After you roam around Fresno bars in your Boba Fett suit, rocket over to some Fresno shows, ya buncha Nerd Herders. Let's Bandgeek:
FRIDAY
KUPPAJOE'S: The No Greater Love Tour shoots love goo all over Kuppa with Via Verde (Fullerton), City Of Lions, My Beautiful Surrender (Fresno), The Motel Life (Ontario) and Le Wolves (Fresno):
AUDIE'S OLYMPIC: The Fresno Tattoo convention is in town and Audie's is the place to pre-party for it with Handlebarz and RestavRant:
FULTON 55: Fresno's Black Aesop and the mighty Living Legends crew are throwing a CD release party. I night of local hip-hop. [Free, 9:30, 21+]
FRANK'S PLACE: Presented by the Fresno Folklore Society it's a night with folk musican Evie Ladlin. More details. [$20, 7:30, All Ages]
C.A.F.E. INFOSHOP: All ages punk show in Chinatown with It'll Grow Back (Did you know they actually took a weekend off last week?), Dimerunner (Fullerton), Eindrah and Devilkin Assailant:
SATURDAY
FULTON 55: After a big show at the prestigious Vive Latino Festival, Dedo Caracol comes to California for the first time to headline the Binational Rock concert. Also playing are locals, Firecat. Details:
FRESNO BREWING COMPANY: We gave you a heads up for this show earlier (there's a free download in it for ya). Fresno's Sahab!:
AUDIE'S OLYMPIC: We likey the local rock and punk and good vibe places like Audie's. Gonna have to hit this one up with Palm Kids, The Dirty Dirties and The Normandys:
SUNDAY
AUDIE'S OLYMPIC: You may have seen recently that Fresno's most famous pedicab driver, Jeff MacDonald, was purposely run over by some jackass dude (he was eventually jailed). In the accident, Jeff lost the use of his leg for a while (kinda needed when you drive a pedicab). Local musicians and cyclists are coming together to help Jeff out, and all during bike month:
FULTON 55: There will be a Rogue Festival "aduation party" happening with a buncha stuff plus Gayle and The Bowties. Details.
Well that's what we managed to find, but we admit we don't know everything. If you know of a band playing, a weekend event that's not on here, or you want to talk about what IS on here, please use the comment section of this post to its fullest!
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