BISS 05.17.12 - Nicki Bluhm /Soulive & Lettuce / Dead Winter Carpenters / Tea Leaf Green / West Coast Ramble

As the fog rolls back to San Francisco, the BISS crew prepares for another action packed week in the Bay Area. Why? Because I Said So! Thursday, pull the van up to The Independent for the first night of a two night run with BODEANS, NICKI BLUHM & THE GRAMBLERS (*WIN). Music this awesome is sure to get you ready for the weekend. Friday, The Fillmore is the place to be with the awesomeness that is SOULIVE & LETTUCE (WIN). Remember to spin the lettuce! Some might be at THE DEAD WINTER CARPENTERS at Slim's (*WIN). Everyone will converge late night at The Boom Boom Room for RODINA featuring JOE TATTON of New Mastersounds (*WIN) going til the weeeeeeeeee hours of the morning.  Then again, you also have TEA LEAF GREEN playing Friday night at The New Parish (*WIN) Gotta love that the hardest thing about living the bay area is having too many awesome musical choices!!! No matter what you choose, its always the right one! Saturday there is a second serving of SOULIVE & LETTUCE (*WIN) as well as the darkness that is BLACK SABBATH PARANOID with over 50 Bay Area musicians performing the works of Black Sabbath at The Independent (*WIN). And Greg Lake of Emerson Lake & Palmer is playing at the Regency! (*WIN) Also on Saturday night, you can still catch a night of the PHIL LESH'S WEST COAST RAMBLE run featuring CHRIS ROBINSON at Terrapin Crossroads. Also this weekend is the JOSHUA TREE MUSIC FESTIVAL featuring For Knox Five, Gaudi, Wunmi, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, See-i, Sarazino, Nickodemus, Breakestra, Morning Teleportation, Cumbia Tokeson, Ian Winters, and many more. It is time to get this Festival season started peeps! Sunday's show at The Independent will be out of this world. Check out THE UFO TRIBUTE BAND featuring MIKE MCCREADY from Pearl Jam. Look out for aliens riding bikes. Or stop by The Moss House in Oakland for food and a show with the DINNER AND A SHOW SERIES featuring DEAD KEYS, MITCH STEIN, AND SAM JOHNSTON and a HOGS N' ROCKS menu courtesy of Chef Jeff. Monday wouldn't be Monday without THE MIKE OLMOS at The Union Room. Wednesday THE DEDICATED MANIACS are playing at Sweetwater Music Hall.     Those of you in NOLA for Jazz Fest, probably saw Miss BISS rocking these earrings,  plus the wrist cuff and necklaces from Rock N The Trend. Some of you may have even bought a pair or two. (I hear she sold out of these!)  BISS is giving away a pair of earring of your choice to one lucky winner. To win, like the  Rock N The Trend Facebook Page and share it with your friends. We will be picking hte winner based on most & best tags, shares, content, & visibility! Life is sweet, and precious. Now, for the love of all that is holy be safe and don't drive backwards!!!!!!!!!!!!      *************** See you all at the Shows!! Why? B.I.S.S.!!! www.bisslist.com   ********  **HOW TO WIN TICKETS** CHOOSE (at least) ONE OF THESE contests and send your answers in an email to biss@bisslist.com with the show & date for the show you want to win in the subject line. Please be sure to request a show that says **Win Tickets** next to it. We try our best to spread it around so that everyone wins!    **Ticket winners are selected & notified the week of the show based on best responses      1)  Why do you subscribe to The BISS List?    2) Send us one email address for a new subscriber. It must be a NEW subscriber. And they must WANT to be added!!    3) Why should you represent for BISS crew at this show?  4) Participate in the DIGITAL STREET TEAM: Share & repost shows from the BISS List related pages on Facebook, Twiiter and other social networking sites. Most & best posts could win you a pair of tickets!!  (based on visibility, tags, content)        *****  GET ON THE BISS STREET TEAM & GET FREE TICKETS!!    EMAIL: BISS@BISSLIST.COM  *****      We are announcing shows and giveaways on Twitter & Facebook every day!! So follow us and WIN more tickets!!      Disclaimer: BISS list is not an objective news source, but we do discriminate equally. If you would like us to post an event, please send us all of the information via email and in text format to biss@bisslist.comat least two weeks prior to the event.We will do our best to include all submissions and list them correctly, but please be patient as we are a small operation and highly imperfect. Thanks for your continued support! B*I*S*S ####