Photo: Matt De Mello BottleRock Napa owners Latitude 38 have sold a majority stake of the festival to Live Nation. Live Nation is the corporate owner of more than 80 festivals, including Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits and Governor’s Ball. The company touts itself as having the most diverse global festival portfolio among festival…

The producers of the BottleRock Napa Valley music and wine festival today announced the lineup for the 2017 incarnation of the event, which will take place May 26 to 28 at the Napa Valley Expo. The 80-plus artist lineup will be headlined by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Foo…

BottleRock Napa, the premier Napa Valley music festival, will release a limited number of specially priced pre-sale tickets in varying tiers just in time for the holiday season. The small supply of tickets will go on sale on Dec. 14 at 10 a.m. Tickets range from $289 for the general admission…

K.Flay performs at BottleRock 2016. Though the past few years were rocky for multi-genre musician K.Flay, they seem to have paid off. The Stanford graduate who dabbles in hip hop, pop, rock and R&B was signed to RCA Records, but was dropped after two EPs and masters to dozens more unreleased…

NAPA — The fourth installment of the BottleRock Napa Valley festival brought high temperatures and memorable performances. Temperatures flirted with the 90-degree mark as 40,000 flocked to the Napa Valley Expo each day for the event. Let’s look at seven sets from the 2016 BottleRock that stood out above the rest.…

Kaleo performs at BottleRock in Napa on May 27, 2016. Photos: Jon Ching. The four musicians in Kaleo may be from Iceland, but they share much more sonically with American roots and blues. Vocalist JJ Julius Son, bassist Daniel Kristjansson, guitarist Rubin Pollock and drummer David Antonsson have a growing reputation for their…

Photo: Molly DeCoudreaux The afternoon sky is overcast in San Francisco’s Mission District as indie rock and pop quintet Heartwatch gathers at the home of guitarist-keyboardist Eric Silverman to rehearse. The band is gearing up to play in front of another huge crowd: BottleRock Napa Valley. It’s potentially their most-significant…

The producers of the BottleRock Napa Valley festival scored big when they booked Stevie Wonder, Florence and the Machine, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers to headline the 2016 event, which takes place May 27 to 29 in downtown Napa. Even the undercards are impressive, with Grouplove, Death Cab…

BottleRock culinary stage lineup. Music fans at BottleRock Napa Valley will see an increase of performer traffic at the Williams-Sonoma Culinary Stage this year, with members of some of the biggest bands in the world participating in presentations by Michelin Star-rated and celebrity chefs. Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers,Taylor Hawkins of Foo…

BottleRock lineup. The producers of BottleRock Napa Valley, the North Bay’s upstart concert festival that is now in its fourth year, revealed a lineup of night shows around the Bay Area, from Napa to San Jose. Several of the festival’s performers, including Grouplove, Michael Franti and the Struts, will perform…