Red Hot Chili Peppers perform at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 28 2023. Nate McKinley/STAFF. NAPA —The final day of a music festival often starts with relaxed vibes. Attendees at BottleRock on Sunday laid out blankets and took advantage of the mild weather. Many…

Lizzo performs at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 27, 2023. Steve Carlson/STAFF. NAPA — The impact was quick, if not immediate. The tension and excitement had been building, people jockeying for position and moving in as close to the stage as they could. With…

Post Malone performs at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 26, 2023. Sean Liming/STAFF. NAPA — Thousands of attendees packed the Napa Valley Expo on Friday on the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival. The weather cooperated for once, with highs in…

The Smashing Pumpkins perform at Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2022. They will perform at BottleRock Napa Valley inMay. Steve Carlson/STAFF. The producers of BottleRock Napa Valley revealed a lineup of night shows, dubbed AfterDark shows, around the Bay Area, including San Francisco, Berkeley and Menlo…

Post Malone performs at Outside Lands in San Francisco on Aug. 7, 2022. He’ll perform at BottleRock Napa in May. Onome Uyovbievbo/STAFF. After selling out of three-day tickets in less than two days, organizers for BottleRock Napa Valley released the daily lineups for the annual festival and announced that the…

BottleRock 2022, courtesy. The producers of BottleRock Napa Valley will again sell a limited number of advance tickets to the festival—the 10th annual event—before the holidays. The holiday presale three-day general admission, VIP, Skydeck and Platinum tickets will go on sale on Thursday, Dec. 8 at 10 a.m. Additionally,…

P!nk performs at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 29, 2022. Nathan McKinley/STAFF. NAPA — Metallica is huge but has played the Bay Area a lot in recent years. Twenty One Pilots have also made recent appearances, and while hip-hop supergroup Mount Westmore was great its…

Twenty One Pilots perform at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 28, 2022. Steve Carlson/STAFF. NAPA — Saturday night’s BottleRock Napa offerings presented, perhaps, as challenging a headliner clash as the fest has ever seen. On one stage was one of the most exciting live bands…

Metallica performs at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 27, 2022. Sean Liming/STAFF. NAPA — Taking an informal poll of the 40,000-some attending the opening day of BottleRock Napa Valley on Friday, it was pretty clear who most were there to see. Heavy metal heroes Metallica…

CHVRCHES perform at Not So Silent Night at SAP Center in San Jose on Dec. 8, 2018. Alessio Neri/STAFF. The producers of BottleRock Napa Valley are once again sponsoring several weeks’ worth of concerts in the lead-up to the Memorial Day weekend festival (and beyond) Several of the festival’s…