When The Lights Go Down In The City
Our concert picks for the week of 8/25 - 8/31.
Local label Jackpine Social Club generously doles out another few helpings of free stuff this week. Two of you will win a pair of tickets to the Jackpine Social Club party at 12 Galaxies on Friday night where No Depression's "Artist of the Decade" Alejandro Escovedo headlines. Jon Dee Graham plays also, and Jackpine artists Jesse DeNatale and Loquat complete the bill. (Enter now -- contest ends Friday at 4pm).
Get hip tonight with the Lovemakers, Drunk Horse and Death of a Party at Great American. The Invisible Cities play their “incandescent rough-around-the-edges sometimes-quiet sometimes loud rocknroll pop music” at the Makeout Room. Find out why they got voted Best Indie Pop Band in the Guardian's Best of the Bay 2005 by listening to their album Watertown online. If you're really cutting edge, you'll be at the Rickshaw Stop to experience the world premiere of FOGSTORM! by magician Stallion. If you don't go visit Stallion's website right now, you're boring.
We wish we had tickets to see Tom Petty at the Greek Theatre on Friday, but we don't. Lucky for us, another legend is playing much closer to our house. Join us at 12 Galaxies for the Jackpine Social Club party, and get schooled by the legendary Alejandro Escovedo, who has done time in The Nuns, Rank and File, the True Believers and more. If you're carnivorous be sure to buy some tickets to their infamous Meat Raffle while you're there. At the Hemlock, Panache Magazine presents a show with TITS and The Flying Luttenbachers. The Coup and Kid Beyond are at Mezzanine.
On Saturday, Luca returns to San Francisco to play the Hemlock, which is sure to be trouble. Missing Persons turn up at Red Devil Lounge. On Sunday, the Independent hosts some grimy rock by Black Mountain and locals Parchman Farm.
Bring it all down a few notches on Monday by seeing (smog) and Last of the Blacksmiths at the Independent, or John Wesley Harding at Café Du Nord. Head to Amoeba for a free show by Hey Willpower on Tuesday, and a performance by the all-girl Japanese electropop band PINE*am on Wednesday. PINE*am plays the Rickshaw Stop later that night.
Image of Alejandro Escovedo from this website. Image of PINE*am from usounds.com.
