If I could sum up this week’s biggest live Bay Area events in one nonsensical fake-Spanish declaration, it would be this: ¡YO LA COCO! Over the next few days we’ll have multiple live performances from both Conan O’Brien and Yo La Tengo, as well as an exhaustingly awesome array of other rad shows. Check out some of our favorites after the jump.
Wednesday, April 21
Camera Obscura, Best Coast at Great American Music Hall, 8pm
Brace yourself for a seemingly disparate yet awesome evening of melancholy Scottish favorites Camera Obscura and the lo-fi California garage pop of SXSW fave Best Coast.
Eclectic Live April with Schande and Kill Moi at Harlot, 9pm
Longtime indie stalwart and prolific DJ Jen Schande is one of the Bay Area’s leading ladies of rock. Check out her awesome band, along with Kill Moi and resident DJ Jacob Fury, at Harlot for only $5.
Norah Jones, Sasha Dobson at The Fillmore, 8pm
Madeleine Peyroux at Yoshi’s SF, 8 and 10pm (April 21-24)
Freda Payne at The Rrazz Room, 8pm (April 20-25)
His Name Is Alive, The Orange Peels, Kitten at Bottom of the Hill, 9pm
Thursday, April 22
Conan O’Brien – Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television Tour at Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium, 8pm
The best-named tour of all time stops in San Francisco for its first of two highly-anticipated nights.
Yo La Tengo, Camera Obscura at The Fillmore, 8pm
What an absurdly awesome lineup. This is the first of three nights of YLT at The Fillmore, but the only one with Camera Obscura as the opener.
The Fresh & Onlys, Blank Dogs, Cosmetics, Bare Wires at The Eagle [link NSFW], 9pm
GZA at Shattuck Down Low, 9pm
The Bloody Beetroots, Tenderlions, Nisus at The Independent, 9pm
Friday, April 23
Bonobo, Yppah, Mophone at Mezzanine, 9pm
Conan O’Brien – Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television Tour at Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium, 8pm
Japandroids, Avi Buffalo, Pepper Rabbit at The Independent, 9pm
Josh Rouse, Bart Davenport at Bimbo’s 365 Club, 9pm
Shelby Lynne, Findlay Brown, Ann Atomic at Great American Music Hall, 8:30pm
Yo La Tengo, Thee Oh Sees at The Fillmore, 9pm
Guthrie Family Rides Again with Arlo Guthrie at Zellerbach Hall, 8pm
Sublime with Rome, The Dirty Heads, Del Mar at Fox Theater, 8pm
Saturday, April 24
Yo La Tengo, Sic Alps at The Fillmore, 9pm
Dr. Dog, Sean Bones, Pepi Ginsberg at Great American Music Hall, 9pm
The Wedding Present performing Bizarro in its entirety, Mister Loveless, Surf Cinema at The Independent, 9pm
Sunday, April 25
Jennifer Knapp, Pawnshop Kings at Red Devil Lounge, 8pm
Bestselling Christian singer/songwriter Knapp made waves recently by coming out as a lesbian. This has provoked quite a bit of scorn from her conservative Christian base, so she needs a big gay San Francisco welcome like never before.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Live! Plus Also Some Squidbillies Stuff Live! at The Regency Ballroom, 8pm
Your guess is as good as mine.
Blue Oyster Cult, Medieval Knievel at Slim‘s, 8pm
Shearwater, Wye Oak, Hospital Ships at Bottom of the Hill, 9pm
Emily Wells, Gabriel Kahane + Rob Moose, Timmy Straw at Café Du Nord, 8pm
Monday, April 26
Audra McDonald with the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Symphony Hall, 8pm
A winner of four Tonys and two Grammys, Audra McDonald is halfway to an EGOT — and her ongoing television work on shows like Private Practice is bound to net her an Emmy eventually. Tonight she performs an all new program of songs by Sondheim, Arlen, Lerner, Weill, Rodgers, Guettel, Styne, Loesser, Mancini, and many more.
Leon Redbone, The Molotovs at Great American Music Hall, 8pm
Nanci Griffith at Yoshi’s SF, 8pm (April 26-28)
Growing, Eric Copeland, Death Sentence: PANDA! at Bottom of the Hill, 9pm
Tuesday, April 27
Liars, Fol Chen at Slim’s, 8:30pm
Aqualung, Krista Polvere at Swedish American Hall, 8pm
