Posts Tagged ‘music festivals’

2010: A Year of Music

December 31st, 2010

I saw some great shows this past year. Here’s a list, as accurate as I could get it, of my concerts from 2010. I’ve highlighted my favorites.

1/3 – 1/8: Jam Cruise 8 (The High Seas)
1/16: Umphrey’s McGee (Regency Ballroom, SF)
1/17: Rebirth Brass Band & Ivan Neville’s Dumstaphunk (Independent, SF)
1/18: Rebirth Brass Band (Mojito, SF)
1/22: The Sweatband (Blue Macaw, SF)
1/29: North Mississippi Allstars (Independent, SF)
1/30: Greyboy Allstars (Fillmore, SF)
2/16: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band (Independent, SF)
2/21: Medeski, Martin & Wood (Fillmore, SF)
2/25: moe. (Fillmore, SF)
2/26: Juno What & Orgone (Boom Boom Room, SF)
2/27: Juno What & Orgone (Boom Boom Room, SF)
3/5: Galactic feat. Cyrill Neville & Chali 2Na (Fillmore, SF)
3/5: Galactic & Greyhounds Afterhours (Boom Boom Room, SF)
3/6: Galactic feat. Cyrill Neville & Chali 2NA (Fillmore, SF)
3/6: Galactic & Greyhounds Afterhours feat. George Clinton (Boom Boom Room, SF)
3/13: Salvador Santana, Trombone Shorty Orleans Ave & The New Mastersounds (Fillmore, SF)
3/15: Balkan Beat Box (Fillmore, SF)
3/26: Ronkat’s Katadelic (Boom Boom Room, SF)
4/9: Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe (Independent, SF)
4/10: Les Claypool, Common, Beats Antique, Black Keys (Bay Area Yuri’s Night)
4/15: Pretty Lights (Mezzanine, SF)
4/16: Miike Snow (Independent, SF)
4/23: Bonobo (Mezzanine, SF)
4/29: Garage A Trois w/ Midnight Disturbers, Dead Kenny Gs, Stanton Moore Trio and Marco Benevento Solo (Howlin’ Wolf, New Orleans)
4/30: Ivan Neville & Dumpstapunk (Jazzfest, New Orleans)
4/30: Dr. Klaw (Jazzfest, New Orleans)
4/30: Widespread Panic (Jazzfest, New Orleans)
4/30: Galactic (One Eyed Jacks, New Orleans)
4/30: Big Gigantic (Republic, New Orleans)
4/31: Bruce Hampton & Rebirth Brass Band (Howlin’ Wolf, New Orleans)
4/31: Gravity A (Dragon’s Den, New Orleans)
4/31: Some Cat From Japan (Tipitina’s FQ, New Orleans)
5/1: Greboy Allstars (Riverboat, New Orleans)
5/1: Dr. Klaw & Break Science (One Eyed Jack’s, New Orleans)
5/2: Royal Family Ball featuring Soulive, Lettuce, Zigaboo’s Funk Revue George Porter and His Runnin’ Pardners (Howlin’ Wolf, New Orleans)
5/7: Juno What? (Boom Boom Room, SF)
5/8: Stanton Moore Trio (Independent, SF)
5/8: Juno What? (Boom Boom Room, 5SF)
5/14: Breakestra & Fort Knox Five (Mezzanine, SF)
6/4: Monophonics (Boom Boom Room, SF)
6/11: Robert Randolph & The Family Band (Fillmore, SF)
6/11: Tracorum (Boom Boom Room, SF)
7/10 – 7/12: High Sierra Music Festival
7/18: Primus (Great American Music Hall, SF)
7/23: Ivan Neville & Dumpstaphunk (Great American Music Hall, SF)
7/29 – 8/1: String Cheese Incident Festival at Hornings Hideout
8/25: Dave Matthews Band (Sleep Train Pavillion, Concord CA)
8/30-9/5: Burningman (Black Rock City, NV)
9/23: Health, The XX (Fox Theater, Oakland)
9/24: Pimps of Joytime, JJ Grey & MoFro (Fillmore, SF)
10/1: Juno What?! (Boom Boom Room, SF)
10/29: Lotus (Independent, SF)
11/24: Zach Deputy (Boom Boom Room, SF)
12/11: Soulive with Karl Denson & Nigel Hall (Independent, SF)
12/18: Greyboy Allstars (Boom Boom Room, SF)
12/23: Some Cat from Japan (Boom Boom Room, SF)
12/31: Thievery Corp, Balkan Beat Box, Beats Antique (Sea of Dreams, SF)

Outside Lands

March 30th, 2008

We bit the bullet. This morning at 10:00 AM PST, we bought tickets to the upcoming Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco in August. The lineup is truly amazing, from our perspective, but they get you with $25+ in service fees per ticket. Absolutely ridiculous.

The headliners include Radiohead, Jack Johnson and Tom Petty.. but the list just goes on from there. There’s no camping (and no food) but we’ll deal with that.. It’s just about as good as any bonnaroo lineup.. and besides, the chance to see Radiohead live again.. holy moly!

* Radiohead
* Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
* Jack Johnson
* Beck
* Wilco
* Manu Chao
* Ben Harper
* Widespread Panic
* Primus
* Rodrigo y Gabriela
* Steve Winwood
* Cafe Tacvba
* Broken Social Scene
* Regina Spektor
* Devendra Banhart
* Cold War Kids
* Galactic’s Crescent City Soul Krewe
* Lyrics Born
* Andrew Bird
* Steel Pulse
* Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
* M. Ward
* Drive-By Truckers
* ALO
* Matt Nathanson
* The Cool Kids
* Two Gallants
* Dredg Little Brother
* Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
* Donavon Frankenreiter
* The Mother Hips
* Black Mountain
* Sidestepper
* Nellie McKay
* The Coup
* Goapele
* Bon Iver
* Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk
* Sean Hayes
* The Felice Brothers
* Rupa & the April Fishes
* Back Door Slam
* K’NAAN