This week there's a recommendation every night at a different venue - talk about a great week of music. Starting with Monday, MGMT, the super-hyped duo from Brooklyn, will be playing Bottom of the Hill. MGMT is: Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, two psychic pilgrims whose paths first intersected in the green pastures of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, circa 2002. After a post-college "existential crisis" they decided to create their masterpiece, Oracular Spectacular, released......

ON SALE SATURDAY, JANUARY 12TH AT 10:00AM! THE HIVES with The Donnas Wednesday, February 20, Doors 7:00PM/ Show 8:00PM The Fillmore Tickets are $20.00 general admission plus applicable service charges...all ages HOT CHIP with Free Blood Thursday, April 24, Doors 7:00PM/ Show 8:00PM The Fillmore Tickets are $25.00 general admission plus applicable service charges...all ages Take the jump for more information about more ticket sales and the upcoming Social Distortion show.........

UPDATE: Sunday's show is cancelled. Tonight's Social Distortion show has been postponed - rescheduled show information forthcoming. Please hold on to your tickets. Wow. Another cancellation. WTF? So many bands have been sick in the last few months, starting back with The Decemberists in November. It seems that Social Distortion worked too hard last night and they are all puckered out. We haven't heard whether Sunday or Tuesday's show is on or not. We'll just......

Our concert picks for the week of 11/10-11/16. It's another great week of music, with more of our favorites in town including Stars, The Oranges Band, our beloved Spoon and one of our newest favorites Silversun Pickups. Weeks ago we were offered review tickets to write up Sunday night's Death Cab For Cutie show, but we were just told that Atlantic Records had to "cut their press list" and our tickets were revoked. Folks, that's......

Has everyone gotten into the holiday spirit, or are we all just hopped up on eggnog? Either way, there are some festive fetes, punk rock riots and buzzworthy delights coming to our neck o' the woods this week. Hold on to your knickers -- it looks like Tom Jones kicks off a three night stint at the Fillmore this evening! Actually, in that case you should take your knickers off and throw them at him.......

The San Jose Museum of Art plays host to the first major solo U.S. exhibit of work by Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. Citing influences such as Disney and Punk Rock, Nara is best known for his unsettling cartoon-like children. Although they may fit the Japanese sense of kawaii, the direct gaze and sense of malice that is often present in Nara’s characters excludes them from fitting a Western definition of ‘cute’. The tilte of the show, “Nothing Ever Happens” is an apt reflection of the startling sense of ennui that permeates much of Nara’s art....