California Academy of Sciences' NightLife series rocks your world every Thursday night! It's where music, creatures, and cocktails come together. Thursday, July 19th, NightLife really stirs things up as they team up with Noise Pop. 

Watch Shane McKnight and the mixologists at Cocktail Lab work their magic during demonstrations using seasonal ingredients. 

The San Francisco Mixtape Society will host a mixtape swap, so come prepared with a mix tape, mix CD, or mix USB stick inspired by the theme of Night Creatures. You’ll walk away with someone else’s mix and a smile on your face.

Watch masterful DJs remix a track before your eyes and ears in the Remix Lounge, featuring Friendzone at 6:00, Yalls at 7:00pm and Giraffage at 8:00pm.

And last but certainly not least, Music in the Piazza (presented by Noise Pop) is by Heathered Pearls (Ghostly International, ISO50) followed by Dan The Automator of such awesome projects as Handsome Boy Modeling School and Gorillaz!

Amoeba Music San Francisco has big news for lovers of the written word (and pictures too). We've

If you build it, they will come.

 expanded our Books & Zines section! We have TONS of new and used music, film, and pop culture books, including many out of print titles from a huge, recently acquired collection. We also now stock a wider range of music mags and back issues!

This also means that we now buy good quality used music and pop culture books for cash and credit, so trade in your old books for new!

Peaches Christ Productions advises you to rub the lotion into “its” skin to celebrate the world premiere of THE SILENCE OF THE TRANS, a blood-soaked summer spectacular exploding at San Francisco’s historic Castro Theatre on July 28th. Famed Midnight Mass hostess Peaches Christ will debut a sparkling musical pre-show featuring Ms. Christ as Trannibal Lector and special guest, season 4 winner of Rupaul’s Drag Race, Sharon Needles as Buffalo Jill!

TWO shows will be presented on July 28th with a murderous matinee at 3pm and the night showing at 8pm. Both programs will feature a pre-show musical extravaganza, a Serial Killer Costume Contest with prizes gore-lore and a screening of the award-winning horror/thriller The Silence of the Lambs. Sharon Needles will also be available for post-show fan meet, greet, and autograph signing in the Castro mezzanine once the film begins.

Get your tickets HERE before they're all GONE!

 
On August 1st and 2nd, Cinema SF and folkYEAH present the third and fourth installments of City Scenes, the on-going series that pairs musicians with their favorite films.

This time around, local guitar-wizard Sean Smith (Citay) will perform Kraftwerk’s 1974 krautrock masterpiece Autobahn in its entirety followed by a screening of the Coen Brothers’ 1998 cult comedy Big Lebowski (1998).

The following night, master songsmith and Tiny Telephone founder John Vanderslice performs David Bowie's dystopian glam opus Diamond Dogs in its entirety, followed by a screening of Michel Gondry’s meta love story The Science of Sleep (2006).

We're giving away a 24” X 24” Giclee print of PJ Harvey's Let England Shake album cover on Twitter! Just follow @AmoebaBerkeley on Twitter and keep your eyes peeled on July 14.

Oh, and brush up on your Polly Jean knowledge because winners will be chosen through correct answers in a PJ Harvey Trivia Contest. Good luck!