Mission Mission

Another day, another rad show at Brick and Mortar!  This place has quickly become one of the most reliable music venues in the Mission, and tonight is no exception:  Permanent Collection and Jesus Sons join rapid up-and-comers Big Drag, featuring Josh Cobos from our periodic Bad Blood series!  So go ahead and enjoy the amazing heat in the park this evening, and when the last Tecate has run dry, head on over and kickstart your rocktober with some rad tunes.

Check out all the details and don’t forget to RSVP and invite your friends here.

Looking for something to do on a hot Indian summer night?  Once the sun sets in the park and the last beer runs out, head on over to Brick and Mortar for the inaugural show of a new music series taking place the 1st Monday of each month this fall, featuring a bunch of local musicians like Luke Sweeney, among others.

Check out the details and RSVP here.

Reggae and grass: what a pair. I’m talking about the kind that you sit on in Dolores Park, of course, but I’m sure you won’t have any trouble finding the other kind while you’re there.

Tomorrow, some of SF’s finest purveyors of vintage rocksteady, ska, and early reggae 45s from the SF Vintage Reggae Society will be spinning in the park, live soundsystem style. We’re talking early reggae, folks. So you’re not gonna be hearing no Bob Marley’s Legend. No diss to that, but it’s not what all reggae sounds like.

2pm til the cops come. More on facebook. And here’s a cut to tide you over:

What a shot!

[via LLL]

Two big time local musical groups have new albums and accompanying music videos that caught my eye.

Two Gallants, who started out playing free shows in Dolores Park and at 16th and Mission, released a rad video for “My Love Won’t Wait”, from their new album The Bloom and the Blight, which came out earlier this month.

Weird and beautiful. I like this use of slow motion. So far it seems like this album is a little less dreamy than their recent stuff and a little rougher, like the early work.

Switching gears and crossing the Bay, The Coup have a new album, Sorry to Bother You, coming out at the end of October. Check out this fun song and video where Boots Riley escapes the feds and bikes around Oakland, “The Magic Clap”.

I love that guy’s flow. I bet you catch yourself dancing in your seat to that sometime today.

Umm, this is gonna be fucking awesome. The Bay Bridged got a tour of the space from Jack Knowles, the man with the plan:

The idea spawned a few years ago during a visit from Knowles’ longtime friend Ben Jaffe. Jaffe is the Creative Director for New Orleans’ iconic and historical Preservation Hall, and the son of its original co-founders Allan and Sandra Jaffe. As Knowles is wont to do, he took Jaffe to his favorite San Francisco neighborhood. “Any friend who visits me here, I take them right to the Mission. What the Haight and North Beach once were to the city’s cultural history, I believe the Mission is that of today.” While Knowles waxed about the new vibrancy Valencia St. had seen recently, they passed 777 and Jaffe was immediately taken by the old building. That instant, Knowles says, “Ben goes, ‘I want this to be Preservation Hall West!’” By that point Jaffe’s idea of opening a second Preservation Hall had taken to him across America, but he’d yet to pull the trigger on a location. San Francisco won.

Yup. Read on for more pics and background.

And, as we mentioned before, this place is opening SOON, kicking off its tenure with shows by Elvis Costello and others.

No joke, that big ol’ place on Valencia between 18th and 19th (that used to be that hippie school the New College) is about to reopen its doors as a world-class New Orleans-themed concert venue (called Preservation Hall West) and restaurant (called the Chapel), and tickets are on sale for shows just a couple weeks away, and, boy, are these some doozies:

I kept that last one in there to show that this place won’t just be music for old folks (sorry, Elvis, but it’s true). This is big. Rock ‘n’ roll on Valencia Street in 2012. Get tickets and see the full lineup here.

Our pal TK is responsible for breaking this news btw. Here he is wondering why there hasn’t been more of a fuss:

Apparently without anyone really noticing, what appears to be a fairly major venue is going to open in the Mission relatively soon. Why isn’t this getting more coverage? I don’t know, maybe it is and I just haven’t noticed.

Read on for more commentary, an architectural rendering of the soon-to-open businesses, and some quotes from an informative Mission Local article from a couple years back.

Basically, to the reader who predicted way back in 2008 that this building would become condos: close but no cigar, buddy!

[Photo by Google Maps]

Rock Make returns! Here’s this year’s lineup:

17th Street Stage (at Treat Avenue & 17th Street)

12:30pm: SF Rock Project
1:30pm: Kids on a Crime Spree
2:30pm: The Mallard
3:30pm: Yalls
4:30pm: Will Sprott (of The Mumlers)
5:30pm: Tartufi
6:30pm: Burnt Ones

18th Street Stage (at 18th Street & Treat Avenue)

1pm: Metal Mother
2pm: Permanent Collection
3pm: Twin Steps
4pm: DRMS
5pm: John Vanderslice
6pm: Exray’s

Lookin’ good! Just saw the Mallard last weekend and they are in prime condition these days, so try to arrive on the early side.

RSVP and invite your friends!

Last night at DJ Purple‘s regular (2nd and 4th Mondays) Make-Out Room party. Shot by our own Jess Kelso. Enjoy:

That’s Petey from Thee Oh Sees hangin’ tuff toward the end of Saturday night’s tour opener at the Uptown in Oakland. They hit the road for a while and then end up at GAMH early next month!

(So many great unexpected uses for your jeans today!)