Courtesy: BottleRock Napa Valley With a lineup ranging from The Killers and Bruno Mars to Snoop Dogg and Earth, Wind & Fire, few festivals can match BottleRock’s crossover appeal. Looking beyond the headliners reveals a diverse array of up-and-comers waiting to break big. At BottleRock, Napa becomes the…

Photo: Diana Cordero A day after announcing the return of the Treasure Island Music Festival, its producers revealed the lineup for the 11th incarnation of the festival. Tame Impala and A$AP Rocky will headline the two-day event, which will be held Oct. 13 and 14 in a new location: Middle…

Fans watch as Isaiah Rashad performs at Blurry Vision Fest at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in Oakland on May 12, 2018. Photo: Daniel Lee. Noise Pop and Another Planet Tuesday announced the return of the Treasure Island Music Festival. The 11th annual festival, which took 2017 off, will return…

For all its fancy perks—the prime location, delicious food, terrific acts, wine, beer and much more—the one thing Outside Lands Music Festival has never been able to deliver in the past is a female-fronted headliner. That changes this year as two of the three headliners are women. Janet Jackson…

The producers of the Outside Lands Music Festival announced this morning that Eager Beaver three-day tickets will go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m.—prior to the announcement of the lineup. The festival has sold out seven consecutive years and this year is supposed to be no exception. After the…

The Head and the Heart performs at Live 105’s Not So Silent Night at Oracle Arena in Oakland on Dec. 11, 2016. Photo: Ian Young The producers of BottleRock Napa Valley this morning announced the return of the Sonoma Harvest Music Festival to B.R. Cohn Winery in the Sonoma Valley. The…

Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. have released a benefit song, with money raised going back to their community as it recovers from the Feb. 14 shooting that left 17 students and teachers dead. “Shine” was written by two students who survived the shooting, 16-year-old Sawyer…

The producers of electronica festival MUTEK this week announced the lineup for the first San Francisco incarnation of the event—which is also the festival’s inaugural entry in the U.S. The festival, which runs from May 3 to 6, will include artists Tim Hecker, Equiknoxx, Francesco Tristano & Derrick May, and…

Navigating the planning, scheduling and budgeting for SXSW, which begins tomorrow and runs for more than week, isn’t easy. Even those who have attended the festival for years feel bouts of frustration. It’s simply impossible to control everything. The festival’s encouragement of discovery means being flexible and having multiple plans…

  Photos: Kyle Kohner LOS ANGELES — “How is our sound still working?” Cut Copy frontman Dan Whitford joked after a brief downpour interrupted the Aussie trio’s ’80s-inspired synth-pop set Saturday during the Air & Style festival at Exposition Park, near the USC campus. The rain sent many scurrying toward any available…