Festivals
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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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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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Outside Lands 2020 officially canceled, 2021 festival announced with ticket onsales
The Outside Lands windmill arch on Aug. 10, 2019. Adam Pardee/STAFF. Producers of the Outside Lands Music Festival have officially canceled the 2020 event and instead focused on the 2021 iteration, which will be headlined by Lizzo, Tame Impala, The Strokes, Tyler, the Creator, and include many of the…
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BottleRock launches streaming series fundraiser to benefit Napa, music industry workers
Muse performs at BottleRock Napa Valley in Napa on May 25, 2018. Alessio Neri/STAFF. BottleRock Napa Valley may have gotten postponed to October, but the festival will still celebrate its traditional Memorial Day festival weekend by launching a streaming series to benefit music industry workers and Napa county residents…
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MUTEK goes digital in 2020 as ‘NEXUS Experience,’ announces initial artists
MUTEK SF 2019, Courtesy: Bruno Destombes. Electronica, audiovisual and digital art festival MUTEK will present a two-day online event called NEXUS Experience in place of its third-annual San Francisco gathering, producers announced this week, and tickets are available for a donation, with 100 percent of proceeds going directly to…
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BREAKING: BottleRock Napa Valley postponed to October
Khalid performs on the Free Spirit World Tour at Oracle Arena in Oakland on June 28, 2019. The producers of BottleRock Napa announced that the festival will be rescheduled for Oct. 2 to 4, “after careful consideration and in coordination with our local and state authorities.” All of the headliners,…
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Outside Lands Eager Beaver tickets go on sale Thursday
Twenty One Pilots perform at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco during the Outside Lands Music Festival on Aug. 11, 2019. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. The producers of the Outside Lands Music Festival announced this morning that Eager Beaver three-day tickets will go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m.—prior to the…
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Empire of the Sun, Modest Mouse headline annual Sonoma Harvest Music Festival
Empire of the Sun performs at Golden Gate Park at Outside Lands on Aug, 12, 2017. Alessio Neri/STAFF. Sonoma Harvest Music Festival producers Monday announced the lineup for the third annual event at Glen Ellen’s BR Cohn Winery. This year’s festival will again take place on four days over…
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Noise Pop Review: Slow Hollows plays their last SF show at Cafe Du Nord
Slow Hollows perform at Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco on Feb. 29, 2020. Gary Chancer/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — San Fernando Valley’s Slow Hollows had been described as “subdued” over the years, bassist Aaron Jassenoff said at their Noise Pop concert at Cafe Du Nord on Saturday, but they were…
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Noise Pop Review: Best Coast celebrates all things California at the Regency Ballroom
Best Coast performs at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on Feb. 29, 2020. Onome Uyovbievbo/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Best Coast, fresh off releasing its fourth album, Always Tomorrow, performed the marquee Noise Pop festival show Saturday at the Regency Ballroom. The L.A. band of Bethany Cosentino and guitarist Bobb Bruno,…