Courtesy: Silvia Saponaro Adam Weiner of Low Cut Connie plays rock and roll music. “You’ve gotta put the ‘roll’ in there,” he specifies. “We don’t consider ourselves a rock band, we’re a rock and roll band. We’re going back to the art form closer to its inception. Genre terms…

Amy Shark performs in San Francisco during Noise Pop on Feb. 21, 2018. Alessio Neri/STAFF. For 10 years, Australian Amy Shark toiled away in the bar scene of her small beach town in a remote part of her country, relying mostly on Cyndi Lauper and Alanis Morissette covers. She…

Courtesy: Pete Black When Orange County folk-rock band The Brevet was first starting out in 2013, the goal of frontman Aric Chase Damm and his bandmates was strictly to write songs that could be licensed to television and film. The Brevet at BottleRock Napa Valley Sunday, May 27 Napa Valley…

Photo: Alessio Neri While other festivals may be leaning more than ever on pop acts and solo artists, the 2018 edition of BottleRock Napa Valley is doubling down on guitar bands. The three-day music and wine extravaganza returns to the Napa Valley Expo May 25 to 27 for its sixth annual run…