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Mill Valley Music Festival returns for 2025, sets on-sale date
Margo Price performs during the Mill Valley Music Festival at Friends Field, Mill Valley, Calif. on May 12, 2024. Courtesy Jay Blakesberg/Mill Valley Music Festival. The two-day Mill Valley Music Festival will return to Friends Field for its fourth year next spring. Produced by Noise Pop Industries and presented…
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Shakira announces North American tour, Oracle Park date
Shakira, courtesy. Shakira on Monday announced a run of 2025 stadium and arena dates across North America as part of her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour. An initial tour was previously announced but was bumped to 2025 due to production changes, which included several venues being upgraded…
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Music City SF opens its doors to the public with community block party
Music City San Francisco officially opened to the public on Oct. 19, 2024. Mike DeWald/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — For Rudy Colombini, the frontman of San Francisco cover band The Unauthorized Rolling Stones, the launch of Music City SF offers a chance to “reignite the artistic soul of the city.”…
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Former One Direction member Zayn Malik postpones tour after Liam Payne’s death
Zayn Malik performs at the iHeartRadio Theater in New York City on March 25, 2016. Photo courtesy iHeartRadio. Former One Direction member Zayn Malik was set to kick off a tour in San Francisco next week but has postponed the entire trek following the death of his former groupmate…
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Noise Pop announces 2025 flagship festival dates
Noise Pop Festival 2025. Bay Area concert promoter Noise Pop on Tuesday announced the return of its flagship music festival, which will include performances at various music clubs and galleries from Feb. 20 to March 2. Limited discounted early bird tickets are already on sale at the festival’s website.…
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SF Opera Orchestra will perform a free concert on Sunday
The War Memorial Opera House photographed on Dec. 11, 2019. The musicians of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra will perform a free community concert on Sunday at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music at 50 Oak St. The concert, Harmonic Interlude, will be conducted by opera orchestra first violinist…
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Green Day announce kitschy rerelease of landmark ‘Dookie’ album
Green Day performs at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Aug. 27, 2021. Steve Carlson/STAFF. Bay Area punk rock legends Green Day are offering a “demaster” of their seminal album Dookie in 15 unconventional, and in some cases, obsolete or highly inconvenient formats. Anybody have a phonograph lying around?…
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Coldplay bringing Music of the Spheres tour back to the Bay Area
Coldplay, courtesy. Coldplay on Tuesday announced new dates on its Music of the Spheres tour for next summer, which kick of with a Bay Area date at Stanford Stadium on May 31. The dates follow the release of the band’s 10th album, Moon Music. The tour will hit cities including…
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Hans Zimmer Live Oakland Arena concert delayed by ‘security incident’
Thursday night’s Hans Zimmer Live concert at Oakland Arena has been delayed, reportedly by a bomb threat, according to Oakland Police. Mariana Garcia/STAFF. OAKLAND — A Thursday night concert at Oakland Arena by composer Hans Zimmer was delayed as police investigated an apparent security threat at the venue. Arena…
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Green Day accepts key to Pinole at teen hangout 7-Eleven
Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool of Green Day with their new coffee flavors at a 7-Eleven store on Pinole Valley Road in Pinole, Calif. on Sept. 22, 2024. Aaron Lee/STAFF. PINOLE, Calif. — Back in the East Bay city of Pinole where most of Green Day…