A desultorily gathered, purposefully incomplete, fairly idiosyncratic listing of concerts in San Francisco, Oakland, and occasionally Palo Alto, but (for some reason) never Berkeley, based in design philosophy on the late lamented CRAP.
2008-10-12
Wednesday, 2008-07-09
Venue: Blue Six
Time: 9
Ticket price: Free
Rob Woodcock; Charlie Gurke
Thursday, 2008-07-10
Venue: Great American Music Hall
Time: 8
Ticket price: 17/19
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Jason Webley
Edmund Welles
Venue: Luggage Store Gallery
Time: 8
Ticket price: 6-10
Alicia Byer
Cheryl Leonard; Felix Macnee; Cliff
Neighbors
Friday, 2008-07-11
Venue: 21 Grand
Time: 8:30
Ticket price: 6-10
Biggi Vinkeloe; Many others
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Perfor;5Dming with Swedish saxophonist, Biggi Vinkeloe, are local stalwarts: Donald Robinson, Damon Smith, Chris Brown, Jonny Wartel, Michele Collins, John Shiurba, Tim Perkis
Saturday, 2008-07-12
Venue: Great American Music Hall
Time: 8
Ticket price: 17
Matmos
Wobbly
Sunday, 2008-07-13
Venue: odc dance commons
Time: 8
Ticket price: 5
SfSound players
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Steve Reich's Four Organs (1970), Giacinto Scelsi's Kya (1959), Salvatore Sciarrino's Muro d'orizzonte (1997), Tom Dambly performing Mauricio Kagel's Atem (1970) for trumpet and tape, violist Alexa Beattie performing Alan Hilario's kbo (1997), and a new collaborative work by sfSoundGroup and Matt Ingalls.
Venue: Fort Mason Pavilion
Time: 2
Ticket price: free
Mucca Pazza
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Takes place during the renegade craft fair, which also runs saturday, and starts at 11
Tuesday, 2008-07-15
Venue: Cafe du Nord
Time: 8
Ticket price: 10-20 sliding
Citay
Tall Firs
Sleepy Sun
Corvette Summer
Wednesday, 2008-07-16
Venue: Blue Six
Time: 9
Ticket price: Free
Ross Hammond; TBA
Thursday, 2008-07-17
Venue: 21 Grand
Time: 8
Ticket price: 6-10
Peter Walker
John Schott
Venue: Luggage Store Gallery
Time: 8
Ticket price: 6-10
Kris Tiner; Donald Robinson
TBA
Venue: Starry Plough
Time: 9
Ticket price: 8
Brian Kenney Fresno
Fuzzy Cousins
miRthkon
Venue: Gray Area Gallery
Time: ?
Ticket price: ?
Tussle
Christopher Willits
Mi Ami
The Drift
Eyes
Venue: Rickshaw Stop
Time: 8
Ticket price: 12
Mucca Pazza
Brass Liberation Orchestra
Definite Articles
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Marching bands!
Friday, 2008-07-18
Venue: Blue Six
Time: 9
Ticket price: 5
The Lost Trio
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Bluesix Acoustic Presents an Evening with The Lost Trio: Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone; Dan Seamans - bass; Tom Hassett - drums. The Lost Trio will play two sets, starting at 9 pm, featuring a LOT of new material, and some pieces from their newest Evander Music release, "Plays The Solid Gold Hits".
Venue: Argus Lounge
Time: 8/9
Ticket price: 5
Caves
Oaxacan
Pink Canoes
Clovis Heald
Saturday, 2008-07-19
Venue: Art Engine Gallery
Time: 6
Ticket price: 12
Goh Nakamura
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Soundwave>Series ((3)): AudioBus-Goh Nakamura
Bay Area troubador, Goh Nakamura is famous for singing about parking tickets, impossible crushes, and faraway dreamlands
I guess a bus is involved somehow?
Venue: Hemlock
Time: 7
Ticket price: 12
Peter Walker
William Hooker Trio
Sunday, 2008-07-20
Venue: Argus Lounge
Time: 8/9
Ticket price: 5
Jesse Quattro
Tea Elles
James Fei
Monday, 2008-07-21
Venue: The Independent
Time: 8
Ticket price: 13
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Colossal Yes
Benjamin Wetherill
Thursday, 2008-07-24
Venue: 21 Grand
Time: 8:30
Ticket price: 6-10
William Hooker
Weasel Walter Quartet
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Hooker performs live music to an Oscar Michaux film
Venue: Community Music Center
Time: 8:15; Q&A 7:15
Ticket price: 12; 6 students; 10 advance
Giants of Gender; Birgit Ulher Trio + Gino
Robair; shudder + Jorrit Dijkstra
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Part of Edgetone New Music Summit
Saturday, 2008-07-26
Venue: Community Music Center
Time: 8
Ticket price: 12; 6 students; 10 advance
15 Degrees Below Zero
Say Bok Gwai
Mute Socialite
The Late Severa Wires
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Part of Edgetone New Music Summit
Sunday, 2008-07-27
Venue: Amnesia
Time: 9
Ticket price: 7
New Pantheon
Guilded Rooks
Two Man Gentleman Band
Venue: Hemlock
Time: 9:30
Ticket price: 7
Aspects of Physics
Followers
Okay
Tuesday, 2008-07-29
Venue: Climate Theater
Time: 8
Ticket price: ?
Lisa Mezzacappa's Before & After
Aaron Novik's Love Triangle Elementary School
Thursday, 2008-07-31
Venue: Cafe du Nord
Time: 8/9
Ticket price: 12
Faun Fables
Bonfire Madigan
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CD release
Saturday, 2008-08-02
Venue: Great American Music Hall
Time: 9
Ticket price: 17
Boris
Torche
Lair of the Minotaur
Tuesday, 2008-08-12
Venue: Slim's
Time: 8
Ticket price: 13/15
Wolves in the Throne Room
Ludicra
The Better to See You With
Wednesday, 2008-08-13
Venue: 21 Grand
Time: 9
Ticket price: 6-10
Zs
Burmese
The Drums
Thursday, 2008-08-14
Venue: Hemlock
Time: 9:30
Ticket price: 7
Zs
Late Young
Sunday, 2008-08-17
Venue: 21 Grand
Time: 8
Ticket price: 6-10
Monsters of accordion and the kingdom of the waxen reeds
Monday, 2008-08-18
Venue: Swedish American Music Hall
Time: 7:30
Ticket price: 18/20
Nico Muhly
Doveman
Sam Amidon
Thursday, 2008-08-28
Venue: Great American Music Hall
Time: 8
Ticket price: 13/15
Shearwater
Saturday, 2008-09-13
Venue: Bottom of the Hill
Time: 9
Ticket price: 12/14
Xiu Xiu
Evangelista
Prurient
Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone
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Kind of an insane bill
Sunday, 2008-09-14
Venue: odc dance commons
Time: 8
Ticket price: 5
sfsound players
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Morton Feldman's 80+ minute _For John Cage_ performed by Graeme Jennings and Christopher Jones
Sunday, 2008-10-12
Venue: odc dance commons
Time: 8
Ticket price: 5
sfsound players
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Local percussionist Gino Robair performs Potluck Percussion (You bring it, he'll play it - Guaranteed!) and presents ensemble pieces with sfSound augmented by laptops and voices. The program also includes two giant works from the 1980's: G rard Grisey's Talea (1986) and Mathias Spahlinger's Aussageverweigerung / Gegendarstellung: Zwei Kontra-Kontexte fuer Doppelquartett.
Sunday, 2008-11-09
Venue: odc dance commons
Time: 8
Ticket price: 5
sfsound players
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Featuring sfSound's saxophonist John Ingle in a recital of new solo and ensemble compositions, improvisations, and a concerto by local composer Josh Levine. Plus, NYC-based percussion duo Hunter-Gatherer (Russell Greenberg and Ian Antonio) perform David Bithell's Whistle From Above for percussion and robotics, and Gerard Grisey's Stele for two bass drums. Also the west-coast premiere of a new work by Pulitzer winnder David Lang.
Addresses of venues:
21 Grand: 416 25th St @ Broadway, Oakland
Amnesia: 853 Valencia b/w 19th & 20th, SF
Argus Lounge: 3187 Mission St, SF
Art Engine Gallery: 1035 Mission St, SF
Blue Six: 3049 24th (near Treat)
Bottom of the Hill: 1233 17th St, San Francisco
Cafe du Nord: 2170 Market St, San Francisco
Climate Theater: 285 9th Street @ Folsom
Community Music Center: 544 Capp St b/w 20th and 21st
Fort Mason Pavilion: Enter at intersection of Marina blvd and Buchanan st
Gray Area Gallery: 371 11th St, SF
Great American Music Hall: 859 O'Farrell St, San Francisco
Hemlock: 1131 Polk, San Francisco
Luggage Store Gallery: 1007 Market St. @ 6th St., SF
Rickshaw Stop: 155 Fell st, SF
Slim's: 333 11th St, San Francisco
Starry Plough: 3101 Shattuck Ave at Prince, Berkeley
Swedish American Music Hall: 2170 Market Street, SF
The Independent: 628 Divisadero St, San Francisco
odc dance commons: 351 Shotwell, sf