Things To Do: April 5-8, 2007

*Since I'm on vacation, this is the shortlist of what I'm missing. Sorry if I omitted any critical events...

Thursday, April 5, 2007:

• TNT: Thursday Night Thing @ Museum Of Contemporary Art 7pm Featuring The Atoms, The Powerchords & Swami Sound System
• Transfer, Music For Animals, Soular @ San Diego Sports Club
• The Thermals, Wet Confetti, Them Hills @ Casbah
• Dark Star Orchestra @ Belly Up
• The Yardbirds, Anna Troy @ Cane's
• Pen and Ink, Hialeah, Fever Sleeves @ Zombie
• Across Tundras, Battlefields, Goliath Birdeater, Brown Sugar @ Scolari's
• The Upstarts @ Beauty Bar
• Steve Poltz @ Lestat's
• Rickie Lee Jones @ 4th & B
• Chris "Swag" Duckenfield @ Modus
• A Conscious Few, Strive Roots, Broke on Friday @ 710 Club
• Dropjoy, Rhythm and the Method @ The Alibi
• The Mayan Kings, The Continental Kings @ Portugalia

Friday, April 6, 2007:

• Vinyl Radio, The Muslims, Roman Spring, The Sundelles @ Ken Club
• Brandi Carlile, Gibb Droll @ Casbah
• De La Soul, KRS-One @ Cane's
• Man Man, Grand Ole Party, Inberst @ Epicentre
• Ari Shine, Pop Noir @ Beauty Bar
• The Hideaways, Mario Escovedo's Mexcellent Rock @ Whistle Stop
• The Frames, Dynamite Walls @ Belly Up
• Zombie Surf Camp, Badluck Bandits, Zombeast @ Zombie
• Lady Dottie and the Diamonds (ep release) @ Tower Bar
• Radium Girl, Jehovah's Fitness, Dr. Bird Sani, TrascenDance, Jiggle It Son @ Rubber Rose (an Activist San Diego benefit for Friends Of Day Laborers, $5 adv/$8 door)
• Spell Toronto, Scott & Aimee, The Paper Dolls @ House of Blues $10, 7:30
• The Robin Henkel Band @ Lestat's
• Zindu, Tim and the 23's, The Donnis Trio, Monroe Ave String Band @ Tio Leo's $6
• Death Metal Night(ha!) Condemned, The Funeral Pyre, Cerberus, The Marquis Desade @ Scolari's
• Kemistry, Day of the Butcher, Pete Stewart and the Plastic Saviors @ 710 Club
• Molly Jenson, Regina Dawn, Brett Bixby @ Hot Java Café
• Arroyo, Johnny Different, Leopold & His Fiction @ O'Connell's

Saturday, April 7:

• Veruca Salt, Charlotte Martin and the Material @ Brick By Brick $13
• Cover Me Badd Mashup night @ San Diego Sports Club
• Buddy Akai @ Beauty Bar $6, plus live artist showcase
• Super Diamond, Dudley Manlove Quartet @ House of Blues
• Earthless, The Heartaches @ Cane's
• Fred Jones, Thieves and Liars, Evangeline, Longstay @ Epicentre
• Ken Andrews, firstwavehello, The Color Turning @ Casbah
• The Cuntifiers, The Dissimilars @ Scolari's
• The Hi-Lites, Manganista
• Rockit SoCal Presents The Blackout Party, Roses on Her Grave, Leopold and his Fiction @ The Alibi
• Exit Theory, Bedlem, The Memphis Murder Men @ Chasers
• Gadfly, High Tide, The Continental Kings, Isaac Johnson @ 710 Club
• The Heartaches, Earthless @ Cane's
• Matt The Electrician, Tom Freund @ Lestat's
• Superunloader, Chad Farran Band @ O'Connell's
• Agua Dulce @ Winston's

Sunday, April 8, 2007:

• Captured By Robots, Sultry Savage Burlesque @ Casbah $8 (What better way to celebrate the resurrection of Christ than by seeing girls in pasties?)
• Molotov, Los Abandoned @ House of Blues
• Mew, Oh No! Oh My! @ Belly Up
• Race Against Space, Saint Rorschach, Early Black @ Zombie Lounge
• Joseph Scott @ San Diego Sports Club
• Dirty Looks, Dan Padilla, Rich White Males @ Tower Bar