Monday edition! Okay yeah I’m late on the Bay Area post but if you saw how my weekend went you’d understand. Anyway, if you made it out to the Laura Stevenson show last night, consider yourself lucky, she’s a special gal. Keep an eye on her. Okay, lets get started!
Tonight Coldplay heads over to the Shoreline Amphitheatre to entertain the white people, post rock heroes Tortoise and Pit Er Pat are leaving the The Great American Music Hall in awe, folk metal band Wolves in the Throne Room hit up Slim’s, Tori Amos plays the Paramount Theatre in Oakland and the San Jose Center For The Performing Arts on Tuesday, also Summer Cats and Magic Bullets perform at The Knockout tonight, New Zealand rockers The Veils and indie pop act Foreign Born crash the Bottom of the Hill.
Tuesday features Blonde Redhead at The Independent for two nights, the beautifully reunited Azure Ray play Nickel City Arcade in San Jose, Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head rocks Café du Nord,…oh yeah and some website called Kata Rokkar presents post rockers Gifts From Enola with Winfred E. Eye and Glaciers. That should be fucking awesome!
Wednesday we have the lovely Laura Veirs at Café du Nord, instrumental group Pink Mountain play San Francisco’s Amoeba Records at 6pm, and Tears for Fears stop by the Mountain Winery in Saratoga.
The Mission Creek Music Festival featuring Judgement Day, Evangelista, Ann Magnuson, Jessie Evans, Shogun Kuntoki, William Winant, Weasle Walter, Moe!, Staiano Trio, Pop Noir, Ink Blots, Nacotheque, Juan Son, Curly Lou, Clara Gustavson, Dead Meadow, Xoel Lopez, Mranda Lee Richards, the Extra Action Marching Band and many many others will be pretty much all over the city from the 15th to the 22nd of July. More on that later on in the week.
Also going on this week is the The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival with Amanda Palmer, Lucero, Poor Man’s Whiskey, Loco Bloco, etc. I had no idea what this was until just now. It looks wild. The event will take place In Oakland right off the West Grand Avenue exit, between at the Oakland Army Base and the East Bay MUD Facility, at the corner of Wake Avenue and Engineer Road.
Thursday will have me visiting the Great American Music Hall to see Azure Ray and Cursive’s Tim Kasher. It wil a nice evening of calm heartfelt music on O’Farrell Street. Psychedelic rocks Thee Oh Sees with Meth Teeth (best band name?) at The Eagle Tavern, and indie punkers Girl in a Coma play the Bottom of the Hill.
Friday, Brand New returns with Dios at Slim’s, Infected Mushroom plays at The Grand Ballroom At the Regency Center, thrash rocks Sabertooth Zombie rip-up 924 Gilman St., indie hip-hoppers Cage and Yak Ballz come to destroy The Great American Music Hall, THE VERY BEST (Radioclit & Esau Mwamwaya) come to party it up at Mighty, noise rockers Pterodactyl perform at the Hemlock Tavern, and the Great Northern and Eulogies show at Mezzanine is canceled.
Saturday, progressive art rocks Water & Bodies and Ambiance play the Hotel Utah, lounge DJ Bonobo will be at Mighty, and Three Mile Pilot crashes at the Bottom of the Hill.
Oh and hang out with Nobuo Uematsu and Arnie Roth at the San Francisco Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY concert on July 18th at Davies Symphony Hall.
Lots going on. See you out there!
Water & Bodies – 
Something I Can Grasp
Azure Ray – If You Fail
Blonde Redhead – 23
Foreign Born – Early Warnings