Litquake, San Francisco's nine-day literary festival, runs from October 6th - 14th this year in venues all over the city. Amoeba Music is thrilled to come on board for Litquake's 18th year to co-present two events celebrating music and the written word.

Liner Notes: Loudon Wainwright III with Chuck Prophet
Tuesday, October 10. 8pm-10pm at Swedish American Hall.
With a career spanning more than four decades, Loudon Wainwright III has established himself as one of America's most enduring singer-songwriters. His songs can be laugh-out-loud funny, but they also can cut to the bone. In his new memoir, Liner Notes: On Parents & Children, Exes & Excess, Death & Decay, & a Few of My Other Favorite Things, Wainwright details the fractured relationships in the Wainwright family throughout generations: the alcoholism, the infidelities, the competitiveness—as well as the closeness, the successes, and the joy. Wainwright performs some of his classics, and discusses his life and work with San Francisco singer/songwriter Chuck Prophet.
More info and tickets HERE.

Harlem of the West: San Francisco's Jazzy Fillmore
Thursday, October 12. 7pm-9pm at Doc's Lab.
Billie Holiday singing at the New Orleans Swing Club. Dexter Gordon hanging out at Bop City. Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, all swinging through town for gigs. San Francisco's Fillmore District was once an eclectic, integrated, and hopping neighborhood dotted with restaurants, pool halls, theaters, and two dozen nightclubs and music joints, before vanishing abruptly from redevelopment in the 1960s. Celebrate this unique and rediscovered chapter in jazz history with Harlem of the West?: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era co-author Elizabeth Pepin Silva and special guest musicians from the era.
More info and tickets HERE.

Amoeba Music is proud to co-present two music documentaries showing at the 40th Annual Mill Valley Film Festival, which runs October 5-15. The Mill Valley Film Festival aims to bring inspirational feature and documentary films from around the world to captivate and motivate members of the San Francisco Bay Area community.

Catch these two riveting music docs, both a must for serious music connoisseurs:

On The Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
Friday, Oct. 13 at 6:00pm at CinéArts Sequoia
Saturday, Oct. 14 at 9pm at Century Larkspur
Part amateur sleuthing adventure, part chronicle of a legendary artist, On the Sly documents one man’s quest to discover what happened to the reclusive Sly Stone. Interviews with former bandmates, label execs, and music historians detail the story of Sly and the Family Stone and its once-charismatic, now-mysterious leader. Producer Patrick Sheehan in attendance.
Tickets: http://bit.ly/2fguP1Q

Third Mind Blues
Thursday, Oct. 12 at 5:30pm at CinéArts Sequoia
Friday, Oct. 13 at 9pm at Lark Theater
The story of the final creative partnership in the career of The Doors’ keyboardist Ray Manzarek was a wonderful study in contrasts with blues guitarist and Bay Area musician Roy Rogers. Third Mind Blues is the special behind-the-scenes look at their playful, philosophical collaboration that invoked the SF Beat poets and decades of music history. Director Willian Tyler Smith in attendance.
Tickets: http://bit.ly/2xiTTza

A week after Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas coast, residents are still stranded without shelter, food, and potable water. As rescue teams and authorities search for survivors, the death toll continues to climb (40 storm-related deaths reported as of this posting). Seeing images in the news of the devastation is heart-breaking and we all want to help, but it can be difficult to know where your money makes the most impact.

We've compiled a list of some of the more targeted organizations collecting donations. We hope it helps you make an informed decision.

Direct Relief
Direct Relief is currently on the ground in Texas, supporting healthcare facilities in the storm’s path by providing medicines and supplies. An emergency shipment went out Friday, which bolsters pre-positioned resources already in the hands of providers statewide. Direct Relief’s Hurricane Preparedness Program, which equips clinics with essential medical supplies, provides access to medicines to treat both chronic and acute conditions

GoFundMe
Donate to the Direct Impact Fund in partnership with GoFundMe. Your tax-deductible donation will go directly to support individuals with verified campaigns on GoFundMe.

Houston Food Bank
HFB will provide food and supplies in the short term and for many months to come to residents in southeast Texas who will struggle to rebuild their lives.

We at Amoeba SF recently acquired a unique collection of 1970s Experimental and Art music, all on vinyl! This collection spans across the genres of Minimalism, Musique Concrete, post-Ornette Jazz, Tape Music, Spoken Sound Art, early Electronic, and more, and are all in excellent condition. These records will be made available for sale on Saturday, September 9th at Amoeba SF. Head to our stage (in the northwest corner of the store) to browse these gems. There will be staff on hand to help you view bagged items and to bring your choices to the cashiers. You must be in the store to purchase items for this one-day event. We won't be taking phone orders and we won't be putting these items on hold.

Some of the artists who are heavily represented in this collection:
Terry Riley (10 LPs)
Cecil Taylor (40 LPs!)
John Cage (15)
Steve Reich (15)
Anthony Braxton (25)
Philip Glass (many)
Art Ensemble of Chicago (20, PLUS numerous by its individual members)
Julius Hemphill (10)

Plus, there many rare and import recordings by David Murray, Leo Smith, Frank Lowe, Alvin Lucier, Meredith Monk, Henry Cow/Slapp Happy/Art Bears, Joan LaBarbara, Robert Ashley, Jon Gibson, Gordon Mumma, and more!

Of particular note, there are VERY RARE recordings by Joseph Beuys & Henning Christiansen, Charlemagne Palestine, LaMonte Young, Le Forte Four, and Allen Kaprow, just to name a few.

Ryan Hemsworth

NightLife Live at San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences is a summer music series inspired by science and powered by sound that transforms the Academy into a 21+ oasis of music and art on one special night per month. Join Amoeba Music at the Academy on Thursday, September 14th as the series returns with two great musical acts, art installations, craft projects, fantastic cocktails, and more!

Begin the night getting swept away by the dreamy ambient electronic music of Japan-based producer Qrion, followed by headliner Ryan Hemsworth, whose moody vibes and remixes for artists including Grimes and Frank Ocean made him one of the fastest rising producers in electronic music today. But that's not all! Don't miss DJ sets by local favorites Aaron Axelsen and Omar Perez, and night-worthy art installations in the West Garden including Quarso's intergalactic monolithic SpaceWay and Dave Listrom's illuminated Sentient Obelisk. Also make sure you visit us at the Amoeba Music pop-up shop! We'll be bringing loads of quality used vinyl, so prepare to go crate digging.