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| "27th Annual Encuentro del Canto Popular" Brava Theater Center | Fri., December 5, 8:00pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
 With an impressive roster of local and internationally recognized musicians and performers, the Encuentro del Canto Popular began during a period marked by revolutionary uprisings and CIA-backed armies fighting in Central America. Almost three decades later, the U.S. is still at war with brown... More >> |
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| "27th Annual Encuentro del Canto Popular" Brava Theater Center | Sat., December 6, 8:00pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
 With an impressive roster of local and internationally recognized musicians and performers, the Encuentro del Canto Popular began during a period marked by revolutionary uprisings and CIA-backed armies fighting in Central America. Almost three decades later, the U.S. is still at war with brown... More >> |
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| AC/DC Oracle Arena | Tue., December 2, 8:00pm | East Oakland | |
 Reliability. It’s underrated. Who even thinks about a car that starts every time? Until the one time it doesn’t. AC/DC is like that. The band rocks. And that’s all it does. The music isn’t complicated. It’s Phil Rudd’s simple drumming. It’s Cliff... More >> |
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| AC/DC, The Answer Oracle Arena | Thu., December 4, 8:00pm | East Oakland | |
 Reliability. It’s underrated. Who even thinks about a car that starts every time? Until the one time it doesn’t. AC/DC is like that. The band rocks. And that’s all it does. The music isn’t complicated. It’s Phil Rudd’s simple drumming. It’s Cliff... More >> |
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| "Baghdad by the Bay December Showcase" Red Devil Lounge | Tue., December 2, 8:00pm | Nob Hill/Russian Hill | |
 Pirate Cat Radio must be the most visible underground radio station in the country. Transmitting unlicensed from its bright, shiny corner cafe in the Mission, the studio is observable to all who pass by, and cheeky DJs entice their audiences to come down and join the live studio landscape. In... More >> |
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| Blitzen Trapper, The Parson Red Heads, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band The Independent | Tue., December 2, 8:00pm | Haight/Fillmore | |
 Let’s set the record straight. Despite a long list of rock writers claiming the contrary, Blitzen Trapper is not an Americana band. Sure, the band tinkers with roots rock: a little Creedence twang here, some Crazy Horse crunch there. But beyond the pedal-steel–led ballad “Stolen... More >> |
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| "Club Six 10-Year Anniversary" Club Six | Fri., December 5, 9:00pm | South of Market | |
 In its 10 years, Club Six has given a platform to international artists as well as budding locals in a number of genres ranging from reggae and hip-hop to house and techno. It has helped to clean up Sixth Street, and even had its silver screen debut in 2005 as a set for the movie Rent. Owner... More >> |
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| "First Annual International Body Music Festival" Project Artaud Theater | Fri., December 5, 8:00pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
 Upon finding delight in the corporeal world, most infants express it by slapping, clapping, stomping, thumping, and vocalizing. This same combination has been cultivated and refined in every culture around the world. Yet, there has never been an international gathering of body musicians. This... More >> |
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| "First Annual International Body Music Festival" Project Artaud Theater | Sat., December 6, 8:00pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
 Upon finding delight in the corporeal world, most infants express it by slapping, clapping, stomping, thumping, and vocalizing. This same combination has been cultivated and refined in every culture around the world. Yet, there has never been an international gathering of body musicians. This... More >> |
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| "First Annual International Body Music Festival: Body Music in the Americas" Project Artaud Theater | Sun., December 7, 7:00pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
 Upon finding delight in the corporeal world, most infants express it by slapping, clapping, stomping, thumping, and vocalizing. This same combination has been cultivated and refined in every culture around the world. Yet, there has never been an international gathering of body musicians. This... More >> |
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| Little Joy, The Dead Trees, Red Cortez Slim's | Tue., December 9, 8:00pm | South of Market | |
 The Strokes are officially on “hiatus” until early 2009, but really, does anyone care? They aren’t the same hungry young Manhattanites who released Is This It in 2001. That raw, disaffected downtown sound has grown stale over the years from a combination of lackluster live shows,... More >> |
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| Love Is Chemicals, Mist & Mast, We Is Shore Dedicated Hemlock Tavern | Fri., December 5, 9:30pm | Nob Hill/Russian Hill | |
 Love Is Chemicals makes us think of teenagers trapped in suburban bedrooms, lying on beds and wearing headphones and dreaming of getting the fuck out of there. Or dreaming of their desperate loves. Or dreaming of total world domination via shiny pants. A fanciful adolescent brain could find all... More >> |
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| Meat Beat Manifesto, Dub Gabriel The Independent | Fri., December 5, 9:00pm | Haight/Fillmore | |
 British-born producer and longtime Bay Area resident Jack Dangers has had a productive musical year. He released a limited-edition CD, Music for Planetarium, for a science center in Hungary as well as the tenth studio album for his brainchild, Meat Beat Manifesto. The latter, Autoimmune,... More >> |
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| Mike Relm, Peanut Butter Wolf, Party Ben Mezzanine | Fri., December 5, 9:00pm | South of Market | |
 Bay Area natives Mike Relm and Peanut Butter Wolf (the latter lives in L.A., but he grew up here so we can still claim him) have taken their DJing into new dimensions over the last several years by mixing videos with vinyl. Relm tends to weave together swathes of film and television samples,... More >> |
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| Meshell Ndegeocello, The Coup The Fillmore | Sun., December 7, 8:00pm | Japantown/Pacific Heights | |
 Meshell Ndegeocello has packed plenty of stylistic hairpin turns into a two-decade career, from her hip-hop debut to her more recent forays into quiet-storm-jazz-meets- avant-funk instrumentals. Though fusion heavyweights like Pat Metheny appear on her latest effort, The World Has Made Me the... More >> |
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| "Pink Slip: A Fugly Xmas" The Stud | Tue., December 16, 11:00pm | South of Market | |
 For over a decade, Trannyshack and hostess Heklina wooed us with shocking drag shows and celebrity appearances. But there’s a new sheriff in town and her name is Virginia Suicide. Her variety show, Pink Slip, consists of 10 (more or less) acts of drag queens singing (not lip syncing) and... More >> |
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| Puma Birthday Party Great American Music Hall | Tue., December 9, 9:00pm | Nob Hill/Russian Hill | |
 Puma shoe company is coming up on its 60th birthday in December, so to celebrate it’s hosting a series of free shows across the country. The San Francisco gig is on Tuesday, Dec. 9, at the Great American Music Hall, with entertainment by club diva Lady GaGa (pictured here in a rare moment... More >> |
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| Sébastian Tellier, Hearts Revolution, Lilofee, Beat Electric DJs Black Shag, B.T. Magnum, & Safety Scissors Mezzanine | Thu., December 4, 9:00pm | South of Market | |
 When French pop arose fresh-faced and well-coiffed in the early ’60s, few would have pictured it a generation later in the hands of a guy who looks like a biker in casual Yves Saint-Laurent. But gaze into the hairy, shaded face of Sebastien Tellier (after you listen to his new album,... More >> |
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| "Tutu Tuesday" Vessel | Second Tuesday of every month, 9:00pm | North Beach/Chinatown | |
 Big secret about tutus: If you're wearing one, you can't rest your hands at your sides – not if you're wearing a real, starched, horizontal ballerina tutu. Wear any kind of tutu you want at Tutu Tuesday, floppy or erect. If you don't own a tutu, or if you forgot yours at home, make or buy... More >> |
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| Von Iva, Run Run Run, The Bruises Café Du Nord | Fri., December 5, 9:30pm | Castro/Noe Valley | |
 If you’re Radiohead or Nine Inch Nails, you can throw a new record up on the Web without major label support and fans will come running (or, as it were, clicking). But for indie artists who aren’t even household names in their own hometowns, freedom from corporate contracts can be a... More >> |
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| Wu-Tang Clan The Regency Center | Wed., December 3, 8:00pm | Nob Hill/Russian Hill | |
 Products of Staten Island’s 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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| "Black Gold" KoKo Cocktails | Every week Monday, 10:00pm | Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |
 You may want your retro-soul weekend parties to be packed, sweaty blasts full of vintage grinders. But on Monday nights, the smooth, sugar-melting tones of ’60s soul music work as relaxing tonics to calm party-frazzled nerves — and that’s where Black Gold comes in. Hosted by... 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 collective’s intent has... More >> |
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| Classical Revolution Revolution Cafe | Every week Sunday, 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 collective’s intent has... More >> |
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| Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young de Young Museum | Every week Friday, 6:30pm | Richmond (Inner) | |
 The de Young Museum launches its 2008 Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young program in style, teaming up with Intersection for the Arts to present an ambitious showcase for eight commissioned compositions from an impressive range of local jazz band leaders. First appearing last... More >> |
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