Photo: Paige K. Parsons Pegi and Neil Young have canceled the annual Bridge School Benefit concert in 2017—and possibly beyond, the Bridge School announced. The annual benefit show is a nonprofit charity event held every October at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. It celebrated its 30th anniversary last year. Neither Young nor…

Saint Motel, courtesy. NAPA, Calif. — In person, the members of L.A. pop band Saint Motel are much like frontman A/J Jackson’s lyrics: Direct, subversively funny and rife with double entendres. But alongside their comedic halves, Jackson, guitarist Aaron Sharp, bassist Dak Lerdamornpong and drummer Greg Erwin also have…

Photos: Alessio Neri MOUNTAIN VIEW — Thomas Mars and Phoenix brought their traveling Italian disco show to radio station Live 105’s BFD festival at the Shoreline Amphitheatre Saturday. The Parisians, the final of 25 acts to perform at the annual radio station start of summer show, played three songs off…

Photos: Gary Chancer SAN FRANCISCO — Bauhaus introduced what we now refer to as goth music. Its dark wave sound was glam, punk and dance. Bauhaus members Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins followed that band with Tones on Tail, a short-lived side project with Bauhaus roadie Glen Campling. Haskins and Ash next turned to alt-rock act…

Photos: Alessio Neri NAPA — She may be a well-seasoned traveler, having moved with her family from the Philippines to Italy and then Hawaii before finally calling San Diego home, but reggae singer-songwriter Hirie still found an adventure traversing the streets of Napa on her visit recently, where she…

Photos courtesy: Paul Rae, Projections: Cloaking.US SANTA CRUZ — Looking back, it’s often easy to spot the turning points in our lives, the doors we stepped through that changed the course of our journey. At 15, I was living in a small, affluent suburb in Southern California, a nice vanilla…

Photos: Ian Young SAN FRANCISCO — Imagine Detroit singer-songwriter Jax Anderson inside a phone booth filled with water. In this scenario, she would touch all of the H2O molecules in that phone booth every few minutes. Anderson, who records and performs as Flint Eastwood, constantly stayed in motion at her Popscene show…

Brooklyn quartet Cende isn’t satisfied playing run of the mill power pop. Singer-songwriters Cameron Wisch and Dave Medina both have classical training and have played in experimental and punk bands. Joined by drummer Greg Rutkin and bassist Bernard Casserly, the band comes from a varied experience. (Sandy) Alex G,…

Foo Fighters perform at BottleRock Napa Valley 2017. Alessio Neri/STAFF. NAPA — In the end, the only thing that could stop the Foo Fighters at BottleRock Napa was a strict 10 p.m. curfew. The rock band that headlined the final night of the fifth annual festival was about a…

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers perform at BottleRock Napa Valley in Napa on May 28, 2017. NAPA — Tom Petty may have largely stuck to the hits at BottleRock Napa Valley Saturday, but the sheer quantity of those familiar songs spoke volumes about Petty’s amazing songbook. After opening with…