The annual Burger Records fest takes place March 23rd - 25th and will be hosted by friends at Thee Parkside, which if I’m not mistaken also serves up burgers, making this fest delectable not only on the cochlea. RSVP here. Weekend are still available here for 35 bones. Full lineup below:
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Friday, March 23rd
King Tuff
Coconut Coolouts
Mom
King Lollipop
Nectarine Pie
Dj Yeah Right And The…
Electric Boogaloo Danceoff
9pm, $10, 21+ (buy tickets)
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Saturday, March 24th (early show)
Tough Shits
Gravy’s Drop
Dukes Of Hamburg
Welcome Home Walker
The Wild Ones
Dj Kevin Spaghetti
Golden Rake Record Swap
2pm, $7, 21+ (buy tickets)
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Saturday, March 24th (late show)
Thee Oh Sees (Just Announced)
White Mystery
Coathangers
Guantanamo Baywatch
Cyclops
Dj Jackie Sugarlumps
9pm, $10, 21+ (buy tickets)
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Sunday, March 25th (early show)
The Cuts
Audacity
Cosmonauts
Dominant Legs
Burnt Ones
Cumstain
Dj Oscar
Burger Boogaloo Record Swap
Featuring The Golden Rake
2pm, $7, 21+ (buy tickets)
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Sunday, March 25th (late show)
Strange Boys
Sir Lord Von Raven
Pangea
Los Vigilantes
Junk Species
Dj Big Nate
8pm, $10, 21+ (buy tickets)

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Dope new video from our buds in Burnt Ones, off their new 7″ available now through Burger Records. Directed by Rob Williamson.

[The Mallard @ Hemlock Tavern]

Monday
Peter Case, Paul Collins, Summer Twins | Red Devil Lounge, 8pm

Tuesday
Burnt Ones, Blasted Canyons, Soft Swells | Brick and Mortar Music Hall, 9pm [free]
Thee Oh Sees, Magnetix, Pets with Pets, The Mallard | The Independent, 9pm

Wednesday
La Sera, Cold Showers, Swiftumz | Rickshaw Stop, 8pm
Mean Jeans, Guantanamo Baywatch, Primitive Hearts, The Wrong Words | Thee Parkside, 8pm

Thursday
The Fresh and Onlys, The Mantles | Makeout Room, 7:30pm
Vetiver, Dominant Legs, Simone Rubi | New Parish, 8pm

Friday
Barn Owl, Date Palms | The LAB, 8pm [16th Street x South Van Ness]
Crocodiles, Bleeding Rainbow, Terry Malts | Rickshaw Stop, 9pm

Saturday
Grave Babies, Permanent Collection, Chasms | Hemlock Tavern, 9pm
Hank IV, Electric Jellyfish, Mike Donovan, Carlton Melton | El Rio, 9pm

Anything else?

[Rank/Xerox]

Tuesday
Thee Cormans, Shrouds, Khans, Swiss Family Skiers @ Hemlock Tavern, 9pm

Wednesday
Uzi Rash, Still Suit, Meat Swap @ 1-2-3-4 Go! Records, 7pm
Brightlighters, Bang Bang, Dirty Pillows @ The Knockout, 9pm
Violet Hour, The Symbolick Jews, The Tambo Rays @ Brick and Mortar Music Hall, 9pm

Thursday
French Cassettes, Cool Ghouls, Chris Fish, Big Time @ Brick and Mortar, 8pm
Burnt Ones, The Mallard, Koko and the Sweetmeats @ Hemlock Tavern, 9pm

Friday
Rank/Xerox, Shoppers, The Smell, Wild Moth @ Fivepoints Arthouse (72 Tehama), 7pm

Saturday
Party Owl, Poor Sons, Maxirad @ Hemlock Tavern, 9:30pm
Shoppers, Neon Piss, Rank/Xerox, Cathedral Ghost @ 1-2-3-4 Go! Records, 7pm

Sunday
Vetiver, Magic Trick @ The Independent, 9pm
Part Time, Permanent Collection, Tint @ Hemlock Tavern, 9pm

[Tijuana Panthers @ KSCR Fest]

Tuesday
Lady Lazarus, Pregnant, Jib Kidder @ Hemlock Tavern, 9pm

Wednesday
Water Borders, King Dude @ Elbo Room, 9pm
Violent Vickie, Primary Colors, San Cha, Hungry Ghosts @ The Uptown (Oakland), 9pm
The Tambo Rays, Little Hurricane, Musical Chairs @ Hotel Utah, 9pm

Thursday
Too Short @ The New Parish, 10pm [rescheduled]

Friday
The Entrance Band, Matt Baldwin @ The New Parish, 9pm

Saturday
Mikal Cronin, Shannon and the Clams, Pangea @ El Rio, 9pm [mikal cronin on tour]
The Papercuts, Dominant Legs, Tim Cohen @ Rickshaw Stop, 9pm
Tijuana Panthers, The She’s, Melted Toys @ Bottom of the Hill, 10pm [the she's record release]
Wax Idols, Burnt Ones, Manatee, Cruel Summer @ Vitus (Oakland), 9pm [wax idols' record release]
Weekend, Terry Malts, Extra Classic, Sleepy Sun @ Verdi Club, 2pm [the bay brewed]

Sunday
Cass McCombs, White Magic, Liza Thorn @ Great American Music Hall, 7pm
Peach Kelli Pop, The Wrong Words, PreTeen @ The Knockout, 6pm [early show]
Thee Oh Sees, Total Control, Bronze, The Mallard @ Verdi Club, 9pm

NME recently put together a “cool list” of music makers and shakers for 2011; GorillavsBear did a good job ripping it apart in their list and perhaps pointed out the obvious in stating that making “‘cool lists’ is not really that cool.” Nevertheless, here’s our Bay Area version. Let us know what you hate in the comments.

10 Shiv Mehra // Creepers

mp3:
Creepers // “Spiral”

09 Corey Cunningham // Terry Malts

mp3:
Terry Malts // “Tumble Down”

08 Lars Finberg // Thee Oh Sees

mp3:
Thee Oh Sees // “The Dream”

07 Mikal Cronin

mp3:
Mikal Cronin // “Get Along”

06 Mark Tester // BURNT ONES

mp3:
Burnt Ones // “Do the Spell (Loud)”

05 Robbie Simon // Wet Illustrated

mp3:
Wet Illustrated // “Gypsy Town”

04 Tim Presley // White Fence

03 Blasted Canyons

02 Chris McVicker // Swiftumz

mp3:
Swiftumz // “Angelita”

01 Mike Donovan // Sic Alps

mp3:
Sic Alps // “Breadhead”

by Noah Sanders

If you’re looking for a well-priced show featuring a strong line-up of some true up-and-comers in the city (and one startling out-of-towner), The Mallard/Burnt Ones/Lantern show at The Knockout on Monday the 17th is sure to sonically flay you. The Mallard, finally in full three-piece form, is riding high on the recent completion of their first album, a nine or ten song bit of surf rock that somehow sounds like it was recorded in a creaking haunted mansion. Burnt Ones might just be the best thing San Francisco has produced in the last five years and if you aren’t starting each and every one of your mornings with a blast of “Bury Me In Smoke” your days just aren’t as good as mine. Lantern, a Philadelphia proto-punk band, recently melted most of my internal organs with a cover of Barrett Strong’s “Money (That’s What I Want)” and if their live show is even slightly indicative of that churning bit of gravel, you and everyone else will be devastated to miss their only San Francisco performance. RSVP here.

mp3:
The Mallard // “Fault”

Monday
Built by Stereo, Simon and the Fire Breathers, Meat Market, Younger Lovers @ Bottom of the Hill, 8:30 pm

Tuesday
Deep Teens, No Babies, Uzi Rash, Whitman @ Jam City (1570 7th St., Oakland), 8pm
Switftumz Listening Party @ Casanova Lounge, 6pm
Dum Dum Girls, Crocodiles, Colleen Green @ Great American Music Hall, 8pm

Wednesday
Zola Jesus @ Amoeba, 6pm (free)

Thursday
Switftumz, Little Mercury, Lenguas Largas @ The Knockout, 9pm

Friday
120 Minutes, Sleep ∞ Over @ Elbo Room, 10pm
Melted Toys, ChuCha Santamaria Y Usted @ 1314 Grant Ave., (free)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Twin Sister @ Slim’s, 9pm
The Fresh and Onlys, Tamaryn, Wax Idols @ Great American Music Hall, 9pm
Old Firm Casuals, Brassknuckle Boys, Young Offenders, Airfix Kits, Living Eyes @ Thee Parkside, 9pm

Saturday
Barn Owl, Date Palms, Danny Paul Grody @ San Francisco Zen Center, 6pm
Dead Meadow, Burnt Ones, POW! @ Cafe Du Nord, 9:30pm
Girls, Sonny and the Sunsets, PAPA @ Great American Music Hall, 9pm
Big Troubles, Young Prisms @ VITUS (201 Broadway), 9pm

Sunday
Japanther @ East Bay Rats MC Club House, 9pm
Girls @ Amoeba, 2pm $free
Girls, Sonny and the Sunsets, Carletta Sue Kay @ Great American Music Hall, 8pm

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We’re giving away tickets to the Halloween weekend Ty Segall + Nobunny show at Brick and Mortar Music Hall. Read more details here.

Here are our top 10 favorite artist Bandcamps - our favorite source of high-quality streamable music - all of which we have written about before. Let us know if we’ve missed anything:

1. Burnt Ones

Features: Free download(s); full-album stream; extensive discography.

2. Art Museums (Burundi Cloud)

Features: Full-album streams; extensive discography; memories.

Monday
Bleached, La La Vasquez, Brilliant Colors // Engine Works (190 Capp x 17th St.), 8pm $5

Tuesday
TV on the Radio, Thee Oh Sees // Fox Theater, 8pm $35
LA Vampires (DJ Set) // Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, 10pm $2
Dominant Legs, Nuses, The She’s // Cafe Du Nord, 8pm $10
Braids, Pepper Rabbit, Painted Palms // Bottom of the Hill, 9pm $10/$12

Wednesday
Burnt Ones, Cosmonauts, Lilac // Engine Works, 8pm $5
Mountains, Date Palms, Higuma // Hemlock Tavern, 9pm $8

Thursday
Grave Babies, more TBA // Eli’s Mile High Club (Oakland), 6pm
Will Ivy, Matt Baldwin, Uzi Rash, Hether Fortune (DJ Set) // The Knockout, 9pm $2-$7
White Cloud, Sunbeam Rd, Permanent Collection, Surf Club // Milk Bar, 9pm $5
Dreamdate, Party Owl, Baby Talk, Big Drag // Thee Parkside, 9pm $5

Friday
Creepers, Dimples, Stocktones // 21st and Taraval, 6pm $FREE
The Gems, Terry Malts, The Tambo Rays // Hemlock Tavern, 9:30pm $6
Religious Girls, Battlehooch, Amoray, Younger Lovers // Uptown (Oakland), 9pm $7
Hanni El Khatib, Nick Waterhouse, Dirty Ghosts // Bottom of the Hill, 9:30pm $10

Satuday
Wrong Words, Royal Headache (Australia), Paper Bags // Hemlock Tavern, 9:30pm $7

Sunday
Jacuzzi Boys, Apache, Midnite Snaxxx // Hemlock Tavern, 9pm $10

Anything else?