[Wax Idols @ Cake Shop by Phil Maier]

Tuesday
Thee Cormans, Uzi Rash, Sweat Lodge @ Vitus, 9pm

Wednesday
Bare Wires, Meat Market, Big Drag @ The Knockout, 9pm
King Lollipop, Wild Ones, Up All Night @ 1-2-3-4 Go! Records, 7pm [all ages]
Religious to Damn, Wax Idols, Alexis Blair Penney @ Elbo Room, 9pm
Ty Segall, Shannon and the Clams, Hank IV, Lenz, DJ Primo @ Mezzanine, 9pm [jonathan toubin benefit]

Thursday
Dirty Ghosts, Swiftumz, City Deluxe @ The Knockout, 9pm
Deep Teens, Jealousy, Dadfag, Nathan Grice @ Amnesia, 9pm
The Soft Moon, Blouse, Blank Dogs DJ Set @ Cafe Du Nord, 9pm [captured tracks showcase]
White Cloud, Jeffertitti’s Nile, Moccreto, Arms N Legs @ Thee Parkside, 9pm
Zodiac Death Valley, Mister Loveless, The Spyrals, Baby Talk @ Brick and Mortar Music Hall, 8pm

Friday
Fleshies, Big Eyes, Wild Assumptions @ 1-2-3-4 Go! Records, 7pm [all ages]

Saturday
Terry Malts, Balaclavas, Rat Columns, Yi @ 1-2-3-4 Go! Records, 7pm [all ages]

Sunday
Bare Wires, Unko Atama, Deadbeats, Adults, Glitz, Shop Talk @ Eli’s Mile High Club, 6pm [day 1 of Rock 'N' Roll Madness Fest]
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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?

[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

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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.

mp3:
Positive Destruction // august 2011 (34 mb)

[right click/save as]

[image: Bryce Toshiro Bishari]

01 Sepalcure // “Taking you Back (excerpt)”
02 PART TIME // “I Wanna Take You Out”
03 Ganglians// “Sleep”
04 Mikal Cronin // “Get Along”
05 Mikal Cronin // “Apathy”
06 Religious Girls // “OG”
07 Surf Club // “It’s True”
08 WHITE CLOUD // “Braised Cattle”
09 Blasted Canyons // “Death and a Half”
10 The Splinters // “Cactus”
11 Girls // “Vomit”

[Bare Wires at Public Works]

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Tuesday
Audacity // Hemlock Tavern, 9pm $7
Real Estate, Melted Toys, Dominant Legs // The Independent, 8pm $15
The She’s, The Fling, The Street and Babe Shadow // Cafe Du Nord, 8:30pm $10

Wednesday
Midnite Snaxxx, Veronica, Dreamdate // Hemlock Tavern, 9pm $5
Plantain, Soft Science, The Lost Library, Oddly Even // Make-Out Room, 8pm $8

Thursday
Grass Widow, Broken Water, GGreen, Uzi Rash // Sugar Mountain (2515 San Pablo, Oakland), 9pm $6

Friday
TMRS, Twin Steps, Blasted Canyons // Engine Works (190 Capp St.), 9:30pm $5
Speculator, Terry Malts, Young Prisms, TBA Special Guest // The Cave (3201 3rd St.), 11:30pm $5
Broken Men, Adelitas, Broken Water, Dimples // Thrillhouse Records (3422 Mission St.), ?pm $FREE

Saturday
Terry Malts, Crazy Band // RVCA, 7pm $?
Wet Illustrated, Angora Debs, Dimples // Hemlock Tavern, 9:30pm $6
Royal Baths, WHITE CLOUD, Little Wings, Sea of Bees // Verdi Club, 7pm $10-$20
Bare Wires, The Groggs, Nectarine Pie & more // Thee Parkside, 2pm (San Frandelic Summer Fest) $12

Sunday
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San Francisco pysch-quintet WHITE CLOUD sent us over two new tracks they released yesterday on their Bandcamp. “Braised Cattle,” the opener on the two-track single, is a primal pounder that breaks down towards the end into a sprint, moving from the jungle to the speedway. “Alarm Clock” is the second and feature vocals that hearken a mellow Noah Lennox. Both songs clock in at just 2:16 — shorter than we’d like but probably cause we’re hooked onto the gorgeously hazed pop we have come to expect from these bros. WHITE CLOUD plays with Royal Baths (their last show before moving east), See of Bees, and Little Wings at Regional Bias 2011, thrown by our friends at TBB and hosted at the Verdi Club August 6th. Buy tickets here.

mp3:
WHITE CLOUD // “Braised Cattle”