Con Brio performs at BottleRock Napa Valley in Napa on May 28, 2017. Alessio Neri/STAFF. Portland folk-pop band Y La Bamba and San Francisco’s soul and funk band Con Brio will headline Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party, which will take place on Oct. 16 this year after being…

Future Islands, courtesy Devin Yalkin. Future Islands frontman Samuel Herring was in a Stockholm cab one morning earlier this summer, being driven to the airport. He had been visiting his partner, Julia Ragnarsson, after spending most of the pandemic apart due to travel restrictions, but the country’s visa regulations…

Stevie Nicks performs with Fleetwood Mac at Oakland Arena on Dec. 3, 2014. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac,on Tuesday scrapped her entire tour, including her headlining appearance at BottleRock Napa Valley. The decision came a day after the organizers of New Orleans Jazz Fest (which she was also…

In The Valley Below, courtesy Jaimie Skriba. The road back to “normal” isn’t without speed bumps. As music fans eagerly, but cautiously return to concerts, some of that same internal dialogue is happening for performers. For Angela Gail Mattson of In The Valley Below it manifests as anxious energy. In…

Too $hort performs at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 26, 2019. Shawn Robbins/STAFF. Thundercat, Fitz and the Tantrums, Joan Jett, Perfume Genius, Thievery Corporation, X, St. Paul & The Broken Bones and Tower of Power and Too $hort are among the artists that will…

Jimmy Eat World performs at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View on Aug. 16, 2017. Alessio Neri/STAFF. The producers of BottleRock Napa Valley revealed a lineup of night shows around the Bay Area that run that will be held over the course of the festival in September. Several of…

Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party. Photo: Paige K. Parsons Music promoter Noise Pop on Thursday announced that it will bring back its annual San Francisco summer street party, the 20th Street Block Party, in October. It also confirmed that its annual Noise Pop Festival will return in 2022,…

Megan Thee Stallion performs during the 2021 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on March 14, 2021. She’s one of two headliners at BottleRock on Sunday, Sept. 5. After selling out of three-day tickets, organizers for BottleRock Napa Valley released the daily lineups for the annual festival and announced that…

Courtesy: Stern Grove Festival. The Stern Grove Festival, which has provided admission-free concerts to hundreds of thousands in San Francisco for more than 80 years, will return with in-person concerts in June, Mayor London Breed announced on Thursday. The 84th season will begin on June 20 and run Sundays…

After being forced to cancel its 2020 San Francisco Jazz Festival due to the pandemic, SFJAZZ will present a virtual edition of the event next month. Running June 4 to June 25, the fest will feature more than 20 broadcasts of archival performances and one live performance from the SFJAZZ…