When The Lights Go Down In The City

Our concert picks for the week of 1/19-1/25.

One more reason why SF is a great city for music: the feature length film about the annual Coachella music festival is showing here this week. The film showcases one song each from a long list of performers, including Bjork, Radiohead, Oasis, The Crystal Method and many more, plus acts you may not have had the chance to see live like Morrissey, Fischerspooner, Polyphonic Spree, Pixies and Wayne Coyne in his giant plastic bubble. Interspersed throughout are short artist interviews, footage of the concert grounds, vignettes about attendees, shots of art installations and more. The filmmakers portray the event as more of a life experience than merely a weekend-long concert. ("It's as important as a colonic or the right diet," says Perry Farrell.) Watching a windblown Arcade Fire play to an endless crowd beneath a purple desert sunset might inspire you to make the road trip in April.

"Coachella" the film opens on Friday the 20th and runs through 1/26 . Enter to win a pass that's good for the entire run of the film at the Roxie. (Our contest-o-tron will pick a winner at 2pm tomorrow.)

Thursday 1/19
Vetiver, The Espers @ 12 Galaxies
Editors @ Popscene
Rodney Crowell, Will Kimbrough, The Alternate Routes @ Great American
Lifehouse @ The Fillmore