Always overheard on the Haight: "Buds. Need some buds. Green buds." Friends of SFist Inspector Double Negative are bringing their high-concept hip-hop stylings to Oaklandish at eight tonight: cover is $4.20. No, what you're smelling is not that incense that's for sale by the MacArthur BART station. Join SFist for some beer drinkin' and rump shakin'. Rock-star literary types the Pindeldyboyz are on their first ever west coast swing -- first stop, The Makeout......

If anyone ever invites you to an East Bay Rats party, cancel whatever plans you may already have and go. Seriously. SFist has never seen anything quite like what we saw Saturday night -- a three ring circus of awesomeness, including a ring of fire, a boxing ring, and the ring of music. If you don't know the legend of the East Bay Rats Motorcycle Club, think of it as having an aesthetic somewhere......