San Cisco may be a west coast band, with a name that could pass for a tourist’s abbreviation for San Francisco and an upbeat Californian pop sound, but the quartet actually calls the west coast of Australia home. San Cisco, Wooing 8 p.m., Aug. 28 Great American Music Hall…

Between the United States having a president with one of the lowest approval ratings in history, the United Kingdom panicking as it prepares to leave Europe and the rise of terrorist attacks and global threats, it’s an understatement to say that the world is in a state of flux.…

How do you follow up one of the most listened-to songs of 2016? “We’re going out on top. We’re done,” says James Sunderland, one-half of Los Angeles synth-pop duo Frenship, whose song “Capsize” was declared by many as the song of the summer last year. Frenship at Outside Lands…

Less than two months ago, Josh Legg was lying in a Cancun hospital bed, coming to terms with a neck broken in two places, the result of a sneak wave that picked him up and crashed his body head-first into the sand while he was bodysurfing. Goldroom at Outside…

  A single song kept Australian indie rock band The Preatures from completing their sophomore album on schedule. “Yanada” is about Isabella Manfredi, Jack Moffitt, Thomas Champion and Luke Davison reconnecting with their home and culture, but it’s also about a lot more than that. Girlhood The Preatures Aug. 11…

Santa Barbara reggae-rock band Rebelution released Falling Into Place, it’s sixth album in nine years, in 2016. But the band’s follow-up record is already in the works, singer-guitarist Eric Rachmany said. Rebelution will be hitting the studio sometimes this autumn. Rebelution at Outside Lands Music Festival 6:50 p.m., Sutro stage…

Marty O’Reilly and the Old Soul Orchestra at BottleRock Napa Valley on May 28, 2017. Photos: Alessio Neri Santa Cruz bluesman Marty O’Reilly could pass for a younger version of Tom Waits on record, his vocal rasp permeating every track on his band’s 2014 debut Pray for Rain and 2015 EP…

Matthew “Cornbread” Compton was preparing to hop on a call with a reporter when his phone buzzed. Checking a text message from his Electric Guest bandmate, Asa Taccone, he learned that Taccone wouldn’t be unable to make the interview because he was just involved in a car crash. Electric…

Courtesy: Andrew Jorgensen for Outside Lands Since 2008, concert-goers in the Bay Area and beyond have carefully planned out their Outside Lands itineraries. With numerous music stages, the Barbary comedy tent, wacky culinary stage, pop-up performances (that throw a wrench into everyone’s carefully sculpted, laminated schedules), not to mention…

Photos: Alessio Neri OAKLAND — Compared to its neighbor across the Bay, Oakland still gets a bad rep and not too many breaks. San Francisco is getting its basketball team, Las Vegas its football team, and many of its accomplishments are buried under the problems. Still, Oakland, and the…