Tag Archives: Coronavirus
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Corey Taylor, Gavin Rossdale, more to headline Feeding America COVID-19 benefit
Corey Taylor of Slipknot, Bush’s Gavin Rossdale and a plethora of modern rock artists will headline a virtual concert Friday evening to benefit Feeding America’s COVID-19 relief fund. The show will also include performances by Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge, Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger of Halestorm, Lisa Loeb,…
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SF Symphony cancels all 2020 performances, enacts pay cuts, furloughs and layoffs
The San Francisco Symphony with music director Michael Tilson Thomas, during rehearsal at Davies Symphony Hall on Wednesday morning, November 2, 2016. The San Francisco Symphony today announced the cancelation of all concerts through Dec. 31 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This means that the anticipated debut of incoming…
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Alameda County Fair announces next drive-in concert; on June 26
Concertgoers gather at the first drive-in concert in the Bay Area at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., on June 12, 2020. Steve Carlson/STAFF. Following the success of two drive-in concerts featuring tribute bands to ZZ Top, Journey and Van Halen, the Alameda County Fair has announced that…
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COVID-19 pandemic forces Noise Pop from its Bryant Street home
Noise Pop office at 2180 Bryant St in San Francisco. Courtesy. Updated June 19. Noise Pop is leaving its home at 2180 Bryant St in San Francisco for 12 years, citing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The community is invited to participate in a garage sale Saturday where…
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INTERVIEW: KT Tunstall on reminding fans to ‘Wash Ya Hands,’ England’s slave trade protest
KT Tunstall performs at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2018. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. With COVID-19 cases surging across the United States and around the world, it seems people are already forgetting the lessons we learned back in March about how to slow the spread of…
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Tribute bands draw hundreds to the Bay Area’s first drive-in concert of the COVID-19 era
Concertgoers gather at the first drive-in concert in the Bay Area at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., on June 12, 2020. Steve Carlson/STAFF. Several hundred people who had been cooped up in their homes gathered at the Alameda County Fairgrounds on Friday at the first ticketed concert…
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Bay Area indy music clubs still struggling as national alliance reports many may close without federal help
Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco. Courtesy: Wikicommons A wave of independent concert venue closures swept through Texas this month, including the well-known Barracuda and four others in Austin and several in Dallas—all due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This follows the closure of other clubs like the Great…
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First Bay Area drive-in concerts to include three tribute bands in Pleasanton tonight, Saturday
German Rapper Sido performs in Dusseldorf, Germany on April 26, 2020. Courtesy: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images. The Alameda County Fair will host the Bay Area’s first drive-in concerts tonight and tomorrow. For $100, you can bring a carload of family members and watch three tribute bands: Journey Revisited (Journey), Hot…
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OFFICIAL: October 2020 Coachella and Stagecoach canceled, Outside Lands producers mum
Art installations at Coachella 2014, Courtesy: Sam Howzit/Wikiicommons. The rescheduled Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals, which had been postponed from April to October, have again been postponed. “Under the continuing health guidance of the County of Riverside, Coachella and Stagecoach 2020 will not take place this October as previously…
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San Francisco lays out reopening timeline, again ruling out Outside Lands in August
Judah & the Lion perform at Outside Lands, San Francisco on Aug. 11, 2019. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Thursday laid out the city’s reopening timeline, which varies in some ways from California four-phase return outlined previously by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Something both have in common…
