Stone Temple Pilots. Courtesy: PR Brown Stone Temple Pilots on Friday canceled their upcoming North American acoustic tour due to vocalist Jeff Gutt’s impending surgery to repair a “severely herniated disc.” The 15-date run was set to kick off Feb. 5 in Vancouver, B.C. with a stop in San…

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Thursday announced his new ‘This Is Not A Drill’ tour, which will include a Sept. 25 show at Chase Center in San Francisco. For the first time for Taylor, the tour will have an in-the-round production. “My work is to think, ‘Well, how can I…

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer James Taylor Thursday announced a U.S. tour in support of his forthcoming album, American Standard, including a Chase Center stop on May 27. Jackson Browne will open the show. The new album has Taylor playing classics. It set to release on Feb. 28. Its…

Brad Paisley performs at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View on June 7, 2019. Sean Liming/Staff. Live Nation on Friday announced its annual Country Megaticket promotion, which includes seven—or eight—summer country music concerts for one price. The promotion includes Shoreline Amphitheatre concerts by the likes of Thomas Rhett, Rascal Flatts,…

The theater at the War Memorial Opera House photographed on Dec. 11, 2019. Adam Pardee/Staff. The War Memorial Opera House, home to the San Francisco Ballet and San Francisco Opera, will get new custom-made seats and other modern improvements in the final phase of a refurbishment project. The work,…

Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Femi Kuti & The Positive Force and Lettuce are among the first wave of acts announced to perform at the 30th annual High Sierra Music Festival, which returns July 2 to 5 to Quincy, California. Other artists include the Bay Area’s The California Honeydrops, The Floozies,…

Pearl Jam will headline Oakland Arena on April 18 and 19, with tickets going on sale Jan. 24. The band’s 11th studio album, Gigaton, will be released on March 27. Gigaton is the band’s first since 2013’s Lightning Bolt. A 16-date tour will kick of March 18 in Toronto…

Eric Silverman is one of four local artists performing at Sweetwater in Mill Valley this weekend. Courtesy of the artist. Four Bay Area songwriters will perform an all-ages Songwriters Spotlight show at Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley this Sunday. Songwriters Spotlight 7 p.m., Sunday Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera…

Miguel Zenón will perform with his quartet at the 2020 San Jose Jazz Winter Fest. Courtesy. More than 20 world-renowned jazz and jazz-adjacent acts will take the stage next month during the annual San Jose Jazz Winter Fest, which will be held in numerous Silicon Valley performance halls and…

Anderson .Paak performs at The Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2019. Shawn Robbins/Staff. Organizers for BottleRock Napa Valley teased that an an on-sale date for single-day passes would be coming in the near future when they announced their 2020 line-up earlier this week, but even they…