March music madness is upon us, with SXSW happening in Austin mid-month (this SFist will be covering) and the Noise Pop Festival starting at the end of the month. Start your own music marathon this Saturday at the Rickshaw Stop when Mesh Magazine kicks off its third year with a party featuring The Herms, Tussle, The Ebb and Flow, DJs, artwork and more. We're giving away two tickets to the extravaganza. (We'll pick a winner......

First off, we just found out via Craiglist about a wharehouse party tonight featuring The Wildlife, barbarasteele, Joel Gion's The Dilettantes and Six Eye Columbia. They tell us to "Bring some champagne and come and dance." Sounds like a fine time! 9pm at 58 Natoma, $5 at the door. Tomorrow are two hip happenings -- first is the 10th annual Books By the Bay, an outdoor event at the Yerba Buena Center for the......

One of the best things about being Jewish is all the random holidays on random nights that totally gives you the excuse to go party on nights you normally wouldn't go party on. Case in point is this Sunday which is Shavuot. Shavuot, which means "Feast of Weeks," commemorates Moses receiving the Fifteen Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai and is also traditionally a celebration of the harvest time. As part of the holiday, we Jews......