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Photos by James Nagel // Written by Mike Frash //

With the Coachella lineup announcement on January 8th, festival season launched. And for those who love live music in the Bay Area yet won’t be traveling to the Polo Grounds to brave likely triple digit temps and three days of splendid insanity, we have Fauxchella.

Fauxchella is that two weeks of time surrounding Coachella in April where various American western locations like Phoenix, Portland and San Francisco profit off the tour runoff of artists that perform in Indio, California for two consecutive weekends.

So, instead of packing it all into one weekend, choose and select the acts you want to witness over four or five nights in April. I mean, why not? But it does take a tad bit of planning …

Read our Coachella 2014 lineup preview.

SHOWBAMS FAUXCHELLA WISHLIST

We hope these acts fauxchella in the Bay Area…

• Aeroplane — Wish granted

• Bombino — Wish granted

• Disclosure — Wish granted

• Factory Floor — Wish granted

• Flight Facilities — Wish granted

• GOAT — Wish granted

• Temples — Wish granted

• The Afghan Whigs — Wish granted

• The Internet

• The Replacements

•Toy Dolls — Wish granted

If you know of a Fauxchella show not listed here, leave a comment below and we’ll add it. Click the artist name to link to ticket purchase.

Friday, April 4th

Odesza — The Independent // Sold Out

Sunday, April 6th

ZZ Ward — The Independent

Tuesday, April 8th

Dum Dum Girls — The Independent // Sold Out

Pet Shop Boys — Fox Theater Oakland

Wednesday, April 9th

Neutral Milk Hotel — Fox Theater Oakland // Sold Out

Haim — The Fillmore // Sold Out

Thursday, April 10

Neutral Milk Hotel — Fox Theater Oakland

Future Islands — The Chapel

Haim — The Fillmore // Sold Out

Bastille — The Warfield // Sold Out

Aeroplane — Mezzanine (House of Mezzanine)

Friday, April 11

Neutral Milk Hotel — Fox Theater Oakland

Trombone Shorty & the Orleans Avenue — The Warfield

Classixx — The Independent

Saturday, April 12

Chromeo — The Independent // Sold Out

GOAT — Slim’s

Sunday, April 13

none yet

Monday, April 14

MS MR & Jagwar Ma — The Fillmore

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion — Slim’s

John Newman — The Independent

Bryan Ferry — Fox Theater Oakland

Temples — Great American Music Hall

Bombino — Sweetwater Music Hall

Chance The Rapper — The Warfield

Toy Dolls – Regency Ballroom

Tuesday, April 15

The Knife — Fox Theater Oakland // Sold Out

Laura Mvula — The Independent

Blood Orange — Great American Music Hall // Sold Out

Bombino — The New Parish

Wednesday, April 16

The Knife — Fox Theater Oakland

Factory Floor — The Independent

White Lies — The New Parish

Foxygen — The Chapel

Thursday, April 17

Empire of the Sun — Fox Theater Oakland

The 1975 — The Fillmore // Sold Out

*Sam Smith — Rickshaw Stop // Sold Out

Foxygen – The Independent

Queens of the Stone Age with Warpaint — Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Duke Dumont — Mezzanine

The Afghan Whigs — Slim’s

Friday, April 18

The 1975 — The Fillmore // Sold Out

Mogwai — Regency Ballroom

Motörhead — The Warfield

Flight Facilities — Mezzanine

Disclosure — Greek Theatre – U.C. Berkeley // Sold Out

Surfer Blood — The New Parish

Empire of the Sun – Fox Theater Oakland

Lana Del Rey — Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Saturday, April 19

Ellie Goulding & Rudimental — Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Maceo Plex — Public Works

Broken Bells — Fox Theater Oakland

Sunday, April 20

Bombay Bicycle Club — The Fillmore

*Odds are Sam Smith will perform with Disclosure live at Coachella.