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…

Echosmith Childhood, for many siblings, is a very competitive time. Sisters and brothers try to out-do each other, which leads to fighting, and eventually, many can’t stand being in a room together. That four siblings would get along with each other enough to commit to spending extra hours each together…

Moon Taxi performs at BottleRock Napa Valley on May 30, 2014. The test runs are over. With a full year to plan, this year’s BottleRock Napa Valley is finally expected to reach the level producers – both current and original – had envisioned: Not only a creative win, but…

The Cure performs at BottleRock Napa Valley on May 30, 2014. There were fewer acts and the names did not shine as brightly as last year. Fewer food venders took the risk to take part. But all things considered, it was a miracle that BottleRock Napa Valley — the…

BottleRock Napa Valley 2014 lineup. While tens of thousands flooded the Napa Valley Expo last May for five days of music, gourmet food, wine, comedy and parties, and most of them went home happy, the two men who organized the inaugural BottleRock Napa Valley — without previous festival experience — lost millions…