Author Archives: Staff report
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Mosswood Meltdown adds more acts, announces daily lineups
Shannon and the Clams perform during Project Pabst at Tom McCall Waterfront Park in Portland, Ore. on July 27, 2024. Photo: Leah Flores. The producers of Oakland punk music and alternative culture festival Mosswood Meltdown on Thursday added several new acts, including Shannon and the Clams and La Luz,…
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J-Hope of BTS announces solo tour, Oakland Arena shows
J-Hope of BTS. J-Hope of K-pop supergroup BTS on Tuesday announced a 12-date solo tour for this spring. The Hope on the Stage trek includes two dates at Oakland Arena on March 31 and April 1. This will be the rapper, singer and dancer’s first solo tour in North…
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Metallica donates $500k to L.A. County fire relief through its nonprofit
Homes and businesses reduced to smoldering rubble by the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 10, 2025. Photo by David Swanson/AFP. Metallica’s nonprofit All Within My Hands Foundation has donated $500,000 to relief efforts around Los Angeles, which faces record-breaking destruction by wildfires…
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Justin Timberlake, Green Day, Noah Kahan to headline BottleRock Napa Valley
Green Day performs at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Sept. 20, 2024. The East Bay band is one of three headliners at BottleRock Napa Valley 2025. Chloe Catajan/STAFF. Justin Timberlake, Green Day and Noah Kahan will join more than 80 other acts at BottleRock Napa Valley on Memorial…
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Tuesday Tracks: Our writers’ favorite tracks of 2024
The Tuesday Tracks team members picked their favorite songs of 2024: Celeste, Lola Young, Elliot James Reay, Mondo Cozmo, Kishi Bashi, Jordan Rakei, Call Me Spinster and Defences. Our Tuesday Tracks team puts a lot of time into listening to the songs submitted to our inbox every week. It’s…
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Our favorite concert photos of 2024, with Kanye West, Green Day and Chris Brown
RIFF photographers’ favorite concert photos in 2024 included these shots of Kanye West, Green Day, System of a Down, Sting, Chris Brown, Elyanna, The Offspring, David Gilmour, Alejandro Fernández, Foo Fighters, James Arthur, The Hives, Tems, Ski Mask the Slump God, U2, Maxwell and Justice. We asked our photographers…
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Holiday Tracks: Some of our favorites from 2024
Our favorite new holiday songs come from The Philly Specials (Lane Johnson, Jordan Mailata and Jason Kelce) with guest Travis Kelce; Josh Groban, David Shaw of the Revivalists, Ben Folds, Emile Mosseri and Julianna Barwick, Lyn Lapid, Kurt Vile, Yächtley Crëw, Jonathan McReynolds, Fantastic Cat and The Boy Detective.…
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Sweet Relief to honor Joan Baez, celebrate 30th anniversary at SF fundraiser show
Joan Baez performs at Acoustic-4-A-Cure at The Fillmore in San Francisco on May 13, 2023. Steve Carlson/STAFF. Nonprofit Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, which provides financial assistance to musicians and music industry workers in need or facing physical or mental health issues, disability or age-related struggles, will host a fundraiser…
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In the Name of Love concert to honor MLK Jr. through songs of Aretha Franklin
In the Name of Love 2025, featuring the music of Aretha Franklin. Living Jazz and SFJAZZ have partnered to produce In the Name of Love, the 21st performance honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., this time through the music of Aretha Franklin. The event will take place on Jan. 18…
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Pennywise to headline second Punk In The Park music and brew festival in May
Randy Bradbury (L) and Jim Lindberg of Pennywise perform at Zitadelle Spandau in Berlin, Germany on June 8, 2024. The band will headline Punk in the Park San Francisco in May. Photo by Andrea Friedrich/Redferns. Pennywise and more than a dozen other bands will perform at the second Punk In…
