See Moir Music: July 2025
Quick recap
I'm fully off crutches now! I'm walking around almost like before my surgery, going up and down stairs. Wildin' out there. Big milestone.
What's next for me?
No shows planned until October for now, but we'll see what happens as we get closer to Outside Lands and how I'm feeling. I've got my eye on a couple shows in mid-September for sure...
Other shows going on
What I'm not going to, but might if I had unlimited energy... bold shows are ones that I am planning on or otherwise heavily recommend...
July
- Thursday, July 10 — Main Phase at Public Works
- Friday, July 11 — Ross from Friends as BUBBLE LOVE at the Great Northern
- Monday, July 14 & Tuesday, July 15 — Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Davies Symphony Hall
- Friday, July 18 — Gilligan Moss, bad tuner, and warner case at the Independent
- A stacked indie lineup if I've ever seen one. Glad Gilligan Moss has been recapturing more of its earlier electronic energy with their latest singles.
- Friday, July 18 — Rinse FM takeover at 1015 Folsom
- Saturday, July 19, Monday, July 21, & Tuesday, July 22 — Paul Simon at Davies Symphony Hall
- Saturday, July 19 — Chromeo (DJ set) at Space 550
- Saturday, July 19 — Chet Faker (DJ set day party), 3KELVES B2B DYLAN C. GREENE, and more at Audio
- Saturday, July 19 — Mosswood Meltdown featuring DEVO, Osees, Shannon & The Clams, Kreayshawn, and more at Mosswood Park in Oakland
- Friday, July 25 — Tiësto at Frost Ampitheater
- Saturday, July 26 — DJ Jazzy Jeff at the Phoenix Hotel
- Tuesday, July 29 — Dropkick Murphys and Bad Religion at Fox Theater
August
- Saturday, August 2 — Less Than Jake at the Regency Ballroom
- Saturday, August 2 — Narciss & Mike Servito at Public Works
- Sunday, August 3 — Floating Points (Live) at the Fox Theater
- Tuesday, August 5 — Rosali at Rickshaw Stop
- Unfamiliar? On Tonight was one of my favorite discoveries from the Said the Gramophone year end list.
- Friday, August 8 – Sunday, August 10 — Outside Lands at Golden Gate Park featuring Anderson .Paak and the Free Nationals, Baalti, Bakar, Banksia, Big Freedia with SF Gay Mens Chorus, Black Coffee, Bleachers, Blond:ish, Claptone, DJ Koze, Doechii, Doja Cat, Dombresky, Floating Points, Gesaffelstein, Hozier, Jamie XX, John Summit, Mayer Hawthorne, NOTION, Sammy Virji, Tyler, the Creator, and Vampire Weekend.
- Friday, August 8 — NOTION at 1015 Folsom (OSL Night Show)
- Friday, August 8 — SNBRN at Audio
- Saturday, August 9 — Dombresky at the Great Northern (OSL Night Show)
- Saturday, August 9 — BLOND:ISH at the Independent (in the round) (OSL Night Show)
- Sunday, August 10 — Black Coffee at 1015 Folsom (OSL Night Show)
- Friday, August 15 — STRFKR at Fox Theater
- Saturday, August 16 — Nora En Pure at Gold Bar on Treasure Island
- Sunday, August 17 — Elderbrook in Napa somewhere
- Thursday, August 22 — A. Deeplove (Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT) at Monarch
- Thursday, August 22 — Jerro at the Vault at the SF Mint
- Wednesday, August 27 & Thursday, August 28 — Max Cooper On Being 3D/AV Live at Gray Area
September
- Saturday, September 6 — Booka Shade (DJ set) at the Great Northern
- Saturday, September 6 — Honey Dijon at Gold Bar on Treasure Island
- One of the few DJs whose sets I've closed out, well worth seeing.
- Sunday, September 7 — The Flaming Lips and Modest Mouse at the Greek Theatre
- Friday, September 12 — MJ Lenderman at the Fox Theater
- Friday, September 12 — Bomba Estereo and Rawayana at the Greek Theatre
- Saturday, September 13 — Sultan + Shepherd at the Phoenix Hotel
- Saturday, September 13 — GUY J's We Are Lost Festival featuring Guy J, Guy Mantzur, and others at 888 Garage
- Saturday, September 13 — BAMBII & Anz at TBA by squish
- Thursday, September 18 — Magdalena Bay at the Warfield
- Saturday, September 20 & Sunday, September 21 — Portola Music Festival at Pier 80, featuring: ¥ØU$UKE ¥UK1MAT$U, 1tbsp, 2manydjs b2b Erol Alkan, Blawan, Bob Moses, Caribou, Christina Aguilera, Confidence Man, Despacio (all day long), Dom Dolla, Duke Dumont, HAAi, Hamdi, KI/KI, LCD Soundsystem, Magdalena Bay, MALUGI, Maribou State, Marie Davidson, Moby (Live), Oppidan, Peggy Gou, Prospa b2b Kettama, salute, SHEE, The Blessed Madonna b2b Tiga, The Chemical Brothers DJ set, The Prodigy, The Rapture, Villager, X Club., and more.
- So far unexcited but I might get more hype the closer it gets… I'll be in better physical condition this time around at least…
- Saturday, September 20 — Ben UFO & Surusinghe & tba at Monument
- I'm not sure what September holds for me but I think this will be a must go show for me… tickets aren't on sale yet but 👀
- Monday, September 22 — The Prodigy at the Warfield
- Tuesday, September 23 — Alex G and Nilüfer Yanya at the Fox Theater
- Thursday, September 25 — Jacques Greene and Nosaj Thing at GAMH
- Saturday, September 27 — Patrick Wolf at The Lodge at the Regency Center (one of the venues at Regency Ballroom apparently)
- Saturday, September 27 — Disclosure (Live) and Bullet Tooth at the Greek Theatre
- Sunday, September 28 — Disclosure (Live) and Villager at the Frost Ampitheater
The distant future
- Thursday, October 2 — Polo & Pan at Frost Ampitheater
- Saturday, October 4 — PUP & Jeff Rosenstock at Fox Theater
- Monday, October 6 — Mates of State at August Hall
- Friday, October 10 — Yelle at the Regency Ballroom
- Friday, October 10 — Wolf Alice at the Fox Theater
- Saturday, October 11 — Bonobo DJ set in Napa somewhere
- Sunday, October 12 — Bob Moses (Club set) in Napa somewhere
- Tuesday, October 14 — Bad Suns at Bimbo's 365
- Thursday, October 16 — Rilo Kiley and Waxahatchee at the Greek Theatre
- I realized I'll be in town for this so I picked up tickets!
- Friday, October 17 — SG Lewis and Sofia Kourtesis at Bill Graham
- Saturday, October 18 — Eli Brown at the Palace of the Fine Arts
- His Love Regenerator project with Calvin Harris was great and I love a novelty venue.
- Saturday, October 18 — LP Giobbi in Napa somewhere
- Sunday, October 19 — Lorde and Empress Of at the Greek Theatre
- Friday, October 24 — The Magician at Audio
- Friday, October 31 — Midland at F8 for squish
- Thursday, November 13 — Cut Copy at the Regency Ballroom
- Saturday, November 15 — Booka Shade at the Great Northern
- Wednesday, November 19 — Grizzly Bear at Fox Theater
- Friday, November 21 — Jack's Mannequin at the Warfield (MFEO tour)
- Friday, December 5 — Motion City Soundtrack and Say Anything at the Warfield
Other SF events
San Francisco city government is trying to revitalize downtown with a series of events:
- Friday, July 4 – September 14 — Minted SF takes over the Mint plaza at 5th and Mission every Friday with live music.
- Thursday, July 3 into perpetuity??? — Downtown First Thursdays takes over 2nd street and makes my late work hours interesting. Last month Rochelle Jordan played, so don't sleep on the lineup.
- Summer of Music is no longer standalone artists playing on the street in front of various businesses, and is instead part of local neighborhood night markets.
If book talks, history walks, music-making classes, or public lectures are more your speed, here's what's going on this month and beyond…
- Wednesday, July 2 — Joanna Sokol on her book A Real Emergency with Jon Carroll at Green Apple Books on the Park
- Tuesday, July 15 — Jeff Weiss on his book Waiting for Britney Spears with Zack Ruskin and Emma Silvers at Book Passage
- Wednesday, July 16 — Our City Our Power: It's Time for Full Public Power in SF at the Main SFPL Library
- Wednesday, July 16 — Andréa Becker on her book Get it Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy in conversation with Moira Donegan at City Lights
- Friday, July 18 — Fridays on Front Street (artists TBA)
- Saturday, July 19 — Abigail Susik and Paul Buhle on the edited volume Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues: Selected Writings on Popular Culture at City Lights
- Sunday, July 20 — The Fraud of Plastic Recycling at the Main SFPL Library
- Tuesday, July 22 — Barbara Ramos on her book A Fearless Eye with Alexis Madrigal at Green Apple Books on the Park
- Wednesday, July 23 — Waterfront Reslience with the Port of San Francisco at the Main SFPL Library
- Thursday, July 24 — Climate Change is Fueling the Insurance Crisis. Who Should Pay? at the Main SFPL Library
- Thursday, July 24 — Chris Carlsson on the second edition of Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories at City Lights
- Sunday, July 27 — Jason Wirth on Humanity in the Anthropocene at the Main SFPL Library
- Tuesday, July 29 — SF StorySlam by the Moth at Public Works
After July..
- Friday, August 22 — Fridays on Front Street
- Thursday, September 11 – Sunday, September 14 — Gray Area festival
- Friday, October 10 — Fridays on Front Street
- Monday, October 20 — Cory Doctorow on Enshittification by the Booksmith at Public Works
Music lately
You can always follow me on bandcamp to see what I've bought lately...
ARTE concert continues to be on one, posting a video of a full Caribou set. Pretty similar to their Boiler Room set, but with the added bonus of Dan Snaith speaking French. I also cannot stop listening to these two sets from Upper90, one from Intercell Indoor 2024 and another from Glitch Berlin RSO 2024.
ec2a radio featured a Skeptic b2b Silva Bumpa set which was also nice, and I accidentally worked too late one evening last week because I was so locked in to this KI / KI essential mix set.
I ran into a friend walking into the bookstore the other day and we chatted about how to remove yourself from a Spotify dependency. I've written about this off and on, but I primarily listen to music that I've purchased, either on Bandcamp, iTunes Store, or Beatport and other digital music stores if I can't find it elsewhere.
I still keep a Spotify subscription active, but I also have a SoundCloud subscription (for listening to DJ sets) and a YouTube subscription (for listening to DJ sets and more). If I'm at work, I try to stream most music on SoundCloud or YouTube. When I occasionally go down a pop or indie discovery journey, often led by Popjustice or recommendations from friends, that usually happens on Spotify.
I mention this because if you're wondering how to do the same thing, you have a few options — choose a more "ethical" streaming service like Deezer or Apple Music, or invest in your music library and purchase the music you listen to regularly. Even better if you can do so directly from the artist on Bandcamp.
If you want to know more about how I discover and build my music libraries, the post My evolving music discovery pipeline on my blog is my latest reflection. Even if you're not curious I can promise you a painstaking digital illustration of a DJ set if you click through anyway.
Other notes
I've been spending a lot of time reading, mostly romance novels, but also the book The Anarchy which is a history of the (British) East India Company.
My brain is a mashed potato after absorbing all of that information, but I have learned somewhat more about empire, a British corporation standing up an army, and how colonial habits + fear of French dominance + fighting across the various preexisting Indian kingdoms set the stage for the British colonial takeover of India.
The book could've used more maps alongside the lengthy introductory biographies, and also fewer assumptions about what happens next after this era of Indian history (though I guess that's how you get enticed to read more). I hope there are maps in the print edition!
I'd love to learn more about the Napoleonic wars as well, but I realized that I don't want the military history, I want the social history. I haven't found many books that cover that. Most of my history knowledge is centered on 19th & 20th century Europe and Russia, but if anyone has recommendations of social histories (or very readable ones at least) for other regions and eras, please pass them on!
Still on my bookshelf, unrelated to history but instead related to music again:
- Mood Machine by Liz Pelly.
- The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI by David Hajdu
- You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favorite Song by Glenn McDonald
- Spotify Teardown Technically I guess I'm like 12% of the way through this one but it's been years...
P.S. Happy 10 Years to E * MO * TION