Live music this week! (and My Morning Jacket ticket info)

This week's music, for me, is all about Los Lobos, one of THE great rock bands of the last 25 years. They're headlining a solid blues roster also featuring the Tommy Castro Band, Roy Rogers and the Delta Rhythm Kings, Albert Cummings and Curtis Salgado. Serious guitar playing here, folks. That's at the Coloma Blues Festival in Lotus up by the Gold Discovery site. Check out www.colomablueslive.com for more info. Here's Los Lobos in 1985...



and in 1992:



And if you want to go even rootsier, go here...



OK, that should have gotten your attention - a bluegrass band doing a version of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" - said bluegrass band being Poor Man's Whiskey, who are playing Thursday night (6/5) at Marylin's On K. Now, I don't know how many of you stuck through the whole thing, but my diagnosis: morbid curiosity. Then again, these guys may rock the place.

Elsewhere in town this weekend, there are several shows of note, including original Byrd and Burrito Chris Hillman with Herb Pedersen accompanying him. They're playing the 24th Street Theatre in Curtis Park on Friday night. Here they are, low-fi, but the song still carries over...



And then there's the far edgier Rock the Vote show that has moved from distant UC Davis to Empire Events Center downtown Friday night. The tickets are pretty cheap ($25) for what you get: Pennywise, Alkaline Trio, Anti-Flag, MGMT, the Whigs and Middle Class Rut, some pretty decent (and in the last case, local) bands.

Here's Pennywise with a VERY friendly crowd doing "Bro Hymn."



And not to forget local boys Middle Class Rut (here in a "video", since all the live stuff sounds bad, and you should hear the song, "New Low"):



Finally, tonight at Harlow's, see "Tweecore" band Los Campesinos, who rock despite the fact that they're totally, well, "twee" (you could look it up).



AND note that tickets go on pre-sale Thursday morning for the My Morning Jacket show at the Greek in Berkeley on Sept. 19. This is a great band, and VERY well worth making the trek for. Tickets go on sale at this URL tomorrow starting at 10 a.m. The code word is "evil" (from the first song off the album, "Evil Urges.") Tickets go on sale to those NOT in the know on Sunday. Here's the band live at Coachella...