Green Day performs at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Sept. 20, 2024. Catajan/STAFF. The East Bay town of Pinole will honor its most famous rocker former residents, Green Day, with a celebration recognizing the band’s roots and impact as punk rock icons. The band will get a key…

Thundercat performs at Portola Festival in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2023. Gavin Legaspi/STAFF. Funk bassist Thundercat, soul crooner Lee Fields and Bay Area cumbia septet Combo Tezeta will perform a free show at Robin Williams Meadow in Golden Gate Park on Oct. 20, courtesy of local concert producer…

Metallica performs at Chase Center in San Francisco on Dec. 17, 2021. Metallica on Thursday announced that its M72 World Tour will continue into a third year, with 21 shows in North America starting in April and running through June. Included are two shows at Levi’s Stadium in Santa…

P!NK performs at Dreamfest, the Salesforce Dreamforce concert, at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Sept. 18, 2024. Courtesy Ando Caulfield. SAN FRANCISCO — The stars were out in the sky and inside Oracle Park on Wednesday for Dreamfest, Salesforce’s annual benefit concert for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals that…

Jane’s Addiction performs at Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2022. Steve Carlson/STAFF. Jane’s Addiction on Monday canceled the remainder of its tour with Love and Rockets in the aftermath of an onstage scuffle among the four band members. Guitarist Dave Navarro, bassist Eric Avery and drummer…

Patti Smith and Lynn Goldsmith, courtesy. Patti Smith will speak next month at friend and photographer Lynn Goldsmith’s launch of her new book that captures the punk icon and poet. The two will chat with moderator Emma Silvers of KQED about the acclaimed photographer’s coffee table book “Before Easter…

Dua Lipa performs during the 66th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Feb. 4, 2024. Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy. Pop superstar Dua Lipa on Thursday announced 2025 dates on her Radical Optimism Tour, which includes more than 40 new shows in…

Childish Gambino performs at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco during the Outside Lands Music Festival on Aug. 10, 2019. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. Actor, singer and rapper Donald Glover, also known as Childish Gambino, on Monday postponed the remainder of his North American The New World Tour, which included a…

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds perform at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on June 24, 2017. Photo: Paige K. Parsons. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will be headed on a North American tour next spring in support of new album Wild God. The tour begins in April…

Linkin Park, courtesy. After days of countdowns, trolling and endless speculation, Linkin Park is back, becoming the second long-absent rock act to return, after Oasis. What began as a 100-hour countdown to nothing in particular on the band’s website turned into a livestream concert for the band’s fan club…