May 6 - 12

monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday sunday monday

Monday (5/5)   Bitchin’ Bernasconi’s Birthday ‒ Chant “All Hail Trista” 3 times!   Laura Veirs / Liam Finn @ Bottom Of The Hill   Mainroom Mondays: Big Stage Karaoke @ Annie's Social Club   Geologic / Kiwi / Nomi / Kasama @ Café Du Nord   Punk Rock Sideshow with DJ Tragic/ the Duchess of Hazzard / Get Dead / Banda Newsense @ Hemlock Tavern   Vroom @ El Rio   Two Seconds / Venus & Mars / The Drones Club @ The Knockout   Bike Movie night: Mash SF @ The Independent   Jazz Jam @ Grant and Green (1371 Grant)   The Songwriters Symposium @ Blake's on Telegraph (Berkeley) Tuesday (5/6)   Eric Hutchinson / Bart Davenport / Vows @ Bottom of the Hill   Mutators / Modern Creatures / Fun Blood @ The Hemlock Tavern   Vetiver / Kelly Stoltz Band / The Mumblers @ Great American Music Hall   Mitch Stein & His All Star Band @ Café Du Nord   Bat Makumba @ Elbo Room   The Scratchies / Donner Pass / Facts On File @ The Knockout   Brothers Of the Baladi / Sf Belly Dancers @ Boom Boom Room   Evolution: The Musical @ Mezzanine   DJ Centipede / Citizen Ten @ Madrone Lounge (500 Divisadero)   Ultraviolet Sound / Electric Valentine / Xrayok @ Red Devil Lounge   Colin Stetson / Darren Johnson / Scott Amendola @ Climate Theater (285 9th St)   Marco Benevento Trio @ Yoshi’s SF   Carl Ludwig Hubsch @ 21 Grand (Oakland)   Open Mic w/Joan Pez & Girl George @ Starry Plough (Berkeley)   An Evening Honoring Utah Philips @ Freight & Salvage (1111 Addison St. Berkeley) Wednesday (5/7)   Bellavista / Swann Danger / Red Host @ Bottom of the Hill   Dawn of Ashes / We Got This Far / Cynical Mass @ Annie's Social Club   October Allied / Casey Neill & the Norway Rats / Pink Elephants @ The Hemlock Tavern   Subtle / Facing New York / Clue to Kalo @ Great American Music Hall   The Wednesday Night Heroes / Pullout / Dynamite 8 @ Thee Parkside   Nicki Bluhm and The Gamblers / Jackpot / Lee Bob Watson @ Cafe Du Nord   Th' Moonlight Sexy / Scarlet Symphony @ Elbo Room   Gaucho / Mitch Marcus Session @ Amnesia   Les Hormones / Hank iv / The Filth Mongers @ The Knockout   Thomas Ian Nicolas / Finding Mercury @ 12 Galaxies   Tin Cup Serenade @ Le Colonial Restaurant (20 Cosmo Place)   The Uptime Jazz Quartet @ Rick's Restaurant and Bar (1940 Taraval)   5 Cent Coffee / J.Byrd Hosch & The Tater Trio / T&A @ El Rio   DJ Electra / White Mike @ Madrone Lounge (500 Divisadero)   Loop!Station / Two Loons For Tea / Materialized @ Red Devil Lounge   Jaymes Reunion / Simon Bruce @ Grant and Green (1371 Grant)   Big Mix @ Yoshi’s SF   Colin Stetson / Zoyres / Chicago Improvisers @ 21 Grand (Oakland)   Bill Evans and Steve Smith @ Freight & Salvage (1111 Addison St. Berkeley)   Orquestra Candela @ Shattuck Down Low (2284 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley) Thursday (5/8)   Magic Bullets / Lemon Sun / The Rosewood Thieves @ Bottom of the Hill   Elbow / Air Traffic @ Bimbo’s   Chris Pureka / Jo Boyer @ Annie's Social Club   Orb Of Confusion / Space Vacation / Crustacious / Pinched Nerve @ The Eagle Tavern   Dark Meat / Maus Haus / Pigeons or Panthers @ The Hemlock Tavern   Recliner / Brittany Shane / Odessa Chen @ Café du Nord   Afrolicious with Pleasuremaker/ Senor Oz/ J. Elrod & B.Lee @ Elbo Room   The Kehoe Nation / Slowfinger / Browntown West @ Slim’s   Wallpaper / Sugar & Gold / Hot Tub @ Rickshaw Stop   Never Enough Hope / Mute Socialite @ 12 Galaxies   Amar Chaudhary / That Hideous Strangth @ Luggage Store Gallery   Rebecca Cross / Jeanne Foss / Artemas Rex @ Edinburgh Castle Pub   DJ LL Cool Dj & Shezilla @ Madrone Lounge (500 Divisadero)   Mandi Perkins / Oona Garthwaite @ Red Devil Lounge   The Parson Redheads / Monohans / Jay Tilman / Jake Mann @ Amnesia   Soraya Trio @ Rite Spot Cafe   Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band @ Yoshi’s SF   The Connie Lim Band / The Blacktone Heist @ Starry Plough (berkeley)   Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart @ Freight & Salvage (1111 Addison St. Berkeley) Friday (5/9)   Unpopable (a balloon band) @ KUSF (Guest DJ, 3 – 4pm)   KUSF presents a midnight movie: A Clockwork Orange @ Clay Theater   Dolorata / Punchface /Middle Class Rut @ Bottom of the Hill   The May Fire / The Lonely H / Blammos @ The Hemlock Tavern   Northern State / The Trucks / The Hot Toddies @ Café du Nord   Spam All Stars / The Pleasuremaker Live Band @ Elbo Room   Social Circle / Fix My Head / Needles / Yellow Eyes / Citizens On Patrol / Social Sickness @ Thee Parkside   The Slackers / Deal's Gone Bad / Firme @ Slim's   Mandala (in-house DJ series) @ Amoeba Music II, SF   The B-52s / Eagle Seagull @ The Independent   Juiceboxxx @ Rickshaw Stop   John Rybak / Carmen Guiterrez @ Nomad Cafe   Mark Growden / The Crux / Bill Wild / Low Five / Chris Wells @ 12 Galaxies   Lee Vilenski / Tin Pan Alley @ Rite Spot Cafe   Burn Disciple / The Marty Index / Social Concern @ Edinburgh Castle Pub   DJ's Raw Deluxe / Kung Fu Chris @ Madrone Lounge (500 Divisadero)   Murder Of Lilies / The Catholic Comb / Ghost to Atom / The Paper Sons @ Red Devil Lounge   Essentials / Lady Dottie & the Diamonds @ Grant and Green (1371 Grant)   Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band @ Yoshi’s SF   Bloodhag / Elk / It's Casual / Placenta @ Eli's Mile High Club (3629 MLK JR. Way,Oakland)   Monochrom / Damon Smith Group @ 21 Grand (Oakland)   Never Enough Hope / Edmund Welles / Wave & Particle @ The Uptown Nightclub (Oakland)   Girlyman @ Freight & Salvage (1111 Addison St. Berkeley)   The Brothers of the Baladi / The Brothers of the Baladi @ The Starry Plough (Berekely)   Poach Stevens @ Shattuck Down Low (2284 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley) Saturday (5/10)   KUSF presents a midnight movie: A Clockwork Orange @ Clay Theater   Borts Minorts / Dead Hensons / Unpopable @ Bottom of the Hill   400 Blows / Bloodhag / Impaled Acephalix @ Annie's Social Club   We Be the Echo / Ninja Academy / Hey Three Eyes @ The Hemlock Tavern   Poi Dog Pondering / An Angle @ Great American Music Hall   Ben Taylor and David Saw / Schuyler Fisk / Molly Jensen @ the Swedish Hall   Bayonics and Friends @ Elbo Room   Baba Ken & Kotoja @ Slim’s   Mike Relm / The Instant Messengers / Vin Sol @ The Independent   Talons of Peace / 6:am / Anthem @ Thee Parkside (3 pm)   Sudden Infant / Core Of the Coalman / Arachnid Arcade @ Art sf (110 Capp st.)   Apiary / Grace Alley / Tigon @ Edinburgh Castle Pub   DJ's Dave Paul / Jeff Harris @ Madrone Lounge (500 Divisadero)   Evolution / Beauty &The Beat @ Red Devil Lounge   Stompy Jones @ The Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa)   Scarlet Pimpernels / Switchblade Nixon @ Grant and Green (1371 Grant)   Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band @ Yoshi’s SF   The Uptones / The Devil-ettes @ The Uptown Nightclub (Oakland)   The Unreal Band / Captain Mike and The Sea Kings @ Starry Plough ( Berkeley)   Shana Morrison @ Freight & Salvage (1111 Addison St. Berkeley) Sunday (5/11)   KUSF’s Rock N Swap @ McLaren Hall (USF Campus)   Unit Breed @ Annie's Social Club   Mariee Sioux / Fern Night / Ex-Reverie @ Hemlock Tavern   Erin Mckeown / Heather Combs @ Café Du Nord   Soja / Rebelution @ Slim’s   the Better Maker @ Thee Parkside   Colin Stetson / Transmission @ Amnesia   August West @ Grant and Green (1371 Grant)   Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band @ Yoshi’s SF   Jim Grantham Jazz Quartet @ Coffee Mill (3363 Grand Ave., Oakland, 3-6pm)   The Starry Irish Music Session led by Shay Black @ Starry Plough (Berkeley)   Absolut Sundays with DJ Visav @ Acme Bar (2115 San Pablo, Berkeley)   Kathy Kallick Mother's Day show @ Freight & Salvage (1111 Addison St. Berkeley) Monday (5/12)   Efterklang / Slaraffenland / Winterbirds @ Bottom Of The Hill   Mainroom Mondays: Big Stage Karaoke @ Annie's Social Club   Punk Rock Sideshow with DJ Tragic/ the Duchess of Hazzard @ Hemlock Tavern   Vroom @ El Rio   Sister Grizzly / Hectors / Big Blue Whale @ The Knockout   Tyrone Wells / Jason Reeves @ Red Devil Lounge   Zveri @ The Independent   Jazz Jam @ Grant and Green (1371 Grant)   Joe Henderson Memorial Big Band @ Yoshi’s SF   The Songwriters Symposium @ Blake's on Telegraph (Berkeley)