Tom Morello performs with Prophets of Rage at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View on Sept. 13, 2016. Morello will join the Save the Senate streaming event to fundraise for Fair Fight. Paige K. Parsons/STAFF. A host of artists are poised to perform at a one-day music festival with proceeds…

Pickup Sessions, courtesy: Living Jazz. Living Jazz, an Oakland organization devoted to the empowerment of people through music, has partnered with the West Oakland Food Pantry to provide live music to people waiting in line to receive food at the pantry. The series is called Pickup Sessions and the…

Megan Thee Stallion, courtesy. Apple on Wednesday announced the winners of the second annual Apple Music Awards, recognizing musicians who have had an impact on global culture. Awards were again handed out in five categories, with winners selected through a process that reflected Apple Music’s editorial perspective and popular listener opinion…

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…

Esperanza Spalding performs in “Throughline: San Francisco Symphony—From Hall to Home.” Other artists highlighted include Bryce Dessner of The National and violinist Pekka Kuusisto. Courtesy: SF Symphony. After Esa-Pekka Salonen was named to fill the shoes of Michael Tilson Thomas as music director of the San Francisco Symphony in…

The UC Theatre photographed on Sept. 27, 2020. Onome Uyovbievbo/STAFF. The National Independent Venue Association has reorganized, with a separate nonprofit National Independent Venue Foundation (NIVF), whose mission will be to partner and fundraise through individual, corporate and foundation donations to expand upon NIVA’s mission to save music venues, as…

The Fox Theater, closed, on the afternoon of March 17, 2020, the first day of a shelter-in-place to combat coronavirus. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. The Fox Theater in Oakland is hosting a drive-through dood rive in support of Berkeley Food and Housing Project, and the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center. It will…

System of a Down. Clockwise from top left: Daron Malakian, John Dolmayan, Shavo Odadjian and Serj Tankian. Courtesy. System of a Down, which recently lobbied the U.S. government to denounce attacks on Armenian people living in a disputed region in neighboring Azerbaijan, has released two new songs. It is the…

Children playing recorders. Photo: Getty. StubHub and Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation have gifted recorders to 4,300 San Francisco Unified School District fourth graders, spread across 72 schools in the district. The donations, part of StubHub’s commitment to putting more than $3 million in music instruments into public school music…

Yuan Yuan Tan and Tiit Helimets in Tomasson’s Swan Lake. Courtesy: Erik Tomasson/San Francisco Ballet. The San Francisco Ballet, which had previously announced a delayed 2021 season at the War Memorial Opera House, has shifted to a streaming model with new performances and debuts that will be filmed live…