Author Archives: Staff report
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Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage donates $60,000 to Bay Area artists
San Francisco Giants third base coast Tim Flannery (R) and Jeff Berkley perform at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley on Jan. 23, 2013. Martin Lacey/STAFF. The Freight & Salvage in Berkeley has donated $60,000 to Bay Area musicians. Much of the money, $50,000, came from one of the music…
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Members of Muse, Blur, The Last Shadow Puppets, Jet and The Zutons announce The Jaded Hearts Club
The Jaded Hearts Club A new all-star band featuring Matthew Bellamy of Muse, Miles Kane of The Last Shadow Puppets, Nic Cester of Jet, Graham Coxon of Blur, Jamie Davis, and Sean Payne of The Zutons—known as The Jaded Hearts Club—has released its second single, “This Love Starved Heart Of Mine (It’s Killing…
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SFJAZZ announces Fridays at Five streaming performance schedule
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band performs at Miner Auditorium in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2019. Courtesy: Drew Altizer. SFJAZZ has started a streaming performance schedule that will run each Friday at 5 p.m. Each broadcast will include past performances at SFJAZZ Center’s Robert N. Miner Auditorium in San…
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Rock’N Vino: Wine Country adapts to coronavirus shelter-in-place order
No industry has been left untouched by the impact of the coronavirus and the subsequent stay-at-home orders issued around the country. While we’ve documented the impacts on the music and touring industries, the affects on the travel, tourism and wine industries have been just as great. Along with bars…
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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…
