From Candy Loving to the Queen, these are all the people Tony Hicks has wanted to be isolated with over the years. I once swiped one of my stepdad’s Playboy magazines. It probably happened (a lot) more than once … when I was a kid … not lately. I’m…

Frontier Airlines jet. Courtesy: Tomas Del Coro. I was going to miss SXSW by a week anyway, but then SXSW was canceled, sports were canceled and concerts were canceled, and it was best to cancel my family’s April vacation to Austin. I had a reservation with Frontier Airlines, and…

Metallica performs at the All Within My Hands concert and auction at the Masonic in San Francisco on Nov. 11, 2018. Courtesy. Metallica on Thursday announced that it would be donating a total of $350,000 through its All Within My Hands Foundation to four relief efforts as the world…

Allan Rayman, Courtesy: Steph Verschuren. It’s March 20, and most of the U.S. and Canada is a week into COVID-19-induced quarantine. Nerves are fraying, the toilet paper is noticeably low, and … enigmatic Toronto singer-songwriter Allan Rayman is just living his normal life. CHRISTIAN Allan Rayman Republic Records, April…

Fantastic Negrito performs at the UC Theatre in Berkeley on Oct. 14, 2017. Karen Goldman/STAFF. Two-time Grammy winner Fantastic Negrito is spending the quarantine with his fans. Not literally, of course. The musician, whose name is Xavier Dphrepaulezz, put out a call to his fans to send in videos…

John Prine, Courtesy: Eric Frommer Americana and country singer-songwriter great John Prine has been hospitalized since Thursday with COVID-19 and is now in critical condition and being assisted by a ventilator, his family shared to his Twitter account on Sunday. “So many of you have loved and supported John…

Insert Foot practices COVID-19 social distancing. During these strange COVID-19 times of lining up with hundreds of other breathing consumers so you and their germs can avoid grocery stores for a week, it’s fantastic to have an Internet for distraction and insight. For example, I discovered Pornhub is one…

G-Eazy performs at The New Parish in Oakland on Jan. 26, 2019. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. Bay Area native G-Eazy and his Endless Summer Fund are partnering with Larkin Street Youth Services to provide meals to local at-risk youth in San Francisco every day for an entire month. “The Bay is…

San Francisco band Terry Gross performs at The Ivy Room in Albany, Calf. on Feb. 7, 2020. San Francisco will offer financial assistance to local artists and artists organizations who have lost earnings and business from the COVID-19 event cancelations and gathering bans, Mayor London Breed announced this week.…

Concert discovery platform Bandsintown will host a two-day live music marathon Thursday and Friday to benefit the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund. The marathon will be broadcast on the Bandsintown Twitch channel and include both established and up-and-coming acts like Taking Back Sunday, Tank and the Bangas, Amanda Palmer, 99 Neighbors, Matt Quinn of Mt.…