Willow Smith performs at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on Sept. 18, 2021. Onome Uyovbievbo/STAFF.

SAN FRANCISCO — Willow Smith has hit her stride, and the 20-year-old known as WILLOW reminded her audience at the Regency Ballroom on Saturday that rock is not dead.

Willow Smith performs at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on Sept. 18, 2021.

Playing the third show of her “lifE Tour” in support of her album lately I feel EVERYTHING, the singer-songwriter opened with pop-punk hit “Transparentsoul.” WILLOW boisterously stomped around the stage, getting the crowd excited and cajoling fans to sing along. She owned each moment of synchronicity with fans on songs like “Gaslight” and “G R O W.”

She aid that “Dont’Save Me” was one of her favorite new songs to play live and amped up the energy by singing melodically to the beat. Slower-paced songs like “Lipstick,” “Come Home,” “Naive” and “4ever” added nuance to the evening.

Smith, who said that it was overwhelming to perform for the first time in two years (she last performed int eh Bay Area in 2019 with her brother Jaden), then had the audience chant a mantra along with her to reinforce a message of love and acceptance with others.

The Los Angeles native played songs from her 2019 self-titled album like “Female Energy, Part 2,” “Time Machine” and “Overthinking IT.” She then also brought opening artist Tyler Cole out and the duo performed songs from their joint 2020 album, THE ANXIETY. After lighting up and sharing a cannabis joint, WILLOW and Cole performed “Meet Me At Our Spot,” “Hey You!” and “Fight Club.” She then concluded her set with a revitalized punk version of “Whip My Hair.”

We Don’t Ride Llamas perform at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on Sept. 18, 2021.

Angeleno sibling quartet We Don’t Ride Llamas showed off what Chase Max, Blake and Kit Mitchell called “shillelaghs music.” A shillelagh is a club, so the phrase could be interpreted in a couple of ways. The group played songs like “Duvet,” “Windigo” and “Venus & Mars.” “Queen Anne’s Revenge” featured primordial guttural wails. Max Mitchell said the band wrote another tune, “Nepture,” less than a week earlier.

Michigander Tyler Cole displayed raw punk energy infused with new-age hip-hop during his set. He played songs from his other 2020 album, Just Different, like “Too Hot,” “Abstract” and “Love at First Sight.” The latter was an upbeat love song.

Santa Clara native Dani bby opened the show with an acoustic set with vulnerable songs like “Swipe Right” and “I Grew Up in L.A.” The rawness of her experiences spoke to her maturity and experiences as an artist five years sober.

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