The Calendar Is Back!!!

It's unedited, and I've gotten somewhat lazy about the prices. Hey, I'm a busy man, damn it!!! Use it as a starting point to figure out how many grand you're going to drop on concert tickets in the next few months. Yeah disposable income!!!

6/28 Wed – BOTH – Be Your Own Pet
6/29 Thu – Mezzanine – Jamie Lidell, Edan with guest Dagha, and Nobody & the Mystic Chords of Memory ($15)
6/30 Fri – Hemlock – Numbers
7/1 Sat – Independent – Band of Horses
7/1 Sat – 21 Grand – Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet (a tribute to Twig's BRAIN WAVE), 16 Bitch Pileup, Luz Alibi and Mr. Georgio Marauder, Rubber ()) Cement (a tribute to Twig's PLEISTOSCENE MUdb CROWN & LIQUID SKULL), Ecomorti, Slimelord (a tribute to Nautical Almanac, Ann Arbor), Lazers and Razors
7/2 Sun – Stern Grove – Rebirth Brass Band and Geno Delfose & French Rockin’ Boogie
7/2 Sun – Independent – Garage a Trois ($25)
7/5 Wed – 12 Galaxies - Slough Feg ($8)
7/6 Thu – Hemlock – Magik Markers & Skaters
7/6 Thu – Hemlock – Magik Markers
7/6 Thu – Independent – Aesop Rock, Murs & Blockhead
7/7 Fri – Oakland Metro – Sleepytime Gorilla Museum ($13)
7/8 Sat – Shoreline - Nine Inch Nails / Bauhaus / Peaches ($50 reserved/$24 lawn)
7/8 Sat – Pier 30 – Warped Tour (Against Me!, NOFX, Less Than Jake, Bouncing Souls, et al.)
7/8 Sat – Oakland Metro – Sleepytime Gorilla Museum ($13)
7/9 Sun – Stern Grove – San Francisco Symphony
7/9 Sun – 21 Grand – Parenthetical Girls, Snowsuit
7/9 Sun – Hemlock – Battleship, Pterodactyl & Hank IV
7/10 Mon – Hemlock - Parenthetical Girls, Snowsuit (Early Show)
7/11 Tue – 21 Grand – The Flying Luttenbachers
7/12 Wed – Slim’s – The Sword
7/12 Wed – Flying Luttenbachers
7/13 Thu – 12 Galaxies – Still Flyin’
7/13 Thu – BOTH – P.O.S. & Jel ($8)
7/13 Thu – Du Nord – Dilettantes and Citay ($8)
7/13 Thu – Annie’s – 400 Blows, Oxbow, The Mass and more ($10)
7/14 Fri – 12 Galaxies – Quintron & Ms. Pussycat ($8/$10)
7/14 Fri – Fillmore – Sonic Youth
7/15 Sat – 21 Grand – Quintron & Ms. Pussycat
7/15 Sat – Hemlock – Porest
7/15 Sat – BOTH – Birdmonster
7/15 Sat – Hemlock - Parenthetical Girls, Snowsuit
7/16 Sun – Stern Grove – Makaha Sons and ??? (Hawaiian)
7/17 Mon – Independent – Cannibal Ox
7/18 – 7/22 – L.A. – Devendra Banhart Curated Festival
7/18 Tue – Fillmore – Gnarls Barkley
7/19 Wed – Fillmore – Gnarls Barkley
7/19 Wed – Hemlock – The Drift & Roots of Orchis
7/19 Wed – San Jose HP Pavillion - Slayer / Lamb of God / Mastodon / Children of Bodom / Thine Eyes Bleed ($39)
7/19 Wed – 12 Galaxies – Moe!kestra, Weasel Walter Quartert and Sleeping People ($8)
7/20 Thu – StudioZ – Extra Action Marching Band
7/21 Fri – Independent – Ween
7/21 Fri – GAMH – Peeping Tom ($25)
7/21 Fri – Du Nord – The Avengers ($12
7/21 Fri – Slim’s Mr. Life & Cage ($16)
7/22 Sat – Du Nord – The Album Leaf, Lymbyc System ($12)
7/22 Sat – 12 Galaxies – Oneida, 400 Blows & No Doctors ($8/$10)
7/22 Sat – Fillmore – Jurassic 5
7/22 Sat – BOTH – Saros (CD release), Stolen Babies, Giant Squid & Frozen In Amber ($8/$10)
7/22 Sat – Greek – Flaming Lips, Ween & the Go! Team ($41)
7/23 Sun – Stern Grove – Mavis Staples and Jackie Greene
7/23 Sun – Fillmore – Jurassic 5
7/24 Mon – Fillmore – Os Mutantes ($37.50)
7/26 Wed – Jazz on Grant (FREE)
7/27 Thu – Mezzanine – The Buzzcocks
7/27 through 7/30 Edgetone Fest at various venues see: (http://www.edgetonemusicsummit.org/summit.html)
7/28 Fri – Warfield – X & Rollins Band
7/29 Sat – Washington Square – North Beach Jazz Fest – World in the Park - Daara J., New Monsoon, Agualibre, Stooges Brass Band and Slammin (FREE)
7/29 Sat – BOTH – Om ($10)
7/30 Sun – Red Devil – KRS-One ($20)
7/30 Sun – Stern Grove – San Francisco Opera
7/30 Sun – Du Nord – Brightblack Morning Light ($10)
7/30 Sun – Washington Square – North Beach Jazz Fest – A Taste of NOLA - Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen, A.L.O., Delta Nove and Firme (FREE)
8/1 Tue – Independent – Hot Chip
8/4 Fri – Greek Theatre – Bloc Party, Broken Social Scene, Mew & Two Gallants
8/4 Fri – Red Devil – Beatnuts ($20)
8/5 Sat – BOTH – Six Organs of Admittance & Citay ($10)
8/6 Sun – Stern Grove – Spanish Harlem Orchestra and Ska Cubano
8/8 Tue – Du Nord – Mammatus ($7)
8/9 Wed – Rickshaw - MILOSH, Nobody & Mystic Chords of Memory, tba ($10)
8/10 Thu – Mezzanine – Diplo ($15)
8/10 Thu – Independent – Gris Gris
8/11 Fri – BOTH - Final Fantasy, Bob Wiseman & Curtains ($8/$10)
8/12 Sat – Hemlock – Hototogisu, Skaters and 16 Bitch Pileup
8/13 Sun – Bleeding Edge Festival – Matmos, Yo La Tengo, Isis, et al. ($50)
8/14 Mon – BOTH – Get Him Eat Him & The Evangelicals ($7)
8/16 Wed – GAMH – Comets on Fire
8/16 Wed – BOTH – Don Caballero ($10/$12)
8/18 Fri – Du Nord – French Kicks ($12)
8/18 Fri – Independent – Dirty Dozen Brass Band
8/19 Sat – Independent – Dirty Dozen Brass Band
8/19 Sat – Du Nord – French Kicks ($12)
8/20 Sun – Stern Grove – Ozomatli and Crown City Rockers
8/20 Sun – Giants v. Dodgers
8/21 Mon – GAMH – A Silver Mt. Zion
8/23 Wed – BOTH - Don Caballero, Zombi & Triclops! ($10/$12)
8/23 Wed – Lobot – Japanther, Two Gallants ($7-$10)
8/24 Thu – Hemlock – Japanther
8/25 Fri – BOTH – XBXRX & 7 Year Rabbit Cycle ($8)
8/27 Sun – Ghosting, Bonus, Axolotl, Tom Carter w/Inca Ore
8/26 Sat – Mezzanine –Herbert ($18)
8/31 Thu – GAMH – Radio Birdman ($20)
9/4 Mon – BOTH – Cloud Cult ($8)
9/5 Tue – GAMH – Deerhoof & Mark Ribot’s Ceramic Dog ($15)
9/7 Thu – GAMH – Vashti Bunyan & Brightblack Morning Light ($20)
9/8 Fri – BOTH – The Ruins and Acid Mothers Temple will play individually and together as 7 acts. ($10)
9/10 Sun – Slim’s – Rakim ($30)
9/10 Sun – Mezzanine – Silverjews ($20)
9/15 Fri – BOTH – The Queers ($10/$12)
9/16 Sat – 924 Gilman – The Queers ($7)
9/20 Wed – GAMH – Mission of Burma ($20)
9/21 Thu - Bimbo’s – Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
9/21 Thu – BOTH – Serena Maneesh & Film School ($10)
9/22 Fri – BOTH – Serena Maneesh & Film School ($10)
9/26 Tue – Fillmore – MMW
9/26 Tue – BOTH – Junior Boys ($12)
9/29 Fri – Fillmore – M. Ward
9/30 Sat – BOTH – The Gossip ($12)
10/1 Sun – BOTH – The Gossip ($12)
10/5 Thu – Mezzanine – adult. ($13)
10/10 Tue – GAMH – Do Make Say Think
10/12 Thu – boca – Vitalic
10/16 Mon – Fillmore – Ladytron
10/18 Wed – GAMH – Matmos
11/3 Fri – Independent – Mouse on Mars with Birdy Nam Nam
11/10 Fri – GAMH – Xiu Xiu

Playlist 06.27.06

Tuesday, June 27, 2006
3:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.

Machinefabriek – J’Espere Ca
Efterklang – Swarming
Trio – Flordigan

Ariel Kalma – Gongmo
Magyar Posse – Sudden Death
Secret Chiefs 3 – Renunciation
Mohammed “Jimmy” Mohammed – Altchalkoum

Carla Bozulich – Steal Away
Dog Faced Hermans – Les Femmes Et Les Filles Vont Danser

The Slow Break – Inside the Dark Mountain
Sonic Youth – Do You Believe In Rapture?
Tortoise & Bonnie Prince Billy – Daniel
Brightblack Morning Light – Everybody Daylight
BRMC – Take Them On, On Your Own

Aarktica – Snowstorm Ruins Birthday
Richard Youngs & Simon Wickham Smith – 2005
Abstrackt Keal Agram – Yo, Rap !
Super Numeri – The Babies

Show Spotlight
*Nobody and Mystic Chords of Memory – Broaden a New Sound
*Jamie Lidell – What Is It This Time?
*Edan – Promised Land
Sleeper and ID – Mechanized Breath

Hair Police – Constantly Terrified
Earwicker – Pentagono Dose
The Pope – Kool Khristian Kids

Asobi Seksu – New Years
Architecture in Helsinki – Souvenirs
Think About Life – Paul Cries
Oneida –Lavender
Fiery Furnaces – I’m Waiting to Know You

Decembrists – Picaresque

Mic Break Music: Wendy Carlos – Beauty in the Beat (seemed like a shame to hear how good this album was while I was talking over it, perhaps I need to pick it up…)

Watch For Falling Angels

Thursday, June 22, 2006
Lansig-Dreiden and The Black Angels
The Independent
$12

What I previously said about The Black Angels:

“Disclosure: One of my friends manages the band. Disclosure: It doesn't matter because they're fucking good and I’d be going to the show regardless. Much like the truly great bands that immediately come to my mind upon hearing Austin's the Angels (Velvet Underground, The Doors, early Pink Floyd), the music may be dark, psychedelic, etc. while remaining universally accessible. Who doesn’t like VU, The Doors and Pink Floyd? That’s how people should feel about The Black Angels, because their brand of “drone ‘n’ roll” (not my term, but I love it) will have them blowing up before too long. It wasn't accidental that BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe was giving them a lot of play last year and it isn't coincidence that they are headlining a showcase at SXSW.”

I saw them 4 times during SXSW, and didn’t get tired of it. They’ve been touring and gigging a ton, and the live show is loving them for it. Do yourself a favor and check these guys out tonight. If you’re not yet convinced, check their MySpace page and stream some tunes.

Oh, and to make matters even better, enigmatic art-rockers Lansing-Dreiden (on tour as L-D Section II) are headlining the gig with a set of something of the electro-orchestral-post-punk variety. Oh, the opening, opening band is named Hot Shit. Hot shit, indeed.

Playlist 06.20.06

Tuesday, June 20, 2006
3:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.

Stars of the Lid - Lactate’s Moment
Lightning Hopkins - In the Evening, the Sun Is Going Down
Michael F. Cote – Spike Driver Blues
Richard Leo Johnson – Side Road To Splendor

William Basinski – dlp 1.3
William Parker –There Is a Bomb in Gilead
Hall, Ronaldo, Hooker – View from Bellvue

Man or Astro Man - Invasion of the Dragonmen
Messer Chups –In 3 Minutes till Massacre
Mr. Lif – Murz Iz My Manager
Antipop Consortium – Nude Paper
Subtle – Skullz

Cobra Killer & Kapajkos – Heavy Rotation
Dada Swing – Hand Yr Claps
Charming Hostess – Szerelem
Comus – Drip Drip

Sibyll Baier –Softly
Juana Molina – No Seas Antipatica
Nobody – You Can Know Her (feat. Mia Doi Todd)
Booka Shade – Body Language
Hot Chip – The Warning

Notwist – This Room (Four Tet And Manitoba Remix)
Herbert – Sugar
Matmos –Germs Burn for Darby Crash
Cul De Sac – Death of the Sun
The Psychic Paramount - Napoli / Perpignan Pt. Two

(Concert Spotlight)
*Lansing-Dreiden – Part of the Promise
*Black Angels – Young Men Dead
Serena Maneesh – Drain Cosmetics
Exploding Hearts – Throwaway Style
The Satelliters –Where Do We go?

Japanther – Dragon Rider

At Mic Breaks: Brian Eno – Another Green World

My Most Schizophrenic Post Ever? So Much To Do...

Where to begin? This weekend is so jam packed with shows, I don’t even know.

Friday

Baaba Maal plays the Masonic Auditorium and graces us with a visit from Senegal bringing his fusion of traditional African music with pop and reggae as part of SF Jazz’s always great lineup.

For the more electronic musically minded, head over to the Hemlock and see Kid 606’s album release party so he can beat you upside the head with some sort of electronic music which will blend different electronic genres with his indie/punk attitude.

Steve Stapleton’s Nurse with Wound makes a rare U.S. appearance at the Great American, giving us a chance to see an extremely influential musician who has stayed fresh and relevant for 28 years. The man has covered so much ground in his ears (psychedlia, jazz, krautrock, industrial, free jazz, et al. all influence his work), so it’s difficult to determine what to expect, but you can certainly expect a great show. Note: NWW plays again on Saturday, and I’ll be there with freaking bells on.

I don’t know much about The Slip, but I saw guitarist Brad Barr play solo at SXSW, and I would expect great things from this jam band, who draw on a wide array of influences in their music.

If you want to get drunk and listen to ridiculous songs about , say, washing and pwdering your nuts, the Boom Boom Room has New Orleans’ Morning 40 Federation who play something that could only come out New Orleans: jazz funk swamp rock.

Calexico bring their Southwestern indie rock to the Fillmore with dark and heavy indie rock from Black Heart Procession opening. Note: They play again on Saturday.

Whew…

Saturday

Round Two of Nurse With Wound and Calexico/Black Heart Procession.

Tapes & Tapes at Café Du Nord. This one is sold out, but if you’re a Pixies fan, I would suggest trying to pick up a ticket at the door. I’ve only paid over face once since I’ve lived in San Francisco. But that’s just me. I didn’t try and see Coldplay at the Fillmore.

Tom Verlaine of Television fame is touring support of a couple of new releases. I’ve only heard the instrumental guitar release, but it is far from what I expected since I hadn’t heard any of his post-Television work. It’s damn fine, and I expect that this is a rare chance to see a legendary guitar player.

Kool Keith and Kutmasta Kurt play Mezzanine, and Mr. Keith is back with his oh-so-crazy alter-ego Dr. Octagon. You know the one. “Dr. Octagon is an incompetent, time-traveling, possibly extraterrestrial surgeon who pretends to be a female gynecologist and molests his patients and nurses.” Yeah, that’s fucking right.

Sunday

First Stern Grove concert of the season with Aimee Mann & Seu Jorge. If the weather is as nice as it is today, you’d better head out there. I don’t know jack about Ms. Mann, but Seu Jorge is most famously known for providing the Brazilian versions of David Bowie songs for The Life Aquatic’s soundtrack. Who cares anyway? If its this nice, I’ll go sit in Stern Grove and listen to Godsmack.

The evening brings us British post-punk/new wavy posters The Futureheads. Get more post punk from the openers, French Kicks.

And, finally…

Monday

Zu, Pink Mountain and Citay at Bottom of the Hill. Read what The venue’s website has to say:

Frenetic Records Triple Record Release Show:

ZU
Members have worked with Ken Vandermark, Jeb Bishop, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Mike Patton, Thurston Moore and Jim O'Rourke
(Amazing drum, sax and bass trio from Italy)

Pink Mountain
Members (Kyle Bruckmann, Sam Coomes, John Shiurba, Gino Robair and Scott Rosenberg) are in or have worked with: Quasi, Blues Goblins, Fred Frith, Anthony Braxton, Thinking Fellers Union 282, Tom Waits, John Zorn, Lozenge, and Molecules.
(Heavy / Progressive / Psych / Rock)

Citay
Ezra Feinberg -- Piano Magic
"For Citay, heaven is filled with the spooky acoustic guitars, mandolins and organs of Led Zeppelin, the massive twin guitars of Thin Lizzy, and the blissed-out vocal harmonies of The Byrds. This music is beautiful, and seriously original." Village Voice

If I can work up the courage to get no sleep before my shift on Monday night/Tuesdday morning, I’m totally there. You should be too.

Man, That Was Some Fiery Talk About Throwing The Demonic Man In the Furnace

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Tonight you could head over to Cafe Du Nord and do the “folktronic hop” thing with Talkdemonic, a duo out of Portland who perform their instrumental post-rock over programmed beats. Not sure how it will sound live, but their sophomore release, Beat Romantic, is on playlist right now at KUSF and I’m loving it.

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Tomorrow night is all about the Fiery Furnaces. The brother and sister duo Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger give you two chances to see them do their experimental- while-remaining-accessible rock shtick (think Capt. Beefheart) twice. First, you can see them at Amoeba at 6:00 p.m. for free. Or, if spending ~$20 is what you’re feeling, you should head over to the Fillmore. Not only will you get a longer set and infinitely better sound, but Man Man is opening. One of my biggest regrets of SXSW this year was missing these guys. They played like a dozen times, but it was always too far away or conflicted against something or nobody else was interested and it would have been a paint o meet up later. Blah. Anyway, while the Furnaces channel the spirit of Beefheart in their eclectic combination of genres, Man Man’s sound derives heavily from Beefheart’s while still being original. Also, everything I’ve read says their amazing live. They don’t stop at all, just rock straight through their set.

Playlist 05.29.06

Monday, May 29, 2006
12 a.m. to 3 a.m.

Sugar Minott – Dance Hall Style
David Byrne – Help Me Somebody
Public Enemy feat. Paris – Rise
Sobanza Mimanisa - Kiwembo

Charming Hostess – Szerelem
Badawi – I Said Oblivion

(Upcoming Show Set)
Tarentel – Everywhere the Damn Echo
Mono – The Flames Beyond The Cold Maountsin
Pelican – Last Day of Winter

The Sword – Winter’s Wolves
The Black Angels – Young Men Dead
Jimi Hendrix – 1983… (A Merman I Should Be) (from NYC Apartment Tape 1968)

Sunn 0))) – Bathory Erzasebet
Mord – Opus IV

James Plotkin/ Tim Wyskida – One
Don Caballero – Sure We Had Knives Around
Be Your Own Pet – Fire Department
Figurines – Continuous Songs
The High Dials – Sick with the Old Fire

Marissa Nadler – Old Love Haunts Me in the Morning
Richard Youngs – Illumined Land
Matmos – Semen Song for James Bidgood
Matthew Herbert – These Branded Waters

Freddy y Sus Afro Latinos – Maltratado
Sutekh – Baila con los Ninos (Trabajadores mix)
M83 – Saves from the Flames (Remixed by Boom Bip)
Prefuse 73 –With Dirt and Two Texts – Later Version with Love

Steffen Basho-Junghans – 1st Movement

Playlist for 06.13.06

Tuesday, June 13, 2006
3 a.m. to 6 a.m.

Shalabi Effect – Harpie
Pelt – Outside, Listening
Tom Verlaine – Flame

Belong – I’m Too Sleepy… Shall We Swim?
Richard Youngs – Once It Was Autumn
Young People – R&R
Juana Molina – Malherido

August Born – Birds & Sun & Clay
Charalambides – Two Birds
Bob Drake – Spirit drapery veils the hiatus

Bathtub Shitter - World Dun Hole
Earl Shilton – European Kanone
Don Caballero – And and and, he lowered the twin down
The Flying Luttenbachers –The Elimination of Incompetence
Haino Keiji and Yoshida Tatsuyo –West Broadway

Think About Life – Money
Architecture in Helsinki – Maybe You Can Owe Me
Danielson – Did I Step on Your Trumpet?
Beachwood Sparks – Desert Skies

Cabaret Voltaire – Protection
David Byrne & Brian Eno –The Jezebel Spirit

DNA – You & You
The Seconds – Dedicated to the One Eye
Shoplifting – Cover to Cover

Joy Division – Disorder
This Heat – Twilight Furniture
Coil – The Last Amethyst Deceiver

Fiery Furnaces – I’m In No Mood
Sonic Youth – Washing Machine

Sly & the Family Stone – Sing a Simple Song

Radio Killed the Blog Star... Or, Tonight in the East Bay

As you can see below, I’m going to start posting my playlists on the blog. You never know when these things might come in handy. Plus it’s very little work for me, since I’m already posting them on KUSF’s Tribe.net website.

I don’t believe I’ve informed you about my new permanent-for-eight-months shift. It’s every Tuesday morning from 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. PST. I know this is a bit early for most of you in the Bay Area (but if you wake up in the middle of the night or just have a rowdy evening, tune in). On the bright side, East Coast and Third Coast readers (you know who you are, although it isn’t entirely clear why you read a blog that’s mostly about shows in San Francisco (oh, its cuz the blog is just so damn good)), this is good for you 9-to-5’ers who can tune in when you get up in the morning.

Enough about the show (which has been keeping me swamped and depriving you of my compiled show knowledge), and on to some show advice for tonight:

Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Green Milk from the Planet Orange
The Stork Club (Oakland)
$5

First thing about GMftPO: Great name. Second thing: They’re a Japanese rock band, and we all know how much I love my Japanese rock. Third thing: They started off as a grindcore band, but now play heavy, experimental psych-rock. Fourth thing: I’ve been meaning to catch these guys for over a year but haven’t been able to. And they play here more than any other Japanese band I can think of. Seems like at least 6 times in the past year. Damn it. One of these days… Just not tonight, as I’m all sorts of tore up after my graveyard last night and the East Bay seems so far. For those interested, rounding out the bill: Metal/progressive noise power-trio Totimoshi out of Oakland, avant-rock Bay Area transplants No Doctors and local noise-folks Sixes.

Playlist for 06/05/06 12 a.m. - 3 a.m.

the toids - seek
porest - levantine spirit
citay - shalom of safed
need new body - show me your heart

test icicles - circle, square, triangle
the fall - blindness
apes - tapestry mastery

the slow break - it'll be alright
coachwhips - prisoner 119
love is all - make out fall out make up
satelliters - our world will pass
fatal flying guilloteens - take it on the teeth

beirut - postcards from italy
talkdemonic - bering/human til born
jonathon kane - i looked at the sun

super numeri - spies of st. ives
ravi shankar - sandhya raga

laconnor - circle
susan alcorn - twin beams
tom abbs & frequency response - holding on

sir richard bishop - al-darazi
sun city girls - bacchanalia
sir richard bishop - burning caravan

final - golden
tone - evolution

william parker - in case of accident
iranian orchestra for new music - sonata ii

bird show - greet the morning
james blackshaw - ??? can't remember which track