See Moir Music: May 2025
Quick recap
Unsurprisingly, I went to no shows in April. I did watch a bunch of Coachella sets from the couch. Some favorites were Jimmy Eat World, Keinemusik, Rema, and Sammy Virji.
What's next for me?
Still TBD when I'll make it out to shows again! Probably late summer with any luck 🤞🏻I'm getting closer to getting off crutches but it's a process!
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...
May
- Friday, May 2 — Spencer Brown (extended set) at Audio
- Saturday, May 3 — Effy at Monarch
- Saturday, May 3 — Two Shell at Monument SF
- Unfamiliar? Check out their track Everybody Worldwide off their album last year.
- Wednesday, May 7 — Hippo Campus at Fox Theater
- Friday, May 9 — Sonny Fodera at the Midway
- Friday, May 9 — Funk Tribu and southstar at 1015 Folsom
- Unfamiliar? Funk Tribu's Boiler Room set in Ghent
- Friday, May 9 — Peter Bjorn and John at GAMH (Writer's Block tour)
- They really put on a great show so I recommend this highly.
- Friday, May 9 & Saturday, May 10 & Sunday May 11 — They Might be Giants at the Fillmore
- Saturday, May 10 — Klangkarussell and Einmusik at Public Works
- Unfamiliar? Here's a recent DJ set
- Tuesday, May 13 — Perfume Genius at the Fillmore
- Tuesday, May 13 — Sleigh Bells at August Hall
- Tuesday, May 13 — BIIG PIIG at the Indy
- Thursday, May 15 — Skepta at the Midway
- Thursday, May 15 — Overmono (Live) at 1015 Folsom
- Gutted to miss their third appearance in SF, this is sure to be an incredible set.
- Friday, May 16 — Too Many Zooz at the Indy
- Friday, May 16 — 16BL at Bergerac
- Friday, May 16 — Mall Grab at 1015 Folsom
- Saturday, May 17 — MALUGI at Monarch
- There's very little chance I'll be recovered enough to make it to this show so please please go. Unfamiliar? Here's his Boiler Room set that I've watched at least 5 times.
- Saturday, May 17 — Avalon Emerson at Gingerbread House
- Danzhaus on Connecticut street reclaims what is apparently its old name as a venue. No more "Secret underground TBA"!
- Saturday, May 17 — Pablo Fierro at Audio
- Sunday, May 18 — Ok Go at the Fillmore
- Tuesday, May 20 — Lambrini Girls at Rickshaw Stop
- Thursday, May 22 — DRAMA at 1015 Folsom
- Thursday, May 22 — Justice at Bill Graham Civic Ampitheatre
- (also on Wednesday, May 21 but that show is already sold out)
- Friday, May 23 — Hamdi, Joy Orbison, and AHADADREAM at 1015 Folsom
- Unfamiliar with Hamdi? Check out his recent Boiler Room set. Joy O new to you? idk how bc flight fm has been everywhere.
- Friday, May 23 — Underworld at the Warfield
- Sunday, May 25 — Paul van Dyk at 1015 Folsom
- Sunday, May 25 — Bonobo (DJ set) at the Phoenix Hotel
- Friday, May 30 — Röyksopp at The Regency Ballroom
- Friday, May 30 — Danilo Plessow from MCDE at Public Works
- One of my favorite sets at Portola a few years ago, definitely recommend.
- Saturday, May 31 — Rachel Chinouriri at the Indy
- Unfamiliar? Listen to her single Never Need Me, or her cover of Fontaines D.C. in the BBC Live Lounge.
June
I expect we'll see more June bookings soon as festival bleedover continues, but most summer shows will be at Hard Summer, Life is Beautiful, Movement, and more! Mostly Pride weekend is filling out…
- Friday, June 6 — Luttrell at Audio
- Monday, June 9 & Tuesday, June 10 — Mumford and Sons at the Greek Theatre
- Tuesday, June 10 — Mae Martin at the Independent
- They were great on Taskmaster and I guess they sing too?
- Friday, June 13 & Saturday, June 14 — TOKiMONSTA at the Indy
- Friday, June 13 — Panjabi Hit Squad at Audio
- Friday, June 13 — Nikki Nair at the Midway
- Saturday, June 14 — Bloc Party and Blonde Redhead at the Greek Theatre
- Saturday, June 21 — HUGEL and AMÉMÉ at Gold Bar at Treasure Island
- Friday, June 27 — Super Flu at Madarae
- Unfamiliar? Listen to Super Flu \<3 Isaac
- Saturday, June 28 — Kehlani, Tinashe, Kim Petras, and more for SoSF at Pier 80
- Sunday, June 29 — Purple Disco Machine and more for a Block Called Rhonda at the Great Northern
The distant future
- Friday, July 11 — Ross from Friends as BUBBLE LOVE at the Great Northern
- Saturday, July 19, Monday, July 21, & Tuesday, July 22 — Paul Simon at Davies Symphony Hall
- Tuesday, July 29 — Dropkick Murphys and Bad Religion at Fox Theater
- Saturday, August 2 — Less Than Jake at the Regency Ballroom
- 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.
- Saturday, August 16 — Nora En Pure at Gold Bar on Treasure Island
- Thursday, August 22 — A. Deeplove (Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT) at Monarch
- Saturday, September 6 — Booka Shade (DJ set) at the Great Northern
- 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
- Thursday, September 18 — Magdalena Bay at the Warfield
- Saturday, September 27 — Patrick Wolf at The Lodge at the Regency Center (one of the venues at Regency Ballroom apparently)
- 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 31 — Midland at F8 for squish
- Saturday, November 15 — Booka Shade at the Great Northern
- Friday, November 21 — Jack's Mannequin at the Warfield (MFEO tour)
Other SF events
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…
- Thursday, May 1 – June 19 — Val Britton at the Berggruen Gallery
- Thursday, May 1 & Friday, May 2 — Duane Forrest with Bob Marley: How Reggae Changed the World at Fingersnaps Media Arts
- Friday, May 2 — Ross Gay at Sydney Goldstein Theater
- Saturday, May 3 — Persuasive Data Graphics workshop with RJ Andrews at the Letterform Archive
- Saturday, May 3 & Saturday, May 10 — Precita Eyes Mural Tours at Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center, and again in the afternoon
- Monday, May 5 & Wednesday, May 7 — Ambient Music Making with Ableton Live at Gray Area
- Friday, May 9 — The No-Mads with Guilty Pleasures and Hip Hits - Music of 20th-Century American and European Pop Culture at Fingersnaps Media Arts
- Saturday, May 10 — Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life — Ferris Jabr in conversation with Ed Yong at San Francisco Botanical Garden
- Saturday, May 10 — What's That Smell? A Walking Tour of the Northeast Mission Industrial Zone by Shaping San Francisco
- Sunday, May 11 — Reimagining Technopolitical Futures: Building Alternatives in the Present – A Workshop at Gray Area
- Monday, May 12 — Craig Mod with Robin Sloan / Things Become Other Things at the Booksmith
- Tuesday, May 13 — Casey Johnston's A PHYSICAL EDUCATION In Store Discussion And Book Signing with Alexis Madrigal
- Wednesday, May 14 — Colin Greenwood (Radiohead) at City Lights
- Thursday, May 15 — Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna / The AI Con at City Lights
- I'll be attending this virtually!
- Thursday, May 15 — Lincoln Mitchell in conversation with George Hammond about George Moscone: Three Years Our Mayor at the Commonwealth Club
- Thursday, May 15 — Pavements at Roxie Theater
- Tuesday, May 27 — Alison Bechdel at Sydney Goldstein Theater
- Tuesday, May 27 — Patrick McGee: Apple in China at the Commonwealth Club
- Wednesday, May 28 — Karen Hao: The Dreams and Nightmares of OpenAI at the Commonwealth Club
- Friday, May 30 — Ocean Vuong: The Emperor of Gladness at Calvary Presbyterian Church
- Saturday, May 31 — Hidden San Francisco 2nd Edition Urban Hike in the Presidio with Shaping SF
- Thursday, June 5 — Michael Pollan at Sydney Goldstein Theater
Music lately
You can always follow me on bandcamp to see what I've bought lately…
Because I haven't left the house, I really haven't listened to much music. The best set I've listened to tho was Diffrent's Boiler Room set at Sheffield.
Other notes
I have spent all of my time while recovering at home either reading romance novels (a constant state of being) and watching nearly all the series of Jet Lag: The Game. Who needs to watch White Lotus when you can watch nerdy 20-somethings try to memorize a song under a bridge so they can keep driving their car South in New Zealand?!
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