Incubus performs at Chase Center in San Francisco, Calif. on Sept. 12, 2024. Chloe Catajan/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — The crowd was maybe a little older and, presumably, a little wiser than when Incubus’ Morning View first hit store shelves 23 years ago, but the passage of time hasn’t muted…

Tool performs during Aftershock Festival at Discovery Park in Sacramento on Oct. 6, 2023. SACRAMENTO — Business picked up substantially at Discovery Park for the sold-out second day of Aftershock Festival. The crowds were bigger, the acts’ productions were more ambitious—and the sweltering heat had no intention of leaving.…

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Coheed and Cambria, “Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind.” Progressive rock quartet Coheed and Cambria has never shied away from bombast and grandiosity. The band’s expansive catalog spans genres and seemingly time and space, fusing storytelling across mediums. Frontman Claudio Sanchez has intertwined the story arc of…

Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. If you’ve watched a lot of Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom—whatever, you’ve witnessed the time-lapse scenery progressions of the African watering hole, as the animals continue to show up despite the lake becoming a pond, then a puddle, then mud. Then the…