Named by Spin magazine as one of the best live bands in the world, Detroit’s rawk n’ roll heroes The Dirtbombs land on the Amoeba stage.

Crown City Rockers’ M.C. Raashan Ahmad debuts his impressive solo The Push, featuring J5s, Chali 2na, Vadim & more, with a special release day in-store at Amoeba SF. Gift with purchase: Buy a copy of The Push on the day of the in-store at Amoeba SF, and get a Raashan Ahmad unreleased EP CD. The EP features three unreleased tracks with production from DJ Vadim, Headnodic, Descry, and DJ Tonk. At Amoeba SF only & while supplies last!

Dizzee Rascal is the most innovative hip-hop artists in the UK today. Mixing an eclectic palette of influences ranging from metal to Japanese court music, Dizzee always keeps his fans on their toes.

British minimalist electro-indie rockers the Foals don’t just fizz with energy…they explode like a well-shaken bottle of champagne.

Ethiopian-Israeli hip-hop group Strong Black Coffee (CAFE SHACHOR HAZAK) was founded a few years ago at a community youth Center in Natanya, Israel, and has since become one of the most popular young groups in the history of the Israeli music scene. Their music is a thrilling and heart warming blast of positive energy and hope.

The Haight-Ashbury Street Fair is a non-profit organization dedicated to celebrating the cultural history and diversity of one of San Francisco’s most internationally celebrated neighborhoods - The Haight-Ashbury District. For the last 28 years, HASF has produced the annual street fair that features arts and crafts, food booths, two musical stages and more. It also serves as a means for community groups and mercantile vendors to interact with the public and expand their base. The festival takes place along Haight Street from Masonic to Stanyan.

After gaining renown for his role in the much-loved television series M*A*S*H, actor Mike Farrell embarked upon a more arduous path as a human rights advocate. “Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist” is his story. As amply demonstrated in this memoir, Farrell’s celebrity has put him in the unique position to witness and participate in the efforts of peace-workers both at home and throughout the world.

Best known as an actor and for his eight years on M*A*S*H and five seasons on Providence, Mike Farrell is also a writer, director and producer. Farrell has served on human rights and peace delegations to many countries around the world. As President of Death Penalty Focus, he speaks, writes, and coordinates efforts to stop executions.

“Do You See What I See?” is the story of a visually impaired physicist, Russell Targ, who sees beyond perception to help readers find meaning. Targ has been visually handicapped since childhood and yet has performed groundbreaking research in lasers and optics. He is grounded in the world of science and yet helped created the Cold War program that became the real X-Files - the CIA and NASA-sponsored work in “remote viewing” that has only recently been declassified. This remarkable memoir reads like a cultural history of the last half of the twentieth century as Targ befriends the likes of Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan, Alan Alda, and brother-in-law chess champion Bobby Fisher.

Russell Targ is an American physicist and author, an ESP researcher, and pioneer in the earliest development of the laser. Currently retired, Targ enjoys motorcycling in the desert (even though legally blind) and studying Dzogchen Buddhism. He lives in Palo Alto, California.

Jennifer Sey began competing in gymnastics at the age of six, and went on to become 1986 National Gymnastics Champion and seven-time national team member. Now, she has authored a cautionary tale, “Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics’ Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams.” This is the remarkably candid true story of a gymnastics champion whose lifelong dream was to compete in the Olympics, until anorexia, injuries, and coaching abuses nearly destroyed her.

Jennifer Sey is a graduate of Stanford University, Sey was named one of the “Top 40 Marketers under 40″ by Advertising Age in 2006 for her work at Levi Strauss & Co. She has also written and produced two short films. She lives with her husband and two sons in San Francisco.

A soldier is alone. He doesn’t know where he is or how he got here. All he does know is that he is at war. But who is the enemy? Surrounded by a ruined city, without a compass to guide him or a clear mission to fulfill, the soldier must rely on what he has left to survive. Using only memory, his warrior’s skills, and his own, suddenly fierce humanity, he will construct a map to lead him toward what he desperately hopes will be his escape. “War,” the new novel by Todd Komnarnicki, is the story of one man’s journey deep into the heart of violence.

Todd Komarnicki is a screenwriter, producer, director, and novelist, and the author of the “Famine.” Active in Hollywood, Komarnicki was the producer of Elf, the 2003 Will Ferrell comedy.