No matter how unpredictable things get and keep getting in the world, the one thing you can always rely on is the power of live music. We love that communal feeling, bearing witness to an artist recreating an album live on stage or improvising a whole new thing right there in the flesh for you and 100, or 1000, or 10,000 more music aficionados. Live events are now one of the few unpredictable, in-the-moment events left in this commodified life.

August served up a big-budget appetizer with all the giant happenings in Golden Gate Park. But the fall season—that’s the main course, the pièce de résistance, if you will. So here, in no particular order, are 11 shows from a mix of venue sizes that you should go out and see. Maybe you need SPF lotion for one, but for the rest, just bring a love of

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