Take Your Coffee Break Back to the Baroque! Experience live classical music as it was heard in 18th-century salons and coffeehouses-performed on period instruments using historically informed practices by members of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. This is the first of three free Coffee Concerts in the series, held monthly at The Conservatory at One Sansome in downtown San Francisco. Come early, grab a seat, and enjoy an hour of music alongside complimentary Ritual Coffee and Semifreddi's pastries. Program:
A dual release party for Brycon's "Totally! Unneccesary! White Guy Dub" & Cold Medina & Brycon's "From out the Soil" - w/ all vinyl DJ sets from Equipto, Maitre D, Jima and Brycon. Hosted by Cold Medina.
Every Sunday, the Berkeley Thai Temple draws hundreds for its famous brunch, a community tradition running since 1980. Behind the food Thai noodle soup, curries, and Kanom Krok are volunteers who start work long before the doors open, from monks prepping ingredients to chefs, retired cooks, and families keeping the meal running. For many, volunteering is as much about connection and community as it is about cooking, turning the weekly brunch into a ritual of service, flavor, and shared joy.
Listen, I've written many words about both Fake Fruit and The Umbrellas over the past four years. They represent what's happening in San Francisco music right now. Nothing curated or manufactured about these bands. They are real artists, holding down numerous jobs, some at Amoeba Records to be exact, still paying their dues around the city, the country, and the world. So a gig on the roof of SFMOMA in the fall presented by Rooftop Radio and (((folkYEAH!)))? That right there is a sweet, done deal.
The final acts have just been announced for next months' 25th anniversary Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, with Wilco vocalist Jeff Tweedy added to a lineup that already included String Cheese Incident, Reverend Horton Heat, and Dengue Fever. It was pretty obvious as early as May of this year who a pretty large chunk of the artists playing would be at this year's 25th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival (October 3-5), when they announced a night-before-the-festival Emmylou Harris tribune concert at The Masonic.
Yup, I'm running a day late and a dollar short, but I'm finally back in your inbox after a much-needed break in Lake Tahoe at my family's cabin in Tahoma, where I have been going almost every summer of my entire blessed life. It was a restful and calming vacation, and although it rained the first week I was up there (I'm talking total downpours), it was the perfect excuse to sleep in and binge some series
Saturday September 27, 2025 (12pm - 6pm) 📍 Fulton Plaza - Larkin Street (between Grove + Mcallister) San Francisco, CA 🆓 All ages, Family Friendly, CommUNITY and Cultural Celebration FEATURING: Dance Battles ▪️Crew vs Crew Breaking Battle (1st Place $4000 + Spin Control Gear) ▪️"Unknown Chambers Crew Anniversary" Solo All Styles Dance Battle (1st Place $1000) ▪️Solo Kids (13 & under) All Styles Dance Battle (1st Place $250) ▪️ Register on @breakkonnect
Since the creation of hip-hop in the '70s, the genre has developed regionally. The SF Bay Area scene refined that regionalism to an impressive degree, and no group embodies the Bay's own thing more than RBL Posse. Founded in 1991 in SF's Hunter's Point, the group reached instant success with the self-produced "Don't Give Me No Bammer Weed." Though RBL Posse followed up with further successful records, tragedy followed as well.
his one-man show on Monday night (Sept. 8) at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco by remembering how his father had once told him that he was a mistake but a good mistake. He'd later learn that his parents originally planned to terminate the unplanned pregnancy and his father even sent his mother off to an abortion clinic with $300 to do just that. Yet, while waiting at the clinic, his mother decided to go use the money to buy groceries at Safeway instead.
Join us every Wednesday night at the fabulous DecoDance bar free dance lessons followed by a DJ dance party. Make new friends, learn to dance and get out on a Wednesday night! Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.
That vision became the seed of The Cemetary Girlz, the band AlienSPagan founded in 2006. For nearly 20 years, its music has carried the atmosphere of that moment-eerie, melancholic, but strangely comforting. On Sat/13, when The Cemetary Girlz step onto the stage of DNA Lounge, the venue itself will become a mausoleum of sound, part of the inaugural GLŌM FEST: a touring funeral procession of goth, deathrock, post-punk, and darkwave artists from both sides of the Atlantic.
We just cleared the stench of patchouli out of San Francisco for the Dead & Company concerts and Jerry Day celebration that marked the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. Yet the wharf rats down at Fisherman's Wharf's Pier 39 think that Bay Area Deadheads might still have some boogie left in their new speedway. As such, the Chronicle reports that there will be yet another Grateful Dead 60th anniversary celebration at Pier 39 on Saturday, September 6 from 12 - 7 pm,
A man was found fatally shot on a street in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood, police said. A report around 3:25 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 3, said a person was on the ground at McAllister and Jones streets, just north of Market Street.
Fronted by Josh Turner (Guitar/Lead Vocals), with Autumn Evans on Bass and Aubrey Blount on Drums, FRIEND has been making music since 2021. New Noise Magazine Top 10 albums of 2024 featured FREIND's release of DOG EAT DOG quoting "DOG EAT DOG is what happens when '00s garage punk meets, uh, actual production and a dog's ear for melodies. It's sublime and even more fun than a label of "Goblin Punk" would lead you to believe"
We'll let Steve explain what's going on: 'I've got some good news and bad news. What do you want first? Okay, the bad news: I've broken my wrist, so unfortunately we won't be doing any shows for a while. The good news is the surgeon said I will be back playing guitar in the not-too-distant future. The other good news is I'll be 70 tomorrow! God bless, and God save the wrist.'
Hailing from San Francisco, Bululú brings a tropical, Latin vibe to the Bay Area. And this weekend, they will be playing a free show with Salinas' Flaco El Jandro y Sus Perros Callejeros (who mix punk, cumbia, and soul) and El Pecado de Juana (a Bay Area Bolero rock trio) for a celebration of Latin and Chicano music and culture.
Did San Francisco seem a little bit empty last week? That's because a large chunk of the city's population made the trek to Burning Man, where our intrepid reporter Timothy Karoff braved the mud and a wet sleeping bag to send in daily dispatches via solar-powered Starlink. But here in the city, life goes on, with the normal packed social schedule of concerts, dance competitions and film screenings.
@apeconcerts with the City of San Francisco are excited to announce the next installment of its FREE concert series with the debut of Poolside's Daytime Disco, a new branded DJ party helmed by band leader @jeffreyparadise on Sunday, September 7 in Union Square. The launch and location of the first ever Poolside's Daytime Disco in Union Square is special by design.
