San Diego Concert Roundup

Who's on tour? Are they coming to town? Where are they playing? And when? Lucky for us, San Diego has a lot of quality venues to watch live music - from the large (Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre) to the intimate (the Casbah) to everything in-between. So we have an opportunity to see a wide variety of musical acts and genres (even though some major tours still bypass San Diego for L.A.)

Here's a month-by-month rundown of select bands and artists coming to town.

NOTE: For a list of links to the concert venue sites and their ticket info mentioned here, see the bottom of this page.

NOVEMBER 2008

Petco Park:
Madonna (11/4)

Belly Up Tavern:
Toubab Krewe w/ On the One (11/5)
Keller Williams w/ Moseley, Droll & Sipe (11/6)
Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers w/ The Mother Truckers (11/7)
Ruby and the Redhots (11/9)
An Evening with Little Feat (11/10)
Fastball w/ Get Back Loretta and The Exfriends (11/11)
Anna Troy w/ Gunplay Maxwell and Gayle Skidmore (11/12)
The Rodney Crowell Acoustic Trio Featuring Jenny Scheinman (11/19)
The Bacon Brothers with Michael Tiernan (11/20)
The English Beat w/ Skanic (11/28-29)

House of Blues
Ingrid Michaelson with Newton Faulkner & David Ford (11/5)
The Expendables with Rebelution, OPM, & Poor Habit (11/6)
The B-52s (11/7)
Enanitos Verdes with Curanderos (11/8)
Blues Traveler (11/11)
Joe Satriani with Mountain featuring Leslie West and Corky Laing (11/12)
Lordi with Lizzy Borden, Stolen Babies (11/13)
Kottonmouth Kings (11/14)
Mason Jennings with Zach Gill (of ALO/Jack Johnson) (11/15)
Hanson: The Walk Around The World Tour with Matt Wertz and Everybody Else (11/16)
Matisyahu / Flobots (11/17)
Misfits with D.I. & Authentic Sellout (11/19)
Alejandra Guzman (11/20)
Face to Face with Youth Brigade (11/22)
GWAR w/ Kingdom of Sorrow, Terror & Toxic Holocaust (11/23)
Eric Benet (11/25)
Tesla (11/28)
The Sisters of Mercy with Hypernova (11/29)
Bell Biv Devoe (11/30)

Anthology:
Nathan James & Ben Hernandez & Veronica May (11/4)
Eve Selis and Billy Midnight (11/5)
Tab Benoit (11/7)
Toots Thielemans with Kenny Werner Trio (11/8,9)
Alex Ligertwood (11/11)
Chris Cain (11/12)
Brennen Leigh (11/13)
Jonatha Brooke and Glen Phillips (11/14)
Barbara Tobler (11/18)
Novamenco (11/19)
Al Stewart (11/21)
Charles McPherson (11/22)
Johnny Polanco (11/23)
McCoy Tyner with Christian Scott (11/25,26)

Cox Arena:
New Kids on the Block (11/28)

San Diego Sports Arena:
Carrie Underwood (11/8)
Jonas Brothers (11/15)
Trans Siberian Orchestra (11/22)
Celine Dion (11/25)

4th and B:
TV on the Radio with Delta Spirit & The Dirt Bombs (11/8)
Café Tacuba (11/18)

RIMAC Arena (UCSD):
The Smashing Pumpkins (11/30)

San Diego Civic Theatre:
Alanis Morissette (11/10)

Copley Symphony Hall:
k.d.lang (11/13)

SOMA
Hawthorne Heights (11/5)
Misdelphia (11/7)
Dragonforce (11/8)
Minus The Bear (11/14)
Ludo (11/15)
Underoath (11/16)
Portugal. The Man (11/20)
Jon Mclaughlin (11/21)
The Faceless (11/22)
Metro Station (11/26)
The Birthday Massacre (11/28)
Pierce The Veil (11/29)

Acoustic Music San Diego:
Ellis Paul (11/9)
Laurence Juber (11/15)
Vance Gilbert (11/22)
Doyle Dykes (11/23)
Tom Russell (11/28)

DECEMBER 2008

Belly Up Tavern
Raine Maida with Sayvinyl - FM 94.9 "It's About the Music" December show (12/1)
RELENTLESS SEVEN with Grace Woodroofe (12/3)
Aimee Mann's Christmas Show with special guests Patton Oswalt, Nellie McKay, Grant Lee Phillips and Morgan Murphy (12/5)
The Howls, The Northstar Session and The Midwinters (12/10)
Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman with Boots Riley and DJ SkullcRusheR (12/11)
Dynamite Walls and Stripes and Lines with Republic of Letters (12/12)
Cash'd Out Christmas w/ Hell on Heels Burlesque Revue, Brennen Leigh and DJ Gonzo (12/13)
DAVE MASON w/ Jack Tempchin (12/14)
Missy Higgins w/ Robert Francis (12/15)
Mike Ness w/ Mother Truckers (12/16)
Mike Ness w/ Lonesome Spurs (12/17)
Venice Christmas show with Charlie Vaughn and The Daily Routine (12/18)
The Young Dubliners Celtic Christmas Show (12/19)
Years Around the Sun, Scarlet Symphony and Apes of Wrath presented by 91X Loudspeaker (12/22)
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe and Robert Walter's 20th Congress Reunion (12/27)
PARTICLE with Michael Kang of String Cheese Incident (12/28)
Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven (12/29)
FM 94.9 presents 1st Annual Swami's New Year's Eve w/ The Night Marchers, The Muslims and The Cheap Leis (12/31)

House of Blues
Secondhand Seranade & Cute Is What We Aim For (12/3)
Rock 105.3 presents Five Finger Death Punch with In This Moment and Another Black Day (12/4)
Wu-Tang Clan (12/5)
Little Joy with the Dead Trees, Red Cortez (12/5)
Bad Brains with Dub Trio, Kevin Seconds (12/7)
All American Rejects with Jet Lag Gemini & The City Lives (12/8)
MeShell Ndegeocello (12/9)
Helmet with Fu Manchu, Earthless (12/10)
Los Lobos with The Blasters, Indigenous (12/11)
Anthony Hamilton (12/12)
Bloc Party (12/16)
Brian Culbertson's 'A Soulful Christmas' 2008 featuring Vesta, Tony Maiden of Rufus and Mike Phillips (12/18)
Unwritten Law (12/19)
Ratt (12/28)

Anthology
Tuck & Patti (12/2,3)
SOPHIE 103.7's GREEN CHRISTMAS with: ALANIS MORISSETTE and O.A.R. (12/10)
Jon McLaughlin and Matt Nathanson (12/14)
Sara Bareilles and Plain White T's (12/15)
Spyro Gyra (12/16,17)

SOMA
The Fall Of Troy (12/3)
Rancid (12/6)
Underneath The Gun (12/11)
3oh!3 (12/12)
My American Heart (12/13)
Mustard Plug (12/14)
Stick To Your Guns (12/19)
Hollywood Undead (12/20)
New Age Heroes (12/27)

San Diego Sports Arena
Celtic Thunder (12/1)
Dancing with the Stars (12/17)
Cheetah Girls (12/21)

Cox Arena
Metallica (12/15)