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Music: Rock/Pop
The Hold Steady
Sunday Nov 23 (8pm) @ The Fillmore More times »
Brooklyn's the Hold Steady have come a long way from their roots in legendary Minneapolis indie-rock outfit LFTR PLLR. The self-declared "bar band" is still... View details »
The Hold Steady
Music: Classical
Hauscka
Sunday Nov 23 (8:30pm) @ Hotel Utah Saloon
Like John Cage and his treated pianos Dusseldorf-based pianist Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) likes to play dress up with his instrument. The rule-breaking minimalist clamps... View details »
Hauscka
Music: Rock/Pop
Deerhunter
Monday Nov 24 (8pm) @ Great American Music Hall
Bradford Cox, the lanky frontman and curious creative force behind Deerhunter, has done it again. Upping the ante on their own 2007 achievement Cryptograms, Cox... View details »
Deerhunter
Music: Rock/Pop
Rosebuds
Monday Nov 24 (8pm) @ The Independent
One of many bands causing a musical renaissance in Raleigh, NC, the Rosebuds might be the most eclectic of the bunch. The band's most recent... View details »
Rosebuds
Music: Rock/Pop
The Decemberists
Tuesday Nov 25 (8pm) @ The Warfield
Despite a penchant for more-absurdist-than-thou lyrics and off-kilter instrumentation, neo-prog folksters the Decemberists are actually pretty populist — courting landlords' daughters, barrow boys, and indie-pop... View details »
The Decemberists
Music: Jazz/Blues
Rhett Miller
Tuesday Nov 25 (8pm) @ Yoshi's San Francisco
A Texan at heart, Austin-bred rocker Rhett Miller sticks close to his Lone Star State roots. There's no rush to his melodies; like a rider... View details »
Rhett Miller
Music: Rock/Pop
The Sisters Of Mercy
Wednesday Nov 26 (8pm) @ The Warfield
Given its terminally earnest nature and willingness to establish rules of conduct, goth was destined to eventually lapse into self-parody. Sisters of Mercy were as... View details »
The Sisters Of Mercy
Music: Experimental
Half-Handed Cloud
Wednesday Nov 26 (9pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
Berkeley's John Ringhofer occasionally plays with both Sufjan Stevens and Danielson, and his solo work as Half-Handed Cloud fits pretty neatly between the two, mixing... View details »
Half-Handed Cloud
Music: Hip-Hop
Lyrics Born
Wednesday Nov 26 (9pm) @ The Independent
Check your backpacks at the door — Lyrics Born is out to party. Everywhere at Once, the San Francisco-based rapper's third proper full-length album, was... View details »
Lyrics Born
Music: Hip-Hop
Nas
Friday Nov 28 (8pm) @ The Warfield
Never one to shy away from controversy, Nas wanted to name his newest record after the world's most famous racial epithet. But, due to distribution... View details »
Nas
Music: Rock/Pop
M83
Friday Nov 28 (9pm) @ The Fillmore
When France's M83 first washed up on these shores with 2003's Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, it was a giant step forward for... View details »
M83
Music: Electronic
Landshark
Friday Nov 28 (9:30pm–4am) @ DNA Lounge
John Tejada, LA's first name in minimal techno, brings his signature sound — emotional, beautifully rounded proto-melodies stacked carefully around 4/4 beats — back San... View details »
Landshark
Music: Folk/Country
Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs
Friday Nov 28 (10pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
Evoking the spirit of Peggy Lee's "Fever," Holly Golightly's honeyed voice courts quiet cacophony, rubbing everything from washboards strummed by metal-tipped fingers to sharp finger... View details »
Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs
Music: Hip-Hop
Shwayze
Saturday Nov 29 (8pm) @ The Grand Ballroom
One is the self-described "only black guy in Malibu," the other's the paparazzi's favorite beach bum, and when they come together they create the musical... View details »
Shwayze
Music: Folk/Country
The Skygreen Leopards
Saturday Nov 29 (9:30pm) @ Cafe du Nord
While describing a band by referencing others is often a veiled accusation that a sound is derivative, sometimes it simply indicates that the sound enters... View details »
The Skygreen Leopards
Music: DJ
Blowoff
Saturday Nov 29 (10pm) @ Slim's
Longtime fans might have had an inkling that former Hüsker Dü frontman Bob Mould was anxious to ditch his guitar when he released 2002's largely... View details »
Blowoff
Music: Electronic
The Herbaliser
Sunday Nov 30 (9pm) @ The Independent
London-based group the Herbaliser have been crafting jazz-hop fusion tracks since the mid '90s. While these longtime Ninja Tune signees have collaborated with MCs like... View details »
The Herbaliser
Music: Electronic
Birds & Batteries
Monday Dec 1 (8pm) @ Cafe du Nord
Birds & Batteries bandleader Mike Sempert moved to San Francisco a couple of years ago with a batch of home recordings (2005's Nature vs.... View details »
Birds & Batteries
Music: Electronic
Mike Relm
Friday Dec 5 (9pm) @ Mezzanine
SF's Mike Relm has made his name as a multimedia mash-up artist, mixing and manipulating hip-hop beats and indie-rock gems while combining Japanese cult-film footage... View details »
Mike Relm
Music: Electronic
Meat Beat Manifesto
Friday Dec 5 (9pm) @ The Independent
Since forming in Swindon in 1987, Meat Beat Manifesto have toyed with breaks, techno, industrial, dub, and everything in between, carving out a distinct (if... View details »
Meat Beat Manifesto
Music: DJ
Fischerspooner
Saturday Dec 6 (10pm) @ Mighty
Backlash is a bitch, and Fischerspooner — the colorful performance troupe that became the poster children for electroclash — have certainly endured their share. Whatever... View details »
Fischerspooner
Music: Rock/Pop
Dressy Bessy
Tuesday Dec 9 (8pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
Dressy Bessy, quite simply, are all about having a good time. The playful tone this Denver-based collective adopts has bubbled over into a few mediums;... View details »
Dressy Bessy
Music: Festival
Live105's Not So Silent Night
Thursday Dec 11 (6:30pm) @ Oracle Arena
Live105's Not So Silent Night
Music: Rock/Pop
Mudhoney
Friday Dec 12 (8pm) @ The Independent
Flannel-driven slackertude attempts a comeback as grunge-metal mainstays Mudhoney hit the stage. Signed to Sub Pop in the label's late-80's/early-'90s heyday, Mudhoney paved the way... View details »
Mudhoney
Music: Rock/Pop
Ya Ho Wha 13
Thursday Dec 18 (8pm) @ Slim's
Invigorated by the definitive recent book The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and the Source Family, the Source Family... View details »
Ya Ho Wha 13
Music: Hip-Hop
Lil' Wayne
Tuesday Dec 23 (7:30pm) @ Oracle Arena
Lil' Wayne
Music: Folk/Country
Willie Nelson
Friday Jan 16, 2009 (8pm) @ The Fillmore More times »
Of late, the Red Headed Stranger has only made headlines via a string of so-so albums, dubious new-country collaborations (though we forgive him — we... View details »
Willie Nelson