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Tip sheet: Music
to watch out for in September.
By Kimberly
Chun
Sept. 4
Black Rebel Motorcycle
Club The power-user shoegazer throb of Black Rebel Motorcycle
Club rings with the sound of the 'burbs – Contra Costa County,
to be precise, where bassist-vocalist Robert Turner and guitarist-vocalist
and ex-Brian Jonestown Massacre survivor Peter Hayes grew up. Maybe
someday the bottom-heavy, distortion-wracked darlings of the British
music press will come to their senses and ditch their pseudo-badass
Wild One name in favor of the less-embarrassing acronym.
8 p.m., Fillmore, 1805 Geary, S.F. $16.50. (415) 421-TIXS or
(415) 346-6000.
Sept. 5
Junior Senior
Danish dance-pop duo Junior Senior have got you covered, sexually
(one's gay, the other's straight, and both wanna sing about their
differences) and musically (they're a wee bit '50s rockabilly, '60s-style
sugar pop, '70s disposa-disco, '80s new wave, and a whole lotta
cheese for the ages). Just D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat
– as the title of their Atlantic debut goes. Candy-coated party
people Jesper Mortensen, a.k.a. Junior, and Jeppe Lauresen, alias
Senior, seem destined to flash our pans, rattle us with their pop-locking
beats, and shake our coconuts till our ill-conceived composure curdles
and falls away – just like our resistance to their cuckoo-for-Yum-Pop
anthropomorphized rodents and food groups in the "Move Your
Feet" video. Young Heart Attack and Communique also perform.
10 p.m., Bottom of the Hill, 1233 17th St., S.F. $10. (415) 474-0365.
Easy Action Detroit
diehard, former Laughing Hyenas howler, and Negative Approach head
John Brannon promises to take it nice and hard with his current
garage outfit, Easy Action. 25 Suaves and Salem Lights also play.
9 p.m., Thee Parkside, 1600 17th St., S.F. Call for price. (415)
503-0393.
New Deal What's
new under the sun? The progressive breakbeat of Toronto's New Deal,
some say. Now touting a double live CD on Sound + Light, the trio
manage to combine the perpetual, spontaneous groove thing of jam
bands, the forward thrust of techno, and the trippy bounce of house.
10 p.m., Elbo Room, 647 Valencia, S.F. $10. www.ticketweb.com.
South Austin Jug Band
Technically adept and produced by Natalie Maine's dad,
Lloyd, Lone Star jug-grass ensemble South Austin Jug Band are as
likely to cover Jimi Hendrix, Ernest Tubb, and the Dead as they
are to resort to instrumentals titled "Ramen Noodle Rag"
and "Cuttin' the Mullet." Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck,
Berk. Call for time and price. (510) 841-2082.
Sept. 6
Manda and the Marbles
Bopping merrily along in the nouvelle '80s girl-group land of Blondie,
Toni Basil, and Josie Cotton, Manda and the Marbles give high-trash
power pop, nasal vocals, and rave-up guitar an '00s makeover, which
means they leave well enough alone and stay true to
the music's shiny, polished surfaces. The Lewd also play. Kimo's,
1351 Polk, S.F. Call for time and price. (415) 885-4535.
Crown City Rockers,
Burning Star Oakland's ever-loveable Crown City Rockers seem
to be on a mission to unite hip-hop hopefuls, jazzbos, and soul
sibs under one funk. L.A.'s Burning Star take the fusion
further, combining rap, reggae, soul, and Middle Eastern sounds.
10 p.m., Elbo Room, 647 Valencia, S.F. $10. www.ticketweb.com.
Casiotone for the
Painfully Alone Local lo-fi, cheapie-keys boy Casiotone for
the Painfully Alone, otherwise known as Owen Ashworth, cuts the
angst and celebrates his new album. The Papercuts and Dead Science
also play. 10 p.m., Hemlock Tavern, 1131 Polk, S.F. $6. (415)
923-0923.
Phantom Limbs Those
crazed clowns called the Phantom Limbs unleash a second album, Displacement
(Alternative Tentacles), on a hapless and perhaps happy public.
Produced by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's Dan Rathbun, Displacement
finds the East Bay earful going insane on their trademark carnival
organ – good Goth – and howling about the party circuit
and public executions. Veronica Lipgloss and the Evil Eyes and the
Sixteens also perform. 10 p.m., Bottom of the Hill, 1233 17th
St., S.F. $8. (415) 474-0365.
Sept. 8
Grave Brothers Deluxe
Former Southerners and present Mission District dwellers, the Grave
Brothers Deluxe have their brooding yet accomplished way with a
weird tale, singing songs about electrical animals, hate, and firearms.
Members have put in time with Thin White Rope, Game Theory,
the Residents, Granfaloon Bus, and the Sunshine Club – and
it shows. The Life and Times and the Culling Style also play.
9 p.m., Bottom of the Hill, 1233 17th St., S.F. $7. (415) 474-0365.
Sept. 9
Café Tacuba
Mexico City's alt-eclecticians bring out Cuatro caminos,
their first album since Grammy-garnering double CD Reves / Yo
soy, and it's a cocktail of pop, psych, and general weirdness
concocted by longtime producer Gustavo Santaolalla, Ween's Andrew
Weiss, and Flaming Lips twiddler Dave Fridmann. 8 p.m., Fillmore,
1805 Geary, S.F. $20. (415) 421-TIXS or (415) 346-6000.
Sept. 9-10
Bad Religion You
either love 'em or hate 'em, but it's hard to deny the resilience
of Brett Gurewitz and Greg Graffin's pet punk project – through
success, addiction, and jail time. The new Epitaph CD, The Process
of Belief, has the band finding faith amid the ever cycling
gerbil wheel of pop culture, working up a lather about materialism
and injustice, and finding inspiration in unrelenting rhymes and
tightly interlocking harmonies. Jackass plays Sept. 9; Enemy You
and Pistol Grip play Sept. 10. 8 p.m., Slim's, 333 11th St.,
S.F. $25. (415) 522-0333.
Sept. 11-12
Pretty Girls Make
Graves Rising from the remains of Murder City Devils, Death
Wish Kids, and Bee Hive Vaults and clutching sundry Smiths references,
Pretty Girls continue to make waves with their new Matador CD and
sophomore recording, New Romance. Producer Phil Ek brings
a certain precision to skittish beat excursions like the title track
and "Mr. Club," though it's nice to know the northwestern
fivesome still keep things ornery on tracks like "The Grandmother
Wolf" and "The Tooth Collector." Sept. 11, 6 p.m.,
Amoeba Music, 1855 Haight, S.F. (415) 831-1200; with Fuse and Nighthawks
Sept. 12, 9 p.m., Cafe du Nord, 2170 Market, S.F. $10. (415) 861-5016.
Sept. 11-14
Terence Blanchard
Spike Lee's right-hand composer knows the score. For his next trick,
the acclaimed trumpet player turns in a smooth, adept new Blue Note
album, Bounce. Most of the recording combo, with the exception
of Hammond B-3 and Fender Rhodes man Robert Glasper, comes along
for this stint. Sept. 11-13, 8 and 10 p.m.; Sept. 14, 2 and 8
p.m., Yoshi's, 510 Embarcadero West, Oakl. $18-$22. (510) 238-9200.
Sept. 12-13
Mudhoney They
were in the garage, mixing it up with grunge, when most of us were
in mental, emotional, and psychological, if not actual, diapers.
So get ready, here comes another from the snarly nabobs of welcome
negativity, their eighth album, Since We've Become Translucent
(Sub Pop). Bob Log III and Killer's Kiss play Sept. 12; the Sermon
and Canoe play Sept. 13. 10 p.m., Bottom of the Hill, 1233 17th
St., S.F. $15. (415) 474-0365.
Sept. 12 and 14
Weed Patch No
Rickenbackers were harmed in the making of Weed Patch's album Maybe
the Brakes Will Fail (Ohgrowupalready), a folk-rock collaboration
between singer-songwriter and journalist Neal Weiss, Gingersol's
Seth Rothschild, and players such as Sea Hags' Adam Maples and Minibar's
Sid Jordan and Malcolm Cross. Sept. 12, 11 p.m., Ivy Room, 858
San Pablo, Albany. Call for price. (510) 524-9299. Sept. 14, 5 p.m.,
Thee Parkside, 1600 17th St., S.F. Call for price. (415) 503-0393.
Sept. 13
Party of Helicopters
For those of you who are feeling Fragile. The proggish headbangers
turned pop melodicists of Party of Helicopters crash-land with their
latest, superfly Velocette album in tow, Please Believe It.
You might even believe. 10 p.m., Hemlock Tavern, 1131
Polk, S.F. $7. (415) 923-0923
Sept. 15-16
Weakerthans, Costantines
The Weakerthans' past recordings just seem weak in contrast
to their live shows, where they're capable of blowing down emo comers
like Promise Ring, as they demonstrated at Slim's last year. What
a surprise then that the Toronto-Winnipeg quartet got it right with
their fourth full-length, Reconstruction Site (Epitaph),
an amiable, multi-textured mélange of carefully crafted pop,
rock, punk, cowpoke, and electro burblings. Fellow Canadians the
Constantines tap a more passionate vein of politico-punk. Folk This
play both nights; Roy play Sept. 16. 9 p.m., Bottom
of the Hill, 1233 17th St., S.F. $10-$12. (415) 474-0365.
Sept. 16
Omar Sosa After
gathering the inevitable Grammy nominations for his 2002 CD, Sentir,
Latin jazz composer, pianist, and past Goldie winner Omar Sosa
gets back to the base with his latest solo piano album, A New
Life (OTA). He returns to the Bay Area with his quintet after
playing Carnegie's Zankel Hall. 7 p.m., African American Art
and Cultural Complex, 762 Fulton, S.F. $15. (415) 978-2787.
Sept. 17
The Loins Porch
Light series hostess-with-the-most-est Beth Lisick teams up with
partner in crime, and life, Eli Crews, for the Loins, a combo that
grabbed the audience where it counts at a recent performance that
opened the Mission Creek Music Festival. Ral Partha Vogelbacher
also plays. 10 p.m., Hemlock Tavern, 1131 Polk, S.F. $6. (415)
923-0923.
Sept. 18
Amon Tobin Down,
Cujo. Drum 'n' bass's genre-dicing ninja Amon Tobin looks back with
his latest retrospective, Collaborations and Remixes. RJD2
also performs. 9 p.m., Bimbo's 365 Club, 1025 Columbus, S.F.
$22. (415) 474-0365.
Sept. 19
Rainer Maria, Denali
If Rainer Maria Rilke did time as a college radio-reared indie head
bobber, he might have given the double-thumbs-up to his New-York-by-way-of-Madison-Wis.
namesake and their latest album, Long Knives Drawn (Polyvinyl).
Rainer Maria's fourth album turns out to be a fervent, open-ended,
and rocking workout. The trio meet their match with the passion
players of Denali. 9 p.m., Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell,
S.F. $12-$14. (415) 885-0750.
Sept. 24
Evan Dando, Rhett
Miller, Consonant The heartthrob singer-songwriters group meeting
gathers here, with romantic indie rock accompaniment by Mission
of Burma bassist Clint Conley's side project, Consonant. 8 p.m.,
Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell, S.F. $5. (415) 885-0750.
Sept. 27
Kings of Leon,
Jet Southern rockers who belong in a concrete kudzu jungle,
Kings of Leon tend to push the adenoidal, snot-dappled urban rock
of the Lou Reed, Golden Earring, AOR ilk rather than the stuff o'
Skynyrd-loving, truck-driving sonuvaguns. Here they get on with
the glam-tinged rockers of Jet. 22-20's also play. 9 p.m.,
Slim's, 333 11th St., S.F. $13. (415) 522-0333.
Sept. 28
Black Eyes Embrace
the healthy Dischord and shadowy skronk of D.C.'s Black Eyes
– dual bassists and drummers and all. Q and Not U and Antelope
also play. 9 p.m., Bottom of the Hill, 1233 17th St., S.F. $7.
(415) 474-0365.
Sept. 30
Holly Golightly
The raspy-voiced, forever cool, renowned FOWS (Friend of White Stripes),
Thee Headcoatees women's auxiliary leader, and grande dame of the
garage goes forth with her umpteenth solo release – count 'em,
weep, and reap the benefits – Truly She Is None Other
(Damaged Goods). KO and the Knockouts also perform. Make-Out
Room, 3225 22nd St., S.F. Call for time and price. (415) 647-2888.
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