Do you know what today is? Today is D-Day. Freedom isn’t to be for granted, especially these days.
Speaking of freedom, let’s talk about concerts. Here’s what we’ve got coming up this week in the Bay Area: tall people, people benefiting other people, and people doing things with the air.
So, let’s preview. Time to preview. It’s time to preview now, and now here are the previews.
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• Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Caitlin Gill, Amy Miller, Matt Lieb at Cafe Du Nord, San Francisco
Bullet points for brevity.
Caitlin Gill:
• “I wanna tell weird dirty jokes to strangers in dark rooms.”
• Bay Area fave with lots of SF Sketchfest and Tourettes Without Regrets experience.
• Welcomed Caitlyn Jenner to the sisterhood of Caitlyns with an op-ed in the New York Times.
• Loves cats.
• Tall.Amy Miller:
• The funniest person in Portland is now the funniest person in Los Angeles.
• An old friend of Spinning Platters, she had an excellent interview with Dakin last year.
• She has released her first album “Gold” on SubPop, meaning that bands like Sleater-Kinney and Soundgarden are lucky enough to share a label with her.Matt Lieb:
• “Error establishing a database connection.” Matt looks to be having website difficulties.
• Loves Star Wars.
• Also tall.
• Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Minus Mary at Patxi’s Pizza, Greenbrae
Roots-rock trio playing for a good cause in Marin. A portion of the evening’s proceeds will go to the Center for Judicial Excellence, a non-profit that works on the behalf of abused children.
Chicago, The Doobie Brothers at the Concord Pavilion
The cassettes in your Dad’s Toyota back in 1979.
• Thursday, June 8, 2017
San Francisco Air Guitar Contest at the Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco
Tune up the air guitar and rock out like the parents aren’t home.
Off With Their Heads (acoustic), Jay Nothington, Joey Balls, Jeff Anaya, Adrian McNair, Dom Gellin, Matt Lieb at Thee Parkside, San Francisco
Comedy plus gritty heartfelt acoustic punk rock at Thee Parkside. Look! Matt Lieb will be here too!
• Friday, June 9, 2017
Big Brother & The Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Linda Imperial And David Freiberg at the Empress Theater, Vallejo
If you never stop touring, then you don’t have to stop touring.
• Saturday, July 10, 2017
Zakk Sabbath (tribute), Beastmaker at Slim’s, San Francisco
Zakk Sabbath is Zakk Wylde’s pummelling tribute to Black Sabbath. Strap in for huge slabs of expertly-delivered riffs. “War Pigs” has never been more important or prescient.
Nerf Herder, Fartbarf, The Started-Its at the Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco
Big ol’ friendly nerd punk rock. And they are responsible for the Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV show’s theme song. I once saw Parry Gripp, the lead dude of Nerf Herder, play most of a show at Bottom Of The Hill on a sweltering summer evening in a thick parka – for no reason at all other than to do it. He is a visionary.
• Sunday, June 11, 2017
Wailing Souls, Ancestree at the Catalyst Atrium, Santa Cruz
Speaking of bands that can’t be stopped – Wailing Souls are still on the road. See them while you can.
