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| AC/DC Oracle Arena | Tue., December 2, 8:00pm | East Oakland | |
Reliability. Its underrated. Who even thinks about a car that starts every time? Until the one time it doesnt. AC/DC is like that. The band rocks. And thats all it does. The music isnt complicated. Its Phil Rudds simple drumming. Its Cliff Williams... More >>
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| AC/DC Oracle Arena | Thu., December 4, 8:00pm | East Oakland | |
Reliability. Its underrated. Who even thinks about a car that starts every time? Until the one time it doesnt. AC/DC is like that. The band rocks. And thats all it does. The music isnt complicated. Its Phil Rudds simple drumming. Its Cliff Williams... More >>
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| Deerhunter, Times New Viking, Common Eider King Eider Great American Music Hall | Mon., November 24, 8:00pm | Nob Hill/Russian Hill | |
Bradford Cox oversize persona threatens to overwhelm almost anything his band Deerhunter does. In concert, the singer-songwriter who has Marfan syndrome and is shockingly thin sometimes bloodies himself and otherwise makes people uncomfortable. On his groups blog, he... More >>
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| Dir en grey The Warfield | Sun., November 30, 8:00pm | Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |
Japanese underground sensation Dir en grey hits the Warfield on its second U.S. headlining tour. The experimental group just released its strongest album in years, Uroboros, a collection of melodic, goth-influenced metal with technically tricky rhythms thats slowly picking up radio play.... More >>
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| The Entrance Band, Rodriguez, Sleepy Sun, Matt Baldwin Electric Band Great American Music Hall | Sun., November 23, 8:00pm | Nob Hill/Russian Hill | |
When Light in the Attic label head Matt Sullivan picked up the crate-digging David Holmesmixed compilation Come Get It, I Got It in 2002, he had no idea he was embarking on a six-year journey to resurrect a folk-psych masterpiece. The remixes of underground gems included Sixto Diaz... More >>
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| Indigenous Wisdom Block Party Capp (between 24th and 25th sts.) | Sat., November 29, 10:00am | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
You wouldn't think the U.N.'s "International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls" would be partytime, but it is. Well, some of it is, anyway. The Indigenous Wisdom Block Party is the final event of a three days' worth of observances, including prayer circles, film... More >>
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| New Riders of the Purple Sage Great American Music Hall | Fri., November 28, 9:00pm | Nob Hill/Russian Hill | |
Every once in a while, a side project becomes more. So it was with the New Riders of the Purple Sage. In 1969, pals John Marmaduke Dawson (vocals & guitar) and Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead (pedal steel guitar) wanted to play Bakersfield-style country music. Joined by guitarist... More >>
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| Portugal. The Man, Earl Greyhound, Wintersleep Slim's | Mon., November 24, 8:00pm | South of Market | |
Portugal. The Man's signature is a rare falsetto on lead singer John Gourley, but a lot of this band's bite comes from the fact that it sounds like two of them are playing in the forest and the other two guys are reverbed by church walls. Sweeping down from Sarah Palin's hometown by way of... More >>
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| Spetsnaz, Obscenity Trial, DJ Decay, Unit_77, Joe Radio DNA Lounge | Sun., November 23, 7:00pm | South of Market | |
If music were a computer system, the industrial subgenre called E.B.M. (Electronic Body Music) would be verging on the dreaded blue screen of death, i.e., total debilitating freeze-up. Thats why groups like Spetsnaz are rebooting their machines to revive the genres... More >>
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| Wu-Tang Clan The Regency Center | Wed., December 3, 8:00pm | Nob Hill/Russian Hill | |
Products of Staten Islands notorious Park Hill projects, the nine-member Wu-Tang Clan surfaced in the 90s to forge a unique roughneck New York hip-hop style. Their music absorbed obsessions with technology, kung fu and gangster flicks, and the street-level Islamic faction Five... More >>
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| Classical Revolution SoCha | Every week Wednesday, 8:00pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
Armed with stringed instruments and intense training from the likes of Juilliard and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Classical Revolution is on a mission to change the way classical music is perceived and performed in this city. Conceived in late 2006, the collectives intent has... More >>
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| The Execution of Precious Memories Project Artaud Theater |
Daily from Wed., November 19 until Sat., November 22, 8:00pm more dates/times |
Mission/Bernal Heights | |
Since the earliest incarnation of Einstürzende Neubauten, when Blixa Bargeld and scrap-metal maestro N.U. Unruh appeared partly clothed and playing in a hole under the Berlin autobahn, Bargeld has reached beyond the synthesis of traditional art forms to externalize emotional states of... More >>
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| Hilary Hahn Davies Symphony Hall |
Wed., November 26, 8:00pm more dates/times |
Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |
Hilary Hahn was already a featured soloist with the Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh symphony orchestras (plus that lil New York Philharmonic combo) when she was barely a teenager. At 29, she is regarded as one of the finest classical violinists on the planet, placing her personal... More >>
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| The Hold Steady, Drive-By Truckers The Fillmore | Daily from Sun., November 23 until Mon., November 24, 8:00pm | Japantown/Pacific Heights | |
Though they had long shared an admiration for each others work, the members of the Hold Steady and the Drive-By Truckers didnt connect until a chance meeting at a show in NYC last summer. When lead Trucker Patterson Hood met Hold Steady guitarist Tad Kubler, a fast friendship formed,... More >>
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| Holiday House Party Herbst Theatre |
Daily from Sat., November 29 until Sun., November 30, 12:00pm more dates/times |
Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |
If your idea of ringing in the holiday season involves knocking back a few beers with friends and feasting on Chinese delivery, join the club. White Christmases are quickly becoming relics to be stowed with those boxes of ornaments gathering dust in the attic. And this isnt just because of... More >>
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| More Events | |||
| An A Cappella Christmas Great American Music Hall | Mon., December 15, 7:30pm | Nob Hill/Russian Hill | |
| Bryan Adams Palace of Fine Arts | Tue., December 2, 8:00pm | Marina/Cow Hollow | |
| Bryan Adams Golden State Theatre | Wed., December 3, 8:00pm | Monterey | |
| Adele The Warfield | Thu., January 29, 8:00pm | Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |
| Amebix Great American Music Hall | Sun., January 25, 8:00pm | Nob Hill/Russian Hill | |
| "Año Nuevo 2009" Bottom of the Hill | Wed., December 31, 9:00pm | Potrero Hill | |
| The Australian Pink Floyd Show The Fillmore | Wed., December 3, 8:00pm | Japantown/Pacific Heights | |
| Nefasha Ayer Red Poppy Art House | Sat., November 29, 8:00pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
| Jim Bailey Is Judy Garland Herbst Theatre | Sat., December 20, 8:00pm | Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |
| Carlos Barbosa-Lima & Berta Rojas Herbst Theatre | Thu., December 4, 8:00pm | Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |