Diamond Days Festival July 17-20

Diamond Days Festival Takes Over Oakland This Week Sorry LA Readers but occasionally I have to take a moment from my regular LA postings to give props to the fantastic music scenes going on up north in San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento. This weekend Heeb Magazine will be presenting the Diamond Days Festival. The annual event will take place July 17-20th at Mama Buzz Cafe and Ghost Town Gallery in Oakland, CA and features some of the best underground music perk elating on the west coast. Don't skim and keep reading: What I love MOST about this festival is how many LA bands they've booked: Tweak Bird, Ancestors, Princeton, The Moon Upstairs, Young Animals, and Thee Makeout Party will all be performing. CHECK OUT THE LINEUP/SCHEDULE BELOW. Tickets are just $25 for a 4 day pass which you can purchase clicking here. Seriously, If you live in the Bay Area you really need to go. [MP3] Tweak Bird - Whorses [MP3] Thee Makeout Party - To Easy To Love You PS. Young Animals will also be playing TOMORROW at Kimo's in San Francisco with Mountain Bride, Husband & Wife, and The Broads. Check out a new track "Cautious Girl" the ensemble just posted on their myspace page. You can hear the song acoustic is the fabulous video filmed by Miss Elainelayabout. [MP3] Young Animals - Cautious Girl DIAMOND DAYS SCHEDULE TWO SHOWS JULY 17th 1st at Mama Buzz Cafe early jam!! Mist and Mast(Oakland) Ben Becker(Los Angeles) Emily Jane White(San Francisco)   2nd! Thursday, July 17 at Ghost Town Gallery 2519 San Pablo Ave. Oakland, CA 7 p.m. Whalebones (Seattle) Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound (San Francisco) Sleepy Sun(San Francisco) Jeff (Los Angeles) Cult of Youth (Brooklyn) Ellen Mary McGee (London) Young Animals (California) The Broads (San Francisco) Friday, July 18 at Ghost Town Gallery, 2519 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, CA, 7 p.m. Thee Makeout Party(Anaheim) The Moon Upstairs (Los Angeles) Tiny Vipers(Seattle) Princeton (Eagle Rock, California) Fences (Seattle) Greg Ashley(Oakland) No Bunny (Oakland) Mountainhood (San Francisco) Lazarus (San Francisco) Audacity(LA) Damon and the Heathens(Oakland) Plus: a pork cook-off with Chow.com Saturday, July 19 at Ghost Town Gallery, 2519 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, CA, 5 p.m. Ancestors (Los Angeles) Tweak Bird (Los Angeles) Aleks and the Drummer(Chicago) Ojos Rojos (Claremont, California) The Fucking Wrath (Ventura, California) What Cheer? Brigade (Providence, Rhode Island) Im a Gun (Seattle) Bridez (San Francisco) Loving Thunder (Seattle) Glitter Wizard (Oakland) Lotto Ball Show (Chicago)