Wednesday, May 16, 2018

BISS LIST 05.17.18 : BLUE BEAR LIVE W JANE WIEDLIN / LOUISIANA LOVE ACT / JENNIFER HARTSWICK / "WEIRD AL" / CA HONEYDROPS //NXT WK: JOHN POPPER / BRMC / TANK & THE BANGAS / NEW MASTERSOUNDS / BOTTLEROCK / LIB / MOTET / GEORGE CLINTON

Howdy BISS Listers! Have you missed me? Jazz Fest was epic as always! In case you missed my big thank you on FB, it is worth repeating...

Thank you New Orleans, Louisiana for another amazing #JazzFest. We worked hard, we played hard. We're going home to crash hard.

Special thanks to Sarita LaTigra w/ Meet the Band. BISS List and Meet the Band took #NOLA #JazzFest2018 night show promotions to the next level with 45+ members on the street team who distributed 80,000+ handbills for 30+. Not to mention online promotion of 200+ shows, 40 of which had ticket giveaways.

Thanks to The Howlin' Wolf, Stu, Tack and Howie Kaplan, Boom Boom Room Presents, Zander, Arya, Amelie, Billy Bradford Ruckus, NOLAFUNK & CEG, Live For Live Music, Bayou Rendezvous, Jennifer and Jeff Coriell. Pleasure to work with you all again to bring all the music to the masses!!

Thanks to BISS List Street Team and Meet the Band New Orleans Street Teamand all the BISS List subscribers and online followers for your support in getting the word out!!

A very special thanks to Casa Paula and Sweet Paulita for our NOLA home away from home.
And of course, THANK YOU my favorite person & fabulous boyfriend and travel companion Spor, for making every moment, even the tough ones, memorable & wonderfully awesome!
I had intended to work on this week's BISS List on Tuesday but last minute found myself at the Fillmore for Sammy Hagar's Acoustic-4-A-Cure: with a special 76th birthday celebration for blues icon Taj Mahal, and featuring Bob Weir, Joe Satriani, Chad Smith, Michael Anthony, Kevin Cronin, Eddie Money and Vic Johnson. #HappyBirthdayTaj!

I worked a loooong day at my favorite new job on Wednesday and thought about waiting until Thursday to put this together but then I realized I am going to Blue Bear School of Music LIVE 2018: A Special Edition of Renee & Irish Greg's Pop UP featuring: Jane Wiedlin (The Go Go's) & Pietro Straccia at The Haight Street Art Center on Thursday right after work. (5:30 - 9:30)
Knowing that it ends early, makes me think I might be able to make it to Sweetwater on Thursday as well for Louisiana Love Act featuring Phil Colombatto, Mark Karan, Mookie Siegel, Wally Ingram, Robin Sylvester, and the LA Horns (from Aretha Franklin & Marvin Gaye bands) + Special Guests at Sweetwater Music Hall **WIN TICKETS**.

All that being said, this has got to get done and to you before all that... So here I am at 1am trying to "whip" this out to you...

I pulled the "BEST" of shows from today, 5/17 thru 5/30 and have listed them for you below.
My own personal plans are mostly based on celebrating Spor's birthday which is this Saturday, 5/19. Happy Birthday Spor!!

He is much more of a PUNK rocker than a FUNK rocker but we will still likely end up getting funky with California Honeydrops at The Fillmore on Saturday night. **WIN TICKETS**
Though, truth be told, we would probably be hitting up "Weird Al" Yankovic at The Fox for his birthday on Saturday if it wasn't a SOLD OUT show.

Monday, I get one of my long-time favorites, John Popper, playing at Sweetwater. **WIN TICKETS**

Then on Wednesday, Spor's birthday celebration continues with a long time fave of his, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at The Fillmore.

Thursday, I would LOVE to catch Tank and the Bangas with The Seshen at The Fillmore.
Friday, I would LOVE to catch New Mastersounds at Sweetwater. **WIN TICKETS**
Next weekend is full of all kinds of good stuff including MIDTOWN SOCIAL, The Revivalists, Steel Pulse, Eric McFadden, and St. Paul & The Broken Bones. Not to mention that the festival season kicks off with Bottlerock, Lightning In a Bottle, and California Roots!

Then when we get back in town on Monday (Happy Memorial Day), we are faced with choosing between Motet at Sweetwater or George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic at The Independent that night.

Thankfully, they added a second night on Tuesday for P-funk at Indy so we can push that out a night....

I am exhausted just creating that schedule, so I am calling it a night...
On to the....


THE BEST OF THE BISS
5/17 - 5/30
*Check the full calendarfor more upcoming shows!*


5/17/2018           
  • Blue Bear School of Music LIVE 2018: A Special Edition of Renee & Irish Greg's Pop UP featuring: Jane Wiedlin (The Go Go's) & Pietro Straccia! at Haight Street Art Center
  • Louisiana Love Act featuring Phil Colombatto, Mark Karan, Mookie Siegel, Wally Ingram, Robin Sylvester, and the LA Horns (from Aretha Franklin & Marvin Gaye bands) + Special Guests at Sweetwater Music Hall **WIN TICKETS**
  • **THE CROOKED STUFF** [SPRING RESIDENCY GET DOWN] at Boom Boom Room **WIN TICKETS**
  • Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles at The Independent
  • NEW! Smoked Out Soul Happy Hour ft. Golden Bell Collective DJ & Horns at Monarch
  • Smoked Out Soul ft. DJ Chris Fox & Special Guests/ w/Zebuel & The SOS Players Will Magid, Paul Oliphant, Brandon Lee, Enrique Padilla & guests at Monarch **WIN TICKETS**
  • SCOTT AMENDOLA, WIL BLADES, JEFF PARKER & CYRO BAPTISTA at SF Jazz, Joe henderson Lab
5/18/2018           
  • Jennifer Hartswick & Nick Cassarino Featuring LEBO, Kenneth Crouch, Bobby Vega, Natalie Cressman and John Staten at Terrapin Crossroads
  • SCOTT AMENDOLA, WIL BLADES, JEFF PARKER & CYRO BAPTISTA at SF Jazz, Joe henderson Lab
  • The Purple Ones - Insatiable Tribute to Prince at Sweetwater Music Hall **WIN TICKETS**
  • Sweet Plot, Evan & the Live Oaks, SpeakeasÄ" at The Independent **WIN TICKETS**
  • Hip Hop For Change Presents: The Pharcyde, RyanNicole, Shy'An G, Khafre Jay at New Parish **WIN TICKETS**
5/19/2018
  • FREEEE!! FUNKY HAPPY HOUR with **THE FIXINS** [5 pm - 7 pm] at Boom Boom Room FREE
  • The Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour: "Weird Al" Yankovic plus Special Guest: Emo Philips at The Fox
  • The California Honeydrops, Cha Ching at The Fillmore **WIN TICKETS**
  • Lyrics Born w/ The Crooked Stuff at 19 Broadway **WIN TICKETS**
  • HUSHconcerts proudly supports: SF Heritage Soiree Piazza Party, The Janky Barge, Shelly the Crab, Chuck Jones (NVO DJs), Sobb Deep, Beato at Pier 70 Piazza
  • SCOTT AMENDOLA, WIL BLADES, JEFF PARKER & CYRO BAPTISTA at SF Jazz, Joe henderson Lab
  • HUSHconcerts proudly supports:: The Great Rosé & Silent Disco Festival-Guiseppi Marzelli, DJ Dials, Lord Quinton, HUSHconcerts at Fort Mason
5/20/2018           
  • SCOTT AMENDOLA, WIL BLADES, JEFF PARKER & CYRO BAPTISTA at SF Jazz, Joe henderson Lab
5/21/2018           
  • John Popper (of Blues Traveler), Matt Jaffe at Sweetwater Music Hall **WIN TICKETS**
5/23/2018           
  • Black Rebel Motorcycle Club with Restavrant at The Fillmore
5/24/2018
  • Tank and the Bangas with The Seshen - Road to BottleRock at The Fillmore
  • JOHN PRINE with Sam Outlaw at The Warfield **WIN TICKETS**
  • NIKKA COSTA - Drenched in funk, soul and blues at Yoshi's
  • Lightning In A Bottle: BEATS ANTIQUE LIGHTNING ORCHESTRA, TOO MANY ZOOZ, LYRICS BORN, CON BRIO, JAMIE N COMMONS, THE CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS, SHOOK TWINS, BUYEPONGO, THE HERBERT BAIL ORCHESTR, AFROLICIOUSTHE DOGON LIGHTSTHE MOONSVILLE COLLECTIV, ANDERSON .PAAK & THE FREE NATIONALS, ZHU, GRIZ, FEVER RAY, THE GLITCH MOB, SOFI TUKKER, TUNE-YARDS, NAO, BEATS ANTIQUE, TOKIMONSTA, THE FUNK HUNTERS, MONOLINK, DIRTWIRE, TIPPER, MODESELEKTOR (DJ SET), EMANCIPATOR, SANGO, GIRAFFAGE, BLEEP BLOOP, CLOZEE, RANDOM RAB, ALIX PEREZ, NU:LOGIC, PHUTUREPRIMITIVE & MANY MANY MANY MORE!!! at Lake San Antonio, Bradeley, CA
  • Yerba Buena Garden Festival: DOGON LIGHTS at Esplanade, Yerba Buena Gardens FREE
  • Kitten On The Keys 6pm / ATTA KID - Max Cowan (keys) and Daniel Casares (sax) 10PM at Madrone Art Bar **WIN TICKETS**

5/25/2018
  • The New Mastersounds, The Crooked Stuff at Sweetwater Music Hall **WIN TICKETS**
  • Turbonegro, Against Me! at The UC Theatre Taube Family Music Hall **WIN TICKETS**
  • Bottle Rock: Muse, The Chainsmokers, Incubus, Earth Wind & Fire, St. Paul & Broken Bones, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Av, Tank & Bangas, Moonalice, Nahko & Medicine for the People, HuschconcertsSilentDisco! and LOTs More! at Napa County Fairgrounds
  • Lightning In A Bottle: BEATS ANTIQUE LIGHTNING ORCHESTRA, TOO MANY ZOOZ, LYRICS BORN, CON BRIO, JAMIE N COMMONS, THE CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS, SHOOK TWINS, BUYEPONGO, THE HERBERT BAIL ORCHESTR, AFROLICIOUSTHE DOGON LIGHTSTHE MOONSVILLE COLLECTIV, ANDERSON .PAAK & THE FREE NATIONALS, ZHU, GRIZ, FEVER RAY, THE GLITCH MOB, SOFI TUKKER, TUNE-YARDS, NAO, BEATS ANTIQUE, TOKIMONSTA, THE FUNK HUNTERS, MONOLINK, DIRTWIRE, TIPPER, MODESELEKTOR (DJ SET), EMANCIPATOR, SANGO, GIRAFFAGE, BLEEP BLOOP, CLOZEE, RANDOM RAB, ALIX PEREZ, NU:LOGIC, PHUTUREPRIMITIVE & MANY MANY MANY MORE!!! at Lake San Antonio, Bradeley, CA
  • Lake Street Dive with Mikaela Davis - BottleRock Aftershow at The Fillmore
  • **ATTA KID** [& *DIGGIN DIRT* + DJ K-OS] at Boom Boom Room **WIN TICKETS**
5/26/2018
  • MIDTOWN SOCIAL, KINGSBOROUGH, ELLISA SUN at Rickshaw Stop
  • The Revivalists - BottleRock Aftershow at The Masonic **WIN TICKETS**
  • Bottle Rock: The Killiers, Snoop Dogg, Billy Idol, Head & Heart, Michael Franti & Spearhead, The Recotd Co., Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, and LOTS MORE! at Napa County Fairgrounds
  • Lightning In A Bottle: BEATS ANTIQUE LIGHTNING ORCHESTRA, TOO MANY ZOOZ, LYRICS BORN, CON BRIO, JAMIE N COMMONS, THE CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS, SHOOK TWINS, BUYEPONGO, THE HERBERT BAIL ORCHESTR, AFROLICIOUSTHE DOGON LIGHTSTHE MOONSVILLE COLLECTIV, ANDERSON .PAAK & THE FREE NATIONALS, ZHU, GRIZ, FEVER RAY, THE GLITCH MOB, SOFI TUKKER, TUNE-YARDS, NAO, BEATS ANTIQUE, TOKIMONSTA, THE FUNK HUNTERS, MONOLINK, DIRTWIRE, TIPPER, MODESELEKTOR (DJ SET), EMANCIPATOR, SANGO, GIRAFFAGE, BLEEP BLOOP, CLOZEE, RANDOM RAB, ALIX PEREZ, NU:LOGIC, PHUTUREPRIMITIVE & MANY MANY MANY MORE!!! at Lake San Antonio, Bradeley, CA
  • Steel Pulse at The UC Theatre Taube Family Music Hall **WIN TICKETS**
  • Broun Fellinis, Eric McFadden & Friends Acoustic Set at Ivy Room **WIN TICKETS**
5/27/2018
  • St. Paul & The Broken Bones at The UC Theatre Taube Family Music Hall **WIN TICKETS**
  • California Roots: SLIGHTLY STOOPID, 311, TRIBAL SEEDS, XAVIER RUDD, ORIGINAL WAILERS and LOTS MORE! at Monterey County Fair & Event Center
  • Lightning In A Bottle: BEATS ANTIQUE LIGHTNING ORCHESTRA, TOO MANY ZOOZ, LYRICS BORN, CON BRIO, JAMIE N COMMONS, THE CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS, SHOOK TWINS, BUYEPONGO, THE HERBERT BAIL ORCHESTR, AFROLICIOUSTHE DOGON LIGHTSTHE MOONSVILLE COLLECTIV, ANDERSON .PAAK & THE FREE NATIONALS, ZHU, GRIZ, FEVER RAY, THE GLITCH MOB, SOFI TUKKER, TUNE-YARDS, NAO, BEATS ANTIQUE, TOKIMONSTA, THE FUNK HUNTERS, MONOLINK, DIRTWIRE, TIPPER, MODESELEKTOR (DJ SET), EMANCIPATOR, SANGO, GIRAFFAGE, BLEEP BLOOP, CLOZEE, RANDOM RAB, ALIX PEREZ, NU:LOGIC, PHUTUREPRIMITIVE & MANY MANY MANY MORE!!! at Lake San Antonio, Bradeley, CA
  • KC Turner Presents - Cookout Concert Series: SHOOK TWINS, RAINBOW GIRLS at Hopmonk Novato
  • Bottle Rock: Bruno Mars, Halsey, Thievery Corp, Lake St Dive, the Motet, Manchester Orchestra and LOTS MORE at Napa County Fairgrounds
5/28/2018
  • The Motet at Sweetwater Music Hall **WIN TICKETS**
  • George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic at The Independent SOLD OUT - see 2nd night 5/29
  • Lightning In A Bottle: BEATS ANTIQUE LIGHTNING ORCHESTRA, TOO MANY ZOOZ, LYRICS BORN, CON BRIO, JAMIE N COMMONS, THE CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS, SHOOK TWINS, BUYEPONGO, THE HERBERT BAIL ORCHESTR, AFROLICIOUSTHE DOGON LIGHTSTHE MOONSVILLE COLLECTIV, ANDERSON .PAAK & THE FREE NATIONALS, ZHU, GRIZ, FEVER RAY, THE GLITCH MOB, SOFI TUKKER, TUNE-YARDS, NAO, BEATS ANTIQUE, TOKIMONSTA, THE FUNK HUNTERS, MONOLINK, DIRTWIRE, TIPPER, MODESELEKTOR (DJ SET), EMANCIPATOR, SANGO, GIRAFFAGE, BLEEP BLOOP, CLOZEE, RANDOM RAB, ALIX PEREZ, NU:LOGIC, PHUTUREPRIMITIVE & MANY MANY MANY MORE!!! at Lake San Antonio, Bradeley, CA
5/29/2018           
  • George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic (2nd Show Added by Popular Demand! ) at The Independent
  • TOM JONES - RESCHEDULED at The Masonic
5/30/2018           
  • Tom Jones. Into the Ark at Mountain Winery
UPCOMING FEATURED SHOWS
*Mark your calendar!!*

5/31/2018
Hackensaw Boys, Nat Keefe's Lost Radio Flyers at Brick & Mortar **WIN TICKETS**

6/16/2018
Niki J. Crawford, TRACORUM at Brick & Mortar **WIN TICKETS**

8/10/2018-8/12/2018
For The Funk Of It Music Festival
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