The Outside Lands windmill arch on Aug. 10, 2019. Adam Pardee/STAFF. Joining festivals throughout the country like BottleRock and Lollapalooza, Outside Lands is going virtual in 2020, with a streamed two-day event on Aug. 28 and 29 that will include a mix of archived performances, new live performances, and…

The producers of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass have officially canceled the 2020 festival in Golden Gate Park. In its place in October, an online broadcast will include live performances by numerous artists, as well as archival streams. Additionally, the festival has launched a $1.5-million relief fund to support the local music community…

Margo Price performs at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Oct. 5, 2019. Los Lobos, who have performed at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in 2007, 2013, 2015 and 2018, will play a live-streamed concert Saturday and participate in a live Q&A session, during which…

Twin XL, Courtesy of the band. It’s the middle of February, and Cameron Walker-Wright, one-third of indie rock trio Twin XL, is on the phone in his hotel room in Orange, New Jersey. The band, which includes brothers Stephen and John Gomez (The Summer Set), is kicking off its…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…