Live Music in San Francisco

Great American Music Hall, Tenderloin

TODAY 8:00 PM • See Website

“Japanese noise-punk at 900 mph. Bring earplugs, lose them anyway.”

Bottom of the Hill, Other

TMRW 8:00 PM • $20

“Semi-Charmed Life stripped to one guitar in a 300-cap punk bar. Doo doo doo indeed.”

Great American Music Hall, Tenderloin

TUE 8:00 PM • See Website

“Blown-out ambient pop for people who cry at the Tenderloin bus stop.”

The Chapel, Mission

WED 8:00 PM • See Website

“90s space-rock cult heroes, loud as ever. 'Fantastic Planet' brain still intact.”

The Chapel, Mission

THU 8:00 PM • See Website

“Dublin's finest moody indie. Bring your feelings to Valencia St.”

Golden Gate Park (Hellman Hollow), Other

FRI 11:00 AM • FREE

“Three days, six stages, Emmylou Harris, zero dollars. Get there before the meadow fills.”

The Castro Theatre, Castro

SAT 7:00 PM • See Website

“Black Midi's frontman doing lounge-lizard prog. Deeply unhinged, deeply good.”

The Chapel, Mission

SUN 8:00 PM • See Website

“Aussie indie boys who'll make you want to road-trip a coast you don't have.”

August Hall, Tenderloin

OCT 5 8:00 PM • See Website

“Woozy soul for people who peaked emotionally on a Monday. Perfect.”

Rickshaw Stop, Other

OCT 6 8:00 PM • See Website

“Sex Education's Cal, but make it genre-melting R&B in a tiny Hayes Valley room.”

The Independent, NOPA

OCT 7 8:00 PM • $25

“Scrappy Rhode Island rockers who still play like the bar's about to close.”

August Hall, Tenderloin

OCT 7 8:00 PM • See Website

“Chicago goth-pop in Spanish. Everyone in black, everyone crying, everyone thrilled.”

Great American Music Hall, Tenderloin

OCT 8 8:00 PM • See Website

“SF weirdo-rock lifers, still refusing to write a normal song since 1986”

The Regency Ballroom, Other

OCT 9 7:30 PM • See Website

“Hometown hardcore in a chandelier ballroom. Deeply funny. Go.”