Green Tortoise San Francisco Hostel Blog

Main sources of reference are here and there

feb 1 - wed

- Knifey Spooney, Culture Kids, Sister Fucker, @ 1-2-3-4 Go! Records, a/a 7pm

-  Banner Pilot (Minneapolis MN), Shotdown, Hear The Sirens, The Shell Corporation @ thee Parkside a/a $8 8pm

-  The Drift, Sean Smith, Satya Sena, @ Elbo Room 21+ $6 9pm

feb 2 - thu

- Secret Chiefs 3, Dengue Fever at the Great American Music Hall

- Stolen Babies, Vera Mesmer, @ Bottom of the Hill a/a $10 8:30pm/9pm

-  Dirty Filthy Mugs, Stagger And Fall, Hounds & Harlots @ thee Parkside 21+ $7 9pm

feb 3 - fri

- Dengue Fever, Secret Chiefs 3 at Slim's

- New Monsoon, The Jugtown Pirates @ New Parish (oakland) 18+ $10/$15 8pm/9pm

- Excuses For Skipping, Schande, Spare Parts For Broken Hearts at the Hemlock 21+ $6 9:30pm

- Foxtails Brigade, Little Teeth, Yesway, Upside Down @ Bottom of the Hill a/a $10 8:30pm/9pm

- Tribal Seeds, The Expanders, Los Rakas, Thrive @ Regency Ballroom a/a $18/$20 8:30pm

- Harry & The Hit Men, Battlehooch, Sun Hop Fat @ Great American Music Hall 6+ $8/$12 9pm

- Highway Patrol, TS And The Past Haunts, Heywood, Foolproof Four @ thee Parkside ?/?

feb 4 - sat

- The Jayhawks, Abigail Washburn @ Fillmore a/a $25 8pm/9pm

- No Statik, Hunting Party, Replica, Careless Whisper, Bad Blood @ 1-2-3-4 Go! Records a/a $5 7pm til 10pm

- Exodus, Possessed, Forbidden, Heathen, Mad At Sam, second stage: Angerhead, Mudface, The Venting Machine, Hellfire, Hysteria @ Oakland Metro a/a        $30 6pm (in honor of the life of Paul Baloff)

- Twin Sister, Ava Luna, Naytronix @ Great American Music Hall 6+ $13/$15 8pm/9pm

- +++ (Crosses), Dawn Golden & Rosy Cross, Secret Empire @ Slim's 6+ $21 9pm

- Dead Cat Hat,Hell On Wheels @ thee Parkside a/a free 2pm/3pm (early show)

- Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster, Lionize, Abatis @ thee Parkside 21+ $12 9pm (late show)

- Super Adventure Club, I Can Dress Myself, 8th Grader @ Bottom of the Hill 21+ $10 8:30pm/9pm

- Eleanor Friedberger, Dominant Legs @ Independent 21+ $13/$15 9pm

- Disastroid (record release), Pins Of light, War Child @ El Rio 21+ $7 9pm

- Dark Hollow (two sets 10pm & 11:15pm) @ Riptide 21+ free 9pm/10pm

- Go Van Gogh @ Bissap Baobab 21+ 10pm

feb 5 - sun

- Bobby Joe Ebola & The Children McNuggits, Sarchasm, The Vat, Dont Be The Hero, Mama Duck at Gilman $7 (early show)

- August Burns Red, Silverstein, Texas In July, I The Breather @ Regency Ballroom a/a 7:15pm

- The Sun: Date Palms, Jennifer Curtis at the Berkeley Art Museum 12pm/noon

-  Nickel Slots, Everlovin' @ thee Parkside a/a free 2pm/4pm

All right kiddies I am going to lay some more shows down for you.  If you want even more comprehensive lists then you can check out these sites, This one and That one

jan 19 - thu

- White Cloud, Jeffertitti's Nile, Moccretro, Arms N' Legs at Thee Parkside, S.F. $5 9pm
- La Corde, Balaclavas (TX), Cat Party at the Hemlock 21+ $7 9pm
- Primitive Hearts, Sorry Ever After, Dark Beaches at 1-2-3-4 Go! Records, Oakland $5 8pm

jan 20 - fri

- Fleshies, Big Eyes, Wild Assumptions at 1-2-3-4 Go! Records, Oakland 8pm
- The Walkmen at the Independent 21+ $25 9pm

jan 21 - sat

- Hammers Of Misfortune, Giant Squid, Dimesland at the Uptown, Oakland 21+ $12/$14 9pm
- Neighborhood Brats, Cat Party (San Diego), La Corde, Hooray For Everything dj Agitator, dj Bite Mark at the Stork Club, Oakland 21+ $5 8pm
- Embryonic Devourment, Short Fuse, Malevolent, Cyanic, Newtdick, Decimatus at Eli's Mile High Club, Oakland 21+ $10 7pm
- Terry Malts, Balaclavas (Houston, TX), Rat Columns, Yi at 1-2-3-4 Go! Records, Oakland $5 8pm
- The Walkmen at the Independent 21+ $25 9pm

jan 23 - mon

- Wolves In the Throne Room, Worm Oroborous, Ash Borer at Slim's $16 8pm

jan 24 - tue

- Toad (Ty Segall, Mikal Cronin & Charlie Moonheart), Mean Jeans (PDX), Pangea (L.A.) at the Knockout, S.F. 21+ $7 9:30pm (alcoholocaust)

jan 26 - thr

- No Statik, Walls (WA - iron lung records), True Radical Miracle (Australia - iron lung records), The Smell at El Rio, S.F. 21+ $7 9pm (alcoholocaust)
- Avengers, Midnite Snaxxx at the Bottom Of the Hill 21+ $12/$13 9pm

jan 27 - fri

- Kicker, The Rickets (WA), Abrupt, Crpt Keeper at Eli's Mile High Club, Oakland 21+ $7 9pm (alcoholocaust)

jan 28 - sat

- Outdoorsmen, FM Bats (ex-Le Shok), The Sensitive Side, Glitz (members of personal & the pizzas, hunx and his punx) at the Hemlock 21+ $6 9:30pm
- Carlton Melton, Feral Ohms, Glitter Wizard at the El Rio, S.F. 21+ $8 10pm (alcoholocaust)
- Sacred Reich, Attitude Adjustment, Ikki Crane, Midnight Chaser, My Victim, Contrast The Water at the Metro, Oakland $20 6pm

jan 29 - sun

- Wilco, White Denim at the Warfield $45 8pm

jan 31 - tue

- Wilco, White Denim at the Fox Theater, Oakland $45 8pm (sold out)

feb 1 - wed

- Ghost (Sweden), Blood Ceremony (Canada), Ancient VVisdom (TX) at the Bottom Of the Hill $13/$15 9pm

feb 2 - thu

- Secret Chiefs 3, Dengue Fever at the Great American Music Hall

feb 3 - fri

- Dengue Fever, Secret Chiefs 3 at Slim's
- Excuses For Skipping, Schande, Spare Parts For Broken Hearts at the Hemlock 21+ $6 9:30pm

feb 5 - sun

- Bobby Joe Ebola & The Children McNuggits, Sarchasm, The Vat, Dont Be The Hero, Mama Duck at Gilman $7 (early show)

feb 6 - mon

- Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra (Canada) at the Great American Music Hall

feb 11 - sat

- D.I., The Lean at the Uptown, Oakland 21+ 9pm $10/$12
- Swingin' Utters, The Generators, Stellar Corpses, Side Kick, Between Your Teeth, Decent Criminal at Gilman $12 8pm

feb 14 - Tues

- Yob, Black Cobra, Walken at the New Parish (Oakland) 18+ $10/$12

Hey kids!  Its your friendly neighborhood hostel worker here to tell you about the comedy scene here in  San Francisco.  What comedy scene you ask? Well once upon a time San Francisco was the place to be for "alternative comedy" whatever that means.  Greats like Patton Oswalt and Robin Williams have spent a good chunk of their career here in SF and to our credit we still have some pretty great clubs still operating in the city, most of which are right in our neighborhood.  Cobb's Comedy Club (cobbscomedyclub.com) and the Punchline (punchlinecomedyclub.com) are the two more traditional clubs but we also have the smaller more personal, Purple Onion (caffemacaroni.com/purple.shtml) not a block away from our front door.

And for the last 11 years we have opened our figurative city gates to the SF Sketchfest.  A comedy extravaganza that lasts over 2 weeks.  Half the venues are in our neighborhood and the other half are super easy to get to from the Tortoise.  The dates this year are January 19th through February 4th.

A ton of podcasts are going live shows like Jimmy Pardo's "Never not Funny", Chris Hardwick's "Nerdist", and Mark Maron's "WTF".   This is really the year of the comic, there are a million stand up shows to choose from.  I would suggest the Meltdown Show at Cobbs Comedy Club on January 28th.

 For ticket and venue information go to sfsketchfest.com

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