Every Thursday, The B-Side serves you The Weekend Menu. We’ve tapped the Bay Area shows we’re definitely going to and hope to catch you at. Follow @berkeleybside on Instagram and Twitter and send us the best photos of your shows.

Editor’s Pick

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival 2014 @ Golden Gate Park (SF)

Thursday 10/2

Lorde @ Greek Theater (Berkeley)
w/ Magical Cloudz

Thievery Corporation @ Fox Theater (Oakland)
w/ BoomBox

Pinback @ Bimbo’s 365 Club (SF)
w/ Tera Melos

Savoy @ The Independent (SF)

K.Flay @ Rickshaw Stop (SF)
w/ Night Riots, Basecamp

Moon Taxi @ Slim’s (SF)
w/ Tumbleweed Wanderers

Friday 10/3

Lorde @ Greek Theater (Berkeley)
w/ Magical Cloudz

Explosions In The Sky @ The Masonic (SF)
w/ The New Year

Benny Benassi @ Ruby Skye (SF)

Stromae @ Mezzanine (SF)

Glass Animals @ Slim’s (SF)

Saturday 10/4

Jimmy Eat World @ Oakland Metro (Oakland)
w/ Minibosses

Best Coast @ SoMA StrEAT Food Park (SF)
w/ Sonny & The Sunsets, Meatbodies

Conor Oberst @ The Fillmore (SF)
w/ Jonathan Wilson, The Good Life

Dawes @ Great American Music Hall (SF)

Sunday 10/5

Bombay Bicycle Club @ The Warfield (SF)
w/ Milo Greene, Luxley

The War On Drugs @ The Fillmore (SF)
w/ Cass McCombs

Compiled by Atreyue Ryken