It’s “Venues” rather than “Clubs” because clubs are only part of a story about where bands play. It’s a story that includes bars, clubs, restaurants like Speisekammer in Alameda, auditoriums like Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, and Amoeba, the music retailer in SF and Berkeley that presents free live shows.
The new Venues page can work together with the new Bands page for fans who find a band they don’t know playing at a place they don’t know. (more…)
It appears that the Plain High Drifters are preparing for another run. They cover late ’60’s early ’70s country tunes and provide an outlet for Smelley Kelley to sing the songs that there just isn’t room for in his main band Red Meat. This will be the fourth incarnation of the PHDs who date back to the mid-’90s as the East Bay Drifters who, as they’ve evolved, tend to play for about three years then disappear for three years only to return again. Whatever else can be said about the band, they at least have a fine sense of symmetry.
Li’l Anne and the Tune Wranglers emerged out of the Sweet ‘n’ Lo’s in 2009, but soon went into hibernation while waiting for a new bass player to appear. (more…)
Annie’s Social Club on Folsom near 5th in San Francisco is the latest club to buckle to the recession, having announced that it’s last show will be on New Year’s Eve. (more…)
Music fans in and near San Jose can welcome Sam’s Bar-B-Que at 1110 South Bascom Avenue as an addition to that venue-starved city as roots Americana finds its way to the club every Tuesday and Wednesday, usually in the form of bluegrass. The country band Larry Lynch and the Country Classics, not to be confused with the alt-country band Loretta Lynch, plays there every fourth Wednesday. All of the bands at Sam’s are timed for dinner and a show, 6:00-9:00. (more…)
The Supervisors hearing room was packed to overflowing on Monday October 28th as nightlife’s supporters and detractors rallied to their respective causes. This wasn’t even a Board of Supervisors meeting; it was a committee of three Supervisors: Bevan Dufty, the man who would be king; Eric Mar, a democrat in name only; and Chris Daly, the local press’s favorite whipping boy, (self-flagellation aside).
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