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Sol Blume: Brent Faiyaz, Ella Mai, Bay Area’s P-Lo top day 1
Brent Faiyaz performs during Sol Blume Festival at Discovery Park in Sacramento on Aug. 19, 2023. Courtesy Sol Blume. All other photos: Marisela Delgado/STAFF. SACRAMENTO — A flood couldn’t stop soul and hip-hop fest Sol Blume from returning to Discovery Park. Postponed from the spring due to last winter’s…
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REVIEW: Introspective Peter Frampton goes for a possible last ride in San Francisco
Peter Frampton performs at the Masonic in San Francisco on Aug. 15, 2023. Courtesy Adam Charles Papay. SAN FRANCISCO — Peter Frampton has had a connection with San Francisco long before he recorded most of his best-selling album Frampton Comes Alive! here. Going all the way back to his…
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REVIEW: Karol G transforms into ‘La Bichota’ at Levi’s Stadium
Karol G performs at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. on Aug. 14, 2023. Derek Fisher/STAFF. SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Although she’s been in the industry for nearly two decades, Carolina Giraldo Navarro — Karol G — is just now reaping the fruits of her labor. She’s the first…
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Interview: Belinda Carlisle on world-hopping, her ‘kismet’ reunion with Diane Warren
Belinda Carlisle performs at the Palladium in Los Angeles, courtesy Christie Goodwin. Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Go’s and her husband, Morgan Mason, gave up their home in the U.S. in 1994 and have hopscotched around the world ever since. They spent nearly a quarter century in France, during which…
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REVIEW: Punk poet Patti Smith full of love and protest at Stern Grove Festival
Patti Smith performs during Stern Grove Festival at Sigmund Stern Grove in San Francisco on Aug. 13, 2023. Photos: David Jones. SAN FRANCISCO — After 50 years of making records, touring and raising a ruckus as a punk icon, you’d forgive Patti Smith for taking it easy here and…
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Outside Lands: Lana Del Rey takes her audience ‘Under Ocean Blvd’
Lana Del Rey performs during Outside Lands Music Festival in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Aug. 12, 2023. Photo: Alive Coverage. SAN FRANCISCO — Cloaked in a thick mist and shrouded in inky darkness, Lana Del Rey never seemed brighter. The singer-songwriter, making her second appearance at…
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Outside Lands: Foo Fighters keep fans guessing on festival’s second day
Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters performs during Outside Lands Music Festival in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Aug. 12, 2023. SAN FRANCISCO — Outside Lands is always a little unpredictable, both onstage and as it comes to mother nature. Karl the Fog had a ticket for…
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Interview: JAIN getting a boost on new LP ‘The Fool’ thanks to viral ‘Makeba’
JAIN, courtesy Manu Fauque. Jeanne Louise Galice doesn’t spend much time on social media. But the French singer-songwriter, better known as Jain, understands why it’s such a big deal that a good chunk of the world this summer is listening—and dancing on TikTok to—a song that she released in…
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REVIEW: Greta Van Fleet goes shirtless, shoeless at Oakland Starcatcher tour date
Greta Van Fleet performs at Oakland Arena in Oakland, Calif. on Aug. 8, 2023. OAKLAND — Before Greta Van Fleet performed Tuesday at Oakland Arena, the rock band’s crew enclosed the stage in a giant curtain over all sides. The point wasn’t total privacy, but mystery. After the curtain…
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REVIEW Beck and Phoenix take their ‘summer odyssey’ to L.A.
Beck performs at Kia Forum in Los Angeles on Aug. 7, 2023. Chas Alm/STAFF. LOS ANGELES — Beck and Phoenix brought their co-headlining Summer Odyssey tour to the Kia Forum on Monday, dazzling the crowd. Beck has been part of the music landscape for so long that it’s easy…
