OAKLAND — An amazing journey is nearing its end for The Who. The British rock group plotted its “The Who Hits 50” tour in 2015, but after frontman Roger Daltrey’s health battles and a Morrissey amount of postponements, the band finally played Thursday at Oracle Arena in Oakland. Daltrey has…

The producers of the BottleRock Napa Valley festival scored big when they booked Stevie Wonder, Florence and the Machine, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers to headline the 2016 event, which takes place May 27 to 29 in downtown Napa. Even the undercards are impressive, with Grouplove, Death Cab…

BottleRock culinary stage lineup. Music fans at BottleRock Napa Valley will see an increase of performer traffic at the Williams-Sonoma Culinary Stage this year, with members of some of the biggest bands in the world participating in presentations by Michelin Star-rated and celebrity chefs. Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers,Taylor Hawkins of Foo…

Janelle Monáe, courtesy. The Stern Grove Festival has announced its full summer lineup of free concerts, featuring Janelle Monáe, George Clinton, Hieroglyphics, Julieta Venegas, The New Pornographers,as well as regular performers, the San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Ballet. The festival, approaching its 79th season, will run from June 19 to Aug. 21.…

BottleRock lineup. The producers of BottleRock Napa Valley, the North Bay’s upstart concert festival that is now in its fourth year, revealed a lineup of night shows around the Bay Area, from Napa to San Jose. Several of the festival’s performers, including Grouplove, Michael Franti and the Struts, will perform…

The Saint Johns. Courtesy. Something new is happening in country music and its official home base in Nashville. While the glitz remains, and girls, guns, and broken hearts still take up much of the airwaves, a new type of musician is behind the wheel of the pickup truck. This…

Aubrie Sellers, Courtesy. Though she was brought up in a family with successful musical lineage, Aubrie Sellers’ first passion was not music, but acting. The daughter of iconic country artist Lee Ann Womack and songwriter Jason Sellers (Rascal Flatts, Reba McEntire and Jason Aldean), and step-daughter of producer Frank Liddell (Miranda Lambert),…

Since 1989, Jesse Townley has played in numerous East Bay punk bands, such as Blatz, The Gr’ups, The Criminals and The Frisk. The first time that Townley—known to many in the 924 Gilman Street scene as Jesse Luscious—and Blatz played in Southern California, at a pizza parlor, they were…

Super Bowl 50 media day at SAP Center in San Jose, Photo: Jon Bauer. Super Bowl 50 Media Day, this year known as “Opening Night,” can best be described as organized cacophony. At the center of attention are the two NFL teams vying for the title during the most-watched…

David Bowie. Courtesy. Editor’s note: I never had any David Bowie memories. By the time I moved to the Bay Area in 2005 and learned to appreciate all that he influences, he was one year away from playing his final show in New York. I had patiently been waiting…