Eric Wilson (center) with Sublime with Rome, Courtesy. After hosting a handful of tribute acts and regional bands at drive-in concerts last summer, the Alameda County Fairgrounds will be the scene of two Sublime with Rome concerts Friday and Saturday. The SoCal band, an offshoot from Sublime fronted by…

The Seshen performs at the UC Theatre in Berkeley on Sept. 27, 2020. Onome Uyovbievbo/STAFF. BERKELEY — On Feb. 27, the day before releasing its latest album, CYAN, Bay Area electric soul band The Seshen debuted some of the new material at a Noise Pop festival gig at the…

California Street in San Francisco is not as packed on March 17, 2020, the first day of a shelter-in-place to combat coronavirus. San Francisco will soon allow physically distanced outdoor concerts—and other events—through a permitting process, Mayor London Breed announced on Friday. The “Just Add Music” permits will be…

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…

Grammy-winning band Deftones, from Sacramento, have launched a fundraising campaign called “Adopt-a-Dot,” where fans can make a charitable donation for one or more dots from the thousands of pixelated dots that comprise the cover art of their new album, Ohms. The album cover was created by Frank Maddocks. All…

L to R: Town Hall Restaurant co-owners Björn Kock, Steven Rosenthal and Mitchell Rosenthal photographed on Sept. 18, 2020. Derek Tobias/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Mitchell Rosenthal, the executive chef and co-owner at acclaimed Town Hall Restaurant in San Francisco, seemed beyond happy to unbutton his shirt to reveal another…

Joe Biden. Joe Biden’s election campaign, Biden for President, today announced a new online concert series titled Team Joe Sings. Beginning tonight and continuing each Thursday at 5 p.m. PST, a new batch of artists will perform one to two songs virtually in support of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.…

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…

 Stanford Live is pivoting its 2020 fall season once again. Late last spring the organization announced a tentative fall and winter schedule, hoping live performances could return. With that not being the case right now, it’s switching to a streaming performance film series—shot at Bing Concert Hall—for the…

“Let The Music Play On” artists Boz Scaggs, Jim Lauderdale, Fantastic Negrito, Robert Earl Keen and Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi. Illustration courtesy: Mark Urliksen. Boz Scaggs, Jim Lauderdale, Fantastic Negrito, Robert Earl Keen and Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi have been added to the lineup of Let The Music…