The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts
The week kicks off with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White playing several just-announced all acoustic sets at Yoshi's Oakland. Then on Thursday, jangly French pop band Phoenix is at The Warfield, and their set will surely include the single "Lisztomania" (video above) from their latest album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. The lyrics are charmingly foreign, including the refrain, "Lisztomania / Think less but see it grow / Like a riot, like a riot, oh ! / I'm not easily offended / It's not hard to let it go / From a mess to the masses." We think it's about socialized medicine, or something. Anyway, it's fun.
Oh, and, uh... Skynyrd, man.
Monday, September 14
Monks of Doom / Penelope Houston Band, Cafe du Nord, $15
Toshio Hirano @ Amnesia, free
Tuesday, September 15
Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White @ Yoshi's Oakland, $60
Lynyrd Skynyrd @ Mountain Winery, $56 and up
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, The Independent, $10
Wednesday, September 16
Arctic Monkeys @ The Fox Theater, Oakland, $27
The Love Language @ Cafe du Nord, $10
Thursday, September 17
Phoenix @ The Warfield, $27.50
Chairlift, Bottom of the Hill, $15
Ben Harper and Relentless7 @ The Fox Theater, Oakland, $35
The Brunettes / Throw Me the Statue @ The Rickshaw, $12
Friday, September 18
Citizen Cope @ The Fillmore, $25
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart @ Great American Music Hall, $15
Porcupine Tree @ The Warfield, $27.50/$32.50
Saturday, September 19
David Cross @ The Warfield, $34.50/$47.50
Little Boots @ The Independent, $15/$17
On Land Festival feat. Tarentel and The Starving Weirdos @ Cafe du Nord & The Swedish American Hall, $15/$10
Sunday, September 20
Etta James and The Roots @ Mountain Winery, $45 and up
The Actors / Royal Bangs / Tigercity @ Bottom of the Hill, $10