Eddie Vedder, “Earthling.” It could easily be said that Eddie Vedder is one lucky man, even if he likely makes his own luck. Earthling Eddie Vedder Seattle Surf/Republic, Feb. 11 8/10 He’s one of the last living frontmen of the great Pacific Northwest rock bands of the early ’90s, in…

Cultural phenomenon Ozzy Osbourne is a hard man to pin down. Is he the originator of the look and feel of heavy metal? A guy who managed to be in the right place at the right time? A doddering madman, deteriorated by decades of drug excess? Ordinary Man Ozzy…

After releasing 2015’s Shockwave Supernova, legendary shred lord Joe Satriani began to feel his highly conceptual prog-rock opuses becoming impersonal—battling the fantastical characters he conjured with his acrobatic riffs for ownership of his personhood. This epiphany fueled Satriani’s pursuit of music about “a human being, two feet on the…

Photos: Alessio Neri OAKLAND — The Red Hot Chilli Peppers performed at Oracle Arena Sunday, the only stop on their tour in support of 2016 record The Getaway, was was released last June. The lone show followed three in Los Angeles, and we’re just speculating when we say that perhaps…