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Bay Area Live Music and Entertainment Calendars and How To Submit Events
Local music and entertainment scenes have growth cycles. "Boom" and "death" are part of the game. Venues close, bands break up, and DJs move away. These rare but inevitable events draw more attention than the more numerous first gigs and opening nights at new empty clubs. The odds are with the new. There's still plenty to check out right in your backyard, so do your part. Support the new risktakers.
Check out this "list of lists" to keep up with the latest in local culture (a few are national too). Submission contact info for all of these is here too...
Also check out Bay Area Clubs and Concert Venues, a Guide to Local Bay Area Music on the Radio, a Guide to Bay Area Radio That Doesn't Suck. and Bay Area Alt-Culture links. If you have suggestions or corrections, email me. - Tony Brooke
(Outside of the Bay Area? Find more community radio here and local newspapers here.)
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When and Where To Listen / Read |
Musicians and Producers:
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KUSF Entertainment Calendar
These listings are announced on KUSF every weekday (at 8am, 12:30pm and 5pm), posted on their website, and recorded on the 24hr Concert Hotline: 415-221-AMEN |
Mail event listings on a postcard fifteen business days in advance (three weeks) to: KUSF Entertainment Calendar Or e-mail at least 10 days in advance. (Note: If the latest rules are not followed, your submission will be deleted, your show will not be listed and future e-mails from your address will be trashed.) KUSF is a very targeted plug because their listeners and DJs are serious about music. Donating tickets for on-air giveaways is EXCELLENT publicity and supports KUSF. |
San Francisco Weekly ListingsThe print and online versions of the SF Weekly are published every Wednesday. Pick up print copies at many street corners. |
The SF Weekly listings deadline is three weeks before the event date for the print edition, two weeks for online. Visit their site to submit an event and include: name of band/show "To be considered for coverage such as an event preview, it makes sense to send a CD. Press kits can also be sent to the Calendar Editor for consideration for Night and Day." Submit info at their website, or mail to: Clubs Editor |
SF Bay Guardian ListingsThe Guardian is published every Wednesday. Pick up print copies at many street corners. |
The Bay Guardian listings deadline is two weeks prior to each Wednesday publication date. To submit an item, include: name of band/ title of the event No guarantee on the return of photos, but enclosing a SASE helps. No listings over the phone. Send info to: Bay Guardian Building, |
SF Chronicle / SFGate.comWhat's what: The SF Chronicle is San Francisco's "afternoon" daily paper. Their Datebook is the daily listing of music, movie, and stage events. The Pink Section is the weekly entertainment listings section in the Sunday Chronicle. SFGate.com is their online presence, with additional features that are not in the print version. ePicks is their weekly entertainment tip sheet covering "happening goings on" which comes out each Thursday. But it's not listed in their list of free email newsletters. |
See this web page for the full details on how to submit.
SF Gate's online listings are provided by the Chronicle Datebook + Pink Section. The Pink Section deadline is three weeks prior to publication date. The daily Datebook deadline is ten days. As of 9/2004, there are 3 ways to submit an event: 1) email. Check the weblink above for the right contact for each type of event. 2) USPS with the kind of listing (Art, Nightlife, Theater, etc.) in the lower left-hand corner of the envelope, to: Datebook Listings 3) fax: 415-495-2067 ("least desirable") To be considered for the seperate ePicks, email eguide@sfgate.com. [The Chronicle/SFGate is partnered with KlipMart, which offers to provide your audio or video clips to a network of media for exposure.] |
The San Francisco ExaminerAKA the "morning paper." The Ex has a Music Section. Within that section, see the "Live" list of editor's picks. |
They don't seem to do comprehensive listings. But the "Live" column in the Music Section lists events. Try contacting their Arts & Culture editor. |
KALX Entertainment Calendar
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Send listings to: Entertainment Calendar |
KZSU Entertainment Calendar
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email to: calendar@kzsu.stanford.edu KZSU Music (recorded music and related correspondence) KZSU Business (everything else) UPS address: music dept.: 650-723-4839 requests: 650-723-9010 business: 650-725-4868 engineering: 650-725-4867 fax: 650-725-5865 |
KFJC
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Send listings to: KFJC |
SFStation.com |
Submit info at the website (all the details are listed there). |
Craig's ListCraiglist is the seminal home-grown community classifieds site, with sections for events, housing and jobs. They have expanded to cover a dozen US cities and a few in Australia. |
Post your Bay Area event in Craig's List's "Events/Entertainment" section. For other locations go to the main page, click on "post a classified listing" and select "event." |
The Wave Magazine Event ListingsThis great weekly mag covers the Bay Area music and entertainment scene. |
Submit online three weeks in advance, or send videos to: 1150 S. Bascom Ave, Suite #8 |
Zero Magazine |
Their website doesn't have much detail about how to let them know about shows. But here's their contact info: Zero Magazine |
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Great listings and archived shows, "...preserving the legacy of hiphop and funk!" |
Submit at the site. Select "event booking" in the contact form's subject pop-up menu. |
The List- Compiled by Steve Koepke
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If you want a funk/punk/thrash/ska show listed, send the info to one of the following:
e-mail skoepke@stevelist.com fax: 510-237-4145 via snail mail: If you have a music related item you want sent out for free with the list mailing, send 175 of the item to the above address. For proper handling I should receive your mailing by the Friday before the first Wednesday of the month. |
The Squid ListThe Squid List doesn't list music-only events. But, it does list tons of excellent shows of all other varieties. Subscribe to the email or check the new online calendar. (If you subscribe to the email, configure your email program to collect the many emails per day in a dedicated folder.) |
Don't submit your event if it's just a music event! For all other events, submit info at the website (all the details are listed there). The suggested deadline is at least one week before the event, or no less than two days before. There are very strict submission guidlines so READ THEM ALL! |
BayInsider.com / KTVU |
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SFMusician.com |
You'll need to register first (for free), then:
Post your show in the "Gigs" Section. |
SFburning.comCovering "San Francisco events with a focus on that which is subterranean, submergible and audible but rarely water soluble." Also planning a Japanese version.
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"SFburning welcomes any promotional material or individual editorials for review and potential placement on SFburning.com." |
JamBase.comJamBase focuses on "jam" bands, plus "rock, jazz, funk, trancefusion, bluegrass and live electronica." They cover the whole US. |
You'll need to register first (for free), then:
Post your show in the "Add a Show" Section. |
KCSM Jazz Datebook
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To get a Jazz event listed, submit at their website. |
And for more local music... Check out Silent Way's Guide to Local Bay Area Music on the Radio and Guide to Bay Area Radio That Doesn't Suck.
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