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Tongue-in-cheek SoCal punk vets and the rest of this week's live music
These are bands we especially dig, not
full listings. For those, please see
Concerts and Clubs.
For more top shows featuring local acts, please see Nightgeist.
Wednesday, April 30
PLAN A: Yo Majesty, Does it Offend You, Yeah? @ The Casbah. Dip me in honey and throw me to the lesbian rappers on this page. PLAN B: UFO, Sledd @ Brick by Brick. UFO has been around heavy metal long enough to have inspired both the Iron Age (when Iron Maiden peaked in the ’80s) and the Iron Age (when people forged dense minerals into tools in 1200 B.C.). PLAN C: Belanova @ House of Blues. Synth-pop seems even more ridiculous when it’s en Español. But that doesn’t mean it’s any less catchy. BACKUP PLANS: The Atoms @ Bar Pink Elephant and Modern Day Moonshine @ U-31.
Thursday, May 1
PLAN A: Stiff Little Fingers @ House of Blues. Irish punks inspirational and important enough to earn a shout-out from the music snobs in High Fidelity. PLAN B: The Woggles, The Heartaches, The Sess @ The Casbah. The Woggles are raucous garage rockers from Atlanta, not a creepy children’s musical group from Australia like The Wiggles. PLAN C: Jay-Z Presents The Roc Boys @ On Broadway. The promos for this show are a tad cryptic but, rather than Jigga, expect some underling Roc-A-Fella rappers joining local DJs like Rage, Tech and Gigi. BACKUP PLANS: Mike Doughty @ Belly Up and The Ringers @ Beauty Bar.
Friday, May 2
PLAN A: The English Beat, Culver City Dub Collective @ Belly Up. If ska wasn’t, isn’t and never will be your thing, you can at least appreciate the fact that a remix of The English Beat’s “Rotating Head” is playing when Ferris Bueller makes his mad dash to beat Mom and Dad home. PLAN B: Sami Yaffa and Karmen Guy @ Bar Pink Elephant. Yaffa and Guy kill time in between tours for New York Dolls (Yaffa) and Mad Juana (Yaffa and Guy) by spinning a DJ set. PLAN C: Manic Hispanic, MEX, Cabron @ The Casbah. If you’ve ever wanted to listen to some tongue-in-cheek SoCal punk vets turn Social D’s “Mommy’s Little Monster” into “Mommy’s Little Cholo,” now’s the time for Manic Hispanic. BACKUP PLAN: No Death Core Fest @ Che Café.
Saturday, May 3
PLAN A: E-40, Jabbawockeez @ 4th & B. Jabbawockeez take on the Zapf Dingbats on this page. PLAN B: KT Tunstall @ Spreckels. Thanks to singles like “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree,” Tunstall is the most popular Scottish export to come out of St. Andrews since golf was invented. PLAN C: Adams Avenue Roots & Folk Festival @ Adams Avenue. The first of two days featuring all the local roots and folk music you can handle. Plus, two beer gardens for those of us who can’t really handle any local roots and folk music. BACKUP PLAN: Sugar Minott @ ’Canes.
Sunday, May 4
PLAN A: Shelby Lynne, David McMillin @ Belly Up. Lynne’s recent channeling of Dusty Springfield is just good enough to make me forget the nauseating White Trash Barbie album cover she did for Love, Shelby. PLAN B: Unknown Hinson, Bartender’s Bible @ The Casbah. Unknown Hinson could have a cult following based on his wicked (albeit fake) mutton chops alone. But dude inspires enough psychobilly worship to have his likeness tattooed on Hank III’s arm. PLAN C: Blind Melon, Eric Hutchinson @ ’Canes. In case hearing “No Rain” on alt-rock radio every other day for the last decade just isn’t enough.
Monday, May 5
PLAN A: Talib Kweli, G. Love & Special Sauce @ Jenny Craig Pavilion. Kweli is technically the opener, but he gets top billing over G. Love because “Get By” kicks way more ass than “Cold Beverage.” PLAN B: The Heavy @ The Casbah. The Heavy probably isn’t what you might expect. Unless you’re anticipating some crazy Brits simultaneously conjuring Curtis Mayfield and MC5—then they’re exactly what you expect. PLAN C: John Brown’s Body, International Farmers, Audible Mainframe @ Belly Up. This show is being billed as “Reggae de Mayo.” I see no need for further exposition. BACKUP PLAN: The Lonely H, Thunderbird Motel @ Che Café.
Tuesday, May 6
PLAN A: Thee Oh Sees, Blood on the Wall, Deadly Finns @ The Casbah. Turn to our Oh Sees review on Page 38 to see what sort of delightful things happen when John Dwyer goes off his meds. PLAN B: The Spam Allstars @ Winston’s Beach Club. Latin electronic funk from some Floridians who like their limp processed meat from a can. PLAN C: Rev. Deadeye, Christian James @ Chaser’s. The good Reverend delivers gritty gospel blues (on songs like “Fuck the Devil”) capable of converting Baptist snakehandlers into boozing backsliders and vice versa. BACKUP PLAN: Minipop @ Beauty Bar.
Published: 04/29/2008
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