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Venue: GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL
Address: 859 O’Farrell Street @ Polk Street
Neighborhood: “Polk Gulch” area generally, although we all know that means different things for different people.
Types of bands that play here:  Like many San Francisco venues, the Great American Music Hall is happy to host a diverse group of performers including both local and non-local acts although it’s one of the better spots in the city for the non-local stuff.
How often there’s live music:  Almost every night baby!
Points given for:  History of the venue, size of the space and the fact that they’re calendar has links that let you listen …read more

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There is a funny thing about neighborhoods in San Francisco.  On the one hand, they are very distinct from one another.  North Beach and Chinatown lie side by side but you can tell almost exactly when you’ve crossed from one to the other.  And even the new-to-SF can tell the subtle differences between a place like commercial North Beach and its more residential neighbor, Telegraph Hill.  But then there are all of these little pockets and smaller divisions within neighborhoods that kind of blend together and make it hard to tell what’s what and where is where.
It’s kind of like …read more

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Venue: HEMLOCK TAVERN
Address: 1131 Polk Street between Sutter and Post
Neighborhood: “Polk Gulch” according to the website, although everyone I know agrees that it’s “that neighborhood between Russian Hill and The Tenderloin”
Types of bands that play here:  Alternative … not in the sense of the music genre “alternative” but in the sense of “hm, familiar to something I know but a bit different”; example: an upcoming show by a faux French band and a weekly “Punk Rock Sideshow”.
How often there’s live music:  Almost every night of the year, baby!
Points given for:  Really interesting mixture of people in the crowd as well …read more

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