Festivals
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Sketchfest back with Kyle MacLachlan, The Kids in the Hall, many more in January
Organist David Hegarty plays at SF Sketchfest on Jan. 7, 2016, at The Castro Theatre. Courtesy: Tommy Lau. Comedians Eric Idle and Jeff B. Davis performing featuring music and a never-before-seen “Monty Python” sketch, tributes to Amber Ruffin, with Zainab Johnson and duo “Derek and Simon” and Kyle MacLachlan with The Red Room…
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Noise Pop announces 2024 festival dates
Noise Pop Festival. The producers of Noise Pop Festival on Wednesday announced the dates for its weeklong, 31st annual event. The independent music, film and art celebration will return on Feb. 22 and run through through March 3, 2024. A limited number of early bird festival badges are now…
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REVIEW: Guns N’ Roses close out Aftershock Festival with mammoth set
Guns N’ Roses perform during Aftershock Festival at Discovery Park in Sacramento on Oct. 8, 2023. SACRAMENTO — The final day of Aftershock Festival was all about headliners Guns N’ Roses. The biggest rock band on the bill, which also included the likes of Queens of the Stone Age,…
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AFTERSHOCK: Korn, Sleep Token, Turnstile mark the past and greet the future on day 3
Korn performs during Aftershock Festival at Discovery Park in Sacramento on Oct. 7, 2023. SACRAMENTO — The third day of Aftershock Festival was marked by eclectic takes on hard rock, both from legacy acts like Korn and buzzworthy up-and-comers. The heat subsided a bit but the musical fireworks burned…
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AFTERSHOCK: Tool and Limp Bizkit move the masses on day 2
Tool performs during Aftershock Festival at Discovery Park in Sacramento on Oct. 6, 2023. SACRAMENTO — Business picked up substantially at Discovery Park for the sold-out second day of Aftershock Festival. The crowds were bigger, the acts’ productions were more ambitious—and the sweltering heat had no intention of leaving.…
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AFTERSHOCK: Avenged Sevenfold, Incubus top a fiery, hot first day
Avenged Sevenfold performs during Aftershock Festival at Discovery Park in Sacramento on Oct. 5, 2023. SACRAMENTO — Aftershock Festival returned to Discovery Park with an eclectic lineup of acts spanning rock and roll from heavy metal to punk, classic rock and more. Also returning was the Sacramento early fall…
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Portola Festival: Skrillex fires up on second day as the cold settles in
Skrillex performs at Portola Festival in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2023. Photos: Gavin Legaspi and Chloe Catajan/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — For the second day in a row, Portola Festival delivered an enticing lineup of dance, hip-hop and underground acts, even as intermittent light rain and chilly weather settled…
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Portola Festival: Eric Prydz and Nelly Furtado star on day 1
Nelly Furtado performs at Portola Festival in San Francisco on Sept. 30, 2023. Matt Pang/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Portola Festival returned to Pier 80 near the city’s Dogpatch neighborhood on Saturday. The two-day fest included headliner Eric Prydz on the first day, along with pop singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado and…
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INTERVIEW: Shakey Graves breaks the simulation on ‘Movie of the Week’
Shakey Graves (Alejandro Rose-Garcia), courtesy. It’s been an unusual day for Alejandro Rose-Garcia. The artist, better known as Shakey Graves, meant to sit down to write out song descriptions for his new album, Movie of the Week, that would be sent to reviewers. But that activity turned an eight-page screenplay,…
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Sol Blume: Kehlani and Teyana Taylor put an exclamation point on final day
Kehlani performs during Sol Blume Festival at Discovery Park in Sacramento on Aug. 20, 2023. Marisela Delgado/STAFF. SACRAMENTO — The East Bay’s Kehlani and New York’s Teyana Taylor topped the bill on another hot, muggy day at Sol Blume Festival at Discovery Park Sunday. Oakland-native Kehlani kicked off with…
