SF’s Free Outdoor Concert: Eagles of Death Metal (Potrero del Sol)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

“SF Live” Free Outdoor Concert Series (Summer/Fall 2026)

FREE PROGRAMMING NEXT WEEK at Union Square Plaza:

• Sun 5/17: Artist Showcase with Red Umbrellas
  10am – 4pm
• Sun 5/17: Sunday Fun Day: Pipe Cleaner Daisy Bouquets with @makerstudiokidz
  11am – 2pm
• Sun 5/17: Mahjong & Mixer: Instruction and guided play with local enthusiast @keeler1
  3 – 6pm
• Mon 5/18: Imagination Mondays: Interactive Activities with @happilyeverlaughterparties
  10am
• Mon 5/18: Sketching Lessons: Botanical Drawing with Kaeli Mcleod and Sound Drawings with Nancy Nguyen and @citystudiosf
  4 – 6pm
• Tues 5/19: Toddler Tuesdays with @jamarookids
  10am
• Tues 5/19: Jazz Performance by Jon Frank – curated by @jazzintheneighborhood
  4 – 6pm
• Wed 5/20: Strength and Balance Fitness with @chinatownymcasf
  8 – 9am
• Wed 5/20: BollyX (All Levels) w/ Simran Suri and @raestudiossf
  5:30 – 6:30pm
• Thurs 5/21: Lunchbreak Music ft. @sararodenburgmusic – curated by @trixierasputinpresents
  TIME CHANGED to 4 – 6pm
• Thurs 5/21: Crafternoons: Spring Zines with @scrapsf
  4:30 – 6:30pm
• Fri 5/22: Chess Lessons and Social with @milibrary
  11:30am – 1:30pm
• Fri 5/22: Union Square Dance: Bollywood with @rangdebollywood
  5pm – 8pm
• Sat 5/23: Juggling Lessons by @circusbella
  11:30am – 1:30pm
• Sun 5/24: Artist Showcase with Red Umbrellas
  10am – 4pm
• Sun 5/24: Sunday Fun Days – Sci-Fi Themed Bookmarks and Paper Collage with @wdfmuseum
  11am – 2pm
• Sun 5/24: Mahjong & Mixer: instruction and guided play with local enthusiast @keeler1
  3 – 6pm
• Plus, free amenity zones are open daily 9am – 6pm with books, games, art supplies, and more to borrow while you’re hanging out.

See the full schedule at unionsquaresf.com. Free programming is made possible with support from @bankofamerica and a grant from the Office of Mayor Daniel Lurie and @sfoewd to Biederman Redevelopment Ventures, in cooperation with @sfrecpark and support from @unionsquaresf.

Saturday, September 7, 2024
“SF Live” Free Outdoor Concert Series (Summer/Fall 2026)

SF Live is a six-month series of free, outdoor music concerts put on as a joint, citywide initiative by esteemed San Francisco arts & music producers Illuminate, San Francisco Parks Alliance, Noise Pop Productions, and Union Square Alliance. Created as a love letter to San Francisco music, SF Live concerts are a coming together of San Francisco’s storied musical history and the city’s promising and developing local talent.

FREE with RSVP

This show is produced by SF Parks Alliance, Noise Pop, and Kilowatt.

Schedule
Gates Open – 1PM
The Candy Whips – 1:30PM
To Be Announced Supporting Act – 2:30 PM
Eagles of Death Metal – 4:30 PM
Eagles of Death Metal is an American rock band from Palm Desert, California, founded in 1998 by best friends Jesse Hughes and Joshua Homme. The group has included a wide range of other musicians that appear on the band’s studio albums and live shows. EODM’s current touring lineup includes the ever-present Hughes, Jennie Vee on bass, Jorma Vik on drums, and Joshua Jove on guitar.

Despite their band name, Eagles of Death Metal is not a death metal band and is intended to be humorous. With a sound that’s a combination of “bluegrass slide guitar mixed with stripper drum beats and Canned Heat vocals,” and a frontman in Hughes who is known for his over-the-top stage histrionics and evangelistic interaction with his fans, the band’s live performances are a sight to be seen.

EODM has released four studio albums to date — Peace Love Death Metal, Death By Sexy, Heart On, and Zipper Down — and has toured the world extensively over the past two decades. A brand new studio album is in the works for a worldwide release in 2023.

EODM first appeared on Homme’s The Desert Sessions Volumes 3 & 4, released in 1998. Over the next few years, Homme experienced huge success with QOTSA but returned to EODM in 2004 to release their debut Peace Love Death Metal in March 2004. Songs like “I Only Want You” and “Miss Alissa,” from the album were used in TV commercials and the album became a source for film, video game and movie trailers.

The band followed up their debut with Death By Sexy in 2006, and Heart On in 2008. After years of touring the US, Europe and the rest of the world, the band went back to the studio and started work on Zipper Down. That album eventually saw the light of day in fall 2015

While the band was on stage at the Bataclan in Paris, on Nov. 13, 2015, terrorists stormed the venue and attacked the audience. Only 3 weeks later, the band returned to the stage with U2 in Paris in their first concert appearance since the attack. The bands performed a cover of Patti Smith’s “People Have the Power” together before EODM performed “I Love You All the Time.” In a statement following the performance, Hughes thanked U2 and said that the band would return to Paris in February 2016 to finish their interrupted show. In December 2015, the band announced the full resumption of their European tour, which they had renamed the “Nos Amis Tour” (“Our Friends Tour”). The tour included a date at the Olympia in Paris on Feb.16. Ticket holders from the November show at the Bataclan were invited to attend the Paris concert for free.

A documentary directed by Colin Hanks about the band and the aftermath of the Bataclan attack, titled Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends), premiered on HBO in early 2017. The following year, EODM scored the movie Super Troopers 2.

Eagles of Death Metal Present Boots Electric Performing The Best Songs We Never Wrote was released in June of 2019, featuring 13 covers of songs that have inspired Hughes over the years. The band completed a sold-out headline tour of Europe following the album’s release.

Event Info & FAQ
Seating
Feel free to bring your own blankets, chairs, etc!

ADA Seating Available – please email ‘EVENTS@SFPARKSALLIANCE.ORG’
Food & Drink
There will be food & drink for sale at the event.

All Ages
Bring your whole crew, family, and an open heart as we unite to celebrate the magic of music and community! Be. Hear. Now.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.