Monday
King Lollipop, Peach Kelli Pop, Swiftumz @ 1-2-3-4 Go! Records, 7pm

Tuesday
Iggy and the Stooges @ Warfield, 8pm
Broken Cities, Moonbell, Atlas @ Elbo Room, 8:30pm

Wednesday
Jonathan Richman @ Great American Music Hall, 8pm
Thee Oh Sees, Twin Steps, Cool Ghouls @ The Depot, 6:30pm [free sfsu show]

Thursday
Ganglians, Young Prisms @ Milk Bar, 8pm
The Fleshtones, Dukes of Hamburg, Teutonics @ The Knockout, 9pm [night one of two]

Friday
The Donkeys, Lilac, Buxton @ Bottom of the Hill, 9:30pm [co-headliners]
The Fleshtones, Top Ten, Chuckleberries @ The Knockout, 9pm [night two of two]

Saturday
Music for Animals, Kishi Bashi @ Engine Works, 9pm [+ special guest]
Tennis, Miniature Tigers, Devon Williams @ Bottom of the Hill, 10pm
Twin Steps, TRMRS, Uzi Rash, Yi @ Sugar Mountain, 8pm [TS record-release]
Nectarine Pie, The Love Dimension, Primitive Hearts @ 924 Gilman, 9pm [east bay psychedelic disaster]

Sunday
Shannon and the Clams, Buffalo Tooth, Primitive Hearts @ ATA, 3pm [ATA fundraiser/winter beach formal]
Grass Widow, Erase Errata @924 Gilman [girls rock camp showcase]

Monday (Halloween)
The Soft Moon, Led Er Est, Michael Stock @ The Independent, 9pm

Tuesday
Ty Segall, Kut U Up @ The Mezzanine, 9pm

Wednesday
King Tuff, Audacity @ 1-2-3-4 Go! Records, 7pm

Thursday
El Ten Eleven, No Fires, Noys Annoise, Talk of Shamans @ The Depot [SF State], 6pm
Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Gauntlet Hair @ Rickshaw Stop, 9pm

Friday
Sic Alps, Lilac, Sourpatch, Meridians @ Verdi Club, 8:30pm
Still Corners, Ganglians, Silver Swans @ Rickshaw Stop, 9pm
Shonen Knife, Shannon and the Clams, The Pleasure Kills @ Bottom of the Hill, 9pm
Wild Flag, Drew Grow & The Pastor’s Wives @ Great American Music Hall, 9pm

Saturday
Wild Flag, Drew Grow & The Pastor’s Wives @ Great American Music Hall, 9pm
Zodiac Death Valley, The Icarus Line, The Tambo Rays @ Cafe Du Nord, 8:30pm

Sunday
Zodiac Death Valley, The Icarus Line, The Tambo Rays @ Cafe Du Nord, 8:30pm

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Anything else?

by Noah Sanders

There is no deficit of reasons to love Woodsboro. One, Woodsboro is the solo project of former Honey (the same Honey who’s former members are now in bands like Lilac and The Mallard) frontman Moses Montalvo. Two, the song “Pocket Comb” features bass riffs and flatly enchanting vocals from both Montalvo and The Mallard’s Greer McGettrick. Three, not one to just put out an album, Montalvo is releasing only 100 copies of the Pocket Comb 7”, with every ultra-limited copy being graced with it’s own individual album sleeve put together by some talented artist.

And most importantly “Pocket Comb” is a woozy charmer of a song. A low-key bit of rumbling croon that finds the voices of McGettrick and Montalvo interweaving above a warm layer of fuzz, “Pocket Comb” is at once soft and subtle and sad. If you ask me a beautiful new direction for the obviously talented Montalvo.

The Pocket Comb 7” is going to be released on Pretty Penny Records. Head over their to see a smattering of the beautiful covers Montalvo has culled together.

mp3:
Woodsboro // “Pocket Comb”

Tuesday
Male Bonding, Waters, Lilac @ Rickshaw Stop, 8pm
Garret Pierce, Himalayan Bear @ Hemlock Tavern, 9pm

Wednesday
King Tuff, Extra Classic, Audacity @ The Makeout Room, 10pm

Thursday
Thee Oh Sees, Mikal Cronin, Total Control @ The New Parish, 9pm
High Places, Psychic Handbook, DSS, Bobby Browser @ Sub-Mission, 8pm

Friday
Nobunny, Ty Segall, Uzi Rash, Zulus @ Brick and Mortar Music Hall, 9pm
Moccretro, The Terrible, Creepers @ Hemlock Tavern, 9pm

Saturday
The Strange Boys @ Clift Hotel, 11pm [[free]]
Ty Segall, Zulus, Rock N Roll Adventure Kids, High Castle @ 924 Gilman, 7pm
White Cloud, Dirty Riggs, Season of the Witch, Creepers @ Eli’s Mile High Club, 6pm

Sunday
The Warlocks, Fake Your Own Death, The Spyrals @ Bottom of the Hill, 9pm

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Anything else?

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?

[Cosmonauts]

Wednesday
Veronica Falls, The Mantles, Brilliant Colors // Brick and Mortar Music Hall, 9pm $10/$13 (cancelled)

Thursday
Grizzel Toe, Part Time, Public Jones // El Rio, 8pm $5
Twin Steps, the Like Me’s, Shame Shame // Kimo’s, 9pm
Teengirl Fantasy, Total Freedom, Magic Touch // Public Works, 10pm
Uzi Rash, Battle Stations, Dikes Of Holland // Mama Buzz Cafe, 7pm $donation
Younger Lovers, Cosmonauts, Burnt Ones, Baby Talk // Sugar Mountain (Oakland), 8pm

Friday
Man/Miracle, The Vacant Lots, Hiking // Bottom of the Hill, 10pm $10
Coast Jumper, Fierce Creatures, Waterstrider, Modern American Theatre // Kimo’s, 9pm

Saturday
Melted Toys, Lilac, Talk Normal // The Secret Alley, 8pm $5/$7

Sunday
Terry Malts, Kids on a Crime Spree, Brain Wavefield // Hungreyman Gallery, 6pm
SF Rock Project, Girls Rock Camp, Emilys Army, Street Eaters, Lenguas Largas // Oasis (135 12th St, Oakland), 1pm

Anything else?

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[more by Rumi Sakuraeda]

Glam rockers Burnt Ones are going on a west coast tour with Burger Record labelmates Cosmonauts, including a record release party at Engine Works for their upcoming tape, which will be a compilation of all the songs from their original LP, past 7″ releases, and some early demos. The tour begins in Oakland at Sugar Mountain this Thursday September 22nd with Younger Lovers (RSVP), then strings up the coast to Seattle before trekking back down for a show at Burger Records in Fullerton. The Engine Works show is somewhere in the middle of that - more details on that show, which will be on September 28 (w/ Lilac), here. Full dates below.

Sept. 22 - Oakland, CA @ Sugar Mountain w/ Younger Lovers
Sept. 23 - Portland(ish), OR @ secret show w/ Shivas, Boom
Sept. 24 - Tacoma, WA @ New Frontier Lounge w/ Night Beats
Sept. 25 - Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey w/ Night Beats
Sept. 26 - Portland, OR @ East End w/ Still Caves
Sept. 28 - San Francisco, CA @ Engine Works w/ Lilac
Sept. 29 - Fullerton, CA @ Continental Room w/ Jacuzzi Boys
Sept. 30 - La Mirada County, CA @ Lovely Bad Pad
Oct. 1 - DAY SHOW Fullerton, CA @ Burger Records (tape release!)
Oct. 1 - NIGHT SHOW San Diego, CA @ Tower Bar
Oct. 2 - Los Angeles, CA @ TBA

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

[Davilla 666 by Steve Cross]

Tuesday
The Mummies, Hondettes // The Knockout, 10pm $SOLD OUT
Grass Widow, The Mantles, Sand City // El Rio, 7pm $7

Wednesday
Jim Jones Revue, The Sandwitches // The Independent, 8pm $13/$15
Glitter Wizard, Strangers Family Band, Outlaw, Lotus Moons // The Uptown (Oakland), 9pm $FREE

Thursday
Born Gold, Part Time, Religious Girls // The Knockout, 9pm $6
Davila 666, Cheap Time, Wax Idols, Touch-Me-Nots // Bottom of the Hill, 9pm $10/$12
Peter Daltrey, Kelley Stoltz, Bart Davenport, Asterold #4 // Cafe Du Nord, 8pm $12/$15
Uzi Rash, Cyclops, Whoosie What’s It’s // White Horse Inn (6551 Telegraph Ave., Oakland), 9pm $5

Friday
Lilac, Lenz, The Golden Ghosts, California Sunshine // The Knockout, 9pm $7
The Gems, Tambo Rays, Mick Leonardi, Alleged Masterminds // Kimo’s, 9pm

Saturday
P.S. I Love You, Balkans, Bad Bibles // Hemlock Tavern, 9:30pm $10
Cocktails, Huffstuff Magazine, Younger Lovers, Dirty Cupcakes // The Knockout, 9pm $7
Spindrift, Sam Flax & Higher Color, Actually, The She’s, Skystone, Carletta Sue Kay // McLaren Park, 11:30am-8pm $FREE

Sunday
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Ferocious Few, Tiny Television // Bottom of the Hill, 9pm $12

Anything else?

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[more Slumberland showcase photos]

Monday
R. Stevie Moore, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Kelley Stoltz // Make Out Room, 7pm $SOLD OUT (limited ~20 tix at door)

Tuesday
Swiftumz, Lilac, English Singles // Engine Works (190 Capp St.), 9pm $5

Wednesday
The White Wires, Personal & The Pizzas, Wrong Words, Okmoniks // Thee Parkside, 8pm $7

Thursday
Bare Wires, Burnt Ones, Hollow Earth // The Uptown (Oakland), 9pm $10
Uzi Rash, King Lollipop, Buffalo Tooth, Cool Ghouls // Thee Parkside, 9pm $6
Nobunny, White Wires, Younger Lovers, Spencey Dude & The Doodles // Stork Club (Oakland), 9pm

Friday
Japandroids, Bass Drum of Death // Hemlock Tavern, 9:30pm $SOLD OUT

Saturday
Handsome Furs, Suuns, Talk Demonic // Slim*s, 9pm $17
Grails, True Widow, White Cloud // Rickshaw Stop, 9pm $12
RTX, White Fence, Heavy Cream, Burnt Ones // Thee Parkside, 9pm $8/$10
Devon Williams, The Mantles, Twin Steps // Abco Art Space (3135 Filbert St., Oakland), 9:30pm $5
Dreamdate, Lilac, The Ian Fays, Wild Assumptions, DJ Mike Schulman (SLR) // 1, 2, 3, 4 Records (420 40th St., Oakland), 6pm $6

Sunday
Twin Sister, Devon Williams // Rickshaw Stop, 8pm $10/$12

Anything else?

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*If you haven’t already, check out the rad mixtape made for us by Kid Frostbite aka Mike Schulman, owner/operator of Slumberland Records.

*We’re hosting our first event Thursday, September 15th at Thee Parkside. We couldn’t be more psyched about the line-up. Read more about our first “Presents” event here and buy advance tickets (and save a few bucks) here.

*We’ve been nominated by SF Weekly for Best Local Music Website.

Not much more to say than that we’re in love with this absolutely gorgeous track, off of Lilac‘s self-titled debut 7″, out now via Omega.

mp3:
Lilac // “Cathedral”