The Monster

I know I posted the complete upcoming show list fairly recently, but I've done a lot of updating since then, and this mother is l-o-n-g. And that is most definitely a good thing.

8/1 Tue – Independent – Hot Chip
8/2 Wed – Club 6 – Guardian Best of the Bay Party feat. Zion I, Extra Action Marching Band, Scissors for Lefty, Erase Errata, Numbers, Yikes! And lots more ($10)
8/3 Thu – 12 Galaxies – Extra Action Marching Band ($10)
8/3 Thu – Lucky 13 – KUSF DJ Night
8/4 Fri – Greek Theatre – Bloc Party, Broken Social Scene, Mew & Two Gallants
8/4 Fri – Red Devil – Beatnuts ($20)
8/4 Fri – BBR – Dragon Smoke – Stanton Moore, Ivan Neville, Eric Lindell & Robert Mercurio and more ($25)
8/4 Fri – Du Nord – Magnolia Electric Company
8/4 Fri – Fillmore – Xavier Rudd, Wood Bros. & Ane Brun
8/4 Fri – Mighty - Sneaker Pimps 1000 Shoe Tour featuring: Dan the Automator, Kid Koala and more ($12)
8/5 Sat – BOTH – Six Organs of Admittance & Citay ($10)
8/5 Sat – 12 Galaxies – Drums & Tuba ($10/$12)
8/5 Sat – Li Po Lounge – R.H.Y. Yau, Toxic Loincloth, Privy Seals, Kevin Shields, Sex Jesus, Rubber O Cement, Tralphaz, Tern Ternity
8/5 Sat – BBR – Dragon Smoke – Stanton Moore, Ivan Neville, Eric Lindell & Robert Mercurio and more ($25)
8/6 Sun – Stern Grove – Spanish Harlem Orchestra and Ska Cubano
8/8 Tue – Du Nord – Mammatus ($7)
8/8 Tue – Amoeba – Comets on Fire (6:00)
8/9 Wed – Rickshaw - MILOSH, Nobody & Mystic Chords of Memory, tba ($10)
9/9 Wed – BBR – Soulive ($25)
8/10 Thu – Recombinant – Ryoji Ikeda ($15, 7 and 10:30 p.m. shows)
8/10 Thu – Mezzanine – Diplo ($15)
8/10 Thu – Independent – Gris Gris & Battleship
8/11 Fri – BOTH - Final Fantasy, Bob Wiseman & Curtains ($8/$10)
8/11 Fri – Hemlock – Pop Levi (Ninja Tune from Super Numeri)
8/11 Fri – Stork Club – Oxbow
8/12 Sat – Starry Plough – Nels Cline Singers
8/12 Sat – Hemlock – Hototogisu, Skaters and 16 Bitch Pileup
8/13 Sun – GAMH – Black Heart Procession & Castanets ($15)
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
8/17 Thu – Slim’s – Common Sense
8/17 Thu – Amoeba – Cut Chemist (8:00)
8/18 Fri – BBR – Karl Denson & Benny D Band ($15)
8/18 Fri – The Cave (3201 3rd St) – Death Sentence: Panda, Bronze( first show- members of The Vanishing, Spector Protector, Appreciation), Paradise Island
8/18 Fri – Club 6 – Jeru the Damaja & more ($10)
8/18 Fri – Du Nord – French Kicks ($12)
8/18 Fri – Independent – Dirty Dozen Brass Band
8/18 Fri – 12 Galaxies – Faun Fables
8/19 Sat – Independent – Dirty Dozen Brass Band
8/19 Sat – Misanthropic Agenda – Gerritt & John Wiese, The Cherry Point, Obstacle Corpse
8/19 Sat – Du Nord – French Kicks ($12)
8/20 Sun – Stern Grove – Ozomatli and Crown City Rockers
8/21 Mon – 12 Galaxies – Thor & Zolar X ($10/$12)
8/21 Mon – GAMH – A Silver Mt. Zion
8/22 Tue – Du Nord – Clientele ($12)
8/22 Tue – Parkside - Inca Ore - Skaters/Axolotl - Jap Jap
8/22 Tue – Amoeba – Mountain Goats (6:00)
8/23 Wed – Amoeba – Don Caballero (6:00)
8/23 Wed – BOTH - Don Caballero, Zombi & Triclops! ($10/$12)
8/23 Wed – Lobot – Japanther, Two Gallants ($7-$10)
8/24 Thu – Hemlock – Japanther
8/24 Thu – Fillmore – Wolf Parade & Frog Eyes
8/24 Thu – Pound – Cattle Decapitation
8/25 Fri – BOTH – XBXRX & 7 Year Rabbit Cycle ($8)
8/25 Fri – Thee Parkside - FREE HOMECOMING SHOW-Hightower / Walken / Asshole Parade / Three Weeks Clean
8/26 Sat – Fillmore – Zach Galifianakis (comedian)
8/26 Sat – Mighty – Mix Master Mike ($10/$15)
8/26 Sat – Mezzanine –Herbert ($18)
8/27 Sun – KUSF Rock N Swap
8/27 Sun – Hemlock – Ghosting, Bonus, Axolotl, Tom Carter w/Inca Ore
8/30 Wed – 12 Galaxies – Skerik’s Syncopated Taint Septet ($10/$12)
8/30 Wed – BOTH – Moe! Staiano's Moe!kestra! ($7)
8/31 Thu – GAMH – Radio Birdman ($20)
8/31 Thu – Hotel Utah - Tom Carter, Ghq, Axolotl & Skaters
8/31 Thu – Hemlock - Moe! Staiano, Neptune
9/1 Fri – Elbo Room – Acid King
9/2 Fri ?? – Thee Parkside - The Bellrays / The Spore / S.L.A. (Sonic Love Affair)
9/1 Fri – Oakland Art & Soul Festival
9/2 Sat – Oakland Art & Soul Festival
9/3 Sun – Oakland Art & Soul Festival
9/3 Sun – Oakland Arena – Tool & Isis
9/3 Sun – Hemlock – Still Flyin’
9/4 Mon – BOTH – Cloud Cult ($8)
9/4 Mon – Independent – BJM
9/5 Tue – Independent - BJM
9/5 Tue – GAMH – Deerhoof & Mark Ribot’s Ceramic Dog ($15)
9/6 Wed – Independent – Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk
9/7 Thu – GAMH – Vashti Bunyan & Brightblack Morning Light ($20)
9/7 Thu – 12 Galaxies - Oxbow, Flying Luttenbachers, Genghis Tron, The Mall
9/7 Thu – Independent – Benevento/Russo Duo & JFJO
9/8 Fri – Independent – Benevento/Russo Duo & JFJO
9/8 Fri – BOTH – The Ruins and Acid Mothers Temple will play individually and together as 7 acts. ($10)
9/8 Fri – Stork Club - Oxbow, Genghis Tron, Totimoshi
9/9 Sat – GGP – Power to the Peaceful – Michael Franti & Spearhead,
9/9 Sat – Berkeley Comm. Theatre – A Tribe Called Quest
9/9 Sat – Fillmore – Black Keys
9/10 Sun – Slim’s – Rakim ($30)
9/10 Sun – Mezzanine – Silverjews ($20)
9/11 Mon – Elbo Room – Relapse Records "Contamination Tour" – Facedowninshit, Fuck The Facts, Minsk & Unearthy Trance
9/13 Wed – Du Nord – Laura Veirs
9/14 Thu – GAMH – Tortoise
9/15 Fri – BOTH – The Queers ($10/$12)
9/16 Sat – 924 Gilman – The Queers ($7)
9/16 Sat – Independent – Breakestra
9/17 Sun – BOTH – The Advantage ($10)
9/18 Mon – GAMH – Ratatat ($13)
9/20 Wed – GAMH – Mission of Burma ($20)
9/21 Thu - Bimbo’s – Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings ($18)
9/21 Thu – BOTH – Serena Maneesh ($10)
9/21 Thu – Hemlock – USAisaMonster
9/22 Fri – Greek – Massive Attack & DJ Shadow
9/22 Fri – GAMH – Andrew Bird ($16/$18)
9/25 Mon – Slim’s – Mastodon & Converge
9/26 Tue – Fillmore – Medeski Martin & Wood & Wood Bros. ($27.50)
9/26 Tue – BOTH – Junior Boys ($12)
9/27 Wed – GAMH – Pelican
9/28 Thu – BOTH – Kutur Shock & La Plebe ($8)
9/28 Thu – Slim’s – Mojave 3
9/29 Fri – Fillmore – M. Ward
9/29 Fri – Mezzanine – DJ Krush
9/30 Sat – BOTH – The Gossip ($12)
9/30 Sat – Shoreline – Download Fest feat. Beck, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Muse, the Shins and more
10/1 Sun – BOTH – The Gossip ($12)
10/5 Thu – Mezzanine – adult. ($13)
10/5 Thu – Bimbo’s - Bill Frisell / Jack DeJohnette / Jerome Harris ($25)
10/8 Sun – BOTH – Residual Echoes & LSD March ($7)
10/10 Tue – BOTH – Califone ($10)
10/12 Thu – boca – Vitalic
10/13 Fri – Warfield – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
10/14 Sat – BOTH – Subtle ($12)
10/16 Mon – Fillmore – Ladytron
10/17 Tue – GAMH – The Hold Steady
10/18 Wed – Independent – The Black Angels
10/18 Wed – GAMH – Matmos
10/19 Thu – Fillmore – Decembrists
10/19 Thu – Mezzanine – Stones Throw 10th Anniversary – Madlib, J-Rocc, Peanut Butter Wolf
10/19 Thu – BOTH – Sushou No Fune & Mammatus ($7)
10/19 Thu – Fillmore – Yo La Tengo
10/20 Fri – Fillmore – Yo La Tengo
10/20 Fri – GAMH – Beirut
10/20 Fri – BOTH – Detroit Cobras ($15)
10/20 Fri – Independent – Cut Chemist
10/20 Fri – L.A. – ArthurNights - Boris
10/21 Sat – Independent – Cut Chemist
10/21 Sat – Fillmore – Yo La Tengo
10/24 Tue – BOTH – Be Your Own Pet ($10)
10/29 Sun – Slim’s – NoMeansNo
10/30 Mon – GAMH – Bonnie Prince Billy
10/21 Tue – GAMH – Bonnie Prince Billy
11/2 Thu – Bimbo’s – Jamie Lidell
11/3 Fri – Independent – Mouse on Mars with Birdy Nam Nam
11/9 Thu – GAMH – Islands
11/9 Thu – Mezzanine – Kid Koala
11/10 Fri – GAMH – Xiu Xiu
11/11 Sat – Bill Graham Civ. Aud. – Asobi Seksu (opener)
11/11 Sat – BOTH – Wolf Eyes ($10)
11/18 Sat – Mezzanine – The Slits ($14)