"480 Minutes" - Happy Passover & Good Friday
We just experienced a great stretch for live music here in San Francisco: Dirty Ghosts and Chapter 24 at the Hemlock, then Fun. at Bottom of the Hill, then Young Prisms, Terry Malts, and Cold Showers at Bottom of the Hill, and then the cherry on top: The Wedding Present (with my friend T. Jay, one of the few people I can sit and talk music with for an hour or two) at The Independent. As always, seeing The Wedding Present made me pogo, feel, tear up, and smile with joy.
In the news this week, former Senator current MPAA shill Chris Dodd is gleefully working on a repackaged version of SOPA, while the Sweater Vest Crusader heralded a new right-wing attack on public universities, and right here in the San Francisco Bay Area, armed and masked IRS agents, DEA agents, and US Marshals raided legal, state-licensed medicinal cannabis sites. If medical cannabis is even on the back page of the book of current threats to U.S. national security, we really ought to consider scaling back our immense defense budget a bit, don't you think? Maybe spend some of that found money hiring unemployed people to shore up crumbling infrastructure? Yeah, I know, that's crazy talk.
Anyway, today's show will feature new tunes by Breton (London, England), Dr. John (New Orleans, LA), Eight And A Half (Toronto, Canada), Emily Wells (Amarillo, TX), Freshkills (Brooklyn, NY), K. Flay (San Francisco, CA), Konrad (Rock Island, IL), Lower Dens (Baltimore, MD), Ramona Falls (Portland, OR), Ravens & Chimes (New York, NY), Sarah Jaffe (Dallas, Texas), Weird Dreams (London, England), White Arrows (Los Angeles, CA), Willis Earl Beal (Chicago, IL), and Young Hines (Nashville, TN).
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The Frail/ Young Digerati/ 8th Grader/ Bruises @ Bottom of the Hill 4/6 buy tickets
Swervedriver @ Slim's 4/6 buy tickets
Carolina Chocolate Drops @ Slim's 4/7
*James/ Elizaveta @ The Independent 4/11 sold the fuck out!
Oberhofer/ Pond/ PreTeen @ Rickshaw Stop 4/11
M. Ward @ The Fillmore 4/11
Mazzy Star/ Alina Hardin/ Entrance Band @ Regency Grand 4/11
fIREHOSE @ Slim's 4/11
Blood Orange/ Trust @ Rickshaw Stop 4/12
*Band Of Skulls @ The Fillmore 4/12
Melvins @ Great American 4/12
Jonathan Richman @ The New Parish (Oakland) 4/13
Thomas Dolby/ Aaron Jonah Lewis/ Ben Blecher @ Red Devil Saloon 4/13
Cannons And Clouds/ Tartufi/ Echo Location @ Rickshaw Stop 4/13
Acid Mothers Temple/ Phantom Family Halo/ High Horse @ Bottom of the Hill 4/14 buy tickets
Pontiak/ Electric Shepherd & Outlaw/ White Cloud@ Bottom of the Hill 4/15 buy tickets
Elvis Costello & The Imposters @ The Warfield 4/15
*The Horrors/ The Black Angels @ Bimbo's 4/16
Kasabian @ The Fillmore 4/16
Justice @ TFox Theater (Oakland) 4/17
Foxy Shazam/ Maniac/ Cadaver Dogs @ Rickshaw Stop 4/17
Godspeed You Black Emperor! @ Great American Music Hall 4/16 through 4/20
Pulp @ The Warfield 4/17
Fanfarlo @ Slim's 4/17
* Squeeze @ The Fillmore 4/19
Wild Beasts @ The Independent 4/19
Bon Iver @ Bill Graham Civic Auditiorium 4/19
Buzzcocks @ The Uptown (Oakland) 4/20
School Of Seven Bells/ Exitmusic/ tba @ Rickshaw Stop 4/20
Lyric of the Week I: 'If I’m gonna go to hell / I’ll take the entrance through your thighs.' - Freshkills, "Positive Vibes"
Lyric of the Week II: “Why are they trying to salvage what we’ll be leaving by the side of the road?' - Breton, "Electrician"
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