Author Archives: Staff report
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Burger Boogaloo moves to Halloween weekend
Dead Boys perform at Burger Boogaloo at Mosswood Park in Oakland on July 6, 2019. Oakland’s two-day music festival Burger Boogaloo has moved to Halloween Weekend. It will now be held Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 at Mosswood Park. “While we’re disappointed to have to change dates, we hope…
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Metallica to donate $350,000 to various COVID-19 relief efforts
Metallica performs at the All Within My Hands concert and auction at the Masonic in San Francisco on Nov. 11, 2018. Courtesy. Metallica on Thursday announced that it would be donating a total of $350,000 through its All Within My Hands Foundation to four relief efforts as the world…
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Tame Impala reschedules tours, including SF stop
Tame Impala performs at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on Sept. 2, 2016. Photos: Diana Cordero Tame Impala has rescheduled several tours and will now perform at Chase Center in San Francisco on Sept. 21, after the original March 13 show was canceled two days prior due to San…
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BREAKING: John Prine hospitalized in critical condition with COVID-19
John Prine, Courtesy: Eric Frommer Americana and country singer-songwriter great John Prine has been hospitalized since Thursday with COVID-19 and is now in critical condition and being assisted by a ventilator, his family shared to his Twitter account on Sunday. “So many of you have loved and supported John…
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Roger Waters postpones 2020 tour, including September Chase Center dates
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters on Friday postponed his entire 2020 ‘This Is Not A Drill’ tour, which was set to begin July 8 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and included Sept. 25 and 26 shows at Chase Center in San Francisco. “If it saves one life, it’s worth it,” Waters said in a news…
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G-Eazy and Larkin Street Youth Services to feed San Francisco at-risk youth for a month
G-Eazy performs at The New Parish in Oakland on Jan. 26, 2019. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. Bay Area native G-Eazy and his Endless Summer Fund are partnering with Larkin Street Youth Services to provide meals to local at-risk youth in San Francisco every day for an entire month. “The Bay is…
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San Francisco to offer financial aid to local artists and arts organizations
San Francisco band Terry Gross performs at The Ivy Room in Albany, Calf. on Feb. 7, 2020. San Francisco will offer financial assistance to local artists and artists organizations who have lost earnings and business from the COVID-19 event cancelations and gathering bans, Mayor London Breed announced this week.…
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Sofi Tukker, Taking Back Sunday, Amanda Palmer and Tank and the Bangas to perform at Bandsintown fundraiser for artists
Concert discovery platform Bandsintown will host a two-day live music marathon Thursday and Friday to benefit the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund. The marathon will be broadcast on the Bandsintown Twitch channel and include both established and up-and-coming acts like Taking Back Sunday, Tank and the Bangas, Amanda Palmer, 99 Neighbors, Matt Quinn of Mt.…
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Goldenvoice extends concert postponements through May
The Warfield photographed on Nov. 26, 2016. STAFF FILE PHOTO. Goldenvoice, which books shows at the Warfield, the Regency Ballroom, as well as other halls and arenas in the Bay Area, has now postponed all concerts through the end of May in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to…
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SF CHRONICLE: Slim’s, venerable San Francisco night club, closes its doors
Slim’s nightclub. Courtesy: Ted-Maider. After more than 30 years Slim’s has hosted its last concert. The nightclub will not be reopening when the regional shelter-in-place order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus ends, founder and owner Boz Scaggs told the San Francisco Chronicle. “Slim’s had its day,” Scaggs…
