giving me glimpses of original obsessions, addictions, and future ambitions.
Still, at about the 30-minute mark, our first conversation comes to a sudden halt when Nobunny alerts me he has to put money in his parking meter. My time is up. After all, Blag Dahlia of Dwarves fame is expecting him for a radio interview. (Nobunny takes a page out of that fellow Chicago-to-Bay Area transplants’ book by shedding his threads on stage with the exception of the mask.)
I have the sense that Nobunny is holding back a little, like there is a wall. Is he guarded? Maybe a little nervous? He’d publicly admitted to shooting heroin before, but it isn’t until after our initial phone call that he begins to be genuine and upfront about his humbling experiences and the struggle that made him who he is today. All the while, I feel he is in complete control of our interactions, and imagine that’s probably what it’s like to work with someone so self-critical in the studio. The dichotomy of the man behind the mask begins to unravel.
We initially speak through a dodgy cell phone connection, interrupted by distracting wind and disruptive sirens. I’m in the TL, and he’s in the Mission. Both environments are worn down, sort of like the mangy Muppet-looking mask Nobunny wears during show time. He’s lived through misery before. He spent one winter in Chicago with a trash bag serving as his front door, and worked the graveyard shift at a highway gas station during his last year in the city. “I lived in a cage in a squatted grocery store that had become a shooting gallery-crack house,” Nobunny says. “Things were not all right.”
Just a week earlier, I’d seen Nobunny at the Total Trash Fest. He did what he does best: live rock ‘n’ roll, delivered sweaty and in briefs, with some crowd-surfing. The one new song worked into the set hinted at First Blood‘s tone. The album itself clocks in at a short but very sweet 26 minutes. Nobunny rips through the tracks, playing guitar, bass, and drums himself. He gets some assistance from his pal Jason “Elvis Christ” Testasecca, who’s aided him with home recordings in the past, and a couple of other musicians who get honorable mentions in the credits.
“Blow Dumb,” First Blood‘s first single, has been described as “Velvet-y” sounding. Perhaps because the Velvet Underground is associated with New York’s high-art scene by way of Warhol’s Factory, Nobunny points out that the track is a love song to California. It gives a special nod to the Bay Area and hyphy, but also shows some love for SoCal, with a possible Burger Records shout out. The end result is ideal for a groovy road trip with friends, riding down Highway 1 with nothing better to do than smile in the sun.
Content-wise, not everything on First Blood is so buoyant. Elsewhere, Nobunny’s lyrics confront sexual desire, unbalanced relationships, inner weakness, and the self improvements necessary to pull yourself out of the proverbial gutter and see the world. Plenty of lustful longings are laid out as he expresses exactly what he wants in the twangy-sounding “Pretty Please Me”: a noncommittal fling, no questions asked, just as long as it feels right.
The blatant “(Do the) Fuck Yourself” conjures up perverse images straight from Nobunny’s stage show, where his masked persona goes public, employing ball-gags while prancing around scantily-clad. When we finally meet in person, I ask him where these antics come from. His answer is quite simple, and makes sense coming from a rabbit, “I’m just horny,” he says. All the while, in order to maintain a “shred of anonymity,” he wears his favorite deranged-looking mask. It never seems to come off.
“I don’t think I’d like to deal with being in an un-masked band at, say, Hunx’s or Thee Oh Sees’ comparable level of popularity.” Nobunny says, when asked about the get-up. “Knowing eyes are on you when you are not on stage sounds maybe not always fun.” Nonetheless, a fruitful creative partnership with Hunx has been vital to Nobunny’s survival: “Seth [Bogart, a.k.a. Hunx] has been a very supportive friend, and, yes, in some ways I feel he saved me, or at the very least vastly improved my living situation.”
Though Nobunny often expresses the wish to record and play alone, he’s no stranger to collaboration, including a recent live session with Jack White at Nashville’s Third Man Records. Not all dream teams come true, though — since childhood he’d hoped to work with another master of disguises, the famously introverted King of Pop. “Michael Jackson was my first obsession, ” he says. “I wanted to be him. I still want to be him. According to Rocktober’s History of Masked Rock ‘n’ Roll, MJ was a masked musician with all his surgeries and what not. We all wear masks, some are just easier to spot than others.”
Speaking of costumed camouflage, First Blood‘s final track, “I Was On (The Bozo Show)” is a psyched-out, swirling down-tempo dirge with many levels of dedication. One could read it as homage to the late clown-god Larry Harmon (a.k.a. Bozo), as Nobunny hazily recalls his lost innocence and how he sat in the back row of a Chicago television with his little brother to meet the world-famous archetype on two separate occasions. Yes, Nobunny was on The Bozo Show — twice.
But behind its showbiz facade, “I Was On (The Bozo Show)” is also an agonizing confession from a former addict. “It’s for my blood brother and sister as well as my friends who struggle with drug addiction,” Nobunny says. “In another time, clowns made children happy and the circus was fun, but now they’ve become just another relic of past, tarnished by the more common association that their images are horrifying and that they are to be feared. I’m pretty sure no Juggalo ever went to clown school.”
A mythical creature from garage rock’s underbelly, Nobunny has earned his success, even securing a gig at the Playboy Mansion in L.A. as part of his 10-year anniversary celebration next Easter. But he’s no stranger to the addictions he sings about on First Blood final track. “My sister had been buggin’ me a bit to come visit her in Arizona, and I finally decided to take her up on it before I killed myself,” he says, still discussing “I Was On (The Bozo Show)”‘s origins. “I drove across the country shooting dope the whole way to the desert west of Tucson. She didn’t even know I was using. She nursed me back to health out there all alone in the desert. Our only neighbor was an 80-something yogi from India who was out there on a 30-day silent meditative prayer.”
If that sounds like material for a boulevard of broken dreams tell-all, in all seriousness, Nobunny has come out of the experience stronger, poised for new adventures, but most of all, grateful. “I am thankful to have enough fans to make touring worthwhile,” he said. “While I’d still be writing and recording and performing with no one looking, it’s really nice to see people at our shows dancing and singing along and smiling.”
Zoo stories
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SUPER EGO Apparently, I’ve lost Hunky Beau to Angry Birds. So while my future husband obsessively slingshot virtual squawking auks at ovokleptic pigs (via popular iPhone gaming app), I went on a massive party binge. To each one’s own, slur I!
Brief rundown: Kalisto, the rapping tranny from the TL, is the new alternadrag queen — I couldn’t toss a Susan B. Anthony without hitting her somewhere in the night. Jenö, of the classic Wicked parties, and analogue synth wiz Robot.Hustle both played genius, history-compressing sets that melted my panties into a sugary lump at Honey Soundsystem’s Labor Day party at the Stud. Cinematic techno hero Pepe Bradock sailed through a bewitching set at 222 Hyde, but everyone seemed too exhausted from the Playa to really get into it.
I did manage to pry Hunky from the auks long enough for a visit to Braza!, the excellent monthly Brazilian beats party at SOM (first Fridays, 10 p.m.–3 a.m., $10. SOM, 2925 16th St., SF. www.brazasf.com). Ladies, nothing can reorient your man’s priorities like the promise of hot Brazilian exchange students and steamy electro-samba. Later, we witnessed operatic idol Jessye Norman send the lovely SF Symphony Opening Gala crowd to the stars with her ethereal interpretation of Duke Ellington’s “Heaven.” Memo to local hairdressers, though: our society dames need your help. Desperately.
Best of all, I got to hang with hot-hot DJ duo (and total sweethearts), Catz ‘n Dogz from Szczecin, Poland (www.myspace.com/3channels). Closely associated with the new wave of soul and R&B re-editors that includes Tensnake, Soul Clap, and Wolf + Lamb, they were here to promote their new album Escape From Zoo on our own Mothership Records. They played a hard-driving, Berlinophilic live set at Mighty, sneaking in some sing-along New Edition and sampled “moos.” The night before, however, DJ Pee Play and I had blown their minds by taking them to The Tubesteak Connection (Thursdays, 10 p.m., $4. Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, 133 Turk, SF.). There, DJ Bus Station John slipped on Sybil’s stunning 1989 Soul II Soul-ish “Don’t Make Me Over,” and the Poles’ jaws dropped. We still have some magical tricks up our pixie sleeve, San Francisco.
K.FLAY
Hipster-hop: it gets no better than Stanford grad K.Flay (www.kflay.com), who flows razor-sharp rhymes over her own electronic concoctions while shredding guitar chords looking too hot. At upscale Harlot with indie dance band Le Vice, she might spell trouble. And you’ll want to be there for it.
Wed/15, 9 p.m., $5. Harlot, 46 Minna, SF. www.harlotsf.com
(((PHONIC)))
I’m a huge fan of Ladyhaus, one of the residents at this weekly throwdown, who can work tropical beats in a Bavarian dirndl like nobody’s business when she wants to. This week, soulful legend David Harness and cheeky We Love Worthy join her for a birthday bash for longtime dance-floor warmer and classic cutie DJ.
Thu/16, 10 p.m.–4 a.m., $10. EndUp, 401 Sixth St., SF. www.theendup.com
BENJI B.
From Croatian dubstep to L.A. future bass, BBC 1 radio presenter (and fly DJ in his own right) Benji B. — no relation, though he’s kind of hot, so maybe — has brought news of the underground to the British and Web-savvy masses. Like Mary Ann Hobbs and Gilles Peterson, he’s also got a great ear for quality, perfect for sifting through our era’s laptop-production overload. He’ll be hopping sonic borders at the lively, monthly Ritmos Sin Fronteras party.
Sat/18, 9 p.m.–3 a.m., $10. SOM 2925 16th St., SF. www.som-bar.com
KOSMIC POP 2010
I write a lot about global dance music, but Asia doesn’t get much play — well, spank me hard, because the club scene in Seoul is working me out. House Rulez, an electro trio that includes a fierce dude jamming on his neon alto sax, writes catchy tunes bursting with so much early ’90s rave energy (think Guru Josh with random presets) that they come off as joyfully subversive. They’ll be headlining the Kosmic Pop 2010 party — just in time for Saturday’s wonderful J-Pop Summit at Japantown’s New People mall (www.newpeopleworld.com)? With Lady Chica, Brian Salazar, Kimani Taylor, and Paul Ban.
Sat/18, 9 p.m.–late, $25. Mighty, 119 Utah, SF. www.facebook.com/soulkrush
SFBG Radio: PG&E and 9/11
In today’s episode, Tim talks about how PG&E blew up San Bruno — and Johnny complains about 9/11 symbolism. You can listen after the jump.
SFBG Radio: Korans, small business, and the next gov
In today’s episode, Johnny and Tim talk about the news of the day — the Florida Koran burning, the Senate and Obama’s small business bill, and the state of the next head of the state. You can listen after the jump.
SFBG Radio: Why voters should think like junkies
Today we talk about a different approach to politics: Why voters should think like junkies. Johnny’s got a good argument here — your typical junkie is a lot more cynical about people trying to sell him something than the typical voter who listens to Glenn Beck. Oh, and why is that preacher in Florida going to burn a stack of Korans? Any junkie could figure out that it’s all about making a fast buck. You can hear the discussion after the jump.
sfbgradio9/7/2010 by endorsements2010The man behind the meme
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MUSIC When I finally manage to get in touch with Berkeley rap phenom Brandon McCartney, a.k.a. Lil B, he’s just landed in Oakland, having returned from a brief — and in his words, “amazing!” — stay in Atlanta with Internet-rap legend Soulja Boy. He played a show or two down South, and got a lot of love from local radio. “It’s just amazing the respect I’m getting offline,” says, “just from being at a computer, doing what I do.”
What does Lil B do online? He has a prolific Twitter account, more than 100 MySpace accounts, a self-published book on positive living (Takin’ Over, available from Kele Publishing), and dozens of hastily-made videos on YouTube. Most of the top comments on his YouTube account are from B himself, and he leaves comments on blog posts about Lil B with a blogger account, Tropical Doves (tropicaldoves.blogspot.com). At a recent New York City show, Lil B’s status as an Internet star was apparent as soon as he stepped on the stage — dozens of cameras (and one spatula) went up in the air to record or TwitPic the performance, making online footage available to everyone, including anyone unlucky enough to be in the back of the room.
Lil B’s friendship with Soulja Boy makes sense; both are young, motivated rappers who have found ways to harness various social media platforms to generate huge followings online. Their songs and dances are, in essence, Internet memes — dances and credos that get adopted and modified by their listeners, the sort of thing ad agencies throw millions of dollars at in vain attempts to imitate. Together, they make some of the most fun, mindless swag rap out there, ideal for watching on YouTube, on repeat. In “Swag OD,” a recent black-and-white video directed and edited by B during his stay in the South, they ride around suburban Atlanta office parks in Soulja’s black Mercedes. “Ice chain, ice, ice watch, ice neck/ Ice watch, ice, ice, hoes, ice chest (rich!),” B raps at one point. “Swag OD” has this jaded, over-it sound, Soulja sort of yawning between bars. Something’s not right.
Soulja Boy’s blasé attitude is pitch perfect for the aging child star — how else should he feel? But Lil B, who claims to be a Berkeley hippie at heart, seems out of place putting on this act. Even on crushingly low-brow YouTube hits like “Suck My D*&* HO” (his second most watched video, with about 300,000 views), B brings way more energy. This enthusiasm — on stage, on camera, wherever — accounts for a good portion of Lil B’s appeal. You can tell he loves what he’s doing.
The “Suck My D*&* HO” video is a great starting point for those curious about Lil B. “Ten on my dick and my girlfriend Persian,” B lipsyncs from inside an Apple store. “Bitch sucked my dick ’cause I look like a surgeon.” That Lil B gets all sorts of special treatment for looking like people he doesn’t actually resemble — Madonna, Mel Gibson, Matlock, Moses, Jesus, Patrick Ramsey, to name a few — is just something you have to accept if you want to enjoy his music. It’s akin to the suspension of disbelief you bring to a summer blockbuster.
That’s why it surprises me to hear Lil B lamenting all the dishonesty in rap. The problem is structural, he explains. To rap you have to rhyme, and in his words, “It can’t all be true ’cause you’re consciously changing around words and scenarios in your mind to make it add up in the rap.” While rappers may whine about a perceived decline in quality of rap over the years, it’s rare to hear one criticize inherent flaws in the medium; plenty of early-1990s backpack rappers dazzle with their knowledge of Egyptology’s finer points, but this sort of meta-critique is far more impressive. It also pinpoints something people often forget about Lil B: he’s clever, and he cares about and thinks about rap music. It seems like he really wants to overcome this central flaw in hip-hop and doesn’t see any problem with making songs that are nothing but lies in the process. It makes his hoes-on-my-dick-cause-I-look-like-X bit that much more clever — something like a parody of the absurd claims that rap music traffics in.
Though B’s mixtape collaborations with Soulja Boy will likely be fruitful for generating mainstream publicity, and his YouTube dirty raps good for getting pageviews and new followers, what he considers his most honest work, the work he’s most proud of, is his upcoming album Rain in England. The beats, all produced by Lil B, have an ambient, waves-of-sound feel, with occasional keyboard flourishes but no percussion or clear time-signature. It sounds half new age, half spoken word. “The crazy thing is that a lot of people say it’s like spoken word,” B agrees, when I ask him about the similarities. “But really I wrote that as if I was writing a rap.” That Lil B never made beats before Rain in England highlights his enigmatic appeal: it’s often hard to tell whether he’s brilliant, just sort of crazy, or both. “I didn’t know what I was doing,” he explains, “but somehow Rain in England came about.” He speaks of the recording as if it was inevitable — an odd thing to suggest about a new age/spoken word/rap album. Artistic intent aside, B knows his market: the album is being released on Weird Forest, an experimental/electronic label. How’s that for a guy who collaborates with Soulja Boy?
It’s worth noting that Lil B wrote Rain in England at a coffee shop. Also, he talks about it the way you hear people with lots of tattoos explain their tattoos. “I’m gonna look back and [the album’s] gonna remind me of the time period I was in,” he says. The album’s subject matter is about as un-stereotypically “hip-hop” as its process would suggest. On one track, “My Windowsill,” Lil B free-associates about his neighborhood and his future while looking out his window; on another, “All Women,” Lil B rhapsodizes about the beauty and wisdom of the fairer sex. It’s a far cry from the Lil B of YouTube fame: the Lil B who makes songs like “Violate That Bitch,” which would probably make Tipper Gore return to politics, if she ever heard it; the Lil B who, alongside San Francisco’s Messy Marv, claims he is Hannah Montana, on a song that would make your gender studies TA’s head spin. But it’s still Lil B.
That this apparent divide is downright bizarre is not lost on B. “I have a lot of different, you know, feelings and personalities,” he tells me, explaining that this translates into versatility. “I can do ‘Swag OD’ but then my favorite musical artist right now could be Antony and the Johnsons. That’s the difference between me and these other rappers, and other musical artists in general.” This is true to a certain extent: Lil B has a tendency to draw on other genres of music that don’t have a home in mainstream rap — or even rap in general — to infuse his music with pathos.
A relatively recent video for Lil B’s “The Worlds Ending” is a great example of this technique; the first two minutes present B smoking a joint with a gun to his head, listening to “Angeles” by Elliott Smith. Once he starts rapping, it’s B at his darkest and most poignant. He touches on taxes, drugs, death, consumer culture, and tornado watches in Orange County — in his mind, a sign of the apocalypse — with a gun to his head the whole time. Sure, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, and others have been doing something similar for more than a minute, but Lil B’s lo-fi recordings, accompanied by his hastily-made, no-budget videos, result in a scrappier, less calculated, and ultimately more honest feel.
With all this variegated and prolific output, it’s easy to forget where people first heard Lil B: on the lead-in verse of “Vans”, the Pack’s out-of-nowhere 2006 hit. The Berkeley foursome — of which Lil B is still a part — just released their third album, Wolfpack Party, on Aug. 24, while B was in Atlanta. “I’m still in The Pack 100 percent,” he says, when asked about the new release. “You know, congratulations, and I’m happy The Pack album Wolfpack Party is out. It’s been a while since we [put out] some new material.”
It’s hard not to sense B’s detachment when he offers congratulations to a group he’s a part of, and also difficult not to find it noteworthy that the first thing he says about The Pack is that he’s still part of it. He knows what people are thinking, and that he was out of town with Soulja Boy when the album was released. Wolfpack Party is more self-consciously a party record than other work The Pack has done in the past, and it’s a lot of fun to listen to. But Lil B is absent from a significant number of the tracks.
Needless to say, Lil B is a busy young man, even if one leaves out his most notorious facet: the prodigious way he uses his computer and phone to promote his music. He tells me he’s capable of spending 20 consecutive hours online. “There’s always somebody talking to me, hitting me up, uploading a video about me, watching me, you know, giving me comments,” he says. “It’s very addicting.”
Life online is both a blessing and a curse for B, and he’s made a song about that experience too. It’s called “Age of Information.” Toward the end of the track, B claims that the Internet is “destroying the human race,” but in conversation he recognizes that his current trajectory would be impossible without it. “I’m not on TV right now,” he points out. “I don’t have a single on the radio, but people know my songs word-for-word at my shows.”
I recently read in The New York Times that your early 20s are all about figuring out who you are and what you’re going to do with your life, or something like that. It would seem to an outsider that 21-year-old Lil B has a lot to figure out, and that he might be at an artistic crossroads. But that’s not how B sees it. When I ask him which direction he plans on taking his music, he responds, with confidence: “The direction I’m trying to take it in the future is making amazing music.”
Everything that Lil B is working on now, he tells me, will culminate in a forthcoming album with a secret title. “The title is private,” he insists. “I can’t really tell right now.” This from the man who tweets, like, 70 times a day. “I’m just creating and I’m definitely just being truthful and honest, so I’m glad people like me for me,” he says, still waiting at the Oakland airport for a ride back to Berkeley, where he’ll probably head straight to his computer. “That’s the best feeling ever. It’s amazing that I can do me and people are respecting it.”
Music listings
Music listings are compiled by Paula Connelly and Cheryl Eddy. Since club life is unpredictable, it’s a good idea to call ahead to confirm bookings and hours. Prices are listed when provided to us. Submit items for the listings at listings@sfbg.com.
WEDNESDAY 8
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Chris Kid Anderson Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $15.
Beak> Amoeba, 1855 Haight, SF; www.amoebamusic.com. 6pm, free.
Crooked Fingers, Mynabirds Café Du Nord. 9:30pm, $12.
Alberta Cross, Dead Confederate, J. Roddy Walston and the Business Great American Music Hall. 8pm, $15.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Taxes, Oona Milk. 8pm.
Damn Handsome and the Birthday Suits, Generals, Scarlet Stoic Bottom of the Hill. 9pm, $8.
Deadstring Brothers, Careless Hearts Thee Parkside. 8pm, $7.
Deep Teens, Sleepwalkers, Quiet Coyote, Homewreckers El Rio. 8pm, $3-5.
Good Luck at the Gunfight, DJ Eli Glad Elbo Room. 8:30pm, $8.
Hello Evening, Brendan Getzell, JJ Schultz, Wolf Larsen Hotel Utah. 8pm, $7.
Night Beats, Terry Malts, Larry and the Angriest Generation Hemlock Tavern. 9pm, $6.
Joel Streeter, Brad Brooks, Megan Slankard Band Rickshaw Stop. 8pm, $10.
Titus Andronicus, Free Energy Independent. 8pm, $15.
DANCE CLUBS
Booty Call Q-Bar, 456 Castro, SF; www.bootycallwednesdays.com. 9pm. Juanita Moore hosts this dance party, featuring DJ Robot Hustle.
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.
Open Mic Night 330 Ritch. 9pm, $7.
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 9
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Apocalyptica, Dir En Grey, Evaline Regency Ballroom. 8pm, $28.
Brilliant Colors, Milk Music, White Boss Hemlock Tavern. 9pm, $7.
*Coliseum, Burning Love, Walken, Buried at Birth Thee Parkside. 9pm, $8.
Forrest Day, Shotgun Wedding Quintet, Fishbear, Soulaki Slim’s. 8pm, $15.
George Lacson Project Coda. 10pm, $7.
*Gories, Haunted George, Nice Smile Independent. 8pm, $20.
Little Wings, Michael Musika, Honeycomb Café Du Nord. 9pm, $12.
Mosquitos in Yo’ Grill, Buxter Hoot’n, Emily Bonn and the Vivants, BrownChicken BrownCow Stringband, Kamp Camille Rickshaw Stop. 8pm, $10.
John Nemeth Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $18.
Trey Songz, Monica Warfield. 8pm, $45-75.
Sundowner, Hanalei, Jaake Margo Bottom of the Hill. 9pm, $10.
Young and Tender, dot punto., Brown Dwarf, Upsets Hemlock Tavern. 8pm, $7.
Nick Zinner, Zachary Lipez, Stacy Wakefield Hemlock Tavern. 6pm, free. Book release party for Please Take Me Off the Guest List, created by the three artists on the bill.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Music and Poetry Shelton Theater, 533 Sutter, SF; (415) 433-1226. 8pm, $2-$20. Poet Timothy Trygg with muscial acts Copus, Jason Marble, Dionne Pickard and Nathan Choo, and Blvd Park.
DANCE CLUBS
Afrolicious Elbo Room. 9:30pm, $10. DJs Pleasuremaker and Señor Oz, plus guest J Boogie’s Dubtronic Science, spin Afrobeat, Tropicália, electro, samba, and funk.
CakeMIX SF Wish, 1539 Folsom, SF; www.wishsf.com. 10pm, free. DJ Carey Kopp spinning funk, soul, and hip hop.
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.
Drop the Pressure Underground SF. 6-10pm, free. Electro, house, and datafunk highlight this weekly happy hour.
Good Foot Som., 2925 16th St, SF; (415) 558-8521. 10pm, free. With DJs spinning R&B, Hip hop, classics, and soul.
Gymnasium Matador, 10 Sixth St, SF; (415) 863-4629. 9pm, free. With DJ Violent Vickie and guests spinning electro, hip hop, and disco.
Jivin’ Dirty Disco Butter, 354 11th St., SF; (415) 863-5964. 8pm, free. With DJs spinning disco, funk, and classics.
Kissing Booth Make-Out Room. 9pm, free. DJs Jory, Commodore 69, and more spinning indie dance, disco, 80’s, and electro.
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.
Motion Sickness Vertigo, 1160 Polk, SF; (415) 674-1278. 10pm, free. Genre-bending dance party with DJs Sneaky P, Public Frenemy, and D_Ro Cyclist.
Nacht Musik Knockout. 10:30pm, $4. Dark, minimal, and electronic with Omar, Josh, and Justin.
Peaches Skylark, 10pm, free. With an all female DJ line up featuring Deeandroid, Lady Fingaz, That Girl, and Umami spinning hip hop.
Popscene 330 Rich. 10pm, $10. Rotating DJs spinning indie, Britpop, electro, new wave, and post-punk.
Solid Thursdays Club Six. 9pm, free. With DJs Daddy Rolo and Tesfa spinning roots, reggae, dancehall, soca, and mashups.
FRIDAY 10
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
"Battle of the Bands" DNA Lounge. 5:30pm, $12. With Six Weeks Sober, Gladiators of Rock, Ten Days New, and more.
Clientele, Lay Low, Northern Key Independent. 9pm, $15.
La Corde, Procedure Club, Burning Yellows, Ggreen Hemlock Tavern. 9:30pm, $7.
Dirt Nasty, Andre Lagacy, Beardo Slim’s. 9pm, $16.
Felonious Café Du Nord. 9:30pm, $12.
Michael Franti and Spearhead Fillmore. 8pm, $27.50. "Power to the Peaceful Pre-Party/CARE Forum."
Gentlemen, Stomacher, Oh Darling Bottom of the Hill. 10pm, $10.
Guttermouth, Penny Dreadfuls, Friends With the Enemy Thee Parkside. 9pm, $10.
Crystall Monee Hall Coda. 9pm, $10.
Hold Outs, Beautiful Losers, Essence, Billy Schafer Hotel Utah. 9pm, $10.
Mason Jennings Yoshi’s San Francisco. 8pm, $25.
Justin Nozuka Band, Ry Cuming Great American Music Hall. 9pm, $21.
Mark Kozelek Palace of Fine Arts, 3301 Lyon, SF; www.gamh.com. 8pm, $30-50.
Jake Mann, Bye Bye Blackbirds, Horns of Happiness, Spires Knockout. 9pm, $7.
Kevin Russell Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $20.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Blue Tango Community Music Center, 544 Capp, SF; (415) 647-6015. 8pm, $15. With Maria Volonte and Kevin Footer.
Rumba Sin Fronteras Sub-Mission Art Space, 2183 Mission, SF; (415) 431-4210. 8pm, $7-$20. With Grupo Candelaria, Santero, Power Struggle, De Rompe y Raja, Turbo Mex, and DJs Roger Mas and Mixtek.
DANCE CLUBS
Benny Benassi Bike Tour Ruby Skye. 9pm, $45.
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.
Data, DJ Nisus, DJ Sleazemore Rickshaw Stop. 9pm, $10. Disco funk.
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.
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.
Fo’ Sho! Fridays Madrone Art Bar. 10pm, $5. DJs Kung Fu Chris and Makossa spin rare grooves, soul, funk, and hip-hop classics.
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.
Tim Green, Catz N Dogz, Martin Brothers Mighty. 9pm, $20. With special guests.
Heartical Roots Bollywood Café. 9pm, $5. Recession friendly reggae.
Heavy Rotation El Rio. 9pm. Outsider’s dance club with Palo Verde.
Hot Chocolate Milk. 9pm, $5. With DJs Big Fat Frog, Chardmo, DuseRock, and more spinning old and new school funk.
Mandala Presents: Let’s A Go-Go! Amoeba, 1855 Haight, SF; www.amoebamusic.com. 6pm, free. World psych with Special Lord B and DJ Sid Presley.
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.
Strictly Video 111 Minna. 9pm, $10. With VDJs Shortkut, Swift Rock, GoldenChyld, and Satva spinning rap, 80s, R&B, and Dancehall.
Treat Em Right Elbo Room. 10pm, $5. Hip-hop, funk, and reggae with DJs B. Cause and Vinnie Esparza.
SATURDAY 11
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
*AC/DShe, Upper Crust Slim’s. 9pm, $15.
Curtis Bumpy Coda. 10pm, $10.
Business, Hollowpoints, Hounds and Harlots, Box Squad Thee Parkside. 9pm, $13-15.
StormMiguel Florez, Shawna Virago El Rio. 3pm, $6-10.
Michael Franti and Spearhead Fillmore. 9pm, $35. "Power to the Peaceful Rocking Heads After Party."
Grass Widow Amoeba, 1855 Haight, SF; www.amoebamusic.com. 2pm, free.
Mason Jennings Yoshi’s San Francisco. 8 and 10pm, $25.
Stephen Kellogg and the Sixert, Audra Mae, Roy Jay Independent. 9pm, $17.
"Mix Tape Show" Thee Parkside. 3pm, $8.
Charlie Musselwhite Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $35.
*"Power to the Peaceful Festival" Speedway Meadow, Golden Gate Park, SF; www.powertothepeaceful.org. 9am-5pm. With Michael Franti and Spearhead, Rebelution, Rupa and the April Fishes, and more.
Dax Riggs, Lloyd’s Garage Café Du Nord. 9:30pm, $15.
"Rotfest II" Hemlock Tavern. 5:30pm, $7. With 3 Stoned Men, Smile God Loves You, Vanilla Whores, Count Dante, and more.
Southern Culture on the Skids, Aloha Screwdriver Great American Music Hall. 9pm, $16.
We Barbarians, Magic Bullets, Superhumanoids Bottom of the Hill. 10pm, $12.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Orquesta Bakan The Ramp, 855 Terry Francois, SF; (415) 621-2378. 5:15pm, $7.
Tempo Icthus Gallery, 1769 15th St., SF; (415) 359-7500. 7:30pm, $20. Brazilian music with Joseh Garcia, Bryan Olson, Chi Chen, and Felix Macnee.
Craig Ventresco and Meredith Axelrod Atlas Café. 8pm, free.
DANCE CLUBS
Bar on Church 9pm. Rotating DJs Foxxee, Joseph Lee, Zhaldee, Mark Andrus, and Nuxx.
Blow Up Kelly’s Mission Rock, 817 Terry Francois, SF; (415) 252-5017. 9pm, $20. Presented by Jeffrey Paradise and Ava Berlin with the Tenderloins, Udachi, and Sticky K.
Bootie DNA Lounge. 9pm, $6-12. Mash-ups with Tripp doing an iPad DJ set and residents Adrian and Mysterious D.
Club Gossip Cat Club, 1190 Folsom, SF; (415) 703-8964. 9pm, $8. With DJs and VJs spinning a tribute to Erasure.
Cockblock Rickshaw Stop. 10pm, $5-7. Queer dance party with DJ Nuxx and friends.
DJ Ayres, Eric Sharp, Shane King Som. 10pm. Spinning house, electro, nu-disco, Baltimore club tracks, and dubstep.
Electricity Knockout. 10pm, $4. A decade of 80s with Deadbeat, Yule Be Sorry, and Cat Fancy.
Frolic Stud. 9pm, $3-7. DJs Dragn’Fly, NeonBunny, and Ikkuma spin at this celebration of anthropomorphic costume and dance. Animal outfits encouraged.
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.
*Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Tour Mighty. 9pm; free, RSVP is required and does not guarantee admission: www.trueskool.com. With Mixmaster Mike, a live performance by Del the Funky Homosapien, and DJs Sake One, Teeko, Ren the Vinyl Archaeologist, and Justin Johnson.
Rock City Butter, 354 11th St., SF; (415) 863-5964. 6pm, $5 after 10pm. With DJs spinning party rock.
Same Sex Salsa and Swing Magnet, 4122 18th St, SF; (415) 305-8242. 7pm, free.
Spirit Fingers Sessions 330 Ritch. 9pm, free. With DJ Morse Code and live guest performances.
Spotlight Siberia, 314 11th St, SF; (415) 552-2100. 10pm. With DJs Slowpoke, Double Impact, and Moe1.
Tight Pants Edinburgh Castle Pub. 10pm, free. With DJs Peter Noble, Jules, and Kvon spinning indie and electro.
Tormenta Tropical Elbo Room. 10pm, $5-10. Electro cumbia with DJs Rampage, Disco Shawn, and Oro 11.
Tristes Tropiques Koko Cocktails, 1060 Geary, SF; (415) 885-4788. 9pm, free. With Robotsinheat and Bookworms spinning afro cosmic, italo disco, and kraut jams.
SUNDAY 12
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Attaloss, Lucy Schwartz, Henry Wagons Solo Hotel Utah. 8pm, $8.
"Battle of the Bands" DNA Lounge. 5:30pm, $12. With Soothing Sound of Flight, I Broke the Sky, Handshake, and more.
Tracy Bonham, Kaisercartel Café Du Nord. 8pm, $12.
Karina Denike, Upstairs Downstairs Rite Spot, 2099 Folsom, SF; www.ritespotcafe.net. 9pm, free.
Destroy Nate Allen Hemlock Tavern. 5pm, $5.
Deviated Instinct, Lecherous Gaze, Vastum Kimo’s. 5:30pm, $8.
Michael Franti and Spearhead Fillmore. 10:30am, 1:30pm, 4pm. $20-30. "Power to the Peaceful Yoga and Brazilian Dance Workshop" (earlier shows); "Power to the Peaceful Family Matinee" (later show).
Shonen Knife, Go-Going-Gone Girls, T and A Bottom of the Hill. 9pm, $14.
*Sleep, Thrones Regency Ballroom. 8pm, $25.
Thrift Store Cowboys, Warren Jackson Hearne, Slow Poisoner Hemlock Tavern. 8:30pm, $7.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Cecilio and Kapono Yoshi’s San Francisco. 7 and 9pm, $40.
Forro Brazuca The Ramp, 855 Terry Francois, SF; (415) 621-2378. 5:15pm, $7.
Going Away Party Thee Parkside. 4pm, free.
DANCE CLUBS
Death Guild DNA Lounge. 9:30pm, $3-5. Gothic, industrial, and synthpop with Decay, Joe Radio, and Melting Girl.
DiscoFunk Mashups Cat Club. 10pm, free. House and 70’s music.
Dub Mission Elbo Room. 9pm, $6. DJ Sep, Maneesh the Twister, and guest DJ Chicus spin dub, roots, and classic dancehall.
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?
Jock! Lookout, 3600 16th St, SF; (415) 431-0306. 3pm, $2. This high-energy party raises money for LGBT sports teams.
Kick It Bar on Church. 9pm. Hip-hop with DJ Zax.
Lowbrow Sunday Delirium. 1pm, free. DJ Roost Uno and guests spinning club hip hop, indie, and top 40s.
Religion Bar on Church. 3pm. With DJ Nikita.
Stag AsiaSF. 6pm, $5. Gay bachelor parties are the target demo of this weekly erotic tea dance.
Swing Out Sundays Rock-It Room. 7pm, free (dance lessons $15). DJ BeBop Burnie spins 20s through 50s swing, jive, and more.
MONDAY 13
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Sam Amidon, Chloe Makes Music Café Du Nord. 9:30pm, $12.
Federale, 1776, Hawkeye, Fresh Prairie Bottom of the Hill. 8:30pm, $12.
Ed Jones Rite Spot, 2099 Folsom, SF; www.ritespotcafe.net. 8pm, free.
Radio Moscow, Dzjenghis Khan, Sandwitches Elbo Room. 9pm, $8.
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Le Butcherettes Great American Music Hall. 9pm, $21.
*Sleep, Saviours, Black Cobra Regency Ballroom. 8pm, $25.
Tallest Man on Earth Fillmore. 8pm, $18.50.
Vibrators, Poison Control Hemlock. 7pm, $8.
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 DNA Lounge. 9:30pm, $3-5. Gothic, industrial, and synthpop with 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.
Punk Rock Sideshow Hemlock Tavern. 10pm, free. With DJ Tragic and Duchess of Hazard.
Skylarking Skylark. 10pm, free. With resident DJs I & I Vibration, Beatnok, and Mr. Lucky and weekly guest DJs.
TUESDAY 14
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Bird Call, il gato, We Is Shore Dedicated Bottom of the Hill. 9pm, $8.
Jrod Indigo Coda. 9pm, $7.
Eilen Jewell, Shants Café Du Nord. 9:30pm, $12.
Menomena, Suckers, Tu Fawning Great American Music Hall. 8pm, $16-18.
Rockin’ Jake Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $15.
Richie Spice, Snaccha Independent. 9pm, $25.
Damon Suomi and the Minor Prophets, Bird By Bird Thee Parkside. 8pm, $7.
*Terrible Twos, Midnight Snaxx, Uzi Rash Hemlock Tavern. 9pm, $6.
DANCE CLUBS
Alcoholocaust Presents Argus Lounge. 9pm, free. With DJ Puta Madre and DJ Johnny Repo.
Fromagique Elbo Room. 9pm, $10. Live music and burlesque with Bombshell Betty.
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.
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Music listings
Music listings are compiled by Paula Connelly and Cheryl Eddy. Since club life is unpredictable, it’s a good idea to call ahead to confirm bookings and hours. Prices are listed when provided to us. Submit items for the listings at listings@sfbg.com.
WEDNESDAY 1
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Archaeology, Fling, Teeeth Hemlock Tavern. 9pm, $6.
*Bobby Bare Jr., Blue Giant Café Du Nord. 9:30pm, $12.
Gram Rabbit, Chambers Rickshaw Stop. 8pm, $10.
Mark Matos and Os Beaches, Shareef Ali and the Radical Folksonomy, Wolf and Crow Hotel Utah. 8pm, $7.
Midnight Strangers, Monsters Are Not Myths, Kris Racer Bottom of the Hill. 9pm, $8.
Jimmy Thackery Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $18.
Yigael’s Wall, Dimesland, Ontogeny Elbo Room. 9pm, $6.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Gaucho Amnesia. 7:30pm, $10.
Michael Abraham Sessions Amnesia. 10pm, free.
DANCE CLUBS
Booty Call Q-Bar, 456 Castro, SF; www.bootycallwednesdays.com. 9pm. Juanita Moore hosts this dance party, featuring DJ Robot Hustle.
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 2
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Girls With Guns, Meat Sluts, Sassy Hemlock Tavern. 9pm, $6.
Growlers, Shannon and the Clams Rickshaw Stop. 8pm, $12.
Krum Bums, Monster Squad, Dopecharge, Bum City Saints Thee Parkside. 9:30pm, $8.
Jenny Lewis and Jonathan Rice, Farmer Dave Scher, Sonny and the Sunsets Great American Music Hall. 9pm, $20.
Mint Condition Yoshi’s San Francisco. 8pm, $35.
Mumiy Troll, Run Run Run, Your Cannons Bottom of the Hill. 9pm, $20.
*"On Land Festival" Café Du Nord. 7:30pm, $10. With Barn Owl, Starving Weirdos, Pulse Emitter, Danny Paul Grody, Rene Hell, and En.
*Stereo Total, Allister Izenberg Slim’s. 9pm, $20.
Jimmy Thackery Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $18.
DANCE CLUBS
Afrolicious Elbo Room. 9:30pm, $5-7. DJs Pleasuremaker and Señor Oz, plus guest Martin Perna, 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.
Club Jammies Edinburgh Castle. 10pm, free. DJs EBERrad and White Mice spinning reggae, punk, dub, and post punk.
Drop the Pressure Underground SF. 6-10pm, free. Electro, house, and datafunk highlight this weekly happy hour.
Electric Feel Lookout, 3600 16th St, SF; (415) 431-0306. 9pm, $2. With DJs subOctave and Blondie K spinning indie music videos.
Good Foot Som., 2925 16th St, SF; (415) 558-8521. 10pm, free. With DJs spinning R&B, Hip hop, classics, and soul.
Holy Thursday Underground SF. 10pm, $5. Bay Area electronic hip hop producers showcase their cutting edge styles monthly.
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.
Lacquer Beauty Bar. 10pm-2am, free. DJs Mario Muse and Miss Margo bring the electro.
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.
Popscene 330 Rich. 10pm, $10. Rotating DJs spinning indie, Britpop, electro, new wave, and post-punk.
Smithsfits Friend Club Knockout. 9:30pm, $2. Smiths and Misfits with DJs Josh Ghoul and Jay Howell.
Solid Thursdays Club Six. 9pm, free. With DJs Daddy Rolo and Tesfa spinning roots, reggae, dancehall, soca, and mashups.
Studio SF Triple Crown. 9pm, $5. Keeping the Disco vibe alive with authentic 70’s, 80’s, and current disco with DJs White Girl Lust, Ken Vulsion, and Sergio.
FRIDAY 3
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Seth Augustus Revolution Café, 3248 22nd St., SF; (415) 642-0474. 5pm, free.
Commander Cody Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $22.
*Jenny Lewis and Jonathan Rice, Farmer Dave Scher, Ganglians Great American Music Hall. 9pm, $20.
Lights Over Paris, Some Hear Explosions, Hollywood Heartthrob Slim’s. 9pm, $14.
Mint Condition Yoshi’s San Francisco. 8 and 10pm, $35.
*"On Land Festival" Café Du Nord. 7:30pm, $10. With Oneohtrix Point Never, White Rainbow, Pete Swanson, Operative, Robert A.A. Lowe, Eli Keszler and Ashley Paul, and Golden Retriever.
Rec-League, Trunk Drank, Sadistik, Kristoff Krane, CasOne, Alexipharmic Hotel Utah. 9pm, $10.
*Screaming Females, Songs for Moms, Kreamy ‘Lectric Santa, Tesseract Thee Parkside. 9pm, $7.
Sore Thumbs, Compton SF, Get Dead, Koozbane Bottom of the Hill. 9pm, $10.
Triple Cobra, Soft White Sixties, Wave No Wave DJs Hemlock Tavern. 9:30pm, $8.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Absynth Quintet Plough and Stars. 9:30pm, $6-$10.
Heather Ambler Mercury Café, 201 Octavia, SF; (415) 252-7855. 7:30pm, free.
*Brass Tax Amnesia. 10pm, $5.
Garotos Suecas, Tasso, Disco Shawn Elbo Room. 10pm, $10.
Rob Reich and Craig Ventresco Amnesia. 6pm, free.
DANCE CLUBS
Braza! Som., 2925 16th St., SF; (415) 558-8521.10pm, $10. With DJ Sabo.
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.
Deeper 222 Hyde, 222 Hyde, SF; (415) 345-8222. 9pm, $10. With rotating DJs spinning dubstep and techno.
Dirty Rotten Dance Party Madrone Art Bar. 9pm, $5. With DJs Morale, Kap10 Harris, and Shane King spinning electro, bootybass, crunk, swampy breaks, hyphy, rap, and party classics.
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.
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.
Oldies Night Knockout. 9pm, $2-4. Doo-wop and one-hit wonders with DJs Primo, Daniel, and Lost Cat.
Popscene vs. Loaded Rickshaw Stop. 10pm, $13. Live sets by Limousines and Lilofee and DJs Aaron Axelsen, Omar, and guests.
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.
Strangelove Cat Club, 1190 Folsom, SF; (415) 703-8965. 9:30pm, $6. With DJs Tomas Diablo, Dangerous Dan, Justin, and Fact50 spinning goth and industrial.
Tropical DNA Lounge. 9pm, $10. House, downtempo, and dub with Halo, Tony Hewitt, Rick Preston, DJ Swing, and William the monQ.
SATURDAY 4
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Apache Thunderbolt, Poor Sons, Dead Feet Thee Parkside. 9pm, $5.
Big High, Grannies, Dirty Power Hemlock Tavern. 9:30pm, $8.
Ferocious Few, Black, East Bay Grease Bottom of the Hill. 9:30pm, $10.
Grand Daddy Purp with DJ Ignite, Rumble Fish, Spider Heart Slim’s. 7:30pm, $15. Also with Adventurous Type, Guns Fall Silent, Automatic Band, Amply Hostile.
JGB with Melvin Seals and Stu Allen Great American Music Hall. 9pm, $25.
Mint Condition Yoshi’s San Francisco. 8 and 10pm, $35.
My First Earthquake, Don’ts, Spiro Agnew Rickshaw Stop. 8pm, $12.
*"On Land Festival" Café Du Nord. 7:30pm, $10. With Alps, Zelienople, Xela, Date Palms, Grasslung, Metal Rouge, and Le Revelateur.
Rookie of the Year, Scarlet Grey, It Boys, Westland Elbo Room. 5-9pm, $10.
Walter Trout Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $22.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Africa Rising featuring DJ Jerimiah Coda. 10pm.
Israel Vibration, Lloyd Brown Independent. 9pm, $25.
Craig Ventresco and Meredith Axelrod Atlas Café. 4pm, free.
DANCE CLUBS
Bar on Church 9pm. Rotating DJs Foxxee, Joseph Lee, Zhaldee, Mark Andrus, and Nuxx.
Debaser Knockout. 9pm, $10pm. Nineties alternative dance party with DJs Jamie Jams and Emdee of Club Neon.
DJ Cam Mighty. 10pm, $10. With DJs Centipede and Carey Kopp.
Everlasting Bass 330 Ritch. 10pm, $5-10. Bay Area Sistah Sound presents this party, with DJs Zita and Pam the Funkstress spinning hip-hop, soul, funk, reggae, dancehall, and club classics.
Fire Corner Koko Cocktails, 1060 Geary, SF; (415) 885-4788. 9:30pm, free. Rare and outrageous ska, rocksteady, and reggae vinyl with Revival Sound System and guests.
Foundation Som., 2925 16th St., SF; (415) 558-8521. 10pm.
Gemini Disco Underground SF. 10pm, $5. Disco with DJ Derrick Love and Nicky B. spinning deep disco.
Get Loose Beauty Bar. 10pm, free.With DJ White Mike.
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.
Kontrol Endup. 10pm, $20. With resident DJs Alland Byallo, Craig Kuna, Sammy D, and Nikola Baytala spinning minimal techno and avant house.
Leisure Paradise Lounge. 10pm, $7. DJs Omar, Aaron, and Jet Set James spinning classic britpop, mod, 60s soul, and 90s indie.
New Wave City DNA Lounge. 9pm, $7-12. Pet Show Boys and OMD tribute with DJs Skip and Shindog.
Rock City Butter, 354 11th St., SF; (415) 863-5964. 6pm, $5 after 10pm. With DJs spinning party rock.
Saturday Night Soul Party Elbo Room. 10pm, $10. Soul with DJs Lucky, Phengren Oswalt, and Paul Paul.
Souf Club Six. 9pm, $7. With DJs Jeanine Da Feen, Motive, and Bozak spinning southern crunk, bounce, hip hop, and reggaeton.
Soundscape Vortex Room, 1082 Howard, SF; www.myspace.com/thevortexroom. With DJs C3PLOS, Brighton Russ, and Nick Waterhouse spinning Soul jazz, boogaloo, hammond grooves, and more.
Spirit Fingers Sessions 330 Ritch. 9pm, free. With DJ Morse Code and live guest performances.
SUNDAY 5
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Jordan Carp, Angie Mattson, Guy Sebastian Hotel Utah. 8pm, $8.
Cold Cave, Abe Vigoda Great American Music Hall. 9pm, $16.
Lambs, Glass Trains, Makeing Tents Hemlock Tavern. 9:30pm, $7.
Magic Kids, Candy Claws, She’s Bottom of the Hill. 9pm, $10.
Mint Condition Yoshi’s San Francisco. 8pm, $35.
*"On Land Festival" Swedish American Hall (upstairs from Café Du Nord). 7:30pm, $10. With Charalambides, Grouper, Dan Higgs, Bill Orcutt, Ilayas Ahmed, Common Eider King Eider, and Higuma.
Salvador Santana, Scribe Project, Blanca Café Du Nord. 8pm, $12.
Otis Taylor Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $18.
*Vetiver, Fresh and Onlys Independent. 8pm, $15.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
"Cowgirlpalooza" El Rio. 4pm, $10. With 77 El Deora, Wicked Mercies, Bootcuts, Evangenitals, and Los Trainwreck.
Lucien Pagnon and Lillian Gordis 152 Chattanooga, SF; (510) 524-4318. 3pm, $15. Performing Baroque music.
DANCE CLUBS
Afterglow Nickies, 466 Haight, SF; (415) 255-0300. An evening of mellow electronics with resident DJs Matt Wilder, Mike Perry, Greg Bird, and guests.
Call In Sick Skylark. 9pm, free. DJs Animal and I Will spin danceable hip-hop.
Death Guild DNA Lounge. 9:30pm, $3-5. Gothic, industrial, and synthpop with Decay, Joe Radio, and Melting Girl.
*Dub Mission Elbo Room. 9pm, $6. Dub Mission celebrates its 14th anniversary spinning dub, roots, and classic dancehall with Dr. Israel, Patch Dub, and Katrina Blackstone, plus a live set by Turbo Sonidero Futuristico with MC Mex Tape and DJ Sep.
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?
Jock! Lookout, 3600 16th St, SF; (415) 431-0306. 3pm, $2. This high-energy party raises money for LGBT sports teams.
Kick It Bar on Church. 9pm. Hip-hop with DJ Zax.
Lowbrow Sunday Delirium. 1pm, free. DJ Roost Uno and guests spinning club hip hop, indie, and top 40s.
Religion Bar on Church. 3pm. With DJ Nikita.
Stag AsiaSF. 6pm, $5. Gay bachelor parties are the target demo of this weekly erotic tea dance.
Swing Out Sundays Rock-It Room. 7pm, free (dance lessons $15). DJ BeBop Burnie spins 20s through 50s swing, jive, and more.
$3 (Labour Day) Dance Party Knockout. 10pm, $3. Latin, soul, rock, pop, and hip-hop with Paul Paul, dX the Funky Gran Paw, and DJ Deadbeat.
MONDAY 6
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Man Man, Let’s Wrestle Great American Music Hall. 8pm, $17.
Peace Creeps Hemlock Tavern. 7pm, $5.
Soft White Sixties, Glassines, Street Pyramids Knockout. 9pm, $7.
DANCE CLUBS
Beatles Karaoke Café Royale, 800 Post, SF; (415) 641-6033. 8pm, free.
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!
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 7
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Alright Class, Callow, Soft Hills Hotel Utah. 9pm, $6.
Beak> Independent. 8pm, $20.
Cheryl Bentyne and Mark Winkler Rrazz Room. 8pm.
Flood, Same-Sex Dictator, Ironwitch Knockout. 9:30pm, $5.
Mark Olson, Ivan and Alyosha Café Du Nord. 8pm, $15.
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions Great American Music Hall. 8pm, $26.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
"Brazilian Independence Day" Elbo Room. 9pm. With Forro Brazuca, DJ Carioca, and more.
DANCE CLUBS
Alcoholocaust Presents Argus Lounge. 9pm, free. With DJ Mackiveli and DJ Taypoleon.
DJ Anthony Atlas Hemlock Tavern. 9pm, free.
Aural Logic Sound System Coda. 9pm, $7. With DJ Aspect, members of Raw Deluxe/Band of Brothers, and more.
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.
Next stop Mustaine: rappin’ with the Megadeth man
Dave Mustaine has seen more than his fair share of difficult obstacles to overcome throughout his musical career due to his past drug and alcohol addictions, which famously got him kicked out of the early line up of Metallica. Even during his ensuing triumphs with his own band, long-time metal favorites Megadeth, he struggled often with his demons.
Now clean and sober, the singer and guitarist is riding high on his current successes, which include a new autobiography, Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir (Harper Collins) which hit the New York Times’ best seller list earlier this month when it was published. Megadeth’s latest studio album, 2009’s Endgame (Roadrunner Records) was received well by both fans and critics, and the band is currently on the road as part of the “American Carnage Tour” with Slayer and Testament.
Mustaine and company hit the Cow Palace tonight; he also did a book signing this morning. The first-time author is happy with the ways things have been going so far during his first foray into the literary world.
“I’m very excited about it, because when I initially set out to write this thing, it wasn’t to be on the Oprah book club — although now that I know a little bit more about books it would certainly be cool to sit on the couch and tell her a little bit about my story,” says Mustaine, speaking by phone before a concert in Albuquerque.
“My story is about helping other people and just giving people an indication that they’re not the only one that’s going through hard shit — and that you’ve just got to turn your collar up and lean into the wind, and persevere.”
In the book, Mustaine details his troubled upbringing; how his mother had to take her children and constantly flee from his alcoholic father, how her struggles led to an involvement with the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and how this religious indoctrination would eventually cause a rift between mother and son that resulted in his moving out on his own at the age of 15. There are the stories of sex and drugs along with the music, as is pretty much a requisite of any rock n’ roll memoir, but Mustaine doesn’t attempt to glorify his past mistakes.
“I’ve always wanted to tell the truth to people about what happened to my career, so they don’t think that I’m such a horrible person. I remember when my son was just a little guy and we did VH1’s Behind The Music and I had talked about crack — my son was coming home on the bus and some of the older students started chanting ‘Your dad’s a crack head’ to the point where he was in tears. It was really painful.”
Mustaine’s now-infamous stint in the early days of Metallica are covered as well, giving an insider’s perspective on what really happened — and despite years of trading barbs in the press, the axeman has appeared to have resolved most of the issues that he had with the other members of that band, who unceremoniously gave him the boot during a 1983 trip to New York. Earlier this year Megadeth and Metallica, along with Slayer and Anthrax — collectively known by fans as “The Big Four” — performed a handful of concerts together in Europe.
“I saw them over in Europe, we had dinner and it was fine. I was sitting there at the table with Lars and James, and I thought it was so great that we were together again — we’re in different bands, but the fact that we as three young little guys, what we accomplished, how we changed the world. I mean honestly, you can’t even listen to a television program anymore without hearing music that’s [evolved from] what we created. To be able to sit there with our brethren and knowing that in this room stands the cream of the crop of American heavy metal talent, and it was such a great feeling.”
“My relationship with Lars and James has been publicized a lot, so I went up to James and I said, ‘I don’t want to try to repair our old relationship. That would be like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. I want to have a new relationship with you,’ and I think that’s what we have now, it’s great, and I’m going to see the guy when I get into town.”
At one of the concerts they played together, the guys got on stage to jam on old favorite, “Am I Evil?,” a cover song that goes back to the formative days of Metallica, when they used to live and play in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
“We would play the Stone and the Old Waldorf, and one of the songs that we would play, guaranteed, every single set, no matter where we played, no matter how big we got, we always played ‘Am I Evil?’ a song by Diamondhead. If you could have been in the little jam room right before we went on, it was so moving, because when the band stops there’s a little guitar part where there’s some hammer-ons, and Lars looked over to James and he said, ‘Hey, who should we have play this?’ He was pointing to me like he wanted me to do it and I thought, dude that is so cool. Who would ever have thought that we would have gone to that place where we were so hurt, and we just kept lobbing grenades at each other, to the place now where we’re playing together again, and we’re hanging out and hugging and having dinner with our wives.”
As he continues on his concert and book tours, Mustaine enjoys meeting the multiple generations of fans that come out, and the fact that he gets to talk to them about what he’s been through in his life.
“One of the things that I want the reader to know is that this wasn’t something that I wrote to be this self-absorbed book. It’s just a lot of revealing stuff that I share about my life and my walk, and how my life changed in 2002 when I became Christian.”
“I really have a hard time saying that I’m Christian because so many Christians are hypocrites, and have just given Christianity a bad name; I believe in God and I believe in Jesus, that’s my bag, that’s it, no more, I don’t push it on anybody. Being a dude who read the Satanic bible and did witchcraft and put hexes on people, that’s pretty cool.”
Doing both tours at the same time have been draining on the metal icon, but he says he wouldn’t have it any other way.
“I’m exhausted right now, my voice is sore, my arm is sore, my wrist is sore, but this is what I signed up to do, this is the job I do. I’ve always wanted to be the best at what I do.”
“We’re just constantly searching for that next riff that’s going to set us over the top and give us that number one record, that next lyric that’s going to break us through mainstream radio and we have a number one hit again, that perfect guitar solo, so that we get back on top again. We’re doing everything that we can, we’re every ounce of strength that we have.”
After this current tour wraps up, more touring around the world lays on the horizon — but first, Mustaine is excited about going back into the studio to record a new album — one that will again feature founding bassist David Ellefson, who had not played with the band since 2002 until re-joining earlier this year.
“The cool thing is having the signature bassist back, it gives a certain root to the bottom end again that people have grown to love, I’m excited about how our lives our progressing. I’m just so blessed I can’t even tell you, I look at my career right now and to think there was a period where no one wanted to touch us anymore — here we are,” Mustaine emphasizes.
“I’ve got the band back, we’ve got a great record that’s getting critical acclaim, I’ve got the book on the best seller list, the tour, everything is so magnificent and I’m so grateful for all of this.”
Slayer, Megadeth, and Testament
Tonight, 7 p.m., $39.50
Cow Palace
2600 Geneva Ave., Daly City
SFBG Radio: Do-it-yourself politics
Today Johnny and Tim talk about the rise of DIY politics — from northern Michigan to San Francisco. Check it out after the jump.
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SFBG Radio: Glenn Beck goes to Washington
Today Johnny and Tim talk about Glenn Beck’s march on Washington — and why all those people who rail about the inappropriateness of an Islamic cultural center in New York see nothing wrong with Beck dishonoring the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. Listen after the jump.
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SFBG Radio: We fight over tolls
In today’s episode, Tim and Johnny battle over whether raising the bridge tolls to fight congestion is a fair and progressive idea. You can listen to the argument after the jump.
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FALL ARTS/MUSIC When I last looked at the state of all-female bands in 2006, Sleater-Kinney, Destiny’s Child, and Le Tigre had hung up their guitars, mics, and samplers. Since then, the Bay Area has produced a motherlode of female-dominated rock outfits — including Grass Widow, the Splinters, Brilliant Colors, the Twinks, the Sandwitches, the Sarees, the Glassines, and Shannon and the Clams — while frontperson Dee Dee (née Kristin Gundred) of the Dum Dum Girls has moved back to SF, where she grew up.
Is there a girl band revolution on the horizon? Mainstream charts don’t reflect a change, despite the rising national profiles of the Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls, Frankie Rose and the Outs, and the all-female band backing Beyonce during her last tour. Yet since 2007, waves of all-female bands have been breaking locally — outfits often informed by girl groups, as well as garage rock and generations of punk. Jess Scott of Brilliant Colors told me she recently broached this subject with riot grrrl vet Layla Gibbon, editor of Maximum Rocknroll: “I think people are writing about the music itself, which is exciting. I’m always for new music, and I’m doubly for girls in music.”
But just because girl bands are becoming more of a norm doesn’t mean that sexism has evaporated, much like the election of Barack Obama hasn’t dispelled racism. “When we go on tour in the South or Midwest or anywhere else, you realize how different it is,” says Lillian Maring of Grass Widow. “You’re loading into the venue and hearing, ‘Where’s the band?’ ‘Heh-heh, it’s us — we’re the band.’ ‘You’re traveling by yourselves?'” She looks flabbergasted. “Are you fucking kidding me?”
Intriguingly, the very idea of foregrounding gender, above music, chafes against some musicians. “There’s definitely a history of women being objectified in all kinds of visual culture,” says Grass Widow’s Hannah Lew. “We’re thoughtful people who work hard at writing songs and are trying to challenge that whole system of objectification, so it would kind of be an oxymoron if we were to capitalize on the idea of being a girl group. Our gender is an element of what we do, but the first thing is our thoughts and our music.”
Still, others see gender as an inextricable part of writing music, often collaboratively, about their own experiences. “I think it’s a powerful thing to be a troupe of women together writing music,” says the Splinters’ Lauren Stern. “The lyrics are totally different, and there are certain things that a woman writer conveys differently.” Her bandmate Caroline Partamian believes the popularity of all-female combos like the Vivian Girls may be “subconsciously giving girl bands more power to keep writing songs and keep playing shows.”
The Girlschool class of 2010, would probably agree that a new paradigm is in order. Scott, for instance, confesses she’d rather align herself with politically like-minded labels like Make a Mess than simply other all-female bands that “want the same old things tons of guy bands have wanted.” The same old won’t get you a passing grade.
MEAT THE BAND: GRASS WIDOW
The dilemma of so many women’s bands — to be on the CD or LP cover, or not to be — is beside the point when it comes to SF’s Grass Widow, hunkering down over burgers and shakes in the belly of a former meatpacking building at 16th and Mission streets, in a onetime-meat locker-now-practice space jammed with drum kits, amps, and gear.
“I think it’s annoying to try and sensationalize girl groups, but at the same token maybe it’s cool because it might normalize, a bit, the idea of gender,” says bassist-vocalist Hannah Lew. “But it’s definitely the thing we don’t like to talk about first. I almost don’t want to use our image in anything. People are automatically, ‘They’re hot! Omigod, that one is hot!'”
The cover of Grass Widow’s second, newly released album, Past Time (Kill Rock Stars), appears to sidestep the issue, until you look closely and notice Lew, guitarist-vocalist Raven Mahon, and drummer-vocalist Lillian Maring poking their heads out a car window in the background. “We’re very blurry, but we could be really hot!” Lew jokes. “We probably are really hot!”
Some consider Grass Widow hot for altogether different reasons: the band is often brought up by other all-female local bands as a favorite, and Past Time stands to find a place beside such influential groups as the Raincoats for its blend of sweetness and dissonance, spare instrumentation and sing-out confidence, and interwoven vocals. In some ways, Grass Widow sounds as if it’s starting from scratch in a post-punk universe and going forward from there, violating rockist convention.
Are they, as their name might suggest, mourning an indie rock that might or might not be dead? Well, when Lew, Mahon, and Maring started playing together in 2007 under the moniker Shit Storm (“It was a self-fulfilling prophecy, like the facial tattoo of band names!” says Lew), they probably couldn’t predict how sadly apropos Grass Widow — a centuries-old phrase referring to a woman whose husband is away at sea or war or on duty — would become. Last year, among other events, Lew’s father, noted SF Rabbi Alan Lew, passed away. “We took a six-month break during this intense grieving period, and it was strange to come out of it and think, we’re in a band called Grass Widow,” Lew says now. “And we were grass widows to each other! Then playing again, it felt right to be in a band like that — it took on this other meaning.”
In a similar way, the group regularly works together to transform their experiences, thoughts, and dreams through allegory into song lyrics — and for its release party, it plans to incorporate a string section and a 35-lady choir. “We’re not a girl group mourning the loss of our boyfriends and waiting for them to return,” muses Mahon. “It’s more like we’re working together to create and we’re functioning just fine that way.”
BRIGHT STARS: BRILLIANT COLORS
“We’re associated with a lot of bands that came along a few years later, but when I started writing songs three or four years ago, it was a wasteland,” says Jess Scott, Brilliant Colors’ vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter. “It was really hard to find people who wanted to play pop, not hardcore. It seems like a given now, but it was hard to find people who were into Aislers Set.”
Scott’s tenacity and focus comes through — loud, clear, and as vivid as the brightest hues in your paint set, and the most resonant melodies of Aislers Set — on Brilliant Colors’ 2009 debut, Introducing (Slumberland). Her breathy vocals and rhythm guitar — a crisp combination of post-punk spunk and drone — bound off drummer Diane Anastacio’s frisky, skipping beats and bassist Michelle Hill’s simple, straight-to-the-gut bass lines like the most natural thing in the world, recalling punk classics by early Buzzcocks and Wire as well as later successors Delta 5 and LiliPUT and riot grrrl-era kin Heavens to Betsy and Huggy Bear.
Scott has been writing songs since she was 15, which, full disclosure, was around the time I first met her, the daughter of two moms, one of whom I worked with. At the time, her sound was softer, more melodic, and at times weirder than the punk outfits that frequented 924 Gilman Street Project, her pals’ preferred hangout. Nevertheless, Brilliant Colors has gone on to somehow fuse Gilman’s political-punk commitment with Scott’s obsession with perfecting pop songcraft.
“We get offers to do cheesy things and we don’t do it. We’re extremely liberal punk kids, y’know,” explains Scott, who sees all of her band’s numbers as love songs, with a few intriguing angles: “Motherland,” say, is “an overtly feminist song about solidarity between women,” while “Absolutely Anything” concerns vaginal imagery in art.
Call Brilliant Colors’ inspired tunes a true reflection of its music-obsessed maker: Scott studied political science and economics as an undergraduate at Mills College, and arts journalism as a fellow at University of Southern California, and she regularly writes for Maximum Rocknroll. She also runs a cassette label, Tape It to the Limit.
“You could say we’re conscious of who we play with and where we play and what we say,” says. That means saying “no way” to playing at chain clothing stores such as Top Shop, though she humbly adds, “I don’t want to seem ungrateful or rude about it, but we want to stick to shows that are all ages and cheap.”
Snackable: The Sandwitches
Give naivete a good, hard twist and you get something close to the rock ‘n’ roll-primitive originality of the Sandwitches. Little wonder that two of the winsome ‘Witches, vocalist-guitarists Grace Cooper and Heidi Alexander, were once backup vocalists for the Fresh and Onlys — the Sandwitches’ music rings out with the ear-cleansing clarity of smart girls who understand the importance of preserving the best, raw parts of their innocence, even amid the pleasures and perils of age, wisdom, snarking hipsters, and intimidating record collections.
One of the SF trio’s recent tunes, “Beatle Screams,” embodies that fresh, crunchy, approach: its lo-fi echo; lumbering, click-clack drums; and sad carnival-organ sounds are topped off with the comic pathos of girlish, ghoulish shrieks from the depths of groupie hell.
Live, the Sandwitches come across as offhand, upbeat, and surprisingly passionate, playing music that harks to lonely teardrops, mom ‘n’ pop low-watt radio stations, the Everlys and Gene Pitney, with a twinge of country and a dose of dissonance. The trio’s recordings have a nuanced view of love and lust. They assume the perspective of infatuated naifs on “Idiot Savant,” and warble “Fire … I fill the room, I fill the womb,” on “Fire” from the 2009 debut album, How to Make Ambient Sad Cake (Turn Up). Produced by the Fresh and Onlys’ Wymond Miles, the new Sandwitches EP, Duck, Duck, Goose! (Empty Cellar/Secret Seven) plunges even deeper into the shadows, tackling “Baby Mine,” Fresh and Onlys’ honcho Tim Cohen’s “Rock of Gibraltar,” and other eerie lullabies with confidence and tangible vision.
The Sandwitches materialized two years ago when Alexander and drummer Roxy Brodeur began playing together. “She said she really liked the way I drummed and we should play music sometime,” recalls Brodeur, who has also drummed in Brilliant Colors and Pillars of Silence. Alexander had also been playing with Cooper, and it seemed only natural for the three to join forces.
Brodeur was adept at following along: “I play to the vocals a lot, and it depends on the song because Grace and Heidi write in pretty different styles — with Grace it’s lighter and jazzier and with Heidi it’s a little heavier and thumpy.”
GRASS WIDOW
Sept. 10, 7 p.m., all ages
Cyclone Warehouse
Illinois and Cesar Chavez, SF
www.myspace.com/grasswidowmusic
POSITIVELY TEMESCAL: THE SPLINTERS
What do Canadian tuxes, temporary tats, TLC, and touring by pickup truck have in common? They’re all pleasures, guilty or not, for the Splinters. The soon-to-be-bicoastal Bay Area all-girl combo is all about fun and friendship, gauging the laughter levels as guitarist Caroline Partamian and vocalist-tambourine player Lauren Stern sip PBRs by the hideaway fireplace in the back of Oakland’s Avenue Bar. Some other choice subjects: seedy green rooms, messy Texas shows, honey-dripping Southern accents, and bandmates that make their own thongs.
“Sometimes being girls has gotten us out of trouble,” says Stern, chuckling. Like that time at an Austin house party when the Splinters got grossed out by the bathroom and decided to go pee next to their truck instead. “We had baby wipes,” Partamian explains. “And we had the truck doors open.”
“So we’re all squatting in a row, and this guy walks out with his dog and his friend,” continues Stern, “and he’s like, ‘You guys are peeing in front of our house!'” Girlish oohing and aahing over his pooch saved the day, and the aggrieved dog walker ended up replacing the truck’s brake pads at a drastic discount.
Likewise, positivity and camaraderie infuse the Splinters’ all-fun debut, Kick (Double Negative), though “Sea Salt Skin” injects melancholy into the garage-rocking shenanigans and “Oranges” levels its gaze at girl-on-girl violence with a withering Black Sabbath-style riff. “Cool” and “Dark Shades” flip the dance-party ethos on its side, playfully critiquing the hip crowd like wiseacre modern-day Shangri-Las. No surprise, then, that these women were friends and fellow students at UC Berkeley before they started playing together in late 2007, inspired by Partamian’s four-track birthday gift. The first show was an Obama house-party fundraiser. “It was $5 for a 40 and a corn dog,” Stern remembers.
The ensemble has turned out to be much more than an end-of-school lark. A New York City move is next for Stern and Partamian — the latter will be starting the museum studies graduate program at NYU. But the Splinters will stay together, in part for four female superfans who sing along to all the Splinters’ songs, and for a Bristol, U.K. father and son who have bonded over their affection for the group.
“I don’t know, we just love playing music together,” says Partamian.
“It’s so much fun,” Stern adds. “Almost in an addictive way.”
YOUNG AND FUN: THE TWINKS
Whether you see the term as sweet talk or a slam, the Twinks’ name couldn’t be more appropriate. After all, as drummer Erica Eller says with a laugh, “We’re cute and we like boys!”
True to form, they’re young — the foursome’s first show took place last month — and fun. The Twinks are all-girl, rather than a band of adorable and hairless young gay men. Their sugar-sweet, hip-shaking rockin’ pop unabashedly finds inspiration in the first wave of girl groups — vessels of femininity and Tin Pan Alley aspiration such as the Crystals, the Shirelles, the Dixie Cups, and the Shangri-Las. But in the Twinks’ case, girls, not the producers, are calling the shots. Tunes like “Let’s Go” and “There He Was” are tracked by the group on a portable recorder and overdubbed with Garage Band. It’s a rough but effective setup, capturing keyboardist and primary songwriter Kelly Gabaldon, guitarist Melissa Wolfe, and bassist Rita Sapunor as they take turns on lead vocals and harmonize with abandon.
The band came to life amid an explosion of creativity, when Gabaldon, who also plays in the all-girl Glassines with Eller, wrote a slew of songs last winter. “All of a sudden I had a burst of inspiration,” Gabaldon marvels. “I’d email them a new song every day.” The numbers seemed less suited to the “moodier, singer-songwriter” Glassines, so Gabaldon got her friend Wolfe and finally Sapunor into the act.
Says Gabaldon: “I started listening to a lot more oldies music than I had been before.”
“We also went to a bunch of shows in the past year,” adds Eller as the group sits around the kitchen table at her Mission District warehouse space. “Shannon and the Clams, Hunx and His Punx, a lot of local bands, for sure.”
“I got influenced by Girls,” interjects Gabaldon.
Eller: “All these concerts going on — Nobunny — “
“We went to a lot of shows in the past year!” says Gabaldon. “It was like, ‘We want to do that!'<0x2009>”
Now the Twinks are just trying to play out as much as they can and record their songs. They work ties and other menswear delights into their stage getups, and drink shots of Chartreuse before each show. “I think we all have similar ambitions,” says Sapunor, “but there’s a sense of lightness and playfulness and fun, so it doesn’t seem like work. I think that’s how female culture plays into the overall experience for us, and hopefully for audience members, too.”
BRILLIANT COLORS
With Milk Music and White Boss
Sept. 9, 9 p.m., $7
Hemlock Tavern
1131 Polk, SF
(415) 923-0923
GRASS WIDOW
Sept. 10, 7 p.m., all ages
Cyclone Warehouse Illinois and Cesar Chavez, SF www.myspace.com/grasswidowmusic
Music listings
Music listings are compiled by Paula Connelly and Cheryl Eddy. Since club life is unpredictable, it’s a good idea to call ahead to confirm bookings and hours. Prices are listed when provided to us. Submit items for the listings at listings@sfbg.com.
WEDNESDAY 25
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
B Rooster Blues Trio One Bush Plaza, Bush at Sansome; www.peopleinplazas.org. Noon, free.
Bane, Trapped Under Ice, Cruel Hand, Alpha and Omega, Bankrobber Thee Parkside. 8pm, $12.
Blind Willies Union Square, Powell at Geary, SF; www.unionsquarepark.us. 12:30pm, free.
Endroit, Double Plus Good Hemlock Tavern. 9pm, $5.
Entropic Density, Zoo, Saything, Zachary Michael Zinn Knockout. 9pm, $6.
Japonize Elephants, Zoyres, Killbossa Rickshaw Stop. 7:30pm, $10.
Oneida, Jonas Reinhardt, Lights Bottom of the Hill. 9pm, $10.
Thriving Ivory, Ryan Star, Entice Great American Music Hall. 8pm, $17.
Tracorum, Dead Winter Carpenters Café Du Nord. 9pm, $10.
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 26
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Anvil Chorus, Orchid, My Victim Thee Parkside. 9pm, $10.
Bang Data, Funky*C, Los Amnesicos, Basura, DJ Khata Selektor Submission, 2183 Mission, SF; www.kpfa.org. 8pm, $10.
BlackMahal, Boy in the Bubble, Soul Wide World Café Du Nord. 9pm, $10.
Boris, Red Sparowes, Helms Alee Great American Music Hall. 9pm, $18.
Celeste Lear Band, Moving Picture Show Red Devil Lounge. 8pm, $5.
Deep Teens, Moira Scar, Tongue and Teeth, Dawn The Stud. 9pm, $3.
Jason King Band Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $15.
Lazer Sword, Rainbow Arabia, Religious Girls, Sister Crayon Rickshaw Stop. 8pm, $14.
Light Asylum, You, Veil Veil Vanish Knockout. 10pm, $6.
Lydia, Fight Fair, Polaris At Noon Bottom of the Hill. 8pm, $10.
Rondo Brothers featuring Foreign Globester, Oona, King Midas in Reverse Slim’s. 8pm, $13.
Royal Baths, Th Mrcy Hot Sprngs, Outlaw, Lilac Hemlock Tavern. 9pm, $6.
Volbeat, Dommin, A New Revolution Independent. 8pm, $16.
DANCE CLUBS
Afrolicious Elbo Room. 9pm, $6. DJs Pleasuremaker and Señor Oz spin Afrobeat, Tropicália, electro, samba, and funk.
Base Vessel, 85 Campton, (415) 433-8585. 9:30pm, $10. With DJs Seth Troxler and Gordon Waze spinning house.
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.
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.. 10pm, free. With DJs spinning R&B, Hip hop, classics, and soul.
Gymnasium Matador, 10 Sixth St, SF; (415) 863-4629. 9pm, free. With DJ Violent Vickie and guests spinning electro, hip hop, and disco.
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. 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.
Popscene 330 Rich. 10pm, $10. Rotating DJs spinning indie, Britpop, electro, new wave, and post-punk.
Solid Thursdays Club Six. 9pm, free. With DJs Daddy Rolo and Tesfa spinning roots, reggae, dancehall, soca, and mashups.
Super Happy Funtime Burlesque DNA Lounge. 7pm, $10. Performance and live music.
Tropicana Madrone Art Bar. 9pm, free. With DJs Don Bustamante, Sr. Saenz, and guests spinning salsa, cumbia, reggaeton, and merengue.
FRIDAY 27
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Café R&B Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $22.
Cannons and Clouds, Winfred E Eye, By Sunlight Bottom of the Hill. 10pm, $10.
Cap’n Jazz, Abe Vigoda Bimbo’s 365 Club. 9pm, $17.
Flexx Bronco, Spittin’ Cobras, Departed, DJ Ace Thee Parkside. 9pm, $8.
Beres Hammond and the Harmony House Musicians, Inner Circle, Culture feat. Kenyatta Hill Independent. 9pm, $35.
Nekromantix, Howlers, Mutilators Slim’s. 9pm, $15.
Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers Red Poppy Art House. 8 and 9:30pm, $15.
Kelley Stoltz, UV Race, Total Control, Young Offenders Hemlock Tavern. 9:30pm, $8.
JAZZ/NEW MUSIC
Aleph Trio Yoshi’s San Francisco. 10pm, $25.
Alhambra Love Songs Yoshi’s San Francisco. 8pm, $28.
Pascal Boker Band Savanna Jazz. 7:30pm, $5.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Albino! Elbo Room. 10pm, $10. With DJ David Satori.
Bryan Girard Trio Cliff House, 1090 Point Lobos, SF; (415) 386-3330. 7pm, free.
Culann’s Hounds Plough and Stars. 9pm.
"Old Time Southern Murder Hour" Great American Music Hall. 8:30pm, $14. With the Pine Box Boys, Trainwreck Riders, Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit, and Virgil Shaw.
Red Meat, Total BS, Famous Café Du Nord. 9:30pm, $15.
DANCE CLUBS
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.
Down to Earth Rickshaw Stop. 10pm, $15. Outer space dance party with DJs Polish Ambassador and Alxndr.
Duniya Dancehall Blue Macaw, 2565 Mission, SF; (415) 920-0577. 10pm, $10. With live performances by Duniya Drum and Dance Co. and DJs dub Snakr and Juan Data spinning bhangra, bollywood, dancehall, African, and more.
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.
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.
House of Voodoo Medici Lounge, 299 9th St., SF; (415) 501-9162. 9pm, $5. With DJs voodoo and Purgatory spinning goth, deathrock, glam, darkwave indistrial, and 80s.
I Heart the 90s Madrone Art Bar. 9pm, $5. With DJs Samala, Mr. Grant, and Sonny Phono spinning hip hop, dance, alternative, grunge, and more.
Psychedelic Radio Club Six. 9pm, $7. With DJs Kial, Tom No Thing, Megalodon, and Zapruderpedro spinning dubstep, reggae, and electro.
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 Party Knockout. 10pm, $3. With DJs Sergio Iglesias, Russell Quann, and dX the Funky Gran Paw.
Tocadisco Club Six. 9pm, $15. With DJs Elz and Elise, Mario Dubbz, Doc Martin, Hektor Perez, and more spinning house for Tocadisco’s 5th anniversary.
Trannyshack DNA Lounge. 10pm, $12. Björk tribute with Heklina and more.
SATURDAY 28
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Band of Brotherz, Stymie and the Pimp Jones Luv Orchestra Bottom of the Hill. 9:15pm, $10.
Blasphemous Rumours, Luv’n Rockets Café Du Nord. 9:30pm, $12.
Bostich + Fussible, Loquat Independent. 9pm, $17.
Melissa Etheridge Warfield. 9pm, $57.75-102.75.
From Monument to Masses, Judgement Day, Silian Rail Great American Music Hall. 9pm, $15.
Guitar vs. Gravity, Moneypenny, Charmless Hemlock Tavern. 9:30pm, $7.
Hightower, Red Octopus, High and Tight, DJ Blackheart Thee Parkside. 9pm, $5.
Earl Thomas and the Blues Ambassadors Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $22.
J Ward, Fujiko-Chan Thee Parkside. 3pm, free.
PROBLEMS, Abrupt Bender’s, 806 S. Van Ness, SF; www.bendersbar.com. 10pm, $5.
Realistic Orchestra Yoshi’s San Francisco. 11:59pm, $20. Michael Jackson tribute.
Shants, Vandella, Not An Airplane, Coyote Girl Hotel Utah. 9pm, $8.
Emily Wells, Valerie Orth, Kindness and Lies Slim’s. 8:30pm, $15.
JAZZ/NEW MUSIC
Al Coster Group Savanna Jazz. 7:30pm, $10.
Cobra Yoshi’s San Francisco. 10pm, $35.
Ralph Carney’s Serious Jass Project Amoeba, 1855 Haight, SF; www.amoeba.com. 2pm, free.
John Zorn and the Rova Saxophone Quartet Yoshi’s San Francisco. 8pm, $30.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Gas Men Plough and Stars. 9pm.
La Gente Red Poppy Art House. 9pm, $10-$15.
Orquesta Borinquen The Ramp, 855 Terry Francois, SF; (415) 621-2378. 5pm.
Panteon Rococo, Raskahuele, Bang Data Fillmore. 8pm, $25.
Stellamara Trio, Round Mountain Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez, SF; (415) 454-5238. 8:15pm, $17.
Craig Ventresco and Meredith Axelrod Atlas Café. 4pm, free.
DANCE CLUBS
Bar on Church 9pm. Rotating DJs Foxxee, Joseph Lee, Zhaldee, Mark Andrus, and Nuxx.
Barracuda 111 Minna. 9pm, $10. Eclectic 80s music with DJs Damon, Phillie Ocean, and Gabe Gavilanes, plus 80s cult video projections, a laser light show, prom balloons, and 80s inspired fashion.
Bootie DNA Lounge. 9pm, $6-12. Michael Jackson Birthday Tribute with mash-up DJs Adrian and Mysterious D.
Cockblock Rickshaw Stop. 10pm, $7. Homolicious dance party.
4OneFunktion Elbo Room. 10pm, $5-10. Hi-hop with Park, FAME, and DJs B.Cause, Mista B, and Aron.
Future Night Knockout. 9pm, $4. Mashers, bang-ups, and refixes with Djs Danny Glover, Kick, and Pope.
Go Bang! Paradise Lounge. Recreating the diversity and freedom of the 70’s/ 80’s disco nightlife with DJs Said, Carnitas, Brown Amy, Steve Fabus, Sergio, and more.
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.
Reggae Gold Club Six. 9pm, $15. With DJs Daddy Rolo, Polo Mo’qz, Tesfa, Serg, and Fuze spinning dancehall and reggae.
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.
Weekend Warriors Madrone Art Bar. 9:30pm, $5. Live music with Will Blades and O.G.D. and DJs Gordo Cabeza and guests spinning motown.
SUNDAY 29
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Dinosaur Bicycle, Red Light Circuit Hemlock Tavern. 9pm, $5.
Emily Greene, Rabbits Running, 7 Orange ABC Hotel Utah. 8pm, $8.
Juliana Theory Independent. 8pm, $25.
Junius, Orbs, Disastroid Bottom of the Hill. 9pm, $10.
Slash, Myles Kennedy, Taking Dawn Warfield. 8pm, $32-40.
FOLK/WORLD/COUNTRY
Cheetahs on the Moon, Everhearts Thee Parkside. 4pm, free.
Forro Brazuca The Ramp, 855 Terry Francois, SF; (415) 621-2378. 5pm.
Jack Gilder, Darcy Noonan, Richard Mandel and friends Plough and Stars. 9pm.
DANCE CLUBS
Anamanaguchi, Minusbaby, Mr. Spastic, Crashfaster, DJ Harbour DNA Lounge. 8pm, $14. Chip music.
DiscoFunk Mashups Cat Club. 10pm, free. House and 70’s music.
Dub Mission Elbo Room. 9pm, $6. Dub, roots, and classic dancehall with DJs Sep, Vinnie Esparza, and guest Adam Twelve.
45Club 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?
Jock! Lookout, 3600 16th St, SF; (415) 431-0306. 3pm, $2. This high-energy party raises money for LGBT sports teams.
Kick It Bar on Church. 9pm. Hip-hop with DJ Zax.
Lowbrow Sunday Delirium. 1pm, free. DJ Roost Uno and guests spinning club hip hop, indie, and top 40s.
Religion Bar on Church. 3pm. With DJ Nikita.
Stag AsiaSF. 6pm, $5. Gay bachelor parties are the target demo of this weekly erotic tea dance.
Superbad Sundays Koko Cocktails, 1060 Geary, SF; (415) 885-4788. 10pm, free. With DJs Slopoke, Booker D, and guests spinning blues, oldies, southern soul, and funky 45s.
Swing Out Sundays Rock-It Room. 7pm, free (dance lessons $15). DJ BeBop Burnie spins 20s through 50s swing, jive, and more.
MONDAY 30
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Eden Brent Trio Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $18.
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 DNA Lounge. 9:30pm, $3-5. Gothic, industrial, and synthpop with 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 31
ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP
Fat Tuesday Band Biscuits and Blues. 8 and 10pm, $15.
Huge Cookies, Adonisaurus Hemlock Tavern. 9pm, $5.
Jason Reeves with Brendan James, Todd Carey Café Du Nord. 8pm, $12.
*Slayer, Megadeth, Testament Cow Palace, 2600 Geneva, SF; www.ticketmaster.com. 7pm, $39.50.
Le Vice, Tim Carr Project Elbo Room. 9pm.
DANCE CLUBS
Alcoholocaust Presents Argus Lounge. 9pm, free. "Stump the Wizard" with DJ Nodrat and DJ the Wizard.
Eclectic Company Skylark, 9pm, free. DJs Tones and Jaybee spin old school hip hop, bass, dub, glitch, and electro.
Kids in America Koko Cocktails, 1060 Geary, SF; (415) 885-4788. 9pm, free. With DJs Fuzzprobe and Bryna spinning 80s.
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.