Singer through the wringer - and at Rickshaw Stop this week.
Bo Diddley's passing has bummed me out - leaving me in a drifting, low-level depression-style funk. But know what, B-Diddley wouldn't have wanted you to sit around and sulk. You got options - some very intriguing ones, in fact.
HELOISE AND THE SAVOIR FAIRE
Kylie added them to her top MySpace chums. The NY electro-rock sensations smash it up with Solid Gold references, trash, rats, and, oh yeah, microphones. Tues/10, call for time and price. Trannyshack at the Stud, 399 Ninth St., SF. (415) 252-7883.
JUDY MOWATT
The crucial member of Bob Marley's I-Three is born again but word has it that she retains that Jamaican fire, backed by the Yellow Wall Dub Squad. Wed/11, 9 p.m., $25. Slim's, 333 11th St., SF. (415) 522-0333.
SINGER
The pedigreed Chicago combo comes bearing a new LP on Drag City, Unhistories, and all sorts of challenging musical notions: what else would you expect from US Maple's Todd Rittmann and 90 Day Men's Robert Lowe? With Sic Alps and the Fresh and Onlys. Thurs/12, 8 p.m., $10. Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell, SF. (415) 861-2011.
DOSH
Anticon-ster Martin Luther King Chavez Dosh floats Wolves and Wishes, a new recording with Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Andrew Bird, and Odd Nosdam. With Anathallo, Best Wishes, and DJ Odd Nosdam. Sat/14, 10 p.m., $12. Bottom of the Hill, 1233 17th St., S.F. $8. (415) 621-4455.
JONATHAN RICHMAN
What a Father's Day. SF's eternally youthful avatar of fresh-faced punk rock materializes amid the magical redwoods. With Lysa Flores. Sun/15, 3 p.m., $15. Henry Miller Library, Highway 1, Big Sur. (831) 667-2574.
SNOOP DOGG
The Dogg father is in the hood with Cali pals Warren G, Tha Dogg Pound, and Mistah FAB. Sun/15, 8 p.m., $50. Fillmore, 1805 Geary, SF. (415) 346-6000.
TIPPY CANOE AND THE PADDLEMEN
A uke calvacade to catch - canoe or no canoe. With Uni and her Ukelele, Paper Dolls, Frisky Frolics, Julia Shirar, Bellyachers, and Mikie Lee Prasad. Sun/15, call for time and price. Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd St., S.F. (415) 647-2888.
MICK TURNER
Dirty Three guitar schlinger cuts out with a new album created with Jim White, Blue Trees (Drag City). It's their own kind of jazz: cacophonous, evocative, insinuating. With Si Claro. Sun/15, 9:30 p.m., $8. Hemlock Tavern, 1131 Polk, SF. (415) 923-0923.
STYROFOAM
Happy Anticon-influenced synthpop from Belgium! Arne Van Petegem crosses emo sweetness with electropop peppiness on his sixth album, A Thousand Words (Nettwerk). With Broken Spindles and Ravens and Chimes. Tues/17, 7:30 p.m., $10. Cafe du Nord, 2170 Market, SF. (415) 861-5016.
WOLF EYES
Chomp! The Midwestern art-noise pack - and unintentional grand-pappies of the "wolf" band name trend - tool around the West Coast with a new clutch of tunes that they play on rearranging, editing, tweaking, and upending live - a fruitfully destructive strategy that usually leads to a new studio recording (the next 'un is due to come out on Hospital Records). With Head Boggle and Rubber O Cement. Tues/17, 9 p.m., $10. Bottom of the Hill, 1233 17th St., SF. (415) 621-4455.
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