Less than two weeks after announcing a lineup, producers canceled Festival La Onda, a two-day celebration of Latin music and ...

Bruce Springsteen has announced his Land Of Hope And Dreams tour with the E Street Band, including a stop at Chase Center in San Francisco.

Outside Lands will reveal its 2026 lineup and launch a new presale system next week, letting fans see the full bill before ...

BottleRock Napa Valley producers announced the fest's AfterDark shows, including LCD Soundsystem, BØRNS and Rilo Kiley.

Sam Richards is an East Bay journalist, a 27-year veteran of the East Bay Times and its predecessors. He now writes for the Rossmoor News, which serves an 11,000-population community in Walnut Creek, ...

Mike DeWald is a Northern California journalist and reporter. Mike has been a Reporter with the Bay Area's KCBS Radio since 2022, and on staff since 2020. Previously, Mike produced KSRO’s “The Drive ...

Sam Smith performs at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2026. Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for Capitol Records. SAN FRANCISCO — Tuesday night’s Sam Smith concert at the historic ...

Six albums in, Jill Scott has earned the right to stop performing liberation and just live it. The problem? She can’t quite decide which one she’s doing on To Whom This May Concern. Get the album on ...

Chicago folk-rock band Ratboys is no stranger to emotional vulnerability. Its instrumentation is branded with a twee Americana sound, but its lyricism strays from the genre’s norm. Instead of ...

Bad Bunny performs during the Super Bowl LX Halftime Show at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. on Feb. 8, 2026. Photo by Kevin Mazur. Bad Bunny’s last album paid homage to Puerto Rico, but at the ...

Influenced by Queens of the Stone Age, Black Sabbath, Rush, Herbie Hancock and The Meters, The Alive is a California rock band launched between surf and skate sessions in 2018.

Brent Hankins is a self-taught photographer in Phoenix. He’s been attending live shows for more than two decades, and loves getting up close and personal to capture the excitement of live music.