Author Archives: Staff report
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Classical Tahoe fest adapts to chamber format, with audience, following maestro’s death to COVID-19
Courtesy: Classical Tahoe. Two San Francisco Symphony musicians are among the performers at Classical Tahoe’s annual summer music festival at Incline Village, Nevada. The festival, which has presented top-caliber orchestra shows for three weeks each summer since 2012, is switching formats to chamber orchestra performances that will be played…
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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass goes virtual in 2020, creates fund for local roots artists
The producers of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass have officially canceled the 2020 festival in Golden Gate Park. In its place in October, an online broadcast will include live performances by numerous artists, as well as archival streams. Additionally, the festival has launched a $1.5-million relief fund to support the local music community…
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Alameda County Fair announces more drive-in concerts for this weekend
Concertgoers gather at the first drive-in concert in the Bay Area at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., on June 12, 2020. Steve Carlson/STAFF. Live music is again returning to the Alameda County Fairgrounds, with two days of concerts featuring tribute bands playing the Pretenders, Fleetwood Mac and…
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Los Lobos to play Hardly Strictly livestream Saturday; festival’s status to be announced
Margo Price performs at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Oct. 5, 2019. Los Lobos, who have performed at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in 2007, 2013, 2015 and 2018, will play a live-streamed concert Saturday and participate in a live Q&A session, during which…
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Sonoma Harvest Music Festival, with Modest Mouse and Empire of the Sun, canceled
Death Cab for Cutie performs at Sonoma Harvest Music Festival in Glen Ellen, Calif. on Sept. 22, 2019 Martin Lacey/STAFF. Unsurprisingly, BottleRock Presents has canceled the 2020 iteration of the Sonoma Harvest Music Festival, which was scheduled on two weekends in September. The cancelation came down to the County…
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Metallica unveils ‘S&M2’ album and film, recorded at Chase Center with SF Symphony
Following drummer Lars Ulrich’s sneak peek at the band’s new collaborative album with the San Francisco Symphony during his tribute to former symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas last month, Metallica officially unveiled the artwork and tracklisting for S&M2, a live album and film that will be released Aug. 28.…
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BottleRock 2020 canceled, to continue in 2021 with same headliners
Mumford & Sons perform at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 26, 2019. BottleRock 2020 is off, officially, the event’s promoters announced Thursday. The three-day festival had originally been postponed from Memorial Day weekend to October of this year. The new dates for BottleRock will…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Love Fame Tragedy makes music for living with ‘Wherever I Go, I Want to Leave’
By Timothy Arliss O’Brien Chasing the release of his second solo EP as Love Fame Tragedy, March’s Five Songs to Briefly Fill the Void, Matthew “Murph” Murphy, the guitarist and lead singer of indie rock band The Wombats, is back with his solo full-length debut. This breakthrough album collects…
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Six albums you should pick up on Bandcamp Friday
Bandcamp Friday July 3, 2020. Clockwise from left: clipping., Hum, Vile Creature, Moses Sumney, SAULT and Braids. If anyone has a unique opportunity to support independent music, it’s Bandcamp. But the Bandcamp Friday concept has taken that support to a new level. Over the past three months, the platform has…
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Lindsey Stirling opens her Upside Fund fan assistance program to others
Lindsey Stirling, Courtesy: Sydney Takeshta. Violinist Lindsey Stirling, who spoke to us last spring about starting the Upside Fund, a program where she could financially support some of her fans struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic, has opened the program to others so they could help each other. Since April,…
