So of course we weren't in The City for most of the week -- you may have noticed parts one, two, three, four and five of our coverage of SXSW in Austin. As nice as the people and the place was, though, it sure wasn't San Francisco, and we are so glad to be back home. That doesn't mean that there wasn't all sorts of great local coverage on the site all week. Just......

Well, pretty much everyone who's anyone in indie rock this weekend (including your regular columnist and SFist's new music editor SFist Krissy) is in Austin for SXSW. The rest of us forlornly left behind can comfort ourselves with the following shows. Tonight, local country-folk rockers The Court and Spark are playing at the Hemlock. Get some dreamy twang with your smokers' lounge! There's an embarrassment of riches on Friday: Metal band the F***ing Champs play 12 Galaxies, Elephone brings their avant-garde electronica to the Bottom of the Hill, Xhibit plays the Fillmore (maybe if you ask nicely, he'll pimp your ride), and for those of you looking for cheap laffs, Mandonna will be bringing the cross-dressing pointy bras and headsets to the Great American (watch out for blood from the Ian Brown show -- FYI: SFPD has decided they won't prosecute but have encouraged GAMH to sue). On Saturday, for those of you who can't spend $24-42 on tickets to blues and soul legend Solomon Burke's Friday SFJAZZ show at the Palace of Fine Arts, he's doing a free show at Amoeba on Saturday. Show starts at 1:30 but in our experience, those free shows fill up pretty fast, so get there around noonish and do some browsing while you wait. (You may remember Solomon Burke also as the man who wrote the single that got Rob and Laura together in Nick Hornby's High Fidelity.) If you make it out alive from the crazed crush at Amoeba, stop by BotH later that evening and catch Nerf Herder, the guys who recorded the Buffy the Vampire Slayer theme song. Listings for the next work week, after the jump. Picture of Solomon Burke by Kathy Willens of the AP....

Hey, a fight in the Tenderloin that doesn't involve Supervisor Chris Daly? Singer and Angry British Man Ian Brown, the former lead singer of the Stone Roses ("I Wanna Be Adored" -- yeah, we had to look it up too, we always got all those Manchester bands mixed up) was arrested after getting in a fight with an audience member at his show last night at the Great American Music Hall. Brown, on a North American tour to promote his new album Solarized (hey, how come that's spelled with a z and not an s like the British usually do?), had just stopped playing "Made of Stone" for the third time to complain about the venue's sound quality, when, as our eyewitness source reports, "a Gary Busey Jr. lookalike security guard" jumped on stage and rugby-tackled Brown. The band rushed in for a fight, "stomped on" Gary Busey's head for awhile, and then left the stage, only to come back 15 minutes later and finish the show without further incident (if you don't count more complaining about the sound, that is). SFPD came by after the show and arrested Brown at his hotel. Brown's management says today that no one's pressing charges (yet) -- but it seems like they must have issued that statement before the criminal courts actually opened today. (Pesky time difference!) Brown was previously arrested in 1998 for an air rage incident (where he threatened to chop a stewardess's hands off for gesturing at him) and served four months in prison. Picture of fight from NME.com by Ben Taylor. And big ups to our confidential source! Hey -- do you have any good gossip? Tell us!...