New Updates Weekly & Ticket Giveaways
Thu 03/25 at Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland
Train
Sat 03/27 at Mr. Smalls Theatre
VNV Nation
Mon 03/29 at Brillobox
Miles Kurosky (of Beulah)
Mon 04/05 at Mr. Smalls Theatre
Girls
Thu 04/29 at Mr. Smalls Theatre
Job For A Cowboy
Fri 05/07 at Club Cafe
Igor & Red Elvises
Thu 05/27 at Club Cafe
Monte Montgomery
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Thursday, March 25 - 8:00pm
Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland - Tickets - On Sale Feb 13 @ 10am
Over the course of 15 years, Train has made its mark on music history with their Grammy-Award-winning song "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" and chart-topping singles "Meet Virginia" and "Calling All Angels." Since forming in San Francisco in 1994, the multi-platinum selling band has traveled a long, successful and sometimes arduous journey. Following their 2006 release, For Me, It's You, the band took a three-year hiatus, and in that time, Train has, for all intents and purposes, experienced an epiphany as a whole. Now, with their fifth album, Save Me San Francisco, Train has channeled their early days, revisiting the roots rock sound that has made the band such a tour de force - and, in turn, the band is united stronger than ever before. "I think taking time away from each other really made the heart grow fonder," frontman Pat Monahan says of the break. "We realized how important we were to one another and taking a few years off helped us all really look at ourselves and what we could contribute to this band as opposed to what we weren't getting from the band."
Tuesday, March 2 - 8:00pm
Byham Theater - Tickets
How did two Mexican-born heavy-metal enthusiasts end up at the top of the Irish charts? The story begins back in their homeland, where Rodrigo Sanchez (lead guitar) and Gabriela Quintero (rhythm and guitar-top hand percussion) met as teenagers. Following years of fruitless struggle, they settled in Dublin, working as street entertainers, eventually wandering as far afield as Denmark and Spain. But over time, their virtuoso duo-guitar instrumentals garnered them a following, which in turn led to indoor engagements where they no longer had to freeze their hands off. And no wonder -- their eruptive mixture of Central and South American folkways, with its propulsive rock rhythms, plus grooves reminiscent of The Gipsy Kings' crowd-pleasing Catalan rumbas, is incredibly infectious. Yes, their frisky yet spot-on covers of "Stairway To Heaven" and "Orion" may goad some listeners into purchasing the album, but believe it or not, the original tunes are even more mesmerizing.
Sunday, April 11 - 8:00pm
Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland - Tickets - SOLD OUT
Wilco will play a run of 16 concerts in Eastern U.S. cities beginning in Miami, FL on March 22 and culminating in Pittsburgh, PA on April 11. The concerts are presented as "An Evening with Wilco" and will feature extended, varied sets exploring material from each of the accomplished Chicago sextet's seven studio albums. These tour dates continue what is already promising to be a busy start to the new year for Wilco. In late January the band heads to Los Angeles to perform as part of the 2010 MusicCares Person of the Year concert honoring Neil Young. Wilco's latest studio album, the Grammy-nominated Wilco (The Album) has landed on many critic's year end polls as one of the best albums of 2009 and Rolling Stone magazine recently cited Wilco's 2002 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot as the 3rd best album of the decade. You can view a full list of honors in the News section of Wilcoworld.net.
Friday, February 12 - 9:00pm
Mr. Smalls - Tickets
THE MACHINE, America's top Pink Floyd show, has forged a 20 year reputation of excellence, extending the legacy of Pink Floyd, while creating another legacy all their own. Over the years, The Machine has touched the hearts and souls of many, selling out large clubs and theatres across North and Central America, Europe and Asia. They have also appeared at renowned music festivals such as Bonnaroo, Riverbend, and Germany's Rock of Ages. The New York based band focuses on making every show an authentic Floydian experience for their fans.
Wednesday, February 17 - 8:00pm
Mr. Smalls - Tickets
Almost alone among bands of the last two decades, Tortoise is a group that resists easy metaphors and analogies, who can be described as sounding like only themselves and no one else. Twenty years after its founding, the band's signature and singularly inimitable sound-a fluid intersection of dub, dance, jazz, techno, rock, and classical minimalism, with no part overwhelming or dominating the whole-remains an American and international original. Even more unusually, they seem to have arrived at their sound with almost no apprenticeship to speak of; to judge from their early singles and albums alone, they seem to have come into being with their musical identity and DNA fully formed, like Athena from the forehead of Zeus. Further, while the group has spawned countless imitators, heirs, and followers-sincere, flattering, and otherwise-Tortoise remains unique in the world of contemporary music for their boundless intellectual curiosity, their unmistakable compositional voice, and their synthesis of seemingly contradictory sound worlds far from their doorstep.