Guns N’ Roses perform at the Oracle Arena in Oakland on Nov. 21, 2017. Courtesy. Producers of BottleRock Napa Valley Monday morning dropped arguably the biggest lineup in the event’s history, and one of the best Bay Area festival lineups in recent memory, headlined by a trio of Rock and…

Porter Robinson, courtesy Dan Regan. EDM producer and songwriter Porter Robinson aims to bring the one of the first music festivals of the COVID-19 pandemic era to the Bay Area with the return of his Second Sky Music Festival this fall. There’s one catch: Attendees have to be 18 or…

Lizzo performs performs at Golden Gate Park during Outside Lands on Aug. 11, 2018. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. Producers of the Outside Lands 2021 announced the daily lineups of the festival, which this year will be held from Oct. 29 to 31. Additionally, one-day tickets to the festival will go on sale Thursday…

Lizzo performs performs at Golden Gate Park during Outside Lands on Aug. 11, 2018. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. Outside Lands is coming back, but rather than its traditional August weekend in Golden Gate Park, the music festival will take place from Oct. 29 to 31—Halloween weekend. This is the second pandemic-related…

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit performs at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on June 8, 2019. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. The producers of Moon Crush, touted as a “music vacation” in Florida, are inviting frontline workers to enter a giveaway for tickets and vacation accommodations to the physically distanced five-day…

SF Sketchfest announces Festpocalypse! SF Sketchfest on Thursday announced Festpocalypse!, a virtual fundraiser for the annual wintertime event. Festpocalypse! will include cast reunions of “The Kids in the Hall” and “The State” as well as David Cross and Bob Odenkirk, a gathering of “Saturday Night Liv” alumni, actors like…

Mumford & Sons perform at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 26, 2019. BottleRock Napa Valley, which was scrapped in 2020 following an initial postponement, has been postponed again in 2021, moving from its traditional Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend instead. It also…

First Avenue in Minneapolis (photographed on May 19, 2020) will host Dizzy Fae as part of #SOSFEST this month. Photo: Todd Johnson. YouTube Music and the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) today announced the Save Our Stages Festival (#SOSFEST), a virtual three-day music festival with new performances and other…

CNN’s Jake Tapper and The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah speak onstage at the 2019 SXSW Conference and Festivals on March 9, 2019 in Austin, Texas. Courtes: Scott Paxton. The producers of SXSW intent to take the festival online in 2021, even as they continue to cross their fingers for…

Dana Gould performs at SF Sketchfest at the Speakeasy in San Francisco on Jan. 18, 2019. Jon Bauer/STAFF. Producers of SF Sketchfest, the annual San Francisco comedy festival, have postponed the 2021 iteration of the event, which would have been the 20th annual event and typically tales place at…