Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage - Shotgun Players and Banana Bag and Bodice collaborate on the wildly anticipated bare-chested Viking rock opera.
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8pm, $17-$25. (Show through June 15.)Ashby Stage, 1901 Ashby, Berk. www.shotgunplayers.org
Compression - The breakbeats and dirty basslines never stop at this hyperactive San Francisco club tradition, now at Temple. With DJs 2Cents, Sharp, and Bling Crosby.
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10pm-late, $5. Temple, 540 Howard, SF. www.templesf.com
Bad Plus - The lively trio bridges the gap between daring jazz and Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" with dramatic, uneasy note changes.
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7:30pm, $25-$56. Palace of Fine Arts, 333 Lyon, SF. (866) 920-5299, www.palaceoffinearts.org
Bike Away From Work Party - Wrap up Bike to Work Day -- in that outrageous heat -- by doing what cyclists do best: drink. And dance. And eat (for free!) With DJs Toph One and EmDee.
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6pm-10pm, free. Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell, SF. www.rickshawstop.com
Robyn - The rapping, crooning, strutting Swedish spitfire rings the hell's bells of pop -- and takes assymetrical haircuts to a new level. Mama said knock Britney out.
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9pm, $20. Bimbo's 365 Club, 1025 Columbus, SF. (415) 474-0365, www.bimbos365club.com
Stairwell Sisters - The Bay Area's own sorority of sweet harmony, steel strings, and step dancing croon from their third album
Get Off Your Money.
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8pm, $18.50. Freight and Salvage Coffee House, 1111 Addison, Berk. (510) 548-0761, www.thefreight.org
SF Oysterfest - Irish stouts, tasteful wines, throngs of lovers, and all the aphrodesiacs on the half shell that you can gulp. Plus: Dropkick Murphys, She and Him, Mother Hips, and Juliette Lewis and the Licks.
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Noon-7pm, $25. (Also Sunday) Great Meadow at Fort Mason, Laguna and Bay, SF. www.oreillysoysterfestival.com
Kills - Inspired madness, the classic creative negativity of rock 'n' roll romanticism: Just what these roiling rockers seem to mainline.
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9pm, $16. Slim's, 333 11th St., SF. www.slims-sf.com
Trans Community Picnic - One of the breeziest annual hangouts in the city, with entertainment, transgender community organizing and connecting, and (hopefully) the kissing booth.
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11am-4pm, free. Dolores Park, Dolores and 17th St., SF. www.transmarch.org
El Perro del Mar - Exquisitely doleful chamber-pop and sighing flutter-folk from Swedish singer-songwriter Sarah Assbring, under her Spanish alias.
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8pm, $16. Bimbo's 365 Club, 1025 Columbus, SF. (415) 474-0365, www.bimbos365club.com
Battle for Haditha - Director Nick Broomfield actually delivers a tense, absorbing fictive Iraq Occupation movie well worth seeing, despite war film fatigue.
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7pm and 8:50pm, $5-$10. Roxie Cinema, 31125 16th St., SF. (415) 863-1087, www.roxie.com
Clinic - The sly Liverpool quartet continue to keep "funk, celebration, and soft metal" alive with their latest album
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9pm, $17. Independent, 628 Divisadero, SF. www.theindependentsf.com
Curse of the Starving Class - ACT's production of Sam Shepard's very funny, very dark first play, originally staged in 1978, is the new hot ticket in town.
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8pm, $17-71. American Conservatory Theater, 415 Geary, SF. (415) 749-2228, www.act-sf.org
Tom Fite - "Hey! There's mustard on your tittie!" Toe-tapping pop numbers at once moody and satirically uplifting from the Brooklyn-via-Jersey singer.
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8pm, $15. Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell, SF. (415) 861-2011, www.rickshawstop.com
