Xeb photographed at Slim’s on Jan. 6, 2017. Photos: Alessio Neri SAN FRANCISCO — Bay Area turn-of-the-century rockers Third Eye Blind last week announced a tour commemorating the 20th anniversary of their self-titled debut album. If turnout for Stephan Jenkins and company’s performance at last year’s Outside Lands music…

We’re proud to debut Nashville band Frances and the Foundation‘s new single “Bohemian Paradise.” Vocalist-bassist Samantha Frances, drummer Wes Cramer and guitarist Nathan Zumwalt already have a tour planned that will take them through the Southeast U.S. in 2017, and they’re completing work on a full-length debut album, which will be released…

Sly and the Family Stone, The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane are just a few of San Francisco’s storied purveyors of psychedelia. Following in their footsteps seems like a rite of passage for many locals acts, but The Love Dimension is determined to carry on the celebrated tradition. The psychedelic band…

Photos: Lorenz Angelo Katy Goodman and Greta Morgan are the best of friends who spend as much time together as possible. Both are also successful musicians, who get to pick their work carefully, on their own schedules. That’s why Goodman, formerly of the acclaimed Vivian Girls and singer-songwriter for…

Kolkota duo Parekh & Singh defy the common perceptions of what it means to be a band from India. Their recently released debut album Ocean is a whimsical dose of folky dream pop. It’s an antithesis to the vivid technicolor and bombast of Bollywood, and there are no sitars in sight.…

Chris Robinson Brotherhood, courtesy. Chris Robinson and his bandmates in the Chris Robinson Brotherhood rolled into Portland with just enough time to grab some eggs and hit Powell’s Books before the former frontman of the Black Crowes and his jam band-leaning brotherhood head to perform. But the obsessive basketball fan is contemplating a…

Magik*Magik 8 p.m., Friday Swedish American Hall Tickets: $15. SAN FRANCISCO — Conductor, pianist and arranger Minna Choi is about to kick off a three-hour rehearsal. But while several of her musicians from the popular Bay Area Magik*Magik Orchestra are on-hand, they’re not rehearsing for a recording session with…

John Vanderslice at Tiny Telephone in Oakland. Lorenz Angelo/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Studio maverick John Vanderslice sits in front of me stroking his cat across the cheek. We are sitting on the sofa at his Tiny Telephone Studios in San Francisco when I hear a baby crying from a…

Singer-songwriter Hayley Mary and her Australian indie rock quartet, the Jezabels, fly into the United States on Nov. 7 and kick off the band’s first American tour in support of its third album, Synthia. Being able to look on to the country’s significant election from U.S. soil will be…

Photos: Nick DeCicco TREASURE ISLAND — During a waterlogged weekend at the final Treasure Island Music Festival, New York-based house and dance pop duo Sofi Tukker was one of the few artists who managed to avoid the rain and winds, playing hours before Mother Nature swooped in. That gave Sophie Hawley-Weld…