After a short break, Sonny & The Sunsets are back on tour. They will be joining another excellent retro-cali-sunshiney pop outfit for the majority of their shows, Best Coast! Meanwhile Empty Cellar is still anxiously waiting on Sonny’s latest release – a 4 song 7″ E.P. featuring harmonies from the Sandwitches – from the pressing plant.

Tomorrow night is the Night! Tim Cohen doesn’t perform his solo material too often, so shooby-doobie down to the Make-Out room tonight where the vibe is great and get a taste of his new band, Tim Cohen’s Magic Trick! They will be playing in the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s monthly Penny Arcade Showcase with some hot bay area compatriots. All the details are on the flier below.

Hotel Earth is offering a pre-order of Pillars & Tongues’ new split cassingle with This Is Cinema. Preview the tracks at Hotel Earth & get one before it is too late!

HEARTH001: PILLARS AND TONGUES/THIS IS CINEMA SPLIT (CASSETTE + Download)

Pillars & Tongues – More Sun
This is Cinema – Shine Whole

Two songs created via entirely opposite means and recorded in a hurry at Hotel Earth during August, 2010.

Will Oldham and Emmett Kelly (Bonnie “Prince” Billy & The Cairo Gang) have been touring The Wonder Show of the World (Drag City) for many months now, and it has taken many forms. Here they are performing “Troublesome Houses”, Live at Store Vega Copenhagen 05.25.2010 with Nori Tanaka on drums:

…and here they are performing “The Sounds Are Always Begging” in Whelans, Dublin. 07.29.2010 with The Trembling Bells:

This weekend (Friday and Saturday) they will be playing shows on opposite sides of the San Francisco bay in their latest incarnation. Both shows will feature bassist Danny Kiely, drummer Van Campbell, keyboardist Ben Boye, and backing vocalist Angel Olsen.

(((folkYEAH!))) presents Tomorrow’s SOLD OUT event in Sausalito. The venue looks like this… hot dawg!

Cavallo Point, Wooden Chapel (Mission Blue), Sausalito, CA

If you weren’t able to procure a ticket for that performance, then you can still catch them (and about 100 of your musical heros) for FREE on Saturday at the 10th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. They close out the Star Stage at 4:40 PM.